Last week, PapaDeltaBravo posted links to this excellent deal on a great Gunnie Starter Kit
One of my favorite online retailers is offering police trade-in Glock 22s and Remington 870s for $330 and $230, respectively.
For the mere sum of $560 plus shipping and FFL fees, this is an excellent self defense battery.
The .40 Short and Weak cartridge was available in my local area during the Obama-inspired buying spree, except for a short period during the very, very worst of it. So, not a bad choice.
If you do take advantage of the 870 deal, don’t forget Wilson’s Remington Steal. Done it. Loved it. For the price Summit is asking for the 870’s plus the two-bills to Wilson, you’re saving $50-100 on what Remington themselves are asking for a fully kitted home defense scattershooter.
In somewhat related news, not only are The Wife and I decreasing our monthlies by knocking almost 8% of our mortgage payment with the refi (should be buttoned up tomorrow), but this last weekend I zeroed out all but one of the credit cards.
Which is nice, but leaves me open for tongue wagging deals such as this one on a .45LC Uberti Top Break
If I really didn’t care so much about having the card to zero, I’d buy one of each: the (5in) and the (3.5in).
Sigh.
UPDATE: And, of course, I forgot to let you know what inspired me to think of the Top Break. Linoge has been talking about his recently acquired Open Top and I somehow translated Open Top into Top Break.
A Schofieldian Slip, of sorts.
How can one article simultaneously pan the .40S&W and boost ownership of a ancient revolver design which wouldn’t even load a cartridge as “weak” as the .40S&W?
I’ve sold every top-break I had, several of the 38S&W persuasion.
The Uberti is a nicely-rendered copy of an antique, but why spend the money on a copy of anything? If you are going to spend scarce gun dollars, either buy a REAL antique which will increase in value, or buy a REAL modern revolver design.
The only top-break I would own would be a .22.
BTW, the only criminal who ever tried to draw on me had one, and the huge front sight got caught in his skivvies, giving him a wedgie which lasted about .02 Second before 4 Portland cops beat him down. I had withheld shooting him because two of the cops had already launched flying tackles at him when my barrel got lined up with his K5. Had I been by myself, I would have had to shoot him.
Because I do not plan on using the .45LC for self defense. Aside from some .22LR pistols, it would be my first purely recreational shooting device. And who knows, maybe I’d get into the CAS or CQD shooting once I got one?
Secondly, the .40S&W is both shorter and weaker compared to the more robust and superior 10MM cartridge. I can’t think of any cartridge bearing the “S&W” moniker that isn’t shorter and weaker than a previously designed cartridge. If they want to lose the “Short & Weak” designation, then they need to quit cribbing shorter and weaker cartridges based from superior designs. It simply isn’t my fault that it fits.
I certainly do not blame you for transposing “open top” with “top break” – I actually have been wanting one of the latter for quite some time now, but the open-top deal fell into my lap, and who am I to turn it down. That, and, unfortunately, my ideal top break is an unconverted Webley, so that might take me a little time to turn up in an affordable form…
Because I could afford it, I like the way it looks, I have wanted one, it turns out to be fun to shoot, and it might be useful if I ever want to get into Cowboy Action Shooting for some reason.
In reality, though, only the third reason I listed matters.