Recent content by sniper5

Married one. She put up with me for about 25 years then accepted an invitation to go to the range and do "gun kindergarten". Now she burns more ammo than I do.

I shot 1911's for decades and switched to revolvers. I have an XD9SC and I tell everyone the same thing: I hate everything about it....except the way it shoots. It fits my hand extremely well and points naturally. NOTHING else is as important to me. It's never hiccupped once....yet. I LOVE...

You know, most of the ranges in Europe and lots of the higher end ones here (college shooting teams) have gone to electronic scoring. Safer and faster to shoot (no cease fires), don't need a spotting scope, and cheaper in the long run (the bull is just an open black hole, the scoring rings are...

Got an XD9SC. Never noticed either the grip safety or the LCI. About 1000 round through it so far (fairly recent purchase). No stoppages so far. Honestly, if it doesn't shoot out of the box pretty reliably and accurately, it's going bye bye. Either back for warranty service or getting sold...

At the old range at Barnwood Arms, there were a few times when an employee would walk in wearing earmuffs and say "Cease Fire!!!" and then once everyone was quiet would say: "Look, let me explain something...the offices are upstairs. We have rounds hitting the ceiling, and even tho they're...

Had a .460 S&W on the want list for a while. Yes, I know... how many people buy one and fire 2 rounds and trade them in. Probably shoot 99% hot .45 Colt and a smattering of .454 Casull and the occasional full house flame thrower. I look at it like shooting .38 in a .357.

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If I am looking for a handgun for a specific purpose, and it fits my hand and points well and is accurate and reliable, I have no problem paying whatever. If it doesn't do those things the gun is worthless regardless of the price. And in the big picture the cost of the gun is a drop in the...

All the above and I've switched to Missouri Bullet .357's 158 grain SWC with the Hi-Tek coating in Brinell 18. I'm shooting 14 grains of 2400 and I'm getting virtually no leading. Don't know all the engineering magic behind the coating, but it's working for me.

For shooting at the range with my bolt action milsurps, I went to Jaggi Novas and took one of my rifles to the optometrist so we could try different corrections to get a perfect front sight focus. Knobloch, Champion, and Varga all make similar orthoptic glasses. I shoot a 42 cm lens to get...

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Not a competition shooter anymore but I collect bolt service rifles. I finally got a pair of Jaggi Novas and I use a 42mm lens that is built to focus on the front sight. Works great.

Summing what everyone else has said, the design is an answer in search of a problem.

I've been carrying a Kershaw Blur for the last several years and can't find anything I don't like about it.

Mine did look in the safe once and saw a recently acquired Mosin Nagant M44 and asked where that came from. I said "Well it's a long story but I guess over the winter the M91/30 and the M39 made friends. . ." She got a good laugh out of that and rolled her eyes.