I've learned that allowing your prejudices to control an analysis of what gun meets your specific needs and tasks is basically catering to your emotional "feelz." It's like being attracted to a woman who's had three husbands die in unusual circumstances but she's got this really cute smile. Sometimes we cater to our emotional assessment rather than just think logically thru it.
If you need a car, have four children and a wife, to you go out and buy a used Miata for the days when you are off and she has the van? Oh, yeah, we actually see that here. It's not quite that obvious but plenty of shooters make excuses or justify a major disconnect because "this thing" involved with the gun. And lately the rationalizations are less well reasoned than ever.
If you had no other choice for protection but to buy either a P320 without the new trigger, meaning it might possibly go off if you drop it from four feet oriented at a certain precise angle - or a nice NAA .25 ACP - and the task was to carry it in a field holster to put down African game, I'd read here that some would still chose the .25. Because "drop safety." The reality is that you could carry the larger firearm and never suffer the problem, but pocket carry the .25 in the field? It would be inadequate for the job. People would say the SIGs issue is too important to ignore. What they are really saying it that they assess it with too much importance and allow it to outweigh a decision on what fits ballistically.
We get posts like that almost daily all over the nets.
"I won't buy their guns, they are part of the Moonies." Nope, not actually, but ok. Take it at face value. Would you prefer to buy a gun from people who will sell you a Thompson, Desert Eagle, or Kahr for self defense, which obviously means they trust you to use them correctly? Or a gun maker who is only contributing badly made beta introductions with no track record of performance? Sadly, people flock to the latter. I'd say the Moonies are a better friend of my firearm rights, vs the Calfornia Teachers Union who still can't sell off their Remington stock fast enough.
How bout them feelz?
Nope, just specify what the gun needs to do. Leave out Brand until its the absolute last thing to decide. If your gun needs to be professional grade about reloading - then it will have a slide release and load from a locked back slide. If it needs a good trigger - why then even consider a gun with a 12 pound factory trigger which then needs another aftermarket kit for $99 to get it back down to 6 pounds? If you are looking for a soft shooter for the range, why consider a small polymer gun when a used stainless duty grade gun would be superior? Really? Go shoot a LCP and a .45ACP 100 rounds and get back to me on that. No, you don't need to practice with a mouse gun when a larger frame takes the punishment and ingrains a better reaction. The mouse gun will more likely teach you bad habits. You will be fine if you really need it.
Feelz is an enemy of logic, and when you allow it to make decisions, you allow the wrong reasons to dominate your thinking. It's really no different than selecting a lifetime spouse - and we can see what the current track record is on that effort. All the wrong reasons are being used and no real thought put to the process. It's just cheaper and easier to trade off guns - or cars, for that matter.
It's what we all read in the forums "Hey, Im looking for a long range shooter to hit mountain goat at one mile. I live in northwest Arkansas. I saw SIG has the MCX, would it be a good gun for that? "
Let's be honest, some of us come here for the lulz. This thread is certainly delivering.
