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Skipper5 wrote:Hadn't seen the "Shooting Times" article....thanks for including it in your post!! Wow...pretty impressive article

I just Googled Springfield EMP and a bunch of stuff came up. That was the first or one of the first links. You might try it and find all sorts of articles.

USMC-COL,

Thanks for that. The EMP sounds like something I should take a serious look at.
(Not for my next hangun purchase, or even the one after that, but something I might like to have down the road sometime.)

http://www.shootingtimes.com/handgun_re ... mp_010807/

Hmm, they also make it in .40:
http://www.springfield-armory.com/armor ... ersion=137
I really like what I see. If the grip were a little shorter . . .

I'm going to go 1911.

Before I purchased my first handgun in the early-mid nineties, I had been reading gun magazines for years. I'd seen lots of discussion of the advantages of the high-capacity 9mm pistols vs. the stopping power of the .45 ACP. I saw the
.40 S&W to be an excellent compromise between the two. I bought a double-stack .40, and then another.

Problem 1: I've found the fat grip of the double-stack mags difficult for me to conceal without radically altering the way I dress.

Problem 2: I have average or slightly smaller than average size hands. The large grip shifts around under recoil of the .40. I have to readjust my hold on the pistol every few shots.* Never going to get fast that way.

So I started thinking that maybe I should go to a single-stack magazine. And I figure that if I'm going to have less shots, I might as well punch a bigger hole. So I'm thinking .45 ACP. And that leads me to the 1911 type pistols. I've been looking at the Kimber Utra CDP II for quite some time (since before there was a II in the model name, I think).

*My Smith & Wesson Sigma is one of the largest handguns I've shot. (It's the SW40F, basically a copy of the Glock 22.) Something about the ergonomics of the grip really works for me. I have NO problems controlling it. But it is too big to conceal except in heavy winter clothing. I see it as an excellent weapon to keep in my pickup.

BTW, I like SIGs too. If I ever get another large, double-stack pistol, it'll probably be a SIG P226 in .357 SIG.