The kind of gun nut I am
I am drawn to long guns. I love, of course, big doubles; I like hard thumping bolties. I like a few specific kinds of military rifles. Light and elegant side by sides. Slender rimfires, especially those Browning designs. Crowbar thick target rifles by the old makers. Engraved and elegant Schuetzens.
Oh, I have some handguns, and I like them- even a few nice ones, but handguns were never my first love. And so carry guns, for me, have been mostly whatever I pulled out of the gun cabinet. I looked at the little Walther PPK and clones because they fit my hand so nicely, but I think I’d feel heavily undergunned. 1911’s are great, and I have connections to get nice ones, but if I had a gun I spent as much on as my first five cars I’d feel bad about carrying it daily. I shot some glocks and they just don’t seem to fit my hands well. The Beretta 92 is just a monster. The Sigs are thick in the grip and while I can shoot them I find the controls to be in difficult positions for the shape of my hands. And all the guns I have seen and shot that I like a good deal are spendy as shit. So even if I had found something I really liked, I would spend a wad of cash and end up afraid to carry it.
I needed a sort of a volkswagon gun. Something cheap and cheerful, easy to shoot and easy to own, a decent caliber that fit my hand. And then Tam started testing the PPX.
I liked everything I saw about it. The use of some innovating materials and manufacturing to make it. The clever way things were done. I started to like it. I shot a box of ammo through a rental at a gunstore. And by this time tomorrow I will have one in my gunsafe.
It hits all the right spots. Cheap, good manufacturer, fits my hand, comes up nice, shoots well, and based on everything I see and read about it,. is surprisingly well made and well regarded by the majority of the people I know who have shot it. Tam’s reports haven’t hurt either.
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OOOOh.
I gotta try it sometime.
I am jealous.
It is looking good for the PPX. Might need to look into one and I like Smith and Wesson for some reason.
Course I probably should thin the herd some before I round up another member of the clan.
I guess a correction is in order. The PPX is a Walther design. Still, might have to check one out.
You’ve got the right criteria there, for a carry gun.
While I’d dearly love to own and run an Ed Brown 1911, I’d dearly hate to see +$3,000 disappear into some police evidence room, were it ever to be used for it’s intended purpose.
A +/- $400 GlockPPXM&P fits the bill quite nicely. Proven reliablility, parts & service readily available and no severe heartbreak if if spends the next three or four years tagged-out in some P.D. vault, with Officer Friendly’s unique mark scribed deep into the slide.
I think that’s one area that the gun magazines really fail their readers. If you use the damn thing, you’ll not see it again for *years*, if ever.
All while they shill the next $2,500 Nighthawk or $10,000 Cabot.
Oh well, advertisers gotta get their pound of flesh, too.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Congrats on the new addition.
Thanks. Based on the 50 rounds I put through the rental gun I think I’m going to like it very much.
If it works for you, it’s ALL good… :-)
Just so you know, GunUp has SW 5906 for 349. Old cop guns in 9mm. If you need a throw away piece.
Tam had an article a while back on the need for a blister packaged, generic, almost throw away pistol marked “GUN” on the side.
Because, yes, it will disappear into an evidence room, to possibly never be returned to you (oops, we lost/destroyed/who knows where your blaster went) so…I look at it as essentially like an insurance policy, and the Toter is the paid for up front “Deductible”.
That is what I like about the KelTec PF9. You can get them pretty cheap so you don’t mind so much when it gets lost. And it definitely works, just ask zimmerman.
As to the above, when it turns into ‘evidence’ cheap is good.