What is your Go to War Sidearm?

One of my Hapkido instructors back in the day was a state LEO assigned to dangerous prisoner escort. When I asked him what Hapkido techniques he used to restrain unruly prisoners, he responded his favorite was the baton, used vigourously.
My favorite baton tactic is '9 from the sky.' 'Three from trhe ring' is for rookies.
 
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I would say an ak47 and any steel frame 9mm,,but I don't have any guns anymore after my boat capsized last year with my whole gun collection going down somewhere off the coast of Florida
 
I would say an ak47 and any steel frame 9mm,,but I don't have any guns anymore after my boat capsized last year with my whole gun collection going down somewhere off the coast of Florida

A Taurus G3 will get you back into gun ownership for $200 if so desired, and prefer it over the G19 it was cloned from.
 
If'n it comes my way...
I'll be wearing the same one as today.
It has saw me back to the threshold of my own door for half a century.

Well, this one or one just like it.

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For the better part of the last two decades, I kinda keep this'n handy.

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Even living the quite country life, it's prudent to be prepared.
When trouble comes a knockin'...All bets are off. Marquess of Queensberry Rules notwithstanding.

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If'n it comes my way...
I'll be wearing the same one as today.
It has saw me back to the threshold of my own door for half a century.

Well, this one or one just like it.

Aug-Gun-Pics-005.jpg


For the better part of the last two decades, I kinda keep this'n handy.

ARIMG-1188.jpg


Even living the quite country life, it's prudent to be prepared.
When trouble comes a knockin'...All bets are off. Marquess of Queensberry Rules notwithstanding.

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Keith .... You've been AWOL for awhile ....good to see you back!
 
Sorry about the absents...It's been a rough winter. ;)

Still kickin', but not too awful high.

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Sorry about your winter. Mine was pleasant also with pneumonia from Christmas through Jan.
Finally behind me now. Now to the important stuff. Who made your holster/belt? Real nice rig.
Glad you're back BTW!
 
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Sorry about your winter. Mine was pleasant also with pneumonia from Christmas through Jan.
Finally behind me now. Now to the important stuff. Who made your holster/belt? Real nice rig.
Glad you're back BTW!

Oh,
I cobbled that one up back before the turn of the century.
Back when I was spry and feelin' my oats. ;) :D


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I suppose I'm a traditionalist, but I'll take one of my M1911A-1's or my Colt Gunsite Pistol. Over the years I've met several US military veterans, and one IRA veteran, who had occasion to use the 1911 for real and they all spoke well of it.
 
for a daily civilian encounter it would be a full size glock 17. if it was riot city and a person would be on the move to defend self & family it would be the 17 , 12 ga. pump , + ar 15 and possibly a 22 rifle.
 
Seeing what is happening in Ukraine, I think I would prefer something along the lines of a Javelin, or one of those Turkish drones, or the small Kamakaze drones. SF VET
 
Seeing what is happening in Ukraine, I think I would prefer something along the lines of a Javelin, or one of those Turkish drones, or the small Kamakaze drones. SF VET

Or

the ability to call in an A-10 strike or artillery.

Handguns are a badge of rank and easy to carry for those doing the thinking, and who's primary weapon is the radio, while others are doing the shooting.... but IMHO, for going outside the wire to fight a war.... they just keep you from having to go to a knife... and no one wins a knife fight!

Still remember the quote from the Sam Elliot in "We Were Soldiers" who only carried a Colt 1911 to his war................
 
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