The .45 AARP
 

My sons gave me a good chuckle yesterday as we were driving out to do some plinking in our favorite gravel pit. It seems their generation has renamed the ubiquitous .45 ACP as the ".45 AARP". Granted, these two were raised properly, so they see the humor in that as well, but they just had to share it with me. It's known as a "boomer caliber" (double entendre?) and widely seen as "outdated". Kids these days... :rolleyes: I guess each generation has to keep relearning the same lessons...

I like it!! LOL

boomer caliber?

friggin millenials..
guns are supposed to boom..

Big fan of my 45 ACP, not a fan of the politically left leaning AARP.

Call it what you want, I call the .45 ACP “Victory”

Are there any lever guns in .45 AARP?

Asking for a friend...

maybe the demographic of who buys these is changing...

Higgy has a lever in .45 Elsie ;)

Raising sons is an art, trust me, I know. Well done.

The first gun my son co-opted from me was my 1911 Kimber in .45 AARP (I love that!) and I get to shoot the 9mmillenial Browning Hi Power.

Two can play!

Our 10 year old just calls it the fire breather. Maybe because that is the largest he can shoot, but he calls it that with the .22 match barrel on it.

Did they show you how to fire it sideways? ;)

Funny, my dad's go to gun is a Sig 220 .45. Mine, Sig 226 .40.

My dad always said 9mm was an unAmerican caliber. He's a 1911 guy. 1911s had a lull during the mid-90s compact, then sub-compact, hi-cap mag craze. But they're selling like hotcakes now, are made by more companies than ever before, and were doing so before the latest panic. They can't all be getting snapped up by folks my dad's age. I have five 1911s at the moment and a 26 yr. old woman just emailed me through Armslist about buying one an hour ago. SIG, Colt, SA, Kimber and DW can't make them fast enough to keep the shelves stocked.

Stupid fk Millennials... the 9mm was developed around 1896 and the ACP was developed around 1905...So the 9 is OLDER than the ACP.. The 9 is a Kraut caliber..for the Borchardt and Luger..it was deemed to be too weak for US Army use..

The weak azz 38 Colt didn't stop the hopped up Moro's in the Philiphines so the US Army needed something with some man stopping power..so enter the ACP. The first pistol chambered for it was the 1905 Colt auto..which led to the 1911..

One of my dad's first duties as a fresh 1st Lt. in the Air Force was he was in charge of every single piece of classified paperwork the base had. If someone had it checked out, he had to know who and where it was. He worked in a concrete box with a bank vault like front door, and an armed guard inside and outside. When he was bringing a classified document to some officer somewhere he had to wear a 1911 on his hip. He often talked about how happy he was to get that heavy hunk of steel off of his hip at the end of the day.

He was on a secure base, in the USA, yet to carry a document across the base, he had to carry a weapon. He ended up buying his first pistol in 1960. A S&W 9 mm made just before the big fire at the factory. He never carried it that I know of, just had it in the closet in the master bedroom and it was 100% off limits to touch. And no I never dared touch it.

It took me a while... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARP

:cool: ;) :rolleyes:

Mine is a Veteran, she served in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Made in 1943, Stamped UNITED STATES PROPERTY and US ARMY.

The current official issued firearm for officers is the 9mm Barretta. Personally I prefer the 1911.


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My wife wanted to get me ammo as a BDay gift.
She didn't want to ask me, so she asked my father-in-law.
He told her I had a Glock, so it was 9mm.
Nope, my Glock is .45 AARP. :D

Found Grizzley Arms which can make one in any round.

BUT...

$2500 and you have to supply them a .44 Magnum or .45 Long Colt rifle to convert.

They can make 45 ACP and 10mm!

I don't understand...Why would you convert a .44 Magnum? Just so you can carry a 1911 and a .45ACP Lever? Might as well go with .44 Magnum Revolver and a .44 Magnum Lever!

Gotta love the old veterans - boy, if only guns could talk...

My current examples are modern day, newly manufactured, with several of the "improvements" we have collectively worked out over the years. The full size is a Colt Competition Series purchased just a few years ago, and the Officers' size is a Kimber Ultra Carry purchased when they first came out. Looking at it now, it's hard to believe how much of the finish is worn off - I just don't feel like I actually carry it all that often. I guess it's spent more time on my hip than I care to admit...

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Previously owned examples include a first year Springfield Armory that I have since given to my youngest son. It was the first centerfire handgun he ever fired, when he was about five years old. So, when he became old enough to legally own a handgun, the obvious thing to do was to give him this one.

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I also bought one of the Rugers the first year they were available. What a fantastic gun. In the end, however, I found I wasn't really enamored with the stainless steel. To me, 1911's look best either parkerized or blued. Fortunately, my oldest son really likes stainless handguns, so I was able to find it a good home.

I never really have shot 1911's all that much, being the handloader that I am, and really not enjoying scrounging up (and losing some of) the spent brass. My sons have kind of encouraged me to shoot mine more, which is good, since I do carry one of them often. We've worked out an easy way to recover brass now as well - we simply lay out a 20 foot square tarp. Can't really do that at my club range, but it sure works great in the gravel pit.

Indeed!