To all wimmens:
Sorry I missed International Woman’s Day (or whatever you call it) yesterday. I have no excuse other than that I’d been working since 4am and for some reason, the date just slipped my mind. Please accept my humblest apologies.
Now… I’d like a sandwich. One of these, preferably:
No? Well, all righty then. I’m off to the range instead.
From Reader Joe in PNG:
“I’m seriously pondering a S&W Model 25 in .45 LC for my 45th birthday — in blued steel with a 4″ barrel and some sort of fancy wood grips.”
So detailed a consideration requires pictorial support, methinks (albeit without fancy wood grips):
It’s a good one. The nice thing about the venerable .45 Long Colt cartridge is that it can be found in a weak, cowboy-action-shooting (CAS) guise, and also in rip-snorting magnum-strength power. Witness:
Hornady’s Cowboy:
Bullet Weight: 255 Grains
Muzzle Energy: 298 ft lbs
Muzzle Velocity: 725 fps
Buffalo Bore +P:
Bullet Weight: 260 Grain
Muzzle Energy: 1,298 ft/lbs
Muzzle Velocity: 1,500 fps
Just so we’re clear on the concept, here are the comparable figures for Buffalo Bore’s .357 Mag and .44 Mag cartridges, both regarded as exemplary stoppers:
.357 Magnum:
Bullet Weight: 158 Grains
Muzzle energy: 763 ft/lbs
Muzzle velocity: 1,475 fps
.44 Magnum:
Bullet Weight: 240 grains
Muzzle energy: 1,280 ft/lbs
Muzzle velocity: 1,550 fps
So Joe’s consideration is certainly a valid one in terms of self-defense needs. And let’s not forget that the Model 25 is a handsome-looking piece as well. Win-win, I think the marketing nerds call it.
And if like me you’re an old-school shooter with no fear of single-action revolvers, let’s take a quick look at Ruger’s New Model Blackhawk Bisley in the same caliber:
Am I the only one whose trigger-digit has suddenly started to itch?
The Republican Party decides to put “reasonable gun control” in their party platform before the mid-term elections in 2018:
…and yes, you too may use the words “Republican Party” in your suggestions if so desired.
Ranked in ascending order of foulness:
Your suggestions in Comments. I can’t wait to hear from my Lady Readers.
Not having been a frequent visitor to Lucky Gunner, I was unaware that they don’t just sell ammo — and in case there are others like me, allow me to introduce you to their excellent shooting-for-beginners series, Shooting 101. Then look at the next series (which is equally good): Start Shooting Better.
And the website is chock full of such articles. Prepare to spend quite some time getting through all of them.
There’s a German idiom “Immer werder lernen“, which roughly translated means “There always something to learn”. Such is the case with the two Lucky Gunner series — I’m kicking myself at discovering a couple of bad habits I’ve picked up over the years — and in this age of smaller “pocket” pistols, their “How To Shoot Small Pistols Better” is an absolute gem.
And Chris Baker gets off some memorable lines, e.g. when talking about shooting revolvers:
“What it comes down to is that the long double action trigger press forces the shooter to maintain correct technique 100% of the time in order to not completely suck.”
Here’s a gratuitous picture of a beautiful gun, just because. It’s a S&W Model 24 “Heritage”, chambered in .44 Special.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range… to work on eliminating some of those bad habits I discovered. And to make sure that I don’t completely suck.
Via Insty, I see that some slut is boasting of how she’s bonked three Uber drivers in the course of her travels around (duh) Manhattan. Leaving aside that the whole thing might be totally bogus — which is often the case with these “Penthouse Letters” fantasies — I suppose that the scenario is quite plausible.
Thank goodness it’ll never happen to me. This is mainly due to the fact that I work from 4am till early afternoon, because I refuse to work the “late-night-drunk” shift. Mostly, I get to take harried executives — male and female — to and from the airport, so let’s just say that it’s an unlikely scenario. Also, as the article allows, it’s against Uber’s rules and I’m kinda law-abiding when to comes to that kind of thing. And even further, I’m at an age when I’m no longer ruled by my dick — I rather outgrew this silliness when I played in a band in my teens and twenties — and even if some insane woman did offer herself to me (we’re talking Powerball odds here anyway), I’m just not gonna do it because… sheesh, do I even have to explain how wrong it is?
I’m just not interested in giving a complete stranger that kind of power over me. Nor should anyone. Not even with her…
Yeah I know, I know… but I don’t have any other pics of strange women lying in taxicabs. It’s never been a fetish of mine.