She likes the 22/45, I don’t think she’d find the Lite version an improvement.
🙂 One nice thing about living here, you don’t need to “go to the range” just to try out a gun.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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That;s one (of many) reasons I won’t live in city limits. If I want to test-fire a weapon, I step out onto the deck & do so–provided it isn’t 0300 or so. If I’m on the deck shooting at that time of night there’s a damned good reason. Such reasons do occasionally wander up if you live in the woods. I only shoot ’em if they bother the cats or, in extremis, me.
The nice thing about .22 is the amount of practice you can do on the cheap. I may have noticed wrong and not to be picky but don’t you guys use ear muffs or at the very least ear plugs?
Sure. We were done shooting when I took the pic.
The reason I like the Lites over the regular 22/45s is the bull barrels on the regular ones, with the light polymer frames, make the gun seem so unbalanced. After handling a Lite, I happily forked over the extra bucks and replaced the top-heavy target model.
Besides that, the blue one I now have kinda looks like a ray gun. 😀