Carry

[CrealCritter]

Love the Judge! Yeah... It's a little large!

Me too the 3510 (3") can shoot .410 buckshot also - what's not to love about that?

 

[Britesea]

If you do get a revolver, invest in a couple of speed loaders at the same time. Being able to reload faster is always a good thing.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Seriously?? I am happy to live here in snowy NH, background check and you're good to carry.

Edit - we actually have constitutional carry but you need a background check to buy a pistol and I choose to get a carry permit so I get checked for that also.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

For me, the best gun in the world is a pain if it doesn't fit my grip well. I've had a chance to shoot many different handguns, and can do so well; but I have small hands. And the one I like the most is hard to find and is a Sig so is out of my price range. Once upon a time, we had unlimited access to a range, and as much ammo as we could shoot if we picked up ALL of the brass and fixed the targets.
We have open carry here, so concealing it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

 

[Wannabefree]

I want to get my CC permit too...it's such a pain to have to go get it done though I haven't done it yet

 

[CrealCritter]

I had to look that up! Is it accurate? Just curious with that short barrel! It has good reviews!

It seemed so, although I need a lot more practice. It a six shot that shoots both .38 Special/.357 Magnum rounds. It's very smooth with minimum recoil shooting .38 but has a significant amount of recoil and muzzle flash with .357 Magnum. The muzzle flash this thing throws out surpised me. It's also faily heavy (solid) and it's darn right ugly but I'm not intending to enter it in any beauty contests either.

Pretty good honest review here ---> http://aegisacademy.com/gun-review-eaa-windicator-38-special-357-magnum-revolver/

 

[CrealCritter]

Well $160.00 and 16 hours of consealed carry classes start in two weeks. 8 hours classroom Saturday and 8 hours of range time Sunday. I spoke to the NRA instructor and he said your expected to pop off a minimnm of 150 rounds in 8 hours at the range.

After I complete the required 16 hours of training. Then I have to apply for the consealed carry license which requires yet another $150.00 plus the cost of being finger printed and another criminal background check (I already had a criminal background check when I applied for my firearms identification (FOID) card and again when I.purchasdx my revolver - I guess you can't have too many criminal background checks hu?. When I'm issued my consealed carry license (within 90 days of applying) it's good for 5 years. Then it will cost another $150.00 to get it renewed.

Geeze it's difficult and costly to obtain a concealed carry license in the state of Illinois. I bet criminals don't do any of this do they?

All of this is in addition to the cost of the revolver about $350.00 plus ammo about another $100.00 and to top it off I'm still looking for the right holster for my revolver. I've purchased 3 already ranging from $10.00 to $40.00. I need to return all of them tomorrow.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

@CrealCritter, I had to laugh when I read your response!

We had a foreign exchange student once and when we asked him why he chose Wisconsin, he said that it was ranked #1 for the friendliest people in the country. I still find myself waving at other cars on the road, even though I don't know the people in the other cars.

A few years ago, we went to Toronto for a wedding. And we were watching the local Toronto weather channel. It had many area temps. Every single temp was for a Canadian city.... EXCEPT one. Green Bay, Wisconsin was listed on the Toronto weather report! Not Detroit, not Buffalo... Not any number of American cities closer to Toronto... Just Green BayUmmmmm, hey guys, you DO know Green Bay is in Wisconsin (USA) RIGHT?
My Canadian friend calls Wisconsin "Canadian Light"

When I was in Navy boot camp, we were all sitting around talking about home. When I said I was from Wisconsin, no one else knew where that was. I was even asked if it was one of the 50 States.

Apparently, other people aren't sure what to think about Wisconsin either! We just might be Canadian, eh??

 

[CrealCritter]

Hm, if I once knew what FIP is or are, then I've forgotten. Maybe it's regional? Wisconsin is VERY regional. I'm from the land of the frozen tundra further north, and spent much of my time even further north than that.

I actually read your message last night and spent the night saying FIP?? Fresh Italian Pizza? Frozen Irish Pints? Fooling (around) In Public? I was trying to think of old cheap beer names with those initials.
Wisconsin is a very strange blend of old and new. Very European in many areas. Wisconsin is Belgian, Irish, Scottish, German, Polish, Danish, Luxembourger, French-Canadian, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Denmark, Bohemian, Italian, French, Welsh, and Prussian. It's known for cheese, sausage, beer, and the Green Bay Packers. And apparently for friendly people. The circus and Harry Houdini vs Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein. Yep, it's a strange place. Some people say the cold affects our brains...

FIP = Fu__ing Illionis People. That's what they call illionIlions in southern Wisconsin.

 

[CrealCritter]

This is what I carry, when I carry anything at all. But I don't conceal it. Sometimes I hike with it if the area is known to be where there are cougars or I’m somewhat likely to run across a bear (black bear, not a grizzly which is very rare around here). If I hike in the Rockies, a grizzly is more possible, so I'd carry.

I believe there’s only been one murder in my valley in the last 40 years or more, and unarmed assaults or fist fights in public areas are very rare. There are probably domestic assaults (usually male partner slapping around — or otherwise — his woman of kid). But I don’t have to directly concern myself with that. Home invasions are nearly unheard of. Even in our larger nearby towns, murders or armed assaults are quite rare. A belligerent drunk on some sidewalk probably happens once in a while.

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True, if we’ve heard about a “weirdo” wandering around anywhere near our neighborhood, we might keep this spray handy in our home. But it’s never come to anything.

The big cities are distant from us, and it’s true that they to some degree have the nasty problems — more fights (bar or street), assaults, gang-related shootings, sexual assaults. But in Vancouver, the largest metro area in our province, the rate of these is fairly low as North American cities go. I never carry anything (even bear spray) when I go out there for a few days. (I suppose I’d conceal my bear spray if I wanted a weapon in the city… I’m not sure how legal that would be there.)

We talked about bear mace in consealed carry class today. As a matter of fact I'm the ONLY student in the entire class. And yep there is a law for strapping a big ole can of bear mace to your side also. I found out today there is a law for most everything in Illionis.