My first ever online order for real guns.

[Blackhorse]

So, I've bought air guns online aplenty. Now, I've ordered two pistols.

One is a .22 cal. Sig Mosquito. This one is 90% of the size of the famous Sig 226. It's a plinker and a 'cheap ammo trainer' for my next one, since all the controls, etc. are essentially identical.

The one I found was $250 (so, yes, I pretty much stole it) and is NIB with full warrantee and made in Germany.

The second one is a totally underrated model, the Sig 2022. While most of the flagship Sigs go for close to a grand, I picked this up for $400! This one in 9 mm was made in the USA. To me, they make a nice set.

I'm looking forward to getting these in and burning up a little ammo at the range. 

Then let those Zombies beware!!!

 

[RDPipes]

Nice ones sir, I like the looks of the 9mm Sig, strange because I'm mostly a revolver man.
Hope you can get ammo, here .22 jump off the shelves before they get there.

 

[Blackhorse]

With all the places we have around here I think I can find it somewhere...but I too have heard it's in short supply.

One of the reasons I went to this combo was to move down to the 9mm again. After my last purchase (a Springfield XD .40 Compact, below) I found myself shooting less and less due to the cost of the .40 S&W ammo. I'll be selling the XD40 asap. Nothing at all wrong with it, excellent item in every way...just time to adjust for the apocalypse. lol

 

[kaitlyn3837]

Nice buys! I love my .22 plinker (Walther P22) and the ammo goes in cycles here. Walmart is always sold out but the gun stores and pawn shops always seem to have it. And you can almost always find it online (or least when I looked a few months ago).

Today after work, I'm headed to pick up my S&W Bodyguard 380! This post might have inspired to post about it

 

[Blackhorse]

Ooh! I like it!


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[Fatman]

Couple of nice firearms you have purchased!

 

[Mikem]

With all the places we have around here I think I can find it somewhere...but I too have heard it's in short supply.

One of the reasons I went to this combo was to move down to the 9mm again. After my last purchase (a Springfield XD .40 Compact, below) I found myself shooting less and less due to the cost of the .40 S&W ammo. I'll be selling the XD40 asap. Nothing at all wrong with it, excellent item in every way...just time to adjust for the apocalypse. lol

This is my favorite concealed carry firearm and caliber. For some reason I'm more accurate shooting this one then my Springfield Armory Tactical 40. Probably because this is the one I practice with the most. I reload my own forty so it is not as bad going out and buying a box of ammo.

In Arizona it seems the only shortage is .22. I live a stones throw from the local Cabelas and when they get .22 you are limited to one box of 250. For about a year it was tough getting powder, primers etc. but that shortage seems behind us. The prices have gone up quite a bit. But it seems it has gone up on everything, food, gas etc. I would agree with P.B. and think a lot of people buying and reselling.

 

[Blackhorse]

Yeah...I like the XD40 a whole lot. It's a little 'thick' for concealed carry...but then, so am I. But for general power, accuracy, reliability, & capacity it's very tough to beat. 

There are few makers I would move to in favor of Springfield...Sig is one. But if I could get my mitts on a compact XD in .22 LR I'd get that and keep everything!!!

 

[puros_bran]

In the micro 380 guns I like the Ruger LCP.  I carry mine everywhere.  We had a unplanned 20 minutes to get there church meeting.  I stood up at the podium, reach Into my pocket for a pen, realized I had a handful of pistol. Lol.  When I say it disappears I mean it disappears.  

But it does bite when you fire it.  I won't even let the boy shoot it.

 

[Blackhorse]

Just about any Ruger ever is OK by me, I've owned lots over the years and never had one do anything wrong. Ever. I recently saw a sweet little .22 auto International version with the Manlicher stock on it. Love that outfit in the No. 1, the 77, the 1022 anything! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

But if I had my druthers on a .380 (the most underrated highly lethal cartridge of the modern age) in today's world I'd like either a classic Walther PPK-S or the Sig 232...but then I've always thought that the fat little Browning BDA was cool even though that certainly ain't no go in to church pocket piece.

 

[puros_bran]

My LCP replaced my J Frames. The only other pistol I seriously considered was the Sig 238. I love a single action semi, the thought of one in my pocket is unsettling..Pocket holster or not. Lol. If I intended an IWB holster or some such the 238 would have own hands down.

The Ppk and the 232 may be fine guns. They both have a reputation of excellence but I've not so much as handled either.

 

[Blackhorse]

I always thought the grip on the 238 was too short (for my big paws) but with the extended mags it might be OK.

 

[puros_bran]

If you'd ever fired one you'd know. It is the current Rolls Royce of pocket pistols. It shoots like a much larger weapon and hides like a much smaller weapon.

I already said it but I'll repeat it. It's only 'flaw' is I would not be comfortable with it in a pocket holster in condition 1 carry.

 

[Blackhorse]

Doesn't it have the Sig 4 point safety system? I mean, it can't be fired by hitting that bobbed hammer... you have to pull the trigger all the way through the double action after you de-cock it...right. Safer than a 1911, etc.

Of course you could always carry it with the chamber empty...for church anyway. lol

 

[Blackhorse]

Oops! No...the 238 is the same 1911 style frame safety...cocked & locked.

Sorry...I want something with a decocker. Still not fond of the 'safe action' stuff like the Block/Springfield XD designs...I like that double/single action thang!

 

[Blackhorse]

If it looks really cool...is it?

Does the 'R' stand for 'Rogers'...as in Buck?

The new Remington Model 51 just HAS to be the sweetest looking pistol around...a design patented a mere 99 years ago!

Read about it here:

http://www.gundigest.com/guns/handgun-reviews-articles/shot-show-2014-remington-r51

 

[puros_bran]

http://www.beretta.com/en-us/u22-neos-/#Photos

I have one of these. It's far more Duck Dodgers of the Eleventy Third Century.

 

[MisterE]

Kinda looks like an air pistol...

 

[Blackhorse]

Well, the Neos is apparently a good shooter... the Remmy is a recall!

 

[Blackhorse]

Got the Sig 2022 9mm in hand. No range time yet, but getting it ready and spiffed up has yielded that it fits me well, the barrel lock up is as it's Sig reputation would imply...tight, and what's best, it came with an unexpected 2nd mag plus simple Sig holster. Sig magazines are $40 everywhere and the clip-on holster is $26...then add on $10 shipping and I have about $75 in goodies I didn't expect.

So...the pistol was $400 and shipped free from Kentucky Gun Company. I paid $25 FFL transfer fee on my end plus the $5 background check thing so my total was $430 for the pistol, 2 mags, a sig holster, heavy cable lock, second backstrap and the hard case.

For a Sig which is universally acknowledged as being the best kept firearms secret out there...bona fide bullet proof, passing US military and international police extreme service testing...shoots any ammo...being extremely accurate (for what it is - a tactical piece)...jeez! That really does seem like a good thing in my book. It was easy to say yes to this one.

Now the next one...the Sig Mosquito. Totally different story. At my 'great score' price of a mere $250 + $30 shipping + $30 FFL transfer, etc. totaling $310...I get a .22 auto that's almost the exact same size as the 2022 9mm but lighter...and which has perhaps the worst reputation in the firearms world for being picky about everything...esp ammo and dirt. But everything has a fix, and I have the internet!

More news as it unfolds!