jonsidneyb
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- Mar 1, 2006
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I have always seen what handgun type you want to have as being a personal thing.
To me as long as it work mechanically, is mechanically reliable, and in a cartridge that is up to the job, It is all up to your prefences.
In all things there are compromizes even if price is taken off of the table. This means even in a given caliber A is in someways better than B and B is in some ways better than A.
I usually shoot in my own backyard so I don't see it that often but when I go to where other people are it seems I see it alot.
I went to a public range once and had a revolver out and someone commented that I should get an automatic and that they were better. I then pulled out an automatic and then went back to getting ready to shoot the revolver.
When I went to get my first CZ-75 another customer told me I should get a Glock. I told him I already have one of those.
I remember once I had a blued steel 6 inch model 19 out and I was told that I needed to get stainless.
I hope that I am not guilty of this as well but maybe I am. I have my favorites but it is based on what works for me and I feel comfortable with.
I have had at least one gun from almost all the manufucturers and I have started to settle into what I like, it sure took long enough, about 35 years. It does get old for people to tell me to get what I already have or have had.
Now there is nothing wrong with pointing out the various merits of one over the other but the blanket get an XYZ sometimes bugs me.
I think there are alot of fine guns out there that do what they were intended to do in a very good manner, it just happens that they are not for me but they could be perfect for you. I don't knock other peoples guns as long as they work as intended and if they are good guns I will acknowledge that.
Maybe I am reading more into the what I have seen around other shooters or were around the wrong ones. It just seems to me that shooters have more people critical of what others use that many other areas of interest.
I do have to say this forum does seem very civil, much better than I have seen at public shooting places. I think I will stay in my backyard to shoot from now on.
To me as long as it work mechanically, is mechanically reliable, and in a cartridge that is up to the job, It is all up to your prefences.
In all things there are compromizes even if price is taken off of the table. This means even in a given caliber A is in someways better than B and B is in some ways better than A.
I usually shoot in my own backyard so I don't see it that often but when I go to where other people are it seems I see it alot.
I went to a public range once and had a revolver out and someone commented that I should get an automatic and that they were better. I then pulled out an automatic and then went back to getting ready to shoot the revolver.
When I went to get my first CZ-75 another customer told me I should get a Glock. I told him I already have one of those.
I remember once I had a blued steel 6 inch model 19 out and I was told that I needed to get stainless.
I hope that I am not guilty of this as well but maybe I am. I have my favorites but it is based on what works for me and I feel comfortable with.
I have had at least one gun from almost all the manufucturers and I have started to settle into what I like, it sure took long enough, about 35 years. It does get old for people to tell me to get what I already have or have had.
Now there is nothing wrong with pointing out the various merits of one over the other but the blanket get an XYZ sometimes bugs me.
I think there are alot of fine guns out there that do what they were intended to do in a very good manner, it just happens that they are not for me but they could be perfect for you. I don't knock other peoples guns as long as they work as intended and if they are good guns I will acknowledge that.
Maybe I am reading more into the what I have seen around other shooters or were around the wrong ones. It just seems to me that shooters have more people critical of what others use that many other areas of interest.
I do have to say this forum does seem very civil, much better than I have seen at public shooting places. I think I will stay in my backyard to shoot from now on.