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To each his own. I've shot Anacondas, Cobras, Diamondbacks, even shot a pair of Colt Custom Shop Pythons. Regular Pythons are hand-fitted. Custom Shop Pythons are like shooting a Swiss watch, if that makes any sense.
But Colts don't fit me. Smiths do. Even Taurus revolvers fit my hand.
Still, I wouldn't turn these down...
Link to videoBut for you guys, where MINO, a .22 single action that's been around awhile and still worth buying...
That's a Heritage Rough Rider. Currently on sale at Academy.
They're not wonderful guns, just serviceable. In fact, they won't pass the melt tests in some states. But in 22LR, they do last. Single action, six shots and you can buy a .22mag cylinder if you wish.
Good for a trapline, shooting snakes or killing a hog. And if you lose it, big whoop.
The Ruger Wrangler is a better firearm, but we're up to just shy of $200. And there's the Super Wrangler, which us a good value
https://thediplomat.com/2024/11/assessing-the-j-35a-the-chinese-air-forces-new-stealth-fighter/month
Before you get too excited, this one is flying and when it gets its new RR engines, will be formidable...
https://thediplomat.com/2024/11/assessing-the-j-35a-the-chinese-air-forces-new-stealth-fighter/
@jon-nyc said in Pomposity Defined.:
In NY you can get a special plate if you’re a physician. Not sure why anyone would want to do that.
Down here you can get a RN plate.
Um, no.
@89th said in The man who shot Ashley Babbit:
Again Jolly, let's pretend this is Feb 2025.
Imagine for a moment that in February 2025, a BLM mob hops the white house fence and a BLM chick (with her closest 100 friends) were trying to break down the front door where Trump is inside, and behind the glass door there were cops pointing guns saying "don't come in here we will shoot"...and then the BLM chick breaks down the door starts to go in with her 100 closest friends behind her.
And the white house secret service opens fire after the multiple violent breaches (unknown weapons) against the first person to break through.
I 1,000,000,000% guarantee you would say the secret service was justified to open fire at that point to defend Trump in the white house.
Yes a billion percent.
A. We're not imagining. We have the shooting on video.
B. Even in the sorry ass state they are currently in, Byrd couldn't have gotten close enough to a Secret Service detail to sniff their shoes.
For instance...
A. Byrd had already had a suspicious discharge of his weapon while off-duty, at a fleeing suspect. Unless the perp was trying to kill Byrd with the car, that's a big no-no.
B. Capitol police were even denied some less than lethal means of dealing with the crowd. Lethal force is the very last tactic they could use...I've read elsewhere they had been told not to use lethal force, but this talks about even less than lethal force:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/capitol-riot-report-reveals-police-were-told-to-hold-back/
C. Byrd left his duty weapon in a restroom and forgot it. In many departments, that's a firing offense.
D. Byrd couldn't pass shotgun qualification. Now, if we assume he's shooting the FBI qual on QIT, he's shooting slugs (15) at anywhere from 50 to 7 yards. There are only two shots at 50 yards and one of them is kneeling.
E. Who "fires into the air"? Ever?
F. As I've previously stated, how Byrd only hurt one person is simply a small miracle. A pass-through should have been a certainty.
So...Here we have a history of somebody exhibiting excitability and a propensity to discharge.
Byrd ain't a philosophical hill I'd die on.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The man who shot Ashley Babbit:
There's no fucking way Jolly could take down Gandalf.
As Robert Ruark said, all you have to do is bring enough gun.