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I've written of this before: I realize some people have had good results from Taurus guns, but I find they make poor door stops and wouldn't use one for anything else. In the '80s I worked for a security firm. The boss was big on the Beretta 92. Then he got a client from Brasil who demanded...

I have a GP-100 4" and trust it implicitly.

"boricua9mm" ¿Eres Boricua de Barranquilla?

Speed loaders for revolvers were not available when I first started carrying. Other than in Vietnam, my first issued sidearm was an auto. The people who trained me demanded carrying an additional magazine, though we operated in a civilian environment. A few years later I was working for a...

I found it quite bizarre that a number of Wisconsin residents got the permit solely for bragging rights. They don't carry. MANY others got the permit but don't carry because they fear running afoul of the law. In our state capitol, for instance, the attitude is anti-self-defense in the...

A friend was thinning his herd and offered me a 29-2, 4" barrel at an attractive price. Of course I bought it!

There was a period in the '90s when my employer issued backup guns that were large and heavy. Several of us bought AMT Backup pistols. They were, to be polite, POS. In 45ACP they were rather heavy but could still be concealed on a belt or under a jacket. No one ever had to use one on duty...

Our former family doctor, now having left the field due to O'bamacare, was given that questionnaire to perpetrate upon his patients. To his credit, he pointed it out and advised me not to answer it. I didn't

In the '50s I took a BB gun to school in the 6th grade, for a play. It was a CO2 replica of the Colt SAA. I even had a charged cylinder in it. No one checked it, which in retrospect was a stupid oversight, and I "popped" it on stage several times, being careful not to point it at anyone...

I picked up a S&W 29-10, 4" barrel and unfluted cylinder, Lew Horton Special with gold plated hammer, trigger and ejector rod and cylinder release. I got it second hand but complete with box and everything that came in it at a very good price. I don't own a museum, so I bought it as a shooter...

9mm: 1. Sig 228 2. S&W 915 3. Beretta 92FS

LOVE that stainless Bowen Blackhawk 500 Linebaugh with those WONDERFUL grips, Boxhead! Here's my Bowen Redhawk 500 Linebaugh. It has a trigger to die for. It has been my Idaho Backcountry backpacking gun for 12 years. It has Magnaport trapezoids and the Big Dot tritium front sight, and HB put...

Single 10 at top. I read a number of people complaining about them but this one shoots just fine. Coupla Single-Six's with both cylinders. Pair of Bearcats.

I wonder if these responses are over-thinking the OP's question. Leave aside the facts of 1911 vs 1911A1. That may not be what was asked. I'll address them as the same for this argument. I'm reasonably sure we'd all agree that anything built according to the Colt patents is a "1911." Hence...

In my opinion you should always have a spare magazine. In training I have seen one fail - the bottom popped off, and I personally ejected a full magazine I had just inserted in a training drill - while the instructor cackled. There are many modern 8-round magazines for the 1911s. I've had...

Nope. The first handgun I was proficient with was a Colt Government Model. I was a USAF TAC pilot on my way to Vietnam and even though I "earned" the USAF Marksmanship Medal with a S&W .38, I knew I had no idea how to fight with anything less than a MER or TER on the pylons. A US Marine who...

I have a S&W 22S. It's OK, but my 3-screw Ruger Single-Six, 5-3/8" barrel, is more accurate. About on a par with the S&W is my Beretta Neos. It feels bizarre in my hand but shoots very well and is very accurate. Top o' the heap is my Sig Trailside. It was a tack driver out of the box and...

S&W 386NG or PD. Seven shots of .357 Mag in a compact revolver. Easy to conceal IWB or scabbard.

WHAT??? NO SINGLE SIX'S??? Slacker.

HEY JAYMO! Take me hog hunting! I have relatives near Lenox GA, who I visit from time to time. I only had one other time when I could hunt hogs. I was stationed at Laredo Tx AFB in 1968 and went with some other USAF pilot trainees who were invited to a ranch to hunt hogs. Most of us just got...