Gun Sales

I own several firearms, primarily for sporting purposes, but I am not anti-gun, just to get that out front. But here's a story about how you can find jackasses in any group.

In the early 2000s in the US, the Dept of Homeland security created the Federal Flight Deck Officer program to equip certain trained pilots with sidearms to defend a cockpit against another 9/11. After heavy psychological screening, selected applicants are given an abbreviated course at a FAM training facility.

So at my old job, I was flying with a relatively new first officer who also happened to be an FFDO. Cool... except that he swept me with his weapon when he put it on the first time (they cannot wear a weapon in public, so have to put it on / take it off every flight).

I wasn't sure on the first leg, so I watched... and he did it again on the second. I called him on it, asked him not to do it again. He copped an immediate attitude. Then on the third leg, he did it AGAIN.

Well, that was that. I refused to fly with him again and we took a 2 hour delay while they found me a new FO. I was interviewed by a supervisor in the FFDO program, and after explaining what happened, they pulled his creds.

The problem with programs like this is that they are often designed (unintentionally, but still) with so many hoops to jump through that they ensure that the people who get the guns are the people who *really* want the guns, which in my experience are the wrong people to give the guns to.

Even during a compilation serious accidents can happen by a professional shooter.

On the above video it was suppose to be competition, not compilation. Spell check at it again👍

You sound like you are anti- bonehead, and so am I.

Every time I go shooting with friends, family, or newbies it all starts with a review of gun safety practices. You break the rules, you are done for the day. If you insist on staying, I insist on leaving.

If disqualification for breaking the rules is good enough for the IDPA, it should be good enough for casual shooting.

I once worked in a place that had armed security guards..I asked one of them where he practiced shooting..He said I never practiced.The gun came with the job.That made me feel really safe..I started looking for places to hide in case shooting started.

I carry a Bond Arms Serpent Slayer IV as well. Good for snakes, bankers, lawyers, etc.

I got in a custome made front sight today for my Precision Center BFR .44mag. Gotta get a smith to drill and tap the bbl to mount it now. The revolver came from the factory set up for a scope.

Just in case I gotta shoot a bad guy...behind the refridgerator...that's in the neighbor's house. 😁

I have a sawed-off S X S .410 with a cut down pistol grip which I carried on the ATV while working fields. Snakes were a problem while picking up hay bales. With the small Prairie Rattlesnakes we have here, a shovel is enough. I do not even use that unless they are a real threat which is seldom. If we had Crotalus Atrox, Old Diamond Back, that would be a different story altogether.


 

My son was fresh from the Marine Corps and was overly cocky on his all knowing expertise on firearms. He bought the:



For the coolness factor and to have rambo nite with the boys out in the woods. The problem was he had never been trained on that type of weapon and was lucky he didn't lose teeth.

He sold that gun pretty quick after that.

My bad.

www.mossberg.com/product/500-tactical-jic-51340/

Years ago, when doing some law enforcement work in native villages in bush Alaska, I carried a SxS 10 gauge that was sawed off to 16" and loaded with 3 1/2" magnum 00 buck. It was intended for backup for the giant coastal brown bears that infested the area when out on search-and-rescues in the bush. I never had the need, or the nerve, to fire it.

When I later moved to Colorado to cowboy some more, I sold it. The clown that bought it wound up in the hospital. He loaded both barrels, whipped it up hip-high and pulled both triggers at the same time. Busted his hand up pretty good.

My youth and adventurous spirit was tempered just enough by what tiny little bit of common sense I had at the time to save me a whole lot of grief. I was 6' tall, and only weighed 145 lbs. That thing would have messed me up good.

I never bought another one.

I dropped off my BFR .44mag at the gunsmith today. He's drilling, tapping and installing a custom front sight I had made for it, as it came from the factory set up for a scope. He's also adjusting the timing and slicking the internals up a bit. Im hoping to make it my elk buster this fall.

Here's an interesting review of the Mossberg 590 Shockwave in 12ga, with a 14 inch barrel and classified nationally (so check your local laws) as a pistol so no stamp required. The review is by a magazine in Houston called Gun Tests. I like them because they accept no advertising whatsoever, and buy their guns locally, ie they're not provided by the manufacturer. Here's the 590 (it also comes in .410):



They found it wasn't any fun with the 4+1 3 inch shells, was better with 5+1 2.75 inchers, but best with a $17 Mini-clip from OPSol, that allows you to shoot Aguila 1.75 inch mini-shells, which gives you an 8+1 capacity.

At ten yards, they were getting a ten inch spread with the Aguila 1.75 #4 or #1 buckshot, and a 3.25 inch group with the Aguila 1.75 inch slugs, which they didn't expect from a 14 inch barrel with a cylinder bore. Some guy who owned the Mossberg Shockwave in .410 said he mounted a laser on top of his that improved his accuracy firing from the hip substantionally. The Mossie retails for $455, and is made in Eagle Pass, Texas. Hmm.

Here's the review, and it includes the link to OPSol, for the $17 mini-clip that allows you to shoot the Aguilas: Gun Tests review

I still want a stock.