Reader Mike L. stumbled on an excellent post at Reddit which featured this vision of gunny loveliness:
If that doesn’t make your morning, let me tell you: it sure did mine.
The guy’s thoughts are pretty much mine as well:
While there’s nothing wrong with ARs (I own a few myself) I’ve always been intrigued by the sheer variety of firearms and am way more attracted to fine walnut and blued steel then most “tactical” arms.
The guns pictured are a newly-acquired Ruger No 1 338 Win Mag I found for stupid cheap and an old Smith and Wesson 19-3.
I dunno about the .338 Win Mag — it’s not my favorite large caliber, and that might have stopped me from getting this particular No. 1 — but as it’s not going to be a gun that I would shoot often, that’s probably not important. (Now had it been chambered in .300 Win Mag, .300 H&H Mag or .375 H&H Mag…)
Right-click to embiggen. It makes a nice wallpaper pic.
and you’d refuse it in 300 Norma Mag?
Yes, because it fails the Bubba’s Bait ‘N Bullets test.
Yup! agreed!
y’ gotta be able to buy ’em at any bait and tackle in Bumf***, NoDak
‘cept I haven’t seen the latter two in years
then again I handload anyhoo
The main point here is not the chamberings, which can be argued all day every day for years.
357 VS 10MM or 44 Mag VS 454 Casull and so on.
The meat and potatoes is that while plastic fantastic is easy to care for and use, and while we do enjoy or modern firearms, something speaks to many people about blued steel and wood.
I have a 4.62 in barrel Ruger Single Six, blued with wood grips, with 2 cylinders, 22 LR and 22 WMR (aka 22 Mag). It is an awesome firearm. Functionally and looks wise, hard to beat a classic revolver.
That’s a beautiful pair right there. The S&W Model 19 is a fine revolver, just feed it 158grain .357magnum loads rather than the zippy 125grain fodder. The blued steel and walnut are just absolute classics. I’m not familiar with the .338 Winchester Magnum offering but I am sure it is just fine for plenty of larger game.
I had a chance about 10 years or so ago to buy a 4 inch Ruger Security 6 blued model for 300 bucks. I kick myself for not purchasing that.
oh man, that’s a shame. A good quality revolver under $500 now is a steal. Hard to beat a Ruger or S&W revolver
The deeper blue of years past with great wood is truly one of the best combinations. I think the modern bluing and case coloring lacks due to constraints of harmful chemicals and all, but the old guys really knew how to do it right.
All the Alphabet agencies going green with all this save the planet bullshit.
Slightly unrelated, I recently saw a video on YouTube about a battery recycling plant, that takes in old batteries from almost anything (vehicles, phones, computers, etc), and breaks them down and gets parts ready that can be reused again for new batteries.
The plant ran on natural gas.
You can’t fix stupid, and the liberals and greenies are as stupid as a pile of fucking rocks.