30 Super Carry
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
fiver
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you'll have that here.
as long as it stays in bounds, things will wander all over the map.
one good thing Roosevelt done was give the little guy a good chance to have a little sumthin in the Dakota's.
with all the monuments to him up there i wouldn't work too hard finding something bad to say about him if i was in the area.
as long as it stays in bounds, things will wander all over the map.
one good thing Roosevelt done was give the little guy a good chance to have a little sumthin in the Dakota's.
with all the monuments to him up there i wouldn't work too hard finding something bad to say about him if i was in the area.
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
30/32 caliber handgun threads take on a life of their own nearly every time they come up. The more powerful numbers roar mightily, but don't kick much at all--that is a HUGE selling point in this country and Canada. I recall reading one old gun scribe--Jack O'Conner, if memory serves--"The American shooter does not being kicked hard by recoil". I suppose that extends to handguns as well as it does to rifles, which O'Conner was talking about in a hunting article.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We're famous for thread drift. It ain't much, but we're proud of it!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
He was in the woods near my hometown when McKinley was shot. Local legend has it he was unofficially sworn in as Prez by a local justice at our rail station just after getting the word McKinley died. Lotta TR love in our area too. And it's not good or bad, it's history, which comes in all sorts of flavors. You can either accept it or ignore it, but you can't change it. To each their own.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
True that. I still vividly recall a recruit at our Academy taking his first shot with the 12 ga Ithaca. He threw the gun on the ground- not a wise thing to do, but Mr Urban Attitude didn't like recoil at all!
CWLONGSHOT
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I am a 32 fan. Started many moons ago with the 32/20. Was sparked with the 32 H&R but soon realized "mag" it wasnt. I skipped past the 2008 release of the 327 because of flop of the 32 H&R.
BUt repeated writings and then I saw a Ruger Birds head in 327 and I was hooked. I really like this gun. Shoots handles like a caliber allot bigger then 32. Plus I can fire a bunch a smaller 32's too! So I bought a Bisley 327 too. Wow that is quite a good shooter!!! Real accurate abd shoots my 135g cast with authority!
This 30 SC is of no interest. Im mot a 9mm fan either. My carry calibers start with a 4.
Good luck with the caliber.
CW
BUt repeated writings and then I saw a Ruger Birds head in 327 and I was hooked. I really like this gun. Shoots handles like a caliber allot bigger then 32. Plus I can fire a bunch a smaller 32's too! So I bought a Bisley 327 too. Wow that is quite a good shooter!!! Real accurate abd shoots my 135g cast with authority!
This 30 SC is of no interest. Im mot a 9mm fan either. My carry calibers start with a 4.
Good luck with the caliber.
CW
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Did Ruger make the Bearcat in anything but 22LR? I always liked them, to handle at least. Not sure if I ever shot one. If they made it in 32 Long that would be a great field gun. So would a 32 Smith Kit Gun, in fact that would be lots better. I know they made some of those, but they are hard to find and a lotta $$$ if you can find one.
I've seen conversions ($$$$), and having one chamber reamed to 22 mag is pretty common.
CWLONGSHOT
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CWLONGSHOT
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I have wanted a 22 Mag. Bear Cat for a long time.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Hmmmm. I'm not the world biggest single action fan, but the little Bearcat appeals. So I'd have to get a custom maker to build one. Might as well tell him to put adjustable sights and a Bisley grip on it too. Wonder how much I could get for one of my kids?... 
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Then you run into the same "no ammo" problem as the 22LR. I'm seriously bothered by the ammo situation as far as rimfire stuff goes. Nothing we can do about it, unless we want to start bribing people at the various outlets that get ammo. I'm told locally the people at Wally World are making a good deal of side $$$ doing just that, which also irks me to no end.
Someone famous, Saint Elmer maybe, once said the 22 Mag in a handgun was about equal to a 22LR from a rifle. That always made a heck of a lot of plain old common sense to me.
Rick H
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When I hired on those HIgh Standard 2 shot 22 mag derringers were popular with some of the guys. They were LOUD and none of them could hit anything with them at more than about 5'. They had just awful triggers. At night they would blind everyone in the room with the muzzle flash.
None of them ever actually had to use one. I guess they served the intended purpose, making them feel better. I carried an OMC Backup in 380 for a while for the same purpose. It was actually smaller in overall dimensions and only weighed a bit more than the derringer. I never needed mine either. Carried a boot knife too, at least I used that to cut folks out of seatbelts and such.
I own a 22 mag rifle, only because of some arcane rules for night time coyote hunting in my state. I think the 22 mag is an answer searching for a problem to solve.
None of them ever actually had to use one. I guess they served the intended purpose, making them feel better. I carried an OMC Backup in 380 for a while for the same purpose. It was actually smaller in overall dimensions and only weighed a bit more than the derringer. I never needed mine either. Carried a boot knife too, at least I used that to cut folks out of seatbelts and such.
I own a 22 mag rifle, only because of some arcane rules for night time coyote hunting in my state. I think the 22 mag is an answer searching for a problem to solve.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Always heard how great the Bear Cat was. I’d see one a a show and occasionally at the used counter, but always walked by never even picked one up as I could not understand the need/use let alone the desire. Looked small, I mean small, plus have to push out each cartridge one —- at —- a —— time. Why. I love the double action 22 Smith’s the load and unload reasonable. But after that it’s going to be a semi-auto.
I was doing a trade a couple of years ago with 5 guns, took up a entire 4x8 sheet of plywood on sawhorses. Stuff being offered would come out and and pretty soon the blankets had guns stacked at each end and it was fun but when the ammo was tossed in for a firearm to enhance the trade here and there, it was a busy piece of plywood.
One of the items Dave had for trade was a Bear Cat new unfired in the box. Ok now’s the time to get one and not have to peel off the green out of the gun fund. Well the deal was made, it was new, opened the box, looked like Dave’s sales pitch was accurate, so went into the pile without picking it up out of the box. Going to finely figure out what all the glitzy was about a Bear Cat. The next weekend I shot one cylinder out of that tiny thing and back in the box with a for sale sign. Kinda figured it was like collecting fur babies of the gun world. Not much point.
Might have to look at a Ruger Wrangler as there bigger, I don’t know, one at a time. I don’t like loading magazines but…..
I was doing a trade a couple of years ago with 5 guns, took up a entire 4x8 sheet of plywood on sawhorses. Stuff being offered would come out and and pretty soon the blankets had guns stacked at each end and it was fun but when the ammo was tossed in for a firearm to enhance the trade here and there, it was a busy piece of plywood.
One of the items Dave had for trade was a Bear Cat new unfired in the box. Ok now’s the time to get one and not have to peel off the green out of the gun fund. Well the deal was made, it was new, opened the box, looked like Dave’s sales pitch was accurate, so went into the pile without picking it up out of the box. Going to finely figure out what all the glitzy was about a Bear Cat. The next weekend I shot one cylinder out of that tiny thing and back in the box with a for sale sign. Kinda figured it was like collecting fur babies of the gun world. Not much point.
Might have to look at a Ruger Wrangler as there bigger, I don’t know, one at a time. I don’t like loading magazines but…..