The Official "Show Off Your Guns" Thread

[ducatiz]

Sold my older Gen2 G19 to Roger a few months ago.  It was a complete Austria gun, right down to the rollmarks on the slide and barrel. 

Where did you get it?  None of the Gen2 or after were officially imported, all of them are stamped "SMYRNA, GA"..

Mine is a private import.  I bought it from an estate.

[zach (Slag)]

I am curious about the back of the slide. 

[ducpainter]

None of you have a particularly keen eye.

I have a better looking rock.

[DRKWNG]

I am curious about the back of the slide. 

Saw that too, but realized he was phishing for questions.   

[RAT900]

I have a better looking rock.

  That about sums up the "design aesthetics" of the Glock...it is an ergonomically, functionally and mechanically correct tool

one where I believe function has trumped form

[ducatiz]

Saw that too, but realized he was phishing for questions.   

:-)

it was a safety mechanism i designed which disables the sear.

i shopped it around some manufacturers, none were interested.  everyone came back and said "it looks like an autoswitch"

i made two, one sent in to the tech branch and that one. 

[fastwin]

Glock = shovel. Good comparo. They do what they are supposed to do (if the operator does their part) and that's all they need to do. You can't make either one pretty. No point. Lipstick on a pig... same same. No harm in that. I love they way they work and fit my hand. If I want to look at something pretty I stare at my wife, go in the garage and look at my 916SPS and 996 or open the safe and look at Pythons, Colt SAAs, Les Baers 1911s, pre 64 Winchester model 94 30-30, etc. If I want to pick up something and know damn good and well it's going to work right now I pick up a Glock... or a shovel. That'll do pig.

[Adamm0621]

My new Judge!  Taking it to the range tomorrow to have a little fun.  I traded in my 38 special for it...   It's the Public Defense model with a polymer frame and a stainless steel cylinder.  Very Happy!!! 

[cokey]

I like..  how light is it with that frame?

[fastwin]

Better that Judge than the one in your divorce... no offense, just saying from personal experience!

Don't want/need one of those pistols but I'd love to shoot one. Just had my step son's Dad (who we get along with very well!) give me a box of .410 slugs he found at his Dad's house. His Dad is old and moved into his daughter's house. No one owned a .410 but me so I got 'em. Maybe I'll burn them on a feral hog at my buddy's ranch through my Browning Citori! Mmmmmmm.... smoked pork tenderloin!

[muskrat]

I have one Fastwin.   Waiting on your call to shoot hogs at the ranch. 

[fastwin]

Man, I'd love to go to my buddy's west TX ranch and pop some hogs but we come up empty handed all the damn time! The kiddos (all post college age now/some married) are great hunters and much more industrious than the "old ones". They go out morning and evening every time we gather at the ranch and sit on the corn feeders and don't see shit. One of the boys popped one last December and we smoked that ham and tenderloin at the February meet up. But zero hog sign since then.

It's been about 4 years ago now but my friend caught 11 pigs in his big trap! I saw that herd when we were dove hunting that September and 2 months later he caught them. Not all of them but 11 of the dumb ones. All were about 60-75 lbs, no big ones or little ones. Perfect size!
It was actually quite a chore to off them and get them dressed out... and I don't mean for a prom dance! Can't tell you how many great meals we had off of that for the next year or so. Smoked hams, tenderloin breakfast and dinner tacos, etc... Mmmmmmm!

But that's been it for massive hog sightings. I keep saying we must have trapped or shot all the dumb ones and the smart ones stay away. Same at my place in east Texas. Need to check with my brother. He has a place east of Ennis, TX with a lots of Trinity River wet land/bottom country and lots of hogs. His fields sometimes look like they have been carpet bombed by B-52s they are so torn up.

Would love to step off into a good hog hunt.

[CayoHueso]

What sort of round will take down a hog cleanly? I know people that hunt in Georgia and they all use a rifle round.

Will the 410 shotgun shell take one down?

[ducatiz]

My new Judge!  Taking it to the range tomorrow to have a little fun.  I traded in my 38 special for it...   It's the Public Defense model with a polymer frame and a stainless steel cylinder.  Very Happy!!! 

those grips from Taurus are awesome.  I have the Tracker with that same grip and it's like firing a sauce gun. 

that grip looks SMALL though, but I assume that's the scale of the gun.

[fastwin]

What sort of round will take down a hog cleanly? I know people that hunt in Georgia and they all use a rifle round.

Will the 410 shotgun shell take one down?

Sure, a .410 slug would work. They are tough little suckers though. I'd stick to rifle rounds. Of course shot placement is always important on anything.

I pulled short straw several years ago at my friend's ranch when we trapped three 150+ lb hogs the day we were leaving for home. I was the only one with a pistol... 9mm Glock 19. I had to shoot the pigs and it took me damn near 10-15 minutes to do so. Of course the poor critters were going nuts in the steel trap so there was no such thing as a "sitting target" to shoot at. And of course after I dinged the first one between the eyes the other two went freaking nuts, literally bouncing off the top and sides of the trap and ramming the cage to get at me. I was scared shitless of missing and bouncing a 9mm round off the metal bars and having it hit me! Not good.

It eventually got done but I wouldn't want to do it again with a pistol. When my friend caught the 11 smaller pigs a few years ago we used a 28 gauge shotgun with birdshot. Still wasn't easy but felt a little safer.

Out in the open hunting off a feeder I think a hot .40S&W or .357mag minimum, maybe a .45acp or a .44mag in pistol would be OK. But personally, I'd go shotgun slug or any decent centerfire rifle round.