Recent content by Preacher1959

I think buying this as a 1st gun would be like wanting to learn to drive and buying a Ferrari - too much power for what you need to learn on... I have been shooting 50+ years, am an NRA instructor, owned a gun shop and have fired hundreds of handguns. This the one of the BEST handguns I have...

Talyn - thanks of rthe advice AND: I love the 6 sayings you have listed below!

I am deciding between a walnut or synthetic for a Socom. I am a traditional blued steel/walnut kind of man. I was at a local gun store today & they had a synthetic Socom & walnut Scout. The Socom felt great in the hands. the Scout kind of clunky chunky almost hard to get my hands on. Is this...

I’m kind of stunned and saddened, mad, that the article reports so many shortages of equipment AND that he was using Vietnam issued rifles. Ashamed our government can’t support these troopers better.

1. M1 Carbine 2. M1 Garrand 3. 1903 Springfield 4. 22 cal Echelon - a training pistol 5. SA-35 with beaver tail 6. 1911 replica of the original 1911 commercial model with same finish and 2 tone mags

Keep those 1911 articles by Mas coming! Most of us 1911's folk are older BUT we need to pass this knowledge on to younger shooters. PLUS - at 66 and a shooter for 50 years, I still garnered wisdom from this recent article! thanks again to Mas for sharing his knowledge.

I sold these for 17 years - we NEVER sent one back to SA for service, never, and we sold a ton of them...