Recent content by AustinTX

Being late isn’t going to stop me from buying one if it’s better (for me) than the other options. And the extra cost with HK also pays for more thorough R&D and better QC relative to just about every other mass-production firearms manufacturer these days. Unlike virtually every new design SIG...

Take my money…someday.

The Beretta’s safety does better than that.

Sorry, no love here for that type of garbage.

I mostly hate the cases and boxes, regardless of how nice they are. But, being a collector, I’m condemned to reserving space for many dozens of the cursed things.

I'm not really a fan of racking the slide with the safety engaged. Done at speed, the slamming of the exposed decocking cam on the right-side safety/decocker lever (with the weight of the slide behind it) into the hammer release lever is just putting unnecessary stress on small parts, IMO.

For some, yeah. He’s referring to his two specific Kahrs, not to every Kahr. My P380 made it through about 150 rounds before it started having every problem under the sun, and four return trips to the factory for warranty service failed to restore the gun to proper working condition.

Or, more appropriately, Walther-style.

A Kahr(ap) P380. Absolute nightmare of a pistol. My ownership of it would be a past-tense thing, but I can’t sell the piece of junk to anyone in good conscience. I sent the guns I was referring to earlier down the road a while ago.

Wonder if it will still come with the worst magazines in the world.

Nope. Went through my brief phase of buying some Combloc and other cheap oddball handguns a number of years ago. The charm wore off very quickly.

There’s really no point in starting this conversation until you have (1) properly cleaned and lubed the gun, (2) shot it with decent factory ammo, and (3) nonetheless continued to experience malfunctions.

Almost every major pistol manufacturer did. Just not Glock (until Gen5).

PX4 mags can be tough to load when new, but that sounds a bit extreme. Do you have an UpLula?

It doesn't actually matter. We're not talking about felt recoil. Recoil force and recoil energy are matters of simple Newtonian physics. For a given bullet weight and velocity, the structure of the recoiling system (semi-auto, revolver, test barrel mounted in a fixture bolted to a concrete slab)...