I'm impressed by the input here and how mature it is. Not to mention how spot on it is.
certainly, I'm old enough to descern what I should and shouldn't do one way or another.
The wisdom here settles me into a proper path though.
To clarify for everyone… I'm over fiddy now… haven't had to pick up a gun in 30 years. Swore back then I never would again…. So much for that. Times and things change.
Six years in the Navy. A member of two ships 'away team'. Security patrols on board and on base. Qualified as Expert with military 1911 1a 45 cal. Qualified on several FA weapons, carbines, M1, M14, Two shotguns, pump and semi auto. Shot competitively for a brief time while still on active duty. Briefly as well following my stint.
I had two occasions to pull and discharge my sidearm. Both times resulted in someone dying. Once more… I'm not looking forward to having to use this 345, or any other weapon against someone else…. Not at all.
Since the USN I've owned a few guns but never was an avid shooter. Every time it was for Self defense or a part of a job.
Guns in my opinion have always been viewed as tools. Nothing more. That said, I do have a deep respect for the tooling, engineering and esthetic of any well made gun. So yeah.. I'like 'em but I'm not deeply in love with them, so I'll not be a collector probably.
Now I have to aim with a LED attached light… daytime or night time. Pistol or shot gun. In daylight, I could use the shot gun without the light… I am pretty sure as I do at the range a bit now and then and there's scant little bright light in there.
So I'm unable today to clip twigs off branches at distances like I could years ago… but I'm simply aiming to place the first one… or two wher they need to be… I've never had to shoot more than two rounds to halt a threat.
Both guns are lit… the XPS and the 345 with 200 + lumen lights.
In gun smithing I'm less than an amateur. In shooting I'd say I'm not. The thing is 3 decades is a goodly amount of time and it's almost as if I'm learning things all over again…. And the 345 is my first semi auto pistol. All else were six shooters.
Hope that clears things up some and enables others to have a closer look into my world.
Snyd
Very cool thoughts… thanks for the input.
War Zone? Seems like it I suppose.
I've been on this corner off & on for 50 years or more. I'll probably wind up right here when it's time to go forever most likely…. But then one never knows what tomorrow has in store for them.
Agreed…. Moving on seems an adequate solution. Another could be eliminating the five or six hooligans that are the cause of the episodes I described earlier. To that end, it's cameras… not pistols & shotguns which are needed…. At least in my case.
When one has a lot on their plate somehow the obvious eludes them… er, me.
The notion I'll not feel or concern myself with the current trigger pull during some emergency ….. 'safety off' condition is EXACTLY correct. Agreed. Duh.
I'm just not with it folks. Sorry. I know this is true.
Actually neither I nor anyone else quite probably ever wants to have that experience, or again.
It sure is a sad statement that someone has to take such measures to try to protect themselves in today's world.
Thanks for the reality check and it's appreciated.
However… (I knew he was going to have a 'however' in there!). I probably will investigate it a tad more and see what the nuts and bolts of the spring exchange amounts to.
I did sit in front of the TV last night snapping off quite a few virtual rounds and feeling out the pull and break more intently.
It's really not bad as I continue to report.
It ain't the car that is the problem ordinarily, usually, it's the 'nut' behind the wheel…. Or in this case, the trigger.
In the interim… I'm locked into seeing about making this 345 uh, less well, less resistant.
Gunsby_Blazen
OK… OK… more DF'ing it is… more range time it is… actually dropping the hammer no this thing did concern me a lot. Hearing all the input on dry firing being a non issue settles that down for me. That's a load off.
Thank you
