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MasterCaneman -> RE: For gun owners, what is your favorite. Not a gun control thread. (10/10/2013 10:59:46 AM)
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Re: your Carcano, read your post "I have a club". I found both ammo and stripper clips for your rifle, and one of the guys in my club both reloads 6.5X52C and has a box of strippers for it (not those kind, fellas).
As for my personal favorites, for OPSEC reasons I won't recite all the toys in my safe, but I have a soft spot for my Hi-Point 995 in 9mm and my Davey Crickett .22. Both were impulse buys because they were on sale (the 995 was half-price because the new style was coming in and the .22 was a hundred bucks).
The 995 came from the factory zeroed at 50 yards, and eats any kind of fodder I stuff in it. I call him "Aldo" from Planet of the Apes, because it kind of looks like the rifles the gorillas carried in the original movies. It's built like a tank, a little kludgy to operate until you're used to it, but it goes bang and hits what I aim at every time. I've taken a bunch of rabbits and a couple coyotes with it over the years
The Crickett likewise was zeroed in the day I bought it. I call him Nature-Boy, cause it's the rifle I tend to have with me when I'm out farting around in the woods. Super-light (2.5 lbs), tiny, and can use any type of .22 ammo except magnums. I stuck a cheap-o laser sight on it, and during the summer months and when I'm camping, I use it to zap rats and mice. I also use it when I'm sitting on my porch in the summertime to pop rats going for my garbage cans with BB and CB caps. Quieter than most airguns using those. I also use it to teach people how to shoot. Ladies like it because it's sooooo cute (for a rifle, anyway).
My other "named" firearm is a '69 vintage H&R 158 Topper(another hundred-dollar special) I call "Barely Legal", because when I bought it, the barrel had been sawn-off to 18.5", and when I had it crowned and beaded, it went down to 18.1". I'm planning on having it engraved with that sometime this winter, just because whenever I'm at a range or afield, the local yokels always want to check the length to see if it violates GCA 34. She's my 'go-to' gun for anything from hunting to self-defense. I chrono-ed it with slugs and buck, and the short barrel doesn't give up enough velocity to matter at the ranges I tend to shoot at, and for birds, bunnies, and squirrel it's guaranteed medicine with any field loads. It's cylinder bore, but I'm looking into having it cut for screw-in chokes when I'm a little better moneyed.
The rest don't have appellations, because they're simply tools to me and ultimately expendable. I carry a Kel-Tec PF-9 now, and have a brace of other handguns that serve other purposes. Right now, I'm in the process of reducing the size of my battery simply because I don't really have a use for most of them. The three named ones are just what I found myself using because they were so cheap, I tended to take them with me on journeys where they might get banged up, lost, or stolen.
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