Poll: What is the most common age group of S&W revolver owners
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You stole my post idea! I'm 45 this year, and all I saw on that poll was- "estate sale!"
Now would you older fellas please quit procrastinating? I'm sure there's one of you dust-farters out there with a nice 3" 65 that's just putting of the inevitable...
gjamison
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I'm 43 and have been collecting S&W's for 20 years. Wish I would have focused on S&W's from the start, 20 years ago they were cheaper.
dwever
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No. "History shows much fewer stoppages with wheel-guns than with autos." Massad Ayoob*
*In case someone hasn't heard:
Massad Ayoob is an internationally known firearms and self-defense instructor. Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement editor of AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s, and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. He is the author of more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including "In the Gravest Extreme," widely considered to be the authoritative text on the topic of the use of lethal force and taught in law schools.
The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob is one of approximately ten Five Gun Masters among the 10,000-member International Defensive Pistol Association, and was the first to earn that title. He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.
He has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens in numerous venues since 1974. He was the director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord NH until 2009 and an expert witness in numerous trials. He is the former Vice Chairman of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and is the only non-attorney (as a police officer) ever to hold this position. He perhaps most famously was a member of the NYPD's highly dangerous stake-out squad where he was involved in numerous gun fights. He continues in the rank of Captain in LE to this day.
His quote in this post comes from an article in 2012 in the publication Daily Caller.
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Edmo
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True revolver guys are old enough to remember Barney Fife's single bullet from when those episodes first aired...
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I bought my 1st Revolver in 1990 or so at the ripe old age of 23. It was a Model 19 with a 2/12 inch barrel. I still have that gun and the receipt. I bought with my Dad. I have since then collected a safe full of them. Over the years have migrated to J frames for carry and collecting K,L and Frames. I have a few holes to fill in the collection.
Well, as far as bottom feeders go the ones I like are over a 100 years old design.
Lots of revolvers, many 1911's for me!
Me Too!!!!
dwever
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Lol! Bazinga!
It was also a pre-emptive block-and-paste strike appealing to authority and expertise as the poster who asserted that his semi-autos are just as reliable as his revolvers has over 7,400 posts in under five years.
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cjwils
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I don't know how to set up a poll, but could someone set up the same poll for semi-auto pistol owners? A comparison of the two groups would be interesting. Although I wonder if a poll on this web site would include so much overlap that we cannot see any difference.
In spite of how long the 1911 has been around I'd suspect we would see the curve shifted to the lower age groups. I'd also set up the poll in the pistol section of the forums.
Here are the instructions on how to set up a poll: http://smith-wessonforum.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_reading_posting#faq_vb3_polls
Here are the instructions on how to set up a poll: http://smith-wessonforum.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_reading_posting#faq_vb3_polls
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Seraphim
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Kind of a meaningless poll, I think. As people get older, have better paying jobs and can afford nice firearms, they buy them. As they get older and no longer shoot - due to incapacity or lack of interest, they off load their guns. Looks like the poll kind of supports that theory. Firearm manufacturer would probably be irrelevant. My answer to the poll would be the same whether it was about S&W, FNH, Kalishnakovs, Sigs, Tanfoglios, or any other manufacturer. Of course, my answer would be different if the poll had come out next month lol.
Well I did see quite a few respondents describing the revolvers they purchased when they were 21. I myself was 21 when I bought my first revolver, a Ruger Redhawk .44 mag. IMO, being older and more established financially allows you to buy more firearms.
I'm sure some folks choose to pass on their firearms to loved ones but I also think part of the numbers decline in the higher age groups is also due to not being into computers or the internet.
I think there has been some good discussion generated by the poll at least.
I'm sure some folks choose to pass on their firearms to loved ones but I also think part of the numbers decline in the higher age groups is also due to not being into computers or the internet.
I think there has been some good discussion generated by the poll at least.
dwever
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Yeah, but even Performance Center S&W Revolvers are hardly top-tier purchases. My two Wilson Combat purchases together exceed $7,000 (sold them, after 4,000 rounds I went back to revolver carry costing me almost a $1,800 loss to kill a myth). I carry a 586 L-Comp or 627 UDR.
By sheer number of firearms, my biggest purchases would be the three 3rd Generation (22, 35, and 27) and four 4th Generation (22, 35, 34, 34) Glocks, but originally driven by my agency's choices not mine.
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I would propose that "Discretionary Income" plays a big roll.......51 to 70 year old's pockets is where a lot of that can be found in the USA.
Graduated Law School at 24........IIRC I only had 2 maybe 3 handguns at any given time through my 20s....... Long (6") barreled revolver, a 2 1/2" 19/66 and a 1911.
Through my 30s/ early 40s not much change..... except for jobs three times..... a few more handguns ... ... stored at the Cabin (with my retired Police Capt. father).........during these years if I wanted something new/used...I'd buy but not always trade or sell something...... but don't think I ever had more than 5 or 6 at any one time. (4 & 6 inch L-frame, 2 1/2 & 4 inch 19/66, maybe a 1911 of some flavor, Walther PPK (suit gun) and a Beretta 92F Compact (must have hi-cap 9 in the 80s).)
It wasn't until I was 43-45 that I started to accumulate/collect....more than I "needed".
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In this time of calls for further gun control......I like knowing I have a bunch of "old fashion" S&W six-shooters and speedloaders in the safe..........
Graduated Law School at 24........IIRC I only had 2 maybe 3 handguns at any given time through my 20s....... Long (6") barreled revolver, a 2 1/2" 19/66 and a 1911.
Through my 30s/ early 40s not much change..... except for jobs three times..... a few more handguns ... ... stored at the Cabin (with my retired Police Capt. father).........during these years if I wanted something new/used...I'd buy but not always trade or sell something...... but don't think I ever had more than 5 or 6 at any one time. (4 & 6 inch L-frame, 2 1/2 & 4 inch 19/66, maybe a 1911 of some flavor, Walther PPK (suit gun) and a Beretta 92F Compact (must have hi-cap 9 in the 80s).)
It wasn't until I was 43-45 that I started to accumulate/collect....more than I "needed".
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In this time of calls for further gun control......I like knowing I have a bunch of "old fashion" S&W six-shooters and speedloaders in the safe..........
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mike from st pete
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On the Cusp?
In six months I'll be in the highest populated category.
In six months I'll be in the highest populated category.
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