[geeks] Re: [rescue] Octane R10K/175 CPU module available

[Kurt Huhn]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:28:15 -0700 (MST)
Dan Duncan wrote:

> 
> I don't care for Glocks, but love my Rugers.  My 9mm Ruger (KP89DC)
> has a fairly loose-fitting slide so the accuracy isn't wonderful,
> but it shoots ANYTHING.  No jams, even with cheap reloads.  A
> friend at the range once gave me a whole box because his Glock (also
> probably a 17) kept jamming on them.  I think Glocks are pretty high
> quality weapons, but I just don't like them.  I really like a hammer
> or a safety (or both) for piece of mind.
> 

Glocks are tempermental guns, in my experience.  They tend to stovepipe
cases if you don't hold them right.  That and they're ugly.

> Probably a Kimber 1911 clone.  Many shooters consider the 1911 to
> be the best handgun ever designed (it was designed in 1911) and
> I happen to agree with them.  What did you think of the grip
> safety?  (a spring loaded tab pressed into the grip by the webbing
> between your thumb and forefinger)  It takes NO effort on your part
> to press that in when you grip the gun for firing, but unless you're
> gripping the gun just that way, it CANNOT be fired.  How cool is that?
> 

Ah...timeless classics.  For simplicity of design and operation, a 1911
simpy can't be beat - as far as autopistols go anyway.  My other fav is
the Peacmaker, or clones, chambered in .45LC.  Sure, perhaps not a
historically correct round, but I like my bores big.  :)

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