Shoot. I forgot one.
Favorite 22 handgun.
Model 18-2. Can't imagine why I forgot it. It goes along on most every range trip.
Favorite 22 handgun.
Model 18-2. Can't imagine why I forgot it. It goes along on most every range trip.
Dilemma: Favorite Gun
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Sig 226S. (The German sport model)
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My favorite gun, period, is my Pre-64 Mod. 70 in .270 Win. It was my father's then my brother's and now it belongs to me. Every member of my immediate family has taken deer with it. It kept us fed many a time. It is worn and beat up. It shows it's 60 years as a field gun. It's got a cheap '60s era Bushnell Banner 4X on top. And if I was hunting, it would be the first gun I chose. It is not for sale at any price.
Tough question so forgive me for waffling:
My sentimental favorite is my late dad’s no dash 4” 686 he bought in Sept. 1981.
The one that gets carried more than any others and is the first one out of the safe is my 1995 Les Baer 1911 .45
My sentimental favorite is my late dad’s no dash 4” 686 he bought in Sept. 1981.
The one that gets carried more than any others and is the first one out of the safe is my 1995 Les Baer 1911 .45
I want it to be a surprise.
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At my church this Sunday night there is a "Men's Meeting." There's Food, Bonfire & Fellowship. One of the "Fellowship" Items is: Bring your favorite gun. (No Ammo)
My dilemma is What is my favorite gun? I suppose it would be based on What is my Favorite gun based on a reason. That narrows it down.
Favorite Carry Gun? ...................S&W model 49
Favorite Varmint pistol? ..............T/C 10" 221 Fireball
Favorite Cowboy Action handgun? Rugar OM Vaquero 45 Colt
Favorite Buffalo Rifle? .................Shiloe Sharpe's 1874 45-7
Favorite Woods Carry? ................S&W 1917 BC 45acp
Favorite Pistol Caliber carbine? .....Uberti 1873 44 Special
Favorite AR?...............................Bushmaster AR-15 .223 (1996)
Favorite Lever Action?..................Browning 1886 45-70
Favorite Varmint Rifle? ................Savage 340 22 Hornet
Favorite Long-Range Rifle?............Savage BA 110 338 Lapua
Favorite Survival Rifle?.................Savage 24 C 20" 22/20 gauge
Favorite Sporting Clays Gun O/U?..Browning Citori 425 20 Gauge
Favorite Sporting Clays Gun Auto...Beretta 391 20 gauge
Favorite Pump Shotgun................Winchester 97 12 Gauge (1904)
Favorite Elephant Rifle..................Westly Richards double 450 3.25" NE
Favorite Rabbit upland shotgun .....Browning Superlight 20 gauge
Favorite Military Single Shot..........Citadel Martini 303 British
Favorite Military Bolt Action...........Siamese Mauser 8mm by 52mmR
Favorite Military Semi Auto............IBM M-1 Carbine, T-3 Night Scoped
Favorite Plinking Revolver..............S&W Model 17-3 22LR
Share what your favorite gun is. ROE: Must be a gun you currently own, and what category you put it in.
Ivan
You're going to have to drive a box van to your Sunday church gathering.
So easy for me.
First, I would not be dragging a long arm.
Second, I would be wearing the best-looking handgun that I can carry OWB or on my hip. If my holsters are usable, I'd wear a brace of Vaqueros.
We are talking BBQ gun here so............
First, I would not be dragging a long arm.
Second, I would be wearing the best-looking handgun that I can carry OWB or on my hip. If my holsters are usable, I'd wear a brace of Vaqueros.
We are talking BBQ gun here so............
I cannot do this with movies or music or food or most anything.
Crazy enough -- I can do it with firearms.
For me, it's my S&W Performance Center 845 Limited, second series "Model of 1998", .45cal
It's fitted like a sewing machine. It shoots like a dream. If it's not the most accurate handgun I own, it's in the top-5. It literally never fails to feed, fire, extract or eject and it feels absolutely RIGHT in my hands.
Perhaps most importantly, I was 26 long years in to my shooting, buying, owning and collecting of firearms before I ever found a "center." I never needed a focus, I just chased what I wanted, but before this pistol, I never knew that my collection could have a focus or drive.
This was my first S& Performance Center pistol, and with it I found a love for the PC Limited 5 and 6-inch target pistols produced between approximately 1993 and 2009. This one handgun directed where my passion in firearms truly was and still is.
Many folks, even Smith & Wesson aficionados don't know this pistol very well (or at all) and that's for a few reasons, mostly because they didn't make that many of them.
Crazy enough -- I can do it with firearms.
For me, it's my S&W Performance Center 845 Limited, second series "Model of 1998", .45cal
It's fitted like a sewing machine. It shoots like a dream. If it's not the most accurate handgun I own, it's in the top-5. It literally never fails to feed, fire, extract or eject and it feels absolutely RIGHT in my hands.
Perhaps most importantly, I was 26 long years in to my shooting, buying, owning and collecting of firearms before I ever found a "center." I never needed a focus, I just chased what I wanted, but before this pistol, I never knew that my collection could have a focus or drive.
This was my first S& Performance Center pistol, and with it I found a love for the PC Limited 5 and 6-inch target pistols produced between approximately 1993 and 2009. This one handgun directed where my passion in firearms truly was and still is.
