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So first a quick background, I've had my non restricedted for 6 years and I have lots of experience with the browning 9mm in the army. But now I'm staring down the barrel of my first hand gun purchase and Im royally stuck. I've limited myself to 3 choices:

Remington 1911 r1
Smith an Wesson M&P 9mm
Beretta 92fs

I gotta admit even though I'm young and everyone seems to be going tactical I just can't leave the 1911 alone. So leaving ammo prices out of it what would you guys buy? I have no worries about recoil, infact I like it haha but I do still have a month to decide and I'm racking my head on this desicion! Please put me at ease haha
 
TheArmyMan204 said:
So first a quick background, I've had my non restricedted for 6 years and I have lots of experience with the browning 9mm in the army. But now I'm staring down the barrel of my first hand gun purchase and Im royally stuck. I've limited myself to 3 choices:

Remington 1911 r1
Smith an Wesson M&P 9mm
Beretta 92fs

I gotta admit even though I'm young and everyone seems to be going tactical I just can't leave the 1911 alone. So leaving ammo prices out of it what would you guys buy? I have no worries about recoil, infact I like it haha but I do still have a month to decide and I'm racking my head on this desicion! Please put me at ease haha
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Bought the M&P 9mm and fired 20-30 rounds and it is now with a new happy owner.
Sucked but then again i also hate polymer frames
 
LOL glad to see you mention (your first) purchase .
With that being said, and the fact that you are used to the 9mm, I can see were you might be well served with the 1911 in 45 acp the bigger , more powerfull 45 acp might be just what your looking for .
Have one myself, and its a great choice , also ease to reload for .
Mine is the colt commander .
Beretta 92fs is also another fantastic choice , had one , sold it , will get another one . very accurate and dependable , very ###y gun ..
Being a 9mm that your familiar with, might be comfortable , but also may leave you wanting .
M&P, well, cant say from experience, but hear good things you also get a lot for your money .
You should get all of them, but I say get the 1911 first .
Only because you'll likely want all them anyway ,
the 45 is a new caliber to you, Im sure you'll like it , and it'll be more exciting to you, than just another 9mm.
 
If you are captivated by the 1911 you are in good company, and for the record its tactical enough that the US Marines have readopted an updated version of it. It simply answers any question that can be answered with a service pistol. At one time it was possible to find 1911s in 9mm, but how easy that is today I can't say, as I prefer bigger so haven't been paying attention. While the cost of shooting .45 is slightly higher than the cost of shooting 9mm, its not a crippling difference, particularly if you compare it to the cost of shooting rifle cartridges. So find a 1911 you can afford and like, buy it, and enjoy it. There's lots of time to purchase a DA or a striker fired pistol later in your shooting career.
 
Those three guns are all completely different in just about every way. Different actions, different frames, different profile and different feel in the hand. You might as well have asked which we think is the coolest of the three, in which case, I like the 1911 R1. I don't care for polymer handguns, and the Beretta is cool but I don't like slide-mounted safeties out of pure personal preference.

It sounds like you're leaning towards the 1911 and I doubt you'll be disappointed, but saying to leave ammo prices out of it may quickly come back to haunt you. .45 is considerably more expensive than 9mm (35% more going by my local prices), but that would also encourage you to get into reloading which I highly recommend. There's also the 9mm 1911 option. STI's Spartan in 9mm is a really sweet handgun.
 
If it was just between those three I'd probably lean towards the 1911 first, then the M&P, then the Beretta. But I would choose a Sig 226 over all of them in a heartbeat.
 
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