What's Your "Go To War" Pistol?

It's absurd to think of an army of fat old men with pistols in God can't imagine what kind of war that would be. I suppose we could all give it up like Jim Bowie emptying our favorite weapons from our armchairs before succombing heroically beneath a swarm of bayonets.
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You are very wrong my friend.
Don't ever make the mistake thinking just because a man is old
that he's outlived his usefulness.​

I'm 60 years old and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists. (You can't be older than 42 to join the military.)

They've got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters:

Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds.

Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission. "My back hurts! I'm hungry! Where's the remote?"

An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're at least old enough to drink. The average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer, and a jaunt through the desert heat with a beer and an M-60 would do wonders for the old beer belly. (Note there are 24 hours in a day and 24 bottles in a case...another convenient way to measure time!)

An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m.

Old guys always get up early to pee.

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real braintease.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we like soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We like them almost better than naps.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the Drill Sgt now, "Get down and give me ... er ... one."

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to carry on a conversation, and to wear pants without the top of his butt crack showing and his shorts sticking out. He's hasn't figured out that a pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 400-watt speaker in the back seat of a Honda can rupture an eardrum, and that a baseball cap has a brim to shade eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten cowards who attacked us on September 11. The last thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.

I stole this from another forum post,,,
But it does lay out some basic truths for us.

Just because I'm not in the first manly flush of youth,,,
Doesn't mean I'm not capable of carrying a rifle into combat.

Aarond

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Just call me 60, not M-60

Aarond, you forgot, "You don't need the body armor if you never get out of the truck." Anyway, all they ever show on tv is "Road Hunting Afghanistan".
 
Either one...

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Never mess with an old man. He won't waste time fighting with you so instead, he'll just kill you.

My go-to handguns are:
Colt Combat Commander Series 70 .45ACP
Colt M1991A1 Series 80, .45ACP
Springfield XD45. nothing else needed.

Yes, I'm over 60.
 
HK USP-compact in 9mm....also carry a 1911, but for use when cleaning might be non-existent for 100's of rounds....my USPc
 
I'm 60 years old and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists. (You can't be older than 42 to join the military.)

They've got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters:

Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds.

Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission. "My back hurts! I'm hungry! Where's the remote?"

An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're at least old enough to drink. The average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer, and a jaunt through the desert heat with a beer and an M-60 would do wonders for the old beer belly. (Note there are 24 hours in a day and 24 bottles in a case...another convenient way to measure time!)

An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m.

Old guys always get up early to pee.

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real braintease.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we like soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We like them almost better than naps.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the Drill Sgt now, "Get down and give me ... er ... one."

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to carry on a conversation, and to wear pants without the top of his butt crack showing and his shorts sticking out. He's hasn't figured out that a pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 400-watt speaker in the back seat of a Honda can rupture an eardrum, and that a baseball cap has a brim to shade eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten cowards who attacked us on September 11. The last thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.

I stole this from another forum post,,,
But it does lay out some basic truths for us.

Just because I'm not in the first manly flush of youth,,,
Doesn't mean I'm not capable of carrying a rifle into combat.

Aarond
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That is just awesome. And also very true. I would rather have a bunch of old guys with 1911's and S&W revolvers on my side than a bunch of Glock carrying gangster wannabees with thier guns pointed sideways at the target any day.
 
My sidearm of choice...

Would be the only one I own. Beretta PX4 9mm. As of this week, I am now one of the guys who would actually have a fighting chance.

My wonderful wife will be backing me up with her brand new KAHR CW9 9mm. With any luck she can certainly forcibly discorporate the guys paying too much attention to where I'm firing from.

ZAG
 
RIA 1911!

If I had just one pistol, I'd pick 1911GI, 45cal ball! Proven reliabillity, nothing to break, ease of maint. All the smaller calibers are doing everything possible to make a hole that is as big as a 45 ball!
The only others I'd consider I'd consider are Taurus PT-101 in 40sw. I just never was able to control it. The Walther P-38 is always on the list with a bunch of features that current mfgrs are just starting to implement. Too bad it's in 9mm.
 
I'll stick to my XDm 9mm or my glock 19 9mm... There would be more 9mm ammo and mags for these guns readily available than any other gun out there.
Plus some .40cal and .357sig mags will fit too... Improvise.. Easier to maintain, fix, don't need cleaned as much, more reliable, the list go's on.. I don't need a big gun or a big bullet, I'll take lots of bullets and hi cap mags though! Both my guns have seen 10k+ rounds and have never failed me once.. Wouldn't want to have to replace those .45acp springs every recommended 500/1k rounds durning a real war time scenario.. FTF+FTE=Certain Death.
 
Interesting how many people would go to war with guns that have never been to war.
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You killjoy.



Make love, not war. But in the scenario if I had to go to war, my pistol would be a Glock 22 with a 9mm barrel. Plenty of them around to grab a mag off someone if need be.

Maybe the 23 with a conversion barrel because I can take full size mags and compact mags as well.
 
This one, plus the assorted slide/barrel assemblies that go with it: .45 ACP, 9mm, .38 Super, and .22 lr. It's a Combat Commander, originally in .45 ACP. With the .45 barrel, it's produced 2" gps from a machine rest at 50 yds, is 99.99% reliable with any sensible ammunition and the caliber choices pretty much cover all the readily available rounds. The Best to You and Yours, Rod

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