Reading an article about the XM9 Pistol Trials, the S&W 459 seemed to beat the shit out of all the expensive FN, HK, and Colt pistols. Pretty good pistol, but it probably would not have been great as the M9; trigger's too heavy and the sights they would have been using are too delicate, which I reckon is a big part of why it came second in the post-trial evaluations

Allegedly the SIG beat them all, with the Beretta only being chosen based on its cheaper price tag.

I'm just going by what the article says. SIGs are neat, but the controls are basically a big "suck my Swiss dick!" to lefties because they're far back enough on the frame that you can't do the ol' "just use your damn index finger" trick. I personally, if I were in a situation in which I am issued a sidearm (never gonna happen, but hypothetically), would not feel comfortable with either the Beretta OR the SIG, but I'd be less uncomfortable with the SIG as long as the mags aren't garbage. I'm weird, though


The problem with the 459 is that it isn't really that good a fit for most people; you have to be used to it, and no way in hell is the average .mil folk that'd be issued it going to practice enough to get that proficiency and feel for it. I didn't shoot it for 6 months, and when I was finally able to I was all over the place with it just because I hadn't been able to keep practicing with it semi-regularly; imagine how bad people with no prior experience with pistols/firearms would do qualifying with it

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and kill Marquis de Sade before he began to write The 120 Days of Sodom.

That way, the world would be spared of the digesting horror that is Salo.

/k/ sure seems to like Evil Tim; every time we come up things he's done are mentioned in one way or another

I'm making chocolate chip cookies just because it's around christmas time.

And I just finished my Christmas list:

• Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XXIV
• Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Xbox One)
• Far Cry 4 Season Pass (for the X-Box One)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Movie)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (movie)
• Sabotage (movie).
• Beats Headphones
• Pokemon X
• Nintendo 3DS.
• Django Unchained (movie)

I'm drinking Rolling Rock and watching the original Red Dawn in my underpants.
#IhopeIdontdrunkenlydoubletapthetv
#Ladyfriendonbusinesstrip
#Sucess

I want this so bad.

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/collectib...stom_Affiliate

>buy it
>dig out old 1/6 scale GI Joes
>play like you are 10 years old again
>feel true happiness

You're forgetting a few key steps.

>Underpants
>???
>Profit!

Attack On Titan is already a cancer

What do you have against Attack on Titan?

It's cancer

How exactly is it a cancer?

Anime, not particularly good, "oh my god guise look how cool i am for watching muh superior nippon cartoon!" factor that gets attached to mass-appeal animes like Attack on Titan

Just sent in my application package for Army OCS. I've spent nearly a year getting it ready. Moment of truth!

Best of luck, man!

Sold my 6906, a SIG-Hammerli Trailside, and a Beretta A391 Xtrema 3.5" for tuition money, am going back to school now that I am relatively "better"

Instead of a recommendation by the board to attend OCS, I received another shafting by bureaucratic ineptitude. :mad:

Oh, well. There's always next month, and I have plenty to do in the meantime.

You were either too competent or not competent enough









(it's that last one)

Oh, I didn't get rejected. What happened is that my recruiter failed to pull my medical documentation from the Military Entrance Processing Station in time to get my packet sent up to Battalion for review. So I have to wait for the next board while they get their act together.

That really sucks, guy should have done his job

Agreed, but I've been working with this station long enough to know how overworked they are. Plus, in all fairness to them, I have spent a very long time putting together my OCS packet. I first started thinking about joining the Army in the fall of 2013, and it's taken me until now to be ready for the board.

But I was a little annoyed that they hadn't pulled my medical paperwork a long time ago when they knew I wanted to make January's board.

Speaking of the military, reading the chest bumping and suggestions of posters on another forum concerning what the Army's next hand gun should be is a type of self flagellation that normally you have to pay a tall woman in leather for.

A thought just occurred to me: who would win in a fight? John Wick or Vincent from Collateral?

Paul Kersey

amen. Well said.

Goddamnit, S&WShooter, quit making up your own answers!

Yep, I just carried a Beretta in some not nice places. You know, used it a handful of times, hell, even got a green hornet one time for using it to drop a bad guy, but I don't realize how unimportant the pistol is, and how, really, I don't know what's best for the U.S. Soldier.

The 92FS isn't an inherently bad gun, I personally think the main issue is that the issued 9mm FMJ ball just sucks. I love .45 as much as the next flag-waving American, but beefing up the M9 and switching to +p ammunition would likely resolve the stopping power complaints.

ur mum, fgt : DDDDDDD

The only solution is to give everyone a Coonan, because ol' durka durka can get rekt

http://www.coonaninc.com/coonan-wp/w...ball-photo.jpg

In a perfect world, we could purchase our own sidearms like the English allowed their officers to do.

I'd by my ass a M-45 in a heartbeat.

Glock brand Glocks and Deagle brand Deagles errywhere, man.

Speaking of sidearms, cousin was a very heavily and specifically trained Navy Corpsman, and when they went to issue him a sidearm, they had 0 operable M9s; they figured he was fairly responsible, so they gave him a Kimber something or other they had laying around :confused: . He ended up buying the closest thing he could get to it when he had the chance, still has it. Also, my uncle lucked out during the Vietnam war and was assigned to a VIP babysitting position on a USMC base over in California, and they issued him 2 1911's; a very nice Royal Blue Colt Government 1911 for show, and a rattletrap M1911A1 to be kept in a shoulder holster. He was specifically told to never, ever do anything with or attempt to take apart the nicer one under any circumstances

In Vietnam, Pop carried a Model 15 in a shoulder holster that was locally made in Thailand and a -1911A1 in the standard black leather "US" holster, but we wore slung in front of him as an impromptu groin protector.

"MURDERCOCK!" Mack's Pop shouted at the Vietcong, as he whipped out his 1911 and blasted them all in the genitals

Women can no longer complain about how they know the best feeling in the world.

Women say the best feeling in the world is taking their bra off after a long day.

I'm throwing a flag.

You know what the best feeling in the world is?

Taking your body armor off after 12 hours.

Yes indeed. I'm particularly fond of that feeling in August when the temps are over 100 degrees all day. During heat waves I go through a uniform a day. I don't know how those guys down in Texas or Alabama or Phoenix do it. Whew.:eek: