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Academy had the Pt101-P on sale for $299 during the last week of April...again...fourth time on sale since Nov 2009. I bought one in December. It has digested everything I put through it; several hundred rounds, not one jam, EVER. I handload and also cast my own bullets. I got a recipe online for the lightest load that a 40 will reliably shoot; about half the max charge of PowerPistol for the same weight bullet...shot one hundred of these. They all shot reliably and grouped well. Same thing for a max load of PowerPistol behind the Sierra 135 gr JHP. No, it is not an SA XD(M), but it costs half as much.
BTW, a friend of mine was returning to Lafayette from a business trip to Houston around the first of February. He pulled off of I10 around Beaumont to get lunch at a Sonic...was getting back on I10 when two guys start fighting in an oilfield one-ton in the middle of the intersection. The driver bails because the passenger is stabbing him...passenger tackles driver and is ice picking him in the chest with a pocketknife at the far side of the intersection. My friend, who has never owned a handgun in his life, finds his only weapon is to hit the bad guy with his Sonic coke in the face...still stabbing the guy when a Sheriff's Deputy at the bank across the intersection runs over and draws his weapon...he stopped stabbing long enough to try to attack the deputy...one round through center of chest stopped the fight.
After it was over, my friend said he forgot he had pepper spray in his truck...right... I say my Taurus PT101-P beats a pocketknife, pepper spray, or a Sonic Coke any day.
Kajan...Lafayette, LA