Accumulator
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My pleasure.
Ready for the range
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Just got into a pretty cool (and potentially dangerous for the wallet lol) group on facebook. It's basically a gun raffle. Every day a new firearm goes up, X amount of "tickets" are allocated at a certain price, and once they're sold out and paid for the guy runs the list of names on random.org 3 times to pick a winner. For example the one I bid on today was a S&W M&P15 rifle....330 spots at 3 bucks a pop. They've had a run of guns I really wanted lately....probably going to have to block the group for awhile haha. Neat idea though
House of Wax
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That is a big knife lol
GearHead_1
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Love the 686.It's awesome to see the collision of my 2 favorite hobbies- and a great group of guys who are fellow gun owners.
Here's one of my newest range toys:
Smith and Wesson 686 Plus, 3" barrel
with its friend, the TOPS Knives US Combat Knife.
The knife makes the gun look small
Accumulator
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Houe of Wax- Heh heh, if you're not careful you're gonna start, uhn...Accumulating a whole lotta stuff via that raffle 
craigdt- Nice Smith, especially like that 3" tube! Accumulatorette has one in 4" (converted from a 6") but hers isn't that nice (and newer) Plus model. Good choice on the Hogue stocks (assuming that's what they are..) and I like the new-style cylinder release.
craigdt- Nice Smith, especially like that 3" tube! Accumulatorette has one in 4" (converted from a 6") but hers isn't that nice (and newer) Plus model. Good choice on the Hogue stocks (assuming that's what they are..) and I like the new-style cylinder release.
GearHead_1
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Accumulator, correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the Plus and the 6 shot cylinder both available at the same time as an either or depending upon barrel length?Houe of Wax- Heh heh, if you're not careful you're gonna start, uhn...Accumulating a whole lotta stuff via that raffle
craigdt- Nice Smith, especially like that 3" tube! Accumulatorette has one in 4" (converted from a 6") but hers isn't that nice (and newer) Plus model. Good choice on the Hogue stocks (assuming that's what they are..) and I like the new-style cylinder release.
There are 5, 686's in this pic. Two of them are the Plus model. There's also a 629 (44 Magnum) and a 619 (Target .22 LR). The .619 is incredibly accurate and so easy to shoot with a Red Dot on it. My daughter has emptied the 10 round cylinder at 15 yards, shooting free hand and kept it in the size of a dime. It is obviously one of her favorite firearms.
I agree completly with BSkip333 on a Dan Wesson (have one in the suitcase with 4 barrels) being a smooth shooter out of the box. That said, none of these S&W's are "out of the box". I also believe that Dan Wesson has some of the finest bluing around, they're every bit as nice as Colt. S&W hasn't produced real quaity over the counter bluing in the past 30 years. Hence this stainless pic. I have some nicely blued Smiths but they're late 70's early 80's and before.
GearHead_1
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The thing that is getting harder to find is a S&W revolver in good shape without the insurance hole behind the cylinder release. I see fewer of them on the gun boards with every year that goes by.
Accumulator
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Gee, I dunno...I'm out-of-date on my S&Ws...[heck] I still want to call them by *name* ("Combat Magnum") instead of the numbers! Sigh...I'm so old...
But yeah, I like their K/L frames- my "good" revolver is a M66 reworked by Clark back in the early '90s (built by their old-timer guy, right before he retired) with a 4" Douglas barrel; best DA trigger I've ever tried, bar none, just one of those lucky things but it makes that gun a keeper. (Accumulatorette has basically moved on to a Colt Govt. Model.)
Oh, just FWIW, if I were to have a S&W tweaked these days, I'd send it to Jim Stroh. He takes a while, but I simply love his work and his Customer Service is top-notch.
House of Wax
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Malcolm Gladwell: Gun Control Won't Work, So We Need More Gun Control - Breitbart
You just can't make this stuff up. It'd almost be funny except for these people are serious
You just can't make this stuff up. It'd almost be funny except for these people are serious
House of Wax
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Conceal classes all set up for the 3rd and 10th. Pretty pumped
Accumulator
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House of Wax- Ah, glad to hear that. Pay *really* close attention to the legal stuff, ya never know what kind of goofy laws are on the books in a given area.
House of Wax
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Absolutely. I'm almost more concerned with that aspect of it than the physical training
Accumulator
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Yeah, the physical aspect of it isn't something you'll get squared away in two sessions anyhow.
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Guns Come To CO Middle School In The Name Of Safety (Video) | Truth Uncensored
I think this is an outstanding idea. Even if you have no interest in firearms and don't want them in your home, it never hurts to give your kids a bit of education in case they were to come across one in somebody else's home
I think this is an outstanding idea. Even if you have no interest in firearms and don't want them in your home, it never hurts to give your kids a bit of education in case they were to come across one in somebody else's home
Accumulator
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Very true! "don't touch it, tell an adult about it." Kids shouldn't "come across" a firearm, but it does happen.
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Accumulator
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Eh, while I'm on that side of the Gun Control fence, I found him so off-putting that I quit watching after just a little while. I sure don't think he's gonna convince any anti-gun folks to change their opinions, so IMO it's more Preaching to the Choir, which is awfully popular on both sides of most arguments.