Ready for the range

[GearHead_1]

I`d very badly like to add a Garand to my collection some day

If you haven`t already and you don`t mind your rifle having a little history you might want to take a look at the Civillian Marksmanship Program (CMP). They often have very respectable deals.

Link: M1 Garand - Civilian Marksmanship Program

[House of Wax]

I`ve been trying to ignore those guys recently as they`re about to release a bunch of carbines.....

[House of Wax]

Do we have any CCW members here? I`ve been looking for CCW classes to take and there`s a ton of instructors around me. How did you guys choose who to go with?

[Accumulator]

House of Wax- Please check your PMs.

[House of Wax]

House of Wax- Please check your PMs.

Got it. Thanks a lot

[Accumulator]

My pleasure.

[House of Wax]

Just got into a pretty cool (and potentially dangerous for the wallet lol) group on facebook. It`s basically a gun raffle. Every day a new firearm goes up, X amount of "tickets" are allocated at a certain price, and once they`re sold out and paid for the guy runs the list of names on random.org 3 times to pick a winner. For example the one I bid on today was a S&W M&P15 rifle....330 spots at 3 bucks a pop. They`ve had a run of guns I really wanted lately....probably going to have to block the group for awhile haha. Neat idea though

[craigdt]

It`s awesome to see the collision of my 2 favorite hobbies- and a great group of guys who are fellow gun owners.

Here`s one of my newest range toys:
Smith and Wesson 686 Plus, 3" barrel
with its friend, the TOPS Knives US Combat Knife.

The knife makes the gun look small

[House of Wax]

That is a big knife lol

[GearHead_1]

It`s awesome to see the collision of my 2 favorite hobbies- and a great group of guys who are fellow gun owners.

Here`s one of my newest range toys:
Smith and Wesson 686 Plus, 3" barrel
with its friend, the TOPS Knives US Combat Knife.

The knife makes the gun look small

Love the 686.

[Accumulator]

Houe of Wax- Heh heh, if you`re not careful you`re gonna start, uhn...Accumulating a whole lotta stuff via that raffle

craigdt- Nice Smith, especially like that 3" tube! Accumulatorette has one in 4" (converted from a 6") but hers isn`t that nice (and newer) Plus model. Good choice on the Hogue stocks (assuming that`s what they are..) and I like the new-style cylinder release.

[BSkip333]

Love my 686 also. My favorite to shoot is my Dan Wesson Point man. So easy to shoot and it is just SMOOTH! Even I can shoot groups inside of 2" from 25 yards consistently. Carry a Sig 938 Extreme everyday.

[GearHead_1]

Houe of Wax- Heh heh, if you`re not careful you`re gonna start, uhn...Accumulating a whole lotta stuff via that raffle

craigdt- Nice Smith, especially like that 3" tube! Accumulatorette has one in 4" (converted from a 6") but hers isn`t that nice (and newer) Plus model. Good choice on the Hogue stocks (assuming that`s what they are..) and I like the new-style cylinder release.

Accumulator, correct me if I`m wrong but weren`t the Plus and the 6 shot cylinder both available at the same time as an either or depending upon barrel length?



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There are 5, 686`s in this pic. Two of them are the Plus model. There`s also a 629 (44 Magnum) and a 619 (Target .22 LR). The .619 is incredibly accurate and so easy to shoot with a Red Dot on it. My daughter has emptied the 10 round cylinder at 15 yards, shooting free hand and kept it in the size of a dime. It is obviously one of her favorite firearms.

I agree completly with BSkip333 on a Dan Wesson (have one in the suitcase with 4 barrels) being a smooth shooter out of the box. That said, none of these S&W`s are "out of the box". I also believe that Dan Wesson has some of the finest bluing around, they`re every bit as nice as Colt. S&W hasn`t produced real quaity over the counter bluing in the past 30 years. Hence this stainless pic. I have some nicely blued Smiths but they`re late 70`s early 80`s and before.

[craigdt]

I believe that`s correct.
At the time (a couple years ago) I had a hell of a time tracking the 3" Plus model down.
Finally found one online at Buds Gun Shop after looking all over the state and everywhere else online

[GearHead_1]

I believe that`s correct.
At the time (a couple years ago) I had a hell of a time tracking the 3" Plus model down.
Finally found one online at Buds Gun Shop after looking all over the state and everywhere else online

The thing that is getting harder to find is a S&W revolver in good shape without the insurance hole behind the cylinder release. I see fewer of them on the gun boards with every year that goes by.