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Offline John Florida

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Well the time has come.
« on: August 20, 2011, 09:24:32 AM »
Yesterday I bought 500 rounds for my .40 cal an tomorrow I hope to go to the range and light this sucker up.Lets see if I can still shoot and hit what I aim at and if this weapon is as reliable as they say it is.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2011, 09:31:00 AM »
Jeepers John... you've owned her for how long? Couple weeks? And you haven't fired her yet? Get out there!  ::cool::  ::beertoast::
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2011, 09:41:37 AM »

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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2011, 11:34:19 AM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on August 20, 2011, 09:31:00 AM
Jeepers John... you've owned her for how long? Couple weeks? And you haven't fired her yet? Get out there!  ::cool::  ::beertoast::

  All I've had time to do is take it apart and put it back together a bunch of times and just get the old hands to memorize where all the safetys are without having to look at it. It's a comfort zone thing.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2011, 11:59:21 AM »
Quote from: John Florida on August 20, 2011, 11:34:19 AM
Quote from: IronDioPriest on August 20, 2011, 09:31:00 AM
Jeepers John... you've owned her for how long? Couple weeks? And you haven't fired her yet? Get out there!  ::cool::  ::beertoast::

  All I've had time to do is take it apart and put it back together a bunch of times and just get the old hands to memorize where all the safetys are without having to look at it. It's a comfort zone thing.

I hear ya. I'm just ribbin' ya. When I got my first pistol, I took a half-day class before I ever fired it. Ever since then, I usually buy my guns at a shop with a range, so I buy them and then go downstairs to shoot.

I also took instruction on my AR-15 before I ever shot it.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2011, 02:25:29 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on August 20, 2011, 11:59:21 AM
Quote from: John Florida on August 20, 2011, 11:34:19 AM
Quote from: IronDioPriest on August 20, 2011, 09:31:00 AM
Jeepers John... you've owned her for how long? Couple weeks? And you haven't fired her yet? Get out there!  ::cool::  ::beertoast::

  All I've had time to do is take it apart and put it back together a bunch of times and just get the old hands to memorize where all the safetys are without having to look at it. It's a comfort zone thing.

I hear ya. I'm just ribbin' ya. When I got my first pistol, I took a half-day class before I ever fired it. Ever since then, I usually buy my guns at a shop with a range, so I buy them and then go downstairs to shoot.

I also took instruction on my AR-15 before I ever shot it.

 The long gun is somewhere down the road for me.What it's going to be I don't know yet but I want  heavier caliber than .223.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2011, 02:30:39 PM »

Go cowboy and match your calibers.

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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2011, 03:09:05 PM »
Quote from: Charles Oakwood on August 20, 2011, 02:30:39 PM

Go cowboy and match your calibers.



 Beretta makes one but I had something larger in mind but I change my mind like a school girl so when the time comes I'll put it off as long as I can and then just walk out and buy when when I've over thought is to no end and tortured everybody around me.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2011, 07:48:29 PM »
Getting the matching carbine is not a bad idea, share ammo and magazines. But a "real" rifle should be in everyone's arsenal as well. If you want heavier than .223 I say go .308. It's an ubiquitous NATO round and will definitely reach out and put the hurt on any ne'er-do-wells.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2011, 12:24:00 PM »
Quote from: Glock32 on August 20, 2011, 07:48:29 PM
But a "real" rifle should be in everyone's arsenal as well.

Since a center fire rifle was the only thing lacking in my arsenal (and my wife didn't want to spend the funds for one), I had liquidated some assets I had bought a Mosin Nagant and a can of 440 rds surplus ammo.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2011, 12:56:28 PM »
Quote from: AlanS on August 21, 2011, 12:24:00 PM
...I had bought a Mosin Nagant...

One of my boys has his eye on one of those right now.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2011, 04:53:49 PM »
I'm back from the range and had a ball all by myself. It went a hell of a lot better than I though it would. Put a hundred rounds down range before I had to come home because we were expecting company that's no longer coming.

  All I can say is that out of a hundred rounds only 5 ended off the paper.The rest were all in the kill zone with several center mass shots. I found a new obsession.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2011, 07:19:32 PM »
Congrats! Sounds like you had a great time.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2011, 09:17:55 PM »
Speaking of the Mosin-Nagant, they are fine rifles. I have two of them: a 1946 M44 Soviet (Izhevsk), and a 1942 Finnish M39 (Sako) built on a Russian receiver originally made in 1896.

The 7.62x54R round is in the same class as .30-06, with similar ballistics. The Mosin-Nagant is a good choice for a rugged, inexpensive rifle.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2011, 09:34:40 PM »
Quote from: AlanS on August 21, 2011, 07:19:32 PM
Congrats! Sounds like you had a great time.

 That was fun but I need to work on my trigger pull. I seem to be pulling too hard or jerking the trigger and shoot left. I overcame that by aiming a little right which got it done as far as the target  but the right thing to do is concentrate on the trigger and get used to it.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2011, 10:39:24 PM »
If the trigger requires too much pressure, you can have that eased.  Maybe you're anticipating the bang/recoil.
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« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2011, 10:57:57 PM »
You'll probably find that it smooths out some after a few hundred rounds, as the trigger bar and connector wear into each other.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2011, 11:32:27 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on August 21, 2011, 10:39:24 PM
If the trigger requires too much pressure, you can have that eased.  Maybe you're anticipating the bang/recoil.

 I think I was anticipating just about everything today remember it was all new.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2011, 12:03:34 AM »
Quote from: Glock32 on August 21, 2011, 10:57:57 PM
You'll probably find that it smooths out some after a few hundred rounds, as the trigger bar and connector wear into each other.

Pardon me for saying, but "they" used to say something similar about shoes.  There's no need for "wear", and hundreds of rounds, when an adjustment takes care of this sort of thing and one can focus on accuracy.

Not for nuthin', but my .38 was a very hard trigger pull and a visit to a gunsmith, looooong, long before Gunsmith was one, put that right tout de suite, so this is a piece of advice from experience, not a "sale" for gunsmiths.
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Re: Well the time has come.
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2011, 12:04:40 AM »
Quote from: John Florida on August 21, 2011, 11:32:27 PM
Quote from: Pandora on August 21, 2011, 10:39:24 PM
If the trigger requires too much pressure, you can have that eased.  Maybe you're anticipating the bang/recoil.

 I think I was anticipating just about everything today remember it was all new.

I'm sure you were.  Just you remember practice makes permanent (not necessarily perfect).  If you'd prefer not taking advice from the woman, just say so.

Sheesh.
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