gunrunner32

So, by getting my wife into shooting I learned over a period of time working with her that she is left eye dominant. I have since been teaching her to shoot rifles with her left hand so she be a little more accurate. She shoots pistols just fine right handed, so this has been a trick. I have a 10/22 set aside for my daughter that is already done up with a nice target style stock, bipod, scope and bull barrel. I have 3 more 10/22's in the works for my wife, my dad and myself. I've already gotten a Green Mountain stainless bull barrel for my wife's 10/22 and in sticking with the scheme she likes, she wants a stainless gun with a walnut stock. There comes my problem. I want to get her a target style stock, but I would like to be able to shoot it as well. As I shoot with the "correct" hand, I don't want to conform to her leftist ways. I have seen the Boyd's Evolution stock and I like it quite a bit, I was wondering if anyone has stumbled across any other options for walnut/laminated brown on brown ambidextrous stocks for the 10/22. Along with that, what is a good inexpensive scope that I could use. I threw a cheapo from Wally World on there for the time being, but was wanting to know what some other good options were. Lastly, for my build I was looking at the Whistle Pig Octagonal barrel. I like the way it looks and with a black to grey anodized fade on it I think it would look pretty cool in a Peppered laminate stock. Does anyone have any experience with Whistle Pig? In my search for the "answers" I read "Customize The Ruger 10/22" by James E. House. Good book full of good information, but didn't narrow it down for me. If anything it gave me more options to think about. Thanks in advance for the help.

I have the Fenix Erik mentioned and it works great, I've had people at work try to "acquire" it from me when I wasn't looking. My wife has a Streamlight LED Scorpion and she likes it pretty well, she hasn't tried to take my Fenix yet.

Any chances on another one of these coming about in March or April? I'd like to get into some competitive shooting, work keeps me away quite a bit though. I won't be able to attend the match in February. I have quite a bit of experience in combat style shooting and have done the combat pistol and rifle course at Mid-South Institute of Self-defense Shooting 3 times now on top of other courses. With that though I would like to start doing some competitions when I can. Any help or direction would be nice and another one of these beginners competitions would be even better.

OS, Does yours have the poly/metal trigger as well? The one I gave to my dad, I had already replaced the plastic guide rod and it wasn't untili was installing the Wolff trigger spring that I noticed the top half of the trigger was plastic. I want to know when they started doin this, I know it's to cut weight and costs, but nothing beats metal on a gun. I will be replacing the trigger once I get my hands on the 92 again. Let me know too if you need the metal guide rod, I'll be getting a couple for the build I'll be doing. The left over ones will be of little use to me, this build will not be happening for another month or so though.

As long as everyone saw the same thing happen, no one can question it. Gotta love it when great minds think alike.

I missed the last run on these, I'll take 4.

Shortly after my sister moved out of the house and had turned 21, my dad asked me what kind of pistol he should get. He wanted a 9mm to replace his Ruger P89, I was a little mad at first since that was "my" pistol and he gave it to my sister. Anyways I have since added about 15 more pistols to my collection so I guess I'm not hurting for the P89 that bad. Back to the topic, I found a guy on another forum that had a 92FS for 430$ shipped, so I bought it. I bought it knowing that they are easy to completely disassembly and the parts that did break were easily replaced. I can honestly say that I have put roughly 15k through a M9 and the only issues that I had were the trigger spring breaking and I had 2 locking blocks break. On the 92FS that I gave to my dad, he has put roughly 2k through it and to my knowledge he has only had 1 stovepipe, and nothing has broken. I did however replace the trigger spring in it with a Wolff enclosed trigger spring. I've been more than happy with the Beretta as a whole, I personally will still lean more towards a Sig P226 if it were a 9mm I was after. But to each their own, that's why there are so many diffent types of guns out there. I will be starting a project gun soon for a friend in Washington based on the Taurus PT92, for those of you who have seen the movie Romeo and Juliet (I have not), John Leguzamo's character carries a gold and silver PT92 with a compensator on it. Should be a fun project and since I already know the pistol for the most part, I know Taurus has made their changes, it should be an easy one. I'll keep you posted on that project, and I wouldn't worry about opinion on this gun or that gun type of thing. Everyone has had their experiences and have taken different things away from them. I personally won't buy a Dodge again, my last Dodge was ridiculous in upkeep costs and the one prior to that was nothing but a money pit, Chevy hasn't done wrong by me yet. Enjoy the Beretta and shoot the hell out of it, if you break it and want some assistance I have some armorer level PowerPoint presentations that I can email you and it will talk you through how to get it apart and fix what's broken.

I know you can't please everyone, but this nutnfancy guy annoys the hell out of me. Good videos though once you cut through the BS.

Not very impressed by the article, it actually makes me a little mad when I read biased propaganda like this.

Welcome aboard, and a word from the wise, there are individuals that make their living refinishing firearms on here. They paid to be a supporting vendor and advertising a service without the proper clearances on here can come back negatively, I know this because it happened to me.

I'm going to have to agree with you there. What's their first rule they always say? "Look Cool"? Nothing about being cool though.

To keep the look of being an original since it is a very nice looking gun, I would have it reblued and a clear coat put over top for added rust protection. NIC (cerakote) and Lauer (duracoat) both make excellent clear coats. I've gotten more into cerakote lately as I feel it looks less like a toy then the duracoat does, its more wear resistant and cure time is only 1 week for air cured colors verses the 3 weeks duracoat takes. If you'd want to go tacticool with it, you can just have it cerakoted black and it will still look like a real gun and be protected from the elements. Good luck in your search for a finish.

