kBob
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Old High school buddy and I were exchanging emails and got to talking about how I had gotten my first handgun in the late 1960’s and he and our mutual friend had to wait into the early 1970’s to get hand guns.
First one and then the other guilt tripped their dads into getting them pistols… of sorts.
I had a Ruger RST 4 And they “went with” revolvers… that is their dads bought them revolvers.
The one I was emailing ended up with an Arminus .22LR (8 shot?) His dad said it was the cheapest .22 DA revolver in his store’s distributor catalog. It actually was not bad, but not that good either.
The last guy noe told his dad he was imbarassed to not have a hand gun so his dad to out do our .22lr hand guns jumped him to a centerfire….. unfortunately a Clerke First .32 S&W.
After our first session with the thing I made the guy angry when I offered him one of my favorite rocks for it. Looking back it now seems i would have gotten the worst of the deal.
I had by then some experience with the RG DA revolvers in .22Short and Long Rifle and opined that I would rather have had the RG (14?) .22 LR than his Clerke .32 S&W or a Clerke in .22lr.
So how about it?
If you remember them and are not yet in your dotage which was the better pistol, the one GCA ‘68 stopped or the one GCA ‘68 started?
-kBob
First one and then the other guilt tripped their dads into getting them pistols… of sorts.
I had a Ruger RST 4 And they “went with” revolvers… that is their dads bought them revolvers.
The one I was emailing ended up with an Arminus .22LR (8 shot?) His dad said it was the cheapest .22 DA revolver in his store’s distributor catalog. It actually was not bad, but not that good either.
The last guy noe told his dad he was imbarassed to not have a hand gun so his dad to out do our .22lr hand guns jumped him to a centerfire….. unfortunately a Clerke First .32 S&W.
After our first session with the thing I made the guy angry when I offered him one of my favorite rocks for it. Looking back it now seems i would have gotten the worst of the deal.
I had by then some experience with the RG DA revolvers in .22Short and Long Rifle and opined that I would rather have had the RG (14?) .22 LR than his Clerke .32 S&W or a Clerke in .22lr.
So how about it?
If you remember them and are not yet in your dotage which was the better pistol, the one GCA ‘68 stopped or the one GCA ‘68 started?
-kBob