Beretta Storm .45 ACP

[K Frame]

Got to handle one of these today. It's the first plastic gun that has REALLY appealed to me. Fits my hand well, the weight is good, as are the ergonomics.

Anyone have one of the .45s? I'm seriously considering getting one of I get one of Dubyahs $800 tricky economy fun bux.

[Paddy]

WTH is a 'rotating barrel'?  And why don't I like that double action looking trigger? 

http://www.beretta.com/index.aspx?m=53&did=177

[mfree]

The barrel rotates via a cam slot cut in the bottom of it, to roll the locking lug out of the ejection port and unlock the slide. It keeps the barrel in the same axis during the entire firing cycle, and means there's no barrel bushing angle to account for. VERY easy to field strip and clean, too.

[Paddy]

Something else works like that. Is it Glock?  Please don't make me go out to the gun room and start disassembling pistols.

[Harold Tuttle]

the 8 round mags are a bit of a downer...

[Paddy]

8 rounds?  Might as well just pack a 1911.

[K Frame]

Something else works like that. Is it Glock?  Please don't make me go out to the gun room and start disassembling pistols.

No.

Beretta/Stoeger Cougar.

[K Frame]

the 8 round mags are a bit of a downer...

9 round magazine, one in the pipe.


"Might was well just pack a 1911"

I have a 1911. It's not double action.

[Paddy]

Condition One.  Cocked and locked.  Same trigger every time.  Double action triggers on the first pull suck, IMHO.

[Snowdog]

Sometimes I feel like 8+1 rounds of .45acp is a "downer" too.  However, I usually cheer up a bit when reloading to feed my 1911s and take a good long look at those fat 230gr FMJs and 200gr SWCs, then I think, " Y'know, maybe it wouldn't take more than 9 of these to do the job".  That usually ties me over until the next time I reload.

[K Frame]

Condition One.  Cocked and locked.  Same trigger every time.  Double action triggers on the first pull suck, IMHO.

Biggest drawbacks to that?

It's cocked and locked and there's no decocker. That's strikes 1, 2, and 3 right there.

You're not going to find another mindless sycophant licking John Browning's boots wearing my shoes. 

I have a 1911, I have a High Power. Nice guns. But they're not my first choice for either defensive or carry guns.

"Double action triggers on the first pull suck, IMHO."

I used to feel the same way. Then I got a couple and really learned how to use them.

[K Frame]

Oh yeah, why should I worry about 8+1 rounds of .45 ACP (and the Storm is NINE + 1) when my normal carry gun is a 5-shot .38 Spl. revolver?

[seeker_two]

Sometimes I feel like 8+1 rounds of .45acp is a "downer" too.  However, I usually cheer up a bit when reloading to feed my 1911s and take a good long look at those fat 230gr FMJs and 200gr SWCs, then I think, " Y'know, maybe it wouldn't take more than 9 of these to do the job".  That usually ties me over until the next time I reload.

You say that now....but when the ninja zombie biker hoards come, you'll be wishing for more than nine rounds in that Storm....eight more, to be exact.... 

[Bogie]

So, I'm guessing it takes some sorta pistol mag? What pistol is it for? Does anyone make larger ones?
 

[Matthew Carberry]

Something else works like that. Is it Glock?  Please don't make me go out to the gun room and start disassembling pistols.

Didn't the Colt 2000 have a rotating barrel?

[Gewehr98]

My 1912 Steyr-Hahn has a rotating barrel.  Pretty neat concept.

[Bogie]

Anyone ever try one of the 1911 carbine mod kits?
 

[mfree]

That Mexican pistol, the Obregon... rotating barrel.

[Marvin Dao]

So, I'm guessing it takes some sorta pistol mag? What pistol is it for? Does anyone make larger ones?

I suspect you're talking about the CX4 Storm Carbine in .45 ACP. This thread is about the PX4 Storm pistol in .45 ACP. Either way, the CX4 Storm uses Cougar magazines.