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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun shows aren\u2019t the best place for gun photography. I say this knowing your environment is totally alien to mine but do you have gun clubs there, competitions? The competitors usually love talking about their weapons and showing them off.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one of my competition rifles, the others are bolt actions. I\u2019ve used this one for F Class matches. Shot from the prone (laying down) position at 600 yards. The target is the size of a paint can lid and, to be in the running, you have to hit it every time, 60 times in a row. No matter what the wind is doing.<\/p>\n

Most rifles like this are chambered in .223 or 5.56 Nato (essentially the same thing) but this one is 6.5mm Grendel. It has quite a bit more \u201cpunch\u201d than a 5.56, especially at range.<\/p>\n

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Pistols too.<\/p>\n

S&W version of the 1911<\/p>\n

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This one is for home defense.<\/p>\n

I live in farm country with no visible neighbors but you can hear them shooting every Sat and Sun afternoon. With the nearest neighbor being a good piece of a mile away and 911 a good 15-20 minutes if you\u2019re lucky, I do admit to a certain degree of comfort of having something like this handy but reality is that I don\u2019t need it.<\/p>\n

Everyone here is armed. A burglar would have to be suicidal to try breaking into homes around here and since, burglars don\u2019t tend to suicidal, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

About 12 years ago, some druggie in Pensacola killed a couple of his \u201cco-workers\u201d and dumped the bodies a couple of miles from my house. The only crime here originates from family members of people known to the victim. And it is exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n

The home invasion robbery, the kind that gives people nightmares, does not exist here.<\/p>\n

The Benelli Nova shotgun below is modified to contain 7 rounds up to 3-1\/2 magnums. I keep it loaded with 3\u201d Buck. I hope I don\u2019t have to shoot it, the recoil is brutal, even to someone not particularity recoil sensitive.<\/p>\n

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