The legendary Elmer Keith did say that defense handgun caliber should start with the number four and go up from there!
I was responding to @fmw who wrote: We've got a large, residential garden in a rural area too but loose only about 10% to wild animals due to adequate fencing. Having a garden is not "baiting" but putting animal food outside and then killing healthy, wild animals who smell it is as stupid as it is cruel and illegal. Because I was in Laos during the Vietnam War, I've seen enough killing and have no use for individuals who kill for fun unless they're hunters culling for overpopulation. In civilian life, I've reluctantly killed poisonous snakes, wounded animals in pain and rabid animals but that's about where my bloodlust. stops.
Yes rim fire is not reliable. My 65 year old 22 lever action is quickly clearable but it’s not for home defense it is for chipmunks , squirrels, and groundhogs. Sounds interesting. I did not know that the 22 mag is a center fire round. But there is a 357 in center fire these days so again interesting. At the close range for home defense this 22 mag sounds very useful. I agree that for home defense when you will likely be faced with multiple invading turds a 30 round mag will be a beautiful thing.
You respond out of ignorance. We feed the cats in a locked shed with a hole in the door for the animals to enter and leave. Nothing is left outside. You are welcome to come and remove the varmints if you don't want them shot. I resent your term it as blood lust. It is allowing my wife to have a hobby of cat pets. It is not fun. Get stuffed.
I own just a few acquired many years ago when I was in my 20s. 12 ga Ithaca Deerslayer 243 Winchester Model 70 357 mag Ruger Bkackhawk 22/22mag Ruger Single Six revolver 9 mm Walther P38 brought back from Europe by my dad after the war
I went through a Mosin Nagant stage and only ended up with six different ones while experiencing different levels of accuracy with different types of old military surplus ammunition that was corrosive. The R and D comparing results was great fun. It's a shame that anti gun people can't see that shooting can be either a competitive sport or an enjoyable pastime. Thanks,
Please take good care of your P 38. It's quite a valuable artifact. Do you know the year it was made? Thanks,
if its a Krieghoff P 38 big bucks I have one of the post war P1 (aluminum frames) I bought for my son at a gun show -he really liked it until I won a Glock 19 and that replaced the Walther as his favorite pistol
The most unusual semi auto pistol I ever had was a Bergman M1896. Unfortunately, it along with a little flintlock derringer with the original flint, was stolen. When I called to report these pistols as stolen, the police were in no hurry to send someone to fill out a report. When I mentioned that these two antiques were in a footlocker full of .45 ACPs, .44 Magnums, 9 mm pistols and a Ruger Mini-14, the level of urgency changed to: "Someone is on the way right now to take a report." Over the next year, I got all of the guns back except for the antiques which were probably tossed into a dumpster. Each of the guns was recovered along with a colorful story: - A genius who had my Mini-14 shot himself in the leg while showing off for his girlfriend - Another individual was caught trying to rob a bank with my unloaded, old Colt .31 caliber, cap-and-ball revolver. - Still another criminal used my 1923 German Luger with my own home loads in a shoot out with police. It helped a lot that I had serial numbers and descriptions of the guns but I still had to testify against the multiple gun thieves and their gang members who tried to intimidate me. The police told me to expect trouble after my testimony and were kind enough to keep an eye on my place and to ignore my target shooting in my basement. I strongly recommend that all gun owners write down serial numbers and descriptions of all firearms and keep that information separate from locked firearms. Thanks,
You know 2aGuy's gun orientation from ***B forum. A UK gun regulation system would deem him unsuitable, he would fail the vetting procedure to have the correct paperwork to legally buy a gun. First things first, his sole reason is to shoot others for self defence. That's a dangerous person, but that's why America has high gun stats.
I don' think you have the education or the standing to pronounce someone in our country a "dangerous person" or tell him what he can own. And shooting someone in self defense is well established as a right in the USA.
If you read my post correctly, it states he would fail the UK system for gun ownership because he would be deemed unsuitable/dangerous.
