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.380 ACP because it's enough in my context (tropics, not a lot of clothing to mess with JHP penetration, and folks are smaller/leaner than elsewhere) as an SD round, and my wife can shoot it well. .45 ACP because fun (for me: my wife hates it).

Over the past half-century of living here in the Philippines, I must've seen every sort of backyard-special 1911. Nothing was ever so hideously ...err, special as what started this thread. :rofl:

The Philippine manufacturers of 1911-pattern pistols are led by Armscor, Shooters Arms Mfg., and Metro Arms Corporation: Armscor builds for itself, for Twin Pines (Rock Island Armory), and a few others, including some work for/with STI. Frames are investment cast 4140; slides machined from 4140...

As others have said, the term bears no formal definition. However, if you were to press me for a word association, the image of an AK-47 seems fair. Mass media has done a thorough job of using that particular firearm's silhouette as a graphic component to accompany generic references to...

Interesting. Thanks for the link to http://www.globalincidentmap.com

Three years ago, I (re)posted about how the Philippine Marines, for utter lack of resources, had started refurbishing WW2-era M3 "grease guns" for use as PDW's for their armor crews and as a weapon for naval boarding teams. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=95093 (from news in...

If you are talking about the scatterguns from Zhong Zhou, we get the same stuff imported here (Philippines). You need to factor in the cost of serious fluff and buff (smoothening). The steel is fine. Most owners here wind up selling them within 2-3 years to a security-guard firm or...

I'm fairly sure it would, unless the vendor took out some parts. Knock Chinese firearms all we want, they do work. Amen. Hey, I'm Asian. I like flashy gold stuff: we've been capping our teeth with gold and gems since at least the 1500's. I still have a problem with that shotgun, though...

You forgot how the weight of ALL THAT GOLD fights recoil/muzzleflip! ;)

Never had that problem with either Mobil 1 synth. or Shell Helix Ultra.

:( This foreigner had long been wondering how the United States of America, with its Second Amendment enshrining the right to keep and bear, could somehow lose so much of said right. This thread seems to provide the answer.

So, the reason that modern gun-control has gotten so much popular traction is that it plays on white guilt? This outsider doesn't think so. I don't think it's as important to know WHY this present movement was initiated, as to know why it has been so relatively successful. Guns and dense...

:D :D :D Ahhh... memories....

I'm afraid I don't understand: you'd eliminated both threats and survived. Maybe you were supposed to talk them into surrendering? No? We're waxing borderline pedantic here, are we? ;)

Hm. I'd rather we distinguish between the silence of humility and that of fear, or do you intentionally abandon the "chi é surdu orbu e taci campa pi cent' anni in paci"?

Big Burp, and little burp. (for my 1911 and my Bersa)

The Charles Daly 1911's are* made by Armscor, which also makes the Rock Island Armory (RIA) 1911's, here in the Philippines. The barrels are sometimes micro-pitted and the internals can lean toward the mangy, but they shoot rather well. Buying a RIA gets you the same pistol (albeit with...

"Amish pistol" :) Thanks for the livefire review! What ammo were you using?

I don't want to go all Paul Coelho on THR, but I found I shoot at least as well when moving, or in an uncomfortable position, for at least the first three pops, from a draw. Then again, I don't actually shoot all too well from a draw when standing still. I don't know if it's...

It means to say bullets are harmful ... which they'd better be!