[TXnMA]

Congratulations! You are indeed blessed -- as am I. My "bride" of 50 years (come this May 20) shot within ten points of my 246/250 on the TX CHL qual shoot.

Of course, she was shooting my HK P7 and I was shooting "mozambique drills" with an unmodified little AMT "Backup".

The bad news is that night she called our son (who's on the Ft. Campbell .45 team) and told him, "I really like that P7; just line up those three dots and it shoots right where you point it!"

Ouch! "Chantilly" P7M8s like mine go for some serious big bucks nowadays -- if you can find one... ;-)

[elcid1970]

We are indeed fortunate, you and I. Congrats on your upcoming golden.

But the .45 ACP refuses to die. Does your son fire the M1911, the H&K USP, or the Glock variant? When I was deployed we supported 10th Mountain Div in Afghanistan. I had already heard that 10th soldiers could carry personal .45’s. As we were inprocessing I asked the PSNCO if this was true. He giggled like a kid in the cookie jar and merely nodded.

I’ve got my Dad’s Government Model which he bought in 1941 and carried through WWII. For Korea and Vietnam he left it at home and carried issue.