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There is a maximum limit of acceptable recoil for handguns to be used for defense. I carry a 1911, although I also own a 454. The 454 Casull Magnum bullet may destroy a single attacker, but if there are two attackers, the second one may reach you while you're still pulling the gun down from the...

I can keep my 1911 shots on a paper plate at 10 yards slow firing. I can't see much need for additional distance. Training to shoot the same faster seems worthwhile to me.

I have a stainless SRH with a 7.5" barrel. I use light loads in it for target practice. Trail Boss powder that fills the case after the 255 grain LSWC bullet is seated. I like using a powder that fills the case since double-charges are then impossible. Never chronographed the load, but guessing...

In a whole lotta states, average people who aren't cops will instantly go to jail if caught with a loaded long arm in the vehicle.

I keep a 1911A1 in the nightstand next to the bed. And a loaded double barrelled shotgun next to the main door of the house.

I had one once for my Saiga rifle. Didn't last more than a few hundred rounds. Plastic junk.

I have bought things from Gunbroker several times. One time I bought a rifle from a listing that was also a gunshop by verbally speaking my credit card number over the phone to complete the transaction. I got the rifle, but a then a big time problem surfaced. A week later my credit card company...

Thanks, Frank, for the clear explanation. Late in my trial, the judge removed the jury from the room and said that he would have dismissed the charges if he had found a prior case utilizing the existing Pennsylvania law. He said that In the absence of such, he had to allow the charges to go to...

I am not a lawyer, but before this thread gets shut down, I would like to say that both my attorney and the judge in the case (Ralph Cappy, who in 2003 became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania) both seemed to have a different opinion from yours on the legal significance of...

On April 30th, 1980, I shot and killed a man in defense of my oldest friend Bill. He was getting a divorce from his adulterous wife, and hard feelings existed over bruises seen on the two year old son that had not existed before the boyfriend moved in with the mother. That night, the mother was...

I'm saying (not trying) that as a member of the jury I WOULD have the power to enforce my common sense by my power as a jury member. voting my views regardless of any judge's instructions, as the constitution intended.

If I were on the jury, then my view of common sense WOULD be enforced.

My favorite firearm is my Ruger 454 SuperRedhawk, for which I reload 255 grain lead SWC target rounds at 1100fps. The 7.5" barrel is the perfect field gun length. My 1911 is fine for town.

12,000 rounds of CCI Velocitor hollowpoints here. I like CCI Stinger hollowpoints, but went for the Velocitors due to the heavier bullet.

You are absolutely correct. There is no mail delivery, no snow removal, and no cell phone service for about 16 miles in any direction. We literally had to photograph and email a pic of the power meter to get the electricity company to turn the power on (they didn't believe that anyone was...

The road has been here for at least 100 years, claimed by the county, used somewhat by gas well tenders to reach gas wells in the neighboring woods, so I doubt that I can prevent it from continuing to exist. An outside dog is a possible, but because of the local chiggers, ticks, and fleas do not...

It is a public access county road that gets a gravel fill twice a year from the county. There is a house 2-1/2 miles down the road with a 1/2 acre chain link fence around it. Wife doesn't like the concentration camp look of it, but will defer to me if I insist. In reality, to stop intruders it...

I think that you are splitting hairs over the exactitude of my wording.

Last year we bought a house on 50 acres in extremely rural northwestern West Virginia. There is a 1-1/2 car wide gravel road that runs literally 25 feet in front of our porch. The county maintained road is about 30 inches below the ground level of the house, is 2.5 miles at each end from paved...

I slowed, then stopped to de-escalate the situation. Which worked. I am 67, at the time was NOT carrying, and would only use a firearm as a last resort self defense measure. Any incident resulting in a deady threat to my life WILL be answered with a firearm.