Current guns just don't interest me.

Miami_JBT

Miami_JBT

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I have everything in my collection ranging from Black Powder to NFA items, but the current modern production stuff just doesn't call my interest. Every time I see a new release from a company, it is just another GLOCK clone or another AR-15 for the most part. It is boring..... I have enough ARs to last me a lifetime and I'm setting on over thirty GLOCKs. Seeing another company release a pistol that does exactly what a GLOCK does isn't revolutionary or new or exciting. I'm all for it though, I'm glad that the industry is making what the majority of the consumers want and they're making money. But a striker-fired polymer framed pistol with a RDS is the same, no matter who released it.

It is like driving a 2010 Hyundai Elantra, 2010 Toyota Corolla, or a 2010 Honda Civic. They're all econo-box 4-bangers with ho-hum features. There's really no difference other than price and branding at this point. I feel the modern gun industry is the same. It has settled on a base formula of what the general market mostly wants. Affordable, reliable, and being a striker-fired polymer framed pistol in 9mm or a AR-15 pattern rifle in 5.56x45mm. Everything after that is just someone going through the JC Whitney catalog and slapping on spoilers and decals on the car.

So, I'm circling back and buying guns of yesteryear. More revolvers. more old-school automatics, more "fudd" guns, etc.... Anyone else doing the same?
 
Miami_JBT said:
I have everything in my collection ranging from Black Powder to NFA items, but the current modern production stuff just doesn't call my interest. Every time I see a new release from a company, it is just another GLOCK clone or another AR-15 for the most part. It is boring.....
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Ditto, and same here.
Although I did pick up a Savage93 in .17 a while back but only because it was on clearance for about half price and I never saw the point of it (but I do like it)
And I bought a SiG 322 but mostly because it came with two double stack 22LR mags that hold 20 rounds each.

But these days I mostly shoot (fudd guns) old 22 bolt or pump rifles, though I do have a fondness for single shots too!
 
My last three gun purchases were all revolvers - a well-used S&W blue 4" M15, a used Ruger blue 3" GP100 with fixed sights, and a used Ruger Super Wrangler that I didn't think I would ever buy but the price persuaded me to try it. Lately, I have been going straight to the used guns when I enter a gun store. I think there are some good sales on the way for the holidays but the only thing that even slightly interests me at the moment is a Colt 3" King Cobra.
 
But, but......our new G3TP365P10SPMAX is .75oz lighter and carries an extra half a round of ammo!

Of course, I say that when I've just bought 3 newish polystrikers in the last month, including my first (shudder) Glock. Ya, they're boring, but they carry easy and put holes in stuff reliably.

Some guns are works of art, or testaments to lost craftsmanship and ingenuity- like a P08 Luger or S&W M27.

Others are just tools , and that's ok if they work.
 
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kimberkid said:
Ditto, and same here.
Although I did pick up a Savage93 in .17 a while back but only because it was on clearance for about half price and I never saw the point of it (but I do like it)
And I bought a SiG 322 but mostly because it came with two double stack 22LR mags that hold 20 rounds each.

But these days I mostly shoot (fudd guns) old 22 bolt or pump rifles, though I do have a fondness for single shots too!
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I have a Savage 93FV-SR and a 93R17. Both are great guns and both were made long before Savage ditched their original logo.
 
bubbaturbo said:
My last three gun purchases were all revolvers - a well-used S&W blue 4" M15, a used Ruger blue 3" GP100 with fixed sights, and a used Ruger Super Wrangler that I didn't think I would ever buy but the price persuaded me to try it. Lately, I have been going straight to the used guns when I enter a gun store. I think there are some good sales on the way for the holidays but the only thing that even slightly interests me at the moment is a Colt 3" King Cobra.
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Used guns is mostly what I purchase, period.
 
In 2021 I went on a 1911 kick - I ended up with over 20 of them and did some projects of my own. Last year I got the MILSURP bug and went heavy into WWII guns from all sides. I think I filled most of that collection, so now modern guns have my attention again.

I’m just glad I’m not as fickle about my wife! 😄
 
There is a lot going on in the OP. The most salient point to me begs the question: why would anyone own 30 Glocks? I could understand owning a couple of configurations (sub-compact EDC, full size) in a couple different calibers (9,40,45), but thirty samples?

I think the reason that the gun world settled on the Glock/AR combo format is the same reason the auto industry settled on the Toyota/Honda format. Many, if not most, people can't afford to own multiple samples of the same thing. (Especially true of cars.) A person can own a Glock (or similar) and an AR (truly, the AR could be seen as a luxury) and have his/her self defense/gun owner needs met. The same is true of owning a Honda Civic. Subsequently, the industry has gone that way. We celebrate this in the popular, and oft repeated, discussion topics of "one pistol, one rifle" or "if you could only have one gun..." found here on a regular basis.

However, to answer your question, I find myself going the opposite direction. I spent much of life with "fudd" guns. (Revolvers, lever guns, bolt guns.) In the past 3-5 years I've moved completely away from that, and those guns are now safe queens. I still maintain the mystique of old school by refusing to adopt optics or WMLs.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
There is a lot going on in the OP. The most salient point to me begs the question: why would anyone own 30 Glocks? I could understand owning a couple of configurations (sub-compact EDC, full size) in a couple different calibers (9,40,45), but thirty samples?

