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015 The 10mm Review & The Harold Fish Case

The ProArms Team discusses the 10mm. Mas covers the History of the 10mm and the group discuss the various guns and cartridges available.

Next we listen to a gentleman who was involved with the Harold Fish case from Arizona. Harold Fish defended himself from an irate attacker, while walking on the Arizona Trail, with a 10mm Handgun and is currently in prison after being found guilty of Second Degree Murder. In the court case the 10mm pistol he used was demonized as well as his choice of hollowpoint ammo for it. We’re not telling you don’t carry a 10mm or don’t carry hollowpoints, we’re showing you an example of how you can be doing everything correctly and still be in trouble. JR Robie was Harold Fish’s Concealed Carry Instructor. Check out MSNBC for their story on Mr Fish and don’t forget to check out the evidence pictures. Read Mr. Fish’s statement at the sentencing hearing, imagine how this could happen to any of us. J.R. tells us what he knows about Harold’s story and a little bit about this case. Mr Fish is appealing his case and could use all the help he can get.

Mas and J.R. Robie

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014 The “High-End” 1911

This week The ProArms Team tackles the “High-End” 1911 Pistol. You know which ones they are, the ones we all covet. Well. between us we managed to get together a bunch of them and review and discuss their virtues. After we recorded this episode we found out that the Morris Custom Pistol the we opened the show with now goes for $10,000 not the $6,000 we estimated it at.

Once again this episode is rich with links so I will post them all here:

Les Baer

Bar-Sto

Ed Brown

Clark Custom Guns

Colt

Guncrafters Industries

Dave Lauck

Morris Custom Pistols

Nighthawk

Springfield

Wilson Combat

In addition we talked about our Sabre Defense AR-15s that some of us seem to think are appropriate BBQ Guns.

Herman gives us a little post-election insight about supporting our Pro-gun organizations. They need our help and support now more than ever. Consider joining or extending your memberships in those national groups and find your local groups and join them if you are not a member already. The ones that Herman mentioned were:

National Rifle Association

Gun Owners of America

Second Amendment Foundation

Unified Sportsmen of Florida

The array Of 1911s we reviewed for this Podcast

The Morris Pistol we opened the show with, the one with the “Nice Rack”

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013 The “Snubby” Revolver

The ProArms team tries something different for this episode. Normally our producer (me) spends a lot of time editing each podcast, taking out the umms, ahhhs, creaks and any bad words that might occur. This time we are presenting it to you in all its unedited glory. Don’t worry; it still has a PG rating. Sometimes we talk at the same time and interrupt each other. Here you will see what one of our recording sessions really sounds like. Go on over to the Gun Rights Radio forum to let us know if you like this episode; just click the box in the upper left hand side of this page to get there. We talked about so much in this podcast all the links are listed below along with a couple of gun specific fora that may be of interest to aficionados of a particular brand.

“Bullet Pulling”

Chuck’s Gun Shop

Crimson Trace

Breaking News: Federal Ammunition 125 grain Nyclad hollowpoint standard pressure load to be unveiled at SHOT show 2009. You won’t find it on the website yet.

Charter Arms

Colt

Colt Forum

Rossi

Ruger

Ruger Forum

Safariland Pocket Holster

Smith & Wesson

Smith & Wesson Forum

Taurus

Taurus Forum

First Issue Colt Detective Special introduced in 1927, this one was made in 1930

First Generation Smith & Wesson Chief’s Special introduced in 1950. Note the flat cylinder latch, round front sight and “baby sized” trigger guard. The hammer had been “bobbed” by a previous owner.

The Newest incarnation of the “J” frame S&W M&P revolver the model 340 in .357 magnum; it was introduced in 2006. Here it is pictured with a left handed Safariland pocket holster

“Big Dot” sight comes standard on the current M&P

Gail’s favorite BBQ gun, the Colt Agent nicknamed “The Black Pearl” bought at Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Illinois

Crimson Trace Grips on a S&W model 442 Airweight

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011 The Glock Pistol and Chris Edwards talks about GSSF

The ProArms Team takes a look at the ubiquitous Glock pistol in all its incarnations. Present for this Discussion are: John, Terri, Mas, Steve, Herman, Mike, Gail and Claudette the Rottweiler. Since its inception the Glock has proven itself to be a very popular pistol in the Military, Law Enforcement and civilian markets.

All the participants have not only “taught and shot” the Glocks extensively, but all have substantial experience carrying them. All likewise have considerable experience shooting matches (and frequently winning) with Glocks in calibers 9mm, .40, .45 ACP, and even .45 GAP. Two have carried them on police duty, and one has been involved in court cases that focused on shootings with Glock pistols.

We also go into the Glock Shooting Sports Foundation (GSSF) matches, and include an exclusive interview with The Man Himself, Chris Edwards, head of GSSF!

