The Gunsmith Thread

I have. I was never been a Colt revolver guy, however. Smith & Wesson all the way!
 
This is what you need !

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Yes sir, it's a 12-gauge, break-open, double-barrel pistol.
Ideal for home defense.
Get 2, they're small.

Okay, maybe not so small.
 
Devil Doc said:
Yeah I’d have hell to pay if I walked in with a firearm that expensive.
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> I hope my wife never sells my guns for what I told her they cost ...
(Just kidding, she handles the day to day bills, so she knows all. However, she did look into the safe one day, not long ago, and asked "what they are all worth..", If you collect over time, it adds up !
 
My dad’s side of the tree is from Jacksonville, Florida. I was stationed at Cecil Field in the early 90s and my dad had passed on but one of his brothers and kids were still there. One day at Uncle John’s place after a sufficient amount of whiskey, he brought out a few rifles and shotguns I recognized as belonging to my deceased grandad.

He told me he was going to contact the rest of the grandkids to assess interest in owning one or more and I as the eldest would get to choose first. That was nice to hear and we made plans to return in a couple weeks to burn some burgers and hang out for a little while. Weelll, we went back and after an hour or so of him not mentioning my future property, I asked him if he had contacted my cousins. No need to he said, the guns were stolen. What!

His eldest, my meth head cousin, had taken them and sold them. Sold them for a fraction of their worth for drugs. I was mad because I wanted the nice guns but sad because of the lost family connection. That was a long time ago but it still riles me. I never saw the cousin again which is a good thing for both of us.
 
We are truly brothers, then. I have a story eerily similar, involving a matched set of 3 Belgian-made Browning shotguns.
It still makes me mad to think about it.
 
I have never been a "Glock Guy", so how did this happen?

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The one in the middle is the new Glock 44. It is incredibly efficient at digesting any brand of 40-gr. lead round nose solid .22LR.
I have a few hundred rounds though it with no malfunctions whatsoever. Not even a single misfire. It's sort of freakish.
 
THParent said:
I have never been a "Glock Guy", so how did this happen?

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The one in the middle is the new Glock 44. It is incredibly efficient at digesting any brand of 40-gr. lead round nose solid .22LR.
I have a few hundred rounds though it with no malfunctions whatsoever. Not even a single misfire. It's sort of freakish.
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If that's your "non-Glock Guy" collection, I'd love to see your S&W assortment. I am a G.G. and am intrigued by the new 44. Further feedback would be greatly welcomed...by me, not my DW though.
 
Well I can tell you that I have first-hand knowledge of one G44 that already has 8,000 rounds through it and it hasn't been cleaned, yet.
It is still working flawlessly. I have nothing (pistol, revolver, or rifle) chambered in .22LR that is able to do that, and keep going.
Normally I would never buy a gun in the first year of production, but this one I just had to have. I plan to use it for training new pistol shooters.
 
THParent said:
I plan to use it for training new pistol shooters.
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That was my rationale for the M&P 22 compact. Works very well for that, plus it fit right in with my M&P "family".

Next my "glizzy" family will have to get used to a younger brother.
 
Carried the Gen 2 Glock 19 for work from 1995-2018. From 1987 til then we had revolvers. With the wheelgun, then it was shoot 2 then access. Then we want to the Glock's 16 rounds in the gun+ 2 15-round mags on the belt equaling 46 rounds (up from the 18 total we carried on us with revolvers)! Sadly some offers had to be shot & one was killed by 9mm's which the perps were carrying effectively outgunning us to affect this change.

Fortunately my department knew more about gun design then the engineers over there in Austria so the job swapped out the original, more accurate, barrel (which didn't leave enough striations for ID'ing slugs) to a less accurate but better for ID'ing barrel so whose shot went where could be determined. And that 6 pound trigger which came with the gun had to go as well, replaced with a 13 lb. pull one so you had that extra time to change your mind (it mimicked the revolver double-action trigger pull). The job was always good for letting you know how much they cared about your safety. Thankfully politics never went into any of these gun function changes. Also in the late 90's our Glocks' were recalled to have the ejection port expanded.

Only problem I ever had with the Glock was when I pulled up 1st due solo to a report of a bank robbery and as I got out of the car I unholstered & the magazine fell out of the gun onto the ground! Damn I thought, from 16 rounds to 1 all in one move! Reloaded from the belt holder & thankfully it was a false alarm. Turned out my holster had a design flaw which allowed the magazine release to be depressed while the firearm was holstered. The holster was recalled & never had a Glock-related issue again. That's what I get for being left-handed! LOL.
 
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