Ugly Rugers - Handsome Film-Star:

Morning Girls .. the milking shed is hosed down & ready for you .. I appreciate that you readers already know this - but maybe you will get the chance to offer this thought to someone close to you ..

Nobody cares more about your life and security than you do. Please don't rely on anybody else for security.

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- I often declare proudly that I am a Ruger fan .. (their guns are strongly built & reliable)

- But I don't think much of two of their latest offerings:

This GP100 Comp in 9mm is nicely sculptured into an 8 round super-tuned competition model that might claim to be close to the ideal ... EXCEPT that they failed to reduce the frame opening to suite the 9x19mm NATO cartridge and cylinder. - Why-O-Why-O-Why ..??

- All that elaborate machining , finishing in special materials and precision tuning only to present an ugly botch-up with a huge gap spanned by a rearwards extended barrel .. bloody pathetic.

THIS Is How A Nine mm Cylinder Should Fit A Revolver Frame:

Korth Sky Marshal.

Now while I'm bravely knocking my No.1 favourite maker .. What on earth have they done here?

TEN INCHES:

The Mk.IV Ruger .22" is generally beautifully made and finished - but what has happened here to this unbalanced lump of a "Pinnochio" pistol?

I won't be shame-faced disposing of my very nicely made four inch SP101 revolvers in 327 Fed Magnum & .22" rim-fire - because they handle & work so well .. and I'll display my Mk IV Hunter model with it's beautifully fluted barrel at every chance * .. but my ear protectors will have to work well to mask the noise from those two dogs barking above.

*The last time I ran a couple of mags through the wee shiny thing - it flicked a hot case over my head and down my neck/collar .. I shrugged it off only for it to drop down further and land on my back 'love handles' .. two small blister burns for one pop !

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I'd Like to mark the passing of a very handsome Hollywood star KIRK DOUGLAS this month at 103 years old.

Kirk's birth name ISSUR DANIELAVITCH records his Jewish ancestry from the area of Europe now named BELARUS.

I am amazed & dismayed that the current Wikipedia page purports to detail his life story with only once mentioning his lifelong struggle as an American socialist to overcome MacCARTHYISM and the Hollywood blacklist bans. - This "Hollywood" version of history - like so much of American Life - is false and misleading.
Marty K.