Gun Enthusiats ?

I carry as well. Many times it is my ruger lcp or a 1911. I also have a 9F but do not shoot it much. I prefer my other guns. I used to shoot IPSC but have not in a while. I would love to shoot 3 gun.

I even have a dog named Ruger.

Edited by jaya - December/10/2011 at 2:34pm

jaya wrote: I would love to shoot 3 gun.

me too, buddy of mine is signing up, i need to get an AR though, and I just dont want to spend the $$$

Well let see, I've got a 9mm, SW 375, Sig P220 45, 308 rifle, and couple 22 rifles. I do not currently carry as the county I currently live in makes it near impossible to get. Hopefully when I move I'll get a CCW. Had one for 7 years when I lived in Washington. 

For those who don't like the weight of a 1911, but don't like the bulk of a Glock...try out a Taurus PT 140 Millenium Pro.  My PT 140 is .40 cal and shoots like a dream.  Ultra safe and reliable to boot.  Its a subcompact with a 3.5 inch barrel, but accurate despite the short barrel.  I love 1911's, but I don't like the weight.  I hate Glocks...simply not a safe or reliable gun, IMO.  I've shot many many many guns, but my favorite pistols are the PT 140, and the Browning Hi Power 9mm.  I don't care for the 9mm round, but boy is that a fun pistol to shoot!!

My landlord has a custom gun shop that specializes in the 1911 platform. He Owns NightHawk Customs here in Berryville. They make some awesome guns there.

I have a small arsenal and a carry permit (20 years or so). My normal carry gun is my LCP. Small, lightweight and very accurate. I kept 14 out of 15 in head of a terrorist target at 15 feet. Good enough for me. My next pistol will either be a Ruger SR1911 or proabably a new Colt Mustang since Colt reintroduced them. I prefer to play with my shotguns. I have a small Ithaca 37 collection but my favorite is my Berretta DT-10. It's an excellent shooter and well worth the money. I enjoy sporting clays and when Shrine membership can be worked into my schedule I'll increase my trap shooting. BTW my wife also has her CCP and a LCP with a Crimson Trace laser. Not a family you want to mess with!

Glock 21 sf .45 generation 4 with custom neon green night sights

excellencee wrote: I have a small arsenal and a carry permit (20 years or so). My normal carry gun is my LCP. Small, lightweight and very accurate. I kept 14 out of 15 in head of a terrorist target at 15 feet. Good enough for me. My next pistol will either be a Ruger SR1911 or proabably a new Colt Mustang since Colt reintroduced them. I prefer to play with my shotguns. I have a small Ithaca 37 collection but my favorite is my Berretta DT-10. It's an excellent shooter and well worth the money. I enjoy sporting clays and when Shrine membership can be worked into my schedule I'll increase my trap shooting. BTW my wife also has her CCP and a LCP with a Crimson Trace laser. Not a family you want to mess with!

Champagne wrote: excellencee wrote: I have a small arsenal and a carry permit (20 years or so). My normal carry gun is my LCP. Small, lightweight and very accurate. I kept 14 out of 15 in head of a terrorist target at 15 feet. Good enough for me. My next pistol will either be a Ruger SR1911 or proabably a new Colt Mustang since Colt reintroduced them. I prefer to play with my shotguns. I have a small Ithaca 37 collection but my favorite is my Berretta DT-10. It's an excellent shooter and well worth the money. I enjoy sporting clays and when Shrine membership can be worked into my schedule I'll increase my trap shooting. BTW my wife also has her CCP and a LCP with a Crimson Trace laser. Not a family you want to mess with!   i kind of want the SR1911 looks like a fairly affordable & nice 1911, but I would like to check it out more first. I personally think ruger is making some pretty nice guns, I am a huge fan of their stuff. My wife was always anti-gun until I got a few now she wants to learn how to shoot ! Which is cool.   Only probelm is that she is not strong enough to cock back either of my 9's without struggling a bit and I think a revolver might have too hard of a squeeze and she might be scared of the lack of safety on it. I would like her to try a Ruger LCP but I heard that the can actually be painful to shoot. My buddy told me to try a Walther PPK or something similiar to see if she likes it.

Go ahead and laugh, but I carry a NAA mini in 22mag.  I own lots of guns but 22 rifles are my passion.  My current go to rifle is a CZ 455 American in 22 lr.  That thing is a tack driver.  I mean I can put a nail in a piece of plywood and hit the head of it most of the time at 50 yards.  Just sold a Garand for $900, paid $500 for it 10 years ago.  Got a Carcano (AKA Oswald rifle) that shoots just dandy, a mid 30's KKW trainer in 22 that the "Hitler children" used.

CCW here and I have enough gear to start a small scale war in my neighborhood.  My favorite carry weapons are an Xd-45 and a Taurus Judge.  I can easily conceal them and they work fine for me.

My wife an I both have shotguns and we enjoy trap/skeet shooting along with using the Judge to shoot some clays out of the air.


Edited by Barnacle Bill - February/20/2012 at 10:20pm

Moose wrote: I carry a Kel-Tec P11 most days, sometimes switching it up with a Ruger SP101, S&W Sigma 40, or RIA 1911.

We would seem to have similar tastes, Brother.

