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Bill Jordan, who's fast draw could stop a fight well before it got started. His most-often-carried sidearm was an ordinary S&W model 19, that had the following inexpensive modifications.
1. Sharp corners on the rear sight rounded.
2. Right/front of the trigger guard slimmed.
3. Custom stocks made to fit his very large hand.
4. Slight slicking up the action.
Never, ever did he buy a Super Tactical Mark IV Terminator Special to increase his confidence...
I'd also like this answered.So you laud a person for carrying a customized gun.(regardless of what it cost 50yrs ago). Yet don't understand that others carry expensive customized guns?
And a new Smith 357 with custom stocks, reshaped trigger guard and a action job would easily push the $1000 mark today.
So now we can't even buy a new gun.Why buy new?
So then you must think Jordan a fool for modifying his trigger guard and thinking that it would give him an edge improving his odds of coming home.But those that think that a high priced tool, in and of itself will make them invulnerable in a shooting are focused on the wrong thing.
So then you must think Jordan a fool for modifying his trigger guard and thinking that it would give him an edge improving his odds of coming home.
So now we can't even buy a new gun.
Which at that point in time was state of the art.What I did point out that his everyday carry revolver was mostly stock and had only a few, relatively inexpensive modifications.
I don't understand why you are bothered by me having work done on my pistol. If I can give myself a little edge, so what?
In the 2 times I've had to pull my pistol to defend myself, I never saw Col. Cooper come running to give me backup.
If I happen to be carrying my CZ PCR, S&W Model-19,Model-686, Model-29, or any of my other guns, I don't feel under gunned. They are all reliable.
I don't feel a high dollar gun is better in a gunfight than say a bone stock Glock. The point I was trying to make was you, as an individual, have to decide what to carry.I carry my Kimber. You can carry whatever you like.
Actually your examples show quite the opposite, It seams all your hero's had custom sidearms.What I’ve tried to point out is that individuals that are truly skilled and have survived shooting (sometimes several) were not dependent on a custom sidearm. Their confidence in themselves was based on what really mattered.
I do too but it would be dishonest to not put value on my own workmanship. I've got a Colt Officers model that actual out of pocket has been cheap but even if I figure minimum wage my work on it would nearly double what I have in it.Personally, I often pick a used platform as the basis for something I want to modify into something else.
Which at that point in time was state of the art.
Given the option you don't think Bill would have opted for a scandium framed 8 shot revolver? I think Jeff Cooper would have found my STI VIP to be an exellent defensive pistol well worth it's price tag over that of other Commander sized guns.
This^^^^^The OP asked what is the most expensive you have carried - nothing more.
Again a Colt base model 1911 with sights and a trigger job is $1000Jeff believed that in a gunfight what was most important in a 1911 platform pistol was:
Reliability – That during his time most out-of-the-box Colt’s offered.
Better sights – the stock ones were way to small to see for fast work.
A trigger pull – crisp and adjusted to 4 ½ to 5 pounds.
Again a Colt base model 1911 with sights and a trigger job is $1000
or you could just go with an XSE model but they're still real close to 1k.