Posted on 08/18/2012 2:50:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Damn! Other than Sportsman’s, you seem to be right.
Color me shocked!
Must be a local favorite around me.
Caspar Weinberger, pressured by Lord Carrington, Secretary General of NATO.
I agree DA/SA is a solution to a nonexistent problem. There is very likely no one here who has sent as many .45 down the pipe as I have. I haven’t had a contaminated primer yet in my life, but the man who can fire the first shot DA, then the second one in .3 seconds SA accurately is a special 1 person indeed. I have shot about about 200 rounds a week through a .45 ACP since about 1974, winning lots of speed events, mostly with an Ed Brown modified Series 70. typically the second shot is going to go off before you’re ready, then you are so rattled the third is a waste as well. I can shoot a DA revolver, so would much rather have DA only, a Glock type action or SA only. You don’t need anything else on your mind in a fire fight. In that rare 1 in 50,000 rounds bad primer, the military won’t train you to pull the trigger again, and wonder whether it will fire, work the slide and get it out of there and take your chance on the next one. By the way, I have serious doubts if a primer is oil contaminated, that another strike is going to do a damn thing, except get you shot when it doesn’t go off. Clear your weapon and fire a fresh round.
I believe that one should carry a weapon that they trust. If Sig works for you than rock on, sir! And this IS a great country, isn’t it? The greatest in fact, regardless of a certain Kenyan’s opinion.
My wife’s grandfather was in the Spanish American War and i’ve never heard it refered to as anything else.
The modern generation of idiots suck!
Holy Cow! Some of those gunbroker prices are insane.
Elite Ammunition is a boutique dealer that has some of their own brand, but it’s specialty SD loads that are WAY too expensive for plinking around.
I did eventually have decent sights installed and a good trigger, and bobbed the hammer a little.
Still, I have a lot of handguns now, and the only one that is so soft to shoot combined with tackdriver accuracy is a des-69 22 competition gun.
Don’t try to stand in front of the pop gun 9mm, loaded with Hornady critical defense load, when it goes off.
I don’t think that the result will be much different from getting hit with a .45 ACP.
In both cases you will say “ouch”.
“I’ll get flamed for this, but the 1911 in its original form is obsolete.”
I’ll keep my origional military issue 1911 thank you!!!
Yes there was a Spanish American War which was focused on Cuba but we did attack the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, totally destroying or capturing the Spanish Navy.
When the war ended, Spain had ceded a lot of territory to the U.S. That included the Philippines.
After we took over some of the locals thought it was time to be independent and fought the U.S. for several years. As someone else said, there was also an uprising by Muslims who were known as Moros.
We treated the Filipinos so well that we pacified most of the Islands but the Moros who would typically take drugs and get themself into a rage before attacking, were hard to stop with the puny .38 Army and Navy D.A. revolvers. These were even less powerful than the .38 special. They would eventually die but often not before killing or severely injuring American soldiers. That is why we went back to the .45.
The Moros were mainly on the Southern big Island of Mindanao. That is the one which lasted much longer tho we eventually subdued them too.
As my little girl would say: "that's about a million, billion, thousand, five thousand!"
“carbine steel”
LOL!
Be that as it may, and this is coming from a guy who does NOT normally carry a .45, my prison guard buddy tells me there are scads of cons in the joint walking around with 9mm holes in them. .4+, not so much....
Correction it was the Philippine Insurrection were the regulars were equipped with .38 caliber revolvers, but the Phillipine constabulary were issued .45 Colt Peacemakers. These ( the .45 revolvers) were considered obsolete by the Army .
It was in fighting with the guerrillas that the Army realized that against a fanatic enemy at close quarters the .38 revolver cartridge ( NOT the .38 Special) just didn’t cut it.
The “War Department “ then came out with a “request for an improved sidearm”. The Browning design was an improvement on an earlier Browning pistol in the same cartridge.
Just thought you would like to know. 8*)
Size does matter and I want it protecting our best.
And we have a winner! Yup.
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