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Loaf wins a Glock
Glock 19 Gen 5, for the win.
"We should just sanction stupidity as our national pastime and be done with it."-TemerityB, Loser like me
MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 15th 2019, 4:30pmIf that was a 1911 instead of a Glock, it'd be the most Murican thing I've seen in a long time.
You can’t kill a Glock. Ultra reliable
I'm no shooter, so I can't exactly identify with all that. Reckon that it makes it odd that in my reading I've encountered all the mentioned brands and models, and I can quite clearly recall what they are.biglove wrote: ↑December 15th 2019, 5:44pmMKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 15th 2019, 4:30pmIf that was a 1911 instead of a Glock, it'd be the most Murican thing I've seen in a long time.![]()
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I have owned a Colt Gold Cup and Government Model, Kimber Combat 1911 and a couple of other 1911s. The feel of shooting one is unparalleled, the balance is perfection.
Glock, F-N, Sig and Springfield pistols are so much easier to maintain and I have never had a single misfire in any caliber with them.
1911 for fun/nostalgia/pure joy, Glock for self-defense.
Well, that VIS is a modern reissue. An actual vintage VIS in good shape is hard to come by. The pre-war ones are sort of Grail stuff to collectors. They were fetching obscene (for a service semi-auto pistol) auction results even a decade ago. I won't even go into ones that came full-set with the original holster.
Ah! Didn’t realize was a modern issue. Will have to have my gun shop look at price.MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 16th 2019, 6:02pmWell, that VIS is a modern reissue. An actual vintage VIS in good shape is hard to come by. The pre-war ones are sort of Grail stuff to collectors. They were fetching obscene (for a service semi-auto pistol) auction results even a decade ago. I won't even go into ones that came full-set with the original holster.
As for the 1860 and 1851, I was talking about replicas (by Uberti, part of Beretta-Benelli holding). I reckon it's my sympathy for vintage American gun designs - the single-action Colts, the percussion ones and the later SAA, just ooze the American vibe no less than the flag on the Glock. I also like the Polish connection of the 1851 Navy - a number of these were used by Polish insurgents against the Russian Empire in the January Uprising of 1863.
If I recall correctly, the VIS was to re-enter production last year, and FB Radom was showing off a few prototypes of the reissue. I don't know how are things with the availability of the gun, I haven't followed it closely. The site of the manufacturer lists it as a part of the line-up, so it seems like it's in regular production.biglove wrote: ↑December 16th 2019, 6:52pmAh! Didn’t realize was a modern issue. Will have to have my gun shop look at price.MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 16th 2019, 6:02pmWell, that VIS is a modern reissue. An actual vintage VIS in good shape is hard to come by. The pre-war ones are sort of Grail stuff to collectors. They were fetching obscene (for a service semi-auto pistol) auction results even a decade ago. I won't even go into ones that came full-set with the original holster.
As for the 1860 and 1851, I was talking about replicas (by Uberti, part of Beretta-Benelli holding). I reckon it's my sympathy for vintage American gun designs - the single-action Colts, the percussion ones and the later SAA, just ooze the American vibe no less than the flag on the Glock. I also like the Polish connection of the 1851 Navy - a number of these were used by Polish insurgents against the Russian Empire in the January Uprising of 1863.
I swear, MK, you are not just a vintage watch guru but evidently a vintage gun guru, too.
Next up may I request something about my beloved CZ-75's.MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 16th 2019, 7:08pmI suppose I'm just an avid bookworm with a proclivity for diversifying the topics, which ends in me more or less having something to say on various matters.
There's not much that I know about them, save perhaps the fact that they're unusual for a post-war, pre-1989 handgun from behind the Iron Curtain. If you look at most of the other designs (and there weren't a lot, as there was barely any civilian market for handguns there), they seem to be in one way or another heavily influenced by the Mauser HSc and the Walther PP/PPK, with the Makarov being the most common of these. I'm not mentioning the Tokarev, that was basically an amalgamation of the FN 1903 and a few other things - notably Marxism, alcoholism, and the fact that it wasn't a hammerless design - or the Stechkin (APS), as the APS was a full auto.codguy wrote: ↑December 17th 2019, 5:46amNext up may I request something about my beloved CZ-75's.MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑December 16th 2019, 7:08pmI suppose I'm just an avid bookworm with a proclivity for diversifying the topics, which ends in me more or less having something to say on various matters.
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