Glad I did not see Hogg on the news. I used to sport my NRA Lifetime Member sticker but took it off when traveling with guns and staying at hotels. For clarity, in my truck, not Jeep with soft top.
Jeep guns
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I have always liked this sign. Unfortunately my neighbors all like and own guns.
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Wife got her Jeep gun this weekend. Stumbled across a Winchester 94 Timber Carbine. Swapped a shotgun she didn't like, and walked out the door for $100. Nice wood and almost pristine condition. Her first question on getting it home was "You can reload for that, right?". Why yes, yes I can. Gotta love a woman who loves big bores.
One day I want to pick up a ruger bearcat. I can't get enough of .22 pistols. I've always wanted a revolver (.357) but I love how cheap .22 are to shoot.Ruger makes a "Wrangler", that should be a good " Jeep" gun.View attachment 101135
Is the wrangler the new bearcat??
No, it most certainly is not...both literally and figuratively. This is the New Bearcat:
https://ruger.com/products/newBearcat/models.html
There's honestly nothing wrong with the Wrangler - or with most any gun that Ruger builds - but that particular gun just didn't impress me. My two main points of objection are the transfer bar and the finish; the former is starting to be unavoidable in the modern world so I can look past it, but the Cerakote finish on that gun just doesn't look or feel good, and I think it detracts from the overall package. To say it more simply: it makes an inexpensive gun look cheap...and although I'm all about some inexpensive guns, I don't like cheap ones. I wasn't that impressed with the general feel, either...and - again - there's nothing wrong with it, but it simply doesn't measure up to the New Bearcat or the Single Six. However, the Wrangler is somewhere between half and a quarter of the price of those guns and their S&W compatriots...so if you're looking for something to plink with and not worry too much about, it's a damned attractive option. Just be aware that if you're used to the good stuff, it's going to feel chintzy. On the good side, there's not enough money tied up in it to worry over it...so if you're not a person that's fastidious about maintenance, or if you like to just throw one on the truck seat, it might be a very good option for you.
Tray Burge
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"Ruger makes a "Wrangler", that should be a good " Jeep" gun."Ruger makes a "Wrangler", that should be a good " Jeep" gun.
Said no one ever, all a .22 would do is piss someone off if you shoot them with it. lol
I’ve built 3 AR’s in .45 acp using dedicated greasegun mag lowers. They’re my favorite .45s. But I do have a sbr application [my second] at the atf to shorten a AO Thompson down to the correct 10.5 in bbl. Here’s a ruger mini 30 that I rebuilt into a M1a with the help of Accuracy Systems [bbl work], I put the ruger into a M14 stock and did the paint.
Depends on where you hit them; a .22 LR into the head is very fatal. The same goes for the large piping over the heart, or pretty much anywhere in that area...or any other area where it doesn't take a large wound channel to cause massive trauma: arteries and blood reservoirs are the most susceptible locations. Remember that once you get through a bit of skin and muscle, we're reasonably fragile...and being shot with anything causes enough pain and shock to delay most other decisions and emotions.
Are you saying "all a .22 would do is piss someone off..."?
In the late 1940's when my Dad and his brother were teenagers my Dad's brother was killed accidentally by a friend with a .22. Shot him right in the gut. I don't think my Grandmother ever got over that and she lived for many decades after that. When I'm teaching people gun safety and they think I'm just a little overboard I sometimes share that story and it straightens them out.
Halfstock
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You've got a good lady there! The Triple-Four is one of my favorite cartridges... I've taken just about everything except sheep in N. America with mine!
For a long time, the .22 was high on the list of calibers that caused the most fatalities; there were a lot of them out there, and before the advent of modern antibiotics, stories like the one you just related were common. The stomach area is highly dangerous; if you don't die from blood loss and you don't have quick treatment, the infection that comes from a perforation in that area is very bad.
I don't think you really know what your talking about. 22s. Have killed a lot of people. A friend of mine was killed by one when him and a buddy were out squirrel hunting. He jumped back in the truck, forgot the safety was still off, bumped the 22 on something, it went off hitting him in the head. Dead on the spot.
Every gun can kill, children have been killed with lowly pellet rifles. Safe gun handling is paramount when you are around a firearm. Everyone in this country has a firearm but they don’t shoot. Attending formal matches whatever the shooting sport is teaches and reinforces safe gun handling practices and gives the shooter range time which makes a better shooter. My ‘Tj’ gun is whatever my current edc gun is but I think that I’m going to install an inside the roof rack to carry long guns to my monthly cowboy club matches. My ‘97 will break down and fit in my trunk but my Marlin ‘94 won’t. The drawback of a half cab.
Halfstock
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Neither can I! That's why I keep applying over, and over, and over again for my Idaho, once in a lifetime Big Horn Tag... it's at least within the financial realm of us mere mortals at under $200 if you get drawn.
Do they only let you draw the tag once, or can you draw multiple times until you fill the tag?