Will Carry

I have a Smith and Wesson model 36. It is a great little 5 shot snubby. What's the biggest complaint from people after they shoot a snub nosed 38. "It's too snappy!" Enter the Pitbull 380. A six shot cylinder, three inch barrel and the patented ejector for ACP casings, plus the 380 has comparable ballistics to the 38. That was my justification for buying one any how. I picked it up this morning and had a chance to run a few rounds through it. I was surprised at how smooth the DA trigger pull was and the cylinder gap is next to nothing. The lock up could have been a little tighter but it is within my tolerance. The first shot I thought was a squib accept for the hole in the target. No recoil! It sounded kind of muffled too. Once I got the front site picture right I was able to make one jagged hole at around 5 yards in single action and keeping a nice saucer size group in double action. The recoil was so low I could crank out 6 rounds quicker than I could fire 3 rounds from my 38 special. I just cannot believe that this little low recoil puppy has similar stopping power to my 38 special but I have it loaded with 380 +P and will start carrying it. 380 +P, that sounds ridicules. Kind of like a .22 short magnum. My hope is that my wife will be able to trade in her 22 and use this little pitpuppy but I might just keep it myself. I have always wanted a Charter Arms wheel gun.

A lady walks into court, accused of beating her husband with his guitars. The judge asks "First offender?" She said "No, first the Gibson, then the Fender." Ah Cha Cha

Thanks for the replies! I purchased the Sig in October of 2018. The serial number is 66A220###. The ammo I was shooting was not Remington but Winchester 124 grain FMJs. I bought 1000 rounds when they were on sale. The three light strike rounds were recycled after I examined them and all of them fired on the second try. My local gun shop has excellent service. I bought the Diamondback 380 from him, it broke so they sent me another one, it broke so they sent me another one and it was unreliable so Clay at Fuquay Guns gave me $300 for it, even though he was selling them for $275. I put the $300 down on a …..Sig P238. That little pistol is a honey! It is what I carry most of the time with a S&W snubby as a back up.

I have shot two boxes of Remington target loads through my new P365. That is 100 rounds. Of that 100 rounds I have had three light primer strikes and one failure to eject. WTH! I sold my Ruger LC9s when I bought t his Sig. My LC9s that has never failed to fire. My Glock has never failed to fire. My Colt 1911 has never failed! This is the worst experience I have had with a pistol since that Diamondback 380 (it should be called the Moneyback 380). Should I send it back to SIG or feed more ammo through it? If this pistol is ammo sensitive I will get rid of it.

I wish we still had a battleship. I know they are obsolete but they still have a fear factor. I friend of mine saw the New Jersey firing broadsides off the coast of Viet Nam. He was on the Valley Forge, (a helicopter landing ship. It was the last US Navy aircraft carrier to qualify for shore bombardment with her 5 inch guns}. The Marines said the VC would scatter whenever the New Jersey sailed up.

Go to Google maps and search for Shahid Bahonar Port. It is in the Straights of Hormuz. You can see their navy including their fast attack subs and a gaggle of midget subs. I tried to post the link but Google rejected it. I don't know where the got the midgets. Of course as soon as you do the search some zit faced kid in a sub-basement at Langley is going to flag you...….

I don't know why but I have a burning desire for a Colt King Cobra. Somebody slap me! Talk me out of it or talk me into it. Or just talk.....

It has been a while since I lived in Nashville but, unless it has changed your best bet is from downtown and south. Nashville caters to tourists and Vanderbilt Campus is down there so if you stay in the touristy areas you'll be OK. Avoid any hotel that has a razor wire fence around it. I have found that whenever I get lost in a big city I always wind up in the bad part of town. Nashville is a fun town. https://www.aol.com/2010/10/05/safe-and-dangerous-places-in-nashville/ My great grandfather went to Nashville in 1864. He stayed less than a mile away from where I lived. In Rebout #4 with Lumsden's battery. He wasn't there for very long, but he gave'm plenty of ball and shot. His name was Pvt Isaac Mason and he lived to prosper after the war. He built a house made by putting two slave cabins together. The house still stands in Stockton Alabama. (Sorry to get off topic)

I wear this one at Three O'clock so I can grab the spare magazine with my left hand. I have started carrying OWB with a canted holster that sets up high. Harold at Red Cent will ask you how you are going to wear it and make it to fit you. He made me these holsters and a beefy leather belt that is 1/4" thick, for a great price. This is the fifth holster he has made for me so far. You can check out his work on his web site. He is well known in North Carolina. https://www.redcentcustomleather.com/

The man at Red Cent Custom Leather wasn't happy with the quality of the leather on the black holster so he sent me another free of charge. I asked him for this holster with an integral magazine pouch. It is canted, sets up high and tight. Now if I can just get my P-365 broke in...……...

If you are only going to have one 1911, then get one with the prancing pony on the slide. I bought a Colt 1911 about ten years ago for less than $700. The first few magazines had some failures to eject but the next 1000 or so rounds have been flawless. NOTE: I am in no way an expert on 1911s. I only own one and I wanted a Colt.

