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So, I've decided on the handgun I'm going to buy. Opinions? (Vanity)
The Bizarro World of The Skooz | 6/19/2015 | Skooz

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.


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To: Mariner
The S&W 586 4 inch is the finest bedside weapon ever devised.

Could be, but there is the 4" Colt Python. I do prefer the 586 to the 686.

121 posted on 06/19/2015 7:58:48 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: SgtBob

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.


122 posted on 06/19/2015 8:01:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: schurmann

Well done.


123 posted on 06/19/2015 8:02:10 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Skooz

People only find out what I carry when it’s already too late.


124 posted on 06/19/2015 8:09:35 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Pollster1

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.


125 posted on 06/19/2015 8:51:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: umgud

That hurts my wrist just looking at it.


126 posted on 06/19/2015 9:13:46 PM PDT by nomad
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To: muir_redwoods

40 or 9? If it don’t buck me a little, it won’t buck the target much either. 40 cal any day.


127 posted on 06/19/2015 9:19:41 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Skooz

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.


128 posted on 06/19/2015 9:55:38 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: X-spurt

My glocks in .40 are fine and very manageable. The M&P has a different structure.


129 posted on 06/20/2015 2:59:15 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Skooz
Lots of folks will push with their favorites, but I say, "Enjoy".

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.

130 posted on 06/20/2015 4:22:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Skooz

Free Republic is not populated by a lot of experts, it is populated by a lot of opinions.


131 posted on 06/20/2015 7:57:27 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Skooz

I don’t recommend striker fired weapons for rookies. Mind Cooper’s rules at all times.


132 posted on 06/20/2015 8:02:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Tamzee

Yes, and it’s very reliable. I haven’t had a single FTF or FTE with mine.


133 posted on 06/20/2015 1:10:41 PM PDT by expat2
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To: X-spurt

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.


134 posted on 06/20/2015 1:17:28 PM PDT by expat2
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To: School of Rational Thought
not populated by a lot of experts, it is populated by a lot of opinions.

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.

135 posted on 06/20/2015 1:26:11 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: expat2

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.


136 posted on 06/20/2015 5:17:32 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: X-spurt

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.


137 posted on 06/20/2015 5:40:13 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Fightin Whitey

Love my Springfields. I have an XD and an XDS, both in .45 ACP. The XDS is my daily carry piece.

L


138 posted on 06/20/2015 5:46:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Chuckster

I have that gun and I love it.


139 posted on 06/20/2015 5:50:50 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Skooz

ACCURACY
CAPACITY
KILLING POWER


140 posted on 06/20/2015 6:02:18 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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