This is the revolver I bought yesterday. It shows some cosmetic wear, but the action works fine and the barrel’s good. I wanted something in .357 mostly because that will fire less expensive .38 special ammo as well as more expensive .357 Magnum. I downloaded the manual from Taurus’s website since pre-owned guns rarely come with manuals. There’s not a whole lot to the manual, though, as revolvers are less complex than automatics. (Mostly, every page has Do Not Be a Complete Dumbass With This Handgun on it.)
What else. . . laundry, cooking, cleaning. Also finally finished Sacred Pain. It got a whole lot better towards the end, where the author described the Sun Dance and the dancers’ descriptions of what they felt before, during, and after the dance. I think the editor of that book did the author a disservice by putting the sections in the order that they were in. The interesting stuff that was at the end (Sun Dance, Spanish Inquisition, how anesthetics caused great debates in the medical community in the 1840s) should’ve been put at the beginning, and the boring theory that was at the beginning should’ve been put at the end. Well, I don’t think the book was intended for a general audience, so the editor probably wasn’t as interested in keeping readers glued to the page as he should’ve been.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI haven’t found a revolver that I’m comfortable with.
Not even a .22? The low power and low recoil of that round makes it so that it’d be difficult to make an uncomfortable .22 unless it was an ultra-compact derringer. Anything on a compact frame is too small for me to hold and fire comfortably, but this Taurus 65 is a medium frame and fits my hand perfectly.
I won’t know for sure until I take it to the range. But if it works like the Taurus .22 Magnum that I fired, it’ll be perfectly fine.
Brian was telling me about the time his wife shot a .357. 5 chambers were loaded with .38, and the 6th had a hand-loaded high-power .357 shell. So she got (blam)*5 followed by *BLAM*!!1!. She didn’t like that very much.
I’ve only tried sizes larger than .22. They all, for some reason, seemed to have too small a grip for my taste. It always felt like no matter how large the weapon, I couldn’t get a comfortable grip on it.
Hm. Zach has a 9-shot .22 that’s built on a medium or large frame. The grip is fairly large and comfortable to hold, or at least I found it to be so. Maybe you have trouble with revolvers designed for 5’10″ people because your hands are so large. . . .