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  • Fishkiller

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    My first gun was a Winchester 94 in 30-30. Dad won it in a raffle for $1. I still have it although it is pretty much a resident of the safe now. Someday one of the grandkids will use it.
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    satx78247

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    Probably braver than I am.

    I only mentioned it ate everything I gave it because it was a 1911. The next 1912 I had was an AMT hardballer and it was finicky as hell. It wouldn't feed federal or Remington ammo. I had to stick to good old win white box ammo for it.

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    rp.

    Actually, Senor PEDRO CAREAGA, the Spanish nobleman & Army Colonel, who designed the Astra 300/400 series of military pistols, DESIGNED that handgun to safely fire several different sorts of ammo.
    (In that era, Spain had a "problem with" availability of handgun ammo. = Does that sound FAMILIAR to you??)

    Given how old that the pistols are now (MOST are nearly a CENTURY old in 2021), one would be WISE "to be kind to" the old handguns & NOT shoot HOT ammo in them.
    (Given that 9x19mm standard velocity is commonly available now, it would seem SMART to stick to that ammo.)

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    I sure haven't seen any 9mm standard velocity ammo laying around at any academy stores lately. I'm looking for a box to pay back a debt to a coworker who gave me a bit of 22 ammo. I load my own 9mm and have plenty but I don't want to give him any of that in case there's a problem.

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    satx78247

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    I sure haven't seen any 9mm standard velocity ammo laying around at any academy stores lately. I'm looking for a box to pay back a debt to a coworker who gave me a bit of 22 ammo. I load my own 9mm and have plenty but I don't want to give him any of that in case there's a problem.

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    rp,

    IF you are a CONSERVATIVE RELOADER, who doesn't "push the limits", I cannot see a problem with you giving a friend or family member your reloads but that's just MY OPINION.

    FYI, my "little" brother & I have shared any number of our PBCB & GCCB loads with any number of friends/family members for decades, W/O a problem.

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    Christmas 1952 a bolt action Mossberg .410. A seriously crappy gun I still own. Killed my first everything with it. Duck, quail, rabbit, squirrel, snake, etc. From then on I bought with my own money.
     

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    rp,

    Fwiw, My EX-Condor Legion Astra 400, with the holster (signed by a "volunteer SGT Pilot" of the Luftwaffe) & a box of circa 1935 ammo is NOW in a shadow-box on the wall of our farmhouse.
    (I feared that something untoward would happen to it, if I kept carrying it as an "extra pistol" in the PU toolbox.)

    That's one pistol/holster, for which I paid the "princely sum of " 20.oo for at Canton about 4 decades ago, that will likely NOT be fired anymore.
    (Senior Sergeant Eberhardt M. Geist was KIA while on a strafing mission over Stalingrad in December 1942.)

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    My first handgun purchase was a used S&W Model 19 shortly after I got out of the Army. My first new handgun was a Colt Government Model. I should have kept both of them.
     

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    mad88minute

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    After getting out of the army I bought a Russian SKS, Rem 870, and a Beretta 92fs.

    That was all I owned for years.

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    benenglish

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    After getting out of the army I bought a Russian SKS, Rem 870, and a Beretta 92fs.

    That was all I owned for years.

    Y'know, with those three, you can do almost all the shooting one might ever want to do. Add a good .22 (pistol or rifle, whichever you prefer) for punching holes in paper and you've got all the basics covered.

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    National Shooting Sports Foundation now estimates that at least 5.4-million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2021; down considerably from the estimated 8.4-million first-time buyers in 2020, but still well above pre-2020 trends.

    And this is based on retails sales surveys and federal background checks. I wonder how many private sales between individuals also occurred. So for the last few years there has been a marked increase in the estimated number of new gun owners. Should put the USA total well over 400 million firearms.
     
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    With the crime rate soaring....it will continue the trend..........

    It is also one of the many reasons ammo is the way it is.......
     
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