ered by olff Power ed b y Wolf f! For over 50 years Wolff has been the name you trust for precision gunsprings - Recoil Springs - Magazine Springs - Hammer Springs - Firing Pin Springs - Other Springs - Performance Kits For hundreds of Semi-Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles and Shotguns. Like oil in your car, springs need to be changed from time to time. P.O.Box 458, Dept. 381, Newtown Square, PA 19073 Toll-Free at 800-545-0077 or 610-359-9600 calibermyth Continued from page 49 be intentionally ignoring other designs. Shooters come in all sizes and with widely varying preferences and abilities. From just a purely physical standpoint, some of us are rather small in stature, have small hands and are not very well suited for a large-frame gun like a 1911. We also have widely varying sensitivities to recoil. There are also many different ways in which we may want to carry our concealed carry handgun. It may range from a very small pistol or mini revolver in a handbag, to something more substantial in a shoulder holster. There is no 1-sizefits-all answer. Some of us also don’t have the shooting abilities others have. No matter what the user is carrying they have to be able to use it effectively. A person armed with a .45 Auto who can’t keep shots in a bushel basket at 10 yards, while under stress, is not going to be very effective. A person with a .38 Special or .380 Auto who can shoot in a 5" circle at 10 yards under stress — will be highly effective. The bottom line is you have to be proficient with your equipment, and you have to able to properly use, manipulate and fire it to be effective. There are folks who simply cannot shoot well with a .40 S&W or a .45 Auto because they have small hands, or don’t handle the recoil well. Does that mean these people are somehow doomed to be risking their very lives by caring a gun/cartridge combination that is hopelessly ineffective because it isn’t a .40 S&W or a .45 Auto? Hardly. www .gunsprings .com www.gunsprings .gunsprings.com Isn’t it time to make sure your gun is Powered by Wolff! World’s Finest Magazines MEC-GAR is proud to offer “Optimum” - our new and unique series of high capacity flush-fit pistol magazines. The new design of the magazine housing and interlinked magazine components, together with a special Anti-Friction Coating offer far superior performance even in difficult operational environments. The increased firepower of MEC-GAR “Optimum” magazines can be further raised by an optional “Plus Two” adapter. “Plus Two” is a new set of hollow butt-plate and inner base to raise the capacity of the MEC-GAR “Optimum” magazine by 2-rounds and stick out only 5/8” from the butt of the pistol! Available For: Beretta 92FS 9mm 18rd / 20rd Beretta 96FS .40S&W 13rd / 15rd Para-Ordnance P14 .45ACP 14rd SIG P226 9mm 18rd / 20rd SIG P226 .40S&W 13rd / 15rd Springfield XD 9mm 18rd Springfield XD .40S&W 13rd Taurus PT92 9mm 18rd / 20rd Taurus PT100 .40S&W 13rd / 15rd Mec-Gar USA, Inc., 905 Middle Street, Middletown, CT 06457 Tel: (800) 632-4271 Fax: (860) 635-1712 www.mec-gar.com “OPTIMUM”. THE WORLD’S BEST MAGAZINES Ammo The truth be known, virtually any cartridge existing, down to even the lowly .22 Long Rifle, is capable of decisively ending a confrontation if put in the right place. The catch here is that “right place” thing, and our ability to achieve that right place under a wide range of circumstances and stress levels. In the real world, you have to anticipate the ability to put the bullet in the right place might be a bit of a dicey proposition. So this whole argument really boils down to how much margin for error do we have in the terminal performance of our chosen cartridge for a shot — not perfectly placed? Looked at another way, does our chosen cartridge posses adequate terminal performance to convince someone intending to do us harm they’d really rather not? At this point I will offer up an opinion eliminating some calibers for serious self-defense work based on data and fact. Any small caliber 80 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • MAY/JUNE2012
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