Many folks, even Smith & Wesson aficionados don't know this pistol very well (or at all) and that's for a few reasons, mostly because they didn't make that many of them.
Jimmy wins....
You're going to have to drive a box van to your Sunday church gathering.
Box van? I'd need a moving van.
I know the gun I hunted the hardest for. It is a Webley Mark VI .455 in the original configuration. There was just something about it that had a cool factor, but I wasn't going to get one that had been converted to .45 ACP. For me it was original caliber or nothing. It took years, but I finally found an original and unconverted gun at a shop in northern Ohio when I was visiting my brother and we were out cruising gun shops. I didn't dicker a nickel and probably almost broke my wrist reaching for my credit card. It just looks cool as can be and it shoots better than you might imagine. I have a judge friend who asks if I plan to sell it about every time I see him.
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Easy for me, I love them all, but my Remington Bicentennial 760 and my nickel 19-3 I want in my casket.
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I once spent hours at a wonderful motorcycle museum in Utopia, Texas. Dozens of beautiful antique motorcycles, each of which I studied carefully for a long time. Eventually the elderly owner came out to talk to me.
I asked him: “So, this is quite a collection. Tell me, which one is your personal favorite”?
I’ll never forget his answer.
“They are all my favorites. Each for a different reason.”
That being said, here are mine:
An old 5-screw K-38 that I bought cheap at a local
Gun show. Had a lot of “honest wear.” It was an old Bullseye gun—no telling how many rounds it had fired. My friends laughed at me for wanting it. Well, it is the sweetest, most accurate S&W I’ve ever shot. It did not take me long to earn my CMP Distinguished Revolver badge with that wonderful old gun.
A 1912 Norwegian Krag carbine in unaltered military trim, caliber 6.5 X 55 Swedish. Stunning accuracy and mechanically fascinating. My wife won it at auction and surprised me with it.
A Colt Pocket Positive in .32 S&W Long made in 1936, with 2.5”
barrel. When I first got this thing, it was obvious it was going to be carried by me everywhere. Another “sweet” gun.
I asked him: “So, this is quite a collection. Tell me, which one is your personal favorite”?
I’ll never forget his answer.
“They are all my favorites. Each for a different reason.”
That being said, here are mine:
An old 5-screw K-38 that I bought cheap at a local
Gun show. Had a lot of “honest wear.” It was an old Bullseye gun—no telling how many rounds it had fired. My friends laughed at me for wanting it. Well, it is the sweetest, most accurate S&W I’ve ever shot. It did not take me long to earn my CMP Distinguished Revolver badge with that wonderful old gun.
A 1912 Norwegian Krag carbine in unaltered military trim, caliber 6.5 X 55 Swedish. Stunning accuracy and mechanically fascinating. My wife won it at auction and surprised me with it.
A Colt Pocket Positive in .32 S&W Long made in 1936, with 2.5”
barrel. When I first got this thing, it was obvious it was going to be carried by me everywhere. Another “sweet” gun.
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You gotta be kidding! That's like asking a parent, "Who's your favorite child?".
Well that is easy; I have a favorite child and a favorite grandchild and soon to have a favorite great grandchild (by default) It changes occasionally.
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Ivan, its going to be the same handgun I bring every Sunday to Church (with ammo)
This is the favorite "today". Just picked up the 6" colt trooper this morning from ffl. The holster came from pawn shop box and fits perfect. I will put it in the woods walking gun as is what I did "today". Shot about a box of fed 158 gr lead 38 sp.. It has an amazing light single action trigger (maybe the best I have), still prefer S&W for double action.
Thanks for the chance to show it off here. Will have to see which is the favorite for "tomorrow".
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Thanks for the chance to show it off here. Will have to see which is the favorite for "tomorrow".
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My wife would wish it was just two, so I'll keep it there.
1. Remington Rangemaster 37. My father is the original owner. It's the best shooting
most accurate rifle I own. Under 1/2 MOA 5 shot groups in calm conditions, cold
bore.
2. S&W 442 no lock. My favorite carry. Pure stock and it fits like it grew there.
1. Remington Rangemaster 37. My father is the original owner. It's the best shooting
most accurate rifle I own. Under 1/2 MOA 5 shot groups in calm conditions, cold
bore.
2. S&W 442 no lock. My favorite carry. Pure stock and it fits like it grew there.
DR505
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For me I am torn between two, neither one is anything special, other than the occasion for the purchase. One is my 4” 27-3 I picked up for my very first police academy. The second is a Colt Combat Elite 1911 in .45ACP I bought the day I got commissioned in the US Navy. Those will be the last two I would wish to part with.
The one on the right is my first LE gun, a 27-3.
And here is the Combat Elite…I shot it so much I had it reworked by Wilson and Turnbull.
The one on the right is my first LE gun, a 27-3.
And here is the Combat Elite…I shot it so much I had it reworked by Wilson and Turnbull.
Not at all a hard choice: It would be the Essex frame, GI parts, government model 45, I carried in S.E.A., which saved my life one day when a BG thought I wasn't paying attention to his behavior. His mistake. I made it home, he didn't.
There is nothing fancy about it, and it has some slight modifications from when it was worn on my side in the sweat zone. Still, it's the one I'd take with, if I ever had to return to a hot zone.
Llance
There is nothing fancy about it, and it has some slight modifications from when it was worn on my side in the sweat zone. Still, it's the one I'd take with, if I ever had to return to a hot zone.
Llance
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