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Reliable Handguns; Where Is Handgun Development Going; Shoot A Collectable Gun?

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In This Hour:

-- What guns stand up to heavy shooting at Gunsite Acadamy? Dave Fink runs the "gunsmithy" at Gunsite, and he sees what works and what doesn't. Do shooters make their handguns less reliable by "tuning" them?

-- What's the future of carry guns?  Custom gunsmith Dave Fink talks revolvers, pistols, and self defense.

--  Shoot it or keep it unfired? What to do with a collectable firearm.

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0:00.0

The Ruger Light Rack Security 380 is easy to shoot and easy to rack.

0:05.7

Small enough to carry concealed or in a purse, big enough to absorb recoil.

0:11.2

Learn more at Ruger.com.

0:14.4

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:15.7

We're still talking about guns around here.

0:17.6

I'm Tom Gresham because, well, that's what I do.

0:20.0

And welcome back to Gun Talk.

0:22.0

You want to join us here. Give me a call at 866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun. You can follow me over on

0:27.2

X. I am at Gun Talk there. Of course, we've got our Gun Talk Facebook page. You can listen to the show

0:33.8

on Spotify. We just, we hit a million plays on Spotify. Way to go, guys. I mean,

0:39.7

I appreciate that very much. And we're, we'll talk about almost anything that has to do with guns,

0:46.1

as long as we talk about using them and owning them responsibly and safely. That's really kind of

0:50.9

our only rules here. We like to talk about cool guns, new guns, custom guns.

0:56.2

We also like to find out what makes guns run or maybe what makes guns stop running.

1:01.3

And along those lines, I want to talk to our next guest, Dave Fink from Fink's Custom Gunsmithing.

1:07.8

He is the Gunsmith or the Gun Smithy at at gun site. Hey, Dave, how you doing?

1:13.8

Good. Thanks, Tom, for having me on today. You bet. All right, so we probably just should tell

1:19.7

people a little bit of baseline. Yeah, you do the gunsmithing at gun site, but this is a full-scale

1:26.2

custom gunsmithing. You're making custom guns. You do all

1:30.2

sorts of services there. We do. We do. So one of our biggest challenges is keeping students' guns

1:36.8

up and running while they come through the classes. And so we see a variety of different types

1:41.8

of manufacturers, different platforms that come through.

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