Canada Receives First Tranche of Sig Sauer P320 Handguns from MD Charlton
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I’m skeptical that will change.Nothing screams professionalism and treating the subject seriously more than issuing weapons from milk crate.
This is all good news. Really enjoy the Safariland holster I’m wearing. The ancient exhausted Browning in it… not so great.
Well, I haven't seen a transport case dedicated to pistols yet. If they do exist, no everyone has it. And all the milk crates are literally stolen properties.....maybe DND can buy a bunch of brown milk crates. Crate, plastic all purpose.
A lot of BHPs are wrecked because the sights are banged up - when the sights are banged up the sight pictures are screwed, even if it works mechanically the shooter can't aim properly. This goes back to how pistols are stored and transported. It also goes back to how BHP are / were carried. They were not carried in proper holsters and got tossed around - and the consequence is wrecked sights. If we don't fix these issues we will just wreck the new pistols the same way.
They are usually just dumped into a drawer or whatever - seriously they need to procure pistol racks. we have rifle racks, why not pistol racks?
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Nothing screams professionalism and treating the subject seriously more than issuing weapons from milk crate.
What are you guys talking about..."milk crate"...?
Usually when we bring pistols to the range they are transported in a literal plastic milk crate. This is because the CAF hasn’t invested in any real transportation infrastructure to speak of…Rifles/MGs if not transported by troops themselves are usually thrown in a canvas tarp…
Each pistol retained by units and TE/schools will have the EIS with them. There should be no reason that they are not signed out and then carried by the individual, in its holster, to and from the range just like C7/C8s.
I can see them being transported in a proper weapons box for training events for people that don't usually use them.
I can see them being transported in a proper weapons box for training events for people that don't usually use them.
They announced there will be a new storage and transportation system for the new pistols...
Just probably won't be as clean or green as this one.
At most field units, personnel are assigned their weapons in which case, they would/should be signed out and carried appropriately to the ranges as such including holsters (Safariland being commonly used for deployable forces in the last decades).
In some units and HQs, where people are not assigned personal weapons and there is only a pool for training, it is not uncommon for weapons to be brought out in rifles to be brought out in weapons bags and pistols in 'milk crates'
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I maintain that I only became a decent marksman despite the military's best efforts and lack of support.
Now that the road of buying guns to train on is gone the future looks bleak....... very bleak.
Now that the road of buying guns to train on is gone the future looks bleak....... very bleak.
Nothing screams professionalism and treating the subject seriously more than issuing weapons from milk crate.
Wow
Core memory unlocked.
The Hi-powers we used really came in a milk crate. Like 20 guns in a crate. Not sure how they were stored in the armory but thats how they gave them to us LOL. They were never individually signed. Like here's a bunch of guns, the crate is 3/4 filled so I expect a 3/4 full crate when you guys get back. Kinda forgot about that until you mentioned it
I don't know, it might be safer/more fool proof to NOT have a manual safety. That way you know when you pull the trigger the shot ALWAYS goes off and you wont rely on a safety switch that may or may not be engaged.
That's it, I'm going to start a molding company (in Quebec) and hire a Liberal constituency office president to run it, and we'll make thousands of "Crate, plastic, all purpose" (at our production facility in China)and sell it to CAF. Basic ones will be Green for $149 each, and the Deluxe will be FDE for $200 each, lastly the Spec ops guys will get Black for well, more, because they're special. I should be retired in 5 years.
Depends if one is deployed (in theatre) or not.
