• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        I have a .45 Hi-Point carbine. Flawless operation, had never malfunctioned, weighs 10-pounds, impossible to clean. Along with other… odd design choices.

        Hi-Points are what you get by giving a group a very smart engineers a list of things the product needs to do. A group of engineers that has never seen an actual gun.

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          I have a Hi-Point .45 pistol and that pretty accurately describes it (the weight is fine but the balance is weird and makes it feel terrible).

          I use it as a close range backup when I’m hog hunting. I’ve only had to use it once and it worked just fine. It literally saved me from being at least maimed and possibly dead but I still hate it. And I’ll keep using it until it stops working, which may be the apocalypse.

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            Damn. I really want one, but I already have a Colt .45 and the weight is the same. Is it this one?

            Speaking of hogs, I’m outside all the time in NW Florida and have never seen one or evidence of them. OK, two came to my house, apparently lost, but I’ve never seen them in the wild. Horror of mine as a sounder would level my camp in the boonies. Where they at?!

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              It’s that in black. That Colt is going to feel much better, though.

              Northeast Texas. I’ve got a buddy up there with some land and we have to go clear them out a couple of times a year. They tear up everything. He lost a dog to them a few years ago and now we go out there like clockwork instead of waiting for them to get closer to the house.

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          I have a Sig Sauer p320, had to send it in to get the “drop issue” fixed. Doesn’t matter how much you spend, engineering failures are everywhere. Not so much a knock on Hi Point as the neighborhood is live in. The one I found discarded in my yard two years ago had been rusted to the point of being inoperable.

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            Another Person of Culture and Class I see. I too have a Sig P365XL.

            Though I prefer my Remington New Army for most things.

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      Kids just primarily prefer a handgun cartridge that’s suitable for putting into a rifle for game hunting. It simplifies what sort of ammunition to carry in their backpack. .45 long colt or .357 magnum should do the trick. 10mm auto if you’re dead set on semiautomatic.

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      Of all the shitting Trump does to immigrants, he signed the bill into law that required giving each naturalized citizen a Glock and an AR-15 upon taking the oath.

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    Come on guys let’s go to the Hendersons house they give Full Auto’s, we can egg this house later.

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    “I heard this house on only has compact 9mm hi points, pfft, they say the house next door is giving out full size sig sauers, let’s go there”

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      Shooting guns at paper targets, sporting clays and other targets is tons of fun.i took my MIL to a quiet outdoor range to shoot for the first time in her life. A few months later she bought a Glock 17. Reduced capacity magazines because California, but she loves to go shooting.

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    Wait, does Halloween even exist outside the US and its hat?

    I thought it was just an us and our hat holiday.

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      Id imagine it exists everywhere the Catholic Church went. Most places likely didn’t commercialize it to people like we did though.

      Think it’s called All Saints day in some places

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      In most of Europe, tomorrow evening most people will go to the graves of their former relatives and light candles, it is quite beutiful.

      I am considering bringing my trusty kerosene fuled storm lantern for both ambience and finding my way in the dark chruch yards.