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but that isn't a glock! FNG, LOL, besides Glock 9mms, .22s are another of my gun hobbies. Nothing really unique or high dollar, just a couple of handfuls of plinkers. These guys have my interest http://www.twistedindustries.net/products/ . When I mentioned to them about a .22 conversion for the Keltec P32 7.7oz .32 ACP to .22LR they said to wait, implying that they were working on it. I would love to see a P32 size .22LR semi auto. The Beretta Bobcat, Taurus PT22 and Taurus PLY 22 just don't quite get it for me, neither does the Phoenix Arms HP22. Old Ravens and Jennings .22s don't quite fit the bill either.

Don't know anything about the new Henry's but had a viable Rossi and gave it to a friend along with a box of 60 grain SSS Aguila to take care of his urban racoon issue. Don't need a Rossi when you you have the orgininal. Winchester 62A is below the Rem 572. As to the peep onthe semi auto Remington 552 the rear is a Williams grooved set-up with a Merit Adjustable iris aperture with a higher front sight with gold bead. Savage used to make a nice pump .22. I have no idea as to why I traded mine some years ago. Here are my two .22 pumps - "forever guns" now.

I scored an older Remington 572 ADL pump yesterday. It makes a more or less matched pair with my 552 ADL semi-auto. The cool thing is the 572 shoots 20 grain 500fps Colibras all day long and the 552 semi shoots literally everything else including: shorts, longs, long rifles, subsonics, hyper velocity, 60 grain,, etc. Now I have to get a Winchester semi auto 63 to go with my Winchester 62A pump.

When I had my LC9 I thought the trigger was just awful and so did my shooting buddies. This weekend a guy showed me his LC9 with the Galloway Precision trigger upgrade. I would be all over this if I still had an LC9 and may get one again just to do the trigger. It looks pretty easy on the Youtube video. http://www.gallowayprecision.com/lc9performanceparts.html

My former Army buddy, former big city cop and now FBI major crimes and gang and FBI SWAT buddy told me a couple of days ago that he is dumping his SA Pros and going to back to Glock 22 and 27, even though he despises .40 S&W. He said that the 1911s won't hold up to the volume of fire he finds necessary to be in top form. He has reservations about the .40 Glock, but he will run his Glocks hard to determine reliability. I don't know what the means for most of us who when lucky shoot a few hundre or a thousand or two every month or two. I like glock cause it is comparatively inexpensive, light weight, reliable & durable, lends itself to grip mods and has a mountain of aftermarket.

A fella I know has offered to sell me his X-Five Tactical for 950.00. I shot the thing and was amazed, but can't quite wrap my head around the whole Sig for a Grand thing. If it was a 300.00 Glock 9mm I would be all over it. The thing has been meticulously maintained. Anyone think that getting an X-Five Tactical for 950.00 is a dumb move, if so, why? Thanks, Craig in Clarksville

Bad move, stay away from Glocks like I have done.... or not, I may have a problem developing

I have to say, although not trying to offend Caster, this was a pretty entertaining thread.

My only cautions: 1. Make sure you are doing work that you have the right tools for or are willing to spend the money on. As Dolomite said, radiusing the frame requires specific tools, but what the heck, if you don't try you won't really know if you can or can't. Triggers, hammers, safeties, sear, disconnectors can be pretty much fitted with a small batch of tools that don't cost much. 2. Make sure you test the thing really well before the range and when you get to the range don't just load that thing up and let 'er rip. One bullet in the mag, then two, then three, just to make sure it doesn't run away from you. Then you need to shoot the tar out of it to see if your work will hold up before you let someone else shoot it or you carry it for self defense. I would caution against selling the gun. Over the years I have had some guns I wouldn't let someone else shoot, not out of selfishness but because I had monkeyed around with the thing and didn't want anyone but me to get hurt. Having a pro do the work for you is one thing, but it isn't the only thing. I have a friend who has 35 1911s from handbuilt very expensive custom jobs to Rock Islands/Armscors to franken hybrid parts guns. I get a bigger kick shooting the parts guns. I got a RIA .38 Super one time, bought a very very inexpensive 9mm barrel from SARCO I think it was and dropped it in the RIA. It ran like a top. Another time I traded a Glock for a box of parts that once I assembled what I could it turned out to be acomplete Dan Wesson Pointman 9mm and well over 300.00 worth of extra parts, including KART, Caspian, Champion, etc. Most satisfying 1911 was an Armscor a friend had gotten as a gift and hadn't even shot the gun after having it 5 or so years. For some reason that gun had a horrible trigger pull. I gutted it, put in new beavertail, hammer, sear, disconnector and got it at a nice 4lbs for the 70-something fleshy- handed overweight diabetic. Designing a gun is rocket science, fiddling with them not so much.

