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Lots of them. Just hit the post button once and wait. Sometimes it doesn't show as posted. You have to refresh the screen after the black blinking bar disappears.
Yeah,
I had this, too. Seems to take a very long time to post your reply and you don't think it accepted your post, so you post it again and end up getting a double post.
Tim,
I hope things now look a little better after all that ice damage.
I know that.
Just don't need a decocker at all if its not a DA...
DA only has its place though.
They are cleaning up now. I hope the arborists try to save as many trees as possible. My area was farm fields so trees were scarce and it has taken 30+ years to get where we are now.
There won't be a shortage of wood chips this year.
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Some, not all, SA/DA guns have terrible triggers. My SP01 was unfathomably bad until I took it apart and found that they'd left a huge burr on the sear, which I removed and then did a little polishing. It's still not the equal of the average S&W revolver, but it's pretty decent. Far better than most other DA/SA guns I've fired. My wife's 75BD and my 75B ain't too shabby either. I need to do some work on my 1911 though...it's a bit heavier than I think it ought to be.
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Mine's a Springfield Micro Compact. I used to have a Gov't model of another brand. That one got a new hammer/sear/trigger/disconnector/beavertail grip safety, plus a little polishing from me. It was right around 3 pounds. I forgot how good it was until I shot it again a while back. Sold it to my father in law after buying the Micro.
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This is more my speed.
machinisttx
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I had this for a while. Didn't care much for it. Too big and heavy compared to my M29 S&W
Here's the 29, dirty from a range trip. Gave my other one to my dad.
Looks like I don't have good pics of my other N frames or my Ruger .45 Colt.
I built this for giggles and to make leftists cry. 8" barrel, basketball size fireball in full sunlight.
Need to whittle out a handguard one of these days. I designed and milled the front sight base/gas block.
80sDweeb
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I have a CZ 2075 RAMI (which is a subcompact CZ75) and I wish it had a decocker (they do sell them with one, but I got a great deal on this one without.) I have to decock it manually, using the trigger and my thumb. I'm sure I'll never drop the hammer by accident, unless I do (that's why they're called "accidents".) So whenever I do lower the hammer, I'm very deliberate and careful.
Sort of like you'll never accidentally drop your running chainsaw bar onto your leg - unless you do. Hence chainsaw chaps or pants.
Scott in Penfield NY
machinisttx
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Are you familiar with the operation of the decocker on the CZ's? Some other guns function in the same manner, however not all have the safety features that B model and newer CZ's do. The firing pin is mechanically blocked from moving unless the trigger is actuated, and the hammer doesn't just snap down. The decocking lever controls the speed at which the hammer is lowered, in addition to a pretty good safety notch in the sear/hammer, and the firing pin block. In order for a modern CZ to fire via the decocker, the decocker would have to be broken and likely inoperable to start with, in addition to the safety notch being broken and the firing pin block being disabled/malfunctioning/broken. In any reasonably well maintained modern CZ it would be almost impossible to have all those things suddenly fail at the same time, and in the right sequence. You have better chances of winning the lottery than that happening.
Still, I would not recommend buying a decocker model unless you have some specific and particular use for it, or a departmental requirement. The decocking mechanism adds several additional parts to the fire control group and makes the trigger mechanism much more complicated to assemble/disassemble or repair if it should ever become necessary. The standard DA/SA mechanism isn't all that complex in the number of parts, but fairly complex in how the parts themselves interact. It's also difficult enough to take apart without additional complexities and parts added on.
Also, I have never found a good reason to lower the hammer of a safety equipped SA or DA/SA on a live round except in actual firing. It makes no sense to do so. It is creating a potential problem where none should exist. In the rare instances I have had to demonstrate a good technique for doing so to someone, I place my finger or thumb between the hammer and the rear of the slide. Once the sear releases the hammer, I release the trigger, withdraw my finger/thumb slowly and allow the hammer to rotate forward to the safety notch. No potential for slippage and the maximum number of safeties are engaged. All of this being said, you might take a look at the P07. It is user convertible from a thumb safety to a decocker and all parts to do so are included with the gun when new. They are quite different than the 75 family though.
I like old Poulans.. 
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Trying to get back on track, Huh?
MS460WOODCHUCK
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Heck ya! Take the gun crap to a gun forum. THIS HERE IS A CHAINSAW FORUM AND THIS IS A POULAN LOVERS THREAD! And I like those poulans Mark...
80sDweeb
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I live in NY. My government doesn't trust me with any gun that holds more than 10 rounds. That being the case, I have no need for a gun larger than the RAMI, which holds 10 rounds (but my government thinks I should only be allowed to load 7 in it, "for the children.") I am very happy with its capacity and its form factor, as well as its quality and handling. Perhaps a decocker would adversely affect that nice trigger, I don't know, but I'm more than fine with what I have. The P07 sounds like a nice platform, though, and I think they make some fine guns in the Czech Republic.
I had some guns that hold more rounds, but all were lost in a tragic canoe accident (similar accidents happened to many of the people I know here.) AR-15, so-called "high capacity" handgun magazines, all lost. Very sad. Right before the registration started, ironically.
So far we're still allowed to own chainsaws, but who knows what the future holds. So far a court has ruled that the 7 round limit is unconstitutional. We expect lawsuits to continue for years, and the outcome depends as much on whether the Supreme Court Justices all maintain their health as anything else. If Obama and the roll-over Republican congress continue to fill the lower courts with "progressive" appointees, we'll get no guns, and be required to run 4-stroke chainsaws with chains made of rubber soon enough.
Scott in Penfield NY
80sDweeb
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Oh, I like Poulans, too. Sorry for the detour.
What's a Super 380 worth in well-used, good running condition? Would $100-$125 be in the ballpark, or too much?
Scott in Penfield NY
What's a Super 380 worth in well-used, good running condition? Would $100-$125 be in the ballpark, or too much?
Scott in Penfield NY
rms61moparman
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Really?
Maybe, depends I guess. Used Farmboss's bring double that all the time and I know which one I would rather have at any price.
rms61moparman
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I thought about bringing that up but didn't know if he was talking about selling value, buying value or using value.
As we "old timers' know they can be vastly different things.
Mike
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I would pay that for a 380 all day long and smile at the idiots running the farmboss that cost 3 times that much if they bought it new they paid even more.
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