Twotter wrote:
Gold plated .50 Desert Eagle is really the only logical and practical choice...in fact, standard issue should be to carry two in a shoulder holster or criss cross holster on the back of the waist.
I had one in .50. Not gold plated. Sold it. It was great fun for a few trips to the range. But utterly ridiculous and impractical. The thing weighed as much as an M4. It jammed about once per magazine. Each time the failure mode would be different. It was obscenely loud. So much so that people at the range would stop shooting and come over to see WTF was I doing. One lady shooter once cussed me out and left. Too much for her. Huge fireball. Ceiling tiles above me would buckle at an indoor range. And then there's the recoil. Best described as barely manageable. Ammo was expensive, about a dollar a round, however since the pistol would beat me up pretty quickly the ammo consumption was kind of self limiting.
The Army should select the Sig P226. They'd get the best full size combat pistol there is, and they'd get some parts commonality with 228/M11 not to mention familiar controls.
But logic won't win the contract. Bean counters and politics will play a larger role than the range testing. IIRC back in the 80s when they were replacing the .45 in testing the P226 jammed once for so many thousands of rounds, Berretta jammed a few times, and everything else jammed more. The control 1911 jammed the most, which should not be a surprise to anyone who's familiar with it.
