Cowgirl Corner: revolver action this week

[BrokenolMarine]

I still shoot my 1911s, but my favorite auto has to be the P220 45 Miss T gave me as a gift the first year we were married. We just seemed to be a good fit... twenty five years old and still shoots like a champ. I did very well in service auto class with it.

[BrokenolMarine]

A couple years later she gave me a Kimber Tactical Ultra II 45 as an off duty gun. Beautiful... but we carried glocks on duty so I carried the mini or mid size glock off duty. Still have the Kimber... it was a gift, after all.

[North Country Gal]

Glocks are not my thing, but I will never knock the gun for what it is or how it works. Doesn't get more reliable or practical than a Glock for certain applications. There's a reason so many people carry them. Just not my style.

[BrokenolMarine]

They aren't pretty, I will grant you that. But I was the department's armorer and firearms instructor.
I shot in a number of glock matches and enjoyed them, and carried the glocks on duty for a decade.
You can run it over, bury it, freeze it, drop it, and fail to clean it... it still shoots. It's ugly, but it shoots and it's accurate... service accurate.

I have a lot of guns more accurate, but none more reliable.

[Mags]

I have a Model 17 S&W from the 1940's. Great gun for popping off moles and gophers.

[North Country Gal]

Would love to see a pic, sometime. Doesn't get any better than old Smiths for me.

[Mags]

Would have, but not at home for a while. Back in a couple weeks.

[North Country Gal]

Picked up new grips for the new Model 17 Classic. The 17 Classic is supplied with the old traditional S&W carry grip, the magna, as seen here. Not sure why Smith would put these on a 22 LR target revolver, but I'll probably find a home for them on another Smith, sometime.


Changed to the standard S&W target grip, as shown here. Much, much, much prefer the more hand-filling target grip. Makes more sense on this gun. Given that I got this Classic to reduce wear and tear on our original 17 with its target grips, the new 17 should is now better setup to do its job.


Now to get out and do more revolver shooting. I got this revolver shooting bug, bad.

[220]

Nice shooting, I'm guessing they are the 2" SNC targets.
Even on a good day I struggle to get groups like that standing.

[North Country Gal]

They're those monster 3" targets, not the 2", but I might just have to try some 2". Thanks, though.