Whatcha got for pistols
 

Sig P320 . That's for now, had a bunch of Contenders in many different calibers, but sold em all. They were very accurate though. Had a Glock 19 once, nice shooter, but I think the Sig is even better. Next one might be a Kimber in .45. Friend has one, it's nice.

I don't have pictures of most of them but I'll list what I can remember. 1 stainless steel Contender with 5 or 6 barrels in various calibers, plus a chamber adapter to shoot .22 Long Rifle in my .223 Remington barrel. 3 Para-Ordnance double-column .45s, all in different sizes. 1 is an LDA. 2 Ruger .22 pistols, a Mark II Target and a 22/45. 1 75th Anniversary Walther PPK. 1 Ruger LCP. 1 NAA Mini .22 LR/Magnum convertible. I also have a Mech-Tech Carbine Conversion Unit for the full-size Para .45.

It seems like I'm forgetting something but that might be all. My favorite revolver was a Dan Wesson .357 Magnum I got from my dad but no longer have. I took off the 8 inch barrel and put on a 4 inch barrel with a muzzle brake that added about an inch and a half to it. I had a Colt series 80 .45 but sold it to a friend sometime after I built my Para-Ordnance 13+1 from an aluminum frame kit they sold back in 1988. It has mostly Colt Series 80 parts and I have 15 round and 20 round mags for it that also fit the 2 smaller Paras. After 29 years the old gun rattles like a maraca but still shoots.

I also have a pistol permit for my Ruger 10/22 rifle with a folding stock. With the stock folded it's less than 30 inches long which is considered a pistol in Michigan and the pistol permit is required to own it. I also used to have a short-barreled 20 Gauge shotgun with a pistol grip on it that was just barely legal and had a pistol permit for it too.

I don't have a lot of pics of mine as well but here goes..Taurus 605 SS 357, Mackarov 918, Ruger mk III, Springfield XD 9mm, Ruger .380, also two Olympic match air pistols. Also a variety of rifles and shotguns. And no I don't need a security system, every one in my area has a shooting range in their backyard and we watch each others places.

The Mark II Target with 6&7/8 inch barrel was my dad's gun. The first shot I ever fired out of it killed a red squirrel that was way up a pine tree. If you aren't familiar with red squirrels they're small like chipmunks and nothing like the common fox squirrels. I've since put a Houge target grip with thumb shelf on it. Ruger MK II / MK III Rubber grip w/Right Hand Thumb Rest Black | Hogue Inc.

I had a 14" barrel Contender in .358 Winchester (rechambered a .35 Rem) That was quite a scope killer, killed every scope until I put on a Burris. It was as accurate as I could shoot with hot hand loads, 200g Hornaday, Fed 215 Primer and lots of Hodgton H322. Shoot 10 rounds, ho home.

We have some red squirrels around here as well, at least we still have some left! They are destructive creatures and even though small they kill off the fox squirrels by getting into a fight and biting off the fox squirrels genitals so they cant reproduce...yes that would be one heck of a fight!! I have some friends that have a place to shoot them with their rimfire rifles and I have been invited along on a few occasions. Now I hunt with a .22 cal air rifle and we bet lunch on who gets the most. I have never had to but lunch yet, probably why the invites are getting fewer, but the air rifle makes little noise compared to the rimfire so I normally get follow up shots if I miss where he doesn't...

Colt Tactical Officers Light Weight 45, S&W 357,double barrel 38 special semi auto derringer,22 derringer,all out of sight,out of reach except by me. Most powerful weapon I have is is a light sleeping Chihuahua..

When my dad told me about the red squirrels biting the nuts off a fox squirrel in a fight I thought it was just one of those old man stories. Then one day I shot a squirrel on the road from as far away as my 20 gauge would reach. It was so big that from that distance I wasn't sure if it was a squirrel or rabbit but it was open season on both so I fired. After I shot I ran up to it to finish it off and when I picked it up and looked at it there was about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch scar where the nuts should have been. Unbelievable. That was the only one one I ever saw like that.

