cb51
Active Member
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, and I think I'm just too used to revolvers. My whole life I've shot nothing but, like my old Ruger single six, my S&W 1980 model 63, my 8 shot model 63.
But a half hour after selling the Glock, I ended up leaving the gun show with a Ruger LCR in .22 mag. I fell in love with this gun the instant I picked it up from the table it felt so good in the hand. In the past week, I've had it out to the range three times, and I love it more every time. I just may buy a .22lr LCR as a companion piece. The Ruger LCR has a much more visible front sight to me than my old S&W model 60 that I sold as I could no longer see the front sight.
Now I'm wondering if I need a center fire at all. I don't hunt, I'm not a cop, have no aspirations of anti terrorist activities, and no fantasies of being I shootouts. My main use of a gun is a trail gun and house gun, and plinking at the range at defenseless soda cans.
My normal bedside gun has been my 8 shot 63, and my better half has her 8 shot 317. Now we're living in the low crime town Georgetown, Texas, and there is no feeling of being in danger like we had in Germantown Maryland. In the past year of having a license to carry a firearm, even the little NAA mini .22 revolver in the pocket seems a little too much.
So, now I question if a late 60's retired couple need much in the way of fire power? If the back door gets kicked in during the wee hours of the morning, and we have a brace of rimfire revolvers loaded and at hand, who is going to be that much a threat to us? As far as I know, we haven't angered any Mexican drug cartels, or hells angles.
I love this Ruger LCR!!!
I just never liked it. It felt like some kid of plastic alien thing, and I think I'm just too used to revolvers. My whole life I've shot nothing but, like my old Ruger single six, my S&W 1980 model 63, my 8 shot model 63.
But a half hour after selling the Glock, I ended up leaving the gun show with a Ruger LCR in .22 mag. I fell in love with this gun the instant I picked it up from the table it felt so good in the hand. In the past week, I've had it out to the range three times, and I love it more every time. I just may buy a .22lr LCR as a companion piece. The Ruger LCR has a much more visible front sight to me than my old S&W model 60 that I sold as I could no longer see the front sight.
Now I'm wondering if I need a center fire at all. I don't hunt, I'm not a cop, have no aspirations of anti terrorist activities, and no fantasies of being I shootouts. My main use of a gun is a trail gun and house gun, and plinking at the range at defenseless soda cans.
My normal bedside gun has been my 8 shot 63, and my better half has her 8 shot 317. Now we're living in the low crime town Georgetown, Texas, and there is no feeling of being in danger like we had in Germantown Maryland. In the past year of having a license to carry a firearm, even the little NAA mini .22 revolver in the pocket seems a little too much.
So, now I question if a late 60's retired couple need much in the way of fire power? If the back door gets kicked in during the wee hours of the morning, and we have a brace of rimfire revolvers loaded and at hand, who is going to be that much a threat to us? As far as I know, we haven't angered any Mexican drug cartels, or hells angles.
I love this Ruger LCR!!!