MedGrl
Member
Back in April I started a thread that can be found here :
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=195700
If you were to go through and read it you would find me writing about recieving a shotgun from my grandmother for my 21st birthday and reciving support from my family for owning guns. You will also see that I was wresting with having 2 20 guage shotguns and trying to decide if I should sell one and use the $200 to put towards my first hand gun. One THR member suggested that is 20 members each chipped in $10 I would have the $200 and both shotguns. Many of the wonderful members here did just that and gave me a wonderful birthday present. Today I was able to use my THR birthday gift and get my first Handgun.
I saved over the summer and after buying books etc for the new school year I had enough for a used Smith & Wesson 30-2 that my gun mentor Only1asterisk helped me find and procure. It was recived by the FFL on friday and taken to the range by Only1asterisk and myself today. Thus followes the RAnge report:
We took it apart at the range and gave it a quick cleaning . We then proceeded to put about 100 rounds of three different ammo's through it. We took three flavors of Winchester Whitebox 115 FMJ, 115 JHP and 147 JHP. All three fed perfectly and had no problems with any of the three. I need to get some heavier 9mm loads to feed through and see what it likes and doesn't but it seemed to have no problem with those three.
The grips on it are a little thicker than any I've ever seen on a 39-2 and will need to be changed eventualy to make the fit even better but as it stands I'd say it fits my hand at about 90%. After we left the range (we only had 30 minutes of range time but...hey that's 30 minutes of range time with my new toy
) We took the gun apart and gave it a good cleaning and inspection. tHe more we cleaned the better this gun looked. SOme of the things we initialy thought were wrong proved to be perfectly fine. The barrel was originaly so full of grease etc that we thought there was little to no rifiling left. After a bore brush, some Hoppes #9 and a patch or two went through it it had some beautiful rifiling in it.
We unfortunately forgot the camera so I don't have any pictures...yet. But I will try and get some taken and posted in the next few days...I smell another range trip in my near future.
But I could write for pages about my new gun becaus eI am so excited about my first handgun. The primary purpose of this post was and remains this. I want to say a big
THANK YOU !!!
To all the THR members who contributed back in April. This is by far the best birthday present I have gotten in my memory. It would have been another six months to a year before I could afford a handgun on my own. THank you all. I promise that once I am out of college and finincialy stable to pass it on. You all have been a very welcoming and friendly group of people from whome I have learned much over the past year.
I'm going to begin passing it on by taking my sister to the range when I visit her in November. Once agin...THank you THR members and I will get pictures added as soon as I can.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=195700
If you were to go through and read it you would find me writing about recieving a shotgun from my grandmother for my 21st birthday and reciving support from my family for owning guns. You will also see that I was wresting with having 2 20 guage shotguns and trying to decide if I should sell one and use the $200 to put towards my first hand gun. One THR member suggested that is 20 members each chipped in $10 I would have the $200 and both shotguns. Many of the wonderful members here did just that and gave me a wonderful birthday present. Today I was able to use my THR birthday gift and get my first Handgun.
I saved over the summer and after buying books etc for the new school year I had enough for a used Smith & Wesson 30-2 that my gun mentor Only1asterisk helped me find and procure. It was recived by the FFL on friday and taken to the range by Only1asterisk and myself today. Thus followes the RAnge report:
We took it apart at the range and gave it a quick cleaning . We then proceeded to put about 100 rounds of three different ammo's through it. We took three flavors of Winchester Whitebox 115 FMJ, 115 JHP and 147 JHP. All three fed perfectly and had no problems with any of the three. I need to get some heavier 9mm loads to feed through and see what it likes and doesn't but it seemed to have no problem with those three.
The grips on it are a little thicker than any I've ever seen on a 39-2 and will need to be changed eventualy to make the fit even better but as it stands I'd say it fits my hand at about 90%. After we left the range (we only had 30 minutes of range time but...hey that's 30 minutes of range time with my new toy
) We took the gun apart and gave it a good cleaning and inspection. tHe more we cleaned the better this gun looked. SOme of the things we initialy thought were wrong proved to be perfectly fine. The barrel was originaly so full of grease etc that we thought there was little to no rifiling left. After a bore brush, some Hoppes #9 and a patch or two went through it it had some beautiful rifiling in it.We unfortunately forgot the camera so I don't have any pictures...yet. But I will try and get some taken and posted in the next few days...I smell another range trip in my near future.
But I could write for pages about my new gun becaus eI am so excited about my first handgun. The primary purpose of this post was and remains this. I want to say a big
THANK YOU !!!
To all the THR members who contributed back in April. This is by far the best birthday present I have gotten in my memory. It would have been another six months to a year before I could afford a handgun on my own. THank you all. I promise that once I am out of college and finincialy stable to pass it on. You all have been a very welcoming and friendly group of people from whome I have learned much over the past year.
I'm going to begin passing it on by taking my sister to the range when I visit her in November. Once agin...THank you THR members and I will get pictures added as soon as I can.
