Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I convinced my wife to get her Carry Permit a few years back. I hoped the class would teach her something about the law of self-defense. She said later, “All those rules. What’s the point of having a gun if you can’t use it?” I think she watches too much television – she doesn’t want a permit to carry, she wants a license to kill. And that was before things got so bad we moved out of the city.
She can shoot okay, though. We went to my gun club to brush up in preparation for her renewal class. The shots in the upper diamond were from her .38 Special revolver, 21 feet, standing, iron sights, slow fire. The shots in the middle circle were rapid fire.
Granted, the burglar isn’t going to stand around for five minutes while she wakes up, finds her glasses and locates the gun, cocks, aims, and fires. Taking her to the range to shoot for this photo is probably only giving her false confidence. But same is true for you and me and anybody else who doesn’t sleep with a gun under the pillow like the guy who died in that no-knock raid in Minneapolis. If we have time to get woke up and organized, he’s in deep doo-do. If not, we’re no worse off than before.
Now I need to find ammo to replace the rounds she shot. No .38 SPL at Fleet Farm or Cabella’s. The shortage is over for limited calibers and selections, but the shelves are not groaning like the olden days.
Liberals are trying their hardest to provoke a civil war. I expect more riots this summer, drumming up outrage to get out the Democrat vote. Even if you lost all your hardware in a tragic canoe accident, Bill’s Gun Shop will rent you a pistol when you pay for the shooting lane. When’s the last time YOU were at the range?
Joe Doakes
Last time I was at the range? Last week.
But since I lost all my guns in the lake, it was just to read the articles.
I know we will never see ammo prices like they used to be. The $10-13 box of basic 9mm is a thing of the past. Without getting into arguments over the ammo manufacturers business practices, they are seeing raw material and shipping costs increase the same as most other manufacturers. Chobani four packs of yogurt are $5 when a year ago they were four . Everything has gone up. The $20 box of nine is the new low.
You need buy low. This is the new low.
FRESCH is correct.
We’re having our 1980s era main bath remodeled and the price has already jumped 20% since February. Fortunately, our contractor encouraged us to buy our own fixtures, which was good, because we bought the new toilet, vanity and tub last year, in anticipation of the build.
Further, I have a lot of metal, wood and auto restoration shops as customers. The cabinet shops can’t get soft close hinges, stainless and flat steel, has really jumped in the metal fab arena and the costs of rebuilding engines, along with shortages of parts, has affected the plans of their customers.
Nice shooting, little lady!
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Thanks, PB, I’ll check it out.
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from 21 yards? With a snubby (i presume) .38 revolver? Color me impressed.
If you gonna have a .38, buy a .357 so you can use both calibers, ie more ammo options for the same gun you keep at the bottom of the lake.
No, jpa, not yards, 21 feet which is 7 yards. Her permit-to-carry instructor says most deadly encounters take place within that distance so there’s no point worrying about shooting farther. I took her shooting to practice for the test.
Not a snubby, a 3-inch barrel. Short enough to avoid being grabbed, long enough to shoot across the living room with some accuracy. Compromise.
When she was looking for pistols, I took her to several stores to feel the heft and grip and sights of lots of different guns. She picked the one she wanted – a .38 instead of a .357 (fits her hand better) and a revolver instead of a semi (not as many buttons/levers to remember). I’m okay with that. It’s more important to me that she feel confident with a mouse gun than feel intimidated by a wrist-buster. Hopefully, she’ll remember ‘front sight’ in a fight rather than fear the recoil. Your mileage may vary.
When’s the last time YOU were at the range?
jpa.
JD makes a great point. I’ve seen a lot of women on the range that chose .38s for the same reasons.
I’m also on board with your assessment. When I was in the Air Force, the standard side arm for pilots and aircrew was a .38 with a six inch barrel. They adopted 9 mm some time in the 90s, if I remember correctly. A lot of us in SE Asia, bought our own Colt Python .357 Magnums. They were cheap on the black market and they came in 2.5, 4 and 6 inch barrels. They are pretty damn pricey now. We drew our standard .38 ammo, but loaded every other round with our own .357 ammo. Most commanders looked the other way, especially the ones in combat zones.
Forgot to mention in my last, that I had a S&W Model 19, because they were cheaper and easier to get. They also came in 2.5, 4 and 6 inch barrels. I opted for a four.