45 Talk

Smith & Wesson had an interesting display in the booth. It is a collection of various firearms that have been in the movies or on TV.

Here are a few images, I will go back and shoot some more if there is interest but I had to do these first.

Mark Calzaretta

As many of you know already, the 2012 SHOT show is taking place in Las Vegas Nevada.

Not counting the Range facility that was used on Monday, the SHOT show is being held in the Sands Expo center.

Three different floors of ball rooms and exhibit halls are occupied by things related to the Shooting Sports. Roughly 4,000,000……YES 4 Million square feet of floor space.

To put it in perspective we are talking about the same square footage as 68 football fields.

If you look at these following pictures you will see that it looks crowded.

Mark Calzaretta

The Colt Mustang Pocketlite is going strong.

This stainless finish version of the pistol was availble at the range for shooting

Everybody is on the pocket gun band wagon these days

Mark Calzaretta

Armscor/Rock Island had many pistols on hand. The one that really caught my eye was their 1911 chambered in 22 TCM.

The 22 TCM cartridge is a 223 shortened down to 38 Super length and necked for 22 caliber. This is a cartridge similar to the 5.7 but short enough to function in a 1911.

The pistol is a wide body and holds 18 rounds of 22 TCM. This cartridge is VERY flat shooting. My first 10 rounds had 9 hits on gongs at 50 and 100. I was very impressed and I will be adding a 22 TCM to my collection shortly. This pistol sells for roughly $750.

As a bonus, there is no reason that the pistol can not be converted to 9MM or 38 Super with a barrel and spring swap. In fact most 22TCMs ship with a 9MM barrel.

Expect that I will be working up load data for this cute little cartridge as soon a supplies and dies are available.

Mark Calzaretta

The rush of German made 22 caliber rifles that look like modern furearms have a new Brother among them…..an UZI

The cute firearm is being manufactured by Walther. I found it fun to shoot.

Like most other rifles in this catagory, The price is right around $500.

The magazines are 20 rounds. At this time there are no 10 round magazines for sale into the restricted states.

The magazine is propritary to this firearm. I already checked out if they could be made to work in the varius UZI 22 conversions.

Mark Calzaretta