Close quarter draw
is a vital technique, but it does assume that you let an assailant get within arm's reach of you. That should be nearly impossible in Condition Yellow. Mide''s drawstroke is a bit different than a classic Speed Rock. I like the Guard and circling technique.
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On another forum, the 9mm Boyz were giving this "Fudd" a bunch of crap because I prefer the 10x25mm. What produced <crickets> from them was a video by the respected "GarandThumb1" testing the 10mm. He was blown away by its terminal ballistics:
The 10mm really needs a 5" barrel (the Glock 29 was effectively reduced to a .40), so concealment can be an issue. I wear mine at 3 o'clock in a duty holster (sometimes IWB), underneath a vest or jacket.
In a suit, I'll IWB a slim single-column mag .40.
There are no "safe" neighborhoods. Perhaps
safer ones, but nothing is 100% safe.
A home invasion can be very sudden because the occupants are in Condition White (that's what being at home is all about). Although I have guns throughout the house, if I weren't wearing one it'd take me time to decide which gun to choose and then getting there. I'm at risk of not grabbing it in time. I certainly
always have a belt gun when I walk outside on my property.
Regarding calibers, a hot 9mm with great bullets will probably suffice. Don't lose any sleep over it.
I just prefer larger and more powerful rounds. Bad Guys are the ultimate dangerous game....
I love the 10 mm, and I agree with your assessment re. barrel length. I put a Lone Wolf 6" barrel on my Glock 20. This is my open carry outdoors pistol. Incredibly versatile with typical ammo, deadly on deer-size game, and bear stopper with 200 gr hard cast Underwood. Oh, minor detail: and 15+1 rounds on board...
For home defense, the one 'in my night stand' is a .45 Glock 21 with light/laser combo. Did we mention stopping power in this thread?
For carry, I thought I would like the .45 Glock 30, and I did, and still do, but I spent a fair number of years needing to work in suits, and it was just too big and too heavy. I tried the Glock 19, same story. The Glock 42 that is now my wife's purse-gun did not exist then.
Based on the fact that the gun you carry is better than the gun you do not carry, I settled on a .32 Seecamp in a wallet holster that you can wear from the board room in 3 piece suit to the beach in shorts and bare chest, without anyone ever knowing. Besides, the Seecamp was for the longest time the gold standard of cops backup gun, and the .32 Win Silver Tip had an enviable record (one-shot stop percentage 60% to 72%) in the street-shooting statistical studies compiled by Evan Marshall and Ed Sanowin. I know that I date myself saying that, but it used to be The Bible of deep concealed carry...
There is no arguing that a 9mm, a 10mm or a .45 etc. will be infinitely more effective, but again, when you will drop the jacket in the meeting and the only thing that can print is the wallet in your back pocket, the .32 beats hands down carrying nothing at all...
When nothing can print but a wallet in the back pocket: .32 Seecamp.
That also lines up well with
Altitude sickness perspective, although I am glad to admit I would rather not have to try...
You are better off, mumbling and acting like you’re overwhelmed as you slowly draw your pistol when telling him you’re getting your wallet.
Why the laptop with AH recent post in the backdrop? Because sometimes to follow Tanks example, "if there is no picture it does not exist" in a blogging world full of pretenders who have often never even touched guns they pretend to own
Hmmm, in IPSC and its US equivalent USPSA .40 and 9mm are in different categories for the most part. I shoot limited in .40S&W with a 2011. Also, scoring is different in that a hit in the A zone is 5 points for Limited shooters and 4 points for production gun shooters (9 mm).
Recoil is actually less than 9mm due to heavier gun. Here is a video from a while back.
Good moves, good rhythm, good reload, good shooting Tanks. You rock! As my son who is a combat instructor Staff Sergeant in the US Marine Corps recently told me: "pretty good for an old man"
(I am only a few short years behind you).
My own iron for IPSC was a .45 Les Baer. I still own it and shoot it, but I say "was" because I moved to rural Arizona, where there is no such things as IPSC, IDPA, USPSA club, convening or competition. The closest thing is in Phoenix, and I am not driving 3 hours each way for that.
There was a time, back East in Connecticut, when I shot so much that I ended up building a .22 trainer with a Colt Ace conversion kit. It is the one under the Les Baer in the pic. Same ergonomics, same controls, same weight, same trigger, fully reliable with 40 gr Thunderbolt, and yes, countless hours of practice and untold numbers of 5,000 rounds bricks did translate very well to the .45.
I also did a little bit of IDPA, initially with my old trusted Glock 17, for a while a Glock 17 L (resold to a friend who drooled over it during the period when the gun was impossible to find in the US), and later with a Glock 34, but that too ended with the move from CT to AZ.
Interestingly, now that club comp is impractical for me, my preferred pistol shooting these last couple years, has been going out with my two boys and letting them shoot the pistols they are dreaming to inherit: P08, P38, 1911 A1, C96, GP35, MAC 50, MAB PA15, etc.
Yep, since discovering the Austrian P80 (i.e. Glock 17) as a young army officer in the 1908's, when France still had the MAC50 and Germany still had the P1 (i.e. P38), I have been a Glock fan, but I still love the classics
Mine is a POS
u bet. I guess the client was too stunned to react. The second shot drops the ele, first hits but does not stop the charge.