If all you know about Glock is what you hear in the movies like this quote from Die Hard 2: “That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me! You know what that is? It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month!” You definitely need to listen to this podcast.

There are lots of links for this episode so I’m just going to list them here:

Steve’s Article on Glock Maintenance

Advantage Arms

Robar

Tarnhelm

Cominolli

TruGlo

TacGrip

Lone Wolf

David Maglio

David’s “Package”

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The Three Stages of a GSSF Match

Five to Glock

Glock M

Glock The Plates

Chris Edwards, the man himself, fixing the “issues” with Gail’s Glock. Note the Zoom 2 Recorder in the foreground tried to do the podcast there but it was too noisy.

Chris Edwards and Massad Ayoob, smiling.

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008 All Girl Review!

The Girls take over the Podcast! Terri and Gail are your hostesses for this marathon Podcast . Gail once again takes her recorder on the road and she talks with three of the top female firearms trainers in the country.

First we talk to Vicki Farnam who is vice-president of Defense Training International and co-author of the books “Teaching Women to Shoot: A Law Enforcement Instructor’s Guide” and “Women Learning to Shoot: A Guide for Law Enforcement Officers “ We talk to Vicki about her popular class for men who teach women how to shoot.

Next we hear from Gila Hayes of The Firearms Academy of Seattle and The Armed Citizen’s Legal Defense Network. Gila is the author of “Effective Defense”, field editor for Women and Guns Magazine , and has published articles in numerous magazines. She talks to us about women buying that first gun among other things.

The last and longest of our interviews is with Kathy Jackson of the Cornered Cat website, a fountain of knowledge about firearms. Kathy is also the Managing Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine as well as an accomplished firearms instructor. We talk at length about women carrying a concealed weapon and methods of carry specific to the female. We also talk about a tragic accident where a little girl shot herself with her grandmother’s gun; you can read that story here. Kathy told a couple of other stories illustrating why carrying your gun in your purse is not a good idea, I have posted them in the “Episode Discussion” area for the ProArms Podcast at the Gun Rights Radio Network Forum. Also, check over there for all the other Gun Rights Podcasts in our network.

This podcast is our longest yet but there was no way we could separate these three interviews, so enjoy.

Finally Terri gives us an update on the new ProArms store that she and her husband John are building in Live Oak, Florida. They are already selling guns and teaching classes even though right now they are working out of a tiny office.

Kathy Jackson shoots a perfect 300 in the LFI Qualifier.

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007 Ruger LCP, Ruger Plant

In this episode of the ProArms Podcast the team discusses the Ruger LCP,a small .380 autopistol. Join us as John, Terri, Mas, Mike, Chris and Gail discuss the merits of the fairly new LCP, a mouse gun we can all love. In the second segment: Gail visits the Ruger plant in Newport New Hampshire and talks with some Ruger executives and engineers. There’s a little bit of hum in the background, we made it the best that we could, we were in a factory.

We haven’t had our Ruger SR9 recalled yet but Gunblast offers their opinion on the Ruger SR9 trigger retrofit.

Check out the Photos of tricked out 10/22 rifles here.

I wish I was shopping at Ruger

Gail at the Ruger plant

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006 Shooting IDPA

Since we started the ProArms Podcast we seem to have mentioned IDPA, the International Defensive Pistol Association in almost every episode. So, we figured that it was time we did an episode where we talk about IDPA. All of us compete in a variety of the shooting disciplines but the one we all have in common is IDPA. We recorded this episode after a match at our local club, First Coast IDPA held at Gateway Rifle and Pistol Club in Jacksonville Florida. We are joined by a visitor from Italy, Dr Maurizio Lai, with whom we talk about gun owner issues and shooting IDPA in Italy, as well as what he had to go through traveling with his guns to the US. Like many of us Dr. Lai is a big Glock and Smith & Wesson fan. Below is a picture of his Glock 19 chambered for the 9 x 21 cartridge. Also joining us is First Coast IDPA Match Director Dr. Ed Sevetz and his friend Donna from Australia, who fired her first shot at the match.

The next afternoon the ProArms team got together to discuss the history of IDPA and the valuable lessons that can be learned when participating in a match. We are joined by Bud Dees, a Firearms Instructor, who gives us his impressions of IDPA as a first time shooter in that arena. We are also joined by Matt Morgan, who is part of the ProArms family, and has been shooting competitively for several years now. Matt is pictured on our banner; he’s the second from the right.

Check out our host Steve Denney’s newly published article on officer.com: IDPA: Training or Just a Game? It’s Worth Your Time, Money and Effort

ProArms team members heard in this episode also include: Steve Denney John Strayer Terri Strayer Massad Ayoob Gail Pepin

Chris Christian Running Dr. Maurizio Lai through one of the stages at the match. Photo by: Tom Eichling

John Strayer sliding into position to shoot.

Bud Deese shooting prone and under a table

Dr Lai’s Glock 19, chambered for the 9 x 21 cartridge

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