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by Buck13
Looks like Sail has a crushing lock on the trophy here, but don't let that stop you from posting your petty discontents.
My second-string regret is selling my 10 mm pistols. I just got the check from the consignment shop on Monday. It took only a few weeks after dropping them off there at the beginning of summer to start second-guessing that.
The base-model Witness wasn't accurate enough to be interesting for range use (not terrible, but not as great as some people say). My thinking was that my 4" GP100 is good enough as a trail gun, since I rarely go hiking anyway. The PNW just reported the second kill of someone by a cougar of the summer. I guess six rounds "for sure" of .357 should be enough, but I still have a few small twinges of regret.
More profoundly troubling, the Witness Hunter was mechanically accurate enough (despite my crap skills and eyes, I regularly shot 2 to 2.5" groups off a mediocre rest at 25 yards, which I consider good for me), but it seemed to aggravate my flinch even more than the Redhawk. I guess I am infatuated with revolvers. I was also peeved that the small (2 mm?) roll pin holding together the two pieces of the guide rod broke during my last range session, allowing the long part of the rod to eject from the front of the slide. Since I couldn't seem to score well with the Hunter in our Bullseye league, my intention is to replace it with a 9 mm, either a Glock 34 or a 1911. The single-stack probably makes more sense. However, the difficulty of actually making a fucking decision about what to get to replace it makes me wish that before selling it I'd first experimented with putting a light spring in the Hunter and drastically down-loading the ammunition, since I was handloading everything I shot anyway. That process would not suffer from paralysis by analysis. Unfortunately, someone had put a lay-away deposit on the gun almost immediately, so I couldn't retrieve it from the shop after a month.
Now I get to look forward to regretting whatever 9 mm I buy! Or maybe stupidly buying a 10 mm 1911 (since I have all those .40 bullets lying around) and *really* regretting that.
IMR4227: Zero to 900 in 0.001 seconds
I'm only killing paper and my self-esteem.