From the range today (which visit I needed very much...) here's a photo of a pair of Smith & Wesson M&P's separated by about a hundred years:
I'm getting used to the Crimson Trace Light Guard. I'm already used to the LaserGrips. LaserGrips are almost like cheating.
1. You are welcome.
ReplyDelete2. So, which is it? 1903 or 1905? (Just what exactly did I buy)?
Shootin' Buddy
Tam: We need a weather in Indiana or the Corn Belt post since I'm no longer blogging because this 'nice' weather shit is getting serious for the nation's corn crop.
ReplyDeleteNo Lie! (If you don't believe me go check the last 2 days of trading on the CB&T!)
And everyone up here agrees I picked a good year to 'retire' from farming.
But other than that, Yeah, I've been practicing too and it's fun IF you don't have to be on your knees all the time praying for rain...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
The LaserGrips are so much like cheating that, here in Oz, the good guy citizens can't have them.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's professional courtesy betwixt politicians and criminals, or maybe it's all about OHSA laws and a safe work environment for muggers and rapists. Regardless, it still seems asinine.
LaserGrips are almost like cheating.
ReplyDeleteThey're better than cheating, you don't have to press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, just grip the gun.
CT's are almost like cheating. Nice spread of technology there. Hell, most of the sights on the old ones were really small to boot. Glad you survived the drone =)
ReplyDeleteFrank, thanks for the update, and I hope you guys get some rain soon.
ReplyDeleteSB,
ReplyDeleteIf I'm remembering the serial number aright, it's a Model of 1905 - 4th Change, and it has a heat-treated cylinder.
Frank,
Yeah, down here we're only "dry", but the weather guys say that north of Lafayette, y'all are officially in "Moderate Drought" conditions.
I sure picked a hell of a year to try to grow some full-size 'maters.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Smith M&P?
ReplyDeleteThe kind Grandpa carried works just fine for me,
with no Star Fleet buzzwords and no stupid key.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Smith M&P?
Seriously though, nice juxtaposition. And I've been wanting to try out one of those newfangled bottomfeeders myself.
jbrock,
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If the new M&P if good enough for the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to use to defend the bridge of their flying aircraft carrier, it's good enough for me.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine the revolver yelling at the tupperware to get off his lawn...
ReplyDeleteThe one on the right is the one I think of when I read M&P. It still causes a discontinuity when I realize someone is talking about an autoloader.
ReplyDeleteFired one of the old M&P a while back; Lord, what a smooth action! Whether it came that way or it's the result of so many years of polishing, it was wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI practice about half & half with the CT grips, turned on and off; I want to make sure "Where's my dot?!?" doesn't crop up
Yeah, I've been wondering on some of my rides if my neighbors had given up corn in favor of pineapple, agave, and aloe.
ReplyDeleteRe: The old Military & Police...
ReplyDeleteThat one is Shootin' Buddy's and probably dates to sometime just before or just after WWI.
I have a couple myself, one 5" dating from 1930 and an early postwar four-incher (1953) and both are very smooth, despite showing little sign of much shooting.
I'll be damn, now THAT, is a pistol rug.
ReplyDeleteevery time i pick up my 1920 M&P i feel i must turn up the collar of my trench coat, pull my fedora low and fire up a smoke. that's a real gun.
ReplyDeleteI, too, had been absent from the range for far too long (about 6 weeks). Being a traditionalist (read: old fart), I took my 1911 (Kimber, but so what?), and did much better than I had expected. I guess dry fire *does* help some.
ReplyDeleteSorry we missed you, but I got a little of the rust off before the temps his 97 on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI've never tried the LaserGrips, going to have to remedy that here soon.