Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
Well, the world didnt end (surprise!). No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Theres always a boom tomorrow.
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I see Taurus is bringing out a .40 S&W revolver. I suppose it makes sense on some level but it still isnt what Im after. Yeras ago Taurus announced their “Triad’ revolver. This would be a gun that fired .38/.357/9mm interchangeably. It isnt an impossible task, just a difficult one with some compromises. S&W made their 547 for a few years utilizing a unique extractor system that did away with the need for moon clips. The Medusa, later rebranded and aborted as the Colr Survivor, was supposed to be able to fire something like two dozen different .38/9mm cartridges but other than a few prototypes, including one that got loose and wound up on Gunbroker, the gun was essentially vaporware. Ruger, obviously, made the Blackhawk convertible in 9/357 but required a cylinder change. The idea of a gun that would shoot 38/357 and 9mm/380/38 Super (or a handful of other wierdness like 9×21,9×18 Ultra, 9mm largo, etc.) still seems to elude me. Why my interest? Well, obviously it would make a nice little gun for when youre not sure what kind of ammo youre going to come across. A gu that could digest 9mm, .38, .357, .380 and .38 Super would be a pretty easy beast to feed in a pinch. I suppose for the right amount of money I could get a spare cylinder for a GP100, have it faced to headspace on moon clips, and go that route but I dislike having to swap cylinders. Maybe with the current trend in firearms towards ’survival’ and ‘utility’ firearms someone will pick up the baton and run with the ‘all you can eat’ 9mm/38 revolver idea.
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Unfortunately my group of local friends has taken a hit in he last couple years. One died, several moved….I’m running out of real-life friends. It isnt that Im hard to be a friend to (Ok, maybe a little) it’s just that theres so few people you meet who you can be friends with without there being a tremendous effort AND that share the same interests. I might have to do auditions or something.
