Recent content by wanderinwalker

Thanks! I generally find I can passably figure out most pistols I've within a magazine or so. Aside from H&K USPs, they resist my efforts to make hits with them... Since this is my first pistol dot, I have no frame of reference for window size (get it? :rofl: ) except for looking through some...

A little update on progress with the PDP Compact/RMR combo. It was chilly and rainy early Sunday evening when I finally made it to the 25-yard pistol bay to verify zero. I was almost giddy with how much easier making groups at 25 yards is with the RMR versus iron sights. There are 12 hits in the...

Give it some time to get used to it before you write it off. I'm at 255 rounds through my Walther PDP with a Trijicon RMR on it and honestly, I've had little trouble adapting to using the dot instead of iron sights. The thing I'm learning is to look where you want the bullets to go instead of at...

Interestingly enough, I had a LOT of rounds on Glocks, as in I broke a frame rail on an E-series Gen 3 G-17 "non-recalled" pistol, and I still took to the Walthers like a duck to water when I got my PPQ. Glocks shoot softer in my hands, frame size to frame size, but the Walther trigger is much...

That just gives further evidence to my belief that folks espousing the "accuracy benefits with 62-grain ammo" back in the day of 1-9" twist barrels were mostly trying to get any kind of usable accuracy out of mediocre bullets.

If the price is acceptable to you, it's probably not an unreasonable risk to try a Colt chrome-lined barrel. At least in the past they had a reputation for shooting better than one would expect. @Rodfac 's story is similar to what I heard from other shooters when I was active in Highpower. Some...

Not even just brand to brand, but even within the different product lines in the same brand. As a recent example, I bought a 500-round box of Federal Champion 115gr FMJ 9mm Luger ammunition. It was bulk packaged in a plastic bag inside a cardboard box. The recoil impulse in my 9mm AR was...

"Matches are won in offhand and lost at 600." First off, nice shooting by the OP in the first post. That's great offhand performance. Second, when I was still actively shooting Highpower, I spent the majority of my practice effort on offhand. It's also as much a mental game as a physical one...

Since I'm an avowed Walther fan, I thought it was time to share my latest addition, an OD Green Walther PDP Compact. The Trijicon RMR is a recent addition. The ability to mount a red dot sight was the entire reason I picked up this pistol in the first place, otherwise I've been perfectly happy...

And it wasn't all that long ago "expert shooters" were convinced that red dots were inferior to irons for close-in rifle shooting. I have Glen Zediker's "The Mouse That Roared" and even he mentioned and championed this in one chapter. Yet here we are today and we have plenty of proof that for...

Very esoteric, but I believe the .32 and .38 Colt New Police were simply the .32 and .38 S&W cases loaded with a different bullet profile, and of course Colt couldn't possibly have their competitor's name on their revolvers. The .35 S&W has very minor dimensional differences versus the .32...

If the options are Kimber or Springfield, I'd take the Springfield. Kimbers do not give me the warm fuzzies since the Series II guns. Google "Kimber grip safety timing" for a better explanation, but the short version is it's possible to depress the grip safety far enough to release the hammer...

Does it count if they aren't the exact same model, but a similar idea? Because that would be me and .30-06 bolt actions. It usually goes "Hey, neat rifle." Then I shoot it a while and say "Hmmmm... just a bit more recoil than I want to tolerate." Eventually it gets sold off and mostly forgotten...

The OP is in Massachusetts, he can't buy a modern 9mm AR-15 that takes Glock mags, or cheap 33-round Glock mags. (At least, not easily.) It is very, very unlikely he has a "green card" allowing him to think about possessing a transferable fully-automatic UZI, so I'll assume it's a pre-ban...

The lower receiver looks like the LE6920 I have sitting in my gun cabinet currently. The forge marking on the upper doesn't look like mine. I'm finding it a little odd that the barrel isn't timed for the markings to be on top; that looks like the bottom of an A2 flash-hider. Plus the barrel...