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joelr
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Post subject: Just about perfect Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:09 pm |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:43 am Posts: 7970 Location: Minneapolis MN
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Also: mine.
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1911fan
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:39 pm |
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Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:18 pm Posts: 1689 Location: 35 W and Hiway 10
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I have its twin and its cousin. Thats a 3" model 36, but is it the new production or an older one?
Those were produced when Jim Cirillo discovered that detectives scored about 40 percent higher qual scores when shooting a 3" gun than a 2" gun, and most found the 3" just as easy to carry in EDC holsters. Jim was the head of training for NYPD, and later went to the Customs Dept and set up weapons training for them.
I have a 36-6 which looks like a 3" 686 smaller, and I have a ex NYPD 3" which used to be my back up.
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joelr
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:48 pm |
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1911fan wrote: I have its twin and its cousin. Thats a 3" model 36, but is it the new production or an older one?
Those were produced when Jim Cirillo discovered that detectives scored about 40 percent higher qual scores when shooting a 3" gun than a 2" gun, and most found the 3" just as easy to carry in EDC holsters. Jim was the head of training for NYPD, and later went to the Customs Dept and set up weapons training for them.
I have a 36-6 which looks like a 3" 686 smaller, and I have a ex NYPD 3" which used to be my back up. This is new production -- it's one of the Lew Horton limited editions. (Most of those are tarted -- err, have lots of special feature. This one's only special features are the 3" tube, the nickel plating, and the grips. It's apparently had a trigger job; it's significantly smoother than the usually pretty good out-of-the box S&W triggers.)
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Scott Hughes
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:33 pm |
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Very pretty
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JoeH
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:52 pm |
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Joined: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:51 pm Posts: 199 Location: Maple Grove, MN
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Is it OK to pet one's computer screen?
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Skin that smokewagon and see what happens.
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joelr
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:03 pm |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:43 am Posts: 7970 Location: Minneapolis MN
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Probably better to arrange to be at BPR some time when I'm there and take it for a spin. (Sharing is something that I would have learned in kindergarten, if I'd gone to kindergarten.)
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mnglocker
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:27 pm |
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Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:04 pm Posts: 1682 Location: Wright County
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That's a good looking wheeley.
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Srigs
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:08 pm |
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Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:40 am Posts: 3752 Location: East Suburbs
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Very darn nice! I love a good wheel gun.
_________________ Srigs
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" - George S. Patton
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:08 am |
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Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:54 am Posts: 5270 Location: Minneapolis
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<- envy
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macphisto
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:29 pm |
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Joined: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:00 pm Posts: 1013 Location: North Suburbs
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joelr wrote: Probably better to arrange to be at BPR some time when I'm there and take it for a spin. (Sharing is something that I would have learned in kindergarten, if I'd gone to kindergarten.)
Well, no arrangements were made, but I was lucky enough to run into you today while tagging along with Rothman's carry class. Folks, this gun is even nicer in person. I should have taken you up on your offer to fire it, but I'd already blasted up a cylinder-full of .44's out of your Redhawk and didn't want to push it. Fondling and dry-firing was good enough for me.
Joel, you're plenty good at sharing...thanks!
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joelr
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:21 pm |
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macphisto wrote: joelr wrote: Probably better to arrange to be at BPR some time when I'm there and take it for a spin. (Sharing is something that I would have learned in kindergarten, if I'd gone to kindergarten.) Well, no arrangements were made, but I was lucky enough to run into you today while tagging along with Rothman's carry class. Folks, this gun is even nicer in person. I should have taken you up on your offer to fire it, but I'd already blasted up a cylinder-full of .44's out of your Redhawk and didn't want to push it. Fondling and dry-firing was good enough for me. Joel, you're plenty good at sharing...thanks! Easily handled, if that's the issue -- just buy me some more. (I go through a fair amount of ammo, what with the training and practicing; a few more rounds doesn't matter to me.) .38 and.44 Magnum is easy to come by; I tend to be a bit stingier when it comes to my .44 Special stuff, as Tom Castonguay loads it for me, and it takes a while to get more.
The .44 Magnum I had with me is a lot of fun; it's a highly-customized Redhawk (barrel cut down; Black-T; hammer bob) that I bought off a friend who used to carry it as his backup when he was working SWAT, and, in a weak moment, sold it to me.
(It's usually a bedside gun, although plblark has made an IWB holster for it that I'm eager to try out.)
I would have offered to let Rothman shoot it, but he was both busy with his class, and, well, he's shot my other .44 before, and this one kicks a trifle more. (He did take a spin with the new .38. Shoots even nicer than it looks, IMHO.)
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lumbering.buffalo
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:02 pm |
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Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:08 pm Posts: 267
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Nice gun!
When I got my carry permit I was shooting a Ruger SP101 3" .38 +P. Traded it in for a S&W 642. I think another 3" is in my future...but I think it will be a .357.
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Andrew Rothman
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:25 pm |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:24 am Posts: 6767 Location: Twin Cities
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