Love those old pencil barrels.
Love those old pencil barrels.
*RS Regulate Affiliate*Originally Posted by caleb
While I tend to like the heavy barrels, I like the sights on the pencil barrels better. They appear to have a rear surface that is farther from horizontal, making them less likely to reflect light and become hard to see at the wrong time.
Need to get a pic up of my late mother's skinny Model 10.
The other thing this thread made me ponder is the safety of both the 1st and 2nd Amendments in this troubled Republic.
Having recently been called "Ignorant Redneck Motherfudger (not exactly his words)" on a felony car stop involving Black Nationalist father & sons in which I covered the son who had a GLOCK 21SF on his side and no permit, I take umbrage at the fact only one segment of society (liberals and their nanny state supplicants) can actually say whatever they like.
So This C-word thread drift caused me to take stock of the history of the word and cutting edge history on its current usage.
It's been used since Middle English was spoken and came there from the German word for female genitalia "kunte"; it also meant having sex.
A little bit more 'Net surfing yielded a gem of an article in which the Oxford Dictionary has added four variations of the word of late. And feminists have proudly made the word their own...
http://mic.com/articles/85639/why-wo...ary#.jOWCKDAla
Full disclosure: in 2003 I was the best-read member of a knuckle-dragger group trying to prevent people from having fun w legal and illegal narcotics. It was an era in which many new units w cool acronyms were popping up at my agency like rat turds in a bowl of rice.
Desperate to be just as cool, my superiors were brainstorming edgy acronyms which would make us sound hard as fudge...I proposed Combined Undercover Narcotics Team and they were awed. Took about 5 minutes for the lieutenant to start threatening to send me back to CID when he wrote it on the board.
Reading is still Fun Duh Mental.
This is the same reason that a lot of Colt snub users prefer the older exposed ejector rod versions. I have a later version with the shrouded barrel and prefer the older type of sight. If I find an older Colt snub with the short grip frame at a decent price, it is coming home with me.
I used heavy barrel M64s for work back in the day, but with my older eyes, my two standard barreled M10's sights are a little easier to manage.
I put red paint on the sights of my M64 HB and it makes all the difference in the world (in other words I can now see the front sight).
While I cannot comment on the heavy barrel S&W guns, having a gunsmith install an orange epoxy insert in the front sight of my 1990's Detective Special helped only slightly.
It seems that the makers of these guns were so concerned about sights snagging - a problem I have never experienced - that they almost forgot that the sight needs to be usable for aiming.
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Any good gunsmiths in the DFW area, I picked up a Smith mdl 15 at a good price the other day but it needs some work done?
Bill
Holler at Wayne Dobbs, WP. He loaned me his tuned Combat Masterpiece for class last fall in your city that was like Buttah! It was Fantastic. Buhlieve me. Was just watching Trump on O'Reilly...
So a guy I work with got caught cheating on his wife and she kicked him out. He didn't have much stuff but I got roped into helping him move. At the end of the day he told me he had an old revolver and he didn't know what to do with it. I told him this would be perfect payment for my help.
That's a good deal, right there.So a guy I work with got caught cheating on his wife and she kicked him out. He didn't have much stuff but I got roped into helping him move. At the end of the day he told me he had an old revolver and he didn't know what to do with it. I told him this would be perfect payment for my help.
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