Objectively good for the money. Glock style trigger/breakdown and runs sig 226 mags. Factory sights are shit, get tritium sights as fast as possible.
You obviously have never worked in a shop that sells both. Despite selling a roughly equal amount of each, we send back 5-6 times as many EC9s to Taurus G2c's. The revolver's/1911's are still solid, but Mayodan's QC has taken a hard hit lately.
Then you have all the more reason to get a lever gun in the same caliber. .357mag out of a rifle barrel will fit your needs quite well, regardless of what the texans think a 180gr hardcast going at 1400-1600 FPS isn't going to bounce off a whitetail or wild hog.
Any of your standard's will do the trick, Ruger MKIII/MKIV, Browning Buckmark all have threaded barrel options. Could go out of the way and try to find a Sig/Hammerli Trailside, they're ridiculous accurate and the triggers are phenomenal.
Remington 7615 tactical. Remington marketed a 7600 in .223 that had an M4 style stock and took STANAG mags to police agencies that were convinced their officers were too dumb to handle a semi-automatic and needed something identical to their pump shotguns.
.32-20, an old blackpowder round. Still loaded for antique SAA's and cowboy action shooters. It's a decent enough performer, but uncommon and basically obsolete.
I bought several boxes of Sako bonded soft points in 220gr just over a month ago. so I'd say yes.
Kel Grendel has a fanatical hatred of recoil buffers and receiver reinforcement. In an SU16 there's basically nothing standing between the rear of the plastic receiver and the bolt, so you're one overpressure away from a kaboom.
Because some pentagon full bird needed his star for a good retirement and pushed for the stupid buzzword-worthy 'Modular' design, in this case meaning 'drop the trigger group and throw it in an entirely different gun' style of modular.
The Glock G19X and the FN 509 Tac were the only serious competitors, and it should have gone to the FN, but for some reason they're on the outs with the USG at the moment, and heaven forbid anything get picked on it's actual merits.
There was the issue with frame/locking block cracking, even if that was simply because unit armorers were too stupid to record round counts and replace the recoil springs at regular intervals.
I've seen 14 year old girls manage to not limp wrist a G17, so congratulations on that. Whoever you were with should have beat your ass for rapidfiring too, you have to get accurate, THEN learn to be fast AND accurate.
>If you want ease of use for a new user you want a revolver period.
Vid related.
>The handle is more ergonomic and instinctively shoots in line with the forearm
No.
>An automatics grip and recoil is something you have to train hard to handle properly
Unless it has an insanely high bore axis (Like a revolver) an autoloader will have less recoil for the same power of carrtridge, and approximate weight of gun.. There's this thing called physics, perhaps you should learn them.
>and of course its more maintenance intensive, more parts to know, more parts to lose etc…
I love you guys that have never, ever taken a sideplate off and just brought it to a gunsmith for cleaning.
>Tradeoff to lower capacityfor a revolver is being able to fit longer casings and more powerful rounds, its a pretty good fucking tradeoff.
This fuck can't handle 9x19, can barely handle .22, and you want to set him up with a .357mag or .44mag? That's a level of monkey strength retard I haven't seen since the last chimpout.
Revolvers are NOT a novices weapon. Simply because you look at the outside and your untrained eye sees less fiddly parts has nothing to do with the actual complexity and manual of arms. A revolver is a marksman's weapon for someone that can understand and appreciate having a wide variety of loads, and the capability to put them all to use.
You keep assuming a complete novice is going to get into the esoteric world of handloading, or even read enough to understand light versus heavy loads, when you damn well know unless they're going to be a truly serious shooter they'll buy the cheapest shit off the shelf and just shoot that.
You're either disingenuous, hopelessly naive, or just retarded.
Cabela's tends to put them on sale for $1650 brand new a few times a year, so unless it comes with a pretty good amount of accessories or something that seems high for a used gun.
Unless you're just hooked on the nostalgia, a decent older build FAL will run you about that on the secondary market and be a fantastic gun, and a PTR91 will run almost half that.