He didn't get shot for a seatbelt violation. He attacked a police officer. A person can strike a deadly blow with two fingers. Hand to hand fighting is not like you see on TV. I hope the man survived, Did he?

I got one too. I had a little trouble figuring out how to use it but thanks to YouTube I got it figured out. I recently went to the range for a head to head shootout between my LC9s and P365. I was shooting 7 rounds each at 3" circles at 21 feet. After 7 magazines I was shocked to find that the LC9s is more accurate (to me) and has a better trigger. Plus the P365 FTF twice. One failure to return to battery and one failed to reset the trigger. It may have been the ammo but when I racked the slide to inspect the bullet it went in to no man's land. I have lost 20 pounds and I bent over to get some more ammo from my range bag. When I stood up I felt my pants slipping down. I caught my pants but my CC pistol felt out. It dropped into my range bag and nobody saw it but I was embarrassed any way. You must maintain control over your weapon, period. Good Grief!

I bought one a few weeks ago. This little pistol will hold 12+1 (12 round mag is not included but they are available) and it's the same size as my LC9s. It shoots great! It is my new carry gun. I have shoot 200-300 rounds through it. Mostly target loads but it fired my self defense loads with no issues. The pistol is tight. It doesn't rattle like my LC9s. The trigger is really good for a striker fired pistol. One complaint. I could use the magazine springs on my truck. Get a loader. It should come with a loader if they are going to make a magazine spring that strong but Sig doesn't like including extras for free.

I tried watching some of the world cup games a couple of years ago. I saw teams battle to a zero to zero tie. I just couldn't get exited about it. I always looks the same. That is just me. I like college Football, but high school football is the best football. Pro-football is boring. If they have enough soccer fans to fill the stadium, they should build it.

Been there! I am an industrial mechanic by trade. After heart surgery I would bleed forever. I would cut myself shaving Sunday morning and in church people would say STIGMATA! I would say "No. Blood thinners." I took them for three years. They will keep you alive, if you don't bleed to death. Finally my cardiologist told me that if I stopped taking them I had a 3% higher chance of a blood clot and a 1.5% chance of bleeding to death. So I stopped taking it. Do your rehab Bersa guy. Take those blood thinners. I am going on 5 years after my by-pass. If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

I had a Glock 36. The only thing I found wrong with it and the reason I traded it, is it would pinch a blood blister on my pinky every time I shot it. I found that the Glock 19 was just about the same size so I got the G-19. I had to have another 45acp so I got a Walther PPQ-45. Which is an amazing pistol.

Thank you! I feel the same way. I have many friends that I never see. It's not because I am anti-social but because I don't have enough time between work and family. I have a cadre of close friends that I would and have, risked my life for and they did the same for me. I have never done Faceplant, snapback or Twittler. I do "TELEPHONE." and face to face.

Thanks for posting that article. I always check for printing before I leave the house but complacency sometimes an overcome discipline.

We Tar Heels are under attack! We have been infiltrated by Moral Busy Bodies! We are digging in our heels but I thought you Ridge Runners should know what's going on, on your right flank. The House Rep from Hippie Hill and the Bull City have joined up. They have introduced a bill that will restrict handguns like New Jersey or Maryland. This is from North Carolina Gun Owners. Verla Insko is from Chapel Hill and introduces a "Common Sense" gun law every year. Now she has Ms. Morey from Durham to play with. These two foaming at the mouth moral busybodies are perfectly willing to sell our rights while they live safely in their gated communities. I have been keeping an eye on Ms. Insko for a few years now and until now she has just been a harmless busy body but she is starting to show her fangs so beware! You can thank the good people of Chapel Hill for this insult to liberty. C.S. Lewis warned us about these moral busybodies in the following quote: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." The article below is from the Daily Tar Heel. Ms. Insko's babbling is in red. Insko said she signed the bill because of N.C. House Bill 588 — which she believes makes guns and ammunition more available to citizens in North Carolina. “We don’t have to have people armed to fight a war by themselves,” she said. There is more than one gun per person in the United States, making it the most heavily armed nation in the world, Insko said. “The ‘stand your ground’ law is not needed,” she said. Insko said this first revision of the bill will repeal the “stand your ground” laws, which permit the use of deadly force if you are presumed to be in danger when someone enters your house, vehicle or workplace uninvited. “That’s giving an individual the right to be the judge, jury and executioner all at once,” she said. When there are professionals who are trained in crowd control and know when or when not to use deadly force, Insko said citizens do not need to protect themselves. “Most of the people breaking and entering don’t do damage and harm anybody,” she said. N.C. Rep. Larry Pittman, R-Cabarrus, said in an email the bill would limit self-defense to inside one’s home. “Currently, it is recognized that citizens have a right to defend themselves outside the home, as well,” Pittman said. Pittman said he thinks House Bill 723 violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “If it were to pass, what it would mean for the State is the reduction of freedom for our law-abiding citizens,” he said in the email. Pittman said the bill presents an unjust requirement for legal gun owners. “I am adamantly opposed to this or any legislation that makes our law-abiding citizens more vulnerable to attack,” Pittman said. Current law already provides restrictions and limitations on those who possess of firearms should only be restricted in limited situations as current law provides, he said. “Every honest citizen has a God-given right to self-defense, wherever they may be,” Pittman said. Paul Valone, president of gun rights organization Grass Roots North Carolina, said the N.C. House continues to introduce similar bills to keep their constituents happy — when it knows they will never get to a committee hearing. “(We) shouldn’t be wasting time on it because the bill is dead on arrival,” Valone said. Valone said while “stand your ground” laws are necessary, the “Castle Doctrine” is key. “The (“Castle Doctrine”) creates a rebuttable legal presumption that if somebody forcibly and unlawfully enters your home, your motor vehicle or your workplace, then you are presumed to have a reasonable fear of eminent death or great bodily harm,” Valone said. He said he thinks the new bill is no more effective than current law, which already restricts the contexts under which an individual can use force to defend themselves. And Valone said the motivation for the bill is wrong. “(Verla Insko is) utterly wrong and demonstrating the ignorance that gun control advocates generally profess,” he said. Current law was crafted to add protections and allow for judicial discretion, he said. “The idea that someone is going to be wrongfully killed is absurd,” he said. I contacted Verla Insko and very respectably asked her if the Daily Tarheel had misquoted her. She kindly replied that they had not and she meant everything she said. When you e-mail these people, don't be ugly. Be respectful and state your point and thank them for their time.