Lots of people don't believe that story but it's true. Look around where the reds have taken over the population and you will find very few fox squirrels. And if you can kill one you will probably see the same thing again.

If squirrels know this much about procreation and how to thin out another breed then they're a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

They are not dumb by any means. My sister and her husband live in Indiana on 10 acres and are overrun with red squirrels, on the occasion you do find a fox squirrel they are normally chewed up in that area. The red squirrels actually chew thru the trim boards on their house to get into the attic. Their reflexes are also lightening quick. At my other house we had a large tall wood privacy fence behind my woodpile which was a hotel for chipmunks and red squirrels. I could fire a shot with my air rifle and they would bob their heads and sure enough there would be a hole in the fence right behind their head! Have had that happen many times then learned to aim for there belly and then they couldn't duck that low.

.22 shot shells work wonders in that kind of situation.

To give you an idea how small the shot is, .22 LR shot shells typically have #12 shot. The next smallest size, #13, is also known as "dust" and you don't have to worry much about over-penetration with either. The individual pellets just don't have very much energy.

1 colt 1911 (never been fired)


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Series 70 or Series 80?

I reread the whole thread and saw that the link I posted was no good. Hogue has a new and improved website. I basically wasted my money getting the target grips with a thumb rest since I only took it out shooting once after that. My friend managed to shoot it left-handed somehow. Lefties are used to adapting to things made for righties. The finger groove grips without a thumb rest would have worked great for both of us. They're both right here. https://www.hogueinc.com/grips/ruger/mkiii/rubber

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Its a Mark IV series 80.

I also have this special edition (less than 400 made) 686-6 .357, 7 round with a 6 1/2" barrel and a few other handguns.

This one's been shot a lot.

Nice pistols, Specta.

Thanks Moose.

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I kind of like this 44 S&W Special from the 1940s too.

I'm trying to find some possible history from the UHP.

I miss my old .357 Magnum. Remington used to make Multiball ammo I bought for it with 2 000 Buck instead of a single bullet. The buckshot would spread but not too far, so you could get 2 hits on target at typical self defense range. I had some Strike Three .44 Special ammo that had a blue plastic capsule like CCI handgun shotshells. Instead of #9 shot it has 3 000 Buck in it. I gave it to my friend who has a Charter Arms Bulldog. I don't know what the spread is but imagine they go wherever they will and maybe some hit the target. A revolver can basically shoot anything that fits in it.

I had a Colt Mark IV Series 80 too. Then I bought a Para Ordnance frame before they started making complete pistols and used my Colt parts on it. It has a little steel insert I can put in and use Series 70 parts with no firing pin block if I want to. After that I bought my Para it's own Mark IV Series 80 parts and sold the Colt to a guy I worked with. I didn't need an 8-shot .45 when I had a 14-shot .45 that was barely 1/8" wider but otherwise the same size. The alloy frame Para with 14 rounds is the same weight as the steel frame Colt with 8 rounds.

I picked this one up because it feels good in my hand and its never been fired.

This way I'll always have a new handgun. LOL

I am going to get the Colt Commander that my brother carried when he was in law enforcement. Not sure I'm going to shoot it either because he shot two armed bank robbers with it that had taken a hostage. They pulled a gun on the wrong guy. ;)

So I guess I'll need a 3rd 1911 .45. LOL

I like .357s. I have 3 of them. A 640, a 28-2 and the 686.

I called the UHP this afternoon and I'm going to take that .44 into their main office in SLC Monday and let them have a look at it. The person I talked to seem pretty excited to see it.

That's a real piece of history. It looks a lot like the old S&W Military & Police .38. The army still issued the Model 10 .38s, with a much shorter barrel, to helicopter crews when I left in the mid-'80s.

Bought this a while ago. Was going to buy a Kimber, but my gunsmith convinced me that the Colt was made better. Colt Competition Series. Shoots nice, nice trigger. Seems much better made than the ones we had in the Army.

