Christmas is ....

The link between handguns & whatever

A Sig Sauer 220R5 Legion-SAO in 10 mm caliber

Incidentally, welcome to the final month of 2021

Pretty ordinary looking handgun for a price tag of fourteen or fifteen or sixteen hundred dollars.

Right?

Is it worth that kind of money?

Time will tell, I suppose.

It is a Sig Sauer 220R5 Legion-SAO semi-automatic pistol in 10 mm caliber. It arrived Saturday to keep company with the Sig Sauer 716i semi-automatic rifle in .308 / 7.62 mm caliber which made its appearance here a few weeks ago. One sig deserves another, someone once told me, and I took it literally.

You might recall that the rifle is the first AR type I have owned. The pistol is in sort of the same category. Like many, I am an aficionado of the John Browning's Model 1911 in .45 caliber, but I have wanted a 10 mm for a few years and decided the time of wanting and waiting must come to an end.

For most practical purposes, this Sig is a 1911 in disguise since it very much looks like and has the feel of and functions in a similar fashion to a 1911.

Returning to the economics of this "masterpiece," there is an oft-repeated question about the worth of a particular thing in terms of coin of the realm .... a particular vehicle; a particular painting; a particular piece of property? My usual answer is to the effect that the worth of something is whatever someone will pay for it.

More specifically, most people, if they were to hold this particular handgun and examine it closely, probably would fall into one of three camps: Those unfamiliar with pistols and think $1500 was a typical price; those unfamiliar with guns who would be flabbergasted at the amount of money; those familiar with firearms who would "fondle" it while thoroughly inspecting it and after a few minutes say it is worth every cent of $1500 -- especially when compared to other guns on the market.

For those among you who object to firearms, you can reasonably assume this will be my last entry about one for a long/long/long while ....

As for the music accompanying this post, there may not be something for everyone, which never is the intent, rather, the idea is to make suggestions from "stuff" I enjoy and which usually has a link, obvious or subtle, to the words and the illustration ....

So, what is the link between handguns and whatever? Me, of course .... carry on, baby ....