Not just the guns, but all the stuff that goes with them
Also at Steve Barnett:
Over the years, CZ has upgraded their .22 bolties (I think they’re now up to Mod 457), but I have to say that other than some technical (and cosmetic) stuff, I’m not sure that oldies like this one aren’t just as good as the newer ones, certainly in terms of accuracy.
And even with the Barnett Price Premium, it’s still very good value.
Would this be a bad time to bring back Kim’s BANG (Buy A New Gun) Fund from the old blog? Probably. Dammit.
This one’s for Reader Old Texan and all you other pigeon-hunters:
Of course, it’s always a pleasure when watching a master go about his craft, and Jonny’s teacher Paul Payne is just that — he’s been doing it for forty-seven years. And of course, Jonny is an excellent student: despite being a pretty decent shot, he’s always open to learning something new.
It’s an hour out of your day — the shooting ends at about 38 minutes — but if you carry on watching to see the gear they use… whoa.
Whatever, you’ll feel as relaxed as I was at the end of it. Lovely stuff.
From Steve Barnett:
I remember shooting one of these, many years ago, at a range where its owner was having serious feeding issues with the ammo he’d brought (I forget the brand).
Intrigued, I offered him the use of some of my CCI Mini-Mag… and the gun performed flawlessly. (He bought a brick from me right there on the spot.)
When he let me shoot his Mod 41, I was rather chagrined by the fact that it shot more accurately than my Beretta Jaguar.
…which, given the price disparity at the time — the equivalent of about $250 — and the barrel differences between the two guns, was perhaps not too surprising.
I still think mine was the prettier gun, though — and the accuracy difference wasn’t that great. Take from that what you will.
They never give up on the idiocy, do they?
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) used a Monday post on X to call for a buyback of AR-15s and firearms that Democrats refer to as “assault weapons.”
He also wants a ban in place to keep future AR-15s from being manufactured or sold.
Swalwell posted:
Ban assault weapons. Buy them ALL back. Choose our kids over their killers.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 28, 2023
I find the “Choose our kids over their killers” line especially ironic, coming from a politician whose party supports an “abortion-right-up-to-birth” policy.
He should stick to shagging ChiCom honeytraps.
Loathsome little turd.
Not that I actually own either of the above, of course; it’s just a point of principle.
This one caught my eye at Collectors:
I know, I know: the constant gripe about Smith’s Performance Center (or “Profit Center”, as it’s sometimes called) is that they take a gun and turn it into what the gun should have been at the outset, for about a grand’s difference.
I don’t think that’s fair, because while a standard Smith 627 is not exactly a slouch in the Gun Beauty Division:
…there is no doubt that like any standard-issue gun, it can always be improved by a little judicious tinkering. Which is what the Performance Center does. And yes, like any bespoke changes, you gotta pay for the improvements.
In Colt terms, this is like the difference between the excellent Colt Trooper:
..and the magnificent Python.
I would be perfectly happy with a Trooper or S&W 627 (although 8 rounds in the 627, hubba hubba). Both are excellent revolvers, no question about it.
And the Python and 627 PC? Wonderful. And you pay extra for the doubleplus part. There’s no problem with that.
Here we go again. Executive summary: asshole loser shoots three people dead for no reason other than, apparently, their race. Doubleplusungood: with an AR-15. Tripleplusungood: AR-15 had swastikas painted on it.
Before the Weepies and Gun-Fearing Wussies get going with “Ban all eeeevil assault rifles NOW!”, let’s just face a couple facts.
Listen, I don’t want to downplay this tragedy. Society has no place for scumbags like this, and had I been there and in a position to intervene, I would have shot this little cunt in the back of the head without a second thought, before he had a chance to off himself.
Maybe his parents (with whom he was still living) could have done something ahead of time to prevent this, and maybe they couldn’t. There’s not much a parent can do with grown kids — they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do.
Sadly, freedom does not come without its abuse, and the Second Amendment is no different. But nothing we do can prevent them being abused, and that’s just the tragedy of it.
And just to be clear on the topic: there neither is nor could be any new law which would have prevented this. Random assholes will always find a way to do their evil deeds, and that’s the truth of it.