MannyE
Exterminate!
I used to wake up with a pistol.
Me too when I was a teenager...
I used to wake up with a pistol.
In the late `70s, they did a very limited run of 8-inch barreled Pythons chambered in .38 Spl. only, intended for target use. Not many of these saw the light of day, they were sold by specialty distributors like Lew Horton, and were uber-expensive...
I also have the Super Blackhawk in a 10 inch barrel.
Shooting the Eagle is a walk in the park compared to shooting the Blackhawk.
The hand impact from the Blackhawk is intense.
The grip on the Eagle seems stupid big until you pull the trigger.
Managing a 44 mag is a challenge period. 357 will always seems much friendlier.
The 357 is respected for good reason and it is a lot better for many actual practical uses.
The 44 mag is more of a swing for the fence and chase the 357s out of the house.
As Harry said. "...and would blow your head clean off"
.357 "saves the shoulder" and using HP slower ammo won't pass through yer perp, through a wall, and into the street, adjacent apartmant, heaven only knows where else...
You gotta imagine that's a cool collector gun and, like a pro-street Camaro, only good for making noise and having fun or sitting around on display. A .357 is a practical workhorse that gets the job done. Although if one was 6'10'' tall and built like Conan the Barbarian, a Dessert Eagle would be a perfect fit. I can see it now... CONAN 2049... The Barbarian is Back! And he's MAD.
If you're out there counting on your weapon to protect you, then it can't be an unwieldy bonkers huge canon... IMO of course
...and this crazy "ultimate boot gun" which despite people offering me over $100 I just didn't want to part with!
A Model 41 would be an EXCELLENT Ambassador to the great "Not Shooting" public...Its little/no recoil, its pretty, & is accurate/forgiving enuf to make even the worst shooter believe he/she is actually a true "Deadeye Dick" who is a masterful shooter. A goodly number of the loudest critics of the 2nd Amendment/shooting sports types have never even held/picked up a firearm. If we could just get a FEW of them to go w/us & make life TOUGH for a gallon milk jug & get to experience of how much FUN all this REALLY is, we could possibly pick up quite a few "Converts", & take a little pressure off us or a change. We typically DON'T do a good job of putting our best foot forward, if you follow....
Tickles me how The Mighty Media has now decided that any backwards 10 yr old boy can take ANY semiauto gun, say a few words over it- "Pastafazoolah,minchca poola, Bibbity-Bobbity Boo" & that's ALL you gots to do to have yer very own fully automatic weapon... Never mind that what's much more likely to happen is you'll completely booger up a nice shootin' iron,something that will be VERY dangerous, & when they catch you with it, you'll get to spend a lot of time at the local Graybar Hotel. These Bump-firing doohickies, auto sears, etc,etc, I never did trust one of 'em any farther than I could throw it..You gotta Itch to play w/a Rawk 'n' Roll device ? Do yerself-and all the rest of us,for that matter a big fat favor,find someone who has a LEGAL Class-3 gun, offer to buy enuf ammo for a nice afternoon's worth of diversion, remember to bring a BUNCH of gallon Milk Jugs, toss one up in the air, & see how many times you can make it jump on the way back down. DON'T let yr Wife shoot it-She will act like she's all scared of the big, nasty gun-But just try to take it away from her... Once a woman finds out how much FUN these things truly are, she AIN'T gonna be happy til SHE has one of her very own, too...
Some of our compadres REALLY don't show much good Judgment when trying to show a Noob how to shoot a firearm... I'm pretty guilty of this as well.The quickest way to scare the Dickens out of a Noob is to break him-Or HER- in on yer fave loudenboomer stokered up w/those sizzlin' handloads you talked Billy Joe Tom Bob into makin' for you last Xmas..You know-the ones that pegged the Richter scale down at the community college... That's about the BEST way to guarantee you've made another vehement anti-gunner.I nearly always, start 'em out w/one of my trusty Twenty Twos. They generally aren't LOUD, & have little/no recoil.Give 'em a piece that is easy to shoot,accurate & FUN. I've gotten loads of FUN out of seeing a nebbish, or Terminally TIMID kid break into a "Light Up The White House Xmmas Tree" grin after he's made Short Work teachin' that milk jug a thing or 3..I got saddled w/watching this particularly obnoxious little gal once at the farm...I was about ready to sell her to the Russians-Just to be SHUT of her- until she spied my Chipmunk .22 single shot rifle. Couple hours& a few boxes of 22 fodder later, I'd made a friend, she showed quite a bit of ability to be another Annie Oakley- & I resolved to not be quite so judgmental vis a vis a kid..