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Liberty wrote:

flintknapper wrote:

Venus Pax wrote:I don't have a problem with an ugly gun. I have a problem with a gun that doesn't work properly and won't get me out of trouble.

No argument there!

Of course..my 1911 works properly, but its up to me get myself out of trouble.

I'm just "gigging" the Glock owners a little , I would never trade "looks" for reliability, and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

Seriously though, why would anyone care about a what something looks like when its going to spend its life pretty much concealed? It seems a lot of gun owners like their guns pretty. Nothing wrong with that, I just could never understand the idea of form over function.
On 1911's I only know what I've learned on this site, but it seems as though they are a expencive finicky design. The 1911 fans themselves have convinced me that they aren't for me. I'll take cheap and reliable any day... Pretty doesn't even factor in.

I guess its a "fault" of mine.

But basically.. its like my wife. She's 100% reliable, good hearted, etc, etc, but it doesn't hurt that she's good looking too.

I guess I'm saying, if I can have both (function and looks), then thats what I want. Speaking in gun terms of course.

Venus Pax wrote:I don't have a problem with an ugly gun. I have a problem with a gun that doesn't work properly and won't get me out of trouble.

No argument there!

Of course..my 1911 works properly, but its up to me get myself out of trouble.

I'm just "gigging" the Glock owners a little , I would never trade "looks" for reliability, and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

eagleeye wrote:Concerning the knife attacks- if there is a knife in the fight someone is going to bleed. I have been practicing martial arts for many years. I just hope to be able to stop the second or third strike.

I carry a Glock with one in the pipe and a trigger block.

I practice draws pushing it out as it leaves the holster.

Just hope I never have to find out if it works in a presure situation.

Longtooth do you use a trigger block on your Glocks?

He's gone one better, he uses a "purchase" block (He doesn't own one).

Seriously, LT and I both have great respect for the Glock and its capabilities. Its just that they're so dang ugly.

jbirds1210 wrote:

flintknapper wrote:+1

Under the best of circumstances, knife is hard to defend against. Even someone untrained (but committed) is likely to cut you. Take a person marginally trained, and you get what TX said " you're gonna get cut".

In an air conditioned dojo that was to say the least "secure" from any outside enemy with my friends there, I was relaxed, concentrating, and knew what was coming and the blade made contact on most every occasion. I know it is said to the point of being cliche, but I would MUCH rather have someone with a gun attacking me than I would with a knife. A person's hands are just so much faster than a human reaction to them.




I believe that the common misconception when people feel that their weapon can be racked is that the fight is going to have a warning and some distance that will supply time. From the little bit that I witnessed...a skilled person with a knife will close that distance before the threat is even known and erase any chance of someone offering resistance.

You learned well.........grasshopper!

TX Rancher wrote:

txinvestigator wrote:

Lots of dead people thought that. Seriously, I don't care who you are or how "tough" you think you are, you go one-on-one with a knife armed dude and your gonna get cut, badly. I have training in 3 martial arts, and hold a blackbelt in TKD and I won't go hand to knife unless I am otherwise unarmed and cannot run away.

Sounds like an intelligent attitude to me. After all, how do you know the guy with the knife isn’t well trained!

+1

Under the best of circumstances, knife is hard to defend against. Even someone untrained (but committed) is likely to cut you. Take a person marginally trained, and you get what TX said " you're gonna get cut".

Move it up a notch to "well trained", and basically you're gonna cut three ways: LONG, DEEP, and OFTEN.

Empty hands against knife (unless there is no escape) is foolish. Even if your opponent isn't very skilled, all he has to be is "lucky".. to slip that blade past you once.

ru934 wrote:hey hows it goin? i just wanted to mention something real quick, an see if im the only one that feels this way.....i am terrified of haveing whatever handgun i chose to carry on me, ''cocked an locked''. tried carrying this way with everything from a beetta m9 to a 1911, and it just doesnt feel right. brings a wierd feelin to me or somethin....not real sure why, becouse i know how safe ''most'' of these guns are, and i know how safe an cautious i am. just lookin to see what peoples point of views are on this. nothin anyone says can change my mind. way i look at it is i still have a whole lot better chance takein an extra second to rack tha slide then be without at all. again, not tryin to start any arguments! take it easy, rusty


PS: i feel 100% safe with a fully loaded revolver(an yes, ive allways been taught to leave it on an empty chanmber but....) . go figure.... all you have to do on it is simply pull the trigger an it goes bang! no safetys....hmmmm haha

An "extra second" is exactly what a many a dead person wishes he/she had back. IMO, every firearm carried for the purpose of self defense should be carried in a state of readiness (to the degree it was designed to do so).

A properly functioning 1911 is actually quite safe when carried C&L. It looks "ready" because it IS ready, well.... so is a revolver, or if you carry a striker/other fired pistol (Gloo...Gllllo...Glock, Kahr, XD, etc.), they too are ready, you simply can not see the mechanism. Following the same logic, they should give you the "willys" too.

Also, I hope you can rack that slide one handed. If you are attacked and lose the use of one arm/hand before you can get your weapon charged and into action.. then you'll be needing much more than an extra second to iron things out.

Don't be afraid to be "ready". If you carry, keep your weapon charged.

Plan for the worst case scenario, not the best, not the average, not the "odds are"..........scenario.

Take care.

Flint