Recent content by ksxdguy

Thanks to all for the good advice (except for the Desert Eagle:) ). Here's the plan. She will be starting out with my Ruger 22/45 pistol. From there we'll start looking at .38 Special revolvers, starting with wadcutters and working up to defense ammo. I still think the model 10 is a good...

My 21 year old daughter will be graduating from college in about a year. I'd like some advice for a handgun to send with her. Currently, I'm thinking about an S&W model 10. She's not an enthusiast like me, but I'm trying to impress on her the need to have protection available, if the need...

Thanks to all. I think my solution will be to use the HSM stuff for practice and buy the same bullet loaded in factory ammo for carry. Everybody take care.

First, I don't want to polarize this question by getting into whether or not one should use reloads for self defense. Let's just say, for the sake of the argument, that one shouldn't. For that matter, I wouldn't, no matter where the debate might go. Anyway, a local gun shop sells some really...

Thanks to all for your input.

I just saw on Personal Defense TV, a segment debating bird shot vs. buck shot. The usual argument for bird shot was presented about it not going through walls. I know Ayoob has disagreed with this in the pass, recommending buck. I am wondering what the latest thinking on the subject is from...

I'm getting in late on this thread, but I found it so interesting that I thought I would relate the one time (thank goodness) it happened to me. About 20 years ago, my wife and I were awakened by a loud bang. An arsonist had set our neighbor's garage on fire and the bang we heard was their...

International indeed. You're absolutely correct. I think the true value of these boards is to remind others of issues they might have forgotten. This truly is an international problem; I didn't mean to sound so isolationist.

I just got back from the awesome Tulsa arms show where I had the pleasure of meeting NRA CEO, Wayne LaPierre. I found him personable and appreciative. His book "Inside the U.N. Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights, The Global War on Your Guns" is certainly a must read for us all. It's hard...