Greetings everyone, occasional listener first time caller.
I've been nursing a growing interest in firearms as a tool of personal security, and as an enjoyable hobby, and I've spent a lot of time reading about different pistols, and different ideas about their implementation.
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I've come to the firm and unshakable belief that a manual safety is a better design ideal than a "trigger only" gun. the consequences of an unintentional discharge are every bit as severe if not moreso than the consequence of a safety-induced FTF, and the opportunities for it to occur are vastly more frequent. a side benefit is the manual safety's tolerance of a "more shootable trigger"
this has helped greatly in my search of pistol.
my 2nd question though is decidedly less cut and dry, due to cost factors.
Autoloading pistols are, these days, all fed from removable box magazines, and it is the design of the magazine release which I am pondering. Most pistols use a push button type magazine release, and I have found this type of release to be fairly easy to operate just by gripping the pistol in my left hand, or either hand on those models equipped with ambi releases. I have heard of a few accounts of gloved hands dropping magazines, but I don't know how common an occurrence it is in bare hands or, more saliently, in stress situations. This has led me toward a preference for the HK style paddle mag release, or even the heel catch, over the current standard push button release. my thinking is to promote magazine retention to be able to rely more on that magazines contents, than to worry about promoting the reload process which has a more remote possibility of being relevant.
but, as I said, there is a cost factor. pistols with manual safeties and conventional push button releases are ~5-600$, but something that meets the manual safety req and has a paddle style release is basically an HK P30S/USP, and those guns are closer to 900-1k$
so the likelihood of unintentional mag drop is the 500$ question.
any comment on my philosophical position on manual safeties and mag releases is more than welcome, I look forward to all comments.
Thanks!
-Danny
I've been nursing a growing interest in firearms as a tool of personal security, and as an enjoyable hobby, and I've spent a lot of time reading about different pistols, and different ideas about their implementation.
(longer, more boring post lost due to computer skulduggery)
I've come to the firm and unshakable belief that a manual safety is a better design ideal than a "trigger only" gun. the consequences of an unintentional discharge are every bit as severe if not moreso than the consequence of a safety-induced FTF, and the opportunities for it to occur are vastly more frequent. a side benefit is the manual safety's tolerance of a "more shootable trigger"
this has helped greatly in my search of pistol.
my 2nd question though is decidedly less cut and dry, due to cost factors.
Autoloading pistols are, these days, all fed from removable box magazines, and it is the design of the magazine release which I am pondering. Most pistols use a push button type magazine release, and I have found this type of release to be fairly easy to operate just by gripping the pistol in my left hand, or either hand on those models equipped with ambi releases. I have heard of a few accounts of gloved hands dropping magazines, but I don't know how common an occurrence it is in bare hands or, more saliently, in stress situations. This has led me toward a preference for the HK style paddle mag release, or even the heel catch, over the current standard push button release. my thinking is to promote magazine retention to be able to rely more on that magazines contents, than to worry about promoting the reload process which has a more remote possibility of being relevant.
but, as I said, there is a cost factor. pistols with manual safeties and conventional push button releases are ~5-600$, but something that meets the manual safety req and has a paddle style release is basically an HK P30S/USP, and those guns are closer to 900-1k$
so the likelihood of unintentional mag drop is the 500$ question.
any comment on my philosophical position on manual safeties and mag releases is more than welcome, I look forward to all comments.
Thanks!
-Danny