I would have to go with, it all depends on the material used to make the barrel, style of shooting and ammunition used. I've got an AR15 with just shy of 4k through it and no changes in accuracy. I've seen barrels go out around 6-8k but that was because they were not properly maintained and repetitive shooting on auto or bump firing them caused them to go out sooner than expected. The MK18 that Daniel Defense makes is supposed to get 25-30k if it's a DD barrel. When they got the SOCOM contract, the contracted out for barrels and some folks got a Colt barrel I their MK18, DD told me those barrels would be lucky to see 15k before accuracy started being effected. I've seen a 300WM lose grouping accuracy after 3k, while my Rem700 has a round count of close to 7800 and it still holds MOA.

When my wife and I started dating some 5 or 6 years ago, I had to see if she was someone I was compatible with. So our second "date" was to an indoor range in Cincinnati. I started her off on my XD45. She immediately fell in love with it. A few more time to the range and I decided to get mom and dad along for some family fun and to meet her. My mom is deathly terrified of the sound any fire makes, so she's useless at a range. My dad took my wife into the range to shoot his Ruger P89. All I saw was my dad laughing hysterically when she finished the first mag. She asked him what was wrong with his gun because it had no kick and wanted to shoot my 45 again. My wife is tiny, she's only 5'1" and she eats up any gun I put in her hands except my .454 casull, that one she's not ever going to shoot according to her. It's not the size of he person, or the gender, it's getting them comfortable with shooting and having them relax, and some words of encouragement go a long way too. The one thing I still do the day prior to taking my wife to the range is go over each firearm she will be shooting so I know she knows how to safely operate, load and unload it. Safety is my number one concern when it comes to people who don't shoot very often.

Sent you a PM, maybe we can grab some coffee and kill some time. I'll be working on my time travel for a little while there.

^ This I'm all for discounts I need to know how it works.

I have once, I normally don't bother bringing it to the range with me. Nothing that I could see happened to it, it's not an original so I wouldn't have been too disappointed if it did get dinged up. Really just have the bayonet for showing off. I have still yet to fire anything but light target load #9 shot. It was manufactured sometime in 1911 so I don't know if it could handle a heavier 2 3/4" load.

Bringing this one back for a little more information. I'm wanting to know if the frame on your RIA 1911s is made of steel or aluminum? I'm hoping they are steel, but feel free to disappoint me.

I first thought I was going to find out another poor soul has given in and gotten married. Its good to see the drive to go back to school. I'm dreading the same thing, it's been 8 years since my last college class. Good luck with it and good luck on reaching your GPA goal.

Any of the major brands of shotguns for us common folks will do you just fine, Mossberg or Remington. if you have deeper pockets you can look at some Benelli's. I may be the only one, but my home defense weapons of choice are: Stoeger Coach Supreme (nothing like both barrels at the same time) and a Ruger Super Redhawk with alternating 300gr turned brass and 260gr JHP .454 Casull, my wife will be waiting with her Mossberg 500 12ga and her Sig P6. I wouldn't think weight would be an issue, unless you live in some ridiculously large house or are chasing them down the road. I would have to guess people get the pump shotguns for the noise, I know that's what my wife likes about it. I agree with you though, you come in my house unwelcome, you won't be leaving the same as when you came in. Since I've only been introduced to one semi-auto shotgun I would have to go with a Benelli M4. The one I shot wasn't too light, but it ate up magnum shells fast and was smooth.

I will have to agree with mcurrier on the crossdraw. I've utilized one when in other countries that I carried in. As a driver it's easy and quick to "acquire" your target through the door in an OS moment. The seatbelt never really got in the way or binded up the firearm. I had the Bianchi Paddlelok for vehicle use and a Bianchi Carrylok for daily use. It concealed pretty well but this was a few years ago and I wasn't too familiar with much other than competitive/tactical holsters. The nice thing about the Paddlelok was I could take it off when not in the vehicle and put the pistol back in my belt holster.

I've got a puma 92 in 45lc/454 casull. It's got a 16 inch ported barrel with fiber optic sights on it. No real complaints other than it's not quite as smooth as some of the Henry's ive handled, it's still smooth though and at half the price you can't beat it. Can't comment to any issues the 38/357 may have, but mines a nice accurate rifle and there is minimal felt recoil even with 300gr 454 casull loads in.

Send me the list I have some cash for ya....since it'll be real useful the post apocalyptic world. Live by the motto, "He with the most guns and bullets wins".

Gibson, How do you like that flash hider? It's a DSC Dragon or something like that isn't it? Nice looking AR too.

Maybe someone is better at this than I am, but I'll take a crack at it. From the pictures of what you have and of what I've got it looks like a Post-War Commercial Model 640( (German Military Pistole). According to Dan Shideler's Standard Catalog of Firearms the model was introduced in 1940 when Germany occupied Belgium and took over th FN plant. The FN plant was assigned the production code of "CH". The Post-war Commercial model was introduced in 1950 and those that were imported to the US were marked Browning Arms Co and have a commercial polished finish. There are 3 different models listed; a Fixed Sight, a Tangent Sight and a Slotted and Tangent Sight. There is a warning with this also for the post-war models. A large number of counterfeit Hi-Powers imported to the US from the Balkan. The slides are stamped just like the FN originals but are poor quality. They are missing numerous small proofs and markings found on FN pistols. The counterfeits have a serial number on the front of the grip strap with a single letter prefix and are fitted with a late model extractor and comes in a military matte blue or commercial high gloss blue. (All information was paraphrased from the information given in the book.) Hopefully this helps and possible I'm correct with the model. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.