Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you are only interested in target shooting, the 22 is fine. But if it to be used for self-defense, coping with the blast, flash, and recoil are major concerns. I've seen guys with a 50 cal Desert Eagle who couldn't hit paper at 15 feet because they dreaded the punishing blast and recoil and, as a result, tended to close their eyes, grit their teeth, and shoot the paper holder. But you don't want a Walther P99 anyway. Nine mm penetrates too much and hits the good guys.. Go with a SigSauer or Beretta .40 SW. ;-) At 11:42 AM 11/2/2004, you wrote: >So here are my photos from this weekend: > >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/bands/2004/dracsball/ > >The nice folks over at dancing ferret threw a big party for my birthday with >some of my favorite bands, Ego Likeness from Washington D.C. and Collide, >from Los Angeles. I think this might be some of my best recent live-band >photography. I finally seem to have gotten some of that crispness that colin >voze has been getting all along now. I was mostly shooting at 6400 asa wide >open at 2.8, sometimes with the 80mm, sometimes with the 200. even with the >200 at 6400 asa, some of my shutter speeds were in the 1/30 range. > >kyle > >Now, is it silly to buy the Walther p99 over the p22 when all you expect to >do is shoot paper targets?? Is it just a testosterone thing? > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information