So earlier this week I got a new toy. I bought myself on early Christmas present, a Lenovo X200 Tablet PC. If you don’t know what a tablet PC is, it’s one of those laptops that you fold down and write on it with a special pen (I am doing it right now in fact). It’s been a bit of a rocky road to get it usable however. It came with Windows Vista. Yeah. I still don’t like it. I will not recommend it to people yet. For the first two days it locked up several times a day and required constant rebooting. However, I found a nifty update program from Lenovo, and updated Office 2007 land it’s been running smoothly ever since. On Friday evening I met up with a guy on Craigslist and picked up a Sprint 595U card. It’s USB. Obviously, I wouldn’t want a device sticking out of my computer so a little fine and some electrical tape and I got it to work inside.
Yesterday I went to the gun show and picked up a few things. I got a “bore-snake” for my father’s SKS that I hope to acquire. I also picked up a lower for an AR-15, because come 2009, I may not be able to get that sort of stuff. I plan on building my own customized AR-15.
Well, all this “writing” is making my hand hurt, so I’m done now.
You neglect to point out that I’ve had no similar issues with my Motion Computing tablet with Vista. I’d chalk it up to being “one of the first off the boat”
Wow..that was boring
I want one…what is it.
Thinking of buying a hand gun here in Alaska, for concealed. Any recommendations?
Not sure I like the “5 to 6 shot only” revolvers. Like clips.
By tablet he means, “the other woman”. I didn’t get to go to the gun show, but Britt and I took the concealed class. What do I get for Christmas??
There’s a lot of things that can go wrong with a semi-automatic handgun. However, with a revolver, it’s like a fork: you pick it up and use it. If you pull the trigger on a semi-automatic, and it doesn’t go boom, there’s a lot of possibilities, and they all take time to clear. With a revolver, if it misfires, you just pull the trigger again.
When you consider the average distance of most defensive gun fights, even the shorter barrel length doesn’t matter much… not when your close enough that the muzzle flash catches the SOBs clothes on fire.
You know it’s sad when I only go to your page to get the link for Danielle’s blog.
So, Bobby, are you saying the revolver makes a good self defense weapon to carry concealed?
Unless you’re willing to spend a few hundred hours doing malfunction drills at the range, a revolver is your best bet for a self-defense weapon.
You’ve with a revolver, you’ve got the highest likelyhood that if you use it, it’ll go boom at least once.
That being said, *if* you can find quality self-defense ammo that your semi-auto likes (in terms of reliable feeding), and if you haven’t gone and “accurized” and tighened the tolerances on the innards, a semi-auto can be just as reliable as a revolver.
Both of my 1911’s love the Federal brand self-defense rounds.
My Glock prefers Speer brand.
My old .38 revolver will reliably shoot whatever crap brand you shove in it. My semi-auto’s will misfeed about 1 time out of 50 with the cheap stuff.
It’s a balancing act. If you can’t put in the training time, the revolvers your best bet.
Thanks Bobby, you helped me make up my mind. Revolver it is. I don’t want a miss fire in time of need. I do want something that could take down a wolf, in need be, and perhaps injure a moose enough to get away. You never know if a moose will be in the mood to trample you to death while walking a trail one day. Thank goodness the bears are hibernating this time of year or I would have to carry a rifle.
Then you definately want a revolver in .44 magnum, if you’re worried about moose and bear. Ruger makes several excellent revolvers, as do Smith & Wesson, and Taurus.
The Taurus revolvers are of excellent reliabilty, but they’re finished a little rougher than the “name brand” guns. However, the Taurus guns are usually 25-30% cheaper than the competition. My wife’s new revolver is a Taurus.