Bought my first gun today!!!

[michiganfan]

Welcome to the world of never having enough extra money. LOL

 

[akodo]

for an engineer I am disappointed! Automatic indeed! you have an autoloader, or a semiautomatic.

some may say no big deal, but I say why play into the anti's hands with poor terminology choices

 

[WinchesterAA]

I wonder why us mechanically inclined types are so infatuated with the sounds our investments make?

 

[Stainless Chili]

Next, a 1911 in your choice of several calibers.
9mm, .38 Super, .40S&W, .45ACP, 10mm. I think I saw one in .38 Special once, too.
Something about the way they are put together tugs the heart strings.

Did you read the Ten Rules of AMMO?

 

[DevLcL]

Couple that Hogue grip with a descent pair of shooting gloves. Batting gloves work just fine, but usually shooting gloves will have gripage in the ideal locations.


Buy ammo, practice, buy more, etc. etc.

-Dev

 

[ravencon]

Congratulations. You made an excellent choice.

I'm sure it is the beginning of beautiful friendship.

 

[princesscrash01]

Congrats! I can't wait until I can get my 1st gun. I shot the SIG P226 today for the first time and I loved it! Congrats on your purchase.

 

[jlbraun]

I just shot the gun this weekend at a (FREE!) county range in the mountains. 300 rounds with zero problems.

I really really like the single action trigger. I was the bane of soda cans at 25-30 yds.

(I've always heard "full-automatic" as applying to machine guns, "semi-automatic" as applying to handguns, and "automatic" as applying to both. Which is correct?)

 

[evan price]

Good first choice. I have a Sig P239 in 9mm as my CCW weapon. I might suggest once you get familiar with your lady you consider decking her out with some Trijicon night sights. Got them on my P239 and when it is dark outside and things go bump in the night you don't have to have light to see what you are shooting at. I love the trigger feel and action of SIG autopistols. I own multiple various manufacturers and the SIG is right up there.. I rank it at #2 right behind my Colt King Cobra action. I just love the feel of a well oiled Colt revolver!
My local gun shop runs specials on 9mm or .45 ammo by the case of 1000 I think that 9mm was $139 and .45 was $169 last time I checked, I think the brand was American Eagle (in a red box). But you had to buy a case and it was cash price credit was extra.
First time at range, don't worry about being accurate at first, just get used to the feel of the loaded weapon and how you shoot her. And the noise, smell, flashes, etc. Get familiar with the lady!

 

[Jamie C.]

(I've always heard "full-automatic" as applying to machine guns, "semi-automatic" as applying to handguns, and "automatic" as applying to both. Which is correct?)

Okay, I'll take a crack at this one...

Here's how it was explained to me, many long years ago:
"full-automatic" and "semi-automatic" are terms that describe the weapon's manner of firing.

If you pull the trigger one time, and it fires only one round before requiring you to release (reset) the trigger and pull it again, it is semi-automatic

If you pull the trigger and hold it back, and the weapon continues to fire until the trigger is released, it is full-automatic.

These two terms apply to any firearm.... rifle, pistol, and anything in-between.

The term "Automatic", on the other hand, is sort of a slang term that is applied to a handgun or long arm that, when fired, automatically reloads the chamber from a magazine of some kind. It's really just an easy way of denoting that you're NOT speaking of a revolver, pump, lever-action, bolt-action, etc.

Well, usually it is.... Then people came up with things like the Webley-Fosbery, Dardic(sp?), and the Mateba Model 6 Unica, which are all a kind of "automatic revolver", and muddied the waters even further...

Anyway, at least around my neck o' the woods, an "automatic" is generally accepted to be a handgun with no cylinder in it's middle. *shrug*

Hope this helps.

J.C.

P.S. Told ya 200 rounds wouldn't be enough.

 

[poppy]

akodo

for an engineer I am disappointed! Automatic indeed! you have an autoloader, or a semiautomatic.
some may say no big deal, but I say why play into the anti's hands with poor terminology choices

I am an engineer too, and akodo is partly right. Actually, automatic used to be the correct term for a pistol. Take a look at any 1911 or 1911A1 pistol; on the left side of the slide it says "45 AUTOMATIC." These, of course, are semi-automatic in today's vernacular.

Fully automatic firearms used to be called machine guns. It is the news media that screwed things up, and so now the general population has been "trained" to believe that automatic means machine gun, so we had to insist on using the term semi-automatic or autoloader when referring to firearms that shoot once with one trigger pull.

There are still many people who believe that the assault weapons ban was about machine guns. :banghead:

I have made the same comments that akodo did. Unfortunately that is the world we live in. poppy

 

[1KPerDay]

Excellent choice on the 226. Congrats!

 

[akodo]

yes, being specific with fully automatic or semiautomatic rather than just automatic is something that exists totally becaue of the moronic media we have. It just seems to me that engineers generally use a more precise term when a more general term can cover two different catagories.

jaime C, i think the term you are looking for isn't automatic, it is autoloader. At least when i say 'auto' i am refering to autoloaders, not automatics (even though these really go hand in hand in pretty much every design)

For the same reason, (media misuse and misinformation) we have to be careful when we use the terms assault rifle and assault weapon

 

[jlbraun]

OK, OK. I stand corrected. I now know the correct term. "Semi-automatic."

Sheesh.