>>the (oddly luxurious for a .410 shotgun) buttpad.
>
>Well, better than oddly luxurious than non-existant, even with .410
>not exactly being 'brutalizing'.

True, as opposed to, say, the comforting two millimeters of steel on the Mosin-Nagant carbine. :)

>>Someone at either Taurus or Rossi (I'm guessing the latter, since they
>>seem to have been responsible for all the other aspects of converting
>>the Judge into a longarm) tackled the problem by adding little blast
>>shields to the front.
>
>OH lovely, and something that I think might be a good thing on
>ordinary revolvers, honestly, at least of the 'bone-crushing', as
>they're supposedly called, calibers(never did understand that...can't
>imagine that many bones stand up to any reasonable caliber
>round(reasonable, as in, 'not Kolibri or Lilliput')).

I think the allusion is to crushing the bones of the shooter, rather than the target.

>I know several
>horror-stories of people essentially near-loosing thumbs when they use
>a modern 'wrap-around' type of grip, which is presumably habit from
>shooting autos.

Ian gave a pretty definitive demonstration of the cylinder gap problem in his video on the 1895 Nagant a few years ago.

It's particularly an issue if you're of the clade of semiauto shooters who were trained to put their off hands' index fingers out on the front of the trigger guard.

(As an aside, this method appears to have gone out of fashion again—one of the features of the Beretta 92A1, which I guess is the Tactical Timmy civilian version of the M9A1, is that they rounded off the trigger guard because the squared ones for that style of shooting, as found on the original 92, no longer "conform with current pistol gripping practices.")

>>A little surprisingly for a used gun (people do seem to manage to lose
>>this stuff with annoying regularity)
>
>Things like, oh, MAGAZINES? As in Nova Floresca's fathers friend? :P

Heh. What he threw out was a loading clip for the SKS's internal magazine, and those things get lost all the time (because they were originally considered disposable, usually)—but I have bought vintage auto pistols that came without their original box mags. Sometimes that's understandable, as in ex-military pistols that were probably separated from same when they were being demobbed, but sometimes (as with the Remington 51 I picked up last year) it's entirely puzzling to me how the previous owners managed to misplace such a thing. Maybe they get broken. I guess that could theoretically happen.

>>even a little widget I eventually realized was a
>>hammer extension. When I was a kid, my grandfather had one of those
>>on an Ithaca Model 72 Saddlegun he had.
>> When you put a scope on a hammer-fired gun like a '94, the back
>>of the scope overhangs the hammer and makes it inaccessible to the
>>thumb, so you need to add a little sideways attachment to the hammer
>>to make it get-attable again.
>
>Huh, wouldn't even have occurred to me, but yeah, logically...

I put it on while I was changing out the choke yesterday:

Optimized for a right-handed shooter, as ever, but it works decently from the left as well, you just have to cross your thumb over a little bit. One gets used to that shooting autos with non-ambidexterous safeties anyway.

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