Posted on 12/20/2017 5:39:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo
Effin’love that pistol. Dead on accurate.
***the CZ 75 failed to gain adherents until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.***
What do you mean “failed to gain adherents”! Gun magazines at the time were full of praises for the CZ-75 and some tried to make copies of it here in the USA. I actually saw one at a gun show with a HUGE price on it back in the mid 1980s.
Tanfoglio of Italy produced a very good copy of it but I found the trigger to be creepy and the grip too big for my hand. Otherwise it worked well, when the front sight did not fly off.
Right now, you can get a plastic framed Turkish SAR version which fits my hand well, but still has the creepy trigger.
All of my military handgun training in 1966-1969 USAF was done with .38 revolvers.
Yep, the Legion is impressive.
Dad’s new gun. Heavy, nice kick to it but able to hang on (while everyone around me hid).
Not a bad semi-auto list. I prefer the G19 over the G17, but just because its shorter. I think the Springfield XD is better thought out than the M&P but that’s splitting hairs over features. Glock, M&P, XD are all pretty much on par with each other. Never had a CZ so cant comment on that. Seems like a 1911 copy and I’d prefer the 1911. I am not crazy about double action/single action like the Sigs, but its good to have one just to train double/single action in case that’s all you have around.
I’d love to have a Sig but my budget only allowed for a S&W M&P .45. I also have a S&W Shield in 9mm for carry because a full size .45 is too large to conceal.
Thanks for the ping PROCON.
Yeh Springfield Armory is hard to beat. XDM in .40 or XDS in .9mm are fine weapons. We own both. Mr. GG2 carries the XDS.
Glock 19.
It is not the flush finish. It is TOO smooth for an “older” hand to grip.I’m an 80 year old and hands can’t grip the side of my LC9. Older fingers have smoothed out skin. The problem is NO friction and the fingers just slide off.
I simply but a strip of EMERY board, sticky backed onto the slide, either side. Works like a wonder.
Even as a youngster, I had trouble with the slide on a .45.
Oh, the same piece of “emery board” still as good as the day I put it on, 3 years ago. Try it.
I like my Kimber .45.
I had one on but was never trained with it. My only AF gun training was when at a base in SF just before going to Vietnam I was given an M16 and a box of bullets and told to shoot at the target until I hit it a certain total of tries. I flew in C47 and I guess they figured if my plane ever got shot down there would be no need for weapons anyway. If those things got hit and you were not dead from the hit the plane, or the part of it you were alive on, would return to base and land.
I had one on but was never trained with it. My only AF gun training was when at a base in SF (Hamilton?) just before going to Vietnam I was given an M16 and a box of bullets and told to shoot at the target until I hit it a certain total of tries. I flew in C47 and I guess they figured if my plane ever got shot down there would be no need for weapons anyway. If those things got hit and you were not dead from the hit the plane, or the part of it you were alive on, would return to base and land.
My choice
Well, got two out of the five, though the Glock is a .45. makes ammo logistics more simple with the 1911 to use the same.
I carry the same. You get 8 with the extended mags, counting one in the pipe. Works for me.
Indeed. I carry it with the standard mag but have two of the extended ones for back up.
If that don’t do it I shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Best,
L
With glocks it is better to train yourself not to use the slide release and just release it by gripping the slide and pulling back until it releases. Fine vs. Gross motor coordination.
CC
Might I suggest the 239 SIG, this is what my wife carries.
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