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@JonKramer @freemo
The Lee Classic is a good deal. The iron sights at 1,000 yards crowd used them. We are such disappointments and can never live up to them unless we also learn to omit important details.

@JonKramer @freemo I'm a person on the internet who doesn't like Ruger.

@JonKramer @freemo That Browning Action becomes especially apparent when a pistol using it has seen a few thousand rounds. The High Power and 1911 use the regular system. I think Glock pistols and not horse semen use it too. The M9 series are a bit odd.

It's interesting to note how the AR-15 family was said to use Direct Impingement. Words suck sometimes. Schematics and patents are better.

It simply is what it is until it is something else.

@JonKramer @freemo Oh that's the Browning Action. A Blowback System is used in the Makarov. The barrel is fixed to the frame and doesn't move. Everyone's favorite firearm company, Hi Point, made a 45acp rated for +P loads and a 10mm with this Simple Blowback.

I honestly thought that the DE used regular Blowback in 44mag without causing injuries. A gas piston and locking lugs make much more sense.

@JonKramer @freemo Maybe handloading is the answer. There's a lot that can be done with different powders and bullets. It's also the only real way to get some Mosins to be accurate. I preferred the Ruskie ammo but in the older rifles it wasn't uncommon for a good barrel to be around 0.311 instead of the expected 0.308. Handloaded ammo made the rifles consistently accurate.

Might as well invest in a reloading bench to help with the cycling. If it doesn't help for some reason, you would still have a reloading bench.

@lore It has always been fun and will continue to be.

@freemo @black6_ @jlcrawf The Millennium pistol couldn't fire 9mm +P when it first came out. That's rather rare for a modern pistol.

It's just a tongue in cheek reference to the quality. If you want a good M9 clone, Taurus made them with Beretta machinery and they seem to be of good quality.

The Judge doesn't seem to be lacking in quality but I did see them in pawnshops. Perhaps the original cost included buyers remorse. It wasn't inexpensive.

Taurus isn't a bad manufacturer but they have made a few questionable designs over the years. They seem to have made a lot of good quality clones of classic Beretta pistols. The list even includes the Tomcat and Bobcat.

@gat @freemo I remember shooting a rattlesnake with a 22lr Luger and yes it was a Luger. Like one would expect from a Luger, it jammed so I had to figure out how to unjam it and finish the snake off.

I've never used Snake Shot rounds. 22lr was what I was taught to use on snakes. There's nothing to it except for not screwing it up.

@freemo @JonKramer CORRECTION, it's not a blowback system but actually a gas system. That's odd, I could have sworn that it was a simple blowback system.

@freemo @JonKramer It's a Blowback System so the barrel doesn't have to move around. It's really just Newtonian Physics.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. An object at rest tends to stay at rest until acted upon by an external force.

The large mass of the slide holds the chamber closed until the inertia overcomes the mass accelerating it rearward until it reaches the end of travel and the recoil spring sends it back to the closed position. The mass has to be calculated based on the round it fires. If the mass is too small, the chamber will open up before it is safe to do so and might cause injury.

Whether it's the simplest gas piston system is another topic. The only issue I've ever had with a blowback system is in a 22lr pistol. Lead subsonic ammo didn't cycle correctly. In a full sized rifle I've loaded 22 short, 22 long and 22LR in a stacked magazine. 22 short would cycle the bolt enough to chamber 22LR or 22L. I assume this was due to barrel length and the amount of pressure not being too far off to work. A surprisingly flexible system but it could have been the 22in barrel that helped balance the equation.

If a DE is not cycling properly it should be cleaned and inspected by a Gunsmith. It's likely that the round isn't powerful enough or the magazine isn't feeding correctly. In most semiautomatics and automatics, the magazine is going to be an issue. With the recoil energy of the DE, it's not surprising that it could cause a regular magazine to misfeed.

@freemo H&K G3A3 and a Beretta M92FS with the competition barrel and trigger.

I love precision but it's good to see what other countries can do.

@black6_ @freemo @jlcrawf I hope you aren't referring to the Millennium pistol they made. It just wasn't designed for 9mm +p.

A 1911A1 is usually on the nightstand next to a bible and an 870.

@gat @freemo I think they take a special load of 410 in the Judge. I've always wanted one because it is mostly a snake gun. If the wadding material is used correctly it should help to prevent contact with the rifling.

Assuming that this is the case, it's still firing a shotgun shell without a 22in barrel. Snake shot is really weird. I've got some 38spl and 22mag rounds of snake shot. It reminds me of Dexedrine but a projectile.

Assuming that one decides to use the self defense 410 rounds made for it along with the 45 Colt rounds, that could be rather effective. The soft recoil of the 45 is rather deceptive in that it can be as effective as a 44 magnum.

The revolver is rather robust so instead of reloading it can be used to bash skulls in.

@thor I have noticed this too. In IT my boss had an Apple Watch and I was surprised what he used it for. He used that watch for the NFC capability to unlock controlled areas. We were still using the latest Mifare cards but it was decided we needed more encryption. Essentially they swapped to smartphone and smartwatch authentication which is a rather robust solution.

I opened the same doors with a screwdriver. Sometimes it pays to be a Locksmith.