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    Why did you stop carrying a 1911?

    After several years of IDPA competition, if something disrupted the routine draw scenario, like a stage that started from low ready, I still occasionally forgot to take off the thumb safety. I've switched to a 5-shot DAO .357 snubby because: - It's about 40% lighter; I'm not hitching up my...
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    For those who blur your serial numbers in pics ...

    Has anybody ever heard of an actual case of somebody having a problem as a result of somebody learning the serial number of their weapon from an online photo? I haven't.
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    Subjective evaluation of Doubletap & BB 38 SPL Ammo

    Wow, thanks for the heads up! I carry Double Tap .357s in my SP101. I gotta get hold of a chrono.
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    Carrying a firearm without CCW? (MN)

    Even assuming that this would be legal, do you think the police, the prosecutor, or the judge will take your word for it that your weapon wasn't loaded? Check out the Twin Cities Carry and Minnesota Gun Talk forums, pick an instructor, sign up for a class, get your permit. Make the time...
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    how come .357/.44 magnum don't come in autoloader style hand guns?

    Get over your hate! :) Or find a Coonan, as was said. A guy who shot in a league with me a few years ago had one, and he liked hot ammo. That thing was scary. And very cool.
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    357 2 inch barrels

    Somebody just asked roughly the same question over on Rugerforum.com; this is pretty much a cross-post of my response there: I carry a 2 1/4" SP101, it's a great little gun. I did go out and buy the soft rubber Hogue Monogrip the day after I first shot full-house Magnum ammo out of it -- call me...
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    AR-10 "Thumpers"

    There's a single-shot bolt-action AR upper in .50 BMG, if that counts.
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    Crossbreed Supertuck...HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Hmm, the candle wax idea makes me think Sno-Seal (for boots) would work.
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    Discreet Shipping Poll

    I'm OK with the mailman and neighbors seeing that stuff, but then I've got nice neighbors. This whole issue reminds me of when I got my first handgun. It was very much over the protests of my wife. After I didn't accept "You can't have a gun in this house", her second position was "I don't want...
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    Heinlein a gun guy?

    My favorite Heinlein gun thing is in Beyond This Horizon. This future world was pretty much built around the concept of an armed society being a polite society. The main character carries a 1911, copied from one in museum, though folks of this time normally carry a (relatively silent) beam...
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    Handgun Locks

    I used the cable padlock that came with my first gun, just for a little while until I got a safe.
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    Specific Hypothetical: Luby's or bank robbery type situation: CNS or Vitals shot?

    Several times, including this week, I've shot an IDPA stage where, from the peanut gallery, I thought I'd go for head shots, but once I was behind the gun that head suddenly looked a lot smaller, and I went for center-of-mass after all. Kinda like the roof, or the ski hill, doesn't look very...
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    Python Mooncliped

    Can you tell us what you didn't like? Are the .357 rounds too loose & wobbly in a moonclip?
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    Does carrying a gun make you more likely to help strangers?

    No, it doesn't, but it does make me feel a little safer should the situation go bad -- which it never has. Maybe I was foolish to, for example, interrupt a domestic fight on the street, or pick up hitchhikers, back in the days when I walked around unarmed, but it was a risk I chose to accept and...
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    Crossbreed Supertuck...HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Don't have a Crossbreed but I used to have a Comp-Tac CTAC, which I believe works about the same, in fact I think it uses the same belt clips. I too found the only problem with it to be the time it took to get it 'installed'. Fozzy's advice sounds pretty good. I advise actually timing the...
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    Shooting less due to high gas prices and ammo cost?

    Around here it seems like the same guys show up, but in fewer vehicles. One guy's SUV, after delivering a full load of shooters to a steel match, has been labeled 'the clown car'. A couple that shoots at our IDPA league bought a Smart Fortwo this year, which looks especially funny out in the...
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    Considering my first revolver

    +1 on the steel vs. lightweight alloy, if you're not going to carry. My Ruger SP101 with the rubber Hogue monogrip is a pleasure to shoot with even ferocious loads. I shot .357 Magnum from a scandium S&W J-frame, once. Screw that. But, if you're not planning on carrying it around, a shotgun...
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    J-Frame grips for large hands

    +1 for Hogues. $20 and probably at a store near you.
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    How Many rounds do you fire a month?

    It's summer so there's weekly IDPA which means minimum 54 rounds + 16 for the BUG match = 70 rounds x (52/12)weeks/month = 303 rounds plus a monthly steel match adds 80 for 383 rounds/month. This is assuming I never miss and need to take an extra shot. :) So let's say 400. I've never...
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    Anybody Not Like Shooting .357?

    When I got my first 1911, I took off my earmuffs and fired a round, just to hear the report of a .45 ACP round really sounded like. I have no temptation to do that with my .357s! Nonetheless I love the .357. I did go buy the Hogue Monogrip for my 2.25" SP101, the day after I first fired...
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