Bad Dogs Bad Neighbor

[Dftodd]

Ruger Single Six? I bought one new over 50 years ago for my wife that had never fired a pistol. She still injoys plinking with LRs in the cylinder. Some question it's ability to stop an intruder or humanly dispatch varmints but I believe being comfortable firing it coupled with ability to group well more than make up for fewer grains of lead. Not that I think she will ever use it on the neighbors or their dogs.

Wife got tired of me going after varmints with the 20ga.

Got me that one on her dad's recommendation. I keep the 22mag cylinder in it. It's about right for the occasional skunk or possum.

Neighbors son did borrow it to put down his mom's Yorkie. Sad to say, but it's the perfect example of why you always leash a new dog that you rescued while taking it outside unless you have a fenced in spot for it.

She took it outside off leash and the first time it saw another dog it darted off there property and attacked the other dog. The other dog was 10 times its size.

 

[Dftodd]

Yeah, that would make sense for the police department to check ballistics on a firearm before selling it to see if it's been used in a crime. You didn't get it new from a factory, which is what "the person" is arguing.

Person my wife got it from was a gun dealer. I'm assuming he acquired it after it was returned to the original owner or purchased from police after a crime was committed.

Years ago, a roommate had his home broken into and a pistol stolen. A couple years later a perp got into a car chase with police and ended up getting shot and killed during the standoff. Roommates stolen gun was found in the perps car with several others.

Sheriff's office returned the gun to him a year or so later with dried blood still on it I happened to be renting a room from him when the pistol was returned.

He took it to a gun shop, had them clean it up really good. Then promptly sold it.

The person who was found with the gun was not the suspect who actually stole it. Roommate had a Pitbull, so whomever stole it, had to know the dog, or they wouldn't have dared to come into that house.

The prominent suspect was someone who lived across the street for a short time and stole it for drugs.

Roommate was an idiot and would let anyone in his house and would show off his stuff to anybody.

That changed after the break in.

 

[Jstpssng]

Ruger Single Six? I bought one new over 50 years ago for my wife that had never fired a pistol. She still injoys plinking with LRs in the cylinder. Some question it's ability to stop an intruder or humanly dispatch varmints but I believe being comfortable firing it coupled with ability to group well more than make up for fewer grains of lead. Not that I think she will ever use it on the neighbors or their dogs.

It doesn’t matter how big the bullet is if you can’t hit anything. Better to use something you’re familiar with, and be able to hit what you aim at.

For anybody who doubts what a .22 pistol can do, look at Ron Reagan.

 

[bigtiller]

It doesn’t matter how big the bullet is if you can’t hit anything. Better to use something you’re familiar with, and be able to hit what you aim at.

For anybody who doubts what a .22 pistol can do, look at Ron Reagan.

The brother of my friend was mugged with a .22. He raised his hand in defense. The bullet went through his hand, through his upper arm, into his armpit, rattled around on some bones and stopped in his gut.
Exploratory surgery to fix all the holes in his abdomen.
I am sure I don't want my intestines piled up on a tray and then dumped back in. He had gut pains for a long time while everything settled down.

 

[jaxs]

As someone once told me when we laughed at his .25...

"I'll bet you run just as fast if I point this at you and start shooting."

Now there's all kinds of arguments about stopping the threat, etc., but that point about deterrent is pretty valid. I'd guess most people that break into a house or try and carjack someone will retreat pretty fast once they start getting shot at be it a .22 or a .45.

Anyone that break's into my house or carjacks me signed their own death warrant. Whether they actually get shot,bludgeoned or die depend's on what I think their intentions are and whether I gain the advantage. Perps being "shot at" often shoot back,perps that are shot rarely shoot back.
I have no desire to put it to the test,but if I'm ever shot I hope it's with a .25 auto. I'd choose taking 2 slugs from a .25 auto over a single from a .22 mag(especially considering the difference in ammo commonly available for them). That's getting too far into the techinacial aspects for those that believe AR-15 denotes ammo and projectile so I better drop it here.

 

[MossRoad]

It doesn’t matter how big the bullet is if you can’t hit anything. Better to use something you’re familiar with, and be able to hit what you aim at.

For anybody who doubts what a .22 pistol can do, look at Ron Reagan.

And that was a ricochet of of the limo.

 

[MossRoad]

Wife got tired of me going after varmints with the 20ga.

Got me that one on her dad's recommendation. I keep the 22mag cylinder in it. It's about right for the occasional skunk or possum.

Neighbors son did borrow it to put down his mom's Yorkie. Sad to say, but it's the perfect example of why you always leash a new dog that you rescued while taking it outside unless you have a fenced in spot for it.

She took it outside off leash and the first time it saw another dog it darted off there property and attacked the other dog. The other dog was 10 times its size.

We have two High Standard .22 9-shot revolvers. The snubby has a magnum cylinder as well. That short barrel and magnums makes the most harsh CRACK when it fires. Not a boom, but a CRACK! It's painful to hear. Always wear hearing protection when shooting.

 

[dodge man]

They do not ballistic fire fire arms and save the bullet, although some states do require a fired case, this has already been said and is correct.

On tv they always show like they can 100% tell a bullet came from an exact gun. I don’t buy that. How is that gun different than the the one made before it or after it? I do understand they can tell it came from a certain type of gun, say a Glock for example.

 

[Jstpssng]

They do not ballistic fire fire arms and save the bullet, although some states do require a fired case, this has already been said and is correct.

On tv they always show like they can 100% tell a bullet came from an exact gun. I don’t buy that. How is that gun different than the the one made before it or after it? I do understand they can tell it came from a certain type of gun, say a Glock for example.

One handgun which I bought at some point in time had a fired bullet from the factory vs the casing, in case the local LEO wanted it. I don't recall which gun or where I bought it. I believe that if they retrieve an intact bullet and can fire another from the same gun they can tell by the grooves just as they do a fingerprint. Or perhaps I've just read too much Stephen Hunter.

We have two High Standard .22 9-shot revolvers. The snubby has a magnum cylinder as well. That short barrel and magnums makes the most harsh CRACK when it fires. Not a boom, but a CRACK! It's painful to hear. Always wear hearing protection when shooting.

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My first revolver was an H&R with the interchangable cylinders, .22/22WRM. I picked apples on weekends one fall to pay for it. The first day I had it I took it out into a pit and burned several boxes of ammo, then fired a couple of rounds through the single shot 20 gauge I'd picked up at the same time. It wasn't until I got back into the truck and headed down the road that I realized I couldn't hear a thing.

That fall and for several years afterward I stopped buying meat when grouse season started on October 1, and didn't start again until the first of the new year. Those two guns put a lot of meat on the table. If I wasn't lucky enough to get a deer though, I was a bit happy to see Jan 1 roll around. You can only cook a bird so many ways, and after 3 months it got rather boring.

 

[jaxs]

They do not ballistic fire fire arms and save the bullet, although some states do require a fired case, this has already been said and is correct.

On tv they always show like they can 100% tell a bullet came from an exact gun. I don’t buy that. How is that gun different than the the one made before it or after it? I do understand they can tell it came from a certain type of gun, say a Glock for example.

Same as dna and other evidence, it isn't always 100% on Iding gun but is equally reliable in establishing round did not come from a specific gun. The signature come's from lands and grooves of rifling.
80% certainty round was fired by subject firearm PLUS 90% certainty lead matches other rounds found in suspect's procession PLUS 99% certainty powder evidence matches powder in rounds found in suspect's procession plus 100% certainty subject firearm was found in suspect's procession all COMBINED is more than a grand jury will need to indict.