I'd like to try one of those.I'd be able to get Tim Sheehan to install his HexSite Sighting System, making them about as close to perfect for my needs as I can imagine.
I have no stake - financial or otherwise - in the operation. I can tell you that the biggest boosters seem to be some of the cops and agencies that use them. "Rumor has it" that some of the military folks who have tested the dual-aperture system on M4's have been very happy with it but, until funding is found to engineer and produce adjustable mounting bases, it's not ready for prime time in that venue.I remain dubious of such sighting systems. If it was truly either more accurate, or faster, or both; you'd see the top competitive shooters using it, but you don't. If it works for someone, I think that's great. I have no problem with such a system, I've used ghost rings and I find they work well. No better, no worse; they just work.
...you're referring to the HexSite, try contacting Tim and mentioning my name (Stephen Wenger). He may have a customer near you who will let you try one. Most people who use the HexSite become pretty devoted to it.I'd like to try one of those.
How is the magazine catch a "laeft"-hander's ?I don't like that the 1911 has a laeft-hander's magazine catch and a right-hander's thumb safety and ejection.
Other than that, I carry mine daily without a problem, just means I have to choose between a slightly slower Condition One readiness or going to safety-off empty-chamber Condition Three.
Believe it or not ... about 12 years ago I got a call around 10:30 PM from a local cop that I am friends with ... seems that a person had to shoot a person in their home .. and they had to take his firearm ... and the person that was shot happened to have been the son of the imprisoned leader of the local Motorcycle gang/club ..WaltGraham,
You bring up again a point that I have several times pondered. = IF the LEO takes a person's firearm in a "good shooting" as "evidence" in a police investigation and the citizen has NO other suitable firearm, has society not left an innocent person defenseless against other possible violence?
(Btw, several peer-reviewed studies indicate that a person who has HAD to defend him/herself against an armed criminal is 2-4 times MORE likely to have to AGAIN defend him/herself from yet another act of violence.)
Therefore does the police agency have a responsibility to either provide the citizen another suitable firearm (OR to provide the citizen protective services until their firearm is returned) so that the involved citizen is NOT left DEFENSELESS???
yours, sw
CDM, I think Diamondback is probably left handed, operating the mag release with the forefinger of his shooting hand. So the mag release is perfect for a lefty, but the standard thumb safety is strictly a righty thing.How is the magazine catch a "laeft"-hander's ?
It is operated with the thumb of the right hand.
Thanks, IC, beat me to the punch. Yes, I am a southpaw. Mag catch and slide release both, which I find to also have a benefit in enforcing the "Off Target, Off Trigger" rule.CDM, I think Diamondback is probably left handed, operating the mag release with the forefinger of his shooting hand. So the mag release is perfect for a lefty, but the standard thumb safety is strictly a righty thing.
Sounds like a darned nice gun.My favorite is still my Colt Government Model I bought as a promotion gift from me to me when I made SSgt/E6. Paid a whole $105 new in box with a local gun runner who had retired and sold a few guns at his saddle shop. For years it was bos stock but in 1996 when Texas got its concealed carry up and running I had the trigger, sear, hammer and backstrap replaced. It was a A1 so I went back to the flat 1911 backstrap. For a while it had a full length guide rod but I think it was Charlie who convinced me that Browning knew what he was doing and went back to the factory rod. The stocks are Herrett. I operate the mag release with my trigger finger and added ambi-safety since I'm left handed.
Oh yeah, the good ole days. I think you're a bit older than I am...I bought my Inland Carbine for about $125.00; it's worth over a grand now (not that I'd ever part with it). I worked for one of the importers of the Chinese Norinco AK's, we were selling them wholesale for $249 when we brought them in. They go for around $1200-$1800 depending on which configuration.csmkersh,
Fwiw, I'm old enough to remember when .45ACP Government Models "routinely traded for" 30-75.oo in good used condition. - Of course in those long-gone days/DAZE, I was making 220.12 a month as a GI.
(I paid 60,oo for my US&S 1911A1 in "near new" condition.)
Further I once bought a "non-catalogued" Colt's Gold Cup in .38SUPER in the box for 110.oo at the BIG Dallas gun-show at Market Hall.
(I gave that one to my uncle at Christmas of 1972 & after his death his wife sold it to her pastor for TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS!!!!! = [email protected]#$%^!)
yours, sw
In my family, if a gun is given as a gift, it is considered poor form to let it leave the family unless no one wants it. Generally the giver is first in line.I gave that one to my uncle at Christmas of 1972 & after his death his wife sold it to her pastor for TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS!
Paraphrase Bill Cosby, that wasn't the aunt you grew up with, that was an old lady trying to get into heaven.(I gave that one to my uncle at Christmas of 1972 & after his death his wife sold it to her pastor for TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS!!!!! = [email protected]#$%^!)
yours, sw
