I shouldn’t bother

[spartandemon]

It sounds like fun guns aren’t included in those specific purposes.

Nope lol. Just a Mosin I’ve been working on modernizing. Like aluminum chassis, pillars, better action screws, target barrel, and a scope mount that actually works.
Really has no practical purpose other than I just wanted to do it.

 

[rskent]

I prefer practical and reliable firearms that are affordable.

Me to.

 

[J-Bar]

Italian...

Going hunting with a Perazzi custom double, followed by a spaghetti and meatball dinner with a fine Chianti wine...

I’m in!!

 

[bullseye308]

My family has been here a long time, I have a muzzleloader that’s has been passed down since the civil war with all the issued items(bayo, ball mold...). I buy what I like based on lots of research for whatever purposes I want it for. Wanted a solid 357 to last a lifetime and got a GP-100, been looking for an affordable 4” 38 target and lucked into a S&W 67 cheap. Wanted a reliable carry piece in 9 with lots of support and accessories got a Glock 17.

Where they are made, local politics, metal, plastic, doesn’t have much bearing to me. So long as they do the job I bought them for I’m happy.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I’m a Beretta lover. Things Italian seem well refined and come from a place common with a part of who I am.

If the Irish made a revolver, I'd buy one. They're not so well known for that though.

However self defense broken beer bottles we are very handy with.

By the way, what the hell are we talking about here?

 

[Mizar]

460shooter, you can always start collecting Rigby rifles and shotguns, or at least Webley RIC revolvers...

 

[GunnyUSMC]

If the Irish made a revolver, I'd buy one. They're not so well known for that though.

However self defense broken beer bottles we are very handy with.

By the way, what the hell are we talking about here?

I think we were talking about how the way we came up has effected the guns we like, or was that alcoholic beverages. Wait, it guns. you beer bottle comment threw my off.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I think we were talking about how the way we came up has effected the guns we like, or was that alcoholic beverages. Wait, it guns. you beer bottle comment threw my off.

Ah, right. Thanks.

I grew up in a city, in a nonhunting liberal family that had only a 22 rifle and a few pellet guns sitting around.

Then I moved away to a very rural setting in a different state for work. My friends took me shooting once and I was hooked.

Now, there's always the next gun I want, and I'm hooked on loading my own.

 

[1911 guy]

The choices we make are products of who we are. That even includes what guns we like. By my upbringing, real cars are Chevy or Dodge, a proper truck is a Ford. The best rifles are bolt actions in .30 caliber and handguns are either a well made revolver or a 1911. Anything else is second rate or a compromise.

But like anything else, experience changes our outlook and thinking. Now I also like AR's and XD's. My current car is a Honda. Most of us have been shooting long enough to see our interests within the sport shift and even our participation level wax and wane.

 

[redneck2]

As noted in a few posts previously, I tend more towards quality at an affordable (for me) price. Browning X-Bolt, CZ, Leupold VX-3’ & 6’s. I demand accuracy from rifles or they go away. Never really could warm up to milsurps for that reason. I’ve had a few and there just isn’t any fascination to me. If that’s your thing, more power to you.

I wish there was an American equivalent to CZ rifles. Reasonable price, well made, accurate. Remington used to be. Probably Winchester is as close as there is that I know of.

Pistols for a purpose. S&W Shield for carry, G20 for home along with AR’s.

Typically you can find out one’s stance on any one of several key issues including 2A and find out their value system or (lack thereof)

 

[Danoobie]

God is my Master, King and Abba. I prefer practical and reliable firearms that are affordable.

Yeah, another bitter white geezer Bible and gun clinger, here, too. Beretta and Ruger may take up a fair size amount of my collection.

 

[sparkyv]

Pistols for a purpose. S&W Shield for carry, G20 for home along with AR’s.

Typically you can find out one’s stance on any one of several key issues including 2A and find out their value system or (lack thereof)

Ah! Another 10mm brother!