I still want a .44 wheelgun, one day, if I can find it and afford it. But gingerbread is for cookies and Victorian architecture. If my pistol outweighs my M1A, I may as well carry the damned rifle. Yeah, call me a crotchety old Luddite.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Damn me for a fool, but if someone sliced the Buck Rogers pickletiny rail from that Ruger, I'd covet it. I could do without the grips, too. The big, smooth diamonds belong on a pre-24 1911 and nothing else.
You just described my 10-year-old 22/45, a beautifully-crafted and extremely accurate bull-barrel .22 - with no rails or replaceable grip scales. All I ever did to it was replace the sights - I even like the trigger.
If Ruger wanted to improve its flagship .22, I'd appreciate a redesign that would permit it to be re-assembled without Santaria rituals and invocations of pagan gods. But other than that it's as fine a pistol as I've ever owned. These gee-gaws are just gilding the lilly.
My only Ruger .22 semi is an ancient RST4, which I like. But I am looking for a 22/45.
I've tried everything short of satanic appeals in reassembling these things. I find nothing works better than putting the parts back roughly where thy belong, pointing the muzzle up, then shaking the gun this way and that. Eventually things seem to fall ito place. :)
Didja see the new revolver from S&W? It fires either .45 Colt or .410 shotshells, and it's called "The Governor"! Isn't that creative? Don't know if you can get it with extra rails, though.
Ur a crotchety old Luddite.
Well, somebody had to do it.
M, I haven't seen the S&W but I heard about it at Tam's site yesterday. Lord help us, whatever you may think about the Taurus it's apparently selling like crazy. Which means every other manufacturer is probably rushing to get a clone on the market.
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