Ninja42
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Hi there!
As this is the first post on this fair forum, let me start by saying hello. My name is Michael, I’m 1.94 meters tall and weigh 105 kg... and as some of you might have guessed by now, Im European. A great thing to be in many respects, but a rather lousy thing to be if you are interested in things as 'bizarre' as weapons, like I am. I spend my time studying biology at the university of Copenhagen, working part time in a bakery, playing various nerdy games, and hopefully soon at a nearby gun club that I’ve just joined a few days ago I’m not going to make this a long and boring introduction, so I´ll just wrap this up by saying that I developed my rather unusual interest for firearms in the army, where I was trained as an infantryman back in 2002-03. I am (or at least were) fully proficient with the Diemaco C7 5.56mm rifle and the Rheinmetall MG3 LMG, but I’ve had the honor of firing other weapons such as the Browning M2 .50 HMG and the Karl Gustav Mk IV 84mm recoilless rifle. Lucky me. Never the less, I quit the army after my basic training to join the university, but I still miss the thrill of shooting, which is why I am here.
And now to the point of this thread.
Due to the somewhat restrictive gun regulation laws here in Denmark, I am restricted from purchasing any gun with a bore of .40 or larger, effectively narrowing my choice of full powered guns down to 9mm if I want an autoloader, or .357 magnum if I want a revolver.. Because everyone knows that holding a .45 caliber gun in your hands will instantly make you eviler and thus more likely to commit terrible crimes than if you were holding a .357 mag, right? Stupid laws. To further limit availability, firearms are heavily taxed, so any firearm that I purchase will cost me about 3 times more than it would cost any of you yankees, which is why I care about even small differences when comparing prices. I am a poor student after all.
I’ve decided that a 9mm autoloader isn’t what I want at the moment, so I´ll go for a .38/.357mag revolver as my first gun. The cheap .38 ammo will save me a fortune when I’m practicing at the range, and the ability to fire .357 will let me enter any kind of competition... its a win/win.
Now, what I want from my future gun is this:
1) I want my gun to be reliable. As guns are extremely rare here in this country, so is gunsmiths, and the few gunsmiths there is can take pretty much anything they want for their services. Furthermore, sending the gun around the globe to have it repaired/fine tuned by the factory will be expensive as well. Furthermore, gun shops over here carry hunting weapons, not handguns, so I will have to mail order my gun without even seeing it first. So long story short; I need a reliable low maintenance gun.
2) I want a gun with good ballistics for shooting stationary targets at the range, as well as for practical shooting. I tend to like the look of guns with 4" barrels a lot better than the look of 6" barrel guns, but what kind of gun would be better for me?
3) I´ll be using my gun for sport, and as I’m not allowed to carry it with me or store it in my home, it is highly unlikely that I will ever end up in a situation that will require me to use my gun for self defense. However, guns are deadly weapons by their nature and purpose, and that is the very reason why I am fascinated by them. I want a practical weapon with the optimal power/weight/reliability ratio, a weapon that I could depend on with my life. Such things as novelty scopes/targeters, oversized frames that are only ever practical at the shooting range or weapons with weak or overpowered loads are of no interest to me.
4) I’m a poor student, so I need the gun I buy to be... less expensive.
On a side note, I am considering to get a gun with a ported barrel, because it seems endlessly practical in every respect to minimize the muzzle climb. But if it really WAS an endlessly practical thing to have on a gun, I guess every weapon would have it, and they obviously don’t. What are the cons of ported barrels? Of course there will be some loss in muzzle energy, as some of the gasses that would otherwise propel the bullet forward will be blown upwards to keep the gun in place, but how much is that? And is the debris that is blown out of the holes a problem to the shooter? There must be some cons that I’m not seeing.
So... what gun do you think is my best bet? I’ve been drooling a bit over the Taurus Tracker model 627 in stainless steel with a 4" barrel, so I would like to know if any of you guys have any experience with it?
