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The stuff I posted was nowhere near incoherent and if you can't understand it you either lack intelligence or are purposely misunderstanding.

While choosing a handgun based solely upon how it feels in your hand is certainly unwise, how it feels is still important. Perhaps you can understand the summary with no examples to confuse you.

Yes. Eliminating the unnecessary, pointless, rambling about imaginary old west scenarios with imaginary old west guns that may or may not have existed at the time of the imaginary scenario helped a great deal in clarifying your comment.

This has been my experience as well.

The interchangeable back straps make a big difference. The problem is most shooters (and instructors) don't swap them out and shoot drills under time to determine which truly fits them better. And if they do it's done in a rushed and unscientific manner that leaves most of the testing inconclusive.

But then again, a huge problem with most handgunners is they don't even use a timer to begin with. So they have on idea how well they are or aren't shooting when it comes to fit of a handgun to the shooter.

At the end of the day, you will see very little difference in score when a good shooter switches between multiple handguns on the same course of fire. A slower split here, a dropped round due to lack of familiarity there, but overall, a good shooter is going to shoot a pretty decent score with just about anything.

In short. How a gun "feels" is nonsense. In my experience.

In those comments I was isolating the performance of the gun independent of its reliability or capacity. My thoughts were completely on how the gun acted when it was fired.
-How accurate can I be when firing the gun in slow, deliberate fire?
-How do the sights track in recoil and how consistently do the sights return to the point of aim after recoil?
-Does the gun shift in my hand during recoil, changing any of the other things I was considering from shot to shot?

Yes.

But if it's something you're committed to and something you spend time researching and spending thousands of dollars on, you should probably prepare yourself to buy, swap, trade, and test until you find what is truly working best for you.

Or just learn to shoot well period and not worry about the nuances of it all.

Imaginary guns are guns that don't exist. Both of these models did/do exist. The reason they were used was that experienced gunners oft times comment on the difference in feel between them. IMO there is little difference between the feel of plastic guns anyway, so harder to differentiate. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused you. I'll try to dumb it down for you if I comment on one of your posts again.

Thank you. The 1911s fit all those parameters with me to a "tee". The only drawback is of course magazine capacity.

Don’t stop. You should talk more about them. It’s fascinating, and very relevant to the conversation at hand.

Okay. lol

When it gets down to it, you just created a thread about nothing, bound to end in nothing. How it "feels" is no more subjective than "how it shoots". Either can be completely subjective or loaded with objectivity depending on what is meant.

I used the old west guns because the difference is stark to people who are experienced with them. The black guns you favor and which this thread is limited to, I guess, have little objective differences between them and in a sense lend themselves very well to picking one on "how it feels".

Anybody who lays say, three guns out and tells for instance, a lady friend to just pick the one that feels best, when let's say, two of them are inferior to the other one in most other objective aspects, is indeed stupid. Why would anybody lay out two guns that are woefully inaccurate and unreliable and tell anybody to pick the one that felt the best? OTOH if you have three guns laid out that are all relatively equal in terms of accuracy, reliability and whatnot and then tell the person to pick the one that feels best to her, then what is the problem? Certainly it would be even better if you were at a gun store featuring a range where you could rent specimens of the same gun and see which she shoots the best.

Knowing a bit about women, it's certainly good in most cases to limit the array to guns that are viable in the first place and if she doesn't think it "feels" good, she is going to be a lot less likely to ever shoot it. If you can rent the gun and she shoots one of the ones that doesn't feel as good, better, then she might make that choice for herself and actually practice with it.

I don't think "feel" is as subjective as you're making it out to be.

Sorry also for introducing guns other than the extremely popular Walther into the equation for purposes of illustration and thus forcing you to come up with smartassed comments.

Good grief...

The whole danged point was that how things feel in the hand don’t always positively correlate to their actual performance when shooting (performance as defined to jorge).

Sometimes what doesn’t feel more gooder does shoot more gooder.

Wow. I learned something in this thread. All plastic guns are the same. SMH.

That was my point. NOTHING feels like a Luger in my hand, but there is no way I'd carry it as my defensive weapon. A 1911 on the other hand, accomplishes both for me, Make sense?

Yep

Ha! But, I agree.

So I just picked up a new Series 70...

Last I noticed there were at least 50,000 members on the Campfire. If any of them have ever posted about using more than 7 rounds in defensive use I missed it.

Forums and bulletin boards are places for enthusiasts to trade information and expound on their interests.
Big Stick, Bluedreaux, and many others post information here that is usually valid and correct. How much it applies to me in everyday life is open to question.

And I'm always gonna go with the pistol that feels and shoots good. If it results in my untimely demise then so be it. I'll take feel good to the grave...

You had my attention until you cited Stick as a cognoscenti of anything but FUGLY rifles with pirates, f a g g o t y colored stocks and cheap ass scopes...