WAyyyyy way back, in the 80s and 90s, I used to be a Professional gunsmith specialising in building PRACTICAL pistols. I was also a serious IPSC competitor. During that time I personally owned about a hundred examples of the Colt Govt pistol, in various styles, from short barreled Detonics Combat Master, to 6" comped .45 Super. With years of experience at competition shooting and at building PRACTICAL pistols, I thought I knew a little bit about this and that.
Way back then, PRACTICAL meant basically COLT style 1911 pistols, with a few Browning HiPowers. Life was simple, life was good.
Then along came the new upstart, the TUPPERWARE Glock 17, and it was NOT good. It was ugly! It was made of plastic!! And worst of all, it didn't need a gunsmith to make it reliable ... or accurate ... or durable.
Of course I hated the damn things.
But then one day, while out at the range, a lady cop shooting beside me offered to sell me her Glock 17 for $ 250 ...
the tupperware gun was a bit too big for her very small hands.
OK fine.
I bought the ugly plastic gun ...
cause I could always sell it for a tidy profit to some aesthetically challenged barbarian, who could not afford my custom work any how.
Then a funny thing happenned.
I shot the ugly plastic gun ...
and lo and behold ... it shot well.
It fit my hand perfectly, pointed instinctively where it should ....
and it didn't EVER jam.
And it didn't require any fussing, or tweaking.
And unlike the Colt type pistols of my experience, parts did not break or fall off with regularity.
So, later on, when I went back to school for several years, and didn't have time to play with guns, it was really quite astonishing to me that the one PRACTICAL handgun I kept "just in case", turned out to be a Glock, rather than one of my expensive, hand built Custom Govt models.
Fast forward way too many years.
I am now ready to retire, with more time on my hands for fun and games. So I thought I'd get back into "practical" pistol again.
I just picked up a .45 ACP BUL M5, which in my humble opinion, is one of the best bangs for the buck in a Govt style pistol. The BUL came stock with a SS RAMPED/CONED barrel, which I always liked best in the Govt model type pistols. It also came with most of the parts I would have replaced as part of a tweak up for reliability. When I took it apart to work some voodoo magic on it, I found only a very few things I could improve on [ peened the barrel link pin, hammer pin, dimple the slide stop, change to heavier recoil spring, etc. ]. All in all, for a "standard" class pistol, it came already with most of what I wanted.
So this weekend, I went to a "FUN" practical pistol match. I shot the match with my totally PRACTICAL Glock 19, with exactly the same gear I would use if I was exercising my right to concealed carry. It was a hoot. I was also quite pleased that after 15 years without practice, shooting unclassified, I managed a 50 % score. [ as you get older, your expectations get .... older too ]
My Glock never let me down, and every miss was MY FAULT, not the guns. I didn't need better equipment, what I really needed was MORE PRACTICE.
Just for fun, I brought out the BUL, and tried a few fun passes with it, to see how it felt. It was glaringly obvious that the BUL was a MUCH better gun for the fun and games. Infinitely better trigger, better sights, good balance, etc.
And for my fun and games gun, I suspect the BUL will be what I shoot the most. It is a genuine pleasure to shoot.
But, for my PRACTICAL pistol, it will still be a Glock.
And, there is a possibility that sometime in the future,
you may see an add in the GN exchange ....
Wanted .45 ACP Glock 21SF for trade for Bul M5.
This is my story.
My name is Lazerus200,
and I am a Glockaholic.
[;{)
LAZ 1
Way back then, PRACTICAL meant basically COLT style 1911 pistols, with a few Browning HiPowers. Life was simple, life was good.
Then along came the new upstart, the TUPPERWARE Glock 17, and it was NOT good. It was ugly! It was made of plastic!! And worst of all, it didn't need a gunsmith to make it reliable ... or accurate ... or durable.
Of course I hated the damn things.
But then one day, while out at the range, a lady cop shooting beside me offered to sell me her Glock 17 for $ 250 ...
the tupperware gun was a bit too big for her very small hands.
OK fine.
I bought the ugly plastic gun ...
cause I could always sell it for a tidy profit to some aesthetically challenged barbarian, who could not afford my custom work any how.
Then a funny thing happenned.
I shot the ugly plastic gun ...
and lo and behold ... it shot well.
It fit my hand perfectly, pointed instinctively where it should ....
and it didn't EVER jam.
And it didn't require any fussing, or tweaking.
And unlike the Colt type pistols of my experience, parts did not break or fall off with regularity.
So, later on, when I went back to school for several years, and didn't have time to play with guns, it was really quite astonishing to me that the one PRACTICAL handgun I kept "just in case", turned out to be a Glock, rather than one of my expensive, hand built Custom Govt models.
Fast forward way too many years.
I am now ready to retire, with more time on my hands for fun and games. So I thought I'd get back into "practical" pistol again.
I just picked up a .45 ACP BUL M5, which in my humble opinion, is one of the best bangs for the buck in a Govt style pistol. The BUL came stock with a SS RAMPED/CONED barrel, which I always liked best in the Govt model type pistols. It also came with most of the parts I would have replaced as part of a tweak up for reliability. When I took it apart to work some voodoo magic on it, I found only a very few things I could improve on [ peened the barrel link pin, hammer pin, dimple the slide stop, change to heavier recoil spring, etc. ]. All in all, for a "standard" class pistol, it came already with most of what I wanted.
So this weekend, I went to a "FUN" practical pistol match. I shot the match with my totally PRACTICAL Glock 19, with exactly the same gear I would use if I was exercising my right to concealed carry. It was a hoot. I was also quite pleased that after 15 years without practice, shooting unclassified, I managed a 50 % score. [ as you get older, your expectations get .... older too ]
My Glock never let me down, and every miss was MY FAULT, not the guns. I didn't need better equipment, what I really needed was MORE PRACTICE.
Just for fun, I brought out the BUL, and tried a few fun passes with it, to see how it felt. It was glaringly obvious that the BUL was a MUCH better gun for the fun and games. Infinitely better trigger, better sights, good balance, etc.
And for my fun and games gun, I suspect the BUL will be what I shoot the most. It is a genuine pleasure to shoot.
But, for my PRACTICAL pistol, it will still be a Glock.
And, there is a possibility that sometime in the future,
you may see an add in the GN exchange ....
Wanted .45 ACP Glock 21SF for trade for Bul M5.
This is my story.
My name is Lazerus200,
and I am a Glockaholic.
[;{)
LAZ 1
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