Watchlords

My $50 ticket for the local Knights of Columbus December gun drawings hit today. 28 daily draws for a single $50 ticket, can win every day. Guns are all donated by a local gun store.

Glock 19 Gen 5, for the win.

That really is kinda cool looking, BL.

Straight shooters, too.

Nicely spiffified from the basic black.

I had a 21 some time back but got the impression that Gaston had yours in mind when he birthed the design. Congratulations!

This Glock gives me a boner.

Holy shit, that’s awesome!

Pretty Glock.

Dude, that is cool. Have fun with it.

15+1 rounds of fun - especially with the back strap mods! Congrats.

That is way cool.

Nice! Congrats.

That's awesome!!! I have a 19 too. But not in American.

Just moved it from one shelf to another in the safe. Closest I have gotten to firing it.

After Xmas I have got to get to the range to fire a couple of pistols and my AR that are all still in boxes.

Congrats BL! My dad was a KOC, but they never had cool raffles like that.

If that was a 1911 instead of a Glock, it'd be the most Murican thing I've seen in a long time.

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 15th 2019, 4:30pm

If that was a 1911 instead of a Glock, it'd be the most Murican thing I've seen in a long time.

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.

Now, that does look nice. Well done on that raffle mate

As an aside, I was just talking with my neighbour over the fence a little while ago and he was aghast when I said I don't have a gun, he told me there and then "go get a Glock"

Britboy wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 8:14am

Now, that does look nice. Well done on that raffle mate

As an aside, I was just talking with my neighbour over the fence a little while ago and he was aghast when I said I don't have a gun, he told me there and then "go get a Glock"

You can’t kill a Glock. Ultra reliable

biglove wrote: ↑

December 15th 2019, 5:44pm

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 15th 2019, 4:30pm

If that was a 1911 instead of a Glock, it'd be the most Murican thing I've seen in a long time.

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.

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.
Well, I was relatively decent with an Anschutz sporting airgun as a teenager, decent enough to prove myself worthy of being admitted to the local sports club's shooting section while a year younger than the informal minimum. Then I had no time, and then I got into watches, which meant no money for anything shooting-related (yep, a Polish citizen in Poland can own a gun). Reckon I'll get the budget empty on watch after watch, and I'll die of old age in 50-60 years never having owned a repro of the Colt 1860 Army, or the 1851 Navy I always wanted... But I was always intrigued by the technical side of these things, and whenever something gun-related appears here at WL, I always have a look.

If you like FN (Hi-Power?) and 1911s, you might find this interesting:
http://fabrykabroni.pl/en/produkty/pist ... vis-wz-35/

A contemporary reissue (by the original factory, no less) of the 1935 Polish FB VIS. Something 1911-ish about it, and heavily influenced by the design of the Hi-Power. Truth be told, a bit less versatile than that, with a single-stack magazine holding 8 rounds of 9x19.

^^^That is a good looking pistol.

Have never been into vintage guns. I worry about parts, cost of a gunsmith and reliability.

biglove wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 3:34pm

^^^That is a good looking pistol.

Have never been into vintage guns. I worry about parts, cost of a gunsmith and reliability.

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.

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.

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 6:02pm

biglove wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 3:34pm

^^^That is a good looking pistol.

Have never been into vintage guns. I worry about parts, cost of a gunsmith and reliability.

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.

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.

Ah! Didn’t realize was a modern issue. Will have to have my gun shop look at price.

I swear, MK, you are not just a vintage watch guru but evidently a vintage gun guru, too.

biglove wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 6:52pm

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 6:02pm

biglove wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 3:34pm

^^^That is a good looking pistol.

Have never been into vintage guns. I worry about parts, cost of a gunsmith and reliability.

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.

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.

Ah! Didn’t realize was a modern issue. Will have to have my gun shop look at price.

I swear, MK, you are not just a vintage watch guru but evidently a vintage gun guru, too.

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.

Guru? Wouldn't say as much of myself. I 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.

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 7:08pm

I 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.

Next up may I request something about my beloved CZ-75's.

codguy wrote: ↑

December 17th 2019, 5:46am

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑

December 16th 2019, 7:08pm

I 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.

Next up may I request something about my beloved CZ-75's.

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.
So, it's probably the only Eastern Bloc semi-auto that was ever its own thing.

IIRC, in Alan Furst's superb book The Polish Officer, the hero used a VIS pistol to kill Nazis. But I am often wrong.