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Congratulations!!!....   leroy

Remember....The Colt 1911 wuz the only firearm great enough to be the successor to that greatest of all military sidearms, the Colt Single Action Army...!   Enjoy it... You are, indeed, well armed and in good company...   leroy

I think this is the same kind of thing as the Pilot/Flyin J thing... My guess is that the only thing that the Gaston Glock Austrian tribe may be guilty of is usin bad judgement in hiring sales executives in the good ole USA... The presumed malefactors named in the article ain't very Teutonic...   Havin said all that; havin a bunch of salesmen (...whether "executive" or not; and none of them in our little TGO band of course....) being crooks ain't exactly new news anywhere...     I'm gonna reserve judgement on the "...they're all in it together..."  and "...it's the gospel truth..." thing and watch to see how this one falls out...   While I'm speculating a bit; another thing or two to think about: .... Exactly who furnished the data and "evidence" that all this wuz happenin and why..?   Could it be one rat rattin on another...? Could it be a firearms dealer or salesman in trouble with the IRS or ATF makin a deal...?  Could it be a wild accusation that wuz jumped on by the Feds to smear a large gun manufacturer with the goal of tarring all gun manufacturers and sellers as "crooks"...?     Remember, we gun owners and the Tea Party are equal to the KKK and Satan in their eyes, and they have engaged in a whole bunch of persecution by several of the aparatchiks of government....   Interestin to think about how this could come about...  Why would anyone ever think that a bunch of political appointees in the rattiest Justice Department ever would do the right thing about anything...? They aint up to now...   leroy

All.... I've got a Bond 45/410 "Snake Slayer" too; and i love it... I keep it handy in my camera bag when I'm out putzin around in the wrangler taking pictures... It stays very near all the time.... I put a set of the XL rosewood grips on it... It calms down the 410 loads quite a bit... The down side is that the grips are good sized... Ive got pretty big hands and the XL rosewoods fill 'em up pretty well... I carry my little pistola in a D.M Bullard IWB holster...It works like a charm...   leroy

Just helped our ole buddy out... Can't let a fellow kanine down.. leroy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sonny... Thanks for posting this info on your new Kahr... I been stewin on getting a "small"  single stack 45 myself (...like i need another pistola...)...Wuz thinkin about a Kahr or an XDs or a Glock 36.... I like the "slim" idea...   Thanks again, leroy

  mhl spoke a great truth here; along with greg's comment on the 1911 "platform"...   There are some of us "geezers" who remember when the double action revolver and the 1911 wuz king... Like mhl;  im a great fan of the double action smiths in any flavor (...N, K, or J...)... I grew up shootin them and they are my revolver favorites... The fact is that a double action revolver is utterly reliable and if a finished gun man who is handlin it can shoot double action; it's as deadly as a drug store til the first reload (...which ya usually dont need...)... The same is true of the 1911...   The fact is that i like all the legacy gun "platforms" because they all work and work very well...That's how they became so popular...  I've got a 25 year old who is deadly with a 4 inch 629... He wuz taught to shoot double action by his geezer dad (...who can't shoot nearly as good as he can...)... Never feel bad about being "outgunned" by carryin a good double action revolver... If ya know how to shoot; ya ain't... The newer stuff may tote more rounds in the magazine; but that's about all...   All that bein said; we've got a pile of "modern" glocks; and that's what we carry...   The smiths and the colts are locked away in the gun safe... Too valuable to carry...   The polymer stuff is like a hammer or a handsaw; it's simply a tool... The revolver and the 1911 is a work of art... Meant to be appreciated, praised, and shown to friends... The polymer stuff is meant to be shown to your adversaries...   leroy

I like HK's... The first "coke bottle" (...polymer...) pistol i ever shot was a HK USP 45... I like 'em; i just think they are too expensive for a polymer construction firearm... They are extremely accurate and dependable, and they started my "pistola" oddesy toward the glock... I would love to find a "lovingly cared for and little used" HK USP at a sensible price...   leroy

