My new (old) Desert Eagle..........

Johnnyjellybean said:
Besides.... we all know The DE is a novelty gun. Any gun that gets too dirty to shoot and gets FTF after 150 rounds as all DE's do, is not a gun you'd want to rely on. I'll get 500 rounds from my Sig Tacops before it even hiccups
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In one outing, i will go 150 rounds of 44 mag in my DE, 150 rounds of 357 mag in my Coonan, 200 rounds of 22 lr with my Ruger single 10... That ought to be a good day's work, after that i will clean my handguns, so according to your statement, i will go a hole day without a hiccup, that is a good score... JP.
 
caramel said:
In one outing, i will go 150 rounds of 44 mag in my DE, 150 rounds of 357 mag in my Coonan, 200 rounds of 22 lr with my Ruger single 10... That ought to be a good day's work, after that i will clean my handguns, so according to your statement, i will go a hole day without a hiccup, that is a good score... JP.
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Agreed. I only go 150+ with the DE to see how far it will go. Now that I've done it a couple times, I'll prbably land up shooting it less per outing. I usually shoot more .45 since it's cheap and I will easily do 200 to 250 .45 in 1 trip to the range.
 
44 mag and 357 mag are just great calibers, the 10mm Glock is on my short list to get very shortly, there is something about those legendary powerfull calibers that appeal to me in handgun shooting, sure less powerfull caliber will be cheaper to shoot... JP.
 
I just jumped on the 10mm bandwagon, I picked up a Kimber 1911, should have it sometime next week, I'm looking forward to reloading for it to see the real power of the 10mm and not the weak factory ammo.
 
caramel said:
44 mag and 357 mag are just great calibers, the 10mm Glock is on my short list to get very shortly, there is something about those legendary powerfull calibers that appeal to me in handgun shooting, sure less powerfull caliber will be cheaper to shoot... JP.
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I try and keep it down to 3 calibers in handguns . They are .45acp, .357 and .44 mag. If I had to settle on just one it would be .357
 
09outlander said:
I just jumped on the 10mm bandwagon, I picked up a Kimber 1911, should have it sometime next week, I'm looking forward to reloading for it to see the real power of the 10mm and not the weak factory ammo.
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I am ready to for the 10mm, with my Thureon 10mm i made load devellopment and i got a super hot load that i rolled for the carbine, i will probably get a Glock since i got a dozen of mag for it ( same are used in the TD), i am pushing out of my TD a load that got the energy of a 357 mag full load out of a carbine (1100 pounds) so out of a Glock, it should peak @ around 650 pounds, i will do tests over the Oehler to have the precise values ( that is almost twice what a 45 acp give, just incredible)... JP.
 
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Johnnyjellybean said:
I try and keep it down to 3 calibers in handguns . They are .45acp, .357 and .44 mag. If I had to settle on just one it would be .357
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I dont really have a use for 9mm, 40 S&W, 45 ACP or Colt 45 @ this point i am not interrested in them, maybe my idea will change with times, who know, but i doubt it... JP.
 
caramel said:
I dont really have a use for 9mm, 40 S&W, 45 ACP or Colt 45 @ this point i am not interrested in them, maybe my idea will change with times, who know, but i doubt it... JP.
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I like .45acp because it's both easy and cheap to shoot and there is so much available in the 1911 platform. That being said, if I had to own only 1, it would be my 686 4.2"
 
So I took the DE to the range today after a good cleaning and lubing. I realized that probably the most important thing you can do to make these guns shoot without any FTF or FTE (aside from keeping it clean and lubed) is to hold it properly. Any limpwristing at all and the gun will definitely FTF or FTE but if you hold it with a death grip, the gun will go through 100 rounds quickly without a hiccup. I went through the second box of 50 so quick that the barrel became scorching hot.... too hot to touch for more than 1 second. Quirky gun but once you learn the quirks, they are a lot of fun. They definitely attract a lot of attention at the range.
 
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