Recent content by JACKAL0PE

I appreciate that and understand what you're saying. It's impossible to know what works until you shoot them. Just today I tried out the Springfield XDS and was astonished to find that the grip is really a bit too small for me. I just couldn't grip it firmly because it was too narrow. Never...

Thanks. That helps me understand better what you're talking about. I'm a smaller guy...5'8". And to make bad matters worse, I'm long waisted and short legged. To me, a 1911 is just a cannon. I enjoy shooting one, but I can't imagine being able to hide it at all. It would come down to my...

Far be it from me to argue with anyone here, but I don't understand how something as large as a 1911 could be "one of the easiest guns to conceal". It would seem to me that regardless of the garment used, a smaller weapon would be easier to conceal. Could you give some specifics?

Thanks Dave. I've been given to understand that a 9mm wasn't really enough of a stopper unless you were an extremely good shot...which I'm not. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks Dave and LimaCharlie. Good advice, but I also have to consider what I'm going to be doing. If you were selling a car and were meeting the buyer in a shopping center parking lot for example, and he got out with a cannon strapped to his side, what would be your reaction? My point here is...

But what do you do when one does NOT own such a gun and is trying to decide what to buy. By one route or another, I've accumulated almost a dozen handguns, but with one exception, they're all .380 or smaller. That one exception is a huge framed .38 S&W special with a very short barrel...that...

Let me first introduce myself by saying that what I know about the relative ballistic characteristics of ammunition can be written on the back of a matchbook with a very large grease pencil. It's pretty much limited to, "this one is bigger than that one"...and of course, that certain ammunition...