Another vote for the Golden Rule BBQ... We used to railfan down there in the late nineties and early two thousands at Irondale and around the USX plant in Fairfield... All in all, it aint too bad in daylight; but we never stayed in Birmingham proper... As others have opined; carry your CCW tools....   leroy

I like it!!!   ^^^^... I need to go ahead and pick a BCM pencil barrel and get to work... By the way; a good barrel is a good barrel, no matter what the countour... BCM barrels are good stuff as near as i can tell...   leroy

They are large, stout, and indispensable... I keep one in the jeep along with all the other tools....   Enjoy... leroy

All the folks at Predator are great folks... We here in east tennessee are blessed to have them close...    leroy

Sig 238 for an auto.... Any smith "j frame" for the revolver... The alloy frame smiths are easiest to carry; but a steel frame ain't bad either...   leroy

Great find!!... Remember the genuine Colt 1911 is the only worthy successor to that greatest of military sidearms, the Colt Single Action Army... It aint an accident that the 45 ACP (...Colt Automatic Pistol...) cartridge is a shortened, rimless version of the 45 Colt....   Enjoy!!! leroy

RE: OS post above ^^^... My bet is that tercel is left handed and is workin on a right hand draw for the car... I got the same problem... Us lefties dont like the idea of the holster bein on the "wrong" side in a car... I carry right handed all the time because of it...   leroy

Buck....   leroy

If the republicans put up a smuck like Cristie; they will be finished as anything but a marginal special interest group... They will elect hillary by default and we'll get rid of the republican party and finish the pickpocketing of america by the political class... I cant stand any of these sons and daughters of satan... The hell with 'em all....   leroy

I dont like gas stations either; and i damn sure don't like folks walkin up on me... I always try to fuel up at a grocery store type fueling place; but i know ya can always do that... I'm never not watchin...   leroy

I love the German Shorthairs too; and this one is, indeed, a beautiful pup... Havin said all that, ill join the chorus of those who say "to wait"... Dogs need space to run and play, and the Shorthair is pretty energetic....   leroy

A genuine work of art... Exquisite, and a helluva caliber...   Enjoy... leroy

"...I'd have to start with a Tower Pistol and work up, i think..."... I'm like Caster; there's a lot of waitin and holdin steady for a flintlock to do its work...   Good luck.... leroy

What 2.ooohhh said!!! ^^^^^^... We shoot train photos all the time with a nikon d80... I always use a 50 mm F1.8 lens...   leroy

Refleks'  insightful post made me think of the specifications for the Walker Colt percussion pistol; the first magnum handgun.... "...good out to 200 yards on man and beast...; and that was for a percussion revolver... It's somethin to think about....   leroy

Get a copy of "Sixguns" by Elmer Keith...   It will be very enlightening in regards to extreme range shots with handguns... The truth is that handguns are far more accurate than the majority of folks holding them... We used to shoot at 75 to 100 yards with revolvers and 1911's...   leroy

Here is another vote for the  S & W "j" frame; but with a bit of a twist... I've got two of them; an all steel (...model 36...) and an airweight hammerless... The triggers on the S & W's can be worked on if ya need to, and parts are readily available...   I would strongly recommend that ya learn to shoot whatever ya decide on double action; that's the best way for defensive shootin...   Something else to consider is that the "plus P" ammo out of a lightweight revolver will be teeth jarring...   If i wuz gonna opt for a "Plus P" type revolver, it would be a all steel S & W, or a Ruger SP101 (...which i like a lot...)...   All that being said, I like the airweights with regular 38 special loads (...158 grain semiwadcutters or full wadcutters...) as they shoot well and are easy to carry... There's lots of bad (...and good...) guys layin in the graveyard after being shot dead with the lowly 38 special... It was the "standard" police carry gun for lots of years... It's highly underrated...   Good luck...   leroy