What DON'T you like about your carry gun?
I posted this on another forum, but I think this group wold be much more interesting to hear from...
So we all like to brag on our favorite handguns, so let's take it another way...what DON'T you like about your primary carry gun?
I carry the S&W M1911PD (Lightweight Commander). I don't like the beavertail that S&W has chosen, kind of a Wilson-ish copy. I much prefer the Ed Brown.
And while I like a black gun for self defense, I'll admit that I've never seen a better finish for a daily carry gun than hard chrome...I may hard chrome my blaster at some point. I'll be doing some Ceracoat in the coming weeks, I may just Ceracoat it in the interim...just depends on if I get a wild hair.
I think S&W could have done better on their choice of finish (blue/anodized). Guns that are in and out of a holster on a daily basis will wear finish pretty quickly.
I don't like that it came with a FLGR, but I corrected that.
Little gripes aside, I'm happy with the gun and it has performed flawlessly thus far.
So we all like to brag on our favorite handguns, so let's take it another way...what DON'T you like about your primary carry gun?
I carry the S&W M1911PD (Lightweight Commander). I don't like the beavertail that S&W has chosen, kind of a Wilson-ish copy. I much prefer the Ed Brown.
And while I like a black gun for self defense, I'll admit that I've never seen a better finish for a daily carry gun than hard chrome...I may hard chrome my blaster at some point. I'll be doing some Ceracoat in the coming weeks, I may just Ceracoat it in the interim...just depends on if I get a wild hair.
I think S&W could have done better on their choice of finish (blue/anodized). Guns that are in and out of a holster on a daily basis will wear finish pretty quickly.
I don't like that it came with a FLGR, but I corrected that.
Little gripes aside, I'm happy with the gun and it has performed flawlessly thus far.
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TimBurke; William R. Moore,
YEP & YEP.
(It was long after her passing that I "got over my mad". = Would you care to guess what a .38Super Colt's GC is worth in 2014 & in "mint condition" in the factory box? = My uncle said on Christmas morning that, "It's WAY too PURTY to shoot". - He may NEVER have fired it, though he surely "cuddled it" often.)
yours, sw
YEP & YEP.
(It was long after her passing that I "got over my mad". = Would you care to guess what a .38Super Colt's GC is worth in 2014 & in "mint condition" in the factory box? = My uncle said on Christmas morning that, "It's WAY too PURTY to shoot". - He may NEVER have fired it, though he surely "cuddled it" often.)
yours, sw
KevinGibson; Skeptic49,
As a Deputy Constable (I wasn't old enough to be a Constable.) I got 2.10 a DAY as salary (I was then a college sophomore & FLAT BROKE.) & thought that I was RICH, when I got my first county check.
(I also made 2.50 an hour "moonlighting" at football & basketball games.)
At that time, Constables could design their own uniform & I was "so broke" that I usually wore a khaki work shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots & a baseball cap. In the wintertime I usually wore an old Navy peacoat, that came from the Goodwill store.
Constables were NOT then allowed a county vehicle, so I drove my 1959 red/white Nash Metropolitan until the local Chief of Police "took pity on me" & "saw to it" that I could buy an old, green, "city unmarked" Plymouth Fury for 200.oo. He got the city treasurer to let me "pay it off" at 10 bucks a month. = My friends in/out of LE called it: "BIG UGLY".
(My "roomie" rigged-up a pair of 8" red lights & a siren under the grill, that came off a wrecked FD car. - A few months later, he also "acquired by somewhat irregular means" a "low band" GE MASTR II radio, that had 2 channels: 37.260/Inter-county & 37.380/Tac 1.)
Note to "City Kitties" & "Staties": In the rural Southland of the 1960s, my experiences as a "rookie" county officer were quite typical, as "make do" was common in departments that had NO money. = Over 170 square miles of "country" was "my beat" & working Pct. 3 allowed me to finish college. ======> NICE memories of my "mis-spent youth", too.
yours, sw
As a Deputy Constable (I wasn't old enough to be a Constable.) I got 2.10 a DAY as salary (I was then a college sophomore & FLAT BROKE.) & thought that I was RICH, when I got my first county check.