They used to have sales of the local police departments' and State Polices' pistols. Not sure if they still do that here. Father had a nice S&W .38 Special he got from the local force when they went to 9 mm.

That's sharp. Brother in law has one that I got to shoot. Very light trigger pull. Liked it but never got around to buying one.

They still have surplus sales. It might be where this one came from some time ago.

They told me today they haven't stamped UHP in them for many many years.

50 years before Kimber even made their first 1911, Colt had already made well over a million of them. They should know what they're doing by now. I like Colts. The 1911s made for the army were built to looser tolerances so they would always work, even when they got dirty. Most of the M1911A1s we had were 40 years old by the time the M9 was adopted, and they still worked.

Here's part of what Wikipedia says about the Colt 1911. In 1906 there were trials for the new service pistol. Of the six designs submitted, three were eliminated early on, leaving only the Savage, Colt, and DWM designs chambered in the new .45 ACP. These three still had issues that needed correction, but only Colt and Savage resubmitted their designs. A series of field tests from 1907 to 1911 were held to decide between the Savage and Colt designs. Among the areas of success for the Colt was a test at the end of 1910 attended by its designer, John Browning. Six thousand rounds were fired from a single pistol over the course of two days. When the gun began to grow hot, it was simply immersed in water to cool it. The Colt passed with no reported malfunctions, while the Savage design had 37.

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I have a .38 S&W Safety too.

Cute little gun. :)

Never liked the break open design like that. Always felt like it wasn't strong enough. Nice looking pistol regardless of my doubts. :D

It was only $100. S&W made millions of them. I might not even ever shoot it. I just like it. LOL

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Here's my other top-break pistol. Its a S&W Schofield and was manufactured in 1871. I keep it in a friends safe in SLC.

I'm waiting for the authentication letter from S&W.

It could be worth a grundle. :D

When they flip open they eject the spent shells. They were originally designed for the cavalry so they could easily flip them open with one hand to reload while on their horses.

I never had a break open revolver but they sure look easy to load and fast to unload. There's a company making reproductions of the .45 Schofield revolver, but not in .45 Schofield (.45 Smith & Wesson) caliber. You can get one in .38 Special, .44-40, or .45 Colt. They say it's historically accurate to the original, but .45 Colt ammo is way too long to use in a real .45 Schofield revolver.

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And just to clarify, there never was, and still isn't, any such thing as a .45 Long Colt, .45 Short Colt, .45 LC, or .45 SC caliber, no matter what label they slap on it. There is, and has been since 1872, only one .45 Colt caliber. There's no .45 Short, Medium, Long, or Extra Long Colt, just .45 Colt. Apparently some army quartermasters called it .45 Long Colt so people knew they weren't talking about .45 Smith & Wesson (.45 Schofield). The fact that the names are completely different should have been enough that they didn't need to call either one of them Short or Long. But the army adopted the M1887 Military Ball Cartridge for both Colt and Schofield revolvers, and for the last 131 years there hasn't been any reason to refer to .45 Colt as .45 Long Colt, unless you think .45 ACP sounds too much like .45 Colt. If you do, you shouldn't be allowed to own guns, or to be out in public unsupervised.

Not for those reasons but I sometimes question whether or not I should be allowed to own guns. :lol: :lol:

Most of the time I'm okay owning guns but I wonder, if I had a 10 pound case of Tannerite could I be trusted not to use it all in one shot?






I need to watch that last one again.

that would be a tough decision :lol:

The biggest explosion of Tannerite I've seen so far is 164 pounds that destroyed a barn. For about half the cost of that you can get 600 pounds of Binary X which makes a crater in the ground. And if that's not enough try 1776 pounds.

A friend of mine from back in high school works in CA setting up explosions for Hollywood movies.

He told me its a fun job. ;)

How many fingers does he have left?

he still has all 9 of them :)

That's how you can tell he's good at his job. ;)

He still has all 10. :D