Getting Sick of Guys With Plastic Pistols...

[Stargater]

Say what you may, but Glocks are dependable and cheap. For $450, what else are you going to get that is as dependable and shoots as good?

That's exactly the problem. We used to be able to get good steel guns for that price. Now we think we've got a good deal when they sell us a plastic pistol for the same price we used to get a good stainless steel gun for. You want to get a good steel gun now? It's horrendously priced!

I love nickel plated guns. No one's making them anymore unless you want a 1911 pistol, and they're all very expensive and if you want a nickel-plated gun, you have to look in the used gun market, and they ain't cheap. Nickel was beautiful, it was durable and did I saw they were beautiful?

 

[Protocall_Design]

Electroless nickel is a fairly good option. You can even do that at home if you want.

 

[Laketime]

oh, I do. I enjoyed the $300 pistols I've purchased just as much as my 1K+ pistols. But guess what, they're still guns, not art, not anything to sit around and fondle and stroke - as many here do.

Many here belong to a larger world wide community that will disagree with you.Yet you chose to call them nuts for this ? Do you feel that the museums and world wide community of collectors and enthusiasts are misguided, while you have it together ?

 

[peterGun]

That's exactly the problem. We used to be able to get good steel guns for that price. Now we think we've got a good deal when they sell us a plastic pistol for the same price we used to get a good stainless steel gun for. You want to get a good steel gun now? It's horrendously priced!

I love nickel plated guns. No one's making them anymore unless you want a 1911 pistol, and they're all very expensive and if you want a nickel-plated gun, you have to look in the used gun market, and they ain't cheap. Nickel was beautiful, it was durable and did I saw they were beautiful?

You can still get new nickel guns, the Beretta 84,85 talk about sexy, nickel and .380acp together.


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[SATX]

Many here belong to a larger world wide community that will disagree with you.Yet you chose to call them nuts for this ? Do you feel that the museums and world wide community of collectors and enthusiasts are misguided, while you have it together ?

Initially, that comment was a bit of humor, referencing liberals calling us all gun nuts.

Comparing actual artwork in a museum to firearms is absurd. Firearms in museums are there for their historical significance, not your belief that they are beautiful things, so maybe you and others do have a problem after all.

I have had several very nice, fast cars, Mustangs and a Challenger.. I was proud to own them but I didn't consider them art. Why? They're not.

 

[Laketime]

Initially, that comment was a bit of humor, referencing liberals calling us all gun nuts.

Comparing actual artwork in a museum to firearms is absurd. Firearms in museums are there for their historical significance, not your belief that they are beautiful things, so maybe you and others do have a problem after all.

I have had several very nice, fast cars, Mustangs and a Challenger.. I was proud to own them but I didn't consider them art. Why? They're not.

Look at Cabot's 1911 site.You will find pistols done in a purely artistic form.Also you might want to discover the many fine arms posted here that have been engraved for purely artistic value.Nothing wrong for you to discover another side of firearms that you seemed to have missed.

 

[rogerwnuss]

Tell that to the pre war Germans who developed the pp, ppk, P38........
Personally I like that layout. Recently acquired a ISP marked 39 which is going to replace my Sig p6, which may soon be getting traded for a Walther p1

 

[SFC Rick]

I love heavy metal and if it's a bit scratched up that's fine with me. I personally never liked Glocks but I do own a couple of Tupperware versions. I like nice things and the perspective it gives me, I grew up fighting for my life in the Marines so every day is a blessing.

 

[HCH]

a 3913NL or HK45c are on my person to protect me and mine...I trust both equally

You need a 4513

 

[nocents]

You need a 4513

you are right

 

[Beachcomber]

"Getting Sick of Guys With Plastic Pistols...calling my S&W 659/5906 or 645 boat anchors."

Try to remember this...
"It's not the style of wand that the wizard holds... it's the magic that he can get it to produce."

 

[Smoke]

I really wonder what the life expectancy is for poly guns.

Now I'm positive this couldn't be anything but an outlier but there's a guy on Glock talk who posted the thread a couple years back entitled "I think my 21 has proved its worth". He took a Glock 21 and decided to see just how long it would last. He put something like a hundred and eighty thousand rounds through it. He left it sitting overnight in Frozen salt water. He buried it in the mud. He threw it out of an airplane in Alaska. You can go check the thread if you're interested for what all he did to this gun but he literally shot it until the rifling in the bore was gone

ETA added link


I think my 21 has proven its durability | The Leading Glock Forum and Community - GlockTalk.com

 

[Smoke]

Guns are entirely utilitarian to me. I carry a Glock, there are a million more just like it. I carry it with the full expectation that if (God forbid) I ever have to use it it's gone. It'll go to the evidence locker and I'll either never see it again or it will be thrashed by the time I do.

If I'm carrying a gun for 11 or 12 hours in a day I appreciate a lighter gun and there's really nothing that you can do with a 5906 that I can't do with a Glock 19.

I own one third generation Smith & Wesson that is literally irreplaceable because I bought it in a private sale in Colorado right before they changed the law. So it's a safe Queen but even at that it's disposable I'm not taking it with me.

 

[oink]

1st off who cares what the plastic gun guys say. Secondly, I have both. The plastic guns are just practical tools. Glocks are ugly but they are cheap and they work. I have 5 of them. The 43 my wife carries, the 23 I sometimes carry and the model 40 I sometimes carry. I carry the 23 when I feel the need for reliability, concealability and capacity. The 40 for when I'm willing to sacrifice some consealability for power, reach and accuracy. If engaging an active shooter with a rifle I won't have one. I'd like something that gives me a little better chance against a rifle. Otherwise I'm likely carrying a steel wheel gun, or steel/aluminum 1911, but honestly very rarely one of my gen2 smith semi-autos.

 

[7tenz]

After owning and having owned several 1, 2. and 3rd gen Smith autos I look at plastic Smiths differently. I own 3 Glocks, 2 in 10mm and a small collection of HKs in 45. Point is moot here because the only M&P available is the shield. The other plastic is the Sigma style.

 

[bbqncigars]

I love my metal guns, the 2206, 41, 1917, AutoMag TDE 180, etc., but I also like my Kahr PM9, Glock 43 and Canik TP9sfx. They're all good guns that fulfill their purposes well.

 

[Faulkner]

The military and agencies get the lowest bidder most often.

If this were actually true, why is there not a Taurus in all those holsters?

 

[elm_creek_smith]

They either don't enter, or they don't meet the specs. They may not have the production capacity.

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[Faulkner]

 

[TheOtherGuys]

I love my revolvers. They are beautiful and extremely fun to shoot.I know my Glock 21 though is my workhorse, a hammer, that I depend on everyday I go to work. Every platform has its place.

I love my revolvers and 1911's and I also love my "plastic guns". I do appreciate the revolvers more due to the craftsmanship that goes into them.