I have carried at work the usual primary sidearms for years now: usually it is the 1911A1 but sometimes it's the GLOCK34.... and coming in last ".... because-I-hate-it-but-it's-issued-to-me-so-the-ammo-is-free-but-it-otherwise-sits-at-home"" the GLOCK22; plus some BUGS like a compact 9mm, and a Smiff and Western 442, and a Ruger LCR. I've always kept 'em all on my annual qualification record. Easy to carry and easy to shoot.
Soooo, today just for gitz and shiggles I re-qual'd with some rather unconventional LEO sidearms just to keep 'em on my card. I do this because (if for no other reason) I occasionally like wearing them at work just so cops who don't know me gawk at my sidearm thinking WTF????
And PLUS it's for cool-factor even if I am the only one in the room who knows.
If I was in a room of you guys this wouldn't be anywhere near as fun. Because you guys ROCK and know your schidt.
Among the "oddities" I did the stainless cocked-and-locked CZ-75B, and the GLOCK 29 (yep, a TEN MILLIMETER BABY), and an N-Frame 1976-vintage blued 4" Smiff and Western Model 28 Highway Patrolman with Hogue exotic wood grips.
Admittedly, I don't carry any of these three on patrol and the TEN MILLIMETER isn't really looked upon as appearing ODD to a glancing eye, but for admin days and training and court or other events I laugh like hell when I get "the stare" followed by "WTF is THAT YOU'RE CARRYING?" comments from cops who think they know guns.
"Ah Wha...? ~~~ A WHAT? A TEN??? They make those?"
"That gun is made in Czechoslovokia?"
"You'd carry a 37-year old revolver that holds six rounds when my G22 holds seventy billion?"
I'm not a gun snob but it is rather fun to carry some unconventional looking sidearms at work some times. The guns I mention are boring but it just throws people off which I find hysterical.
BUT The BEST part of today at the range was shooting the course with the Model 28 as fast as I could pull the trigger and HKS speed load the next six with real true .357-Magnum 158-gr ammo. All the other guys qualifying had already done their one annual qual with their one boring gun and packed it all in and left, so the instructor and I were left alone and he didn't have to be calling out lots of safety "ready on the firing line" crap. It was just him and me and we understood the course.
I just pulled the trigger as fast as I could get the front sight back on target and we went thru as fast as the stopwatch could reset as we moved closer in. I actually made the barrel too hot to hold by the time the last round was touched off! On a revolver!!!!!!
I LOVED IT!
Scored in the mid 90's, too!
:mrgreen:
Soooo, today just for gitz and shiggles I re-qual'd with some rather unconventional LEO sidearms just to keep 'em on my card. I do this because (if for no other reason) I occasionally like wearing them at work just so cops who don't know me gawk at my sidearm thinking WTF????
And PLUS it's for cool-factor even if I am the only one in the room who knows.
If I was in a room of you guys this wouldn't be anywhere near as fun. Because you guys ROCK and know your schidt.
Among the "oddities" I did the stainless cocked-and-locked CZ-75B, and the GLOCK 29 (yep, a TEN MILLIMETER BABY), and an N-Frame 1976-vintage blued 4" Smiff and Western Model 28 Highway Patrolman with Hogue exotic wood grips.
Admittedly, I don't carry any of these three on patrol and the TEN MILLIMETER isn't really looked upon as appearing ODD to a glancing eye, but for admin days and training and court or other events I laugh like hell when I get "the stare" followed by "WTF is THAT YOU'RE CARRYING?" comments from cops who think they know guns.
"Ah Wha...? ~~~ A WHAT? A TEN??? They make those?"
"That gun is made in Czechoslovokia?"
"You'd carry a 37-year old revolver that holds six rounds when my G22 holds seventy billion?"
I'm not a gun snob but it is rather fun to carry some unconventional looking sidearms at work some times. The guns I mention are boring but it just throws people off which I find hysterical.
BUT The BEST part of today at the range was shooting the course with the Model 28 as fast as I could pull the trigger and HKS speed load the next six with real true .357-Magnum 158-gr ammo. All the other guys qualifying had already done their one annual qual with their one boring gun and packed it all in and left, so the instructor and I were left alone and he didn't have to be calling out lots of safety "ready on the firing line" crap. It was just him and me and we understood the course.
I just pulled the trigger as fast as I could get the front sight back on target and we went thru as fast as the stopwatch could reset as we moved closer in. I actually made the barrel too hot to hold by the time the last round was touched off! On a revolver!!!!!!
I LOVED IT!
Scored in the mid 90's, too!
:mrgreen:
