9x18 Mak or .45 GAP?

Mak or GAP?

  • Mak

    Votes: 27 61.4%

  • GAP

    Votes: 17 38.6%
  • Total voters
    44
I have a Mak and no desire for a Glock anything, so I voted Mak based on that. Although it would really depend on what the Mak is, if it were a Bulgarian I'd probably take the Glock and sell it but if the Mak were East German I'd take it and keep it and sell the Russian commercial one I have.
 
Mak. A minty Ernst Thaelmann. Like I could have bought a zillion times for $200 if I had known I would be lusting for one 25 years in the future.
 
I would take the GAP and probably sell it just as quick. I don't think it's a bad cartridge, just an unnecessary one. Although, I would use it if I had nothing else.
 
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I would take the GAP because it starts with 4 and ends with 5 America! Actually it is because a right cross has a better chance of stopping a fight than a jab.
 
I like glocks, so id go with the GAP. In a pinch, gap can be shot in .45 acp chamberings. Wouldn’t do it a bunch, but it’s still doable.

Gap can be shot in my 625 with moonclips.
 
bc1023 said:
To each their own I guess. To me, the CZ 82 is a crude straight blowback with a lousy trigger. All the early CZ’s were crudely built, including the early CZ 75. Much like the rest of the ComBloc pistols.

Oh and 9x18 power level is much closer to 380 than it is to 9x19.
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My cz82 in 9x18 was slick as snot and felt like a comfortable refined pistol. My makarov, however feels, like a staple gun that shoots bullets! It goes bang and shoots straighter than I can. Definitely not the last pistol I would trust my life to.
 
I'll take s CZ 82. The one I owned years ago was a nice shooter. Accurate enough and went bang every time. Carried it for years when I couldn't afford anything else. Wish I still had it.
 
SeanSw said:
My cz82 in 9x18 was slick as snot and felt like a comfortable refined pistol. My makarov, however feels, like a staple gun that shoots bullets! It goes bang and shoots straighter than I can. Definitely not the last pistol I would trust my life to.
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To my thinking, the CZ 82 is the best of Combloc 9x18mm pistols. More rounds, good trigger, and less felt recoil than the rest. I do think the Polish P-64 ties with the 82 for the best looking ones, though the about 25 lb DA trigger takes points away from the P-64.
 
I wasn't planning on giving my opinion, but thinking things over if given the choice I would go with the GAP. I'm already set up to reload it (anyone who loads .45 ACP is) where the 9x18 requires me to get a new die set and bullets that would only be used in the 9x18. I already have plated 200gr .45 bullets, I use them in .45 Schofield.

There's also the benefit that the GAP is a .45 that only uses small pistol primers, which means I don't have to sort thru brass when I want to shoot some .45 with small primers, which is what I have the most of, it's less time sorting.

The Glock itself is a proven platform, lots of spare parts available. Trigger is typical and something I know well, the Mak trigger... idk how good or bad they are.

Probably the best aspect of the 9x18 is the ammo will be cheap, cheaper than GAP, but availability for both is questionable, so I would still rely on reloading to ensure I can shoot it and that all favors the .45 GAP.

Capacity is equal between the two pistols and I'm willing to bet the price of a used GAP Glock is less than that of a Mak and has probably been shoot less too.

The Mak may be steel framed and have a DA/SA trigger (I like DA/SA) but there are IMO more drawbacks to the pistol and caliber than with .45 GAP in a Glock.
 
I’d go with the Mak because it’s a great looking gun, historically interesting, and has that bad guy cool factor.

I wish the .45GAP had taken off because I love the idea of big bore stopping power and high capacity in a frame that’s not meant for only the XXL, but also have no real motivation to spend a fortune on ammo or components and I don’t love the idea of having to reload ammo for a caliber that’s meant for self-defense role. So for now the 1911 will do the job mostly as well in real life.
 
jmr40 said:
The one that would bring the most money when I sell it unfired. And I'd have to do some research on that. Not sure which would be worth the most money but I'm thinking the Mak would be easier to sell.
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Ditto...Neither interest me or have a place in my shooting world...
 
I went with the Glock for once. I already have a proper Makarov (Soviet made) and the FEG PA-63 and Cz vz 82. They’re all great in their own weird way. None are a lot of fun after about 50 rounds of factory ammo. If the poll was about anything in 9x18, I’d go for a P64 or P83 to round things out. Even though the P64 feels absolutely awful in my hands (thats how I wound up with a FEG instead).
I could load for the Glock too, since I already have 45 Auto components. I don’t have a Glock, so it would add variety to life?
 
tmd16556 said:
I went with the Glock for once. I already have a proper Makarov (Soviet made) and the FEG PA-63 and Cz vz 82. They’re all great in their own weird way. None are a lot of fun after about 50 rounds of factory ammo. If the poll was about anything in 9x18, I’d go for a P64 or P83 to round things out. Even though the P64 feels absolutely awful in my hands (thats how I wound up with a FEG instead).
I could load for the Glock too, since I already have 45 Auto components. I don’t have a Glock, so it would add variety to life?
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J&G Sales had P83s for cheap a few years back, so they got my money. :)
As for recoil, the lightweight PA-63 and P64 are tied for most to me, while the P83 & vz 82 are tied for least of that lot of 9x18s (all relative, of course).
Glocks are great and dead nuts reliable but 9x18s are artifacts of an ultimately failed Communist system which are just interesting.
 
Neither. :)

After my 11-month long .327 FM ammo and component seeking fiasco, I am done with adding obscure and obsolescent guns and the required ammo/dies/components to the quiver.

I will leave those two calibers to others who already have them (or want to). :thumbup:

Stay safe.
 
Riomouse911 said:
Neither. :)

After my 11-month long .327 FM ammo and component seeking fiasco, I am done with adding obscure and obsolescent guns and the required ammo/dies/components to the quiver.

I will leave those two calibers to others who already have them (or want to). :thumbup:

Stay safe.
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I don't blame you on the 9x18, but the .45 GAP is similar enough to the .45 ACP that it's not an Odysseus level adventure to reload for. Just need brass.
 
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