Bond Arms

See if your LGS can order it.

I work at my LGS. None of our distributors have one in stock yet.

Old_Grouch said:

I work at my LGS. None of our distributors have one in stock yet.

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Well that IS a problem. Maybe contact Bond directly and ask when they are shipping out to distributors.

https://www.bondarms.com/Rawhide-22LR-P8574.aspx





so, now the question is which 22lr?

jstert said:

so, now the question is which 22lr?

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When I have a dilemma as to what to get next I think it over, narrow the choices down to two and buy them both. You've already completed the first step so.........................

Seems odd to me that they have to custom fit each barrel, the bores are offset towards each other to put the rim at the firing pin. Makes it looks a little odd from the muzzle end, but the two barrels should shoot a lot closer together than centerfire barrels do. If this were purely engineered for .22LR from the ground up and came out like this, I'd say the engineer did about a 5x overkill margin on the thickness of the barrel.

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I'd say the engineer did about a 5x overkill margin on the thickness of the barrel.

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Yeah, that would live even if it were aluminum with a liner.

jstert said:

https://www.bondarms.com/Rawhide-22LR-P8574.aspx





so, now the question is which 22lr?

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Stinger for me if I get one. I don’t want a super heavy all steel .22.

I appreciate him explaining the challenge with a .22 barrel, makes sense. As I really want the .38 Stinger I think I will wait for that one unless I can buy the .22 version AND the 38 barrel at the same time. Don't want to be chasing the 38 barrel for years if some snag comes along. The .22 is neat, but not a huge gain for me, so if I don't get that I think I'll be fine.

Curiously the .22 Stingers (both regular and RS) are separate pages from the other Stingers (.380, .38, 9mm). I suppose they have them listed separately because of the extra requirement for barrel fitting.

https://www.bondarms.com/www.bondarms.com/Stinger-P8525.aspx

https://www.bondarms.com/Stinger-RS-P8550.aspx

https://www.bondarms.com/Stinger-22LR-P8576.aspx

https://www.bondarms.com/Stinger-RS-22LR-P8575.aspx

Finally! .38 in stock with one in the cart.

The order went in today so tomorrow or the next day I'll be like Ralph, the Saint Bernard on the chewey.com commercial. "the peanut butter Bond Arms box is here. The peanut butter Bond Arms box is here."

Old_Grouch said:

The order went in today so tomorrow or the next day I'll be like Ralph, the Saint Bernard on the chewey.com commercial. "the peanut butter Bond Arms box is here. The peanut butter Bond Arms box is here."

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I love that commercial

Old_Grouch said:

The order went in today so tomorrow or the next day I'll be like Ralph, the Saint Bernard on the chewey.com commercial. "the peanut butter Bond Arms box is here. The peanut butter Bond Arms box is here."

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Very exciting to have a dedicated .38 Special barrel on the way. Mine is a .38/.357 but I will see how the Magnums go and then probably only do .38s after that.

The Stinger came in today, but it's snowing, blowing about 15 mph, and 18 degrees. Decided not to stop by the range on the way home.

I got my P32 today

Old_Grouch said:

The Stinger came in today, but it's snowing, blowing about 15 mph, and 18 degrees. Decided not to stop by the range on the way home.

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Outdoor range or just needed the time to deal with the bad weather (traffic, shoveling, etc.)

Anyway, great to have it in hand.

Outdoor range.

Old_Grouch said:

The Stinger came in today, but it's snowing, blowing about 15 mph, and 18 degrees. Decided not to stop by the range on the way home.

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When you going to hit the range?

Autodidactic said:

When you going to hit the range?

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Being he is in SD it may not be until next May!

Best he is going to get in the next week is a high of 31F
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/sd/pierre

We get a whopping 44F here in the Detroit MI area. He needs to find an indoor range somewhere.

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He needs to find an indoor range somewhere.

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Well, there's one in Rapid City, 180 miles to the West and one in Sioux Falls, 220 miles East. Or I could fire a few into the test pit at work just to see what it shoots like. Accuracy testing can wait until Spring.

Old_Grouch said:

Well, there's one in Rapid City, 180 miles to the West and one in Sioux Falls, 220 miles East. Or I could fire a few into the test pit at work just to see what it shoots like. Accuracy testing can wait until Spring.

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Test pit!

Well I finally got the .38/.357 barrel to the range and shot only 24 rounds because I was more focused on continuing to break in my new 1911. Anyway I shot three different .38 special rounds, 105 (Cavalry), 130 (Winchester White Box), and 158 grain (Norma) and a 158 grain .357 Magnum (Cavalry). As would be expected these were progressively more recoil. The .357s were not terrible, but not something I want to shoot much if anymore. Just like the .45 Colt barrel, I prefer the 180 grain cowboy loads to the 250 grain. Really, I would be inclined to stick with the 105 grain rounds for this gun at least for range fun. This is the 105 grain:


These would not be a bad choice either and I have shot these out of my revolvers:

GONRA knows we're discussing Deringers here
but is waiting for Bond to FINALLY make the Bondpup45 semiauto!

GONRA said:

GONRA knows we're discussing Deringers here
but is waiting for Bond to FINALLY make the Bondpup45 semiauto!

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Ah yes, that is a desirable gun, though the price will be out of my reach. Even the 9mm Bullpup Bond already has available is out of my reach.