After ten years of carrying 5" 1911-pattern pistols nearly exclusively, at last weekend's gun show here in Indy, I told Shootin' Buddy that if I found an early G19 for less than four bills, I would buy it.
After roaming the aisles, I found a private-sale G19 for $425 (asking) with those wretched Big Dots on it, another early G19 for $399 with one mag...
...and a two-tone stainless slide M&P9 in the box with the docs for $399. It looked like a new gun. So I bought it.
I took a spare Krag-Jorgensen carbine back to the show the next day, sold it, and used the cash to buy another two spare mags, a bunch of 9mm ball, and a hundred rounds of Winchester RA9TA.
Headed to the range tomorrow AM. If all goes well, my lower back will thank me in a few months...