[geeks] Life and hardware.

[Chris Petersen]

I just shot a Kahr Arms in 9mm this weekend - Matt picked one up special
order a while back and I hadn't had a chance to put any rounds through it. 
Nice, small, 7 round single-stack mag.  Very good build quality, no hint of
jams or anything at all.

However, for my hands it was almost too small.  And I didn't adjust to the
lack of weight very well (I don't shoot often enough, unfortunately), so my
accuracy suck bad (the lightweight gun didn't offset the recoil very well in
my hands, causing my arms to bounce a bit).  Of course, part of that's
probably my shooting form, which I'm still working on.  Hard to do when my
wife has said no handguns.  Then again, Matt has (at last rememberance):

2 x Sig 228s in 9mm
Sig 226 in 9mm
HK USP Compact in .45
HK P7M8 Squeeze-cocker in .45
CZ 75BD in 9mm
Kahr Arms K9 Elite 98 in 9mm
Smith & Wesson 7-shot revolver in .357

and I'm sure I'm forgetting something :)  It's great when your best friend
is a firearms collector - you get all the toys to play with :)

Chris

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Chris Petersen			  E-mail: havoc at apk.net
Systems Engineer, ExperTeam Services, EDS PLM Solutions



On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:18:13PM -0500, Rob wrote:
> Kahr Arms makes a compact gun in 40 S+W if you've got tiny hands. A S+W
> Chief's special in 38 spl would probably suit you fine too. Depends on
> where you're going to keep this gun and what you're going to use it for.
> 
> I definitely wouldn't go with the the PPK due to it having too small a
> bullet to be effective against people and it having a propensity for
> jamming in many cases. YMMV.
> 
> Good luck, the US is trying to become a gun-free country from certain
> perspectives, but hopefully it won't happen.
> 
> - Rob
> 
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, William S. wrote:
> 
> > I have small hands. Someone pointed out that the frame
> > of the 1911 would probably not be a good choice. A shame,
> > if I get to the point where I could figure out how to legally own
> > a firearm in the Netherlands, I would opt for one of
> > these.
> >
> > The PPK Walther (James Bond Gun): Good choice for
> > small hands? Other recommendations?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:03:05PM -0500, Rob wrote:
> > > I notice the same thing with firearms I want. I'm still crying over the
> > > revolver that was on sale for nothing at the local shop and I don't have a
> > > pot to piss in.
> > >
> > > - Rob
> > >
> > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anybody ever notice that when you have tons of money, you can never
> > > > find the hardware that you're looking for, but when you're broke, you
> > > > either see that system you ALWAYS WANTED for $just_more_than_you_have,
> > > > or have free hardware start falling into your lap?
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Bill
> > Amsterdam, NL
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