I really don´t get the handgun thing. Gun is a tool, personally I use the biggest hammer I can comfortably swing, if the big one breaks, I use the next smaller (or larger).
I don´t favor handguns, just because it´s to easy to miss, what your aiming at, the sight radius is a bit short for accurate/consistant shooting. But they are a handy size, to carry as a back up, for a real weapon.
Before somebody comes back, about practice and combat shooting. I haven´t missed a standard 25 meter pistol target in twenty years and most times put it in the black. I practice one handed, makes shooting with two much easier. I recently finished second, at a local combat shoot, having not fired one round in combat practice, in ten years. Some people concentrate more on style, than accuracy.
Pistols got a bad rap, in my oppinion, everytime I hear somebody talk about a concealed weapon and such, I got to shake my head and wonder. I can put a rifle round in your ear, at a couple of hundred meters. You´d never hear the round that hit you and probably would never see me firing, that to me is concealed.
To me a pistol, is a back up weapon, not the weapon of choice, for most jobs. Handy carry size, but a little light and hard to shoot, takes a lot of practice, to become proficient. Kind of like trying to drive a full sized nail, with a tack hammer.
The first hill I ran up in Vietnam, I carried an M-60, an M-14, an M-79 and a M1911, plus ammo. The second hill, I carried the M-60 and a M-1911, the M 1911 in case the 60 broke and I´d have something in my hand other than my c*ck.
More recently, I´ve gone numerous times into a thicket, looking for a wounded Boar. Try swinging a rifle quickly in a thicket when your facing a wounded 2-300 pound pig. Pistols have there place. The right hammer for the job.
