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Depending on money and desire especially if this is going to be a range gun in order: 1. 1911 9mm with a .38 Super barrel and a 7.62.25 barrel/bushing. 2. Sig X-Five Tactical 3. Glock 34 with Fulcrum trigger, 6lb trigger spring and Ghost 3.5 connector 4. Glock 17L with Fulcrum trigger, 6lb trigger spring and Ghost 3.5 connector I've been there and done that except for the 9mm 1911 with the 7.62 barrel - which I am in the process of remedying if the seller's FFL ever gets back in town to send me the gun I have paid for. X-Five is a really cool gun but it is big, but oh so nice to shoot. A friend lent me his for a couple of months. Glock 34 can be easily carried with the right holster and is legal in competitions Glock17L is long as hell but is fun to outfit with aftermarket. Cheap, anemic ammo is not this gun's friend. I have had 5 CZs and all were good guns - I don't have them any longer. Unless you get Angus Hobdell to rework the trigger with a single action straight trigger - well, 'nuff said. I'll never buy another. Beretta 92s are good range guns too and can be made to shoot with decent trigger pulls fairly easily - I have had 3 not including those that I had to carry in the Army. I'll never buy another. I have owned both a M&P Pro and M&P 9L set up like a Pro. And I am an M&P Armorer (big deal), but I probably won't own another M&P unless a 9mm Shield ends up in my lap.

I was fooling around with my Dan Wesson 15-2 Monson, MA made .357 again, with some aftermarket parts. This thing is so versatile. A few weeks ago I was shooting 125 yards targets with it and its heavy 6" barrel and shroud. Now it is an easy shooting SD .357 with a 2.5" barrel and heavy shroud. In this configuration it weighs 38.6oz. Currently I have a couple of S&W revolvers and a Ruger, but those are on the trading block. This DW is my perfect .357, accurate, reliable, versatile, it ain't going anywhere, ever.

I recently took my 80 yr old mother in law to the range for her first time ever shooting a handgun and second time shooting any gun. She lives 700 miles from here so it ain't happening often. She is not some doddering tiny weak lady. She is a fit active and strong 80 yr old. We spent a good 30 minutes at home with a .22 pistol she could handle to get safety and sight picture initiated. Then we went to the range. I've worked with a number of women on shooting techniques and seem to have a knack for not giving too much advice and enough to let them have fun - my wife is the exception, although we do work on it. I would try and get her to get a decent stance and lean into it, but that might not happen and don't press it. Get a reliable .22 pistol, with enough mags and load for her initially so she has fun shooting. This is her time, not yours. 45 minutes and then end it on a positive note, then leave the range. Don't have her fire centerfire for a while until her safety techniques and basic handling skills are decently set up. Watch the range lizards. They can make shooting uncomfortable for women. You know the type, guys who start to come around and gather where any women with a gun looks like she "needs" unsolicited advice and close contact. Sounds funny but detracts from a beginner's training session and puts pressure on the woman where pressure should not exist. I took two of the vet techs who have handled my dogs and cats for years to the range. One is married and the other divorced, both lookers. They weren't looking for a date on the range, However, every nimrod on the range who hadn't had or couldn't get a date in years and couldn't shoot any better than me thought they needed to prance around the ladies talking some of the dumbest gun talk I have heard and I hear a lot. The married guys were just as bad. I should have videoed the whole experience and blackmailed dudes for new guns.

Dumb me, I was so excited about a .22 that would work with that williams target sight. Then I was shooting colibras in the backyard and couldn't get them to eject. Thought the ejector was broke for a second until I saw that the sight was in the in way. I stomped off to the computer and ordered another Williams aperture sight that is less complex but will work on a grooved receiver. The sight can be fitted to Comblok grooves.

I traded for one of these today, in the box with all 4 mags, no dings or scratches. This Toz-78-01 is nearly LNIB. They are made by Tula. I am going to have fun with this one. I removed the rear drum sight and replaced it with a a Williams target .22LR sight that is set up for grooved receivers. That Williams sight is a perfect, I mean perfect match. Cool thing is the adjustable front sight as well as extreme windage and elevation on the Williams rear sight, so no problems finding my 50yrd match-up. Plus I have nice sight plane - I increased the sight plane from 19.5" with the original sights to 25.5" using the Williams. The trigger has a nice break but has more creep than I like, I think I can eliminate that creep. I've never been more pleased with a low cost .22 rifle. These were imported as Winchester Wildcats (without adjustable triggers) , but don't know if Remington imported them also under a different moniker. Apparently the TOZ 78-01 shoot bulk ammo very well. I have 5000 rds of Aguila-made Centurian .22LR. I hope the Toz likes it.

Will H, I have never heard a complaint out of anyone who had a Heritage. I'll bet they would make a good trapline gun or good gun to shoot 60grain SSS in a LEGALLY caught gator's head.

