Christmas haul

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Taurus PT111 Millenium Pro G2

 

[AirCap]

Bang. Bang.

 

[amigarobbo]

Bang, bang, shoot, shoot
White gloved thumb, Lord thy will be done
He was always a good boy his mother said
He'll do his duty when he's grown.








Sorry, this isn't guess the lyrics is it?

 

[BigSteve22]

Everybody's got someone they call home.............

 

[rgand]

Nice! Congrats.

 

[Cagey]

Cool. 9mm, 12 rounds, relatively small and lightweight. What's not to love? Got your carry permit?

 

[BigSteve22]

Nice stocking-stuffer, Tony! Santa must like you, bet you were a REAL good boy last year!

After 100 years of S&W Model 10's, my department just switched to Glocks. Now I have an excuse to go buy me a new gun............

:icon_thumright:

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Cool. 9mm, 12 rounds, relatively small and lightweight. What's not to love? Got your carry permit?

I've had it for years, and that's what sped up the background check.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Nice stocking-stuffer, Tony! Santa must like you, bet you were a REAL good boy last year!

After 100 years of S&W Model 10's, my department just switched to Glocks. Now I have an excuse to go buy me a new gun............

:icon_thumright:

This is my first transition to a Glock styled stock & action, and after enduring the 10-12 lb pull of my PT100 in .40 S&W, I'm very pleased that my new carry sidearm is arthrytic & degenerative joint disease friendly at 5lbs.  It's very comfy and I hardly notice the weight compared to my previous one.

 

[Cagey]

Cool. 9mm, 12 rounds, relatively small and lightweight. What's not to love? Got your carry permit?

I've had it for years, and that's what sped up the background check.

Here in Michigan if you have a valid CCW permit, they don't require a background check as you've already not only been checked, but trained as well. You can walk into Cabela's with your CCW permit and a credit card and walk out with shiny new equalizer, enough ammo to make it useful and some fresh debt.

 

[BigSteve22]

This is my first transition to a Glock styled stock & action, and after enduring the 10-12 lb pull of my PT100 in .40 S&W, I'm very pleased that my new carry sidearm is arthrytic & degenerative joint disease friendly at 5lbs.  It's very comfy and I hardly notice the weight compared to my previous one.

I hear ya on that one! Our Model 10's average about 8# on the DA pull, and they could ALL use a little polishing to clean up the insides. Even my personal Model 65, (a stainless version bored for .357's), is sometimes a little painful to shoot long term. Kinda looking forward to that 5.5# pull. Not to mention the fact that the G17 weighs less fully loaded than the Smith weighs empty!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Cool. 9mm, 12 rounds, relatively small and lightweight. What's not to love? Got your carry permit?

I've had it for years, and that's what sped up the background check.

Here in Michigan if you have a valid CCW permit, they don't require a background check as you've already not only been checked, but trained as well. You can walk into Cabela's with your CCW permit and a credit card and walk out with shiny new equalizer, enough ammo to make it useful and some fresh debt.

I did this at Cabela's, but it was Dec 23rd, so I think just to make sure nobody slipped through the cracks, they put everyone through it.

They gave me about 60% of the retail value of my PT100 that I've had for 20+ years, and I was only out $21 & some gum money.

 

[Cagey]

Nice! Love deals like that.

 

[Axkoa]

It's weird seeing people so freely post pictures of guns and stuff on this forum. Being an Australia I'm not too accustomed to guns.

 

[Logrinn]

I hear you Axkoa. It's very weird.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Was just part of getting dressed growing up.
Keys, wallet, watch, pocket knife, gun.

Although, when I was 16/17 yrs old in the central valley of Ca.  Kids didn't carry handguns, but nearly every one of my friends who drove had a shotgun in the vehicle, more often than not in the gun rack of a pickup truck.

It was farm country, and it wasn't uncommon to have to stop to put a suffering critter out of its misery after someone else came through earlier & hit & & kept going.

The two kids at school that got in a fight that same day would be wielding shotguns or rifles that same weekend when as neighbors irrigating they'd be shooting away raccoons, gophers, foxes, & other predators, but the thought never occurred to us to use our guns on each other.

You'd get in a fist fight over something stupid, get over it, live to fight another day, learn to live with each other.

Different era indeed.

 

[rgand]

Like Tony, I was a farm kid myself. Our property was at the end of a country road in the coastal foothills of central California with the next 'civilization' on the other side of the mountains. There were always pests and such to deal with. On long all-day hikes, you always took a shotgun or rifle because the mountains were full of cougars and such. The responsibility and respect we learned from having guns was something kids don't get these days. You're right, Tony, It's a different era.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Like Tony, I was a farm kid myself. Our property was at the end of a country road in the coastal foothills of central California with the next 'civilization' on the other side of the mountains. There were always pests and such to deal with. On long all-day hikes, you always took a shotgun or rifle because the mountains were full of cougars and such. The responsibility and respect we learned from having guns was something kids don't get these days. You're right, Tony, It's a different era.

Modesto area, Hughson, Ca. Specifically.

You?

 

[rgand]

Modesto area, Hughson, Ca. Specifically.

You?

Watsonville. Now in Aromas, a few miles East of there. I have an idea where Hughson is. I'm kind of familiar with Modesto since my sister lives there. Boy has Modesto grown. It used to be a modest valley town.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Modesto area, Hughson, Ca. Specifically.

You?

Watsonville. Now in Aromas, a few miles East of there. I have an idea where Hughson is. I'm kind of familiar with Modesto since my sister lives there. Boy has Modesto grown. It used to be a modest valley town.

I know Watsonville near the coast.

Hughson is about 12 miles Southeast of Modesto, before you get to Turlock.

When I left in '84, Mo-Town was about 120K pop, now it's up in the 205k range.  Hughson had about 3000, now it's about 6000.