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As I understood it from my CHL class back in the mid-90s, businesses wanting to ban CHL carriers from their premises had to have a legal justification (like being a hospital or a dedicated bar netting 51% of their income from booze) for posting a 30.06 sign. If a place didn't post an official...

For almost twenty years, I have NOT been without a Ruger .45 ACP of some stripe, but for reasons I’ve long forgotten, about a decade ago, I sold my well-loved P90 and bought a P345. And – don’t get me wrong -- I like the P345 a lot. It’s lighter than the P90 and certainly more compact, with no...

I've done a search on this topic, and I think I'm sensing a trend, but I want to solicit some more testimony. I've owned two Ruger MkIIs and now a MkIII Hunter. The Mark Twos never leaded up, but the Hunter does so about every 200 rounds, regardless of ammo, regardless of cooling periods...

Sorry if there is already a thread on this one, but I'd like some info on S&W's 1911A1 .45 offerings. I have a bid on one over on Gunbroker and -- despite about an hour of searching THR -- I can't find many reviews. I'll take facts, rumors, innuendo, anything. But save the Smith-bashing; I...

My brother-in-law's wife, being a raging hoplophobe, asked me to take possession of the two pistols they inherited from his father. They were described to me as "junky thirty-eights, one a derringer and the other a snub-nose revolver with a crack in the frame." After much discussion (I had to...

I am well-familiarized with the specs and ballistics of most of the 9mm/.38 family: .380 Auto, 9x18mm, 9mm Luger (aka 9mm NATO, 9mm Parabellum, 9x19mm, etc) .38 Auto, .38 Super, 9x21mm, 9x23mm, .356 TSW, .357 SIG... Where does 9mm Largo fall in the heirarchy? I've seen it in the Shotgun News...

If you recognize my user name, then you know I usually post in the Handguns sections. There's a reason for that: my knowledge base on handguns is large, while my knowledge base concerning long guns is... well, smaller. So bear with me. Last summer or so, I made a pawnshop buy of a...

Some of you may remember Wally's troubles. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=308189&highlight=EAA+Witness+10mm http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=307972&highlight=EAA+Witness+10mm Now it's my turn. See the pix. I'm planning to return the pistol to EAA this week. I plan...

I tried to do a search on this topic but nothing useful came up. I'm writing a cover letter to Dan Wesson describing problems with one of their revolvers, and I don't know the technical terms for some of the parts of the thing. Is the gravestone-shaped piece of metal that protrudes from...

Somebody who has actual knowledge, please refresh my memory: When Texas first began issuing CHLs, public school property was verboten. You couldn't carry on it, period. But when G.W. Bush left the Governorship for the Presidency, one of the last things he did was modify the law so that you...

My church theater group is a pretty serious organization. We put on productions that rival any other community theater in the area, with professional costumes and budgets pushing the $4K mark -- and that's all production b/c the actors don't get paid. The current play, which runs Halloween...

Okay, this is going to take some describing b/c I don't remember the brand name. I actually do remember someone posting a link to this product along with a picture of their ad, and asking what THR thought of it, BUT I now can't find it and searching for posts with "sight" in the title turns up...

I just got a NIB 422 (yep, nearly 20 years old and never been fired) and put 200 or so rounds through it. Now I'm curious as to how the 422/622 family compares to the newer 22S versions. Anybody out there own/shot both? I'd like to know: * Is the 22S trigger better? * How much...

I trust that everyone reading this already knows, but for any newbies, I'll restate it again: It's okay to dry-fire most cernter-fire firearms, but doing so to a rimfire will damage it. Knowing that, I typically put an empty shell in the chamber of my Ruger .22 autos so I can drop their...

I apologize for the dumb question, but I just got the new S&W catalogue and was taken aback by something. The Model 625 and all its variants (including the retro "Model 22 of 1917") are advertised as being chambered for .45 ACP. Won't these revolvers also chamber .45 Colt (.45 LC) ? Or not...

In the latest issue, under a section called "Celebrity Roundup," they have a "report" on the shooting of Carter Albrecht (detailed in at least two other threads.) The thing that grabbed my eye -- other than the exhaustive depth of the nine-word blurb -- was that it was printed under the heading...

I am going to try an experiment. I'm going to attach a lengthy evaluation of a couple of my pistols as a Word document and put the illustrations here. Hope it works! http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=224220&page=2

I know a lot of you are probably against them, but I'd like to give one to my daughter... that is, a 9mm auto with a manual safety and a magazine disconnect. I know about S&W autos. I know about the Browning Hi-Power. I know about my Ruger P345 (obviously not a 9mm, but you get the...

My favorite Action Hero has given up his venerable Beretta. I tried hard to call his new pistol, but didn' get a positive ID. I think it was a S&W M&P, probably .40, but they never showed it clearly, Anybody else see it, yet?

On my second trip to the range with my brand-new Ruger Mk. III Hunter, at about round number 150, the thing began to jam. By about round 180, it was a twice-a-magazine phenomenon: I'd get a curious-looking, compacted "stove pipe" misfeed, with a live round just entering the chamber, wedging...