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...
Thanks for the handgun bio and photos; with a battery of Glocks and 1911s you seem pretty well squared away,
Bravo Zulu.
The 6" G20 barrel is a great mod for your outdoors duty pistol; it reminds me to order one myself.
When I first started attending G*unsite in the early 90s, Glocks were quite new, and so was the .40. There was a lot of sneering at both, but I shot very well which helped tone down the rhetoric a bit. As much as I like the 1911A1, I don't think a 40oz 8rd .45ACP is still the epitome of handgun development. I own some I like a lot, but the 1911 is rarely my EDC except when I hang out with Cooperites.
I also have a .32ACP backup, as they are so unobtrusive. Your excellent Seecamp is a collector's item now, so others may have to resort to a Kel-Tec. A hot .32 load is not to be sneered at, and could be successfully used to fight your way back to a larger handgun, or an exit.
I’m shocked more beginners and instructors don’t use the conversion kits
Train with the same pistol but much cheaper
Good point. I've .22LR kits for Glock and 1911, and use them with students who seem to need a gentler ramping up to centerfire. That's not too often, but enough to justify owning them.
Well, I think it would add more than half a second for sure. When visualizing the course of fire one tries to do mag change on the move to reduce dead time but not always possible. So, we practice it a lot, the video below is one I had from a while back. Since then I have optimized it to cut down a couple of tenths of second.
Yes, skipping the
Tap/Tug step and using the slide lock as a release will save you a bit of time, but it forsakes the insurance of seated mag and a more reliable chambering (racking the slide with the added spring energy vs. merely letting it go from lock).
The USPSA
et al could have made such sound tactics
de rigueur in their runs, and shooters would thus not be practicing reloading mistakes.
I.e., to further comment on the God of Speed, why waste time doing press-checks when many handguns now have some sort of loaded chamber indicators?
BTW, this is how fast the pros do it.
Compensated long barrel with red dot, huge mag well, race mag pouches, etc.
This has little to do with tactical shooting, and I'm just not fascinated by such masturbatory performance art.
It impresses me about as much as hot-shit video gaming.
Most forms of competition morph into different versions of the original purpose.
Playing Polo horseback in Persia and the orient was originally a way for their Calvary to practice combat.
No one would argue that polo and real combat horseback are still 100% alike.
True, as far as it goes.
I maintain that it is risky to burn in 90%+ of one's practice on unrealistic gun gaming, and then expect to perform as well (well, not fast) on the street with concealed EDC.
I practice only with my EDC rig, and thus I've no competing muscle memory with race guns.
No skipping tactical steps, and no practicing mistakes.
This is plenty fast enough to prevail against a random lethal assailant, which is my goal.
I sometimes compete against other purely tactical guys with genuine duty equipment, and that's fun.
The circle and dot is wear he moved my reload to. It’s much faster closer to the body.
The rationale behind that is to shorten the distance travel of the loading hand.
However, the shooter must again "punch out" to firing isometrics, which takes a bit of time.
Thus, perhaps it's "a wash" in time, IDK. Whatever works better for you is your technique.
An empty reload or failure-to-fire drill can be accomplished fast enough while still standing in the middle of a fight.
A double-feed malfunction clearance (
Look-Lock-Drop, Rack-Rack-Rack, Tap/Tug-Rack-Bang) I have my students practice seeking cover or at least dropping to squat to reduce their target profile while being out of action for those 3+ seconds.
Though, I set off metal detectors at airports.
. I couldn’t pull that off without a trip to an ortho! Kudos. Stay flexible—stay young.I do not like your broad sword vs rapier analogy
