Buy a gun

Shooting Industry, Dec, 2004 by John K. Calkins

In response to FMG Publications' "Buy A Gun For America" campaign, our sister publication, American Handgunner, received the following letter. We love driving business to gun dealers!

OK. OK. I acquiesced to your exhortations (more easily said than spelled), and bought a gun. Just because you said to, not that I really needed another gun. Having given up on finding a pristine S & W Model 63 at a reasonable price, i.e., less than half again its original MSRP, I broke down and bought a brand new S & W 617, which is a 4-inch stainless K-frame, .22 rimfire, 10-round wheelgun with adjustable sights, Hogue grips, a full-length ejector shroud, muzzle heavy/jump-free, built like a masonry sanitary facility, great DA/SA trigger, and a ball to shoot.

The vicinity of the cabin deck has become a pine-cone-free zone within a 30-yard radius, and "exotic" targets, e.g., tin cans, have been introduced as a necessity, but their species, too, are, alas, endangered. And, despite that most of my shooting is oriented toward hunting or self-defense sorts of practice, the simple pleasures of unadulterated, uncomplicated, plain old-fashioned plinking have been rejuvenated with this new gun, making the purchase worthwhile.

So. I say to my fellow readers: Buy A Gun!

John K. Calkins

via: www.americanhandgunner.com

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