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7. "RE: Gun of the Week: M1911A1"
In response to message #6
 
   >Being of a mind and budget to allow myself to possess guns in a number
>of exciting and varied calibers, I... still don't have a 9mm. But
>the .45ACP compares favorably to anything I routinely pull out of the
>gun safe with a '3' in the beginning of the dinglehoob, and is a joy
>and a pleasure to shoot.

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned in the article that, in my entirely subjective opinion, one thing the "big slow bullet" school of thought has going for it is the user experience. I mean to say, .45 ACP has quite a bit of recoil? But it's not as bitchy about it as some much weaker cartridges, like, say, .380 Auto or 9mm Makarov. It doesn't slap your hand around and demand your keys. The fact that big-slow-bullet cartridges tend to go in big heavy guns is, I'm sure, a significant part of that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it probably also has something to do with the lower velocity. You get the recoil energy delivered over a very slightly less infinitesimal slice of time, or something. I'm just speculating about the science behind it, but it's a thing I've noticed.

>Until it gets below 20 farenheits or so and everything freezes
>together, and you can't shoot more than one round without manually
>racking the slide.

Ha, oh man. I've probably told this story before, but I'm-a tell it again anyway because you just reminded me of it, and it's even vaguely germane to the original thread topic. Some time back, probably 10-15 years ago now, my cousin Mike the Marine visited the old country over Christmastime, which meant he and I were both at my grandparents' place for Christmas Day that year. I hadn't seen him in probably as long again, since he was just a little kid, and at the time I think he was just in the process of converting into an officer, so he'd been in the Marines for some time by then.

(He went from Force Recon to flying AC-130s just in the nick of "getting too old for that [Recon] shit," which I'm told is a good career path if you can swing it. Although it has to be said his mother didn't appreciate the two or three extra tours in Bad Places the decision bought him. I think he's retired now; he's four or five years younger than me and went in right out of high school, so if he did his 20 straight he'd be just about there. I think that's how it works? Don't quote me.)

Anyway, he had a gun with him that he'd recently bought, one of those fancy riced-up 1911s with the long slide and all the bits and bobs to make it go faster shoot straighter. Probably cost him more than the car I was driving at the time cost me. After dinner he allowed as he'd like to go outside and do some shooting, which at the time, my grandparents lived in a place where you could do that. So Mike and I and Gramp went outside and set some old bottles and cans up on the snowbank beside the garage, in front of the hill at the back of their yard, and then we spent a couple of hours and a slightly stupid amount of .45 ammunition blowing them up. And a fine time was had by all. (I mock souped-up 1911s, but that was a really nice gun. :)

Fast-forward to springtime, and my grandmother decided the time had come to pot up and arrange all the flowers and potted plants and stuff she kept on their porch in the warmer months. Leonard, she said to my grandfather, go and get my plant pots from where you put them away last fall. Only at that point did my grandfather remember that he'd stacked said plant pots out by the garage, in front of the hill at the back of their yard.

Where they got buried in snow, and then Cousin Mike and I, not knowing they were there, shot them all to shit with his fancy new gun at Christmas.

Gram was... not best pleased with the lot of us. (But Mike was back in $BAD_PLACE by then, so he didn't get yelled at. :)

>Gryph, if you're ever Anchorage way, I'd love to go out with you and
>put some ammo downrange - maybe your gun of the week could be
>something truly absurd then.

Sounds like good times. I don't know as I'm ever going to find myself in Alaska (although it's on my list of places I'd like to hit sometime, it's not every day you hear about a state with worse winters than Maine's :), but if I do, I will certainly keep that in mind. :)

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