I need a new handgun...lets talk guns today. :D

My bad. You mentioned 1911 and I went off on a rant.

I don’t like the narrow grip on 1911’s. The issue isn’t the mainspring housing, that is fine. My “issue” is with “filling the gap” on the sides.

Where you typically get callouses from gripping a hammer, baseball bat, etc...that area.

The front-to-back area is fine. It’s that side area that is too narrow for me. That is why I like the Sigs and their “fat” round grips.

So if I was to change anything, it would be the side plates. If I put on some thicker side plates, it would probably be fine. But I haven’t bothered because the gun is shittastic.

 

When did you submit?

 

Dec 29th.

 

I'm not a big guy, 5'11"/170, and I had some control issues with my 1911 trying to get a good hold. It fit, but it seemed "loose". Thinking I could tighten my grip by shortening the front-to-back length of the side panels, I installed a flat mainspring housing. That wasn't doing what I thought it would so I threw on some UncleMike's rubber finger grips, I think they came with rubber side panels, too...can't remember, they've been on forever now. Anyway, that worked so well that I went back to an arched mainspring housing and now it's perfect. Based on what you said about the side thickness, I think that may have been my issue as well but it seems my solution was to lengthen the side of the grip while making the side panels more tacky. It's so good and secure, I swear it couldn't be pried out of my hand even after I'm dead.

 

Got the psa upper and changed the barrel to a ballistic advantage 12.5 so I could use my Surefire suppressor. Took me 11 minutes to do the barrel change and everything seems good to go. Only thing is the upper magwell lines don’t match up with the lower exactly but it’s just cosmetic

 

If you ever start shooting the 1911 a lot more, try a set of Lok palm swell grips. I have medium hands but had the same issue with a CZ I was shooting in comps. I wanted as much hand contact as possible. The Lok Bogies palm swell are a pretty aggressive texture and fixed that issue right up for me.

 

@Gorilla George I have the K2 full size and dig it. Ive never held the subcompact version but cant be bad. Only bad part is there arent any parts to upgrade but ive heard some cz aftermarket parts will fit.

https://www.sarsilmaz.com/en/catalog/product/K2-45/13/62

 

I like the looks and specs of that.

Im going to the range again today, but im going to stop by a larger gun store on the way. The indoor range i go to is part of a gun store, but there is a larger gun store with a wider selection on the way. If anyone carries CZ, they will.

 

So I need to set up a gun trust with my nephew to transfer some special items to him if something should happen to me. Is it worth paying someone to do it for $750.00 or just do it online for about $100.00. I normally leave the important stuff to professionals and my gut tells me this is one of those things. Any gotchas that I should know about before setting this up? I know there was a discussion before on the beeb but I can't find it, apparently I have weak google foo.

 

what state are you in? ive been meaning to do one also and someone passed info to a lawyer to do this in Ga. If im not mistaken its only $100 thru him but i could be wrong

 

You can pass these things as property in a will, unless they are Class III (NFA) items.
That being said, if you PM me your email, I'll send you a copy of the NFA trust and you can modify it for your use.
I have multiple NFA items in my trust, so I know it's valid from a legal standpoint.

 

yeah 750 for a trust is too much. I used a legit lawyer in town who specializes in them back before all the online trusts were available and it was maybe $200

 

Well they didn’t have a CZ-10, that’s the one I wanted to check out.

He said they should have one next week, but I was already here, so I grabbed the H&K VP-9 (full size) since it matches the SK I got last week.

 

How long till Broome goes ballistic for his background coming back on hold?

 

I never buy more than 5 in a 30-day period. Which means this VP9 is the last one I’ll buy for a few weeks. But that’s fine because I get my spine rebuilt Friday.

 

You may also want to look at the CZ-75. It has a .22lr upper which would allow you to have cheap trigger time.
Pistol Series: https://cz-usa.com/product-category/handguns/75-full-size-series/
Kadet Upper: https://cz-usa.com/product/cz-75-kadet-adapter-ii-22-lr-adj-sights-10-rd-mags-will-fit-omega-system/

The Shadow2 is one of the best out of the box guns I've ever fired.

 

is 5 a month like the dont put more than $10k in a bank or red flags fly??

 

Why do you diddle around...you need a Gatling Gun...made from the guts of 2 Ruger 10/22 rifles and a trick kit. Burns cheap ammo.

 

with the volume of background checks going on now, expect to get held up for no apparent reason. 2 of 3 purchases of mine got held in the last 4 months (the first time being two .22's and my first gun purchase in 20+ years)

 

It's like you don't know Broome at all...
not tacticool
no buttons
looks old
cheap ammo?? what's that?