User Friendly Semi-Autos?

I prefer Glock.

Ruger P-95 is almost as easy to field-strip, but "feels" much easier to operate the slide.
Also less expensive than the Glock.
Seems to be universally suspect in the eyes of many LEO types.

Loaded chamber indicator?
Built right in to the Glock extractor. Discreet and unobtrusive.

Some manufacturers take the idea to extreme.
I think this one was designed by Senator Carolyn McCarthy.

Get a Glock. Ignore the metal gun heads . Enjoy many thousands of rounds without issues.Everyone wants to compare this and that to GLOCK .

DERGLOCKINMEISTER said:

Get a Glock. Ignore the metal gun heads . Enjoy many thousands of rounds without issues.Everyone wants to compare this and that to GLOCK .

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OH PLEASE!!:banghead:

Pud

beretta 92/m9 very easy to use and field strip. Great weapon

be safe

I second the Beretta 92 as easy to strip. XDm is pretty easy too if you like plastic.

User Friendly Semi-Autos?

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Any DA/SA design with decocker.....definitely not Glock

Easy to disassemble? I also vot e for the Beretta 92. Pull one pin and the pistol vrituall falls apart easy as pie.

SIGs (and FN uses the same system) are about as simple to field strip as an auto-loading pistol can get. Lock slide back, flip take down lever, release slide and pull off.

Apparently, the 1911 has a 16 lb. racking effort

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A 5" 1911 has a 16 lb. recoil spring and a 23 lb. mainspring (hammer spring). If the hammer is down when you rack the slide on a 1911, you have to overcome the resistance of the mainspring.

My loaded chamber indicator is between my ears. Good training and common sense beats a gimmick every time.

I have a Taurus 92afs which is almost an exact duplicate of the Beretta 92 series. The takedown is so easy it's ridiculous. You move a lever from position a to position b and the slide basically falls off. You then just lift 2 parts out and clean the gun. You gently reverse the process with the 2 pieces and put the slide back on and flip the lever back into it's original position. The '92' is an extremely easy shooting, accurate, and reliable pistol.

The Glock series of pistols is nearly if not as easy to disassemble and assemble. The Glock is a virtual brick of reliability.

Bringing a slide back on a pistol is just a matter of practice. Tauruses seem to have about the easiest slides to operate. They have a very smooth, buttery feel. Some of their pistols have proven to be very unreliable. Some of them are as reliable as Glocks. Research them before you buy one.

As someone stated, the Glock really has no safety in the normal sense. Once you "cock" it, only you and your intelligence keep you from pulling the trigger. The safeties on a Glock and many other Glock-like pistols are internal devices to keep the gun from discharging should it be dropped or otherwise knocked about. The Beretta 92 can be had with a 'real' trigger safety which when engaged will not allow you to pull the trigger until you flip it off.

Just pull one pin and the gun falls apart ..... Boy ! that's a confidence builder !

Like I said , BUY A GLOCK

I have 2 Glocks--19 and 23. Low recoil, great accuracy, no misfires after a whole bunch of rounds, comes apart in about 3 seconds and goes back together just as easily. They are NOT pretty weapons but they work very well.

Derglockinmeister: It IS a confidence builder. You don't pull the pin out, you rotate it from locked to unlocked and the slide will fall off if the barrel is pointed downward. I find it to be a great inducement to keeping the pistol clean. It's also a sign of superb machine work.

Using your criteria for "user-friendly" - ease of operation, stripping and slide manipulation - I would have to go with the Glock. All of its safety mechanisms are internal, deactivated by your wrapping your finger around the trigger - just pick it up, point/aim it and pull the trigger. It is easy to take down for normal cleaning (field stripping) and is one of the easier pistols to detail (i.e., disassemble all of its component parts) strip. It has a tall square slide with deep grasping grooves and a light recoil spring (as well as no additional tension of a hammer spring), which makes the slide easy to rack. "User-friendliness" is one of its major selling points.

Glock. All you have to remember is how to shoot and how to keep your finger off the bang-switch when you aren't shooting. add in its ease of maintenance and ease of breakdown, it doesn't get much more simple (i.e. user-friendly) than that.

Nothing comes close to a Glock in this contest. Nothing.

Actually a 1911 is both as easy to field strip and detail strip as a Glock, no Glock armorer instruction required, and not even so much as a punch is required to detail strip it of every thing but the grip screw bushings and the plunger tube if it is set up correctly.

The problem is that American society has devolved into mostly a pack of drooling idjits who can't figure out its slide release lever take down, especially when putting back in. It ain't called the "idiot scratch" for nothing.

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For instance, if you can change your own oil in the family car or truck, you can tackle the detail strip of a 1911A1.

Actually a 1911 is both as easy to field strip and detail strip as a Glock

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Not even close.

Nothing comes close to a Glock in this contest. Nothing.

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Actually, he wants a gun which isn't terribly hard to cycle the action of, and he wants a gun that's pretty easy to field strip.

In truth, almost every common service pistol comes pretty close to, or surpasses, a Glock. Everything. There's just not enough of a list of criteria given by the original poster to make a meaningful decision.

StraitShooter, I think you need to get some hands-on time with a few guns and then you'll have an idea of what to ask.

Choosing a pistol based on racking force and ease of take-down is like asking which car to buy based on how far the hood opens and how bright the hazard flashers are.

In other words, those aren't very distinguishing characteristics between the offerings. Get some hands on experience and you'll find a LOT of other differences between Glocks, SIGs, xDs, M&Ps, 1911s, 92Fs, etc., etc., that will matter (to you) a LOT more than very minor differences in racking force or ease of take-down.

-Sam

"Not even close. . .for your standard issue drool monkey." My post had a qualification in it. Quote it or paraphrase it accurately next time.

There is no doubt that a Glock is easier for your run of the mill mouth breather.

I'll add that the '16lbs' of spring pressure and 23 pounds of mainspring pressure is nothing like lifting 16 and 23 pound weights.

My wife has a problem with grip strength, but (most of the time) can work the action on 1911's. Glock's, etc.

My 10-year-old can do it...

A da/sa with decocker, ala Sig.
About the easiest semi there is. Great weapon too.