Recent content by Nicky Santoro

I've used Tetra gun grease where grease is called for with no issues for many years.

Had a similar issue with wife's 649. Removed side plate to find hardened grease. Replaced grease with white moly. Big improvement. FWIW YMMV

I've only been in one situation where I really needed a gun to change the outcome of the confrontation. A 340PD would have been nice, but no possibility of a CCW then.

#1 buck

Personally, I'd consider it a challenge and work on it until it was 100%. I've had a few that were difficult but yet to find one irredeemable.

Obstructionist tactics, pure and simple.

NE NJ. Lots with one. Saw only one with twins.

I've found CCI .22 CB Long to be very quiet out of my Mossberg Model 40 which has a 24" barrel.

Leupold Compact 3X9

I bought a Maverick because at that time it got the best reviews of all the "budget" shotguns available.

First handgun I bought, cheap West Hurley AO 1911. Unreliable out of the box. After new mags, polishing the feed ramp, and tuning the extractor, I'll put this up against any other gun for reliability.

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I read a piece once, I believe it was on Barfcom, by someone who claimed to be an engineer who was knowledgeable about spring fatigue. His claim was that spring fatigue was not caused by static compression but by repeated cycling from compression to decompression. He documented his claims well...

I think they use the term because they know nothing about firearms and parrot what they are told or just pull something out of the air. Many years ago when one local PD was transitioning from revolvers to pistols, a reporterette described them as "fully loaded Glock assault revolvers".

Interesting thread. I've only had one encounter where ANY gun would have been helpful. This being NJ, a CCW was, at that time, a pipe dream. Had I had a gun he might have run away and things might have ended differently.