Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire This is why I carry a gun I can fight with.

I am smart enough to not take my Smurf Glock into a training environment where sim guns may be present, so it is a total non issue.

Live guns of any type should not be present in a sim gun training area anyways, and if someone is not smart enough to recognize the difference between a real Glock and a Simunitions Glock, then they are really too stupid to be handling guns anyways. Of course there seems to be plenty of them around, and they get hired as the standards continue to be lowered.

None of this is my concern though, as I have done my time, and as I have stated previously I have zero desire to teach any manner of firearms training these days. I first started teaching gun stuff in 1994. I am completely done with it.

I don't own one. But I think a pistol chambered in .357 SIG would be a much above average fighting pistol. It pretty much duplicates the ballistics of the .357 Magnum in a short, fat, bottlenecked cartridge--so it has enough power and would be very flat shooting. Also, the bottle neck design would help insure that it fed reliably.

The slower propellants it uses would probably see it gain a substantial bit of velocity in 16" barreled carbines.

The Smith & Wesson FPC chambered in .357 SIG would be a good multi purpose carbine.

I believe they are Dawson Precision sights.

As long as you can get fast and accurate hits with your P365, that is what matters. It is less about the delivery platform and more about your ability to perform with it.

There seems to be a misconception that one must specifically have a high capacity, optically sighted, generally full sized duty pistol to be considered fully capable.

That is missing the point.

It is more about figuring out the balance point for you personally and what fits. What YOU perform very well with, and at what point in terms of pistol size and capacity do things start to degrade.

Hand size and body type are factors, as is familiarity with the various handguns. I know one person who has some issues with his hands that simply does much better shooting DA revolvers than he ever will with any type of auto, so a 4" K Frame .357 Mag is a very good choice for him. Plus he has been shooting DA revolvers for more than 50 years, so he operates them at a level of unconscious competence.

Today I am wearing a 9mm Glock 34, with iron sights. No red dot. Plus a spare mag. I have zero issue with switching between an RDO equipped gun and irons, as I have shot enough of both it does not seem to matter.



So with 17+1 in the gun and a 24 rd spare, all carried comfortably in an IWB rig that works for any standard frame Glock 9mm/40, I feel fairly comfortable with my ability to perform under pressure with what I have on hand. Oh, and my "Giant" Mouse-Lite pocket knife for such chores as opening boxes.

Good one!

I like mine...

I put together a long slide 357 Sig upper for my Glock 22. It's a great shooter.

The Underwood 65gr XD make 2250 fps from the 6" KKM barrel. PPU 140gr FMJ=FP make 1430 fps.

That's very slick.

another great thing about the 357 Sig that is often overlooked they feed flawlessly in my experience one of the bigger reasons is you're shoving a 9 mm bullet into a 40 caliber hole to start with and once it started in the chamber it's easy peasy..
though most good quality handguns today feed reliably no matter the case. but a little extra assurance and room never hurts.

I picked up the stripped slide on EBay, then got the sights and slide parts kit from Midway, and the barrel from KKM.

I've always thought that a compact, autoloading carbine in .357 Magnum would be a good tool. But feeding rimmed cartridges through an auto loading action is undoubtedly a good trick. But it wouldn't be any trick at all to produce an autoloading carbine chambered for .357 SIG.

I have Dawson on my Glock 17. I like the fiber front and black rear. I'm not a fan of dots on rear sights.

LOL,

Thats funny dude.

Yep, I run a few fiber optic fronts with plain black rear sights. Makes for an uncluttered and fast picture.

The G34 I am wearing right now is like that.

Can't get both the front and rear in focus, but it is simply a green front F.O. sight and black rear.




The G34 is an extremely easy gun to shoot well with. Much like Montana Marine's Glock shown above, guns with that longer sight radius are very easy to shoot when using iron sights.

When I was doing some protection work stateside I ended up using a G34 purely for that reason. I was using iron sights and I told the guys who worked for me that when/if we needed to shoot, it would most likely be in an environment where there would be a numerous other innocent people around, so we all need to shoot extremely precisely. The point was not to shoot a lot, but to shoot well. Bearing that in mind, we did a bunch of drills that focused on precise application of our shots in less than ideal circumstances. Plus lots of "dot" drills. Pure precision work. If possible, taking a 1/2 or 3/4 second longer and getting a very solid sight picture and getting a good CNS hit and stopping crisis before it turned into a bunch of bullets flying everywhere was a goal. There of course is a balance between speed and precision, but a lot of time spent on precise shooting never really hurts.

One individual I used to run around with years ago was a big name in the competition shooting world. He won a bunch of national titles and other awards. He put it in perspective, when he said that you needed to be precise, but go faster and faster until you screw up, then find where your "No miss pace" is. Once you establish your no miss pace, keep pushing and working to get better from there. But when you really need to perform, stay just within the bounds of your no miss pace.

34's rule.

They're even more amazinger with a Glock Performance Trigger:

What's a 34 now?

I thought 17's were the one to get?

Long slide??

I think that's right.

I have been thinking about a 9mm for a while.

I have an XD 45....so I was thinking about getting a nine.


All the cops around here carry M&P 9's.


I suppose a 17 or 34would be the most recommended on the 'Fire.