- I am not a rifleman. While I'm certain that I could be with a little training and a lot of practice, I just don't think shooting a rifle accurately is the best use of my gunnie time, money, and energy.
- I would rather shoot .22LR than just about anything else. From any platform.
- I am not comfortable carrying a firearm "cocked & locked".
- While I do love the M1 Garand and expect to own one someday, I can't get all that excited about a rifle that only takes eight rounds at a time. Perhaps recent arms have jaded me, but if I can't bring at least two and a half dozen rounds in a single box, I just can't get all that worked up.
- I have rifles in my armory I have never shot. I only have one pistol in my armory I have never shot, and that one has a rusted bore.
- I am fanatical about cleaning, and tend to clean guns the day they are shot if it is at all possible.
- I have a near infatuation with the Hogue Monogrip. All of my snubbies and most of my other (non-Colt) revolvers wear them. A good number of my semi-autos wear them as well. They're just plain comfortable grips.
- I love the way a good pair of wood grips look on a handgun, but most often I am too cheap to fork out the dough.
- The first thing I do when I'm thinking about buying a new semi-automatic firearm is check the price and availability of spare magazines.
- I believe that in caliber wars, as in muscle cars, there's no replacement for displacement. And you displace a lot more with a .45 caliber bullet than a .355 caliber one.
- I firmly believe that a huge chunk of the regulations we have on fully-automatic weapons and suppressed weapons should be lifted.
- In that vein, only VT and AK do concealed carry as it should be done according to the Constitution.
So that's enough opening up for today. Who else wants to spill their secrets?
That is all.
18 comments:
I'm sure I wont be the first to tell you this, and I'm sure you probably don't care....
Carrying a firearm for the purposes of self defense means carrying a firearm that is ready to fire at less than a moments notice.
IMHO a firearm carried without a round in the chamber is merely a paperweight. You simply may not get the chance to chamber a round if you have to draw the weapon in a life or death, close quarters, situation.
But, of course, do what makes you comfortable! Just my two cents. I enjoy the blog! have a great day!
I am learning to shoot a rifle. I, like you Jay are more comfortable with a pistol at this point.
I love shooting my Ruger 10/22. Shooting old decommissioned fire extinguishers at 100 yards and hearing the report as I hit it is very satisfying.
My shotgun scares the bejesus out of me. Don't know why, and yes, that's irrational and I freely admit it.
Ditto as to cleaning my guns.
I am a convert to polymer framed pistols. The old guard might consider that sacrilege. So be it.
Caliber Wars? Carry what you shoot and what you can hit what you're aiming at.
Anon,
Just to clarify, I mean carrying a single-action semi-auto like a 1911 or a Hi-Power. I have no problem carrying my G30 or my Kel-Tec with a round in the chamber. I should have made that clearer!
TOTC,
Another secret I meant to spill was that I do NOT shoot anywhere near as often as I would like... :(
My favorite to shoot is, by far, the shotgun. .410, 20ga, 16ga, 12ga. I love them. 28ga, 10ga, you guys are next on my "to do" list. That being said, however, this year my collection went from one lonely wheel gun to two wheel guns and two automatics. In less than a year, I have put more rounds through my first ever auto pistol than I have ever shot, in one year, from all my shotguns combined. My first auto? S&W Sigma .40.
I own shotguns, but I don't really like them.
Haven't shot a rifle in over a year, sadly. I wish NH had public rifle ranges.
"•While I do love the M1 Garand and expect to own one someday, I can't get all that excited about a rifle that only takes eight rounds at a time."
"You only have 8, so make them count." -A quote from an era when shots were aimed.....
Actually, the BAR and the Army's "Walking Fire" notion started the era of Spray-n-Pray, which pre-dated the M1... The army had the 5 dollar term "Volume of Fire" or some such nonsense..... grunts interpreted it as "shoot toward the enemy"....
..... if you have 30, you'll be a little less careful with each round than if you had 8.... And if you need 2 or 3 minor caliber hits "amidships" to equal one .30 hit....
Only 8.... it would have been 10 as originally designed (.280 Pederson)....
"And you displace a lot more with a .45 caliber bullet than a .355
caliber one."
I see what you did there.
A "quick" way to get good or better with a rifle is to go to one of the Appleseed events.
The folks that run it are both patient and very good at helping everybody learn the basics.
You will meet a lot of good folks and have fun.
I highly recommend this program to anybody who want to be a decent rifle shot.
Dennis the librarian shusher
My deep dark secret?
I've never owned a revolver, and only shot one infrequently...
Don't tell anyone, mmmkay?
I can't get excited about the Garand because due to my cross-eye dominance, I shoot rifles left-handed, and the M1 ain't the easiest rifle in the world to shoot that way.
And I'm with you on the cocked+locked, mainly because my wife is not a "gunnie" and I'm not 100% certain that she'll grasp the idea of safety off then shoot if the time comes: It's much easier to say "point it and pull the trigger".
Yes, yes, I know, she should get more familiar with guns. And I should lose 20 pounds, too, but there are some hills we just can't climb at this very moment... :)
I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.
Whew, I feel so much better now!
Who else wants to spill their secrets?
I farted and it smells like roses.
0bama?
My secret (at least in this crowd): I favor point & shoot over deliberate aim. If my own personal S ever hits my own personal F, I rather expect that that will do me just fine at defensive ranges.
I'm opposite on the rifle/pistol familiarity scale. I've only shot pistols a few times, but I racked up marksman points in my youth. Heck by the time I graduated from pelletguns to real rifles, and shot a hunting rifle the first time, I put 5 shots in a 2" pattern at 200m(212 yards). (Prone, x6 scoped).
I'm crossdominant, but I'm a lefty, I shoot righthanded, but I can refocus my eyes to shoot pistols lefthanded with no problem.
I'm a gun nut in a gun control nut's paradise, and I'm jealous of even MA's gun laws, not to mention oh say WY.
"I'm opposite on the rifle/pistol familiarity scale."
Me, too....
Secrets, secrets.....
.....I grew up shooting pellet guns and later shotguns and centerfire rifles completely unsupervised.... hell, in high school, 1/2 a dozen friends and I used to take a veritable arsenal through the streets up into a pasture on the edge of town on Saturday mornings....
...for awhile I held the belief that pistols were tools of the devil hissownself....
.... for awhile I also believed the 9mm was for wusses and womenfolk....
.... I was also afraid of a cocked and locked 1911.....
Now, I have not shot a centerfire rifle in ..... I don't know how long... and carry a 9mm EMP cocked and locked, and would fly off the handle if my kids took some of my guns an a hike through town to trespass on someone else's property....
Secrets?
I'm not in love with my Model 28-2. It's a nice pistol but I don't love it. I'd trade it for a Centennial .357.
I, like you, love shooting rimfires more than anything else.
I don't clean my guns religiously, and the rust freckles on my 870 are love bites.
WV: "grarackw" - what is said by a recipient of Garand Thumb.
you no rifle shooting bugger! I'm hurt. Next gun = Ruger 10/22 and some tech-sights, spend a weekend shooting steel from 25-100 yds and 2200 rounds and $40 later you'll be much improved. Had a few friends step up their fundamentals greatly in a weekend.
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