I spent a lot of time at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center studying politics, both national and international. I wouldn't trust Romney or Obama to ensure the near or long term security of my wife, children or dog. These guys are politicians run by political machines, both harnessed and run by big money. Take a look at Pelosi or Boehner. They both look like refugees from some Caribbean vacation and they both have no minds of their own, just parrotting what drivel that either wing of the party tells them to say. They probably didn't start out that way....but.... Forget the parties and concentrate on picking really good smart people for city, county and state politics. People who appeal to your way of thinking or who you think will stand some chance of running things the way you would like to see them run. The days of folks wanting to do the right thing in national politics has long been overtaken by personal greed, aggrandizement or strategic corporate buffoonery.

subsonic In both cases these were private sellers with many "positive" dealings and no negatives in their rankings. I must be just unlucky.

Here is my gripe. Recently I have typed "I will take it" in response to two guns I have seen online. I rarely if ever do that. ON both occasions the seller, and rightly so, "demands" postal money order in hand prior to shipment. In both cases I was prompt (next day). IN both cases the sellers couldn't get their guns to the FFL within the same week. In one case the FFL forgot to ship for 3 days. I upheld my end but the other two were slackards, regardless of the excuses. My advice is if you are selling you need to have the same sense of urgency as you want the buyer to have.

I "professionally" carried a 92 for quite a few years and then ended up carrying a Glock 17 to earn a paycheck for more than a few years. I have owned at least a dozen 17s and owned 3 92s. I can make either "sing" with regards to trigger or function. My choice would be 17 if you want a very durable and reliable 9mm. The Beretta works just fine but if I want to pick one of the two to save my butt I would pick the Glock. Either gun will likely work, but I trust the Glock over the Beretta.

I had one, and have shot two. I don't have one any longer. It's not that it isn't a reliable .22 - I have no use for it. For less money I would think a Beretta Bobcat in .22 or a Taurus PLY22 would be more useful, but then I sold those too. The .22 LCR would be a good instructor's gun if that instructor is going to teach centerfire snubbies. I'm not sure if the more expensive S&W 317 or S&W 43C make any more sense, both guns I have shot quite a bit also. For a small save your butt gun the Keltec .32 is hard to beat due to its ease of carry and its size. This coming from a guy who has a couple of dozen .22s and have had many more. .22s are my fun and pest guns. 2" .22s aren't that much fun for long and there is a host of more effective pest guns.

I had a hand operation a few years ago that precipitated me looking at handgun ergonomics much closer, as well as making me shoot weak hand a lot more. Nothing has a trigger better than the 1911 with its short length of pull with minimal slabs and short trigger or its longer length of pull with thicker slabs and a longer trigger. The 1911 trigger face can be adjusted to fit nearly any misshapen trigger finger if that trigger finger is long enough. The next best gun for ergonomics and trigger is the Glock. Why? You can carve, shave material, add material with Devcon 290, put in Fulcrum or Phantom triggers until you make the gun fit you. Only people with very very short fingers cannot efficiently operate a properly set up Glock. For those people some revolvers work, Taurus PT series and smaller single stack guns can work well. I've carved my carry Glocks so that they point faster or at least as fast as my index finger or a 1911 without the typical Glock 5-8% upward cant. With a 25 cent trigger job, Fulcrum trigger, Ghost 3.5lb connecter and 6lb trigger spring one can get a pretty nice safe Glock trigger. However, even then nothing I have touched comes close to the 1911 trigger. Granted the traditional 1911 weighs too much, is short on capacity, needs lots of lube and cleaning, can be prone to breaking if mishandled roughly, making the 1911 fall short of a Glock as an everyman's handgun. But in the end the 1911 trigger is "to die for" and no handgun can come close to the 1911 trigger.

Actually I'm betting on making one this one 3 calibers in one gun: 9mm, .38 Super, 7.62x25. I've done the .38 Super and 9mm in one gun before, but not the 7.62x25. Problem is that 7.62x25 cheap surplus ammo is apparently not available any longer so shooting non-9mm will cost a lot whether .38 Super or 7.62x25.

9mm 1911 conversion to 7.62x25. This is something I would be interesting in finding out if other forum members have had any success with? http://www.jgsales.com/7.62x25-tokarev-barrel-kit,-5-inch,-for-1911-govt-models-in-9mm-or-38-super.-new,-by-j-g-sales.-p-5619.html

I haven't had a 1911 in a while and then ran across this in the classifieds on another forum, stared at it for about 60 seconds and then wrote, "I'll take it." It will be a few days before I get it but am already plotting which trigger I am going to put in the thing. Hey its a 1911, they have to be tinkered with.

