The OUTDOOR CHANNEL, Wednesday night, all about guns.

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When I saw the Barrett story I was thinking along with him....putting a big .50 cal. shell in a rifle?

People laughed and joked about the whole idea, maybe funnier yet the first test fire, is the thing going to blow up?

Well he staked it down and tied a long rope to actually fire it while catching it all on VHS.

Hard to believe too he was actually at one time about $1.5 million in debt, now this gun and others are in over 60 countries.

A man and a dream and the guts to do it.

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This past Wednesday on Gun Stories they profiled the legendary Remington 870 shotgun, introduced in 1950 and 10,000,000+ later what a gun.

The Remington 870 was the fourth major design in a series of Remington pump shotguns. John Pedersen designed the fragile Remington Model 10 (and later the improved Remington Model 29). Working with John Browning, Pedersen also helped design the Model 17 which was adopted by Ithaca as the Ithaca 37 and also served as the basis for the Remington 31. The Model 31 was well liked, but struggled for sales in the shadow of the Winchester Model 12. Remington sought to correct that in 1950 by introducing a modern, streamlined, rugged, reliable, and relatively inexpensive shotgun - the 870 Wingmaster.

Sales of the 870 have been steady. They reached 2 million guns by 1973 (ten times the number of Model 31 shotguns it replaced). By 1996, spurred by the basic "Express" model, sales topped seven million guns. On April 13, 2009 the ten millionth Model 870 was produced, and the 870 holds the record for best-selling shotgun in the history of the world.

One other thing on the 870, they said there are so many of them and they were relatively inexpensive so they really aren't collected as wide as other guns but that may change as time goes by.

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After Gun Stories among other things they were talking about the Centennial of one of the best sidearms ever created, the 1911.

Often copied but the original basic design is still solid.

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They are running reruns of some shows like tonight's Gun Stories on the arrival of the Glock.

I thought they were the ugliest thing out there -but- they work....and invented by a guy who knew plastics and nothing about guns!

I remember the "scare stories" of the "plastic guns" that could evade xrays and al that, well......

The Glock pistol, sometimes referred to by the manufacturer as Glock "Safe Action" Pistol, is a series of semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Glock Ges.m.b.H., located in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. The company's founder, engineer Gaston Glock, had no experience with firearm design or manufacture at the time their first pistol, the Glock 17, was being prototyped. Glock did, however, have extensive experience in advanced synthetic polymers, knowledge of which was instrumental in the company's design of the first successful line of pistols with a polymer frame. Glock introduced ferritic nitrocarburizing into the firearms industry as an anti-corrosion surface treatment for metal gun parts.

Despite initial resistance from the market to accept a "plastic gun" due to durability and reliability concerns, Glock pistols have become the company's most profitable line of products, commanding 65% of the market share of handguns for United States law enforcement agencies as well as supplying numerous national armed forces and security agencies worldwide.....and the rest is history!