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You can live indefinitely on a diet of potatoes, cooked kale and whole milk. It is nutritionally complete and has sufficient calories.
Would you want to?
On many forums when someone is discussing an old design, like the 1911, there's always at least one person who will chime in that they only own MODERN designs and don't have a cabinet full of useless relics.
First off, Sunshine, in the course of owning my safe full of useless relics; your "modern" design isn't mechanically all that different from a 90 year old gun. The big change has been in materials. Related to the materials change is a trend to make them easier to manufacture. But they're still using the same tilt barrel short recoil action that Browning and Saive put into the Hi-Power. And that came from eliminating the link on the 1911!
Still.
Where did this idea that gun ownership must be brutal and utilitarian come from?
My thinking about the post about the 1911's and Glocks that have slipped through my fingers reminded me of clinging tenaciously to the minimum for home and self defense.
I was forced to be utilitarian because I had to be.
But these people talk like being anything but is shameful and I don't understand it.
I've long held it's OK to own a gun because it makes you happy even if it's a useless piece of shit.
My .25 ACP collection has no real utility; but I think they're fun.
It is OK to have fun!
I wonder if these are the same people who have every penny planned out in advance and eschew having fun in their earning years because they're going to be rich and able to do anything they want when they retire young.
I've met a few of these people living in Florida. You know what they do? The same thing as before without a job to keep them occupied. They don't know how to have fun so they sit in their well furnished, but sterile, McMansions and do... nothing. They're bored and unhappy and don't understand why I'm so cheerful being a poor.
I have a collection of top break revolvers, mostly in .32 S&W (also .32 S&W Long, .38 Colt, etc). They're generally probably about as useful for self defense as a .25 ACP.. OK, maybe the bigger ones maaaarginally better, but still, most people would consider them under achievers for the job.
ReplyDeleteSo what? What business is it of anyone to tell you, or I that whatever we have is somehow shameful?
Sometimes things are so BAD they're great in a way. Some people pride themselves on having the "best" semi auto handgun. Well, I own what is considered to be the WORST. The Japanese Type 94 Nambu. Not only is the 8mm Nambu cartridge not well respected (and unobtanium, basically hand-load only) but the design is not only considered bad even by pre-WWII Japanese standards (compared to the also not loved Type 14 Nambu) it is actually somewhat dangerous with an external sear bar that if pressed wrong can cause an accidental (or intentional) fire.
I also own a Jennings J22, which is much hated by a lot of people. Exceptionally cheap back in the day, and very particular about ammo. The manual recommends only CCI Stingers. And I've found they aren't kidding, it stovepipes a lot if you use anything else that isn't at least extremely similar (Remington Yellowjackets seem to work OK).
Basically sometimes even "bad" things have their own charm, even if sometimes it is mostly nostalgia.
-swj
It’s like this. We’re all different. I have large hands for my 6’1” height. Men’s dont have gloves sold by size but I wear a size 14EE shoe and my hands are proportionally large. I’ve owned a couple of1911s and they’re fine. I’ve owned (and maybe still do, I ain’t saying) 6 Glocks and no handgun feels as good in my hands as a full sized Glock. That fat grip some folks complain about was made for me. YMMV
ReplyDeleteFor a weak and outdated cartridge, the lowly and maligned .25ACP has a surprisingly high body count even when you factor out suicides. And then there's the numbers of people stopped but not killed by said .25ACP.
ReplyDeleteMay not be very useful against a drugged up determined zombie, but then again even the larger calibers are often not very useful against that type of target.
A couple of my guns are owned mainly for fun---my Chinese Broomhandle Mauser clone and my Krag-Jorgenson. I just wish I could lay hands on .30-40 ammunition (not to mention 7.62 NATO) as easily as I once could.
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