He needs practice. He should do better with a tripod stance.

Yanking the trigger no doubt.

maybe time at a range with work as physical therapy for the use of your hand and reloading might be great to get finger flexing again

"....they start crying and blubbering , and nobody wants to see a snotty nosed bald man crying and lip quivering, hugging a sexually confused roo."

Love Red's weapon choice. One I'm partial too - picked up a Tisas 1911 recently. 45 acp. Working perfectly out of the box and not bad accuracy for an under $400 1911 - frame works well with my .45 MechTech carbine upper too. My other 1911 is a bit of a Man From Uncle gun - Rock Island 1911 in 10mm, with extra top ends in .40 S&W and 9x19mm - got deals on new Rock Island barrels and slides and did some fitting work when really bored. I get bored, I start on gunsmithing projects - usually caliber conversions or fix up some oldies. Current project is a 1948 Stevens 325B bolt action .30/30.

I remember when those bolt 30-30s were piled up in gunshops because nobody wanted them. Then people figured out that using a 7mm or 300 win mag to shoot deer at 100 yards was really stupid and the bolt 30-30s were actually fantastic. Especially for women and kids.

I should have picked up more of them back then.

I'm sitting on a few hundred once fired and new .30/30 cases, set of loading dies and jacketed & lead bullets for that round. Had sold my Marlin 336 a while back. Saw the Stevens, looked up info on it and made a deal. Have plenty of primers and powders that will work for it. Set for life, I'm damn near 60.

Sadly my Ex sold off behind my back all my reloading gear , primers, powder and bullets and my two presses when I was in Arizona for my sisters cancer surgery. I literally could reload any gun I owned outside of .22 ammo.

I have a Winchester 94 and 94 carbine along with my Marlin 336 Youth model thats decently scoped out. Sadly the .30-30 ammo has increased from the once normal $14-$16 to now $30-$37 for 20 rounds. Only have 80 rounds currently, seriously need more.

I remember you mentioning that. That totally sucked. I have a .30/30 die set by Eagle - 10 bucks at a gunshow for unused dies from the 1970s about 15 years ago. Picked up a Mequon - basically a Lee Loader with a few twists - for 10 bucks at a flea market pre pandemic. Unitized loader - it actually full length sizes the .30/30 case instead of neck sizing like most Lees. came with a priming tool and a cast bullet neck flaring tool/crimp tool. Paper work on it has a 1974 © Works. Just need to get to the range with that Stevens and my bastardized sporterized Smith Corona 1903A3. Someone put Lyman 48 Target sights on it decades ago and someone recently recut the crown on the barrel and put a new sporter stock on it - left hand cheekpiece of all things. That person also screwed up the original bolt by welding on a swept back sporting bolt handle. I don't trust the damn thing - they didn't strip the bolt and use a heat sink during the welding... I found a 1944 dated in the grease wrapper replacement bolt body for 60 bucks on Ebay. Had fun getting the cosmoline out of it. Floated the good parts to it and have done some checks. Good to go, just need a break in the weather on a weekend.

Cosmoline likes warm kerosene. My brother ungunked a mummy-wrapped SMLE years ago and heated the kerosene with a hot air blower he rebuilt. Small foil pans heat up real quick.

I did the hot water method. Ran the tap in the utility sink, melted the cosmoline. Wipe it then put it in a pickle jar with Hoppes 9. Worked perfectly

I used car brake cleaner on gunked up Nagant rifles. Then on a hot day, laid the stripped rifle out in the sun to help bake out the cosmoline, took a few hot days to fully work out of the furniture mess.

The sole Turkish M-27 Mauser I had, was so bad, I had to run a garrison rod down the barrel from the breech to force out the cosmo like toothpaste. And to my delight, that bore was bright and shiny with solid lands and grooves. Not the typical worn out, shot out, corroded out Turkish Mausers. Sadly had to sell that rifle later on , never saw another M-27 like it since.

You know the bore is bad when you run an oiled patch down the bore and the patch gets shredded up. Too many Turkish M-27s are like that,

Did that with a new in the grease Chicom SKS in the early 1990s. Oldest cosmoline I've dealt with was on a tool for the old 1870 US Springfield. That soaked for a month in a glass jar with brake cleaner before the screwdriver blade could move.

I remember sneering at them. $280 bucks for this thing when other used 30/30s are double that - i"ll give it a try. Plus I can use pointed bullets in my handloads - box magazine fed. I worked part of a year at a Texas Gunshop in the 1980s. Everyone wanted a magnum for deer hunting - need something to shoot flat - its 125 yards from my Deer stand to the feeder.... Most of those hill country bucks were 100 pounds or less.. I've owned bigger dogs... I just nodded, sold them the rifle. Made money on the weekends at the local range, sighting in guns for folks. So called bore sighting by other shops weren't even on paper. I'd pull the bolt, put the gun on sand bags, look down the bore and adjust the scope. Fire a couple of rounds at 25 yards to see if on paper. would adjust from there then do a 100 yard zero - $15 bucks Got to shoot a bunch of brand new rifles and make money.

I've done a bit of scope mounting. Accessory.

Whoa...

It's been thirty years or so; still keeps me awake once in a while.

I was in a dark place after some LSU football goons went after a girl I knew. Damn near drove down there from Dallas. College buddy talked me down. Somethings never leave...

