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not sure why you guys like 45'ves. way too much kick for a follow up shot. particularly for the acp.

Most people who use a .45 do so with the realization they likely won�t need to shoot twice.

Best,
Ted

lol....got me!

A 9mm round will sometimes fail to expand, but .45 ACP will never shrink. Gil

Whoa! James is starting handgun, and wondering what type and calibre. Doesn't it depend on the mission? My two cents: anyone can shoot well, with practise. Get good with a .22, less expense, less noise and less-likely flinching. Type? Try what others are using at the gun club.

Agree- I shoot .22's almost year-round- 2 area clubs have pistol leagues- I usually use my Mark-1 Ruger Bull barrel target pistol, and get all the practice you can- it pays off. I have a Colt Python 6" barrel-- and I usually shoot .38 wadcutters in that masterpiece wheel-gun-- sometimes drop in a full house .357 round, and spin the cylinder close it w/o looking to see which of the 6 holes has the "Big Boy"-- great way to work yourself out of a flinch- can't use that technique with a 1911-A-1 .45 ACP however. RWTF

Whoa, better read what it says on the license, eh? My, up to fourteen and a half, sense is to get something that starts with a good crisp trigger or can be tuned by someone. After the newness wears off and if someone wants to improve their accuracy and maybe speed, I think a heavy, inconsistent trigger is tough to try to ignore. To me, it's sort of like binoculars, little jiggles end up multiplied down range.

Craig's right King......there can only be one legal mission in Canada, thanks to people who vote for gun and rights restricting politicians of all stripes. And those who would gladly throw other gun enthusiasts of any stripe under the bus as long as they are left alone.

Now, if I lived in the US it would be different. But as my dad always says...."If my aunt had balls she's be my uncle"

James, by mission I was referring to use: plinking, competition, self-defence.

I was 20 when I registered my Ruger with the Mounties and I answered Sgt. Rankin correctly that I was going to use it for target shooting. It was a different time. He looked straight into my eyes and said "If you're gong to shoot somewhere else just make sure there is no one around for miles."

I obeyed his liberal interpretation of the rules, and still do, except for when I left the pistol in my fishing kitbag at the side of road by a lake in only-me wide-open spaces. An angler found the bag and turned it over to the RCMP. When I showed up to get it, Rankin just pointed at the bag and said "There it is. Go."

At the time I was a reporter on the provincial daily living in Halifax. I built a 40-foot range, using shorts, in my basement. I've enjoyed plinking ever since. My visiting grandson said 15 years ago, "Gramps, see if you can hit this," throwing an empty 50-round .22 box into the air. It was my best-ever shot.

I live on 50 acres in the woods at the end of a 500-metre driveway. Canada is mostly wide expanses with lots of places to comfortably make moonshine or grow cannabis or make love outside of vows without a soul ever knowing. Be the man you want to be. Bandit Marchand gets away with it nearly every night before millions!

In shooting large caliber handguns, I would inevitably develop a flinch. My shooting partner would help me out the flinch by randomly handing me an empty chambered .22 lr. that I would fire not knowing whether or not it was loaded. A few sessions with the 22 was all it took. The interchangeability of the TC's helped significantly as it was the same action, same trigger pull, barrel to barrel. Gil