Mk42gunner
06-29-2016, 01:18 AM
So I saw a Colt 1903 (or 08, not sure which caliber it was)the other day at a tractor show; didn't buy it, then got to thinking later that I would like one,since they point so well for me. (I know I should have bought one of each when they were affordable fifteen or more years ago).
Today I decided it was too hot to be messing around with the tractor so I went to a couple of semi-local gunshops. One was closed, the other didn't have a Colt, but did have a Remington Model 51 for only seven hundred dollars (gulp). It pointed way too high for me.
After my dreams of a fairly cheap Colt were crushed, I started looking at the new smaller .380 and 9mm carry options. The Remington RM 380 didn't seem too bad; but remembering the fiasco with the R51 a few years ago I thought I better ask some questions before I spend some of my hard earned money.
On the plus side, it is small, light, I can see the sights, and it is not a striker fired pistol.
Minus side, the trigger pull is looong. Light-ish, but looong.
Any opinions?
I did hold one of the Browning miniature 1911-22's. I had capguns when I was a kid that weighed more.
Thanks,
Robert
Today I decided it was too hot to be messing around with the tractor so I went to a couple of semi-local gunshops. One was closed, the other didn't have a Colt, but did have a Remington Model 51 for only seven hundred dollars (gulp). It pointed way too high for me.
After my dreams of a fairly cheap Colt were crushed, I started looking at the new smaller .380 and 9mm carry options. The Remington RM 380 didn't seem too bad; but remembering the fiasco with the R51 a few years ago I thought I better ask some questions before I spend some of my hard earned money.
On the plus side, it is small, light, I can see the sights, and it is not a striker fired pistol.
Minus side, the trigger pull is looong. Light-ish, but looong.
Any opinions?
I did hold one of the Browning miniature 1911-22's. I had capguns when I was a kid that weighed more.
Thanks,
Robert