Speaking of guns...
 

for those that enjoy the beauty of flying lead and collect weapons... the illinois state police have carried the sig sauer .357 (different models) for quite some time. they are going to be changing over and must dispose of all the sigs, many of them still in the box. so if you have any connections in illinois law enforcement, you may want to contact them. an individual i know is inline for a S229, for the bargain basement price of $300. i'm trying to get him to hook me up, but we'll see.

Sigs are nice, but I'm not all that much of a fan of .357 ... I don't like the recoil. (that being said, I've only fired a sig in 9mm and .40. I don't know what their .357s are like.

Most cop guns you just have to clean the powdered sugar off. They get fired for qualifying twice a year, less in some jursdictions.

i'm not a big fan of the .357 either, but if the price is right... i prefer the .40 because of the stopping power with limited recoil, obviously dependent on the model. 9mm i have to use for the military, but not really a big fan. not enough stopping power unless you hit something vital.

Most cop guns you just have to clean the powdered sugar off.

Dammit, Wolf, now there's coffee on my monitor. :D

They get fired for qualifying twice a year, less in some jursdictions.

Do they practice with other guns at a range? How often do police practice, anyways?

Some practice religiously, others don't practice until requals come around. Depends on the officer and how seriously he or she takes the job.

Brian

"Shots fired in the line of duty" is actually a rare occurance, even in big city jurisdictions.

There are officers who spend lots and lots of time on the range, and easily qualify.

There are also officers who go to the range for qualifying, MIGHT run a clip or two through the pistol before the official run.

I know both kinds.

There's at least one cop I know who is like Tackleberry. I, however, also know several who don't own any guns beyond their duty weapon.

A cop (Tackleberry Jr.) warned me a couple years back ... "Watch out, they're just like potato chips."

Reminds me of something cool I saw the other night. We had another County's Constables bring a patient to us. I followed them into the building with the guy, and noticed something interesting. The two constables doing the transporting were both armed. One was wearing a right hand holster, the other a left hand ... so I asked the guy with the lefty ... "So are you really left handed?" He wasn't They wear the holster's that way specifically for prisoner transport, so that their weapons are always to the outside. I thought it was pretty cool.

Magazine dear, magazine. I'm surprised Tackleberry hasn't corrected you.

Clips are for rifles, and then only a few still use them.

We're talking wheelguns or semi's?

semi-auto of course. Otherwise, they'd be .357 magnums. Sig doesn't make a revolver.

Brian, a resident gun nut.

Ah, I've never looked at Sig, but a friend is an exclusivist. I'll have to let him know.

Thanks.

Most of the time you can get a .40 barrel for a .357 sig , they just drop in , same mags and every thing . .357 sig is just a .40 case necked down to .357 .

"Dan Wesson" (a weapons maker, for those who may not know) made a tri-barrel revolver about 20 years ago.
It chambered .22, .38, and .45 rounds.
I'm pretty sure that it was a prototype, but does anyone else remember this sidearm?
It was on the cover of "American Hunter" magazine.

Do you remember how it handled the different size cartridges? I'm assuming that it actually revolved and you had some way of switching calibers, rather than having a static cylinder with one of each cartridge loaded for use through each of the three barrels ...

look at a madusa revolver it will handle any thing with a roughly .30 cal bullet from .380 to .357 mag , i will see if i can fing a link .
The cylinder back has a Unique design that grabs the rim , auto rim or regular rim ( .357)

here is an artical from populer mechanics about the Madusa .
http://popularmechanics.com/outdoors...es/print.phtml