I finally got an HI

Welcome from yet another .45 shooter, and a proud ownder of a 21" GS. I love my GS, and noted like you that it is light in feel and nicely weighted.

My 45 is a Ruger P-90 DC, and I agree with munk "I've felt bad about Ruger not being allowed a little more time."
Ruger has taken .45 to a new levl, with all steel slide and barrel, and lighter alloy frame and handle. Makes those military Colt .45s feel cumbersome. Hardly any barrel rise when you shoot, very controllable.

Incidently, the .45 was originally adopted at the turn of the last century when the US Army entered the Phillipines. They were needing a sidearm with enough stopping power to put a man down before the soldier got hacked by their nasty blades. Seems those hardy local tribes were pretty pumped up.

Now everyone's talking about hi capacity 9mm (last decade or so)! If you need more than 4-7 shots, you'd better take it to the range for some practice, or you're in a war, and it is already too late!
 
I think everyone knows the Phillipine/45 story. Ruger made a big marketing mistake by not having a 10 round 45. Dean Grennell (sic?) was my favorite handloading writer. He was stuffing hot .45 acp's a long time ago, before the current craze and the slightly lengthened case with higher pressures today. He used the Ruger. "Hey," an associate asked, "are you sure you oughta do that? That's pretty hot. That is just a cast gun, you know."
"Yeah," said Dean, "But it's a Ruger casting."

munk
 
BTW; I don't believe there is any semi auto on earth with a substantial round that could make the military 1911 seem, 'cumbersome." Even the sig can't quite match John Browning's baby.

munk
 
I sure have kicked myself in the a$$ a bunch of time for getting rid of that thing. The trap door wasn't much for hot loads, but who needs them when you throw pumpkin balls. Just so you don't get the idea that the trap door couldn't bite. I hit the center portion of a Volkwagan brake drum and broke it out. I knew they hit hard but I wouldn't have beleived it if I hadn't seen it.:)
 
There isn't much doubt that he was quite a bit ahead of his time. Almost all of his designs are still in use, and many of them copied on the inside of weapons that are on the market. Like the locking system in the Smith Slide action 12 gauge, Mod 12 Winchester even the old Mod. 97.

No Browning is pretty hard to outclass even today.:)
 
No. The drum was hanging on a short piece of tree limb on the side of a Oak tree.:)
 
Originally posted by BruiseLeee
That doesn't sound half as exciting as what I was picturing. :D
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Me too... I was picturing Pappy and his trusty Trapdoor making a one-shot stop on a rampaging beetle. :cool:
 
Yeah, Detroit gangsters escaping after a job in a volkswagon beetle though the Florida cane fields.

munk
 
I pulled a trick a bit like that a few years back.
One of thoses big 45's went through a old green van that had been seen in the area of several house burglaries. They were checking out my neighbors place when I hollered at them. One of them said "F--- you" That is the last thing said before they left the area and have not been seen ever again. They must have been in the wrong or they would have went to the Sheriff. I never heard anything about it so, nothing to it:D :D :D
 
And me with my antique .38 -- but at least it's got a notch on the handle -- some Peoria gangster it took out.
 
And me with my antique .38 -- but at least it's got a notch on the handle -- some Peoria gangster it took out>>>

Sorry Bill, that was a squrriel. My father grew up on the farm in Kansas and so marked his 22 with dead squrriels subsequently eaten during the Great Depression.


munk
 
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