Back in 1978 or '79 I was headed home from a party at my favorite bookstore. On a flight of steps leading to the apartments over some shops were two former fellow students from college. He was slapping her around pretty bad; she had hand-prints on her face and a bloody nose. I went up the steps and told him to lay off. I remember he told me to mind my own business and pushed me in the chest. The next thing I remember is, we were on the ground and she was pulling me off of him. He looked a lot worse than she did, his nose was probably broken and he was covered with bruises (he had a white Tee-shirt, not a Wife Beater, but that would have been more appropriate). I told him if he ever touched her again I was coming for him.

A month or so later, I was sitting in the local Burger Thing. She came in and sat across from me. Then she told me the rest of the story. He was a garden-variety sociopath; smarmy-nice when they started dating, before reverting to full-on @$$#0|3. That night was the last straw. She stuffed him in her car, drove him to the ER and left him there. Besides his nose, I'd broken his sternum and collarbone and displaced his shoulder. Apparently he'd gotten to the ground when I bodily pitched him from the stoop -- I never remembered doing that. Not the first, last or only time I went into fugue state and beat the ¢Я@¶ out of a deserving moron.

It gets better. Her father owned a car dealership in Manchester, Connecticut. He also had... connections. About a month later, three goons showed up at his doorstep and did a lot more bodily injury than I had. Two broken arms and a cranial fracture, that I remember. She broke up with him that night, married a really nice guy who (40-odd years later) still treats her like the princess she is.

Some folks do get what's coming to them

I scored a Tisas 1911 tactical duty early last year CHEAP, $260. Need to score more 8 round magazines now. Would love to acquire a Tisas 1911A1 Government at some point.

Mec Gar is the supplier of those mags. I've picked up a few extras. They even have a 10 round 9mm for 9mm 1911s. My Tisas is the Government Model with flat mainspring housing and a Commander hammer. That is a plus for me - standard hammers chew up my hand like crazy. I'm the guy who gets hammer bite from 1911s, Hi Powers, Star BM's, some CZ surplus handguns...

I was hoping to shoot a gun when Speet and I visited the Tucson furs on our cross country a few years ago, but the opportunity never came up.

You could have asked me when you two stopped by.

I shoulda realized you'd have some weaponry around, to go along with those giant-sized bullets!

"Squeeze the trigger like you would a boob" is one I've heard. Hmm. I wonder if Red would let me test that on a nipple...

One handed no less. She has a really strong grip.

Taurus Model 85. That was the handgun I cut my teeth on.

Benjamin 130 air pistol then an Old model Ruger Single Six .22 revolver, brother taught me how to handle it safely then took me to a range, was about 12. Still have that revolver, brother passed away in 1980 from leukemia.

Sorry to hear that. Now, we got better ways to order a hit on the disease, like CAR T-cell therapy. Kills the bastards while leaving healthy cells alone, like bone marrow for example.

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Trained with this rifle as a secondary school cadet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natio.....ps_(Singapore)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenW.....t_used_by_the/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle#Others

"The M16S1 is the M16A1 rifle made under license by ST Kinetics in Singapore. It was the standard issue weapon of the Singapore Armed Forces. It is being replaced by the newer SAR 21 in most branches. It is, in the meantime, the standard issue weapon in the reserve forces."

Used this as a conscript:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR_21
https://www.mindef.gov.sg/web/porta....._SAR_21_Rifles

Nice Rifles. I've built a few ARs ovr the years - still prefer the fixed stock of the early models. Have a fixed stock AR15 carbine 5.56mm and a M4 stocked AR10 carbine in 7.62 Nato. Toss in 2 AR15 actioned pistols - seen in my gallery.
That SAR21 Looks interesting.

I still have my Ruger Single Six I got from my dad in 1979. I remember my first shot with it, dropping a gopher at 50 yards. I would later carry this constantly while hunting as a back up piece. Dropped many a gopher and ground squirrel with it. Even came with the .22WMR cylinder . Pistol could use a decent rebluing and the grips replaced.

Old Model or New model? 3 screw or the two pins? Ruger can do a factory refinish for you - their website has a link for those services. Wood grips - can depend on the model of the Single Six. Have my share of them. Used to hang around Reeder's Custom Guns in Flagstaff - they had boxes of take off grips from custom work they did.

You could always sell it as "Lame Wing Art", ...

I still have a Kimber 10mm and it's li'l brother .38 Super I need to take to the range. With my spine all F'ed up, I'm wondering if I'll live long enough.

I have a Glock 20 in 10MM along with a S&W 2.0 in 10mm, I call them my "Deep Forest Pistols" in case I come across a rather aggressive Sasquatch or brown bear. Eyeing a new Taurus TH10 as a "Budget" 10mm, plus it is high cap and with an exposed hammer.

A contact in Anchorage, Alaska doesn't go out the door without a 10 on her hip. Lots of things up there to whom you look tasty.

I have my 1911 10mm and a Taurus Tracker .44 mag. Both carry and shoot well.

Sasquatch? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNT2mBjLoTk

I could easily accept a family of Squatch like that.

Just like a Nickleback concert.

That ad is a classic. I think its about 10 years old now. Junior freaked out one of my coworkers at Ruger. meant to show it to you at PDFC but I had lousy connection with my phone there.