guyfromohio
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Second strike...... military pistols are meant to be defensive... last-ditch. Second -strike makes sense when defending oneself. A rifle shooter will generally have the time to clear a dud.
There is a PDF in this very thread that exactingly and transparently describes the selection process. Did you read it?
Second strike...... military pistols are meant to be defensive... last-ditch. Second -strike makes sense when defending oneself. A rifle shooter will generally have the time to clear a dud.
You would be suprised at how often this occurs within our own borders and politcians for little things in the military.Isn't that one of those easy-to-say-hard-to-prove things? I mean, you may be the ex-diplomatic courier who carried the blackmail paperwork. I don't know. But I'm gonna' read Shipwreck's linked report & see what the Official Findings say.
We carried it the same way. De-cocked for a DA trigger pull though.Aircrews carry with a round chambered and the safety off. Draw- point- shoot.
So what's with these new rounded trigger guards on the 92A1 and 90-Two? I think it's a step backward. Does anyone else prefer the squared-off guard?
I thought it was there for those shooters who wrap the index finger of their non-firing hand around it. I don't utilize that style, so I wouldn't miss it...though I think it looks cooler on there...and some laser/light accessories use it for rear stability.
Glock did not submit an entry because it didn't meet the basic criteria in several respects.IIRC, there was some concern about "plastic" and aluminum (S&W M59) handguns not being as durable as steel handguns.
Both the Beretta and SIG entries passed the test. Beretta was selected based on price.. The contest for the military 1911 replacement WAS won by Sig as the only weapon to pass without failures of any kind.
It happens, but it didn't in this case because it couldn't have. Beretta is privately owned.Yeah ok, find a source on the web about insider trading practices of politicians, yeah right.
Believe it doesn't happen if you want to.
The "official findings". That doesn't prove anything either. Governments have been rewriting history for as long as humans have been able to print documents. Ever read the 'Official" 911 Commission Report"? If you believe that then I have some beachfront property in Kansas for sale.
I like the idea of double strike ability. It's logical that it would be more likely for a soldier in a firefight while in a panic might repeatedly squeeze a trigger at his target rather than think of racking the slide should a fail to fire happen.
Agreed! I have heard and read people say "I don't even care about second-strike capability. If I have a dud I am immediately doing the failure drill."
But it just seems over-confident. In the heat of battle (or a SD situation) where you are pulling the trigger rapidly to neutralize the threat, I think even a highly-trained person could pull the trigger 3 or 4 times before realizing they have a dud. Try having someone load a snap cap for you and not tell you where it is, and proceed to do a rapid-fire mag dump. Even knowing that a dud is coming, I bet a lot of people will pull the trigger twice on the snap cap, before clearing it out. In the heat of battle, not knowing it is coming, with an under-trained individual, second-strike makes sense.