CCO 1911 & the SIG 320

 Is anyone hack sawing SIG 320s?

CCO 1911 & Glock Hacks

The "ideal" carry Glock in .357 SIG would have a G17-size slide with a G26-size handle. So, maybe. There is a lot to unwrap here, BUT there might be a short cut.

Can you just short circuit the whole problem by throwing a G31 barrel in a G33 gun?

Actually, it looks like it won't work: https://www.glocktalk.com/threads/are-glock-handguns-barrels-interchangeable.1787366/

So, well. Time to get out the hacksaw. And it'd be cheaper. The original work around.

The Most Pedestrianly Exciting Shot Show 2022 Release

There is enough to be all aflutter about a few releases that were actually or sort of made at Shot Show 2022. 

Mega-boutique gunmaker KelTec's P15 demands a response from the blue-collar gun makers. 

.30 Super Carry raises many questions including: (1) Is it hype? (2) Will it ka-BOOM pistols? (3) Will it gain traction? 

A four-column (A)rmalite (R)ifle magazine receiver. 

A hunting cartridge that is perfected for a shorty bolt-action. And it is 8 or 9mm or something.

Franklin Armory's ridiculously expensive G-S173 binary trigger system (pretty much everything but the frame, barrel, and recoil rod and spring). 

credit: TheFirearmsBlog

Harrington & Richardson has been reinvented with a retro M-16A1 clone being its first release. H&R really does still holds some trademarks to and full technical specifications for the M-16, because H&R was one of the original manufacturers. And guess what. Palmetto State Armory bought H&R in the Remington liquidation.

So what's the big news? Taurus has a .327 Federal Magnum revolver already cataloged on its website. It looked very exciting, because it looks very similar to the 856 UL revolver - the 6-shot .38-Special Ultra-Lite version of Taurus's 5-shot model 85. Unfortunately, the current offering of the Taurus 327 is a full-weight albeit snubnose 6-shot format tipping the scales at 22 oz. It's at a nice MSRP of $371 and 5 cents.

I really hope Taurus has a 327 UL in its back pocket. Maybe it will be called the 3277 UL - keeping the trend going for Taurus of adding a round at the same time that the Ultra-Lite version appears.

credit: Shooting Illustrated

KelTec's NEW P15 vs. the OLD PF9 (and, yeah, of course the SIG P365)

credit: KelTec

KelTec Joins The Fun

The #Micro9 craze has been going great guns, since SIG Sauer introduced the P365. Well, not really. It took the other players a few years to catch up. Unfortunately, KelTec was early to the party and sat in a folding chair on the edge of the dance. Let me digress.

KelTec had the P11 for years. It sort of took Smith & Wesson mags that were from S&W  old metal DA/SA pistols, but it came with a 10-round "proprietary" mag based on the S&W mag. It was everything the SIG P365 came to be. Don't laugh!

Before we get into the nitty gritty, who are the players in the industry?

Micro 9s (order of intro)

KelTec P11 (1995-2019)

SIG P365 (2018-now)

Springfield Armory Hellcat (2019-now)

S&W  M&P Shield Plus (2021-now)

Ruger MAX-9 (2021-now)

KelTec P15 (2022-now)

And to celebrate the P11 that was ahead of its time - a Viking funeral.

The Nitty Gritty

How does the KelTec P15 stacks up to the gun it sort of pretty much replaced - the KelTec P11? And how does it compare to the lightest 9 - the KelTec PF9? How does it size up to the SIG P365 - the quintessential micro 9?

Well, hell that's inconclusive! Is the KelTec P15 a SIG P365 killer, or is it just a little bit too tall?

NEXT: KelTec P15:  Glock-19 Killer! 

.30 Super Carry IS .32 Super!

 UPDATE:1/6/22 4:00 PM

UPDATE: 1/6/22 11:43 AM

Why is no one saying this?

Same caliber: .312

.30 Super Carry (credit: American Rifleman)

.32 ACP (credit: Wikipedia)

This all looks pretty much the same as the .38 ACP/.38 Super situation - except the semi rim. Oh, and also the fact that .30 Super Carry has a bigger case. Close enough.

.30 Super Carry (credit: The Gun Dungeon)

Well, The Gun Dungeon on Rumble.com did make the connection that .30 Super Carry is pretty much a .32 ACP Magnum, which dismisses the logical conclusion that it really is a .32 Super.

Of course, Glock could have cut this off at the knees by producing a guaranteed-to-be-unsuccessful .32 GAP.

.32 ACP (credit: LoadData.com)