Slightly unnerving

By | November 27, 2014

As you may know, I bought a Kahr CM9 a couple of months ago and it came with an extra magazine. Since the CM9 is a 6+1 9mm, I pocket carry the spare mag.

Well yesterday I went to the range and when I pulled out the magazine, I was greeted with this:

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Yeah so that would NOT have been good if I’d needed it. But there was something else slightly more disturbing:

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That’s the five rounds that were in my six round magazine. So I lost one somewhere.

So I just ordered this. Now I know why they make them.

Gun Porn: Thanksgiving Edition

By | November 25, 2014

Turkey day? How bout a Turkey Gun*?

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Browning Auto-5. And you know who designed that, right?

*I’m not a hunter, so that could be a deer gun for all I know. Or duck. Or whatever.

Alarming discovery in a small shop in NYC

By | November 6, 2014

The wife and I recently took a trip to NYC, and we stepped inside a shop on 5th avenue to check out what they had.  It was a nice Italian designer of outdoors clothes.

beretta_1As you can see, pretty upscale.  This picture was taken from the second floor.  Here’s a shot of that floor.

beretta_2The store was full of high end outdoors and what might be considered hunting clothes.  Nice jackets that I would love, if only I could afford them.

Oh… and the store clerk told me that there was a third floor that I had to see.  Hmmm… the stairs were a bit hidden, but I was able to find them.  Walk up the stairs, only to discover this horrible secret!

beretta_3My god! a room full of guns!

20141021_114412All the wonderful… I mean terrible guns!

If you guys haven’t been able to tell by now, this is the Beretta Gallery in New York.  The third floor houses both their gun room and their gun smith’s workshop.  Of course, it being NY, they don’t carry Beretta’s pistols or “tactical” line of long guns, but the rifles and shotguns that they do have are absolute works of art.

20141021_114707One or two of these shotguns are worth more than my car… but they’re sooo pretty.

I kind of chuckled when the guy behind the counter on the first floor asked if I was familiar with the Beretta brand.

I did manage to find a knife that I could afford (I looked at a hat I liked, but it was $140, and the flasks were $120).  I’ll write up an post about that later.

Shut up and take my money

By | November 3, 2014

Last month, I asked the guys in #GBC if someone made an AR Trigger that used the auto position for a match trigger (2.5lb-ish, short travel, for distance shots), and the semi auto position for more of a standard 4.5lb-ish trigger for running around. Someone thought that Tac-Con’s 3MR did that, but upon investigation we realized that’s not how that trigger operates.

Last week, though, they announced the Tac-Con 241, which does exactly what I want.

I’ll take two. No, three. WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S NOT OUT YET!?!?!?