Behold my new Glock model 30. Holster by Bianchi. – depicted with two ten-round magazines.
I really like this gun. Like my Glock model 26, it’s accurate, smooth and easily stripped for cleaning.
The Glock 30 is an affordable .45 ACP carry gun. It offers a compromise between size and capacity coupled with the stopping power of the venerable .45 ACP.
Photo courtesy Verna – Click image to see full-sized version.
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And I have my new Warthog! We shot her today for the first time. More on that later. Here is the picture I took of her today getting ready to clean her up.
My new Glock 30 .45ACP Pistol sits on a spooky table tapestry that shows up around this time each year. You can click on the image for a close-up view.
Once again, the leaves are falling and the pumpkins in the patch are ripe. It’s the time that all restless spirits set forth in their annual ritual of calling on the living – and demanding treats. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With our modern calendar, however, the real cross-quarter day will occur next week. Visit Astronomy Picture of the Day for a spooky Ghost Nebula and more about Halloween.
We’re looking forward to the visitations of all the little goblins and spirits at our door tonight. We plan on posting some spooky pictures here tomorrow.
A wadcutter is a bullet specially designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and with significantly subsonic velocities under 800 ft/s (244 m/s) such as are found in handgun and airgun competitions. A wadcutter has a flat or nearly flat front, which acts to cut a very clean hole through the target, making it easier to score and ideally reducing errors in scoring to the favor of the shooter. Because the flat nosed bullet is not well suited for feeding out of a firearm’s magazine, wadcutters are normally used in revolvers or specially designed semi-automatic pistols. Wadcutters are also sometimes known as the Devil’s Suppository.
Text and title stolen from WikiPedia. Click the image for big.
I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
When I saw this picture that Verna took today while cleaning our guns, it reminded me of the famous line from Dirty Harry.
Of course, some of that description of the gun would be inaccurate. First this is only a .357 magnum, and far from the most powerful handgun in the world. Next, this Smith and Wesson 686 has a seven-round capacity, not six as in the .44 magnum version Harry used.
As far as feeling lucky? We do. We had a very good day at the range today and are glad that we have the opportunity to shoot at least once a week. This week, we will have an extra session at the range when we finally get our new pistols after the unnecessary California 10 day waiting period.
