halfmileharry
Grandmaster
Glock is whining
Fixed it.
Glock is whining
They are pushing for Smith work I believe.
1911 owners can become a bit snobbish as they climb the ladder of quality. I think that they lose sight of the fact that a plain jane, simple 1911 is an incredibly reliable gun. Keep the specs on the loose side, just as they were built for the government and the gun will run. I love high end 1911s, but I don't suffer from the tendency to look down on anything lower than I can afford. Any well built 1911, if kept clean and lubed, and if run with quality mags and quality ammo, will run very reliably. Anyone that thinks that you need a $4000 1911 to be safe for carry is either selling guns or has lost sight of what a 1911 really is.
And that's the only reason I fanned the flames a bit. I have a nice 1911 and it performs well. I have a couple issues with it. One I created and the other should be easy to fix. I have a magazine issue and the ambi-safety I put in creeps a little and will prevent it from firing if I bump it. Any make/model can have a problem. It's just the folks who fall in love with one that create the issue. My daily carry is a G19. No safety to fumble with, good capacity, feels good to me, and because it's so damn popular, there are some options for left handed holsters. Will I carry my 1911, sure. But, the Glock fanboys can suck it too. If I could find a holster I liked, I'd prefer to carry my old Ruger P95. In truth, the only reason I got the Glock was because I wanted to conceal better (and that isn't happening with a 5" 1911"). Just use the tool that suits you best and stop having an opinion on what suits someone else. Honestly, I just get some jollies kicking someone's personal love affair with a specific model or brand.1911 owners can become a bit snobbish . . . . .
In the real world that we all live in needing a gun that will run 500 rounds in less than a day is just not realistic.
Statistics (yeah, the "Stat" word) will show that a real world gun fight never reaches anywhere near those levels.
Show me any stat where a citizen ran through even 4 mags (8 or 18 no matter) and I will humbly apologize but seriously, What is a good number to put on any platform before it gets the seal of approval.
I agree with this as well. I always laughed when high round schools would say about pistols failing after 1000 rounds without cleaning, and I'm thinking to myself, who legitimately carries 200 pistol rounds on their body in the states. Talk about sucky tactics, if you need a thousand rounds of pistol, you've picked the worst firefight, you should have brought back up, and your tactics suck.In the real world that we all live in needing a gun that will run 500 rounds in less than a day is just not realistic.
Statistics (yeah, the "Stat" word) will show that a real world gun fight never reaches anywhere near those levels.
Show me any stat where a citizen ran through even 4 mags (8 or 18 no matter) and I will humbly apologize but seriously, What is a good number to put on any platform before it gets the seal of approval.
I think it has more to do with the risk of failure than actual round counts. If your pistol fails 1 in 100 rounds, there's a 1% chance your next trigger pull will result in failure. 1 in 1000 rounds, it's 0.1%. At the end of the day, we all want to be confident that if we have to draw the gun will run to empty.
1 in 100 is an average from things I have seen.
Are you saying on average you see 1 failure every 100 rounds???
you're ok with that?
no wonder he looks so sad.......
-rvb
No no no.......
the real killer....Lack of maint.