(I also made 2.50 an hour "moonlighting" at football & basketball games.)
At that time, Constables could design their own uniform & I was "so broke" that I usually wore a khaki work shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots & a baseball cap. In the wintertime I usually wore an old Navy peacoat, that came from the Goodwill store.
Constables were NOT then allowed a county vehicle, so I drove my 1959 red/white Nash Metropolitan until the local Chief of Police "took pity on me" & "saw to it" that I could buy an old, green, "city unmarked" Plymouth Fury for 200.oo. He got the city treasurer to let me "pay it off" at 10 bucks a month. = My friends in/out of LE called it: "BIG UGLY".
(My "roomie" rigged-up a pair of 8" red lights & a siren under the grill, that came off a wrecked FD car. - A few months later, he also "acquired by somewhat irregular means" a "low band" GE MASTR II radio, that had 2 channels: 37.260/Inter-county & 37.380/Tac 1.)
Note to "City Kitties" & "Staties": In the rural Southland of the 1960s, my experiences as a "rookie" county officer were quite typical, as "make do" was common in departments that had NO money. = Over 170 square miles of "country" was "my beat" & working Pct. 3 allowed me to finish college. ======> NICE memories of my "mis-spent youth", too.
yours, sw
Ah yes, Constables. Depends on location and legal inclination. Back in Ohio they covered a multitude of sins, including just being the bailiff for the Mayor's court 2 days a week, to 4 watches in a small tourist town seconded from a near-by city. That was the first outfit I heard of, back in the 1980s when local TV ran a series on LE Orgs, which expanded and contracted during the tourist season. They were regarded as the best of the Constables, being paid a premium over police pay and being EMT and lifeguard/water rescue qualified. As I recall, they drove Chevy Suburbans and rotated through boat duty during the summer. It was very well covered by a young newswoman in a very light sundress who obviously enjoyed interviewing young Constables.
Geoff
Who notes local TV wouldn't do that anymore. Pity it was informative.
Geoff
Who notes local TV wouldn't do that anymore. Pity it was informative.
Skeptic49,
In the State/county where I worked, Constables in theory worked for the county court systems.
In our county, the presiding judge "attached" all of the Constables to the sheriff's office "for convenience" & the eight of us ended up doing whatever LE tasks that the sheriff 's deputies didn't want to do. - Like night-time patrol of the "outlying rural areas" (read: poorest & most remote from the courthouse) of his jurisdiction, for example. = Most of Pct.3 in those long ago days had numerous "semi-improved" gravel roads, small/hard-scrabble farms, bootleggers, "nip joints" & lots of "toughs".
yours, sw
In the State/county where I worked, Constables in theory worked for the county court systems.
In our county, the presiding judge "attached" all of the Constables to the sheriff's office "for convenience" & the eight of us ended up doing whatever LE tasks that the sheriff 's deputies didn't want to do. - Like night-time patrol of the "outlying rural areas" (read: poorest & most remote from the courthouse) of his jurisdiction, for example. = Most of Pct.3 in those long ago days had numerous "semi-improved" gravel roads, small/hard-scrabble farms, bootleggers, "nip joints" & lots of "toughs".
yours, sw
Now that's just funny!!!... so I drove my 1959 red/white Nash Metropolitan...
Kinda hard to come off as the tough guy when you pull up in a Nash Metropolitan. Please don't tell me it was in a pastel color??
What a great story!
Well, one thing I don't like about the gun itself is that it's not stainless.
KevinGibson,
NOPE. Two-tone BRIGHT red over white roadster, with black/white "checked cloth" interior. = I paid 50 bucks for it in 1965, to drive to/from college in the town. = It ran fine but was slower than molasses, with NO emergency equipment or 2-way radio.
And strangely enough FEW people, "out in the county", seemed to care what I drove, after the former Constable died & wasn't replaced until I got "hired-on" several months later as "a deputy to nobody".
(I had graduated & was "overseas with the Army" for over a year before the county finally replaced the actual Constable.)
The "country folks" were just glad to have someone who would "show up", when they called for help.
