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The youngsters have better taste than I expected

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Thu, 07/25/2013 - 11:13
cowdog
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I just had my two nieces, one with her husband, and one nephew and his wife here for a visit. All of them are in the 22-25 year old range. They love guns but live in places where they need to drive a ways to shoot.

I figured being young, they would want to shoot semi autos, so I dug out my M&P 9mm and Mini-14 and my wife got out here Ruger LC-something  and her Kel Tec SU16. They liked those OK, but what really got them excited were the single actions, my lever guns and even my flintlock Northwest trade gun . They were almost fighting over my Rossi M92 in 45 Colt! My niece is also on the prowl for her own .357 lever gun now. Young people have better taste than I expected. 

The only downside is they blew through $100 in 45 colt factory loads and all but 25 of my handloads. I am also out of round balls for the 1860 Colt. Hope the Apaches don't attack before I get some loaded.

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Thu, 08/01/2013 - 19:19
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What an Arsenal!

Holy Cow, CD, you have quite an array of autoloaders there! I always wondered how those weird lookin Kel Techs shoot.
Not surprising, really, that the young unz took to the traditional guns best. No matter how nice a plastic gun is, its still, well, PLASTIC. I had my own supernine plastic fantastic, and while I candidly admit it had its good points, functional beauty certainly was NOT one of them.

Nothin' at all like grabbing ahold of real wood, working the action rather than having it work mechanically, aiming because you don't have 30 rounds to peel off all at once. Nothin' like admiring the lines of a beautiful 1892, or watching the smoke erupt from a strike of black powder.
Nothin' like the balance of a gun made to be a mans'-or a woman's companion rather than a molded up cnc machined cyborg influenced cold heartless machine conceived by some mutant who can't get the damn thing ugly enough.
A weapon should be as beautiful as it is deadly. This is only right.
Glad you had fun!

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Thu, 08/01/2013 - 19:21
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Mak
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What an Arsenal!

Holy Cow, CD, you have quite an array of autoloaders there! I always wondered how those weird lookin Kel Techs shoot.
Not surprising, really, that the young unz took to the traditional guns best. No matter how nice a plastic gun is, its still, well, PLASTIC. I had my own supernine plastic fantastic, and while I candidly admit it had its good points, functional beauty certainly was NOT one of them.

Nothin' at all like grabbing ahold of real wood, working the action rather than having it work mechanically, aiming because you don't have 30 rounds to peel off all at once. Nothin' like admiring the lines of a beautiful 1892, or watching the smoke erupt from a strike of black powder.
Nothin' like the balance of a gun made to be a mans'-or a woman's companion rather than a molded up cnc machined cyborg influenced cold heartless machine conceived by some mutant who can't get the damn thing ugly enough.
A weapon should be as beautiful as it is deadly. This is only right.
Glad you had fun!

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Fri, 08/02/2013 - 08:38
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My life has been one long gun trade

My best apologia for the autoloaders is that I have probably owned about 150 guns over the years (not at the same time). I buy opportunistically and trade a bit. The only reason I owned the M&P was I got a really great deal on a penny auction at gunauction.com. It WAS cheap to shoot. Seldom carried it and kept it locked up.  Two days ago I priced a new case of 9mm, and promptly placed it on consignment at a friends gunshop. Never owned a Glock, an AR or an AK. Probably never will.   

Kel Tec has spotty quality control, but the designs are really unique. My wife's SU 16 feels like a bb gun, recoils like a 22 but carries like a traditional rifle. Very accurate with 55gr and very reliable with iron sites (scopes seem to mess up the ejection). One thing about polymer. It is ugly, but it does soak up felt recoil.

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