by nowonmai » Tue May 08, 2012 11:46 pm
1911s are well overrated on your side of the pond, because of their iconic status probably and you lot being such sentimental SOBs. It's heresy to say this in America but your beloved 1911 is a pig. The only pistol I have known that never once misfired in over 10,000 roundsof use was the Beretta 92 which I have waxed lyrical about in another thread with people. The only thing that ever got close to that was the Browning Hi Power. Every single other pistol, Sigs, Glocks, you name it, all these fashion accessories, not a one of them matched that in my personal experience which I prefer over paid reviews and company stats. I am not Italian and would far rather be recommending a British pistol but Webley got out of that game, mores the pity.
I wouldn't want a handgun that might not fire so if my life depended on it I'd either have any old revolver (but preferably a Python (Rolls Royce) or a 586 (Ford Escort)) or if it has to be a semi-auto then a Beretta 92 and while you're clearing your jam from your piece of pigiron I'll phone for a pizza and then wander up and stick two in your liver before nicking your stash. Hypothetically obviously. In most people's case in America I guess they want to be able to leave it in their drawer untouched and uncleaned, collecting belly button fluff in the mechanism for years on end before the low prob high impact event of having to reach for the twat and start epileptically yanking on the trigger until the bad man stops moving.
On the subject of misfires the beasts of the field taught me that that even a low incidence is fucking inconvenient. I used to have a Beretta semi-auto shotgun, supposed to be the bollocks but that bastard would misfeed about every 500 shots, not that bad for a semi-auto shotgun, which in the main still remain annoyingly unreliable in my opinion (yeah, yeah ammunition related I know, blah blah, which is why I avoid gas operated shotguns these days because that gnarly old rusty Mossberg that rattles when I shake it never misfeeds, it would probably fire potatoes if I could stuff them in the chamber). It was amazing how often the misfeed would coincide with the only shootable goose all day which I miss with the first shot because I'm frozen solid and half asleep. (Not amazing at all of course, the cold would affect the oil and the metal and increase probability of misfeed). I sold it before I ended up smashing it against a tree (only reason I didn't is because there aren't any trees to smash it against in the fens). I would do the same with any gun that does not do what it says on the tin. If that bastard jams on the range even only every 1000 rounds then sod's law states categorically that it will happen cometh the day.
Revolver, revolver, revolver.