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    The big N Frames

    A deputy here carried a M29. A powerful man, said to be able to bring a suspect to his knees with the Vulcan neck pinch. Yet when qualifications came along, he borrowed a friend’s tuned Python.
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    You've Come a Long Way, Baby...

    I have about quit watching tv and movie drama except in social gatherings. Getting my video fix with Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch right now.
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    What gunsmithing or repairs have you done today

    A P38 in .32, do say more. My Cold War veteran contact said the usual police duty pistol of his day was a PP .32. Perhaps that was confusing. My understanding is that the commercial P225 followed or at most paralleled the police P6 as scale downs of the P220. The parent P75/P220 was to replace...
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    Stunning 29-2 4” Class B Engraving $999?!?! HOW??

    No, if done by a nationally known engraver the price goes up fast for whatever coverage. There is some distinction at S&W between a Mountain Gun and a Mountain Revolver. The one I feel I missed the boat on was the Springfield Armory Commemorative .45 ACP/AR.
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    Tisas M1911A1 ASF versus WW2 Remington-Rand

    I don't know if it is in the spec, but it is not supposed to. You should not be able to easily close the slide on an empty magazine, you might wish it were full later. So many of these get used for the sort of "upgrading" you read about back when USGI were cheap surplus and there were...
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    Bill would prevent sales of guns that can be converted with ‘Glock switches’

    The local range had a registered Glock Switch for the entertainment of their Money-into-smoke clientele. It had a stock and front grip, though, and was a fair SMG. They downconverted the Glock and replaced it with a P90 alongside the existing M16.
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    What did you shoot today?

    Well, the MD cancelled my appointment, he was called to the hospital for an acute case. So I am going shooting. Watch this space. Uppercut .22 Defensive M&P C 1003 fps 71 ft lb Pathfinder 3" 927 fps 61 ft lb M18 4" 962 fps 65 ft lb. Started out good, first magazine in auto good, revolvers...
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    Bill would prevent sales of guns that can be converted with ‘Glock switches’

    Because they are either Wanting concealment. or Are too dumb to know they could. Take your pick. Or both.
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    The big N Frames

    A friend considered a 1911 his little gun, was often found with a Blackhawk .45 or Smith .44 under the windbreaker he wore in all seasons.
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    Bill would prevent sales of guns that can be converted with ‘Glock switches’

    I think Glock should support the idea by declining to sell such dangerous weapons to NY police and politico bodyguards. But they won't give up the business.
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    What gunsmithing or repairs have you done today

    I feel so limited. All I did yesterday was replace squashed magazine springs. That sounds strange. The Walther P5, Sig P6, and HK P7 were brought out in response to a 1976 RFP (I wish I remembered how to spell the German term.) for something more powerful than a PP .32 to combat the Red Army...
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    American Reloading

    Well, my 3000 order is placed, by the time I have shot those, who knows what the supply chain will look like. I still have a pretty good supply of WW and the recent buy of Federals, too.
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    Calculator for components on hand

    Is this a generic question or are you loading one or a few particular calibers? Either way, #3 is all I have, I am reluctant to show "recipes" on the www because I have seen too many typos.
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    irritating when they change profiles on the same bullet

    Right. I was inconvenienced when one outfit sent me 124 gr NLG 9mms instead of the grooved bullets I was set up for. Then they changed back! But I had die settings to return to and am glad of it.
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