69 and don't own a S&W newer than 1991.
Average age here
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gamedic
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I'm just a baby on this site, 39. I have never had a dishwasher safe gun. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to guns, no plastic pistols and my rifles all wear wood. There is just a better feel to a wood rifle stock.
^66 here in April. Own one glock and I like it. This year my favorite is my nickel 34 snub. Sold all other plastic and have a 36 blue airweight J frame this will be the wife's if I can get her well and taught how to handle the little 36. Her mother gave me the fathers old pre 10 and wife liked it. To large for her to carry. K frames seem to fit my hands better these days. authur-itus has played heck with both hands.
Im 24. I appreciate the spectrum of age range here, over the years a lot has changed but some stuff has stayed the same. It is nice to get opinions from people who have had various types of training and experience throughout the years. Also it is nice comparing new schoold to old school tactics and weaponry/equipment.
mike from st pete
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Age is Nothing but a Number
I'm 55 and if it makes loud noises and spits lead at high velocity I like it.
Black and ugly, polished blue steel and walnut, matte silver, I don't care as long as it is accurate.
I'm 55 and if it makes loud noises and spits lead at high velocity I like it.
Black and ugly, polished blue steel and walnut, matte silver, I don't care as long as it is accurate.
kraigwy
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I started out at "0", I'm now "63" so I guess my average age is 31 1/2.
Don't sound so bad when I say it that way.
Don't sound so bad when I say it that way.
cass
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Just turned 67. If the younger set wants/likes the plastic guns, more power to them. I've never owned one, nor ever will. I prefer metal/wood only. Sure, the plastic ones are probably more accurate, and trouble free, but they just don't have any personality. I can take any of my metal/wood guns and put them on a table with 100 others like them, and pick out mine immediately. They all have a story to tell, and personality. I doubt that you could do the same with a plastic one. I will never never fault anyone for their choice of firearm.
Bullseye 2620
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Badda bing, badda bam, badda boom! Works for me, Kraig.
No plastic here, either. Body parts are one thing, but guns?
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Fishslayer
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I'm 56 & my accumulation runs from a '52 S&W blued wheelgun to a Parkerized 1911 to a Ruger KP90 bottom feeder.
While I don't much care for plastic guns I own a Ruger 22/45 and the wife has a SIG Mosquito. She doesn't know it yet but she also has a SIG SP2022 she was liking so much down at the LGS. Our anniversary is the tenth.
My preference is for old skool blued steel, but admire stainless and reallize plastic has it's place, tho I try to keep the polymer in my safe to a minimum.
You will never, ever see me totin' a long gun with a vertical foregrip tho, and it's highly unlikely you'll ever see me with a handgun that doesn't have a hammer.
While I don't much care for plastic guns I own a Ruger 22/45 and the wife has a SIG Mosquito. She doesn't know it yet but she also has a SIG SP2022 she was liking so much down at the LGS. Our anniversary is the tenth.
My preference is for old skool blued steel, but admire stainless and reallize plastic has it's place, tho I try to keep the polymer in my safe to a minimum.
You will never, ever see me totin' a long gun with a vertical foregrip tho, and it's highly unlikely you'll ever see me with a handgun that doesn't have a hammer.
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Bullseye 2620
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When I was a kid, I talked to an old Injun who's white man name was Dewey Beard. He and a bunch of Ogallas always came to Cheyenne Frontier days and I would visit with him. I din't know until about 10 years ago that his Injun name was Wooden Leg and he was there.
Iggy, I am sure ya know Dewey Beard lived to almost 100 (he passed around 1955) and was the last survivor of the dust-up at the Greasy Grass. You are fortunate to have met him.
It is an interesting custom among the Lakhota that people acquire different names at different times in their lives. This may have to do with an event, a waking vision, or a dream. So, Big Foot, the leader of the Minneconju band that Dewey was with at Wounded Knee, was also known as Spotted Elk. So too, with Dewey, he was known as Iron Hail. By the way, although he lived among the Ogallalas on Pine Ridge and then in Rapid most of his life, he was from Cheyenne River, as are most Minneconjus. He was one of the guys who modeled for the old Indian head nickels, proving that even old guys with big noses can have a certain rock-star quality.
There's hope fer us old guys yet!.
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I apologize for gettin' off subject here a bit, but Bullseye and a few others might get kick out readin' this.
It talks a bit about changin' names etc.
Itchy's Name
Now keep in mind that Ol Iggy would tell you a story 3 differn't way afore he'd tell you a lie....
It talks a bit about changin' names etc.
Itchy's Name
Now keep in mind that Ol Iggy would tell you a story 3 differn't way afore he'd tell you a lie....
Great to hear the surgery worked out well.
Thanks, not something I want to go through again.
truckemup97
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I'm 41 for a few more days. I have a few "plastic" guns. All were purchased for a specific purpose, and they do that well. However, if I want to get something out of the safe that looks pretty, it always has wood furniture and a blued finish. And I think the last time we had one of these threads, the average age was mid-50s, IIRC.
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60+ and the WIFE owns two plastic guns Mine are all American steel
Mine are all American steel
cowboy117
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Average age would be 55,IMO.I'm 66-what used to be "Never trust anyone over 30" has changed to "Never trust anyone under 60". And all my guns are not made of plastic.
And all my guns are not made of plastic.
Pushing 66 here (though I prefer to think of it as pulling 65); I have no plastic in the safe and no interest in changing that situation. I'm not even that comfortable with guns new enough to have model numbers stamped on the frame under the yoke, though I admit to having a few of those. Basically, if it was made after I turned 12 I'll probably tolerate it, but I'm not likely to chase it.
My impression is that the mean age around here is in the early '50s.
My impression is that the mean age around here is in the early '50s.
Bullseye 2620
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I apologize for gettin' off subject here a bit, but Bullseye and a few others might get kick out readin' this.
It talks a bit about changin' names etc.
Itchy's Name
Now keep in mind that Ol Iggy would tell you a story 3 differn't way afore he'd tell you a lie....
Pilamaya yelo, kola! What a great story. Icamaniwin, indeed. Just to keep this somewhat related to the thread, I'd like it if some of the young guys on here came up with stories as good as those Iggy, Keith44Special, and some of the other older sons of the West on this forum have to tell.
Bullseye
70 and I carry in my front pocket a p3at; have 3 plastic and 5 steel handguns............to each his own.
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