Pond James Pond
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I know that kind of statement hardly sets me apart on this forum: pretty much everyone is a slave to the pursuit these fine forums lionise.
However, this is slightly different.
Whilst, yes, it is true that I am quite addicted to shooting now, and reloading for that matter, there is one particular field that seems to have seeped to my very core: Spanish-made handguns!!
I have two Astra 680s. It should have only been one, but I damaged the barrel of my first with a squib incident and so when another pristine-ish example appeared I had to have it. That first has since been reserved by a club member as I was selling it cheaply (due to the damage which doesn't appear to have affected accuracy!).
Then there is the first gun that ever actually took my breath away, lying there under the gun-shops glass counter-surface: an Astra Constable .380.
Then there is the Star compact PK28/30 hybrid that I rue not buying last year.
And now... I see two more lovelies on sale, and I am almost considering one of them.
An Astra A-70 single stack 9mm, and another Astra: a A-60 double stack .380 that looks very much like the Constable I had lusted over back in the infancy of my shooting career. (Career-wise, I am probably a teething toddler now).
Both are allegedly very well made and shoot accurately and reliably, if the net is to be believed, and both are so reasonably priced.
Thus, again, I find my heart-strings being plucked by not one but two pistols. It is the 2 mag, ammo and holster equipped A-60 I am actually seriously considering.
It is hard to justify: money is somewhat tight. The baby is here, and the A60 is the same size and capacity as the 9mm-shooting G19 and so has not real world advantage over what I already own. All the same, I just love it!! The A-70 is even cheaper, but only with one mag.
But to put it into perspective, buying both would be less costly than my used G19 was when I bought it!! These guns are such good value: what a crying shame spares are not easy to come by...
Why, oh why, must temptation rear its head again?
More importantly, why, oh why, can't my lotto tickets be the winners?!
OK: self pity is over - just a little reflection on how I'm feeling at the mo'....
However, this is slightly different.
Whilst, yes, it is true that I am quite addicted to shooting now, and reloading for that matter, there is one particular field that seems to have seeped to my very core: Spanish-made handguns!!
I have two Astra 680s. It should have only been one, but I damaged the barrel of my first with a squib incident and so when another pristine-ish example appeared I had to have it. That first has since been reserved by a club member as I was selling it cheaply (due to the damage which doesn't appear to have affected accuracy!).
Then there is the first gun that ever actually took my breath away, lying there under the gun-shops glass counter-surface: an Astra Constable .380.
Then there is the Star compact PK28/30 hybrid that I rue not buying last year.
And now... I see two more lovelies on sale, and I am almost considering one of them.
An Astra A-70 single stack 9mm, and another Astra: a A-60 double stack .380 that looks very much like the Constable I had lusted over back in the infancy of my shooting career. (Career-wise, I am probably a teething toddler now).
Both are allegedly very well made and shoot accurately and reliably, if the net is to be believed, and both are so reasonably priced.
Thus, again, I find my heart-strings being plucked by not one but two pistols. It is the 2 mag, ammo and holster equipped A-60 I am actually seriously considering.
It is hard to justify: money is somewhat tight. The baby is here, and the A60 is the same size and capacity as the 9mm-shooting G19 and so has not real world advantage over what I already own. All the same, I just love it!! The A-70 is even cheaper, but only with one mag.
But to put it into perspective, buying both would be less costly than my used G19 was when I bought it!! These guns are such good value: what a crying shame spares are not easy to come by...
Why, oh why, must temptation rear its head again?
More importantly, why, oh why, can't my lotto tickets be the winners?!
OK: self pity is over - just a little reflection on how I'm feeling at the mo'....
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