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Yanow boys there is simply a time and a place to sit back, relax - and do things the old way. Once in awhile the wife and I will get up early on a weekend and bake our own bread. Or I will get out the straight razor and strop it up for one of the most indulgent of the manly pleasures - the wet shave. And nothing - I mean NOTHING - beats an afternoon with a percussion cap revolver and a whole bucket full of black powder and round lead balls.But sometimes even Yours Truly can't handle the reek of the black powder boys - sometimes I am forced to retreat to the out house for a breath of fresh air!
Some of my finest prognostication occurs in the Fortress Of Solitude.
So it was that I was perched upon the Log Of Ease and contemplating my next adventure as the foolish firearm forum folk's designated Retronaut when I came across one of these in the magazine I was reading:
My gosh. There are few guns ###ier than a 9mm Luger - but this just may be one of them. I have to wonder about the utility of it. I suppose that the closest equivalent to this thing would be one of those HK MP7's. If we were to revive this concept...which gun would you do it with? I was kinda thinking that maybe one of those Berretta 92's might lend itself to a concept like this. Or maybe plasticize the buttstock and hook it up to one of those Glocks with a 32 shot clip? I think we can all agree that this wouldn't go well with a 1911...
For my two cents, it seems to me to be a noble effort to blend the pistol and the rifle. Sometimes blending two different machines works and works well - take the endure style street/trail motorcycles, for example. But to me - it seems that whenever we try to blend the pistol and the rifle - an abortion results. Those Thompson single shot pistols in rifle calibers WILL hurt you if you don't hold them right. 95% of us will have our hands full managing the recoil of a 44 magnum...and yet S&W is selling those massive .460's and .500's like they were hotcakes. I've never seen anyone shoot any of those guns well from a practical field position.
But some monsters - like the one above...are still strangely alluring and tempting regardless of their practicality...
Some of my finest prognostication occurs in the Fortress Of Solitude.So it was that I was perched upon the Log Of Ease and contemplating my next adventure as the foolish firearm forum folk's designated Retronaut when I came across one of these in the magazine I was reading:
My gosh. There are few guns ###ier than a 9mm Luger - but this just may be one of them. I have to wonder about the utility of it. I suppose that the closest equivalent to this thing would be one of those HK MP7's. If we were to revive this concept...which gun would you do it with? I was kinda thinking that maybe one of those Berretta 92's might lend itself to a concept like this. Or maybe plasticize the buttstock and hook it up to one of those Glocks with a 32 shot clip? I think we can all agree that this wouldn't go well with a 1911...
For my two cents, it seems to me to be a noble effort to blend the pistol and the rifle. Sometimes blending two different machines works and works well - take the endure style street/trail motorcycles, for example. But to me - it seems that whenever we try to blend the pistol and the rifle - an abortion results. Those Thompson single shot pistols in rifle calibers WILL hurt you if you don't hold them right. 95% of us will have our hands full managing the recoil of a 44 magnum...and yet S&W is selling those massive .460's and .500's like they were hotcakes. I've never seen anyone shoot any of those guns well from a practical field position.
But some monsters - like the one above...are still strangely alluring and tempting regardless of their practicality...
