Posted on 02/01/2006 3:42:08 PM PST by John Jorsett
Is Beretta an American-owned company?
Excellent. I've never heard this before, but certainly is the most logical practice.
Well, I think you will find a problem with most military manufacturers not being pure American owned.
If a Soldier / Soldierette is too feminine, effeminate, petite or sensitive to competently use the M-1911-A1, then keep 'em in the Mess Hall or the HQ behind a keyboard, and leave the fighting up to the Warriors.
Or hunker in the bunker and hope the meanies don't find ya.
Offended?
War is offensive; get used to it.
A 9mm goes "Powpowpowpowpowpowpow..."
A .45 says "BOOM-a-Whackka!; BOOM-a-Whakkaa!..."
Veterans of the Wermacht have related as to how if they could get their hands on a captured GI .45, their Luger or P-38 quickly went into the bushes and it was replaced with a real battle pistol.
The 9mm works well for murdering Jews at point blank range, but they quickly found that it was a sorry excuse for a fighting gun in a real firefight with men who had the audacity to fight back.
I rather fancy the arched mainspring housing of the A1 myself - but from what I've heard that Kimber is a fine piece, and if the user knows what they are about, it'll git 'er done!
I'm a big fan of the .44 Special too, as was the late great Elmer Keith, who based the .44 Magnum on it.
Would love to have an M-1873 SAA in .44 Spl, but they are hard to come by and out of my budget new.
In the Phillipine Moro insurrection, the troops begged for the old Single-action .45 "hoglegs" to be sent over to replace the innefectual M-1901 .38 Colt revolver - much as our Finest in Iraq are now yearning for "Old Slabsides" to make an encore.
Apparantly, the US .45ACP was designed to replicate the "stopping power" of the .45 Long Colt in an auto-loading platform, and Browning essentially designed the 1911 around it.
The rest, as they say, is History.
I should be more specific.
I have a g23 and g23c (compensated).
It was the g23 that I was comparing to the .45.
I shoot w/ both hands don't know the tech name for my stance feet are shoulder lenth apart knees and elbows slightly bent.
Can put three in the ten ring from 7yds.
the 1911 are "combat" weapons, they have a higher rate of fire and are more accurate (in the right hands and properly tuned) than double action automatics like Glocks, S&W etc. try squeezing off rounds at the range next time you have two different frames available the DA guns are more likely to pull and are slower than 1911's... it is no accident that handgunning competitors use 1911's they are the fastest and best...
cocked and locked (I hope)...the safety pin is a nice touch...
Possibly Eldorado..
"Stacked and packed"
Mine has a recoil, but rapid fire I can keep it flat.
When you play that video in widescreen mode you can really see the neighbor's dog runnin'! Couldn't ya' hit him once? :)
LOL!!!!
Not even with 29 rounds!!
That's good advice for just about anyone.
I know it's a terribly general statement and seems mindless at first glance, but the govt. is inflexible and that is why it took so long to get the right sidearms for the job.
IMHO, the 9 was always a bad choice. Now that 45s have become so compact and lightweight, they are a better sidearm than ever.
"...a 357 with a medium load and reversed wad cutters. "
Some might not appreciate the fact that "wadcutters" are swaged from soft lead, and have a large, cavitated "hollow" base. At close range they are indeed devistating.
The ACLU would consider them "Cruel and unusual punishment", I'm sure.
I've heard of some blokes inserting a .22 nail driving blank into the cavity, so that it would detonate on impact.
Don't know how legal that is, but sounds like fun.
Re your #86:
Those big drum magazines must jiggle a bit when firing full auto, don't they?
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