that's a Rigatoni Special alright
that's a Rigatoni Special alright
Thanks for your review, and participating on PF. Around here, we are big on manipulations. That means decocking DA/SA pistols appropriately, using the thumb safety on 1911 pistols and AR carbines. You are not demoing a striker gun. A major advantage of a DA/SA pistol is being able to decock the pistol and having a longer/heavier trigger pull for times you are not shooting. This is a Beretta 92 not a Shadow 2 — the 92 has a very functional decocker.
I compete most every weekend, have been active on PF since it’s inception, and have had the benefit of courses from many of the best tactical and competition instructors. I also regularly post videos here, which I expect are reviewed carefully and freely critiqued. If I didn’t decock, and compounded that by explaining the gun “wasn’t loaded,” I would get a lot of crap for it, and justifiably so. I would say take a class with Ernest, or at least watch his videos, learn to decock a Beretta 92 and it will be easier to focus on the good stuff you discuss.
My wife and I are registered shooting CO at Area 1 and 2 this fall, so maybe we can meet in person. PF is a great forum, with a great signal to noise ratio, so I hope you become a regular contributor!
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
@LangdonTactical are they unable to supply you due to overwhelming demand, or is there some other factor? Given the possibility that it may be months for something specific to be back in stock, what do you still have (92s, PX4s?) available in stock?
That's awesome you guys compete. Sounds like you're in the W/NW - I haven't made it that way for a major (yet) though I look forward to it one day. My majors for the rest of the year are Area 4, North Texas Open, Factory Gun Nationals.
By no means do I desire to have beef or drama - I suspect we'd likely get along and even like each other were we to meet in person. I fully acknowledge text without tonality sounds overly sterile, cold, and confrontational. I could have been overly sensitive to the posts you made previously from and not "heard" them how they were intended - so please do hear me saying all of this in the warmest "Bro, C'mon" type of tone. As I give you full benefit of the doubt as well.
If we were standing at a safe table at a match and you spoke to me for handling a gun with the hammer back the way you did in this thread you'd be thought of as a jerk regardless of your pedigree. None of the 4 laws were broken - the hammer was just back when being demoed in a safety checked condition. I think you agree that the safe area or setting up a room to dryfire changes the context for how a pistol can be handled safely to a very limited extent. Displaying the gun to the camera in a safety checked condition - while pointed at the berm in my gun club I think grants a similar degree of license as the safe table or dryfire. If I were standing on a range in the middle of a training session waving a gun around with a hammer back - by all means lay it on me as that is potentially unsafe. I would suggest that displaying the gun to the camera is more akin to a safe table session of show and tell than anything else. If you can't get past that the hammer was back in the given context then we can agree to disagree. I am not suggesting being lax with gun safety - but I am suggesting that the handling of a specific platform does have some flexibility (to a very limited extent) rather than a rigid dogma all the time. And as you probably are dryfiring and have looked at guns at safe tables I'm sure you probably acknowledge that flexibility as well.
I fully accept all slings and arrows regarding how I was decocking the gun - it was my very first time shooting a double action drill with a 92 and you got to see it on camera warts and all.
May you and your wife "burn it down" a A1 and A2 and may none of our matches be sidelined due to the 'Rona and may components and ammo flow like water again.
No worries, we are all good. If I were to say what I meant to in a lot fewer words, it would have been “hey dude, you are obviously a very talented shooter, but decock the damn hammer so I can focus on your shooting and review, and not feel like I am talking to a guy with his zipper down.
We have a dedicated red dot sub forum, and I hope you will consider posting your videos in a running thread. I am shooting a Glock in CO now, have shot a Shadow off and on, and will be very interested in how the 92 works out for you in CO. Looks like there is real heat in CO at your local club. My number is TY24066.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
For sure man. Looking you up it looks like you guys have 2 matches a weekend where you are some weekends- I'm real envious of that. Once my boys get bigger I'm hopeful to increase my participation once they get involved in the game.
We do have one guy local who recently shot 94% of Max at the Double Tap Championship - but I see you get to shoot at Rio Salado sometimes so I doubt I'll get much sympathy from you LOL!
I'll definitely check in the red dot forum - that's obviously where one of my passions lie.
Beretta told them no compact carries until at least end of October I believe. I don't think they need another mounting solution to the one they have for the px4. Just if they can get someone to make the back up sights for it they would have my cash. Will probably send in the 92 in a couple weeks, but I do find the px4 to shoot a little better for me.