I think that I have rambled on for long enough now. Thank you for reading my post
As this is the first post on this fair forum, let me start by saying hello. My name is Michael, I’m 1.94 meters tall and weigh 105 kg... and as some of you might have guessed by now, Im European. A great thing to be in many respects, but a rather lousy thing to be if you are interested in things as 'bizarre' as weapons, like I am. I spend my time studying biology at the university of Copenhagen, working part time in a bakery, playing various nerdy games, and hopefully soon at a nearby gun club that I’ve just joined a few days ago I’m not going to make this a long and boring introduction, so I´ll just wrap this up by saying that I developed my rather unusual interest for firearms in the army, where I was trained as an infantryman back in 2002-03. I am (or at least were) fully proficient with the Diemaco C7 5.56mm rifle and the Rheinmetall MG3 LMG, but I’ve had the honor of firing other weapons such as the Browning M2 .50 HMG and the Karl Gustav Mk IV 84mm recoilless rifle. Lucky me. Never the less, I quit the army after my basic training to join the university, but I still miss the thrill of shooting, which is why I am here.
And now to the point of this thread.
Due to the somewhat restrictive gun regulation laws here in Denmark, I am restricted from purchasing any gun with a bore of .40 or larger, effectively narrowing my choice of full powered guns down to 9mm if I want an autoloader, or .357 magnum if I want a revolver.. Because everyone knows that holding a .45 caliber gun in your hands will instantly make you eviler and thus more likely to commit terrible crimes than if you were holding a .357 mag, right? Stupid laws. To further limit availability, firearms are heavily taxed, so any firearm that I purchase will cost me about 3 times more than it would cost any of you yankees, which is why I care about even small differences when comparing prices. I am a poor student after all.
I’ve decided that a 9mm autoloader isn’t what I want at the moment, so I´ll go for a .38/.357mag revolver as my first gun. The cheap .38 ammo will save me a fortune when I’m practicing at the range, and the ability to fire .357 will let me enter any kind of competition... its a win/win.
Now, what I want from my future gun is this:
1) I want my gun to be reliable. As guns are extremely rare here in this country, so is gunsmiths, and the few gunsmiths there is can take pretty much anything they want for their services. Furthermore, sending the gun around the globe to have it repaired/fine tuned by the factory will be expensive as well. Furthermore, gun shops over here carry hunting weapons, not handguns, so I will have to mail order my gun without even seeing it first. So long story short; I need a reliable low maintenance gun.
2) I want a gun with good ballistics for shooting stationary targets at the range, as well as for practical shooting. I tend to like the look of guns with 4" barrels a lot better than the look of 6" barrel guns, but what kind of gun would be better for me?
3) I´ll be using my gun for sport, and as I’m not allowed to carry it with me or store it in my home, it is highly unlikely that I will ever end up in a situation that will require me to use my gun for self defense. However, guns are deadly weapons by their nature and purpose, and that is the very reason why I am fascinated by them. I want a practical weapon with the optimal power/weight/reliability ratio, a weapon that I could depend on with my life. Such things as novelty scopes/targeters, oversized frames that are only ever practical at the shooting range or weapons with weak or overpowered loads are of no interest to me.
4) I’m a poor student, so I need the gun I buy to be... less expensive.
On a side note, I am considering to get a gun with a ported barrel, because it seems endlessly practical in every respect to minimize the muzzle climb. But if it really WAS an endlessly practical thing to have on a gun, I guess every weapon would have it, and they obviously don’t. What are the cons of ported barrels? Of course there will be some loss in muzzle energy, as some of the gasses that would otherwise propel the bullet forward will be blown upwards to keep the gun in place, but how much is that? And is the debris that is blown out of the holes a problem to the shooter? There must be some cons that I’m not seeing.
So... what gun do you think is my best bet? I’ve been drooling a bit over the Taurus Tracker model 627 in stainless steel with a 4" barrel, so I would like to know if any of you guys have any experience with it?
I think that I have rambled on for long enough now. Thank you for reading my post