{"id":31319,"date":"2025-10-30T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31319"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:11:35","slug":"random-gun-crankery-some-filler-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31319","title":{"rendered":"Random gun crankery, some filler."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith and Wesson has a new series on their YouTube channel: &#8220;Tales From the Vault&#8221;, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=27576\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Miculek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode dropped Tuesday, and it covers the Smith and Wesson Model 76. You may remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imfdb.org\/wiki\/Smith_%26_Wesson_76\" target=\"_blank\">Model 76<\/a> from various movies, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUkU18MrBzU?si=GdVbn8nxU9RjWVNO&amp;start=74\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As we like to say around here, &#8220;If the future was bad, CHeston was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11xTwCuzZY0?si=m4fH2BhoP7vApFRu\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There was a gentleman at one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/theswca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">S&#038;WCA symposiums<\/a> some years ago who had a display of Model 76s. As I recall, at the time, you could get a transferable one for about $8K. I checked GunBroker, and it looks like they are going for $18K to $20K now.<\/p>\n<p>My brother sent me an interesting note yesterday: the revived Marlin (a division of Ruger) introduced a new lever gun in their Trapper series. Short barrel, compact, probably quick handling&#8230;and chambered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marlinfirearms.com\/s\/model_70453\/\" target=\"_blank\">best mil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen any lever guns chambered in 10mm until now, but it does kind of make sense. (There may have been some custom or semi-custom low production 10mm lever guns that I don&#8217;t know about.) Heck, I don&#8217;t even feel like I have a use case for a pistol-caliber carbine, and I find the 10mm Trapper an interesting proposition. I bet this would be a great gun for hog hunting.<\/p>\n<p>I promised a couple of weeks ago to post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31252\" target=\"_blank\">photos of my old 1911 with the Battleship Texas grips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-300x159.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-1024x544.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-768x408.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-1536x817.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-4A24-B683-EC-0-2048x1089.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-300x154.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-300x154.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-1024x527.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-768x395.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-1536x791.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-49CF-82C3-85-0-2048x1055.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do think they look nice. Of course, I kept the grips that came with the gun, in case I ever want to restore it back to the original config. The gunsmith did have to do some hand fitting on these grips, so I&#8217;m not sure they&#8217;d go on any other gun.<\/p>\n<p>Preview of coming attractions. As my regular readers know, I am a bore. Either a small bore or a big bore, depending. In this case, I am a small bore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-300x156.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-300x156.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-1024x533.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-768x400.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-1536x800.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-44F5-B7D0-EC-0-2048x1066.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-300x179.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-300x179.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-1024x612.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-768x459.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-1536x919.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPEG-image-41D7-8E41-DE-0-2048x1225.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>But<\/strong>: I am also PC.<\/p>\n<p>Over at RevolverGuy.Com, Mike Wood has a nice piece up about <a href=\"https:\/\/revolverguy.com\/fmg-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">the demise of the print editions of <strong>Guns<\/strong> and <strong>American Handgunner<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31272\" target=\"_blank\">previously<\/a>), which includes reviews of several FMG Publications books. Some of those I&#8217;ve written about here. There&#8217;s also an appearance in the comments by Editor Roy Huntington, who explains the economics: &#8220;With the loss of print advertising, it was simply not sustainable to keep the presses rolling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RevolverGuy also has an <a href=\"https:\/\/revolverguy.com\/revolverfest-2025-after-action-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">after-action review of Revolver Fest 2025<\/a>. I wanted to mention that because I thought this, from the comments, was interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/revolverguy.com\/revolverfest-2025-after-action-review\/#comment-127449\" target=\"_blank\">We had one gun (out of 7) go down (frozen action) at the Diamondback booth, and one gun that occasionally had a light strike that couldn\u2019t be traced back to ammo. I heard from a number of shooters who experienced problems with multiple guns at S&#038;W (sights, barrel clocking, frozen action, etc). The best place to shoot S&#038;Ws was actually over at the Lipsey\u2019s booth, where the guns were reportedly doing well. Maybe Lipsey\u2019s did some inspections, cleaning and maintenance on the samples they brought?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/revolverguy.com\/revolverfest-2025-after-action-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith &#038; Wesson didn\u2019t show up with anything all that interesting. I shot a 3-inch, Performance Center Carry Comp Model 19, which was neat, but a variation on an old theme. Smith also brought out their .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum 1854 rifles. I somewhat regret not shooting them, but I did handle them and they looked sharp. Frankly, Smith seemed a tad tone-deaf to the nature of the event; also on their table was a Bodyguard 2.0, a Shield X, and an AR. I get it: get your products in front of customers any way you can, but also, read the room, Smith!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As your resident unabashed Smith and Wesson fanboy: guys, do better, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith and Wesson has a new series on their YouTube channel: &#8220;Tales From the Vault&#8221;, with Jerry Miculek. The first episode dropped Tuesday, and it covers the Smith and Wesson Model 76. You may remember the Model 76 from various movies, such as&#8230; As we like to say around here, &#8220;If the future was bad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,3,22,219,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-212","category-guns","category-media","category-ruger","category-smith-and-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31352,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31319\/revisions\/31352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}