tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post6965493530369205224..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Wokachika-wokachicka...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41720739990564519612011-10-03T14:27:46.198-04:002011-10-03T14:27:46.198-04:00on the .41 Mag:
My dad had a .41 as a beat cop in...on the .41 Mag:<br /><br />My dad had a .41 as a beat cop in a small west Texas town, about the time I was born....1962-63. He read about a bad guy that took one round and expired on the porch, then the same round took out the wife a few walls away, then it lodged in something in the backyard. I don't know what he carried after that, but He retired the .41 then, and traded it for a Chief Special when he went into the Juvenile Division in the late 60's. I've always wanted to see that .41, it came in a neat blue S&W box with the metal edge reinforcements. Had a neat-o silver screwdriver in it, too.STxRynnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21580038894436610412011-09-29T21:36:38.391-04:002011-09-29T21:36:38.391-04:00global: Now that you mention it, I remember the sh...global: Now that you mention it, I remember the show <i>Cannon</i>. My theory about that one was that they'd already created so many detective shows that they could only think of one more type of detective - fat. Not that a fat detective was an original idea, but Nero Wolfe was too immobile for an action show.<br /><br />But what was really hilarious was Cannon's fighting technique - he simply built up speed and cannonballed into his opponents, who apparently were too busy trying to remember an appropriate Kung Fu technique for delivering a kick through 12 inches of fat to remember that they could just get out of the way!markmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78630862133393823772011-09-26T08:58:25.546-04:002011-09-26T08:58:25.546-04:00I think I might have that same book.
Is there a d...I think I might have that same book.<br /><br />Is there a discussion on "shooting from moving police cars" in the Gunsite review?<br /><br />If so, that's the edition I have. The rest sounds familiar.<br /><br />I think I got my copy in a big box of 70's and 80's era gun mags from a friend who was cleaning out his house. <br /><br />The thing is, I remembered reading some of thos articles the first time around when I was a teenager with a passionate interest in guns, but no real experience to think of. Seeing them again was really a trip.<br /><br />RobRob Reedhttp://www.examiner.com/firearms-in-detroit/rob-reednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79093618696771612912011-09-25T17:06:52.732-04:002011-09-25T17:06:52.732-04:00Would love to have an AR-180 and a Python -- esp. ...Would love to have an AR-180 and a Python -- esp. at the prices they sold for in those days.<br /><br />I'll keep the goatee, but pass on the shaved head. Round these parts, a shaved head (often found w/tats ands a soul patch) frequently leads onlookers to believe that the bearer of same is a dumbf*ck.<br /><br />wv: "oomminuf". No, really. It is.Beaumontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52382525163696209622011-09-24T17:52:38.821-04:002011-09-24T17:52:38.821-04:00per my avatar, you may notice that I also still we...per my avatar, you may notice that I also still wear the same style sunglasses that I was wearing way back. I leave the shaved heads, goatees and OP's to the young guys.Montiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926708261895308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32883931003613473212011-09-24T17:50:37.300-04:002011-09-24T17:50:37.300-04:00"Apparently, the most important qualification..."Apparently, the most important qualification for being on a SWAT team in those days was the ability to rock a pornstache and some serious sideburns."<br /><br />What? and now it's a shaved head and a goatee...<br /><br />So on point, that my coffee went down the wrong way, causing a good dousing of my keyboard! <br /><br />Lets get off the pornstaches now, I'm still rocking one 26 years after starting my LE career and don't plan on shaving it (although my current girlfriend insists that I keep it trimmed back to just below full-on porn status).<br /><br />The biggest sin for a rookie back in the day? rocking a bigger 'stache that your FTO!Montiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926708261895308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-80482363548121370512011-09-24T16:14:52.658-04:002011-09-24T16:14:52.658-04:00Matt, the eyeglasses will ruin the badass effect a...Matt, the eyeglasses will ruin the badass effect anyway. You should get contacts and zero-prescription glasses to toss away when pretending to get mad.