In theory, I was "supervised by" a LT with the SO but I seldom ever even saw him or even talked to him by phone. = It was "just easier" to ignore the remote/poor part of the county and "let the kid take care of it".
For the first year, I spent most of my time "corralling" drunks, looking for prowlers, "getting livestock out of the road" & finding/returning strayed cows & horses. - I also served a lot of court papers.
yours, sw
NOPE. Two-tone BRIGHT red over white roadster, with black/white "checked cloth" interior. = I paid 50 bucks for it in 1965, to drive to/from college in the town. = It ran fine but was slower than molasses, with NO emergency equipment or 2-way radio.
And strangely enough FEW people, "out in the county", seemed to care what I drove, after the former Constable died & wasn't replaced until I got "hired-on" several months later as "a deputy to nobody".
(I had graduated & was "overseas with the Army" for over a year before the county finally replaced the actual Constable.)
The "country folks" were just glad to have someone who would "show up", when they called for help.
In theory, I was "supervised by" a LT with the SO but I seldom ever even saw him or even talked to him by phone. = It was "just easier" to ignore the remote/poor part of the county and "let the kid take care of it".
For the first year, I spent most of my time "corralling" drunks, looking for prowlers, "getting livestock out of the road" & finding/returning strayed cows & horses. - I also served a lot of court papers.
yours, sw
Funny as they are, those metro's are worth some coin these days.
KevinGibson,
My ex/I had a turquoise/white Metropolitan convertible for a while in the 1970s that wasn't too "funny", especially to those who only saw its tail-lights "suddenly disappearing out of sight". = My motor SGT put a "heated-up" MGA Twin-Cam engine/stick-shift/3rd member in it (considerably more than DOUBLE the stock HP) & it looked completely stock, other than the fatter tires on the back.
Margaret thoroughly embarrassed more than one hot-rodder, who wanted to "play the street-racing game".. = We called it "The Humiliater".
(Baltimore, MD is in some ways "a small town" & the word soon got out to the "street racing crowd: BEWARE of a hot blond in a little funny-looking convertible, as she will leave your MOPAR, Ford or Chevy in the dust.)
yours, sw
My ex/I had a turquoise/white Metropolitan convertible for a while in the 1970s that wasn't too "funny", especially to those who only saw its tail-lights "suddenly disappearing out of sight". = My motor SGT put a "heated-up" MGA Twin-Cam engine/stick-shift/3rd member in it (considerably more than DOUBLE the stock HP) & it looked completely stock, other than the fatter tires on the back.
Margaret thoroughly embarrassed more than one hot-rodder, who wanted to "play the street-racing game".. = We called it "The Humiliater".
(Baltimore, MD is in some ways "a small town" & the word soon got out to the "street racing crowd: BEWARE of a hot blond in a little funny-looking convertible, as she will leave your MOPAR, Ford or Chevy in the dust.)
yours, sw
My primary carry piece is an early - 1998 - Kahr K9 in an HBE pancake outside the waistband holster. I like it pretty much as it is or I'd have replaced it years ago. Still, it would be nice to have a larger magazine, and I'm considering mods to a new CZ75 Pcr to get it suitable for carry. If that works, I'll be able to use it to replace both the K9 carry and the Browning HP HD piece, and that will allow me to have only one piece out of the safe at one time.
Or... I may buy a revolver. Who knows?
Or... I may buy a revolver. Who knows?
Not to Discourage You...
...from buying a revolver (I prefer them myself) but Kahr offers extended (eight-round) magazines for your K9. The K920G is fitted with a sleeved base plate to prevent you from overriding the magazine catch.My primary carry piece is an early - 1998 - Kahr K9 in an HBE pancake outside the waistband holster. I like it pretty much as it is or I'd have replaced it years ago. Still, it would be nice to have a larger magazine, and I'm considering mods to a new CZ75 Pcr to get it suitable for carry. If that works, I'll be able to use it to replace both the K9 carry and the Browning HP HD piece, and that will allow me to have only one piece out of the safe at one time.
Or... I may buy a revolver. Who knows?
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