Thanks for the welcomes!
Just to throw in a thought about newbie guns. I got a ruger mark iii since I liked the idea of accuracy over everything else.
A lot of people told me not to do it since it's takedown is very newbie unfriendly.
While I don't have much to compare against, it's really not difficult to learn the disassembly procedure and I'm not smart .
Watch a few vids on youtube for fieldstripping,
then check this out for detail strip.
http://www.guntalk-online.com/detailstrip.htm
I got the gun @ casos so +1 to them. Polite, relatively cheap, hard to find parking.
Cheers,
-E