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      Is the .380 closing on the 9mm?

      This question was started by a conversation with a gun counter salesman at one of the Academy Sports here in the Austin Texas area. I buy a fair amount of .380 ammo to shoot through my two Rugged LCP's. I love the small size and ease of carry of them. I noticed that my local Academy was a...
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      Ruger customer service is great!!!!

      So I love my LCP. Both of them. They are my carry gun, and being so light and compact, its also my home defense gun as its in my pocket from time I put my pants on in the morning until I go to bed at night. If I'm up and dressed, my Elcie is in my pocket. I don't want to have to go get a gun...
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      Hollow point worth it in .380?

      My main two guns that I carry are both small semi autos. The Ruger LCP@ and the Beretta Tomcat in .32acp. With full metal jacket ammo, both have been flawless in reliability. But no matter what brand hollow point I try, there's the once in a while bobble. Usually a fail to feed. It doesn't...
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      Carrying a fixed blade etc.

      I was born and bred in D.C. and lived most my life in and aired the place. Family moved out to the Maryland suburbs when I was 10 and lived in Wheaton when it was a solid blue collar type of place. Later I moved out to Germantown as my job was out that way. All this had an effect on how I...
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      Two and a half years of constant carry.

      Okay, it's been a few years now since the better half and I fled the peoples republik of Maryland for freedom in Texas. In that time, I've rejoiced in having all my rights, to include the second. Not long after settling on a house. the better half and I both took the class and got our license to...
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      Ruger LCP

      Anyone have one? I'm thinking about buying one for Texas summer carry. I've never had a small .380, and I'm curious about how snappy the LCP is in firing. Say compared with a J frame .38 revolver?
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      Reloading in civilian self defense shootings?

      Has anyone ever heard, read, or seen a civilian shooting that was a self defense type of scenario, that required a reload and more shooting? I've watched all kinds of surveillance camera footage and news reports, but I've never seen a reload done. It still seems to be over in a few seconds...
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      Lever action .22?

      I'm buying a .22 rifle for the granddaughter, age 8, and I'm thinking of a Henry. I've looked for an old marlin, but they are scarce and I've been told the Henry's are a nice rifle. Anyone here have any real life experience with the Henry Brand? How easy are they to clean/strip? I like to...
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      Can't carry a gun for a while...

      ...and it feels v very weird. Having been living in Texas for almost two years now, and being licensed to carry, it's very weird and a little disconcerting on how fast you get to acclimate to always having s gun on you. But...as of the 11th of the month we have been visiting our son and...
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      Why square corners?

      Having just sold my Glock, and not really finding another center fire semi that I could like, I was walking around the gun show when it hit me. There I was looking at all kinds of guns, new and old, and the only ones I liked was the old ones. Having handled some Colt 1903's and 1908's, and some...
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      Only rimfire now.

      Sooo, last week I sold the Glock 26 that I never really bonded with in the two and a half years I had it. It shot great, was accurate, and very reliable with no malfunctions in the couple hundred rounds I put through it. I just never liked it. It felt like some kid of plastic alien thing...
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      Over penetration?

      For self defense most the so called experts all recommend 9mm/.38 special and up. A lot of people go to the .40 and .45acp. But, although I have used .38 special for abut 40 years, I've always stuck with the mild 148 grain full wadcutter target load. I am concerned with over penetration. If...
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      People not carrying a knife?

      What gives? I admit that I'm getting to be an old fart, and in the era I grew up in, everyman who had pants on, had some kind of small penknife in a pocket someplace. Not much of a knife, maybe a little one or two blade thing with a 'large' blade of maybe two inches and a small blade of maybe...
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      Any .22's fail?

      I've seen a lot of articles in which a person uses a .22 of some kind for the defense of self or home. Usually the intruder is killed or seriously injured. Like the 92 year old WW2 vt who used a .22 rifle to shoot and kill burger. Or the case in Savage Maryland where a guy used a .22 to shoot an...
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      Ruger LCR .22?

      Anyone here have one and do you like it? I have been seriously looking at one, and thinking of it as a hiking and trail gun here in Texas. I like the small and lightweight dimensions and the fact that it's an 8 shot. I like to carry a revolver with the fist two chambers loaded with CCI snake...
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      Back to the beginning.

      In 1970, the year after I got out of high school, I bought a Buck 301 stockman. That pocket knife rode in my pocket for the next 25 years, including service in the U.S. Army, and travels abroad, camping, fishing, and exploring from southwest deserts to many trips on the Appellation trail from...
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      My most used knife.

      I hate to admit I was a knife nut for most of my life. I obsessively carried at least three knives on me at all times, and I wasn't happy if one of them wasn't up to fighting off Chinese paratroopers or injuns on the war path. I even dropped lots of money on Randall made knives. Then the...
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      Are we spoiled?

      Just last year, the better half and I moved to Texas to escape the east coast winters. We finally reached retirement age, and wanted to live in a warmer climate. I was born and raised in Washington D.C. in a not so nice part if town just off North Capital street a little past Rhode Island ave...
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      Mousegun or not?

      We moved out of Maryland October 2015 and now have been in our new home in Georgetown Texas for a year and three months. It's been nice, living in a free American state, and one of the very first things both the wife and I did on arrival in Texas was, to sign up for the class to get qualified to...
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      Country of origin-Spyderco?

      Are any of the Spyderco knives made in the U.S., or is all of their stuff made overseas like Cold Steel?
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