Recent content by MadMercS55

You're at or past the point for replacing the recoil spring. 5K is generally recommended, with lighter loads, 10K isn't terrible. Same for trigger spring. Replacing the recoil spring at regular intervals will lessen frame battering and extend overall service life significantly. A detail...

Unless there are some restrictions in your state, I'd go with the first option, but shop online for a better price and go from there. $630 for a Glock 19 with night sights seems a little steep. I picked my last one up locally here for $545, night sights were Glock factory. Also keep in mind some...

The Glock is a more proven platform. I do like the overall feel of the XD though. One thing to consider, in the rare event the striker leg breaks off, the XD will fire, the Glock won't. On the XD, part of the striker leg is the drop safety. Striker leg breaks off, the striker travels forward...

Lately it's been alot of Glocks, XDs, M&Ps, some SIGs and 1911s, with the occasional H&K.

They will be back next year I hear. Better steel, and much stronger lock and handle construction. The addition of a more pronounced finger guard is also a good thing. Only downside is the largest one will be a little over 5 inches, no more 6 incher I hear.

The SIG pro is a sold performer and it usually has an excellent out of the box trigger pull. It's price with night sights is normally a good deal pending where you shop, and some come with 3 mags. You can also find a completely German made 2022 with a little effort. These have the Ilaflon slide...

Carried one for years, and still do occasionally. Milt Sparks IWB, Blade-tech Kydex IWB, or the Galco Summer Comfort all worked very well. Even in summer, these holsters concealed it well under a t-shirt. OWB, Galco Combat Master or similar open top rig works well with a cover shirt/jacket. It's...

I called SIG probably 4 times in the last few months. Never sat on hold longer than, maybe 5-6 minutes with a couple callers in line ahead of me. I own mostly older SIGs and wanted to send them in for a tune-up and fresh night sights. No problems, had my shipping labels in email withing 30min of...

The P250 is probably the worst weapon SIG has put out in a long time. I understand the need for a pistol system, so Glock and the M&P are nice options that generally tend to work very well. The XD might be good too, but I've heard of and witnessed too many failures of the platform to think it...

I recall reading over on Beretta Forum some years back that a guy did or at least tried a conversion. Going from the durability issues with the .40's already, I'd say the .357sig setup might very well be short lived. I've seen cracked frames and slides on 96's in as little as 3,000rnds. This...

The last couple 45's I've had come and go, went for around the $250 mark, when they were in production in the later 1990's I was able to buy them around $110-$120. The BM44 goes for about $225-$325 pending condition. Heck newer model 43 bowies go $350-$375 routinely. Benchmade Bali's are...

Benchmade and Pacific Cutlery Balis tend to hold their value, and increase in some cases. The older Benchmade 45, 44, etc seem to have almost doubled in value from the late 1990's. The newer BM's will likely follow suit.

I like that TOPS dagger. Paracord might work well. Making it similar to some Strider daggers I've seen. Another good quality dagger, and probably my all-time favorite is the Cold Steel Tai Pan.

My Gen4 G17 has about 900rnds so far, with no signs of abnormal wear. Looks like the new recoil system may be rubbing the barrel wrong in that photo, or maybe not seating properly and gouging the frame. I have seen something similar when running aftermarket recoil systems in the G26/27 too. But...

I've owned a couple of the early HS2000 pistols. They did suffer from some quality/design issues early on. Broken ejectors when loading a magazine too hard. Magazines cracking feedlips allowing rounds to pop out of the magazines. And some higher round count ones had recoil system failures. I...