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| Plinker Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Jamestown, IN
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I too love Cigars and have a humidor full ready to smoke. I love Padron Annivesarios (maduro) and CAO's. I may have to light one up tonight. | |
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| Jerk in a Hawaiian shirt. So what about it? Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Lake County / West Creek
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DISCLAIMER: Any representation that I may have at some point in time (yesterday) been in the possession of a post embargo illegal Cuban cigar is explicitly denied.
__________________ Father John Corapi: "Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out!" Visit my Antique Snowcat, political, gun & general discussions (with this lawsuit) I'd like to think that I've been more successful at saving lives than Roe V Wade. -- Dick Anthony Heller, 3/18/08 on the steps of the SCOTUS after leaving the Heller v DC Gun Ban hearing. | |
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| East Side Knife & Gun Club ![]() Join Date: Aug 2008
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![]() Glocks are an overwhelming choice of armed professionals all around the world. There have been over 8,000,000 Glocks sold to date, many to LE agencies and military organizations across the globe. XD's? Uh...I think the Croation army uses them (cause they are built in Croatia). Also, if I remember correctly, XD won the "Bubba's Choice" award in a gun magazine a few years back. ![]() Seriously, if you need a bunch of switches and levers on a pistol to keep yourself from shooting your nads off, do yourself a favor and buy some pepper spray instead. People who are too lazy to develop the proper mindset for safe gun handling are accidents waiting to happen. If you really want an "improved" Glock, get a Smith & Wesson M&P. S&W had the foresight NOT to put a useless grip safety (which locks up the slide if not depressed = FAIL) on a tactical pistol. As a bonus, it's not made in a jerkwater unstable 3rd world country with limited parts availability. Call me when Springfield makes a pistol that can even BEGIN to compete with the awesome power/size/weight ratio of the Glock 23 or Glock 27. Their 26 ounce, 4.8 inch tall idea of a "subcompact" is laughable. Glock....accept no half-baked substitutes for the original. ![]()
__________________ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything - Wyatt Earp | |
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| Jeep XJ Owner & Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic Rider ![]() Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indianapolis, IN.
Posts: 1,683
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__________________ Springfield Armory XD.... Like a Glock, only better!!! ![]() "Seems like common sense just isn't all that common anymore" ![]() "I didn't help Obama get to the Whitehouse...... I voted for Palin!! " ![]() Hi-Point firearms... "Slandered by those who have never owned one... Loved by those who do" Don't believe the . Discover the truth: http://hipointtalk.com/ and: www.shootingtimes.com/handgun_reviews/hipoint_100605/ |
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| East Side Knife & Gun Club ![]() Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 198
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | A little. It would help even more if you didn't show up on every other thread discussing Glocks with your "XD's don't explode" and "XD's are safer" nonsense. Some people come to these boards to learn something about firearms. Back to the original discussion.....I agree that it's mighty hard to choose a pistol over my Glock 23 for concealed carry when I pop open my gun safe. Or a Glock 27 in summer clothes, which disappears under a t-shirt with a good IWB holster. Occasionally, I'll choose my M&P .45 fullsize under a sweatshirt, just because I LOVE that pistol so much. But tactically speaking, 14 rounds of .40 S&W certainly beats 8 or 9 rounds of .45 in a heavier, harder to conceal pistol, as long as you can shoot the .40 just as well. Handguns are not that far apart with regards to their ability to stop a threat with good shot placement, and I see little if anything that a .45 can do that a .40 can't do just as well. .40 has a VERY good record in actual police shootings, with the high velocity providing more consistent expansion and the middleweight bullets (155-165 grains) providing very good penetration.
__________________ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything - Wyatt Earp |
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![]() And when I want to slum a bit, there's nothing like a Padron 4000 maduro!
__________________ If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about? - Clint Smith | |
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| Jeep XJ Owner & Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic Rider ![]() Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indianapolis, IN.
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Of course the XP fits into this category and I was making sure that, number one... I was answering his questions and number two… he knew that there were choices other than the Glock. As far as you comment about some people come here to learn about firearms..... Somebody railing on about a brand that he is locked into carrying by his higher-ups is hardly an informed teacher. I have all types of firearms to choose from and I choose the XD. As far as you being against firearms that have safety devices, well.... that is troublesome to hear from "one of Indy's finest". If the OP decides to buy a Glock I'm sure he will be well served by it as long as he is careful with his ammo choices. I just hope he doesn't fall into buying what is trendy rather than examining what is available to him. There are many fine firearms out there and they don't all come from Austria. ![]() ![]()
__________________ Springfield Armory XD.... Like a Glock, only better!!! ![]() "Seems like common sense just isn't all that common anymore" ![]() "I didn't help Obama get to the Whitehouse...... I voted for Palin!! " ![]() Hi-Point firearms... "Slandered by those who have never owned one... Loved by those who do" Don't believe the . Discover the truth: http://hipointtalk.com/ and: www.shootingtimes.com/handgun_reviews/hipoint_100605/ Last edited by Crystalship1; 10-08-2008 at 15:47. | |
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| Plinker Join Date: May 2008 Location: Carmel, IN
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![]() | maybe that cop in florida or wherever it was that shot himself in the classroom a few years back should have had an xd he might have one less scar..xd9 3000rds +/- not one prob..
__________________ "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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| Not your average Joe ![]() Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indy
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I also get tired of the exploding Glock comments. I've seen pictures of almost every make and model of gun that blew up. Just like saying too many 10/22 are finicky with ammo, when you have millions more guns out there than other models, you will see more ugly ducklings. I haven't seen one that was proven to be something other than an unsafely high charged round. That will blow up any gun, polygonal or not. XDs will do the same thing.
__________________ Appleseed Rifleman - 228 - I know what I am about. Last edited by indyjoe; 10-08-2008 at 13:28. | |
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