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    User Friendly Semi-Autos?

    I'm unfamiliar with this type of gun. Is there 1 that is easy to field-strip and easy to rack? Apparently, the 1911 has a 16 lb. racking effort:eek:, some have load indicators:cool:, and Glock has automatic safeties:cool:.
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    .38 Super

    There is a discrepancy in the data on this cartridge in Wikipedia. The 1st column is OK with the velocities going down corresponding to the heavier bullet weights but the energy column has the 3rd and 4th bullets at higher energies, 492 and 497, than the 1st row, 485, when they should be lower...
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    .44 Special Recoil

    Is the light recoil of the .44 Special only an urban legend? Since it has the same stopping power and weight and basically the same caliber and muzzle velocity as the .45 ACP which has an 8 ft.lb. kick u would think it has the same kick, 2, but is sid to be 4.5:confused:. Or is the low recoil...
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    Diamondback and HS revolvers

    What kind of safety did the Colt Diamondback and HS revolvers have? And were the latter good guns?
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    trigger pull

    Usually specs don't include trigger pull weight and I haven't been able to find a chart or table of these and there is conflicting inf. on the relative merits of SA, DA, and DOA. Also, there is conflicting inf. on the Ruger Mark I capacity as it is listed on Guns America as 10-shot; was it a...
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    Prettiest Pistols

    What do you think are the prettiest pistols? My favourite looks-wise is the 1911 but other real beauties are the Ruger-Luger-Nambu, HS Supermatics, Colt Woodsman-Targetsman-Huntsman, Browning Buck Mark and HP, 9 mm Berettas, SA Bobcat-Sig Sauer P230 SL, Llamas, Taurus, Ruger 90s, Walther P-38...
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