Posted on 06/05/2018 10:27:46 AM PDT by Simon Green
From experience, there is always someone crazier than you are. If your weapon has worked the last 500 times at the range, you,re one unlucky son of a bitch when it fails on the street. Doesn't matter what it is. No worse luck than if one of your cells starts to reproduce uncontrollably.
Wow! I've had a Taurus PT-99, based on the Beretta 99 (1911 style safety, 9mm w/ adjustable sights,) since 1988, and it's been an amazingly reliable handgun. I used it for USPSA competition for nearly 3 years, as well as plinking and bowling pin competition. I'm guessing that I've put at least 40,000 rounds through it over the years, and I've only had 2 failures - the first was where the roll pin securing the rear sight came out during a match. While I was shooting, I felt that there was something different, but didn't know what it was. Only after the course of fire did I realize that the rear sight had fallen off the top of the slide!
The second was from me trying to come up with a good 9mm "Pin Load." Using IMI 169gr 9mm FMJBT bullets, I finally found a load that took pins off the table with authority. After about a month of shooting those at weekly pin matches, the slide stayed locked shut after firing a round. Examining what happened, one of the locking lugs sheared off, causing the action to stay locked. I sent the pistol to Taurus and they repaired it, no questions asked. I later learned that the load I had been using was actually considered an SMG round, exceeding +P+ pressures. I was lucky the handgun didn't go grenade on me.
I would trust my life with that Taurus.
Maybe things have changed.
Mark
I take it you aren’t a big believer in mathematics?
Quality is one thing but when it comes to my daily carry piece I’ll stay away from the gold inlay and unicorn tears.
Forget about the police taking it. What about the other 10,000 days your carrying around your tool. I’ve had mine soaked in rain, soaked with sweat, dropped in a lake and slid down a gravel embankment. All while still attached to me!
Spend as much as you want, just don’t expect it to remain pretty.
“I would add powerful enough to stop the attacker immediately.”
No handgun qualifies, then.
That should be in the gun wisdom hall of fame.
Hmm...I have a Kimber. Nuff said.
JoMa
Heh heh heh, that was funny!
Ed
The P-99 is a fine gun. The PT-22 and 25, not so much.
Reliability and stopping power are the only prerequisites I believe in for home defense.
Cheap old Ruger police model .12 gauge works for me. In 50 years I have never had to use it to defend my home so the average cost per year is really cheap.
Anything else is for the ego and pleasure of having something of conspicuous consumption. But if you feel the need for a .44magnum like Dirty Harry or a Barrett .50 for that matter, go for it. No one cares but you.
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