Pistol replacement recommendation [Vanity]

None ^ | June 3, 2016 | Self

[Lurker]

What caliber?

L

[Lurker]

That’s the one I have. Eats everything I’ve ever fed it, too.

Check one out and see if you like it.

L

[Magnum44]

I think the 1911 is the most ergonomically perfect pistol thus far created.

Agreed, for the grip angle, backstrap to trigger dimension, and the single stack width.

The single stack is also one of the 1911's weaknesses. Seven rounds just doesn't cut it for me anymore, given what others might bring to the fight. I don't want to find myself having to reload after 7 rounds when the other guy is still shooting with 15 or 17 rounds. I have never been in a fight, but I know from training with others that its a big disadvantage to have to think about tactical reloads so often.

[Billthedrill]

John Moses Browning. (Doffs hat, holds over heart). Yeah, props there. In fact, the .380 ACP may be the deadliest handgun cartridge in history if you count the 38 million dead in World War I. The one that started that mess was a purchased Browning design, an FN model 1910, fired by one of the least competent shots in history, one Gavril Princip. His first shot (at ten feet), directed toward the Archduke Ferdinand, hit his wife Sophie in the belly and the second her husband in the the throat, pretty much by chance. Even his friends laughed at his incompetence but the poor folks died anyway. So did the rest of Europe.

The year after that, the 1911 (doffs hat again). Then the model 1917, then Ma Deuce. That, my friends, is genius.

[Reno89519]

I have the two larger guns, normal concealed, S&W M&P Shield 40 and the Sig Sauer P320SC. There are times, though, that these are simply too big to conceal, so the S&W Bodyguard 380 was for then. I’ll go look this weekend at some of the models you and everyone have recommended. Toy shopping, so-to-speak. Thanks!

[Reno89519]

380, 9mm, or 40. Flexible on that point.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Springfield Armory XDS in 9mm.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I like the Kahr guns, their trigger pull is long but very smooth like many of my vintage S&W revolvers.

https://www.kahr.com/Pistols/ALL/Pistols.aspx

[Tijeras_Slim]

My 1908 is from 1922. Least picky .380 ever, feeds everything.

[Tijeras_Slim]

HKP7M8

Had one, but a guy downright begged to buy it at an outrageous price. Let it go... hate myself.

[Jack Black]

I've shot them. It's definitely a "love it or hate it" gun. I was in the "hate it" category, but have friends in the love it category.

I'm not sure whey H&K doesn't make them anymore. They are a classic and I think they could get whatever they wanted for them, price wise.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Probably for the same reason SIG doesn’t do the P210 anymore, to expensive and a niche market.

[antidisestablishment]

That first shot is your long pull. It’s a lot easier to hit a torso if you pull too hard. Miss and shoot the crotch or knee— still a good thing. It will do the triple tap if ever engaged. Thank God I live in Florida—a reasonable shoot won’t be prosecuted here.

[Travis McGee]

9mm, so everybody can shoot it no problem.

[Lurker]

We took the opposite view and went with .45. Mostly so nobody but us can shoot them. LOL.

Mrs. L passed her CCL classes 3 weeks ago. Just waiting for the state to issue the permit. Now she gets to shop for carry accessories. I can’t wait till she sees all the options for women.

I’m in trouble, my friend. Deep, deep trouble.

L

[Big Red Badger]

I had a “squib” last time out ,most disconcerting.
Racked the slide and unrifled bullet with case fell out.
I think installing and removing loaded magazine loosened the bullet in it’s case.
Revolvers have always been my favorite. .

[anton]

Ruger LCR laser .38 spec.

[Big Red Badger]

Broader dissemination of this occurance ?

[Big Red Badger]

S+W Sheild 9mm