This one is a ZMXXXUS so should put it in '92, just before 3 letter prefixes. My other older one is the MPDC 1st Gen EEXXXUS so should be around '89.

I saw two interesting Glocks today, one I ended up getting. First off a fella I met today had a Gen 2 22 that was engraved as a Detroit PD pistol. I hadn't seen one of these before although I have a Metropolitan Police District of Columbia Gen 2 G17 myself as well as a Warner Robbins PD 3rd Gen 19. The guy with the Detroit PD gun wanted to sell it but I told him that tngunowners might give him a wider audience, as would glocktalk. I personally do not have any interest in .40 S&W. However, today I did acquire a very nice Gen 2 G19 today that another TGO member used to own.

Ishel, Sounds like you are well on the road to MKIII excellence. That safety detent plunger is easy to lose track of. A friend gave me a MKIII a couple of days ago to reassemble for a friend of his whose teenager had taken apart the MKIII and couldn't get it back together. He also lost the the detent plunger and sear spring. Fortunately detent plunger only cost 2.95 and I had an extra sear spring. Do you ever get to the Viola Valley Shooting range? Craig

I have no interest in validating the DB9 to the masses, but as I said before it has been 100% reliable with a number of shooters with different ammo after its short trip back to the factory for an out of spec trigger bar. After having two PF9s that shot fine, but I always do a Keltec Fluff and Buff prior to shooting any Keltec, I didn't like the way that they slapped my trigger finger, the same thing that TNWNGR experienced. I personally have no desire to try any other micro 9mms besides the DB9. Mine works, is not fun to shoot and don't expect any other sub 12oz 9mm to feel any better or be any more reliable or accurate and will be just as tough to shoot one-handed weak-hand fast and good enough. My 4 go to carry guns: Primary: Glock 9mm, Keltec .32 - Secondary: LCR .38 and DB9. Note the common denominator: "Plastics!" I have nothing against metal or steel on steel guns like 1911s, Colt Mustangs, SIg 226 or 220, or a host of others. I like shooting them all. However, I am now a lightweight, with my most pressing enemies: age, a gangbanger on initiation tour, possibly an errant drug addict or teenager who thinks he needs to prove something. Hell, my old S&W 38 is up to those tasks, so this diatribe is mainly esoteric. I got this from my buddy who is still on the line as a major crimes and gangs FBI agent and is FBI SWAT, albeit a junior agent. However as a former Army buddy and former cop, who put his arm around me one time and said, "You could be a really good shooter if you practiced more, " and is 30 years my junior said today to me via email: Craig, I have not made up my mind yet, as I am going to exchange my Glock 23 for a Glock 22, but I may be switching away from the 1911 platform for both daily carry and SWAT applications, in its place carrying a Glock 22 and a Glock 27. I could go on and on about the finer points of the 1911 vs the .40 Cal Glock (I despise the .40 caliber round) but the bottom line is I am in the process of breaking my third 1911 in a year. My personal Professional still runs like a top and is in great shape, but the issued Professional Operators (refurbished) don't hold up to my volume of shooting. I have broken off a safety, shot a front sight loose, had an extractor go bad, and burned through four CMC Powermags, all in one year. The Glock 22 they issue me MUST run with a light attached, so it will get a thorough testing. I did 350rds through my Glock 27, 23, and my fiance's 22 yesterday. The gun is not a 1911 - they are harder to shoot, harder to manipulate, and slower than my 1911. They also don't hurt my elbow as much, carry many more rounds, point well for me, and are lightweight. If I do swap over, I'll be back in the Glock saddle and looking for a 20SF for hunting back up.

