Rob999, good advice, thanks. The only problem I have is that the only range ANYWHERE near me that rents guns is A) 90 minutes away and B) won't let me rent guns when I go in alone. I haven't been able to convince anyone to go with me...... anyone in Oregon want to go up to the CCC PSTC with me?
okie, I don't currently own a gun. I'm really wishing I did, because then this wouldn't even be an issue.
So, I went and did a run around to the shops today and asked for advice from the shop owners (all the shops around here are small and staffed by their owners, who seem to be a pretty good bunch). One guy showed me a Smith 468? Something like that. Older, wooden grips, 9mm... nice looking and pointing gun, but with the comments people have said about Smith's, I'm sorta wary now. He also showed me a EAA Witness, which he told me was a CZ-75 clone. Is that true? It felt nice in my hand, but pointed way high for me.
The other shop was a different story. He seemed to believe that looking at a 9mm to lower the cost of ammo was ... shall we say, misplaced? He tells me that the local guys who shoot competitively usually just come in and buy boxes of Blazer, where there is only a $3 difference between 9mm and .45acp.
Normally, I would discount this as a sales pitch and move on to a different shop (this made the 3rd semi-bad experience at that shop). But then, he pulled something out of his case to show me. It was this gun with a really sexy dark grey matte finish and the words "Kimber Custom II" on the side. It felt right. It looks right. Everyone says it shoots right. The only problem is, it destroys my budget. Just the gun itself (with its *1* 7-rd mag) breaks my budget by about 60 bucks.
I'm trying SOOOOO hard to resist... I told myself I'd only spend $500 for the whole package... now I want to buy just a gun(!!) for more than that... not to mention the cost of getting enough mags to be able to complete a 50-60 round COF... jeeeeeeeez.
Should I save my pennies? I really wanted the lower ammo cost, but $3/box doesn't seem so bad... I'm still fairly new and ignorant as to the market and what guns are good guns and the game in general, so I apologize for all the questions.
Thanks a lot,
vb