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In Reply to: Re: Are you a Dillon man? posted by Van on July 04, 2000 at 15:45:37:
***I have a Dillon 550. I can load 100 rounds of 45 ACP in 45 min.That's pretty good. I bought the 650 at the peak of my practicing career and I wanted not to spend too much time in the basement. That case feeder is absolutely great. Also it definitely manes sense to have that roller bearing handle.
***I take my time and dont try to hurry.That is always good idea - hurry leads to mishaps. I have been fortunate and my only accident was due to my complete idiocy - I was trying to save a case with a cockeyed primer and I knocked it out with a pin. I have done that many times before, but this one exploded, openning my left ring finger like a rose.
Since then I have learned that accidents don't happen to those who follow simple rules.
***I reload for 44 mag/spl 38 spl/357 45 ACP.
I may get the dies for 30 06 next.
My latest guns were a Glock 22 and an AR 15 that I traded
a Colt Piece Maker 1850 2nd gen for.
A good deal due to the $450 I paid for the colt.Most of my collection are C&R's, some very nice ones, 150 years old to more recent years. M1's, Persian, Swedes, MAS, Mosin, Tokarev SVT-40, and others. In the modern category it is FN-FNC, Galil in .308, SW99, HK P9S, Bereta, Makarovs, Kel-Tek's, CZ-75 in .40SW. But I also love the older stuff like the Mauser C96, CZ-52, Nagant - that sort of things.
***My buddy and I went to the range yesterday and I shot two
3" groups at 25 yards free hand.Yep, that's pretty good. A .45, I presume?
***Keep on shooting and happy 4th of July.
***The difference between a subject and a citizen is the right to
own a bear arms!I'll drink to that.
Back to work tomorrow.
....just curious: were you able to indulge your interests in weaponry at all while in Russia...or was that totally verboten? Was/is there black market activity in weapons inside the country?Pardon my ignorance. I have a hard time imagining living in such a repressive land--America's creepy enough at times.
Here's one last salute to Independence Day!
Best wishes as always, Bill.
***....just curious: were you able to indulge your interests in weaponry at all while in Russia...or was that totally verboten?Completely. The USSR used to have the purest and most vicious form of gun control. One could potentially apply for and receive a hunter's license, and then buy a shotgun. You could become a shooting club member and then would be able to handle a .22 while at the range - TOS or Margolin. The closest you would come to military weapos would be to see soldiers with the AK-47/74, or a policeman with the Makarov's butt sticking from his holster.
As far as I know the handguns are still completely prohibited there (hah! Tell that to Chechens!). But there are many stores now selling those idiotic useless "gas guns" - so popular in Europe where citizens try to obtain ANY means of personal protection. Their effectiveness is less than that of your garden veriety Mace spray.
I usually like to point out that their murder rate, in a country as sterile of guns as it ever gets, was about the same as here, with 200 million guns in private hands.
***Was/is there black market activity in weapons inside the country?I suspect there was, but apparenty at EXTREMELY low level.
***Pardon my ignorance. I have a hard time imagining living in such a repressive land--America's creepy enough at times.
Yes, one should always maintain his points of reference, or the whole horizon slides.
Hello
Can't comment on Russia but when my uncle visited from Poland about
1985 he could not believe that I owned guns. Then when I showed him
the bullets he was dumbfounded. We took pictures of him shooting
because nobody would have believed his story. He also told me that
right after the War he found a german luger and it has been buried
on the farm somewhere ever since. Afraid to dig it up cause he
would be arrested and shot.Rich
***He also told me that
right after the War he found a german luger and it has been buried
on the farm somewhere ever since.That's too bad, because the Luger (designed by an American, as I suspect you know) is one of the most desirable collectables - if in original condition and early. I always loved them and have a nice one. They are NOT the reliable guns, by any stretch of magination, but mine works very well and shoots quite accurately. One of the most classical designs, much more appealing than the P-38 that replaced it.
***Afraid to dig it up cause he would be arrested and shot.
I suspect he should be able to dig it out now - what are the current Polish gun laws - if you know?
Hello Victor
Don't know the laws however it was so long ago and he is now
pushing 75 that he can't remember where it's buried.
Had some of the nephews at the country this 4th of July weekend
and they wanted to do some shooting. So I brought out my 1974
Browning BBR in 300 Win Mag and we were popping 6inch onions at
150yards. They explode real well and there is nothing to clean up
since it's all biodegradable.
Will check out the 2 movies you suggested and did you see
"Thief" with James Caan 1981 one of the first films I know of where
the actor took a gun handling course so he wouldn't look like an idiot.Good Day
Rich
***Will check out the 2 movies you suggested and did you see
"Thief" with James Caan 1981 one of the first films I know of where
the actor took a gun handling course so he wouldn't look like an idiot.I don't recall that movie, although the description sounds pretty familiar - don't they all? Is it worth renting? Provided I put the straight jacket on my wife first?
Given that the movie is 1981 I presume there is no holding the handgun horizontally... man, what a relief! Also watching how the actors wrap their trigger finger twice around the grip is torture.
Victor
I thought it was a good film and Video hound gives it 3 bones
(out of 4). I never could understand the horizontal grip why render
your sights useless? What also drives me crazy is when they open the
cylinder of a revolver spin it and it makes that clicking sound then
whip it shut with a flick of the wrist. I would have to smack anyone
doing that to my Python.
Later
Rich
***I never could understand the horizontal grip why render
your sights useless?Coz it's like cool!
A true mark of an idiot.
***What also drives me crazy is when they open the
cylinder of a revolver spin it and it makes that clicking sound then
whip it shut with a flick of the wrist. I would have to smack anyone
doing that to my Python.Python, that's one nice machine! I had one and sold it, never stopped regretting. The silkiest action on Earth. Mine was 6" stainless.
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