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I like the D-frames. Yes, part of it is pure cussedness on my part, but so what? A few years ago I went on a Colt buying spree/frenzy. I've got a matched set of 2" Cobras, a 2" DS, and (just to round things out) a 3" and a 4" Cobra. The 4" Cobra has some road rash on one side of the...

I can understand the attraction. As soon as they started to get popular in competition, I began to burn for a compensated pistol. Whee doggies! It's strange to think of it now, but that was back when there were no factory compensated pistols. (When I say compensated, I'm including porting...

Lots of people knock the Taurus brand; I've had good results. I don't know if they could punch 2" groups at 75 yards, I know I CAN'T punch 2" groups at 75 yards. (Not with a pistol, anyway.) I've owned the following Taurus handguns: PT92, PT908, PT945, PT145, 431 and 445. (The latter two...

Crazy Coot: The 17 is the "full size" and the 19 is the "slightly smaller" size. Neither fits my hand particularly well, but both are superb handguns, very reliable, and tough as a Estwing steel hammer. The 17 holds 17 rounds (in a free state, that is) and the 19 holds 15 rounds. Choosing...

Close to hand: 3" 625 S&W with hardball, S&W 6944 with 124 Hornady, S&W 5946 with (of all things!) Wolf Military Classic 115. Just luck it turned out that they were all S&Ws. If I stretch, I can reach a Marlin 1894 .357 with 158 Winnies.

Dude, you're going to get every fanboy between here and Kansas City, what with asking a question like that. What do you shoot currently, in terms of BIG powerful guns? What's your hand size? There's no shortage of super 9mms out there these days. The easy, and high dollar, answer is to...

jaydubya: Thanks for the good word on CT. My interest in "newfangled" optics has existed for a long time, but I've pulled a Hamlet, just sitting there wondering about them. The successful use of "battery operated sights" in combat, in the hands of our soldiers and Marines, has gone a long way...

How DARE you take a pretty gun and mess it up by making it more comfortable and flashlight capable! (My tongue is pretty far into the cheek, there.) One thing they always told us in the Suck: "If it's stupid and ugly, but it works, then how stupid and ugly is it, really?" I think the...

Dgreno: Shouldn't your sig line have something about "slayer of moose" as well?

rondog: E-mail is ethering its way to customer service for Crimson Trace, EVEN AS WE (ahem) SPEAK!

Ahem, now, and don't I look SILLY! (Not for the first time.) Looking over Crimson Trace's website with a bit more attentiveness, I don't even see a lasergrip for the G21 LISTED.

Ladies and Gents: I have decided to venture out into the uncharted territory of "handgun lasers." I am NOT interested in commentary of the "learn to use the sights" type. I AM going to buy one to try out, and I WILL mount it to my "test-bed" pistol, a Glock 21 whose grip frame has been...

Good show, Texas Colt! For years, I would consider the S&W autoloaders, then settle on something else. I pinned my hopes on the Sigma. (Hey, I was young, and very, very wrong.) With the S&W police turn-ins on the market for cheap, I thought back on all the good stuff I'd read about S&W...

Encoreman: I had one in .308 for a while, and it was a pretty dang neat rifle. As you said, top-break, mine had a SUPER sweet trigger. You had to mash TWO buttons to release the safety, as I recall. Mine shot about 1.5" with a wide variety of ammunition---but my bench technique is about a...

Smoke @ #28: Nope! Whenever someone says "9mm full size non-polymer" I always think Hi-Power. Comfy, classy, classic.

Hard not to send a shout-out for the might Grand Puissance, aka the Browning Hi-Power. Trim, elegant, comfy, historical (it is THE original 9mm high-cap, after all). Oddly enough, for a range blaster, you might look into the S&W 3d Gen pistols--I've got a 5946. That's the double-stack 9 (59...

I love N frame S&W .45 ACPs beyond all rhyme or reason. I have had stock and customized 1917s, several 625s, a 22 and a new-issue 25 (for a very short while). Moon clips are neat as all get out. There's something nifty about the size/weight/power combination of a .45 ACP in an N frame...

I come at this from both sides. (I envelop the issue!) I like firearms bargains, I freely admit it. I generally like to look for "former issue" guns, like $80 Swedish Mausers, $50 Mosin-Nagants, $500 HK P7s, $350 Sig 220s . . . Is a Nighthawk (or any custom 1911 at about that price) better...

Wow, you mean I'll have to go back to my .45s for diversity? (Maniacal cackle.) 9mms I've shot and really liked: Taurus PT92 (old style, no decocker), S&W 5946, Sig 225, Kahr K9 (flatside), Glock 17, S&W 639, Sig 228, HK P7. With the caveat that I regard this as the "only 9mm" and not the...

Brian: Hey man, knock yourself out! I think an essential part of the American character is the urge to tinker, experiment, and see if we can make something better. Sometimes that results in something really stupid and backwards, sometimes it results in something fabulous and wonderful, and...