Photos Knives & Guns

Alone said:
"Bad company"...





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One could even say Bad To The Bone! Course I'm biased.........

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Mine's a 10mm. I call it my Belt Rifle as that 10 can make Mr Coyote on the other side of the canyon pretty dead. Knife of course is on the other side with a spare mag:

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mbkr said:
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If I'm shooting a handgun, a coyote on the other side of the room has a fair chance of survival
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I'm a better handgun shot than a rifle shot. Just more practice I guess. Those Dan Wesson Specialist pistols are hard to shoot bad once ya get use to the two dot sights instead of three. It's been relatively easy for me to coach folks on smacking clay birds on a bank at a ranged 100 yds. They just shoot straight. However, and you are probably gonna think this is just a cowboy story but I had a witness, my wife. And you know she'd throw me down hard if I was exaggerating but my best pistol shot ever was 250 yds on a running coyote. The distance was confirmed later with a range finder. Now ya gots to understand it's bout a constant state of warfare tween ranchers and coyotes. They eat calves, particularly newborns and if you've got an old cow or horse that goes down they'll start munching on them too. Unlike a mountain lion or a wolf they don't even kill them first. They just start eating the guts. Doesn't make a guy feel all warm and cozy bout coyotes. Not a lot of sitting around a campfire and singing kumbaya and holding hands with Mr Coyote that's for sure. I've also seen em attack cowdogs and a pack once encircled the wife and her cow dog. They wasn't there to say howdy!

Anyhoo turned into The Bowl, we were going to check the water situation. The Bowl is a large canyon with a lot of feeder canyons that open into it and we had a large water storage tank there that fed a trough. So we was checking the water in the storage tank and lo and behold there is Mr Coyote, a big one sitting off to the side. I bail out of the truck and run to the front and take a sitting position. Mr Coyote aware of me and the truck starts walking towards the west. Now I was carrying an odd ball of a pistol for such a job, but then again maybe not considering the round. It was a Polish Radom Tokarov in 7.62x 25mm. In fact it was one of the original Polish Radom Tokarovs. Radom had made ten for Soviet East Bloc approval back in the fifties. They'd put two mags through this thing and then put it cosmolene. Late 90s come and they hit the market these ten and my brother, a military arms collector, picks one up. Don't remember why I had it but I did and carried it quite a bit at the ranch. I always thought it'd make a pretty good ranch gun except for the lil bump of the fixed sights on the thing. And that round? A flat shooting ice pick!

So the coyote is heading west bound at the walk. My first shot using a lot of Kentucky windage and elevation cause like I said the sights are just lil bumps is right at him but about 20 yds short. He kicks it up a gear and I adjust. My second shot is right between his legs. He jumps straight up and really hits high gear now when he comes down. I adjust again and the third shot rolls him right over! He'd of been behind the water tank soon so there wouldn't have been a fourth shot. Best pistol shot I ever made and dang Nichole would throw me down hard if I was exageratting!

There on the right is the Radom Tokarov:

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Ice picked right through 3/8" denim mycarta. Lower center and the 7.62 is bottom left on the mycarta:
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It just carried good on the ranch. Light and relatively small but powerful. That holster is actually made for a Ruger Bearcat but the Tokarov fits it well

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Now back to our regular programming:

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RocketFoot said:
Here is my old 1988 vintage, Colt custom shop nickel plated Delta Elite...I didn't realize how much age is showing on this old girl! It looks much better in person, the photo over exaggerates the scratches horribly! It has a low round count, maybe I should get it refinished??

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If you refinish the gun, its value will plummet. For some reason in the gun world, no matter the quality of the work, refinishing a valuable gun destroys its value. I have an old Colt Combat Delta that I would love to refinish, but instead I just reworked all the controls etc.
 
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