 I also carry a P11, or an RIA 1911.   BUt when it's hot out, i carry a Taurus TCP in front pocket

tm274 wrote: You'd never make our Olympic team, then.! http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australian-olympic-swimmers-nick-darcy-and-kenrick-monk-pose-with-guns-in-facebook-photo/story-e6frg12c-1226388657520   I'm not a fan of guns, but it's not the gun that kills................but the finger on the trigger.! PS.....NO guns in my house either.

tm274 wrote: Boom wrote: Moose wrote: I carry a Kel-Tec P11 most days, sometimes switching it up with a Ruger SP101, S&W Sigma 40, or RIA 1911. We would seem to have similar tastes, Brother.  I also carry a P11, or an RIA 1911.   BUt when it's hot out, i carry a Taurus TCP in front pocket You'd never make our Olympic team, then.! http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australian-olympic-swimmers-nick-darcy-and-kenrick-monk-pose-with-guns-in-facebook-photo/story-e6frg12c-1226388657520   I'm not a fan of guns, but it's not the gun that kills................but the finger on the trigger.! PS.....NO guns in my house either.

Forgive me, but i do not understand.   The link has no photo, but i cannot find anything offensive or out of line in the article.   Can you explain?  I do not wish to misinterpret you.

I always carry to and from work, which is in Germantown section of Philadelphia.  There's a methadone clinic right around the corner so you have to keep alert.  Other than that, I always carry while in the city, not as much in the burbs.

I hope their Olympic hopes aren't in jeopardy because of this non-issue.    

I would NEVER apologise for me in a picture with a firearm. That is just stupid.

daves wrote: Don't forget that Darcy did significant damage to a fellow athlete's face during a cowardly attack four years ago. He was supposed to pay the other guy damages, but did the "manly" thing and declared himself bankrupt. I think the photos weren't removed from public sympathy but to save embarrassment for the Australian Swimming Association. I'm still fuming that this scumbag was picked to represent Australia. I will not be cheering for him. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/jmagnay1/100024383/london-2012-olympics-nick-darcy-is-my-favourite-for-most-hated-tag-at-games/

Yes Daves...it was cowardly, but this story has nothing to do with that incident and as I have said...........he and Monk did not commit a crime.

daves wrote: .... You Americans love your guns; I find the whole idea incomprehensible. JMTCW

What would you do, let a criminal assault & maim you? ... I don't think so.  You would defend yourself any way you could.   ... Just some of us choose to be ready should it ever happen.

Read these news clips for the past month.
http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen.aspx


News clips this year
http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/armed-citizen/

These are the clips anti-gun people don't want to be public.   It happens everyday.
... I've pulled and pointed my weapon 3 times; ... my car has been shot at twice while I was driving (road rage); and I have been robbed at gun point (the assailant didn't know I had a gun in my hand, cocked, behind my back)  ... he was just lucky that night ...

Yes, TM saw my gun in the console of the car when we visited a Lodge in SC.


Edited by edwmax - June/09/2012 at 6:11am

tm274 wrote: Boom wrote: Moose wrote: I carry a Kel-Tec P11 most days, sometimes switching it up with a Ruger SP101, S&W Sigma 40, or RIA 1911. We would seem to have similar tastes, Brother.  I also carry a P11, or an RIA 1911.   BUt when it's hot out, i carry a Taurus TCP in front pocket You'd never make our Olympic team, then.! http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australian-olympic-swimmers-nick-darcy-and-kenrick-monk-pose-with-guns-in-facebook-photo/story-e6frg12c-1226388657520   I'm not a fan of guns, but it's not the gun that kills................but the finger on the trigger.! PS.....NO guns in my house either.

edwmax wrote: Hyksos wrote:   ... That's insanity that those guys are being hated for posing with a gun! They weren't even in Australia at the time! I'm in awe after reading that article. Just Aussie media hype that if one even holds a gun, he must be a criminal.    ... The media would do the same in the US, if it wasn't a known fact that guns are not illegal.

No, it's not just the media........it's the PC that's rampant throughout the World today.

edwmax wrote: Hyksos wrote:   ... That's insanity that those guys are being hated for posing with a gun! They weren't even in Australia at the time! I'm in awe after reading that article. Just Aussie media hype that if one even holds a gun, he must be a criminal.    ... The media would do the same in the US, if it wasn't a known fact that guns are not illegal.

No not hype - it is mostly criminals in Australia that carry firearms. As I said in my earlier post we must agree to differ and respect each other's views in this matter, but I hope that your reaction to my post, which reflects my honestly held opinions, isn't indicative of your reactions when carrying a gun.

BTW both of the boofheads shown holding the firearms have been guilty of criminal behaviour - one was responsible for a savage attack on a fellow athlete that required extensive facial reconstructive surgery, and the other was guilty of lying to the police about a road traffic incident. So I suppose maybe the Aussie press does have a point. Maybe the Aussie magistrates should have thrown both of them in the slammer and then they wouldn't have been allowed into the US to have their pictures taken in the first place and we wouldn't now be having this conversation.

Look you have your honestly held opinions, and I have mine. Let's agree to differ because I know you won't change my opinion and I strongly suspect I won't change yours.

S&F

Dave


Edited by daves - June/09/2012 at 9:00am

I carried at one point, but it isn't legal in California.  I had a very small shot to get a CCW when I worked for the sheriff's dept, but in most counties here, you can forget it.  I also gave up all my guns when I got married and had kids.  I do not trust my kids to not figure out how to get into a gun safe!  They have gotten into more locked places than I can count.

I have to admit to getting the bug again though. 

daves wrote:   No not hype - it is mostly criminals in Australia that carry firearms.

It is clear that I will not change your minds and you will not change mine.

I am reminded of Albert Einstein's famous quote,

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".

I don't mind being accused of being insane, but never boring!

Please take care and don't shoot yourselves in the foot.