Posted on 08/18/2012 2:50:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
“...d still be the scarcity/cost problem it...”
Don’t know what happened to my last sentence?!!
Okay: It’d still be the scarcity/cost problem that would drive my decision to get one, though, especially at it’s current price. Knowing what I know now, I’d have passed on that 2001 Glock G32/.357sig purchase, and gotten another Kimber 1911 model or bought more ammo for my other calibers. Realistically, how many calibers do I really need? I have 7cals and 12ga; probably 1-2 more cals than I need to own and stockpile for. JMO.
He was a mensch. No question about it.
I didn’t know that.
I do remember when the .40S&W was proving itself and people kept calling it Short & Weak even when it was clearly anything other than that.
No, he is not, the strong hand is the grip the weak hand merely helps support it the gun doesn't have to move off target if the weak hand is used to cock the piece. With the two hand grip I use I can cock the piece with the thumb of my weak hand without changing the grip itself. I do it all the time with my revolvers, I prefer shooting single action to DA and use the left thumb to pull back that hammer. With practice it is as fast as DA and more accurate.
Ping
heh. I forgot I’d written that. I left 10mm Auto out because I was out of time (had to stop and go grab a friend from the airport) but I figured someone would throw it in for me... looks like someone did ;P
>>> “I believe the perps had a .223 rifle. Tore the cops up.”
At least one mini-14 between them, if that’s the shootout I’m thinkinkg of.
Yep. And General Pershing had just the answer for that problem, and it was NOT Mr. Browning's M1911 .45 auto.
Never ran across this feller, did you?
"Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?"
- Chesty Puller, on first seeing a flamethrower.
At least one mini-14 between them, if that’s the shootout I’m thinkinkg of.
Platt and Matix, Platt being a former Army Ranger and Matix a former Marine and Army M.P. Prior to embarking on their crime spree neither Platt nor Matix had a criminal record. Platt was the one using the Mini-14 rifle.
Funny, the Navy SEALS I last shot with at NWSC Crane had no problems at all with their Remington 230-grain Golden Sabers. Nor with the 1000-round can of 230-grain M1911 ball ammo that I'd brought along.
“Funny, the Navy SEALS I last shot with at NWSC Crane had no problems at all with their Remington 230-grain Golden Sabers. Nor with the 1000-round can of 230-grain M1911 ball ammo that I’d brought along.”
The 1911 was designed to shoot ball. The 230 grain hp ammo maintains the ogive of the ball to help feeding.
I’ll bet the Seals are not using stock 1911s either, probably with throated chambers. The problem rounds are usually the lighter 185 grain types, which tend to be a truncated cone shape, not ogive.
Carrying a stock 1911 is fine using ball ammo, but I doubt you will find a pro like a seal carrying a stock 1911 with an unthroated chamber using hollowpoints.
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