New Member from Northern California
I've been lurking and learning here for a couple of months. You folks have one of the best two or three forums that I've found. (I hang out at RugerForum.com a lot) So I signed up and am stepping into the light.
My dad taught me firearm safety when I was young, had a Sears .22LR and some kind of Soviet surplus 7.62 bolt action we used to shoot at cans and stuff. Didn't use them for years after I got married and then the soon to be former spouse took them to the Sheriff to be melted down during the Divorce War.
It's years later now, and after spending most of my life saying, 'I really need to get back into shooting' I've taken the plunge. I'm over fifty now, my hairs turning grey, looks like I might not live forever. And they keep passing these damn laws, might not be able to buy fun firearms in a couple of years. So far (since January) I have bought a Ruger KP512 .22 Pistol, Marlin 1894 .357 lever action carbine, Mossberg 500 Persuader, Ruger Blackhawk .357, and a Ruger P89 9mm Pistol. Go to one of the local ranges about once a week. Hoping to figure out where I went shooting as a teenager out in the woods somewhere. (Any tips on finding good shooting spots on National Forest or BLM land in or near Nor Cal? Nevada?)
Kind of like Rugers a lot.
My wish list includes:
M1 Garand through the CMP (anyone here have any thoughts or referrals to old threads about dealing with the CMP?)
Ruger Mini14
Colt Python (About the most beautiful gun I've ever seen)
CZ 75 B
Baretta 92
Ruger SemiAuto Carbine (9mm?, .44mag?)
Ruger Single Six .22
Something .44 Magnum (Ruger?)
Something 1911 .45 ACP (Not Ruger)
One of those amazingly cheap MosinNagant Russian Rifles (maybe that's what I used to shoot with my dad?)
Just shooters, No safe queens for me. But I can sure admire some of the collectors guns I've seen online.
So can you all get a feel for who someone is by the firearms he owns or admires?
I have a couple of the AGI Gunsmithing DVDs with Bob Dunlap and purely had a blast taking apart and cleaning the Marlin 1894. There's music in the action of that rifle. Get the feeling that it was leading edge high tech when it was new. Maybe like Apple Computers?
I've been reading everything I can about the Heller decision and am hoping to the heavens that it helps the cause of RKBA. Maybe tomorrow?
Planning to go the Big Reno Gun Show in August.
Thanks for having such a great forum. You all make it what it is you know.
Armed Liberal