I could see the P226 SAO Legion scratching my itch for another 9x19 1911. That itch is like Lay's potato chips: I know the chips are not good for me, but I cannot help myself.
Fifteen rounds of 9x19 in a nice SAO gun means faster reloads plus I really like the location of the SIG controls.
Yes you are. You send another text about this boob job of a gun, I'll block your number.Originally Posted by GJM
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Well, I had some suspicions that I probably shouldn't ask the question, but those photos remove all doubt about the gravity of my error. One must wonder where those LARPers (if that is a word) would get the $1100 to buy one of these pistols, but the answer to that question is probably painful too (my guess is that the taxpayers help fund their "lifestyles") so I won't ask it.
However, it does perhaps help explain those people in tactical gear at my local range who spend all there time talking to each other and very little time shooting despite the amazing amount of weapons and gear they bring with them.
I got a Brigadier, and the more I shoot it the more I like it. However, my came with an action job from Wilson, and I would highly recommend getting that package. The trigger soars above an ordinary Beretta trigger.
I think that you'll be able to get one of these in the future, while that might not be the case with the Brigadiers.
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Lots of dudes that fall into the LARPer classification, from my experience, are youngish guys with degrees that just have some identity issues. Identity issues often equates to low social life/no significant other. Professional degree + lack of girlfriend= expendable income.
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Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I like the 226--a lot--and this has some interesting features on it (though I'd like someone to answer LSP972's question about whether the beavertail interferes with thumbing the hammer on the draw/reholstering). Still I've not bought other things because of offensive marketing and I could see myself doing the same here.
Frankly, I don't want gun companies, or anyone else, patronizing me and the patronizing tone is evident in some of that ad copy, which basically says, "Hey Cletus. Buy our pistol and you too can pretend to be an operator."
Now compare that to the Brigadier Tactical's marketing. The Brig Tac is another high-end, service-size, DA/SA pistol. The marketing campaign, such as it was, was directed to adults--here are all the features we put in to make this the best 92 Series pistol you can buy. Nothing about "lifestyle" (a word I despise), nothing about how people who buy the Brig Tac are prettier, smarter, make better operators or anything like that, and better still, no associated clothing. (I have to give SIG credit for offering associated holsters, though).
Frankly, I don't much like the thought of sending money to people who think that I'm a total idiot. That being said, if these pistols get enough positive feedback and turn out to have a great trigger, I might buy one (triggers I do care about). However, the marketing makes it less likely.
Thanks for the explanation. I have heard about similar things in Japan, but did not know it was a widespread phenomena here. It's a pity that more of them (the ones who don't weigh 400 pounds that is) don't join the service. It might help the in a whole number of ways.
Technically, LARPers would include the doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other professionals who belong to, among others, the North South Skirmishing Association and the Brigade of the American Revolution, the various Mountain Man Rendezvous' groups.
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It is definitely a thing. Not as bad as in Japan, probably because our society has not been quite so thorough at trying to jam people into boxes and classifications where some people just don't fit well. But it definitely does still happen.
I think you are right about service, at least for some segment of that population. I've known at 2 guys that could have very well wound up in the sort of lost LARPer stage of development that went into the military. One did a couple tours as a tanker and is back and way more well adjusted than he was before going in. The other I lost touch with after he went into one of the selection programs. He had a few years of CS and other engineering classes before he went in, and MOSd into one of the intelligence specialties. Somewhere along the line he got serious about the physical stuff and wanted to do more. I know he's still out there somewhere since I ran into his mom a few months back, and from what she said it sounded like he got into whatever he had the shot at.
I feel like I have a strange amount on insight into some of these guys, because I could have been one very easily. I couldn't serve due to having lasting damage from childhood bone cancer, but fighting that through my teens helped me to forge a very solid sense of my self and what matters to me. But I know, because of my dorkier interests and proclivities, that if I hadn't had that hardship to push my personal growth so hard that I could have been one of these lost generation kind of guys.
That's a good point, Drang. I was addressing the more derogatory use of the term and should have acknowledged that there are plenty of people that LARP for recreation with absolutely no pretense of it being more than that.
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