I think the reason that the gun world settled on the Glock/AR combo format is the same reason the auto industry settled on the Toyota/Honda format. Many, if not most, people can't afford to own multiple samples of the same thing. (Especially true of cars.) A person can own a Glock (or similar) and an AR (truly, the AR could be seen as a luxury) and have his/her self defense/gun owner needs met. The same is true of owning a Honda Civic. Subsequently, the industry has gone that way. We celebrate this in the popular, and oft repeated, discussion topics of "one pistol, one rifle" or "if you could only have one gun..." found here on a regular basis.

However, to answer your question, I find myself going the opposite direction. I spent much of life with "fudd" guns. (Revolvers, lever guns, bolt guns.) In the past 3-5 years I've moved completely away from that, and those guns are now safe queens. I still maintain the mystique of old school by refusing to adopt optics or WMLs.
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Because one is none and 30 is, uh...... 31? 😁

I can appreciate standardization. I've managed to consolidate all my centerfire autos on 9mm. Fortunately thats such a wide net that it encompasses everything from Glocks to Lugers- variety AND standardization. Best of both worlds!

I mean, if you can collect vintage toothpick holders, why not Glocks? 🤪
 
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NIGHTLORD40K said:
Because one is none and 30 is, uh...... 31? 😁

I can appreciate standardization. I've managed to consolidate all my centerfire autos on 9mm. Fortunately thats such a wide net that it encompasses everything from Glocks to Lugers- variety AND standardization. Best of both worlds!

I mean, if you can collect vintage toothpick holders, why not Glocks? 🤪
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If two is one and one is none, then thirty is twenty-nine.

I've settled on 9mm as my primary, but the problem with that (for private citizens, at least) is that, if there is an ammo shortage (what am I saying "if" "WHEN" there is an ammo shortage), if 9mm becomes unobatainium again, then you're out of luck. However, with several different guns in several different calibers, you have some options. Standardized logistics really only works for governments/large entities.
 
Got rid of old stuff that was hard to get parts for.
Only new guns that interest me......a 12 ga Citori Hunter Grade 2 (or a CSX) and a .257 Weatherby mag bolt rig.
Don't need either.
 
Miami_JBT said:
I have everything in my collection ranging from Black Powder to NFA items, but the current modern production stuff just doesn't call my interest.
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Another "same here." Almost all of my guns are blued steel and wood, with iron sights. The only plastic to be found in my safe is the grips on a couple of pistols. ( OK, I will admit to owning a civilian M-4...but it has the carry handle on it with iron sights. )

That is as close to modern as I care to get.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
If two is one and one is none, then thirty is twenty-nine.

I've settled on 9mm as my primary, but the problem with that (for private citizens, at least) is that, if there is an ammo shortage (what am I saying "if" "WHEN" there is an ammo shortage), if 9mm becomes unobatainium again, then you're out of luck. However, with several different guns in several different calibers, you have some options. Standardized logistics really only works for governments/large entities.
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Meh, you gotta play the odds in the wastelands. Kick over a corpse and you probably aint gonna find .32-20 in its pockets- 9 mil, maybe.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
There is a lot going on in the OP. The most salient point to me begs the question: why would anyone own 30 Glocks? I could understand owning a couple of configurations (sub-compact EDC, full size) in a couple different calibers (9,40,45), but thirty samples?

I think the reason that the gun world settled on the Glock/AR combo format is the same reason the auto industry settled on the Toyota/Honda format. Many, if not most, people can't afford to own multiple samples of the same thing. (Especially true of cars.) A person can own a Glock (or similar) and an AR (truly, the AR could be seen as a luxury) and have his/her self defense/gun owner needs met. The same is true of owning a Honda Civic. Subsequently, the industry has gone that way. We celebrate this in the popular, and oft repeated, discussion topics of "one pistol, one rifle" or "if you could only have one gun..." found here on a regular basis.

However, to answer your question, I find myself going the opposite direction. I spent much of life with "fudd" guns. (Revolvers, lever guns, bolt guns.) In the past 3-5 years I've moved completely away from that, and those guns are now safe queens. I still maintain the mystique of old school by refusing to adopt optics or WMLs.
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Because GLOCK makes guns in 9x17mm, 9x19mm, .40 S&W, 45 ACP, and 10mm in different sizes and barrel lengths.

I grew up with "fudd" guns too. But they're still more fun than modern stuff.
 
Last gun I bought was a Glock 44. I bought it because 9mm ammo was not available for a period during the Chinese virus and wen it became available it was too expensive, I have a supply of 9mm I keep for when the SHTF day comes but I don't practice with it regularly. I bought the Glock 44 because it is the same size as my Glock 19 and I have been able to buy 22 ammo all through the Chinese virus period at a cheap price. Now I shoot it every week and actually have improved a lot and have lots of fun shooting the 22.
 
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