In Italy it is still quite hard to own a weapon for “protection”. if you shoot to defend your private properties … well there are big trouble for you. if you shoot and kill… well big trouble means jail. no way. no excuse.
here we can’t protect our self, our family, our house, with “too much” strenght.
it’s a shitty law the one who brings to jail a man who shoot to defend his family…
in the acient time slaves have not weapon… but they however have master whom protect them
sadly in some country (mine for example) it is better if you dont carry and dont use them…
[quote]JokerFMJ wrote:
CEZAR wrote:
The hi-power, one of John Browning’s last designs, though he never finished it before he died. I believe the only reason it was chambered in a small caliber is because the goal was a hi capacity double stack magazine. Just think if he lived long enough to finish it on his own and then use that exprience to build a better 45…
Browning never actually designed this gun. He made The Grand Rendement, which was the predecessor to the Hi-Power. The Hi-Power was actually designed by Dieudonne Saive. (Not that i’m smart about guns or anything, I just happened to come across an article - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_2_50/ai_112128013 .)[/quote]
Good Article. Now that’s some detailed research. I never actually heard of the grand rendement, i guess folk lure has blurred it with the finished Hi-Power. At least the article mentioned most people think the Hi-Power was Browning’s last design. So I’m don’t feel like a total bum.
I used to shoot steel plates at a gun club up in Maine. I shot a 629 classic,the good ole’ 44 except I used a 44 spcl with 5.5 grains of Unique. As far as the bullet goes I cant remember if I used 200 or a 240 grain,anyway it was a great load and very accurate.Great times!!
I shoot pretty well with a Beretta M9, but I don’t like them. We had serious reliability issues when I was instructing at the Great Lakes RTC range, and we were constantly breaking them. Granted, we trained on average 58,000 recruits per year, but we would only have 10-15 pistols(out of around 100 total units) on the line at a time, rotating them every month or so, with each recruit only firing 15 rounds(changed to 20 about the time I left in 03). How’s that for quality training?
I don’t know exact numbers or statistics, but that’s a pretty high failure rate to me, considering the range opened in late 00 or early 01 and by late 02 we were already sending broken guns back to the depot.
LIke I said, give me a 1911 or variant anyday. And I personally like the grip safety.
