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Originally Posted by Interlux
Looking for some beginners advice - with the impending gun control changes that have been promised I'm applying for my permit just to have and own a hand gun.
I am doing this before it becomes difficult to obtain a permit or own for whatever reasons.
My question is - I'm a fair beginner when it comes to hand guns and would just like to see what everyone's opinion is on a solid and 'enjoyable to fire at the range' handgun. Either revolver or pistol.
Thanks for any advice everyone  |
I have several 1911 type pistols. There's several knocks on them, according to the internet-
Single stack magazine, hard to field strip, inaccurate, not dependable...the list goes on.
It's a bunch of sour grapes. The 1911 design is not flawed; it is, quite seriously, so popular because the thing is so right in so many ways. What has happened is so many makers make so many different variations, with different tolerances, etc. If 50 companies all make their own version of a' Glock', some of them would make a lousy pistol
However- the manual of arms for it is not as easy as some other pistols, and for a concealed carry weapon, it may not be ideal unless you get a 'Commander' style, unless you're a pretty big guy, and it is fairly heavy, although most full size auto-loaders are
What the others don't have is the grip, thumb, and half-co cked safeties, where you can carry the pistol safely fully c ocked and that does complicate the thing a bit, but a bit is still something) a double action/single action pistol like a SIG P226
I would actually recommend a DS/SA pistol as a first center-fire pistol instead of the single action 1911 type although I love my 1911s
The SIG P226 is a hell of a fine pistol; I own one and love it The 92FS is another simialr type I'd own. I have fired them but I don't own one
But the 1911 has a very sweet trigger. My P226 is close, but cannot ever be the same; the 1911 trigger pulls straight back while the P226 is hinged
My own P226 has no dedicated safety. I do not know if this is common to all P226s, mine is old, made in 1988