I posted this on another board but they are suffering band width problems.
While it may not happen in the environs of the wise, the rich and the mighty, there are quite a number of people who, for what ever reason, feel compelled to run at or otherwise,chase Bicycle riders. I don't know why this happens-why somebody on foot and apparently unarmed would take off after a bicycle like a junk yard dog but, it happens.
Happened to me again the other day. Not that the neighborhood is "bad" but you know things have changed when you round the corner and there are two buzzards eating a squrrel in the middle of the street. That never used to happen.
Possibly, bicycle riders who don't carry guns could clarify the matter. In my own case though, I never have found out what might happen should the chaser actually catch the bicyclist. All I know is that when the chaser finds out the chasee is armed, they generally leave off.
With that established, I suspect that it no more stupid to discuss bicycle guns than it is to discuss - oh,I don't know, maybe...- always guns, anywhere guns, packin' pistols and cetera. My own criteria for bicycle guns or, for that matter, any old gun at all includes : Being able to wear and it in all kinds of weather, It being accurate enough to be fun to shoot, it being pretty enough to incite my esthetic appreciation so that I can enjoy just sitting there looking at it when I'm not shooting it or pointing it at somebody and it being powerful enough that I don't even have to think about it.
This is nice and often carried bicycle revolver. It is one of the 1994 Stocking Dealer Mountian guns. The grips are the same ones that Smith put on their classic DX series a few years ago. The art work was commissioned by Smith Customer service during a time when the Engraving shop was out of operation. Real Smith engravers though. John K. Pease for the scroll and
Wayne D'Angelo for the Sideplate.
I keep it sighted for the Corbon 165 grain load geared toward personal defense. It is a low to moderate recoiling load with pressures varying from 25-29,000 psi from one lot to the next. Comfortable to shoot, quick recovery and follow up and it is easy on the revolver.
The 1200 fps .44 special loading of this bullet is probably just as good a choice if not better. It is difficult to tell bullets from each load apart after they have gone through eight inches of raw brisket.
This is also a very satisfactory riding revolver- at home in the same belt rigs as the Mountain Gun and will hide under an untucked sports shirt.
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Dillon/Kramer Belt Scabbard.
To tell the truth, I've decided that I don't really know flip about what a bullet is going to do on target and like to treat this 29-2 like a .44 special. I keep it sighted in for light factory level loads and carry something that hits to about the same sight setting. The Federal 200 grain Lead hollowpoints do 850 fps from the 4" barrel and these Speer Gold Dots should be every bit as nice. It seems that any .44 load is going to go deep and make a fairly big hole and the devil take the details.
This Kramer Thomas Perfectionist comes with a nice matching horsehide belt and ammo pouch and is a very comfortable IWB rig. The revolver comes up fast and scares the heck out of burglars and bicycle chasers.
So to paraphrase the Rabbi, " Why are these bicycle guns unlike any other bicycle guns?" No particular reason other than I just like them. They instill a certain level of indifference as to whether or not somebody decides to chase your bicycle and they keep you from finding out why some gibbering idiot is chasing your bicycle in the first place.
Why would anybody want to chase this nice middle-age bicyclist? How would they like it if a middle-aged bicyclist chased them? Huh? Huh?
While it may not happen in the environs of the wise, the rich and the mighty, there are quite a number of people who, for what ever reason, feel compelled to run at or otherwise,chase Bicycle riders. I don't know why this happens-why somebody on foot and apparently unarmed would take off after a bicycle like a junk yard dog but, it happens.
Happened to me again the other day. Not that the neighborhood is "bad" but you know things have changed when you round the corner and there are two buzzards eating a squrrel in the middle of the street. That never used to happen.
Possibly, bicycle riders who don't carry guns could clarify the matter. In my own case though, I never have found out what might happen should the chaser actually catch the bicyclist. All I know is that when the chaser finds out the chasee is armed, they generally leave off.
With that established, I suspect that it no more stupid to discuss bicycle guns than it is to discuss - oh,I don't know, maybe...- always guns, anywhere guns, packin' pistols and cetera. My own criteria for bicycle guns or, for that matter, any old gun at all includes : Being able to wear and it in all kinds of weather, It being accurate enough to be fun to shoot, it being pretty enough to incite my esthetic appreciation so that I can enjoy just sitting there looking at it when I'm not shooting it or pointing it at somebody and it being powerful enough that I don't even have to think about it.
This is nice and often carried bicycle revolver. It is one of the 1994 Stocking Dealer Mountian guns. The grips are the same ones that Smith put on their classic DX series a few years ago. The art work was commissioned by Smith Customer service during a time when the Engraving shop was out of operation. Real Smith engravers though. John K. Pease for the scroll and
Wayne D'Angelo for the Sideplate.
I keep it sighted for the Corbon 165 grain load geared toward personal defense. It is a low to moderate recoiling load with pressures varying from 25-29,000 psi from one lot to the next. Comfortable to shoot, quick recovery and follow up and it is easy on the revolver.
The 1200 fps .44 special loading of this bullet is probably just as good a choice if not better. It is difficult to tell bullets from each load apart after they have gone through eight inches of raw brisket.
This is also a very satisfactory riding revolver- at home in the same belt rigs as the Mountain Gun and will hide under an untucked sports shirt.
Dillon/Kramer Belt Scabbard.
To tell the truth, I've decided that I don't really know flip about what a bullet is going to do on target and like to treat this 29-2 like a .44 special. I keep it sighted in for light factory level loads and carry something that hits to about the same sight setting. The Federal 200 grain Lead hollowpoints do 850 fps from the 4" barrel and these Speer Gold Dots should be every bit as nice. It seems that any .44 load is going to go deep and make a fairly big hole and the devil take the details.
This Kramer Thomas Perfectionist comes with a nice matching horsehide belt and ammo pouch and is a very comfortable IWB rig. The revolver comes up fast and scares the heck out of burglars and bicycle chasers.
So to paraphrase the Rabbi, " Why are these bicycle guns unlike any other bicycle guns?" No particular reason other than I just like them. They instill a certain level of indifference as to whether or not somebody decides to chase your bicycle and they keep you from finding out why some gibbering idiot is chasing your bicycle in the first place.
Why would anybody want to chase this nice middle-age bicyclist? How would they like it if a middle-aged bicyclist chased them? Huh? Huh?
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Nice looking pistol. 
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......tom
