At my last range outing, the woman in the next booth and I traded guns. She shot my 442 and I shot her Kimber .45. It was Commander-sized, flat mainspring housing and it had night sights.
I was prepared to hate it. I've not had much luck recently with self-littering guns. But at seven yards, it shot seven rounds into one large and ragged hole. Just enough to the right that if I had aimed at center-mass, the bad guy would be minus a heart.
Sweet gun. Not going to buy one. The reason I got the Airweight was to trade off a little bit of shooting comfort for a lot of carry comfort. The Airweight is a good half-pound lighter than either my Taurus 605 or my Colt Detective Special. Compared to those, in a belt holster (IWB or OWB), it's like I've got feathers in the holster.
The LGS had two Pythons in the display case. Over two grand for either of them. Not for me.
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The Smith is very much a known quantity, and I know the Colts are pretty sought after. How well does the Taurus work for you? In the past few years I've seen some evidence of good design ideas from that company, but three of the four Tauri I've had made me leery. It's been a fairly long time, though, and I can't help being curious about other people's experience with more current examples.
I've had a Taurus 605 for a long while. 100% reliable. But it's a late `90s model, when their quality was good. By all reports, build quality took a real dive 8-10 years ago. I've heard varying reports on their newer guns.
Problem with Colts is that they're supposedly both harder to find a competent gunsmith to work on them and factory parts support is not very good. Colt has been out of the snubbie market for two decades or so.
Which leaves S&W, Ruger and Charter Arms, in about that preference order. All of which support their products.
I love Kimber .45's as a functional work of art. As a self defense weapon... no. I think you know my preference for a wheel gun there. But there's something about a 1911 pattern .45 that fulfills a primal urge...
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