At least according to the sneaker geeks here, who seem to be Glock fanboys and who don't care for my opinion of those plastic pieces of shit.
Like I give a frak. But it is amusing, in a way, to see how stuff spreads around the Internets.
Deposit That Baby Elsewhere, Then
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I was sold on the .45 Automatic Colt Model 1911 from the first time I got my hands on it. It was a bit nose-heavy with the silencer, but you could drag it through the dirt and it would never let you down. Its man-stopping capability lives up to the legend.
Glock schmock. I'll take my Makarov any day.
9x18 may not blow huge holes in someone like a .45 will, but it'll still put them down. And it's fired from a gun that's solid, accurate, reliable, easy to strip down (it's all of two pieces, LOL). There's a reason it was the official Russian sidearm for forty years: it freaking WORKS.
Here's a video I produced showing myself demoing my Makarov.
And when you're out of ammo, you can beat the hell out of your assailant with it without thinking "Oh noes! I'm going break my plasti- I mean polymer."
When I first got it, my friend and I took it to the range along with his 9mm Glock. The first shot I ever fired from my $165 Mak was a dead-on bullseye at 25 feet. Over the next hour, I found the $600+ Glock uncomfortable to use, with a heavy trigger pull (necessitated by the lack of a safety) and pretty inaccurate. We're talking two guns designed 50 years apart, and the newer one just wasn't up to snuff for me.
I know cops swear by them, and the lack of a safety does seem useful in a situation where you've got a custom protective holster for it, lots of training, an armorer who knows his job, and situations that require split-second reaction time. But for your average home user? I'll pass. Anyone who buys one does it for the brand name and not for the performance..
It reminded me of those guys at the gun shows who trick out their $1500 AR-15s with $3000 worth of scopes and "tactical gear".... and then get out-shot at the range by a guy with a 1936-dated $65 Mosin Nagant 91/30 over open iron sights. And when you're done with the Mosin, just a few swipes down the bore and you're clean. With the AR-15, it's time to break out the latex gloves and the toothbrushes.
My motto: Keep it simple, and it will work.
Well, other penguin, there's a reason why the 1911 was the official American sidearm for 80 years too... once again, it freakin' *works*.
On the other hand, if I want a home defense weapon where I don't want to worry about a safety, don't want to worry about whether I jacked a round in the chamber, don't want to worry about the gun jamming if I'm panicking and accidentally limp-wrist it, etc.... gimme a good ole' fashioned .357 Magnum revolver, yessiree. This penguin be *really* old fashioned that way, heh! (Though I might point out that the .357 Magnum is actually a newer round than the .45 ACP, albeit only a slightly stretched .38 round which predates the .45 ACP by about 30 years so... hmm...).
-- Badtux the Gun Penguin
Oh yeah, I've got nothing against the 1911 at all. It's a great, powerful, proven firearm that does its job extremely well. Something that's been in production for nigh on a century has to be doing something right. The Makarov's predecessor, the Tokarev TT33, is actually a far uglier quasi-knockoff of Browning's 1911 and 1903 models.
However, one thing the Mak does have on the 1911 is simplicity. And I just happen to like Russian guns.
I've gone shooting with a friend of who has a 1911. The first time we went, we got back to my place and sat down to clean our guns. She had barely taken down her 1911 and I was already done cleaning the Mak. She had 1911 parts lying every where and was trying to make heads or tails of the pieces, and there I was with three squeaky clean pieces of Mak: slide, frame, and grip. I wanted to help, but I though it better if I stood back and let her figure out how to reassemble her own gun. When she finally gave up after a while, you should have seen the pitiful "Goddammit, please help me..." look she gave me. I ended up finding tech diagrams for the 1911 on the internet so she could see how everything went back together. It was quite a humbling experience for my normally very cocky friend.
Now she can take it down no problem at all, but I do give her some shit about it sometimes.... at which point she threatens to shoot me with a .45 round about twice as big as the Maks.
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