Boomstick's and shooty shooty bang bang's - The GUN Thread!
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Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Anyone here have experience with the Sig 365 and the Hellcat?
Looking at both models with optics package.
Sig P365X RXZ Elite
The Sig Sauer P365X RXZE is now available for here at Proven Arms & Oufitters at the best pricing available.www.provenoutfitters.com
Or
Hell at with the HEX Wasp, maybe RDP.
Springfield Hellcat OSP's
Springfield Hellcat OSP's # - Springfield HELLCAT OSP-IOP
Any experience with holsters both like and dislike?
Thanks for any input.
I'm a bit late to the party here, but PrinCZess had some good observations. My EDC is a 365, but I may be looking to get a Hellcat in the near future.
In regards to grip and handling, Hellcat is fine, but for some reason I just like the 365 more. Feels just a bit more natural, like a glove and I can easily rest my pinky with the extension. Also, mind you I have big hands, so the grip of the Hellcat was a tad short for me when it came out, but they've come out with aftermarket extensions and extended mags for it already since. It's just at the time they already had grip extensions and other aftermarket options for the 365, part of reason I bought it. But with that, it just handles natural and shoots like a breeze.
The sights on the 365 are fine, mine have tritium so it's better for shooting in low lit environs, but I like the Hellcat sights better with the rear U-notch. Then again, maybe not as important if you're planning to get one with a cutout for an optic mounting, but be sure to practice drill with the iron sights regardless.
Of course, Hellcat and 365 are both striker fired, and not everyone likes those, I have several hammer and striker fired pistols and I see the pros and cons of both. The trigger on the Hellcat has an obvious mechanical safety, like the Glock. The 365, on the other hand, has no visible safeties at all, they are ALL internal, so keep that in mind. Always practice proper safety with any firearm, obviously, but definitely so with the 365, as it is a true "once cocked, ready to rock" type of handgun.
And of course, there's always other options.
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
I will back up what Grognard said. STAY THE HELL CLEAR OF JERSEY AND NY in regards to anything involving firearms. I had the misfortune of getting stuck in NJ for a year, so I can verify how much it sucks.
DarthOne
☦️
Noted; turns out I didn’t have to go to NJ after all.
bintananth
behind a desk
bintananth
behind a desk
I'm pretty sure it's the "invisible not me" because I ain't driving 700 miles to post bail.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
I lack bail money, but I do have the good advice dear old daddy gave me:
To make sure you never need bail money,
stephen the barbarian
Well-known member
Cabela's Canada has issued a recall for 7.62*39 ammo, because it's armor piecing incendiary.
How the fuck do you screw up shipping ammo so bad you send API to Cabella's?
stephen the barbarian
Well-known member
you're working for Norinco, and all you care about is filling order any way you can.
so what if the ball ammo is running a bit low, just toss in whatever.
bintananth
behind a desk
No, that's why you have a reliable and trustworthy source who will fill out the order to spec or say "we can't fill the order to spec" instead of a shady one who'll go "fuck it, that's close enough and hopefully the customer doesn't notice the difference."And that's why you pay cash.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
Mentioned earlier that Springfield Armory was making a Hi Power clone, and I was extremely interested. So prinCZess spent November and December on mailing lists from online sellers for one of the things, and regularly peeking-in at new arrivals in the pistol case at a handful of local FFLs looking for one to pick up as a Christmas present to herself. That desire was knocked a little bit when there were some criticisms of the thing's reliability from the internet gun-sphere, but since a majority of the reason I wanted the thing was sentimental value it'd have and function was a pretty distant third behind appearance (that I knew would have to be tinkered with anyways), I wasn't overly-concerned about that and was all set on buying one.
PrinCZess was not set on buying one for ~$400 more than the $700 MSRP, which was the only one she saw out-and-about on the net in stock. The whole attraction of the thing was the price supposed-to-be being closer to a normal handgun. So Christmas came and went with yours truly no closer to having SA's retinkering of Browning's last work. But an after-Christmas swing-by to a gun store presented me with an alternative possibility. One that was a bit more...original. A surplus Mark-III.
What frabjous timing, right?
But, not exactly what I wanted, secondhand surplus and used so with a few imperfections, and, as even rough Hi Powers have become, pretty pricey. Not quite as much as the silliness that one of the SA clones was getting put at by grifters/supply-shortage-takers-advantagers, but still more than I'd planned to drop on a handgun for basically just the sentimental reason of the dad having one that got sold. So I spend the last few days of 2021 and some of the first on-and-off arguing with myself over dropping money on the thing. Until I look up the serial number to get a production date and...God's sense of humor or something...gives me a manufacturing date in the same year as the one my dad had.
That's heap-big juju, message from the heavens kind of stuff if prinCZess ever saw it. And so...
Since they're not making any more of them and GOD LITERALLY TOLD ME TO BUY IT, prinCZess is now the proud owner of a Hi Power. So my firearms-hipsterism has taken even another level and shall become even more insufferable! Mwahahaha!
And hey, unlike the clone or the...original Hi Power, I guess...this one has the 'right' spur hammer that I remember. So it's better. Just need some wooden grips and, at some point, a good rebluing job on the thing. Functioned perfectly when I got out to shoot it on Wednesday...Other than it making me all blubbery and embarrassingly navel-gazey to anyone who would listen. Which isn't exactly it's fault, really.
On lighter note, I immediately took the opportunity presented to make a dumb joke:
Now the only thing I've gotta fulfill is the desire for an old-style, short-rail CZ75. Because an anime character told me so.
PrinCZess was not set on buying one for ~$400 more than the $700 MSRP, which was the only one she saw out-and-about on the net in stock. The whole attraction of the thing was the price supposed-to-be being closer to a normal handgun. So Christmas came and went with yours truly no closer to having SA's retinkering of Browning's last work. But an after-Christmas swing-by to a gun store presented me with an alternative possibility. One that was a bit more...original. A surplus Mark-III.
What frabjous timing, right?
But, not exactly what I wanted, secondhand surplus and used so with a few imperfections, and, as even rough Hi Powers have become, pretty pricey. Not quite as much as the silliness that one of the SA clones was getting put at by grifters/supply-shortage-takers-advantagers, but still more than I'd planned to drop on a handgun for basically just the sentimental reason of the dad having one that got sold. So I spend the last few days of 2021 and some of the first on-and-off arguing with myself over dropping money on the thing. Until I look up the serial number to get a production date and...God's sense of humor or something...gives me a manufacturing date in the same year as the one my dad had.
That's heap-big juju, message from the heavens kind of stuff if prinCZess ever saw it. And so...
Since they're not making any more of them and GOD LITERALLY TOLD ME TO BUY IT, prinCZess is now the proud owner of a Hi Power. So my firearms-hipsterism has taken even another level and shall become even more insufferable! Mwahahaha!
And hey, unlike the clone or the...original Hi Power, I guess...this one has the 'right' spur hammer that I remember. So it's better. Just need some wooden grips and, at some point, a good rebluing job on the thing. Functioned perfectly when I got out to shoot it on Wednesday...Other than it making me all blubbery and embarrassingly navel-gazey to anyone who would listen. Which isn't exactly it's fault, really.
On lighter note, I immediately took the opportunity presented to make a dumb joke:
Now the only thing I've gotta fulfill is the desire for an old-style, short-rail CZ75. Because an anime character told me so.
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GROGNARD
Well-known member
VHS is back, baby! $2000 right now, but it should get down to ~$1500 by this time next year.
So how does the Hellion match up to the Tavor?