I've had an LC9 and sometimes carry my DB9. Trigger on the DB9 is far better than that on the LC9. The DB9 at 11.5 oz or so is a real dragon when you pull the trigger. It is accurate. It is very small in comparison to everything else I have tried in 9mm and a better all around light pocket carry 9mm than the Keltec PF9 or LC9 INMHO. DM Bullard makes a nice DB9 holster for either left or right hand.

I got to talk to the new Ruger senior sales executive in this area, now living in Lebanon, TN, after moving from CT. I believe he told me that he had been working for Ruger for a number of decades. Mr. Pence was his name, very nice guy. He said that Ruger, as of the end of this week should be up to producing 600/wk.

So many things one could do in the passenger seat of a car Yeah, I also did that back in the early 70's in a VW Beetle and a Galaxy 500. Nowdays I get about as much fun as "Old Craig" putting in a good trigger as "pulling" one. Pitiful......

I have done this to at least a dozen MKIIIs. Replace the sear and trigger with VQ stuf. Recommend tossing the mag disconnect and replacing the space with a MKII bushing. Removing the mag disconnect improves trigger pull and makes dis and re assembly easier. It is best to put the gun in a vice as that "third" hand comes in handy. Watch out for losing safety detent plunger and the trigger bar plunger and spring. Best have a none marring hammer, punches, small allen wrench to push down trigger pin retaining spring. I also find a small but longish needle nose helpful in replacing the sear. MKIII 22/45s can be a booger because they are so tight. When replacing the the mainspring mechanism, ensure you have the hammer in the forward position and know where the hammer strut is so that you can hold the gun at the correct angle to ensure that the last step is successful. Don't forget blue loctice on the set screws of the trigger. I've done this in the passenger seat of a car but recommend against this.

125 yards half silhoutte steel, using a Taurus 85 .38. Ranged the first shot, then hit the next 4. This was at the place I got my carry permit in Dover, TN back in '04. I had a good coach tell me how to do it. Impractical but fun and a confidence builder.

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If a person thinks they are going to get more money for a gun that they are tired of because they have painted, cerakoted it, hydro graphed it or stippled it is probably fooling themselves. Just the opposite I think. I fool around with some of my guns with the intent of not selling them. However, if someone is having a hard time selling a hydrographed Glock 19 glock and the price is right let me know....I'm just saying, color of a functional Glock doesn't mean much to me. I looked at this guy's prices and I think he had 210.00 for a complete AR and 85 for a complete glock. A kydex holster building friend of mine is going to get me a G19 holster hydro graphed for me by this guy.

dang good call on the Gen 2 vs 3 thing. I didn't notice that when the guy sent me the email attachments. Oh well... I guess it could have been here is a black glock, now one not so black.

I met this guy the other day, and he showed me a whole new "thing" - Hydro Graphics. I didn't know that folks were doing this in their home. This guy can do any firearm in a myriad of patterns. This old beater Glock and Holster look pretty good, just don't lay it down in the grass. Now that I have been introduced to this I see that there are some pretty wild hydro graphics out there.

Ruger MKIII, my favorite will shoot with any reasonable .22. Put in a Volquartsen pre and over travel adjustable trigger, Volquartsen sear, toss the mag disconnect and replace the space with a MKII bushing, installed a blast shield to help prevent dirt, ground some material off the grip (22/45) where the trigger finger enters the guard, cement a partial Hogue grip to the to the grip. Favorite (for now) is the one on top. Not pictured in this group is my early 50's pre MKI and my AMT Lightning:

You can never have too many G19s!

Met and had a chat with Hipower today at Exit 40 I24 gas station today on my way to visit an old friend half way between Nashville and Chattanooga.. I traded Hipower the nifty little .38 SP101 for his nice 6.5" bull barrel AMT Lightning with SoLow mount and red dot. If you haven't met him Hipower is a good guy, so if you are thinking about dealing with him don't fret, he is one of the good ones. I test fired the AMT today with the only .22 ammo I had on me at the time, 60 grain Aguila Sub Sonic. Those heavy little .22 pills ran through the AMT like s... through a goose. I am a happy man. Also got to fondle Hipower's 2" bull barrel Ruger MKII 22/45. Whoever made up that gun knew what they were doing, very cool.