Recent content by CommanderCrusty

Thank you all for your replies. So far, the score is 15:0 for staying together and running away from danger. What is interesting is that there was a recent mass stabbing on London Bridge and a fair number of people did indeed run toward the danger. Two of the several people who went up against...

You are at the mall, with your wife. You are armed, as you usually are, with your normal EDC—whatever that is for you. It is busy, maybe Black Friday, or during the last few days of Christmas shopping. You hear “firecrackers” in the nearby Cafe Square and you are afraid they aren’t really...

The M&P thumb safety is fairly large and not anywhere NEAR as positive as my Colt. That is why I will try the Flatsider next. With the off side safety covered, I’m hopping it will be more protected from the occasional bump. I do not believe bumping the safety off has anything to do with not...

Well, I have seen way too much video footage of three or four officers pointing their lethal handguns at some fool with a knife or a pipe but they just can’t bring themselves to shoot. I’m yelling at the screen, “Taze him! If you aren't going to shoot the man, then just freaking TAZE HIM!”

I would like to second the advice to switch guns. I find the Beretta 92FS and steel frame 5” 1911 to be VERY low recoil. The PX4 is lighter and carries like your G19. The PX4 has the same grip angle as the big 92FS and a different recoil pulse that may be gentler on the wrist. My 5” M&P has...

So, I really like my new 5” M&P 2.0 with the thumb safety. I intentionally bought it WITH the thumb safety because I WANT the extra safety and because I have carried a 1911 for 10+ years and know what to do with it. The problem is that the soft, ambi-safety has been bumped OFF SAFE three times...

So, ever since I discovered I could shoot 110 grain .357 ammunition without pain, I’ve been carrying my GP100 revolver more regularly. What I’d like to find is a way to carry a belt pouch or two of spare ammunition. These could be leather or nylon. Anything with 6 rounds or more is fine, but if...

Not at all, Theohazard. A Glock .45 might give one person a solid sense that he had the upper hand because he LOVES Glocks, has big, strong hands and loves having lots of big, heavy bullets. The next guy might shoot Tactical Tupperware for crap and have small, arthritic hands. He might feel a...

Now you’re getting it! Thanks for the great quote Goosey.

Thanks for playing. Unfair advantage means whatever it means to you. For one person, a GP100 with 125 grain magnums might give them an unfair advantage because they are a long time revolver shooter and shoot the GP better than anything else they’ve ever tried. For someone else, it might mean...

If you could carry any handgun you wanted, but you had to actually carry it most every day for a year, and you only wanted to carry a weapon that gave you an UNFAIR ADVANTAGE, what would you carry! Thanks for playing.

I still want to try that. I started with a firmer main spring because I knew how to swap out a spring, but not how to "fit" a firing pin stop.

Okay y’all, here is my RANGE REPORT. 1) I stayed with the stock 16# recoil spring, but went up to a 25# main spring. Stock may be 23#, but my Para single stack seemed much lighter than that—maybe 19#. The slide was then much harder to hand cycle with the hammer down. Note, with that stiff...

Para Ordnance single stack 1911 Dot-Torture 3-yards perfect score 50/50.

Actual targets I’ve shot