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41887497318006489602011-09-24T13:32:47.607-04:002011-09-24T13:32:47.607-04:00I was at the hospital early yesterday morning. I ...I was at the hospital early yesterday morning. I was there to see my dad's neurologist - he does his rounds OBSCENELY early.<br /><br />Anyway, in the ICU waiting room, the television was on and had <i>Cannon</i>, a program I'd nearly forgot about. <br /><br />At no other point in history could a schlumpy putz like William Conrad have landed his own cop drama. He made Detective Sipowitz look metrosexual by comparison.<br /><br />And yeah, pornstaches like a dust mop convention. Conrad's was the size of a housecat.<br /><br />gviglobal village idiothttp://www.alpharubicon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-80673088658864467732011-09-24T08:25:38.975-04:002011-09-24T08:25:38.975-04:00I think you'll find that the trashcan, pillow,...I think you'll find that the trashcan, pillow, ribcage, frankfurter test is designed to determine which round you'd use to take down Big-Bird.<br />For the Snuffaluffagus ballistics test you need a cow wrapped three times round in shag pile carpet.Ausprepperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265367520081363009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64451984270201776772011-09-24T08:12:59.172-04:002011-09-24T08:12:59.172-04:00"I found it interesting that in 1980, .41 Mag...<i>"I found it interesting that in 1980, .41 Magnum was about the same age as .357SIG is today.<br /><br />While I was reading the article, I found myself thinking that, had it not been for USSS and TX DPS, the SIG round might have wound up in the same circumstances."</i><br /><br />FBI didn't save the 10mm, though. Sometimes, it's the merit of the cartridge. I have to admit still really liking the .357 sig round. <br /><br />But then, I really like the .41, too. . . <br /><br />I'm growing out my copstache right now, but the thing won't give me full-on pornstar status. I'm hoping that it will get my car to float over curbs like they did, then (with a hubcap flying off in view of the FenderCam [tm]). <br /><br />And dig how bare those old belts were! A K frame, a couple of speed loaders, and a ring for a flashlight and/or nightstick. The rest was bare belt and keepers, as far as the eye could see.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-24012788830877059082011-09-24T03:33:05.444-04:002011-09-24T03:33:05.444-04:00I recall having a bit part as a cop in the High Sc...I recall having a bit part as a cop in the High School production of "Rebel Without a Cause", and arguing with the make-up girl who insisted that all cops had 'staches. "My father doesn't for one."<br /><br />Later, in college, was talking to a fellow student in one of my criminal Justice classes, who was a cop in a suburb of Detroit. (Dad was a Lieutenant on the Detroit PD.) Later reported to Dad that whichever suburb it was armed all their cops with 9mms, with HP ammo, and he snorted and said "Well, sure, they don't need it!"Dranghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-37055705113930612892011-09-23T23:48:17.663-04:002011-09-23T23:48:17.663-04:00"Apparently, the most important qualification..."Apparently, the most important qualification for being on a SWAT team in those days was the ability to rock a pornstache and some serious sideburns."<br /><br />What? and now it's a shaved head and a goatee...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77495076811675176702011-09-23T21:28:12.370-04:002011-09-23T21:28:12.370-04:00To revise the article from long ago:
"THIS T...To revise the article from long ago:<br /><br /><i>"THIS THING CALLED SWAT!"- This department uses flashbangs, assault rifles, and dog shooting- talk only when they realize they kicked in the door of the wrong house..."</i>Joe in PNGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-5506946243127863092011-09-23T20:36:14.973-04:002011-09-23T20:36:14.973-04:00I remember some catalog-type pulp gun book with a ...I remember some catalog-type pulp gun book with a review of the .41 that characterized it as "a cross between a buzz-saw and a sledgehammer" and I'm almost certain it was a MA piece.Davehttp://nocarmommy.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-54415705054956420562011-09-23T19:19:59.221-04:002011-09-23T19:19:59.221-04:00Got my BS in Law Enforcement in '78.
