Thoughts on a new Pistol

ya know, I wonder if the slide barrel & spring of a glock would fit onto my S&W Sigma series frame...

Don't try it, or you'll be using dragonspeak the next time you post here.

Convince me I don't want a S&W 1911A1.

The external extractor is ugly. That's all I got.

It's a S&W so it's horribly over-priced and then you have to spend extra money to get it up to excellent standards.

Oh and it's not a Glock.

namely the $650 .50gi glock conversion kit

Definitely like the S&W M&P .40

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...angId=-1&parent_category_rn=24806&isFirearm=Y


But I think I'm still leaning towards the SA XD(m), gotta take El's advice and fire them both before I make a decision though. Hopefully I get a chance on R&R in May to get to the range.

Nine rounds. And nine rounds that hit are a whole lot better than 17 that miss. I just shoot a 1911 better than I shoot anything else.

Are there exceptions? Sure. But, the vast and overwhelming majority of self-defense shootings involving a handgun take place at arm's length and involve two rounds.

Some people used the shooting in Vegas yesterday to invoke the more rounds is better line of reasoning. I disagree and here's why. The police were involved in a running gun battle with this guy as they were trying to pursue and subdue him. As John Q. Public, you're not going to pursue and subdue anyone. If he's running away, you have no right to run him down and use deadly force.

That said, anything you can shoot well is better than a stern word. I've also seen a ton more people killed by .22's and .25's than I have anything else. Anything beyond that boils down to personal preference.

I can't really say much as a Kimber owner, but the further you get away from standard on John Browning's design, the more likely you are to fail. That said, I've heard of no reliability problems with S&W's external extractor. I just think they're overpriced when new. If you could back into a deal on a used one, I've got no beef.

Which one?

I have a 1911 for every occasion.

Why? I know on the Glock I can have one in the chamber and yet release the magazine. I could also fire that one round in the chamber if I wanted to.

I HATE magazine disconnects



Forgot about that......

Glock has spoiled me.....

There's not a damned thing wrong with Glock. But, I switched to Glock because I had to, not because I wanted to. That has always been a bone of contention for me and now that I can carry .45ACP in a 1911 or P220, you can bet your ass that I'm going to do so.

More power to you.....

I could have carried other semi-autos but I choose Glock.

Magazine disconnects are teh suck!

They're meant to protect idiots who think dropping the magazine unloads a weapon, but they render a weapon useless if the magazine is lost/unavailable.

I'm not sure what you're on about. My mag drops right out... In fact it throws it out. Did they change that with the xdm?

I'd go buy a two dollar pistol and wait for some guy to drive up to the convenience store in a Corvette and with a cute girl, just so I could tell him, with absolute certainty, that she was hotter than a two dollar pistol and the fastest thing around.