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What he said. ;) I grew up with Lugers on TV and in the movies, and even had a plastic Marx cap pistol Luger when I was a kid. By the time I was old enough to buy real guns, they were already out of my price range. I've never shot, much less owned one, but I have handled a few belonging to...

I asked a friend who visited Australia if that were really true some years ago, and he confirmed that it was. And then added, "But the REALLY weird thing is that all the light switches work backwards, too--down is ON and up is OFF." It only just occurred to me that he might have been yanking my...

Welcome to the SA forum! You've come to the right place. ;) What, no one sells any kind of white paint where you live? Adding your own white (or any other color) ring (or any other shape) to your front sight is an easy mod. I've done it many times on many different handguns (usually a bright...

I wonder if any of your instructors were my classmates at USAF SAMTU in 1972. One of our instructors there was legendary for offing a Victor Charles with a personally-owned Browning P.35. The story was he pretty much did a mag dump into Charles, but I wasn't there and don't know if that was...

I've never owned an M15, but I do have two M19s, two M66s, and two M17s. I shoot them both ways. I like the SA for accuracy testing and long-range plinking, and DA for most shooting at 25 yards and less.

Most of my USAF M15 shooting was SA, at 25 yards, with M41 ball (130 FMJ) or Winchester 148 WCs. I know we shot two "advanced" courses in tech school, which involved at least some DA shooting, but I don't remember ever teaching them.

This is HUGE part of what's wrong in America these days. We are supposed to be governed by LAWS, enacted by a Constitutional process (that YOU should have learned in the tenth grade, if not before). Increasingly we are governed by rules and regulations handed down by nameless, faceless...

Explain, please.

Then they should move to countries that have that, and leave us Real Americans alone. We enjoy our Constitutional Republic and our Capitalism. If you like some other sort of system, find a country that has a climate you like and a language you can learn to speak, and GO LIVE THERE. Everybody...

We need to start a club. So far that's you, me, and Hayes Greener here that I know of, and I'm probably forgetting somebody. To this day, the SA trigger pull of an old-school Smith K or N revolver is my definition of "perfect trigger," especially the .400" Smith Wide Target Trigger. The WTT is...

A "Wonder 9" is a DA/SA double-stack 9mm, so-called because they combined the double-stack magazine of the Browning P35 with the DA lockwork of the Walther P.38/Smith 39. These were a big deal back before striker-fired guns took over. Archetypical Wonder 9s include the Smith 59, Beretta 92, SIG...

I speak semi-fluent Southern, so I get it. Well played! ;) (y)

Chairman Jeff answered this question several decades ago. Near as I can recall it after all these years, it went something like: "Statistics are uninteresting to the man caught in the exceptional circumstance. The person being eaten by a bear does not want to know just how extremely rare such...

I thought the entire State Department already WAS one giant DEI team. :oops:

I didn't like them when I was 19, and replaced them on mine as soon/quickly as I could.

Those "diagnostic targets" we've all seen were developed back in the days of stand-up, one-handed "bullseye" shooting at 25 and 50 yards. The writer of the article didn't shoot that way, and I'll bet most people here don't, either.

I've never heard that, but as a fluent speaker of Sarcasm, I can imagine that Chairman Jeff might have said it. ;)

Glad you enjoyed it. It really is a "time capsule" look at a different age, isn't it? Another great time capsule of the era is Chic Gaylord's Handgunner's Guide. Well worth reading. https://americanhandgunner.com/our-experts/chic-gaylord/

Excellent point. And in that era, the sights on most 1911s (and other service-grade semiautos) weren't much if any better. ;) (y)

Or change his name to Bruce and move to Australia. ;)