Will Carry

SAME THING happened to me! This discription is going to make me sound like an idiot cause I don't know that name of the parts. The manual is 50 feet away from me but it may has well be a mile. My back went out today and I'm laying on the floor and can't get up. If you like I will post again with a better discription. There is a kit you can order for the Mark III that allows you to break the gun down easily. It's a Majestic Arms Speed Strip kit. http://www.majesticarms.com/id10.html Anyway, here is what I did to free up my Mark III..... Took it apart, made the classic reassmbly blunder (That little hangy down thing on the hammer was not set correctly) and I could not get it apart again. I took a small hammer and tapped the top behind the rear sight (The little knob that sticks up). When I tapped that knob it freed the lever, which easily came out. You can try tapping that lightly with a brass hammer so you don't damage anything. Though I was able to fix the problem I broke the rear sight. But I use a BSA red dot sight anyway.

It's a compromise. A NAA revolver in 22mag and a can of mace wouldn't be too bad. Magum Research makes a tiny little 380 that might work too. Then there is the two shot derringer.

When I first started carrying I bought some 9mm Glazer Silver Tip Vampire killers. I loaded the first few rounds of my magazine with the Glazer then had the rest FMJs. After a while I decided against mixing ammo and now carry all 45 ACP JHP Zombie killers. You carry'em like you want to but these guys have a very good point. The bad guys won't notice the difference until it's too late.

I saw the movie last weekend.......wait till it comes out in DVD. Russel Crowe's face would crack if he tried to be merry. Ever since Saving Private Ryan, which was a great movie, it's seems that all movie combat scenes have to be jittery. It worked in Private Ryan.

I carry a Glock 36. It's a single stack so it's slim. It's reliable, accurate and light weight. I have a CT sight on it. It ain't glamorous like a nice Kimber or Colt, but it's the smallest 45 I own.

Colt. It has a horsey on it. I bought a Colt becuase they were the original maker of the 1911 and make a fine pistol. Plus I got a great deal on it. It is absolutely reliable and very accurate. It is factory spec. I have not done any modifications to it. All the CBOB fans will tell you that you need $1800+ to have a good 1911. All that talk don't mean diddly squat. One thing about a 1911 is that it is a hobbie gun as well as a personal protection weapon. They are also fun to shoot and fun to dress up... Like a Barbie doll of shooters.

I would say that 300 bucks would be a good price if the gun has been shoot a lot. If it has been laying in the bottom of granny's closet for 50 years and has only been shoot a few times, then $400-$450, or more, would be a good price. Cop guns usually have had a lot of rounds fired through them but those old Smiths were made well, by skilled gunsmiths, with top grade metals. They don't make'em like that any more and probably never again. The Model 10 is a classic but they made tens of thousands of these guns over the years so they are not rare by any means.

I've been thinking about buying a little pocket .380 but the fact that .380 ammo is so hard to find, has made me hesitant. Is it just me?

That's a good price for around here. You may could talk him down a little but that seems to be a reasonable price for an XD40.

"Red on Yellow...kill a fellow. Red on Black...Johnny comes back." I see few reasons to kill non-poisonous snakes. They are not a threat and they taste terrible. Although I killed all I could find when I was a kid, I leave'em alone now.

I carry a SOG Flash II spring assist folding knife. It's legal becuase you have to manually thumb the blade, then the spring "assists" opening. I use it becuase it can be opened "in a flash" with one hand.

Thanks for your post! Any anecdotes of your trek on the AT are most welcome. How much water do you consume in a day? Is it readily available or do you have to ration it?

A plain blade. Serated knives are called "Steak Knives". I've been a blue collar worker for 30 years and I have always carried a pocket knife. I have carried serated edge knives but I always go back to straight edges. Serated edges will get you cut.

Aren't the South Korean's on OUR side? I know the ROK helped us in Nam. Tough little dudes!

What does EDC stand for? SOG Flash Tanto. No serations.

I carry a SOG Flash spring assist with a Tanto blade. The only serrated blades I own are kitchen steak knives.

The pistols you mentioned will do just fine. Buying a pistol is the easy part, learning how to use it in a self defense scenario is harder. What ever pistol you get, you will learn to shoot it well. I carry a Smith and Wesson Chief's Special. I practice (unloaded) drawing it and creating distance between me and the threat, in my back yard. Like on those U-tube videos. The bad guys are not all stupid thugs, some of them have had training and use practiced techniques that involve ambush, distraction and multiple attackers. When good guys train, they are only leveling the playing field. Good luck on your purchase!

I'll +1 the 180 gr Hornady XTP. I'm thinking about buying a lever action .357 16" barrel myself, for hunting the bush. I've been looking at Marlin, Rossi and Henry.....among others.

Spot on old boy!

Colt makes a fine pistol. I have heard some of the trash talk but my Colt 1911 is my most reliable handgun. It is a series 80 and I have shot hundreds of rounds through it of every kind of ammo and it has bever failed. I think the rash talk was started by Kimber lovers.

The southern colonies supported the revolutionary war because Britian was abolishing slavery in her colonies. Without the support of the slave owners (southern power brokers) Britain may have won he revolutionary war and we would be like Canada. The first US congress debated for weeks on whether or not to abolish slavery. It was a close vote. The problem was readdressed in 1861............

Diet Coke.

Tarawa was no cake walk. In many ways the lessones learned a Tarawa saved lives on Iwo Jima. Tarawa was a ClusterF#$@!. From the very begining it was a sh!# storm of a ClusterF#$@!. The Navy still had not learned how to shoot their guns. They were too far out to sea to really hit anything and their shooting was pathetic. If they hit any Jap bunkers it was just by luck. They got the tides wrong and the landing craft and amracs got stuck on reefs. Marines had to wade 700 yards fully exposed to Jap motors and machine guns. Then they had to fight against well dug in defensive positions, in tropical heat. You really should read a book about Tarawa before you go calling it a "cake walk", no offense intended. Iwo Jima was bad and so was Okinawa, but fighting the Japs anywhere was never a cake walk. Tarawa may have been the worst battle the Marines fought in WWII ......except for all the rest.

I was refering to California and other screwed up liberal states that have a 10 round limit on magazines. Tennessee and North Carolina have no such law. I have an XD-45 and an XDm 40 that have "full capacity" magazines.

Was is it about 10 rounds? You can have a ten round magazine and use it for self defense but "ELEVEN rounds! Oh no. You will just have to do with ten. We couldn't possibly let you have eleven. You would be a danger to the public with one extra round." That is BS. I can't understand why nobody has called them on that. There should be no limits on magazine capacity. That has nothing to do with it.