what gun to buy?

[red-beard]

I'll be careful where I sit in your house, Rick!

[Rick Lee]

Originally posted by red-beard
I'll be careful where I sit in your house, Rick!

Yeah, having cold ammo from between the cushions stick your lady's back when she lays down on the couch topless can be a buzzkill.

[red-beard]

My new carry - Springfield Mil-spec Compact with:-Wilson Combat guide rod w/ 18 pound
spring
(replaces the springfield plug setup).
-Novak night sights
-Greider Precision long solid trigger
(0 play!!!) -Ed Brown Hardcore extractor
-Ed Brown Slide Stop
-Ed Brown ambidextrous thumb safeties
(Recontoured for No bite)
-Ed Brown Beavertail (Custom weld and fit!!!)
-Ed Brown Sear
-Ed Brown Disconnector
-Ed Brown Sear Spring
-3.5 lb trigger job (very crisp!!!)
-Reliability tuning
-Feed ramp polished
-Reverse plug polished

Super Accurate!



BUGs !!!

Upper Kel-Tec P-40 with a .357sig barrel (Owwwww!!!)

[red-beard]

Originally posted by Rick Lee
Yeah, having cold ammo from between the cushions stick your lady's back when she lays down on the couch topless can be a buzzkill.

Or if it goes near her "Hoo-haw"

Unless she's into that...

not that there's anything wrong with that

[Rick Lee]

I'm having CCR build me a 1911 now based on a Colt Series 80 MK-IV upper I sent them. They're putting an Essex frame on it and the color scheme will look just like this.



Should be done any day now.

[Jeff Higgins]

Current carry guns of choice:

Charter Arms Bulldog Pug in .44 Special. Stainless, five shot, double action, 3 inch barrel. I milled off the fixed front sight and dovetailed it, then installed a taller front that I could file down for elevation and drift for windage. Shoots sub-2 inch groups at 25 yards with a Lyman Keith type 240 grain bullet over W-W 231; they clock about 840 fps out of this gun.



Next is a third generation Peacemaker in .45 Colt. Standard load is the RCBS .45-255K Keith style semi-wadcutter at about 260 grains cast from wheelweights. 16.5 grains of 2400 is good for over 900 fps. I've killed a couple of large mulies and a pronghorn with this gun/load combo. Never have recovered a bullet; it makes it through big deer even breaking both shoulders. Who needs a .44 mag?



Last, but certainly not least, is what most of you would consider the "best". Standard mil-spec Springfield 1911A1 .45 auto. Lowered ejection port, polished ramp, throated, long trigger, and full length guide rod with a 22lb spring. Standard load is the old standby of 230 grain hardball of Hornady XTP hollow point over 7 grains of Unique for the standard 830 fps.



And yes I do really carry the old hogleg. Most of the time, in fact. I have more confidence in it and handle it better than any other handgun. For the things I like to do, it really does suit me best. With "five beans in the wheel" it is the safest on a motorcycle, where I spend a lot of time travelling. A 1911 in condition one or two makes me nervous on a bike, and in condition three is just too slow to get into action. The little Bulldog is great, but offers no more rounds than the Colt. It does fit in a jacket pocket, which is an advantage. The 1911 is "formal attire", as it does not print from under a suit or sport jacket. Both it and the Peacemaker are just carried in my waistband, border-style. No holsters. Anyway, this selection works for me just about everywhere. I might have to pick up a compact 1911 someday though.