Went to F...Got my BS in Law Enforcement in '78.<br />Went to FLETC in '83.<br />Read everything Wambaugh wrote.<br />Thank you SO much for this wonderful trip down memory lane.<br />Off to clean my revolvers while listening to my cassette of TV cops theme songs (Yes, I have a tape of TV cop them songs. Deal with it.)Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-17752919770630113822011-09-23T17:36:47.229-04:002011-09-23T17:36:47.229-04:00You mean the .357 Sig IS more popular than the .41...You mean the .357 Sig IS more popular than the .41 Mag??? <br /><br />I'm shocked. I tell ya I'm shocked.<br /><br />(Well, There IS the US Secret Service, I guess...)<br /><br />All The Best,<br />Frank W. JamesFrank W. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589579734134153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-48588445134609506512011-09-23T15:45:24.294-04:002011-09-23T15:45:24.294-04:00Don't forget the FBI flashlight techniques. Ye...Don't forget the FBI flashlight techniques. Yeah, I'm old enough that I was actually taught them in the academy.Sixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05572583408046642437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-1187419597894946272011-09-23T15:23:29.367-04:002011-09-23T15:23:29.367-04:00Krugman knows about the broken windows fallacy. He...Krugman knows about the broken windows fallacy. He just wants the lefties to know that the broken windows fallacy doesn't matter when balanced against their noble intent to make everyting fair.<br /><br />He is like Goering, who announced that Stalingrad didn't need to be evacuated because the Luftwaffe would supply the cut off soldiers by air. Well, after that, Hitler didn't need to listen to mere facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-83906337368126416482011-09-23T15:20:41.331-04:002011-09-23T15:20:41.331-04:00I loved the .41 mag and the 10mm Almost Mag. Compl...I loved the .41 mag and the 10mm Almost Mag. Completely aside from how much I liked "Probability Broach" where the .41 Mag was a bigger star than Winn Bear. (and more animated too!)<br /><br />If I was to inherit banana republic I would standardize my police on 10mm submachine guns and pistols, with .50BMG snipers and Machineguns as the next level. Oh, with 120mm mortars/ rocket launchers/Cannons for my artillery and armor.Don Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06057058763094040058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52249434122452358992011-09-23T13:27:52.320-04:002011-09-23T13:27:52.320-04:00Frank,
I found it interesting that in 1980, .41 M...Frank,<br /><br />I found it interesting that in 1980, .41 Magnum was about the same age as .357SIG is today.<br /><br />While I was reading the article, I found myself thinking that, had it not been for USSS and TX DPS, the SIG round might have wound up in the same circumstances.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57822281201056788402011-09-23T13:14:51.162-04:002011-09-23T13:14:51.162-04:00You mean to say that NOT everyone has a .41 Magnum...You mean to say that NOT everyone has a .41 Magnum? I'm shocked! I'm shocked I tell ya. <br /><br />I've got at least 14, err maybe more...<br /><br />All The Best,<br />Frank W. JamesFrank W. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589579734134153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-59827949568484257922011-09-23T13:08:57.541-04:002011-09-23T13:08:57.541-04:00"If you tossed a firecracker into that room, ..."If you tossed a firecracker into that room, the ceiling would have more holes than a Paul Krugman column." <br /> <br />Nearly cracked a rib laughing. Krugman. Possibly the only internationally-known economist who has never heard of the Broken Window Fallacy.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13816288930762340492011-09-23T12:46:38.341-04:002011-09-23T12:46:38.341-04:00(Half-Sabrina is the same pose, but with only one ...(Half-Sabrina is the same pose, but with only one paw on the pistol.)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77973467232932721032011-09-23T12:45:57.442-04:002011-09-23T12:45:57.442-04:00Full Sabrina = Pistol held in both hands, muzzle u...Full Sabrina = Pistol held in both hands, muzzle up, at about head level. Named for Kate Jackson's character in <i>Charlie's Angels</i>.<br /><br />Used by Hollywood to get the gun and the actor's face in the same frame. Used by shooters because they don't realize that God doesn't like guns pointed at him, either.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-46171022252974121942011-09-23T12:41:03.244-04:002011-09-23T12:41:03.244-04:00I know what a Teacup Weaver is. Still working on ...I know what a Teacup Weaver is. Still working on "full Sabrina."<br /><br />Funny you should mention this, 'cause a few days ago I saw a short video about "the guns of James Bond," with this "World-Renowned Gun Expert" who'd be thrown off any range in North America these days...Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442354270552212335noreply@blogger.com