Trip to the lgs today
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Yep I ended up walking away. I have to stop going to these stores. Just gotta make it to may
Its mostly antelope species (impala, kudu, blesbok, hartebeest) and wildebeests but my number 1 is a Zebra
You will eat very little of what you shoot in Africa. Maybe some of the tenderloin. The rest goes to the locals. You take home ( after taxidermy and customs several months later) the skin and mount
My brother in law is a pastor and they do missions work in Africa. Once when he was there they saw some animal and he mentioned he shoulda brought his rifle.
The local church guy connected him with an American who guides there and he killed a couple animals.
He’s hunted several times there, usually at the end of a mission trip.
My favorite story is about him calling in a zebra with a Bluetooth speaker and the IHunt750 app on his IPhone. Called it in and popped it. Hilarious.
Has the hide hanging on his wall.
The local church guy connected him with an American who guides there and he killed a couple animals.
He’s hunted several times there, usually at the end of a mission trip.
My favorite story is about him calling in a zebra with a Bluetooth speaker and the IHunt750 app on his IPhone. Called it in and popped it. Hilarious.
Has the hide hanging on his wall.
Ranked...
#1 - Beretta 92X Performance
#2 - DW
#3 - M&P Metal
#4 - a gun not on your list - the FN Hi Power in its new iteration, then send it off to MK3 Firearms for some love and slick up the trigger.
I was jazzed for the metal M&P - they feel great in hand, but after all the shooting videos out there on them are basically saying "don't waste your money" - it really seems that one should just get a Performance Center M&P poly frame and throw whatever bolt on shit you want onto it, and still come out ahead cash wise.
A Shadow Systems War Poet is on my short list of guns to buy. LGS in Magnolia has one for $1100 - comes with the Chinesium-but-good Holosun 507CX2 already installed. It fixes all the shit the Gen 3 and earlier Glocks had wrong with them ergonomically.
#1 - Beretta 92X Performance
#2 - DW
#3 - M&P Metal
#4 - a gun not on your list - the FN Hi Power in its new iteration, then send it off to MK3 Firearms for some love and slick up the trigger.
I was jazzed for the metal M&P - they feel great in hand, but after all the shooting videos out there on them are basically saying "don't waste your money" - it really seems that one should just get a Performance Center M&P poly frame and throw whatever bolt on shit you want onto it, and still come out ahead cash wise.
A Shadow Systems War Poet is on my short list of guns to buy. LGS in Magnolia has one for $1100 - comes with the Chinesium-but-good Holosun 507CX2 already installed. It fixes all the shit the Gen 3 and earlier Glocks had wrong with them ergonomically.
Metal m&p criticism online is for the competitor or just the metal m&p?? I wouldnt buy just the metal m&p as I dont think its worth the money but the competitor seemed worth it
#4 Id rather buy a gun out of the box that has what I need but id love a hi power as long as its not made by springfield. DW is on my list for this reason. Right out of the box it seems like you are getting a custom pistol level of quality for a decent price
In regards to the war poet, does the trigger feel like a stock glock trigger? Im looking to get away from the staple gun trigger
Im a trigger snob for rifles so I may as well be one for pistols too. If shadow systems have a decent trigger then I will definitely take a look
I will always have a place in my heart for the 92. I loved my M9 in the usmc. Its the first pistol I ever shot
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Zebra makes a nice rug or throw.
All the problems with glock were fixed by M&P
RE Shadow Systems trigger - its better than a Glock by far, but is not PDP level good. The ergonomics otherwise are outstanding - more of a 1911 like grip angle (like the M&P has) - the Mag release is better, the frame texture is very good with index points for thumbs / trigger finger to ride the side of the frame. The War Poet version has a bunch of fancy milling and shit on the slide - you know, so you can rack you gun off of a coffee table using the top of the slide (versus the optic that'd be way too easy to use?) that also lightens the slide a bit. Also comes with a magwell installed, threaded barrel with thread protector, and good AmeriGlo (looked like it anyway) sights right from jump.
The criticism I've seen of the Metal guns has been for all - the Competitor, the standard Metal - everyone loves the stock trigger except the most snobbish - but they all say they feel no difference in recoil impulse or shootability for the money. I'd say rent one before you plunk down $900 on a gun that may or may not be any better of a shooter than a Performance Center gun, or a base model gun with an Apex trigger.
The Beretta's only downfall comes from IF you were to use it as a serious working gun, versus range toy. Tactical crowd has fallen out of love with the Beretta. So much so that Safariland refuses to support the RDO model guns or light equipped guns. There are no current-model versions that support a Beretta with a weapon light or red dot sight. If Safariland won't make a holster - none of the other major duty gear makers will. The best you can get is US Duty Gear, which is similar but different. They don't have the "chip deflector" technology of the Safariland RDS holsters, so cookie crumbs, dorritos, lint, and crackhead juices will get all up on your lense
I got my 92X because I love how the 92 shoots, and wanted a more modern working gun that I could throw the cool-buy bullshit on. I should've just bought a damn Glock or M&P - literally if you aren't running a Glock, M&P, Sig, or a Staccato, Safariland says you suck and they hate you now - like HK.Gun hipsters need to move out of the 2011 / 1911 Gucci gun phase and get back into hammer fired, metal frame double action pistols again so the holster boys will give us duty gear for them again. Right now I don't *need* a weapon light - as my armed job is during the daytime, and I am old enough to have been trained on using a hand held light with a gun. For what I'm doing though - I really do wish I had a red dot on the gun - I'm *the* security program for my son's school now, after the killing in Tennessee they decided they need security.
IF I have to shoot someone trying to kill kids - the precision advantage from a dot would be nice.At least the 92X has a high viz orange front dot and serrated rear black sight - its as good as it gets with irons. Not that the state qualification is all that challenging, but I only dropped 4 points from a perfect score by throwing a couple of the 15 yard shots in double action into the C-zone of the target. Had they been fired single action, I probably would've gotten a "perfect" score.
