Originally Posted By: ILBob
Originally Posted By: widget

I for the life of me, do not understand the facination with the US military compass, it's too heavy, too hard to read for someone sight challenged and they tend to lose their ability to point to magnetic north over the years. Oh, and they cost too much.


There is a lot of fascination with things military, even when there are far better options available at lower cost.

I am amazed that the US 9mm pistol is not more popular.

I think part of is that people think military gear is made better. What it really is made to do is be usable by semi-trained teenagers and hard for the semi-trained teenagers to break.


I think the M9 Berreta lost it's initial appeal after they had problems with the slide coming off the pistol when being fired. The civilian version is the 92SF. The other thing is that 9mm is not all that highly regarded, particularly in a large frame pistol.

All of what you said is very, very true. Besides the P-38 can opener, I can't think of a single piece of military gear that I actually still use. I guess I still use the miltary belt, the webbing one with the open face buckle. Most services have replaced that with some tacticool wide belt, a poor man's riggers belt.
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