A .22 pistol is one of the most versatile guns you can have in your safe. And every gun owner should have one if for no other reason than it’s an almost an ideal gun to use when teaching noobs how to shoot.
Two semi-autos are front of mind when considering which .22LR pistol is right for you; the Ruger Mark series and the Browning Buck Mark line. Both feature excellent triggers, impressive accuracy and almost imperceptible recoil. Here’s our quick compare-o of two excellent handguns.
They’re “OK” triggers. They can be made better, but they’re just OK.
The Buckmark is a bit more difficult to detail strip and re-assemble. I don’t want to hear how difficult it is to get a Ruger Mk I, II or III back together. They’re pud-easy, once you have some training in how to re-assemble them. Hint: You’re going to have to tilt the muzzle upwards when you’re trying to push in the mainspring housing.
Great sights for the money, especially at this price.
Like some of the other old farts here I started my reserve LE career (such as it is) in 1991 carrying a Smith 686. I had six rounds of very stout 125 grain Federal .357s in the pistol and two speed loaders on my belt. I didn’t feel poorly armed in those days and if I had to go back to a wheel gun today I’d still be okay. I still carry a snubby as an off duty pistol on occasion. These days its an old stainless Smith 640 .357 or a Charter Arms Bulldog .44 special. Hey I like big holes. I carry 2 speed loaders for the pistols to give me 15 rounds total and a hot .38 +p or .44 special will stop a fight pretty quickly. I’ve practiced often enough to feel competent with a speed loader and I think that I’d be able to take care of business.
What “growing culture of irresponsibility around guns”? Last I checked, there are 100 million gun owners with more that 300 million guns in the US and around 10,000 homicides with a firearm each year. That works out to one one hundredth of one percent of the gun owners and three one thousandths of one percent of the guns. Frankly, those numbers are so small that measuring their increase, or decrease, as a function of the overall population is a meaningless exercise statistically.
Also, dimwit, crime has been going down for the last 2 or 3 decades – including crime with guns.
I’m sick to death of this narrative that screams “Everything is getting worse and crime is up and guns are the reason”, when all of those things are demonstrably false.
The fact that the anti-gun types continue to outright lie about these things is the number one reason I regard them as troglodytes.
They lie, ignore the truth and then lie some more and then expect people like me to accept their policy recommendations. No, idiot, I don’t take advice from people that have clearly demonstrated that they have no trace of an understanding of what they are talking about.
Just thinking about wool makes me itch.
I had the same reaction until I tried Merino wool socks. The fibers are different from regular wool and don’t itch. Give them a try. Get the ones that are primarily Merino wool, not the cheap ones that are only 10-15% Merino.
Remington 1911, TGI and Arizona Response Systems AK-74’s.
Haven’t found a .45 replacement but found AK-74 replacements that work after returning the formers.
Think the real solution is to learn how to load like idris elba in the dark tower.
These socks, in particular, are the best.
If 22 year old me knew that I even had an opinion about socks, he would kick my old ass.
But they really are that good. Lifetime warranty also. Only socks I buy now.
Dentures 15℅ off, complete uppers and lowers
I may or may not have a confidant in the FBI who mentioned the same potential method of attack.
Could I? Sure, but I’m not going to put myself in a position where I have to choose that option.
That’s like giving me a weapon and saying get in the lions cage. Well….no?
Trophy hunting doesn’t do a damn thing for me. I’m confident enough in myself that I don’t have to kill something to prove myself. Other excuses for doing so (trophy hunting) are total bull shit and I’m confident enough in myself to tell people that. It’s like being able to extol my distaste for Hildabeast, Watts, Feinstein and Bloombag.
The only socks I wear that are not Merino wool are alpaca wool socks.
If you think Merino wool socks are comfy, wait until you slip your feet into alpaca socks.
It feels like you’re “walking on sunshine.” Seriously. Merino is good, don’t get me wrong. If you’re hiking and packing a heavy load, alpaca socks are so smooth against your skin that you won’t get blisters. The downside is that alpaca socks cost about 4X what Merino wool socks cost.
Merino wool long underwear, merino socks, merino outerwear. Just say ‘no’ to synthetics. Synthetics stink, they melt in exposure to fire, they won’t wear well if they get snagged on something.
The reason why you haven’t seen Merino wool in quantity before the last 10 years is that American sheep producers used to prefer black-faced sheep for meat production, and their wool would be bought up by rug mills, which didn’t need the fine, fine fibers of Merino wool. Suffolk sheep wool is 31+ microns in diameter with a short (3″) staple. Merino is expected to be 21 microns or less (especially when young), with a staple length up to 4″, maybe more. This finer, longer wool fiber “itches” less against your skin . When you think of that scratching, coarse wool of Army blankets, old CPO coats, etc – you’re thinking of Suffolk wool.
Why did American ranchers run Suffolk sheep? Because Suffolk sheep wean larger lambs, which puts more money into your pocket if you’re producing for meat. Sadly, many Americans have no clue how to cook lamb any more. When I was a kid, lamb chops were on the table about once/week in our household, and racks of lamb were served on special occasions.
Today, many sheep ranchers here in the west are running white-faced flocks, with Merino/Columbia/Rambouillet breeding programs. They’re seeking to produce heavy fleeces of 20.5- micron fibers, 4″ staple lengths, which bring big premiums for the wool. With the off-shoring of rug & blanket textile factories, Suffolk fleeces often go begging for a break-even price.
I think I know what I’m getting myself for Christmas….
I wonder what type would be best for roller skating with the kiddos. My lower calves, ankle to about top of skate boot always feel like they have been sandpapered after a couple hours, no matter what I wear. Alpaca sounds tempting.
I have a tremendous soft spot for big cats. I could shoot one in self-defense, but that’s probably about it.
An excellent article on why revolvers make bad defense guns. They’re good enough for the first 5 or 6 shots then, not so much. Sorry wheelboyz, there’s just no way to sugar coat it. Get into a prolonged shootout with a bad guy armed with a hi-cap 9mm and you’re toast.
Why do we care what a hipster Bernie voter thinks? What a loser!
The way I see it, the antis fear a myth and the POTG fear a couple of rare, but serious, real possibilities.
The antis fear that guns, especially a lot of guns, will lead to violent crime and, therefore, that increasing gun ownership leads to increasing violent crime – this is a myth.
POTG fear someone trying to individually harm themselves or their loved ones in a violent crime and they want to be prepared for that. POTG also fear a government that pushes for too much control and becomes tyrannical and they want to be prepared for that.
This is why POTG use analogies like fire extinguishers – the likelihood one is needed is low but the consequences of not having one is high.
Antis, if they were to try to extend that analogy, would be forced to imagine that increasing ownership of fire extinguishers creates fires.
If it kicked my front door in.
“Statistics on crime from the 60’s n70’s are irrelevant now because the population of the earth has more then doubled”
Interesting to learn that increasing sample size somehow makes it impossible to make corrections for variables. Why didn’t they teach me this in statistical analysis?