Posted on 06/19/2015 5:23:06 PM PDT by Skooz
After doing due diligence researching a high quality, yet affordable, handgun for concealed carry purposes (as well as the first handgun I will own) I've decided on the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield.
I'm still not sure if I'll go with the 9mm or .40. Any ideas on that?
Like I said, this is my first ever handgun purchase, having owned only rifles and shotguns in the past, so I think this will be a fine starter handgun for a middle aged rookie.
I know FR is populated with experts and I greatly value your opinions. Please advise. Thanks.
Could be, but there is the 4" Colt Python. I do prefer the 586 to the 686.
I have a nice Beamon which has interchangeable barrels in .177 and .22. I have a couple of other break barrels, one which get around 1100ft/sec on the chrony. That one I shoot outdoors only. It’s in .177 and will zip through the garage backstop, unless I roll in the rubber mulch filled backstop. I shoot .22 and .32acp and 9mm in the garage, but the backstop is heavy though on casters. Been shooting the CCI 710 ft/sec 40grain quiet loads lately. I can get forty feet from the targets by backing through the kitchen and into the sunporch and shoot into t he garage.
Well done.
People only find out what I carry when it’s already too late.
GlockmyGoditjustwentff.
Yup. And I’ve read here that S&W went from a very hard trigger (my Sigma .40) to one so slick that pistoleros are shooting themselves.
I keep my Sigma by my bed with an empty chamber. If it goes off, it will be on purpose.
Interesting to see how the 9mm has gone here from a ‘mouse round’ to what it always was: a deadly military caliber.
That hurts my wrist just looking at it.
40 or 9? If it don’t buck me a little, it won’t buck the target much either. 40 cal any day.
Try a Glock 42. It’s a baby 19 and very nice to carry. not much of a recoil either. We have a 19 and a 42.
My glocks in .40 are fine and very manageable. The M&P has a different structure.
I recently picked up a S/W 9mm and like it just fine. 9mm may not be as "potent" as .40 but the ammo is cheaper and more readily available. A jacketed round will go through a couple of bodies at close range and hollow points add decent stopping power while helping to contain the round.
Free Republic is not populated by a lot of experts, it is populated by a lot of opinions.
I don’t recommend striker fired weapons for rookies. Mind Cooper’s rules at all times.
Yes, and it’s very reliable. I haven’t had a single FTF or FTE with mine.
Actually, FBI statistics show that more people are killed with a 22 than any other caliber. Partly because it tumbles and largely because the lack of buck allows the shooter to stay on target and fire multiple rounds in a very short time. The ‘buckers’ have to be brought down and re-aimed after each shot.
Used to be an old boy on the radio in Billings, Montana, who liked to say that an expert is a combination of an "ex-," as in former, and a "spurt," which is a drip under pressure.
'Course he was an opinionated old blowhard himself--ha.
Tumbles?
At range with 4H Shooting Sports with thousands of 22 rounds, every hit was a pure round hole.
The old “tumble” myth was attributed to .223 AR-15, which in boattail, reportedly could tumble after initial impact.
Perhaps I was too concise. The tumbling is not during the flight through the air, but tests have shown that the bullet tumbles sooner after it hits tissue (actually, pseudo-tissue) than heavier bullets, perhaps because it is lighter.
Love my Springfields. I have an XD and an XDS, both in .45 ACP. The XDS is my daily carry piece.
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I have that gun and I love it.
ACCURACY
CAPACITY
KILLING POWER
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