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To answer the substantive question that is in the air, I think the fellow in the video is almost right, but if you think about it long enough you can figure out how to carry a J frame or an automatic of comparable size. To my mind, that is the low common denominator. If you are dealing yourself...

If I cannot shoot it, I sorrow for my chance to hit with it.

This was an enlightening discussion! Sometime after an obese moron made me wave a hand in the air to say I would always defend the Constitution, in the century before this one, I put a .38 snub in my pocket. It is still there.

I have heard--big warning in my first three words--that they do not hold up in sustained use, which is absolutely what you need, to get good with a small gun and a service cartridge.

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Surely a fellow is within his rights to say what sort of monkey he is.

I do not think the .380 should be lumped in with pitifuller cartridges. It is modestly capable. It overlaps in capability the lesser loadings of the .38 Special. I would not want to go any lighter than either of those, but I think the modern pocket-sized .380 is a lap ahead of the .25 and the...

That indeed rings a bell for me. The first centerfire handgun I ever shot was a S&W .38, about half a century ago. The most recently I shot one was the last time I went shooting. By this time I have a good handle on the care and feeding of that sort of arm. I watched the video, and I get what...

I think the best case to be made is that the 9mm is now sufficient, given modern bullets. That does not preclude heavier calibers being "more sufficient" with bullets of similar design. But at that, "more sufficient" is not really a sensible phrase; a thing is sufficient or it is not. I think...

There are no laws that say the priming charge of the future needs to be on the axial center of the round. For a very long time, the whole muzzleloader era, it wasn't, but instead off to one side.

I do not object to electrically powered gunsights so long as there is some or other backup available. The classic scout rifle recipe calls for ghost ring iron sights, whether or not an optic is fitted.

This? https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/help-identifying-an-older-taurus.841092/#post-10919741

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Hmm. What the manufacturer claims is that the side-slung mag is convenient for prone. Something they have not said, but I think is true, is that it helps with stock stiffness in a very slim and lightweight rifle. No magazine well cutout means no additional flexing or weakness there. The big...

I am of the mindset that says all four rules always apply. It is easy for me to dry fire without busting the rules because I live in a house with a basement. I have never had the loud noise happen, but if it ever did, the target on the basement wall is backstopped by the planet. The ideas...

The trouble with the question is there are so many good answers. .38 snubs are very popular and for very good reason. Your initial inclination to get a Smith is a good one. They are classics, as well proven as sidearms can be, and parts and gunsmith expertise are available on every streetcorner...

Please tell me what you think of it. I have not seen one in real life. It appears that it would work very well in the light rifle role if it is powerful enough for your purposes. It is very light, 4.4 lbs/ 2kg, shoots .223, takes AR mags loaded in from the side. At this point I am at the "wow...

I do not think we should rule out binary ammunition in the sense of a liquid fuel and a projectile. The first answer is that it is inconvenient to transport liquids. But every successful army in the history of the world has managed to do that somehow. Water. By the way, you guys with the water...

I too am in the tall and broad category, but I prefer to CC the smallest gun I have any confidence in. Having a body size advantage when it comes to concealment merely means that a small gun is smaller still, and all the more invisible. The smallest gun I at all trust is the .38 snub, but I...

I think electrical priming is a good idea, for it lends itself to a priming that blows out the front with the rest of the crud when you fire. Remington used electrical ignition in a cased-ammo rifle (which did not prove popular). Voere used it in a caseless rifle, also not popular. Electric...