That is a shame. California is a beautiful state with some nice people. I agree with you. There is a tension everywhere and I blame the media for every 5 minutes saying "BE AFRAID!" We are either going to have a socialist revolution with California becoming a People's Utopia where a small group of liberal elites will decide what we need (They will keep us safe by having curfews and limiting where you can go.) or the pendulum will swing back towards sanity. Sooner or latter there will be a pushback against the neo-liberals. When their ideas fail.

I went back to the LGS where I purchased the shotgun......in 2012. I have heard on another forum that CZUSA has terrible service. The Turkish Walnut is like balsa wood. I can rub my fingernail down the barrel and it looks like chalk, The welds on the vent rib sight were no cleaned very well and there is rust along a section of the well, When it gets back to my lgs , it won't be goinh home with me,

My Great Grandfather was at the Hospital in Columbus Mississippi after the war while recovering from wounds received at the Battle of Spanish Fort. I have a pay receipt for a clothing allowance from the Union Army so he must have been a POW also. He lied about his age and joined the Tuscaloosa Volunteers at the age of 16 in 1862. He was a member of Lumsden's Battery CSA. The following is from Snopes. "Columbus, Miss., was a hospital town, and in many cases a burial site, for both Union and Confederate casualties of Shiloh, brought in by the trainload. And it was in that Columbus where, at the initiation of four women who met in a 12-gabled house on North Fourth Street, a solemn procession was made to Friendship Cemetery on April 25, 1866. As the story goes, one of the women spontaneously suggested that they decorate the graves of the Union as well as the Confederate dead, as each grave contained someone’s father, brother or son. A lawyer in Ithaca, N.Y., named Francis Miles Finch read about this reconciliatory gesture and wrote a poem about the ceremony in Columbus, “The Blue and the Gray,” which The Atlantic Monthly published in 1867." The Blue And The Gray Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907) By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Under the one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgement-day Under the laurel, the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgement-day; Under the roses, the Blue, Under the lilies, the Gray. So with an equal splendor, The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Broidered with gold, the Blue, Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So, when the summer calleth, On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment -day, Wet with the rain, the Blue Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading No braver battle was won: Under the sod adn the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day, Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.

That is why I like this forum. People can disagree and still be respectful and polite. I am sure no liberal kayaker would call me a murderer if we were face to face. They would see what a nice guy I am, that I practice non-violence and it doesn't hurt to be a large gentleman. I will stick with my old school paddling buddies. Gary C: A Vietnam veteran. Demolitions expert. They sent his squad into Cambodia to blow up an underground bunker complex. They spent a day laying charges in the three level complex that included an operating room with French equipment. The explosion was supposed to be just enough to cause the complex to implode but they failed to discovery the ammo dump on the 4th level. The entire hill went up. There were friendly casualties. Gary had asked for an extra day to explore the complex but was denied. He doesn't talk about it much. Garg G: A redneck with a masters degree in Computer Technology. He has canoed all over North America. They say you can still see his claw marks under the rock at Right Crack (A rapid on the Chattooga River). Richard M: A bad @ss redneck who used to look like a cross between Charles Manson and Wild Bill Hickok. He was our body guard. He has been known to face down groups of campers who got out of control and were partying past the 10:30 quiet time. "But he ain't like that no more." Jack S: A Aquarian Veterinarian who looks like a Prussian general. He was in his late 60s and could keep up with the youngest of us, any day. Joe H: High school history teacher. The man was insane! He would charge over horizon lines with only a clue as to what waited for him below. When he realized that he had reached his peak as a class V boater, he just quit paddling all together.