For when a 14” pistol barrel just isn’t long enough...

[tac]

It looks like it shoots through schools, is it an 88 magnum?

Not even remotely funny, Sir.

Dunblane massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[titsonritz]

Not even remotely funny, Sir.

Dunblane massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You probably didn't get the reference...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

That scene in "Johnny Dangerously " was very funny at the time....
The movie and line , came out before school shootings were as seemingly common as they appear to be now.

Since I remember that movie and line before being a teacher...it still is funny to me in the context of the movie and that particular character .
If I did not know of the movie ...I might feel differently....I can see how folks who aren't familiar with the movie could feel that that line isn't funny....
Andy

 

[tac]

I guess you have to know the context. The only school shooting I know about here in yUK never was never any kind of laughing matter.

 

[titsonritz]

You CAN have that here on mainland yUK, so long as it it 24" oal - it needs to have what we call the 'coathanger' sticking out of the butt - immovably, BTW.

Here in yUK you can have a Cimarron Arms revolver in any calibre they make, long barrel and sticky-out bit too.

I've always wanted one in .458 Casull, but the $3500 basic price put me off. Even my Ruger 'thing' would sell over here for north of $2500. The spiffy Volquartsen-converted Ruger, suitable for falling plate and other pistol-y stuff, is now almost $3000 here.

I guess you have to know the context. The only school shooting I know about here in yUK never was never any kind of laughing matter.

Side note...I'm going to display a little ignorance here, when I first the the little "y" in front of the "UK" I thought it was typo, but I don't believe you'd fat finger it every time. Can you educate the preceding "y" thing?

 

[tac]

YOO-nited Kingdom. Personal thing, adopted many years ago when teaching in Japan. The prefix 'un-' is a negative in English - UNtied, UNdone, UNobserved, et al. I made a point that it was not an un-nited kingdom, but a joined-up one of four countries. Guess it stuck.

I'll stop, though, since most folks here speak perfickly good English.

 

[titsonritz]

YOO-nited Kingdom. Personal thing, adopted many years ago when teaching in Japan. The prefix 'un-' is a negative in English - UNtied, UNdone, UNobserved, et al. I made a point that it was not an un-nited kingdom, but a joined-up one of four countries. Guess it stuck.

I'll stop, though, since most folks here speak perfickly good English.

Don't stop on my/our account. It was strictly an educational/curiosity question. Thank you for the explanation.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

FYI I was just looking at ballistics by the inch website. I knew about what difference a 16" barrel made for 22LR velocities but didn't realize 16" makes such a huge difference in 22Mag vs. standard pistol sizes. First chart is 22Mag, 2nd chart is 22LR:
22 Mag

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Shot this gun for first time yesterday. That really long sight radius makes it very accurate shooting off-hand. I got lucky in that the sights are dead on. The front sight is maybe 1/3 to 1/2 the height of the sights on the shorter barrel ones and to be honest this front sight seems like a bit of an afterthought because it is a bit rough cut and rough-welded on compared to the great fit and finish of the smaller (standard) front sights. No arguing that it works well though.

the gun will give your forearms a workout though if shooting a lot cuz there is so much weight so far out there. It's the same as shooting a long heavy camera lens, after too much handholding your arms start to get a bit shaky and the picture (or accuracy if a gun) suffers.

Also I don't know if it was because I was wearing different hearing protection or what but seemed way, way quieter than the smaller barrel version. Last week I shot the small barrel version along with a stribog 9mm and this week the 16" version on along with the 9mm (so conditions were the same) and it seemed maybe 1/4 to 1/2 as loud as the short barrel version. I thought that so much gas escapes at the cylinder that the sound would be about the same with short vs. long barreled versions so this was a surprise. Next time I will have to shoot both barrel versions head-to-head and see if there is a real sound difference or not or if was just the different hearing protection. Doesn't matter really of course, just curious.

 

[gmerkt]

I don't know if it was because I was wearing different hearing protection or what but seemed way, way quieter than the smaller barrel version.

It wasn't your hearing protectors or your imagination. The longer barrel has a muting effect. I shoot .22 CB caps in rifle, they are no louder than a pellet pistol. When I shoot the same CB cap in a pistol or revolver, they crack loud.

 

[KKG]

YOO-nited Kingdom. Personal thing, adopted many years ago when teaching in Japan. The prefix 'un-' is a negative in English - UNtied, UNdone, UNobserved, et al. I made a point that it was not an un-nited kingdom, but a joined-up one of four countries. Guess it stuck.

I'll stop, though, since most folks here speak perfickly good English.

Please, tac, keep up the Yukisms that is my vote! KKG

 

[tac]

Ok. YUK YUK YUK.............

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I noticed this 12" 45LC buntline by EMF.

E.M.F. BUNTLINE .45LC 12' BLUE ULTRA IVORY GRIP

gunprodeals.com

I don't know anything about the gun but I will say that I bought a gun from gunprodeals recently and got their cheapest free shipping and it arrived in a day and a half from across the country. I was very surprised by that.

Edit: looked it up and it's made by Pietta "Buntline" - EMF Company. Some other cool old replica guns on that EMF site also. Like this 12 gauge:




and percussion:

1851 percussion buntline

some different finish models of the Lemat vs Cabelas has just the blued one as I recall. 9+1 but it's a BIG 1

 

[The Heretic]

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I have to give big kudos to that ad. It seems like 95% of gun related products have the same type of ad over and over. Some guy in a camo hat talking about how great it is and shooting some target. Finally somebody is being creative. Good Job silencerco and thx for posting that.

 

[Mjb9164]

It was strong enough to bring down the batwing

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Here's a weird 16" one I found $584 at northwest armory'

 

[tac]

If that stock had been a permanent feature it would be legal on mainland UK.

 

[Hrethgir]

Exactly what came to mind when I saw the picture!

 

[tac]