7/25/2024 7:58:56 PM
Reply
or ReplyNewSubject
Section 10: Defense Weapons/Ammo Subject: Snub-nosed Autos? Msg# 1208280
|
||||||
We completely agree. I find that often I can't even convince many people who seem otherwise intelligent and reasonably knowledgeable about guns that there is a decided difference between a snub and a service pistol.
Congratulations on your "new" Colt. I love those. One of my two favorite Colt wheelguns, along with the Diamondback. |
||||||
|
||||||
For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: The curmudgeon in me pops out every time I see an article claiming that snubbies are better because people will carry them when they would leave their real gun at home. I freely admit this is partly because my curmudgeon layer isn't buried very deep but I also believe most of the time that line of thinking flies in the face of common sense. First, why are they leaving their real gun at home? Did they suddenly forget why they decided to carry a gun in the first place? It isn't much of a step from "better than nothing" to "the same as nothing" in this case if the carrier doesn't practice regularly with the snub and doesn't realize the velocity penalty he's causing himself, and doesn't keep in mind the resulting reduction in his maximum competent shooting distance. In other words, you are shrinking both your defensive perimeter and your ability to damage an attacker. Any other advantages you'd like to shift to your attacker? I don't mean "you" you of course as this subject has come up here a few times and our opinions agree, I'm referring to readers everywhere who encounter this subject and feel a misguided tendency to believe in it. I'd like to see it made clear in these articles that this is something you do as a last resort, not as an everyday expression of style or comfort. You described the people I'm talking about: I do think that many people own and carry them every day because they can't be bothered with anything larger or heavier, and as they don't know much about ballistics, it doesn't matter to them. I agree about Grassi's regular dive into minutiae, when he shifts into this or that drill on this or that target I tend to doze. Having said all that, I should report that the Peoples' Republic of Washington will soon allow me to pick up my latest acquisition, an old Colt snubby. I found a lonesome looking early model Cobra at my favorite gun shop and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Colt made three kinds of them back in this one's day; the all-steel Detective Special and the aluminum-framed Cobra and Agent models. I used to have a nice Detective Special but I've never owned one of the lightweights. Here's a shot of the old DS: The Cobra is not something I'll carry but I might make it my recliner gun... I will definitely shoot it to help keep me humble and I may have to spring for another Tyler T-Grip... |