I have owned a dozen 1911s and can do a fair trigger on most any I have come across. However, a friend of mine has over 41 1911s (I quit counting when he hit 40. Damndest thing in the world is to look at those lines of 1911s in one of his huge gunsafes). He has 4 Rock Islands all the way through personally commissioned Les Baers & Ed Browns. He recently ordered a Springfield Custom Shop 1911 in 9mm. So I get to shoot a lot of 1911s. The coolest 1911 I have seen lately is the Rock Island belonging to a young GI here at FT Campbell. He bought his 1st 1911 to learn about the gun. He has handfitted aftermarket parts for everything except the barrel (lugs) and the link, but he has done a bushing too. That "Rock Island" shoots like a dream. If he ever gets the jigs and tools to swage and peen the rails he will become "dangerous." One thing that bugs me about some 1911 "fan boys" is the number of them that extoll the virtues of the gun, but cannot detail strip or do routine internal maintenance or can't tweak the action on one. Next to the Glock the 1911 is the easiest gun to detail strip and reassemble. With not a lot of effort one can learn to tweak their stock gun to have a wonderful trigger. If someone comes out with a 240z plastic frame double stack 9mm 1911 I will be the first in line to buy one. The one thing I find interesting in many of the 1911 fan boys I meet, and I meet a lot of them, is their lack of understanding of the need to lubricate their all metal guns. Read this and you will likely need to know anything else about lubing a handgun. http://www.grantcunningham.com/lubricants101.html Lastly, the conventional wisdom cautions about going too short in a 1911. Most adherents to the platform say 4.25" is the minimum. However, Springfield and Kimber both offer viable 4" guns. Anything less then 4" IMHO is a gun for someone who completely understands the platform and can tune and tweak their own gun. I have met a number of folks who have had issues with their "micro" 1911s. I don't know about the EMP because that is a slight departure from the orginal JMB design cause and I haven't had one, but I have seen enough of them for sale on the used market to make me wonder. I would like to give one a spin sometime.

Never did find out what the problem was. Gave it to gunrunner32 to see if he and his buddy could figure it out.

The way to fix the sticky mag (and I don't recommend or endorse this!) is to disassemble the gun, toss out the hinky mag misconnect and replace the mag disconnect space with a MKII bushing. Doing this will lower the trigger pull weight a bit, while making disassembly and reassembly much easier.

Test fired it with Gemtech 42 grain using a YHM suppressor out of the box. Other than the typical "lawyered up" stock Ruger trigger (which I will fix tonight) it works great. 22.8 oz empty with one empty mag.

I use the fork to compress hammer coil springs on the strut. For instance Ruger revolvers and Ruger 10/22s. There might be an "official" tool for this but the fork works well and is cheap.

beowulf50, Thanks. The guy who makes the liners has agreed to reline a 10/22 barrel for me with a 1:20 twist liner. One of our TGO members is going to rechamber it for 20 grain Colibras. Craig

I want to use a Redman 1:20 twist liner in a 10/22. Does anyone know of a gunsmith in the Nashville region who would do this? Craig

For those of you who have a MKIII Ruger I would recommending throwing out the mag disconnect and replace it with a 6.95 MKII bushing, that allow easier dis and reassembly as well as drops the trigger pull. On a couple I have tossed the LCI out as well, makes it easier to clean. I generally recommend a Volquartsen trigger and sear. Most of the guys I know I offer to change out the parts for them if they buy the parts. The difference on the range in terms of trigger travel and pull is quite amazing for so little money. Shipping and the parts from Midway cost 69.00. You can also construct a blast shield out of shim material or soda can metal which does help in keeping the MK series internals cleaner. These two websites are a big help: http://www.1bad69.com/ruger/index.htm http://guntalk-online.com/service.html This is an interesting thread. If Sams bushings were easier to obtain I would probably use them on MKIIIs. http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=418737 You can buy an LCI filler piece you can send away for one: Send payment with request to Bruce patza, N863 lawn Rd, Seymour WI. 54165. Regular stainless steel, $18.00 with tracking $19.00 Beadblasted stainless, $19.00 " " $20.00 Hot Blued carbon steel, $21.00 " " $22.00 Shipping to the lower 48 encluded Set screw, allen wrench, 220 gr. alum.oxide for minor fitting, instruction info. encluded. please add your contact information so I can contact you if there is a problem or question with your order Just a note, bead blasted is NOT a factory finish on ruger MKs. It is an aftermarket finish. Matte blued for the new ruger barrel is ready to go for$22 or $23 withtracking just keeping on the last page

I wanted to be able to manually cycle Colibras in my PWS T3 manually cycled toggle "10/22." Some folks manually cycle them in their semi-autos. Problem is that the Colibra is too short and when the last round is attempted to cycle it won't, it jams up against the mag. I modded one with my trusty dremel and it works. I've read about stuffing leather in the gap or placing a dab of JB weld at the mag ramp and regrinding, but this simple fix seems to have made a stock 10/22 mag work with shorts and colibras.

I just wanted to show some stuff I got from Harbor Freight and Lowe's. However the neatest thing is the tool caddy in the closeup shot. 19.00 from Papmered Chef online. We have had one for years in the kitchen and I wanted something fast and easily accessable and easy to put back so I quit leaving a mess all the time.