Ultimate handgun poll

[DeltaStrikeOp]

Of course, there is no "ultimate" handgun. But IMO, the closest to "ultimate" is an all-arounder; therefore it has to be reliable, accurate (for a pistol), ergonomic, and ammunition should be easily procured.

My favorite concept pistol is the FN FiveseveN. With 20 5.7x28mm rounds in your clip and potential to have all 20 of those be armor piercing rounds, that's like having a AR-15 in your pocket. I've also heard that the recoil impulse is considered low for a pistol. However, the pistol isnt made for people that aren't king-kong (or so i've heard), and 5.7x28mm rounds are even rarer than flying pigs.

I think my favorite practical pistol will be the Glock 17. The amount of engineering put into Glocks is awesome. It is a pretty light pistol, you get 17 rounds of 9mm (which is considered plentiful) in your magazine, decent accuracy, and Glocks are almost like the AKs of the handgun world for their reliability.

.45s are real manstopping cartridges. They were designed to stop a man with 1 round. However, .45 is sometimes overkill, and there's a lot of recoil with every round. .45 rounds also aren't that common around the world.

Revolvers and the DE are really just for fun guns. You wont see any SF operator running around with those. (Sidenote: I've heard some SF operators use .40 Glock 22s. I guess they're switching from using .45 pistols, though one would assume they still kept the Mk.23 offensive pistol, HK45C, and M45 MEUSOC around)

To each their own ^_^