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For those of you who have personally owned sidearm or sidearms. What is your favorite sidearm and why? What do you like about YOUR sidearm? Please refrain attacking the choices of others.
My favorite is my S&W Model 19 with 4" barrel. I like it because it is versatile and accurate. I can take a new shooter and have them shoot relatively well using .38spl +P, using full power .357 JHP rounds it has plenty of "stopping power" against the most determined of aggressors. Using 158gr JSP rounds I could take a deer out to about 100yds. If needed, and I never have to worry about magazine springs wearing out. Yes it has limited capacity, but I'm not trying to take Fallujah with it either.
My favorite is my S&W Model 19 with 4" barrel. I like it because it is versatile and accurate. I can take a new shooter and have them shoot relatively well using .38spl +P, using full power .357 JHP rounds it has plenty of "stopping power" against the most determined of aggressors. Using 158gr JSP rounds I could take a deer out to about 100yds. If needed, and I never have to worry about magazine springs wearing out. Yes it has limited capacity, but I'm not trying to take Fallujah with it either.
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SGT Charles Vernier. I personally love the heft, sound, and accuracy of the 1911A1 .45 ACP when properly tuned up by a first rate gunsmith. But . . . it really depends on your specific application. There are times when Browning / Beretta / Walther 9mm, compact, subcompact, or subsonic 22LR fit better for the specific target(s) in specific environment(s). The subsonic 22LR can be very effective when concealed, transported, and used by a properly trained operator. Warmest Regards, Sandy
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SGT Charles Vernier The best gun to have is the one you have on you, all the time.
Usually it's a Glock 19 for me. The working man's gun.
Usually it's a Glock 19 for me. The working man's gun.
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SGT Charles Vernier
I couldn't agree more having carried a gun for the last 20 years of my life. I have been issued the M-9 & M-11 in the military. In my civillian law enforcement career I have been issued a Glock 22, a Glock 23, a Glock 27 (backup), A Sig P220 .45, A Sig P226 .40, S&W M&P .357sig, a S&W M&P 9mm, & a S&W 642 (backup) depending on what the firearms instructors loved most. I can use any of them. However, I never asked what the best gun was. I just asked what your "favorite" gun was, not to start a debate, but out of curiosity about what appeals to different shooters.
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Capt Richard I P.
SGT Charles Vernier I've been reconsidering lately. I find myself way more accurate with SA or DA/SA configurations than with my striker fire glocks. So....Sigs and a CZ 75s are the ones I've got experience with outside the M9 which....ugh...A possible exception from meory is the S&W M&P .45 (striker fire) which if memory serves I actually shot more accurately on average than the Sig .45.... weird. And if money really weren't an object, how about the FN Five-seveN? That thing is great! Low recoil high mag capacity, AP or tumbling?
Still like the G19, but getting more into the original spirit of the question I guess.
Still like the G19, but getting more into the original spirit of the question I guess.
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I go with the Knife hand. It has never failed me yet. I mess one up I always carry a spare.
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LTC Stephen C.
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Knife to a Gun Fight
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Knife to a Gun Fight
CPT (Join to see), here's why you should never go with the "knife" hand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_TZ84hmEA
1LT Sandy Annala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_TZ84hmEA
1LT Sandy Annala
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