tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post3718493956078241275..comments2023-11-05T00:19:25.417-07:00Comments on Rifleman Savant: Springfield Armory XD-S .45 ACPKevin Wilmethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-47144605586460160592013-01-05T07:25:14.887-08:002013-01-05T07:25:14.887-08:00Oh, I'd sure love to visit Alaska... at least ...Oh, I'd sure love to visit Alaska... at least in the summer. Wyoming is enough winter for this gal. LOL I have a good friend who owns some property in Alaska, so you never know. I'll have to figure out the relative distance between you two, of course. Alaska is a BIG place. :)<br /><br />As for the revolver, I did fire a cylinder of .357m JHP cartridges once... and will probably never do it again. Much too hot for this old lady, and my hand hurt for hours. But, OH MY, sure did love the power of those things. :) They made such lovely BIG holes in the target backing.<br /><br />When I carry the Ruger, I load .38sp +P JHP rounds, but use several different .38sp FMJ and semi-wadcutters for target and field shooting. The wadcutters I got last time smoke like crazy and the plain led bullets really make a mess, so I don't plan to buy any more of them. <br /><br />I won't shoot any of the "ultralights" and seriously discourage my students from considering them, but I know people who actually LIKE them. Go figure. <br /><br />The "really small" H&R .32 has a 2 1/2 inch grip and I can't get hold of it firmly enough to shoot the thing well. It is fairly balanced when fully loaded, but by the time you get to the last round, the muzzle flip is completely unacceptable. Since my hands are small and NOT at all strong, I have no way to counter this very well. I need a gun that tends to be a little muzzle heavy rather than the reverse.<br /><br />I suspect that you can manage small guns simply because you have a great deal of strength in your hands and arms/shoulders. This is something most women simply do not have, and we must make special adaptations to overcome that handicap. <br /><br />But I'd sure love to see you shoot anyway. :) MamaLibertyhttp://www.thepriceofliberty.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-57954388425163554772013-01-04T23:00:05.709-08:002013-01-04T23:00:05.709-08:00FWIW, I'd be absolutely honored to show you ho...FWIW, I'd be absolutely honored to show you how I do with pistols that people insist are too small for my hands, as well as with rifles that people say have stocks way too short for my size. :-)<br /><br />I suppose I also don't know what <i>you</i> mean when you say "really small". I would not want to try to run a good pistol course with,say, a Colt Vest Pocket, nor a Seecamp; sure, there is such a thing as too small to manipulate well. And maybe this is why I am so impressed with a few of the breed of small striker-fired, single-stack, full-caliber pistols like the XD-S, the Kahr autos (both the original frame size and the subcompact), and a couple of others: their ergonomics, given their impressively small size, are amazing. Even when my pinky starts to dangle off the bottom of the gripframe (it doesn't quite with the XD-S, does a little bit with the micro Kahr, and not at all with the original-sized Kahrs), it's not uncomfortable enough to worry about.<br /><br />The hardest-recoiling handgun I've got, bar none, is a Smith Centennial J Airweight .38Spl. With the old-fashioned 158gr lead semiwadcutter hollowpoint at +P velocity, that little fivegun will <i>hit</i> your hand like no .40 or .45 I've ever run across. But...muzzle rise is oddly low, because the Centennial frame permits a much higher grip than other revolvers, and the lower bore axis puts all that recoil straight back into the web of your hand. Followup shots are thus very fast with that one, but I would not want to try and put a hundred rounds through it in one session. :-)<br /><br />I suspect you're well served by the XD and the SP. I may never pick a double-stack over a single-stack, if I have a choice, but I do admit that if I went into a double-stack design on purpose, I'd probably pick the XD over anything else for grip comfort. <br /><br />I find myself curious what you load in your SP101. I love the SP, especially the magnificent grip design. With .38Spl loads it is an absolute pussycat. Full-house .357 is <i>quite</i> a different story; it's not quite as vicious as the Airweight J, but muzzle rise is considerably greater, which can seem worse.<br /><br />Come visit some time, and we can compare notes. You know you're always welcome. :-)Kevin Wilmethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-54828459252249024062013-01-04T06:40:00.670-08:002013-01-04T06:40:00.670-08:00Isn't it fun when you find something neat like...Isn't it fun when you find something neat like this? :) <br /><br />I've not had a chance to handle the XDs just yet, but I did shoot a .45 and 9mm of the previous XDm model and didn't care for them. No exact reason, except the balance just didn't seem right - they just didn't feel right in my hands. <br /><br />I carried the XD compact .45 for years, but finally came to accept the fact that it was a bit too big for me and I could never control it with just one hand. So, last year I bought an XD compact 9mm and have found the perfect carry gun for me - so far at least. It is easy to control with either hand, and fits my body without problems.<br /><br />Of course, I usually carry openly, so extreme concealability is not an issue. When I need to conceal, my old Ruger SP101 works just fine, and I can control that very well no matter how I'm shooting.<br /><br />I would be very interested to see someone with large hands shoot such a small gun as the XDs seems to be. I've had trouble with all of the really small guns, and I have small hands. Of course, the smaller the gun, the greater the recoil, so that would be an issue for me as well. I have a little bitty H&R .32 revolver that is outrageously nasty to shoot. :)MamaLibertynoreply@blogger.com