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Good for the student! I searched CNN and only came up with a story about a lunatic randomly shooting at someone (no injuries) and a firearm instructor accidently shooting a student (no deaths). The story had a graphic of a shadowy figure pointing a revolver at the reader. :rolleyes:

+1 for training your family on what to do. I was on the phone long distance with my girlfriend when she said she was walking up to her front door and it was kicked in. I firmly told her to get out and go to the parking lot. She went in anyway and started getting frantic and thought I was...

Wow glad you are OK! If I were in that situation and had nobody else in the car I might not have stopped to wait for traffic at the left turn. I might risk pulling out in front of a car over getting shot. :scrutiny: of course I wasn't there to see the situation you were faced with so I'll...

Well my dad bought a new one. Took it to the range and the cylinder failed to turn half the time he pulled the trigger. He had to jiggle the cylinder into place every time in order for it to shoot. He took it back to the gun shop and sent it back to S&W. The gun shop employee said that was...

Here's something I've been thinking about. I recently installed a wimpy storm door on my back door. I keep that locked too. Why? Because if someobody wants to kick the door in they are going to have to open the storm door. And if they want to open the storm door, they're going to have to...

My dad has has problems with his airweight 642 - the black one with the lightweight alloy cylinder and barrel. Didn't work out of the box. I have the 638 and it's pretty flawless.

Nice collection. Where did you get the front sight for the second one? If it came with the gun, just label me ignorant. :)

I saw a guy sighting in a laser grip on a glock at an indoor range. He put the target directly in front of his face and bench-rested the glock. The result was him firing about 45 degrees up into the air and blowing chunks out of the ceiling. :uhoh:

xjedix - what breed of dog are those? I found a stray that looked just like that one time. I'm mad at myself for not keeping him.

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll see if I should tilt my right hand back a little bit. I've been shooting a J-frame revolver, but I also use my friend's semi-auto pistols (HK, Sig). It's funny you mentioned hitting the target to the left. All day today, no matter what I shot, I was just...

I was taught that my trigger finger should be no further than the first knuckle on the trigger. With almost any handgun I hold, my hand's natural tendency is to stick my trigger finger through the trigger guard so far that the trigger is at my second knuckle almost. To compensate I have to...

Kalashnikov Kally for short? :D

2 years ago I came out of a New Year's party at a friend's house to find the back window of his car broken. There was a bullet in the car. :cuss: He filed a police report but the cop told him that nothing would come of it and that it's pretty common for that to happen.

Cool, thanks everybody. to elaborate - my dad already sent his gun in to S&W and got it back. They replaced a hammer spring(?) and some other part I can't remember the name. Still, it doesn't instill a lot of confidence. I did get the aluminum-cased ammo for a bargain. Some lessons...

Now that you mention that, I think it was the Blazer brand. I would be interest to hear if people have had this issue and what gun they were using. Thanks for the input.

So I was at the range and I shot 100 rounds of Blazer Brass .38 special from my Smith and Wesson 638 airweight (it has a stainless steel cylinder). Did fine. The brass would fall out in my hand when I pushed it out. The last few minutes I shot 5 rounds of CCI (I think that's the brand)...

Hey I'm in the exact same boat. I bought a 91/30 and cleaned my barrel out with Hoppe's No. 9. It blinds me when I look through the barrel now so I guess it's good. I was toying with the idea of taking mine to be inspected by a gunsmith before I shoot it. Anybody see any reason to do...

I got some 7.62x54 mil surplus ammo from a local store and I don't know what type it is. All I've done is look it over and stick a magnet on it. The headstamp says "10" at the 12-oclock position and "84" at the 6-oclock position. I haven't found a matching photo on the internet yet...

I'll do that. I realized as I was typing that I never asked if they inspected all of their mosins. Thanks

I recently bought a mosin nagant from a local gun shop that also provides gunsmith services. Before I shoot the gun I want to make doubley sure there is nothing wrong with it. I'm new to guns so I don't feel like I know enough to determine if there's anything wrong with it. Would it...