FLAvalanche
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Better yet what would you do with it?
I'd go get my bench vise back...
Better yet what would you do with it?
DeepSouth
What do I do with this gun?
It's a gun, shoot it...with another gun.
i'd put a box of ammo through it and see if it works. if it does, i would toss it in the back of the safe and leave it there. never know what could happen -- hurricanes, social unrest, etc. someday, a working gun, any working gun, may be worth something to someone in barter.
If the real-world apocalypse ends up being like most apocalyptic movies I've seen, then seemingly anybody who has a gun and even more to the point, a box of ammo , will automatically be a total bad-ass. Of course, that's because ammo, even in the most common calibers, will be nearly as scarce as .380 ammo is today.
I would buy a box of 50, find somebody I wasn't willing to kill, but real willing to never see ever again, and let THEM try it out..I had a Jennings J-22 and despite it's cheap construction it shot reliably and accurately at self defense distances. Like many cheap manufacturers guns, you either got a real good one or a real bad one. I'd buy a box of 50 rounds and try it out. IF you get through the 50 with no hang ups and can hit a target repeatably at, say, 15 feet. Keep it.
Sold it today for $75.
A buddy of mine called and asked if I still had it because a buddy of his wanted something for his daughter. I told him it was a piece of junk worth less than 50 bucks, I told him it was probably very unreliable,(I never shot it) I told him IMO it was unsafe to carry with a round in the chamber, I was basically trying to talk him out of buying it, but he bought it anyway. Maybe I should get a job in sales??? Now I just hope she hates it and makes him buy her a decent gun, which is very likely.