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I just got a S & W 3913 fore $400.00. 
$400 Gun
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I just got a S & W 3913 fore $400.00.
What are it's measurements? If I get a pistol, I want something a lot smaller than my Glock.
XxWINxX94
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Don't really care for too much new, but I'd like a nice vintage Smith & Wesson. Maybe a 5-screw or victory model or somehing along those lines.
exdxgxe4life
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400 bones....
Remington 1100.
Remington 1100.
Xfire68
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SR9c.
DC3-CVN-72
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Cokeman, my S&W 3913 is a small single stack .9mm. pistole I don't have the exact measurements , but it is smaller than ur glock 23.
This shows that they are about the same.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.rohrbaughforum.com/sw3913tswreview.pdf
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.rohrbaughforum.com/sw3913tswreview.pdf
mes227
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A used Dan Wesson 357 mag.
Legionnaire
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Cokeman, I own both a 3913 (earlier than the TSW) and a G23--and I like 'em both. The S&W definitely feels smaller and more concealable. At this stage, I carry it more than the 23. But you'll need to handle one to see if it floats your boat. It's a DA/SA, which Jeff Cooper disparagingly called a "crunch-n-ticker," meaning that the first shot is DA, and subsequent shots are SA. Some really don't like this arrangement. I like it fine. YMMV.
Carl N. Brown
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If you had $400 to spend on a gun, what would you get?
We discussed this at the gun shop, theoretically, and the same amount of money . The owner (who runs a farm, keeps a freezer of venison, served in VietNam) presented two scenarios:
For $400, you could buy a sporting rifle and one or two 20 round boxes of softnose hunting ammo, shoot enough to check the zero on the sights and have a few rounds for a hunting trip; or, you cound buy a $99.95 Mosin-Nagant and $300 worth of ammo divided among $39.95 spam cans of mil-surp and and 20 round boxes of softnose hunting ammo, and be able to shoot enough to develop some real skill and have ammo for several hunting seasons.
We discussed this at the gun shop, theoretically, and the same amount of money . The owner (who runs a farm, keeps a freezer of venison, served in VietNam) presented two scenarios:
For $400, you could buy a sporting rifle and one or two 20 round boxes of softnose hunting ammo, shoot enough to check the zero on the sights and have a few rounds for a hunting trip; or, you cound buy a $99.95 Mosin-Nagant and $300 worth of ammo divided among $39.95 spam cans of mil-surp and and 20 round boxes of softnose hunting ammo, and be able to shoot enough to develop some real skill and have ammo for several hunting seasons.
SSN Vet
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an abused 1911 (preferably a Colt) that has some chronic problem (likely due to a botched home gunsmith job) that I can use as a base platform for my next project.
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