Posted on 12/20/2012 10:28:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz
I am looking to purchase a handgun. Need advice.
“...hip-mounted cruise missile”
Now yer talking hardware!
Wrong, that is so bad it is almost ZOT worthy.
So bad it almost makes you wish for a Helen Thomas pic.
Double ouch.
Cut out beer, sugar and refined flour. Hit the gym.
Your lifestyle is your biggest enemy right now. More than any potential perp.
The rules of a handgun fight:
#1 - Gun beats no Gun
If it too much gun for you to comfortably carry and you leave it at home, then it is of no help in a gun fight
#2 - Hit beats Miss
Never fire a warning shot - Either shot to hit or dont shoot.
#3 - Accuracy is king
A .22 that hits beats a .44 magnum that misses. Only buy and carry a gun you can shoot accurately while under stress and being shot at.
#4 - 2 is better than one
If the situation calls for one shot, shoot twice.
I’ve got two Ruger P89s. I bought both of them used for around $300 each. They take 15 rd mags. Never had a problem with either one. One drawback is no safety, they have a de-cocker instead.
#1 - Gun beats no Gun
If it too much gun for you to comfortably carry and you leave it at home, then it is of no help in a gun fight
#2 - Hit beats Miss
Never fire a warning shot - Either shoot to hit or don't shoot.
#3 - Accuracy is king
A .22 that hits beats a .44 magnum that misses. Only buy and carry a gun you can shoot accurately while under stress and being shot at.
#4 - 2 is better than one
If the situation calls for one shot, shoot twice.
.357 magnum revolver.
you can shoot inexpensive .38 ammo that won’t beat you up so much to get familiar with it. Reliable, you can chamber 38+P defensive rounds (expensive but designed to stop people), you don’t have to worry about being unable to get magazines for it, and if you can’t do it in 6 you are toast anyway.
YMMV, but my Colt King Cobra and my 12 ga shotgun are enough for any event short of complete collapse of society.
Ditto.
Years ago (1994?) I had a reloading die problem and blamed it on my PT908 9mm pistol. I sent the pistol to Taurus in Miami and waited a few days before calling them.
I was sitting on the phone, five days later, with a customer service rep from Taurus checking on the status of my pistol. The mailroom guy came around with a box while I was still on the phone. Inside, my PT908 with the armorer’s certificate. Pistol was disassembled, cleaned, checked, fired with a test target in the box.
Taurus makes a quality product and their service is top notch.
I was shooting with a guy last weekend who said the FiveseveN pistol really screws up the case shoulder. The PS90 is chambered fine, but the pistol causes the shoulder to extend (bump) and becomes practically useless in a standard die. He said they make a special die just to re-align the shoulder for pistol-fired cases, but it cost him $300, so I suspect it’s a custom die.
I have a couple hundred 5.7x28 cases, but I’ve never reloaded them myself.
There’s a man-shaped black carpet in the pic.
There are two kinds of wrong, and that pic is the second kind.
I too have seen what good service Taurus has.
Back when I was in grad school a bunch of us formed an informal shooting club. One of the students owned some rural property near the University and we would go out and shoot about every weekend.
One of the guys had a Taurus model 92. It was a very early model and was an exact copy of the earliest model of the Beretta model 92. The mag release was at the base of the grip and the safety was on the frame just like a 1911 safety.
Anyway his slide developed just a very slight bright spot where the front of the slide was reduced in size and went inside the frames dust cover during recoil. I considered it just normal wear but he didn’t like it and sent the gun back to Taurus in Miami.
He lived on campus and did not have a phone so he would come over and use mine. I was there when he phoned Taurus and talked to a guy named Rauel or something like that.
My friend checked on it about every other day then one day he asked Rauel if he could just get a new gun instead of having his repaired. Rauel had him hold for just a couple of minutes and came back and told him they would send him a new one that day and they did.
“Which academy?
San Antonio
Buy what you think works best for you. Check into the available holsters and accessories. Try it out and make sure the weapon fits you- and that you can easily hit a target with it. Make sure the sights work with your eyes. And remember - this is your first weapon. It cannot serve every purpose. You will need more - so never get rid of one.
ok, thanx
My Beretta 92FS lost all of the anodizing on it’s backstrap in 1993. ALL of it. Like a shiny acre of silver in a sea of black. I called Beretta and they wanted $250 just to refinish/anodize the frame. $250! I paid $450 for the gun through their military sales program in 1990! I ended up trying it with a home kit, but it didn’t really take. I ended up selling it to an ROTC cadet for $250.
The smaller companies try harder. And Taurus kept the safety where Beretta originally placed it, ON THE FRAME WHERE IT BELONGS.
I don’t recall ever seeing a 92 with a heel-mounted (European) mag release. SIG had them early on, but went to the American style. Was it the 92SB ?
Likey mucho.
Common sense beats caliber every time.
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