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You didn't specify outside.

It's actually a pretty good way to examine the inside of the box.

It's very rare for me to learn of a type of firearm that I didn't know existed, but it happened here. I had no idea this was a thing. It was made sometime in the early 1900's chambered in .25 ACP. And bad news for most collectors--it's possible that the one in the photos was the only one ever made. The triple barrel revolver

The COP 357 came out a loooooooonnnnnnng time ago. I seem to recall a three-word review of it at the time: "This is junk", or something similar.

It also works best if you move very quickly when bad news is announced. The store closings were announced a month ago, and a nice slide in stock price followed for about two weeks. It has rebounded a little since then.

Stupid should hurt. I guess it is starting to in this case. I only feel bad for the affected employees and any shareholders who aren’t aware of the CEO’s actions that lead to this.

I bought one Promag 15 round handgun mag, back when it was still allowed here in the gulag. You could load 8-9 rounds into it before the spring pressure against the top round forced apart the cheap-and-far-too-thin metal forming the feed lips, at which point all rounds loaded to that point sprayed up and out of the magazine. One could bend the feed lips back into spec, but the whole load-and-spray scenario would repeat every time. Promags are junk

Could be. The main (or only) difference between the Trooper MK III and the Trooper MK V was that the MK V had a different hammer and maybe another internal part changed out in the lockworks, that gave it a significantly shorter hammer throw/lock time. But you could put those parts in a MK III to gain the same advantage, creating what I called the Trooper MK IV.

Sure looks like it. Great Gun

Another solution in search of a problem. Or more likely, one in search of someone with $400 and no better idea of how to spend it. I’ll just leave this head-scratcher from the website here: “By combining standard ammunition and birdshot, each pull of the trigger will deliver an incredible combination of firepower and very light recoil,”

I don’t understand. What is this “gun selling” to which you refer? “Gun buying”, that I understand

Very cool to see a broomhandle on the firing line!

I like the plug-in self-regenerating dehumidifiers a lot, since you don’t have to tie up the oven for hours at a time, or answer questions like “What’s that thing doing in my oven!?” They have a quite limited capacity, so you may want to consider more than one per safe, and a fairly frequent regeneration schedule.

For the target category, Zeke has the right idea...any of the high-end competition .22's are marvels of engineering and function. But among the more affordable offerings, the S&W Victory has the best trigger--really impressive for that price point. The Rugers have the best site picture with the stock iron sights, but they've gone from adjustable rear sights requiring microscopic screwdrivers to adjust (bad) to adjustable rears requiring microscopic allen wrenches (worse). Sights and triggers can, of course, be changed out, with Rugers having the greatest range of aftermarket parts available. The ergonomics of the Buckmark never worked for me, but they do have a following. In the used market, The S&W 41 you mention, or some of the original High Standard target pistols are also worth a look--though I'd want a chance to test fire any of the used guns before committing.

He left casings scattered on the driveway, so the only charge will be littering. This assumes he has an extensive criminal record. If by chance he’s a pillar of the community and this was his first offense, the state will try to put him away for 15 years.

Yes, but the three houses and the car he hit didn’t go down, so clearly 9 rounds weren’t enough to neutralize the perceived threats.

I’m sure they will roll it out in black as soon as sales taper off on the silver slide models. Glock and Pez have a similar business model. Crank out some new variation on their molded plastic product, and wait for the collectors to snap them up.

I’m so traumatized that I need to retreat into my safe space. I think maybe Port 4 at Riverdale.

I disagree. I’ve competed and coached at a pretty high level for a few decades—in a bunch of disciplines—and starting from scratch with centerfire rifles and pistols is never recommended if you want to be competitive. You won’t learn follow through correctly, it’s much harder to call your shots, and the increased recoil can mask a host of errors of in the shooter’s technique. And I don’t even know where to start with the whole ‘muscle the hell out of it...and you can still shoot well’ comment in regards to .22s There is a reason competitive shooters spend endless hours dry firing. The absence of recoil makes it easy to spot and correct errors in technique. If you just want to blast away and have fun, fine. I enjoy blasting away, too. But that’s not the path to mastery.

Or unless you want to learn to shoot really well. The only thing that will teach you the fundamentals better than a .22 is a precision air rifle or pisltol. The “glorified BB gun” you mentioned. Handling recoil isn’t a fundamental, it’s a distraction, best addressed only after you have a solid grasp of the fundamentals

We're paying almost $19K a year in property tax on a 3 bedroom house sitting on a little over an acre (half of which is unusable wooded hillside). When my parents still had the farm in Idaho, they were paying about $2K in property taxes...that for 140 acres with three houses on the property, right outside of town. And with better schools. So yeah, NJ sucks.

I have, on occasion, run particularly cryptic Zeke posts through Google translate, hoping it would help. It never has.

Since they are spending our money, I assume the revolvers are Pythons and Korths.

I also suggest starting with a .22 rifle. When you want a first centerfire rifle, I vote for starting with a classic...a nice bolt action, with a wood stock, in a 'common' caliber like .223, .243, .308...

Let me suggest that calling 911 is already plan B. Whether fire, home invasion, medical emergency, whatever, there are generally steps to take first, followed fairly quickly by a call to 911