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What are your 'Rodney Dangerfield' guns, the ones that get no respect. We likely all have a few but we all likely also love them even if they get nothing but ridicule.
Often it seems like most of the things I like fall into that category. One such example is my Walther 'First Edition' #143 of 2000 PK380. True, the only thing unique about #143 of 2000 is the most likely silk screen "First Edition" billboard on the slide and true, everyone mocks the keyhole safety and the tool needed for takedown and the recoil spring guide rod that is a nightmare on reassembly and the paddle mag release and the little pointy ends on each side of the grip and being 8mm Kurz rather than a REAL 9mm and only 8 + 1 rounds and the list goes on.
But I like it. True, I did order a captive spring recoil/guide rod from Galloway but I never had the hard time reassembling the pistol that lots of folk complained about online. And true, I did round off those sharp pointy things one the grip. But it is relatively small, light, easy to rack, maybe the easiest magazines to thumb load I've encountered and pretty accurate. And remember, this was back in 2009 and at that time there just weren't many enjoyable 380 to shoot or rack that had magazines that were easy to load.
Granted the safety did work backwards and since there was no external slide lock you have to take the magazine out to release the slide from lock back and true, there is no decocker so you need to put the gun on safe and pull the trigger often with a live round in the chamber to lower the hammer. But at least there was a safety that did block the hammer from hitting the firing pin; if that is, you switched it to safe mode. But that was also true on my 80 series Berettas and all the earlier Berettas.
So what are your 'Rodney Dangerfield' guns?
Often it seems like most of the things I like fall into that category. One such example is my Walther 'First Edition' #143 of 2000 PK380. True, the only thing unique about #143 of 2000 is the most likely silk screen "First Edition" billboard on the slide and true, everyone mocks the keyhole safety and the tool needed for takedown and the recoil spring guide rod that is a nightmare on reassembly and the paddle mag release and the little pointy ends on each side of the grip and being 8mm Kurz rather than a REAL 9mm and only 8 + 1 rounds and the list goes on.
But I like it. True, I did order a captive spring recoil/guide rod from Galloway but I never had the hard time reassembling the pistol that lots of folk complained about online. And true, I did round off those sharp pointy things one the grip. But it is relatively small, light, easy to rack, maybe the easiest magazines to thumb load I've encountered and pretty accurate. And remember, this was back in 2009 and at that time there just weren't many enjoyable 380 to shoot or rack that had magazines that were easy to load.
Granted the safety did work backwards and since there was no external slide lock you have to take the magazine out to release the slide from lock back and true, there is no decocker so you need to put the gun on safe and pull the trigger often with a live round in the chamber to lower the hammer. But at least there was a safety that did block the hammer from hitting the firing pin; if that is, you switched it to safe mode. But that was also true on my 80 series Berettas and all the earlier Berettas.
So what are your 'Rodney Dangerfield' guns?
reviewers are given better incentives to promote manufacturers which aren't Beretta. Nothing would surprise me.
