The Machinist

A friend of mine is a probation officer. We got into a discussion one day concerning civilians with hand guns. He informed me that we (civilians) aren't trained to safely handle guns, so they should be banned from us. Of course, he has the proper training, so it's OK for him.

15 minutes later, he was telling me about the raccoon that he found in his mother's attic. She lived in a very populated area. He took out his hand gun and shot at it 5 times!

Hm. Pretty sure it's significantly more than .25". Also, there are several different trigger assemblies you can use, different slope on the ramps, which change the travel (and force required).

Couple of options. One popular one is to replace the recoil spring assembly with one where the rod is a laser. Alignment is decent. Probably others which mount on the rails (I think later frames have rails now).

Reminds me of a story I read once about a lady who found a rattlesnake in her kitchen. She killed it with a shotgun. As I recall, it took four or five shots.

I thought I was the only one! Randy

Preacher friend asked if I was "Pre-Lac or Post Lac". I laughed uproariously. Just one of those Church things.

pyotr

My W94 was sold to me at age 16 by the local conservation officer after he inherited another rifle from a long time friend. His statement at the time was "I know I will never have to seize it if you have it." The worst horror story he had was about the chap in a row boat on a choppy lake, shooting at the stove pipe of a small shack a couple hundred yards away with a high powered rifle. When he asked the chap what the H*** he was doing, the reply was "Oh I'm just giving my kids a bit of a scare!" Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Back in the early '80's there was an Austin City Council member who shot the hell out of a garden hose with his shotgun, thinking it was a snake - allegedly there was white powder involved...

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Yeah, at that rate just imagine how many times a civilian would have had to go back downstairs to reload!

That's about right for a snake, especially when it could have been steered out with a broom. Nothing like blowing your floor all to hell to dispatch a snake, eh?

Harold

LOL

The scary part for me was that it never dawned on him that the siding on her house was not stopping the bullet!

(shrug) I shoot my garden hose all the time. The gophers seem to think that if they get near it, I won't shoot 'em. They're wrong.

Last time I was at the local Big Box stocking up on hose repair kits, I ran into the Sheriff. Paul looked at me, said "Lots of gophers this year, Dave?", and kept going.

Somehow, the wife doesn't buy my argument that a garden hose with holes in it is a desirable thing - soaker hoses do sell for more, after all. She keeps giving me "that look" when I try it, though.

Depends on the civilian.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Hmmm. At the range they used to have the police targets at 25 feet.

The ones over at the civilian side were 25 and 50 yards. One could say that maybe they were just practicing at the most common range they use their weapons at.

That would be charitable IMO. I've seen those targets.

I've also seen some of the cops wander out on the range to inspect their targets while the civilian side is still shooting. Boy that causes the range officer to blow a gasket.

I hope I never have to be around the local cops when they use their weapons...

Jim