Let's Lighten Things Up a Bit. What's Your Personal Shooters Quirk?

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I got me a BIG soft spot for .22's... I have 7 or 8 Autiloaders... (10-22s, Nylon 66's (5) and Whatnot, 3 leverguns, and 8 or 10 single shots (falling block, rolling block, bolt actions, break actions) and I can't stop grabbing them up!
 
quirk?

i will spend waaaaaay too much time lookin' for that last 9mm brass on the range. i have about 3,000 9mm so it's really silly.

i love the smell of burnt gunpowder. especially unique.


i am so cheap i still cast most of my own bullets. i have over 900 pounds of wheelweights/linotype/pure lead, yet i i pick up wheelweights off the parkinglot when i see 'em.
 
Classics. I'm not exactly young anymore, but I still get a big kick out of using firearms of the same vintage my father and grandfather used. There's just something very satisfying about walking through the woods with a piece of history cradled in your arms.

I just went through a search for a deer rifle. I looked at quite a few options, including some lightweight bolt-guns with synthetic stocks and SS hardware. I'm sure that I could have gotten one with one of the new super short magnum rounds and been very effective.

However, those left me cold. I ended up with a used Winchester '94 that's over 50 years old.
 
I'm with Vet; Full. Auto.

Some day I will have a subgun. It will be mine; Oh yes, It will, be mine.:D

AAAAANNNNDDD Military type guns. Sorry guys, but lever actions and sporters dont do it for me.
 
Full size service pistols.

I hate "compact" guns that aren't small enough to fit in a pocket. If it has to go on the belt, make it a full size gun, damn it!

My carry guns go like this: J-frame/Mustang/Kahr MK, then jump right to HK USP45, 1911 (5", of course), CZ75, etc. Anything in between is useless.
 
Shooter's quirk, good and bad:

On the good side: I really like single action .45 Colt pistols and lever action rifles. Just really cool and....totally indefensible to haul around a six-pound rifle that only shoots a pistol cartridge but-- it's still fun. Fat slow moving bullets rock.

On the bad side: I really hate the "strict constitutionalists" who slip up next to you at the range and talk about how they hate the "gubmint" and how they really like their newest SHTF rifle....:barf: Listen to me now and hear me later bud, but you're about the only one I *don't* want to have a weapon....friggin' freaks.

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I am Walther's consumer whore. I have a P99, and want to buy the official Walther-made scope-mount-thingy with a red-dot sight with walther's logo stamped on it, and in a while a supressor officially produced by walther with a walther-made threaded barrel. I want a PPK/s or /e (whichever comes in .380 ACP) or two, a P22 with both types of barrels and a threaded barrel adapter, and a walther-sanctioned supressor, a P-38, and even a P5, if I can find one, plus hats, shirts, pins, and other promotional junk. I can name most of the importers, and know how to tell if any given P99 was made entirely in Germany, what the little stampings mean, and how to identify the date of manufacture. I lust after the WA2000, and want a KK100 for a target rifle, with both an OSP and GSP. I even have a P99 airsoft and will be getting a CP99.

I also really love BIG guns, and I don't necessarily mean big-bore, but that works. The full Mosin is wonderful, and I want an FAL and a Barret M82A1, an M60 (I also long to fire full auto firearms), a Desert Eagle complete set and a few BFRs, some huge Taurus Raging series guns, the new S&W 500, and an HK Mk. 23 SOCOM, and basically anything that needs a carrying handle, and would probably give sexual favors for a minigun.

I love the smell of burning powder, too.

I guess that's it.
 
Quirks?

I like bores with big holes, and I don't like anything that has a new type safety device on it.
 
Well ventilated targets...

I make them all the time, lots of holes all over the place. LOL

I love steel guns with wood grips, no plastic guns for me, at least not now.

I also love to have a knife for every gun, it's got to be just the right one for the gun.
 
I seem to be developing a case of BBS (Big-Bore Snubbyitis). An old Rossi 720 .44 special, 386PD .357 and a Taurus 415 .41 mag.; all seem to be taking up more and more of my limited range time these days. So does my S/A 1911 Micro-compact .45.

It is nice to know that my choices in firearms do not seem to be an attempt to compensate for other shortcomings in my life. :D :rolleyes: :D
 
RIMFIRE! I don't care whether it is .22 short, long, long rifle, CB or magnum or even the .17 HMR, rimfire is great. Rifles, pistols, revolvers, all the same with me. Sure there is a place in the world for centerfire, but rimfire is cool.
 
Old Mossberg .22's. I have seven and one on the way I just picked up
on Gunbroker.com. A nice model 35 single shot target. A couple years
of looking for that one.
 
9mm's

I can't stop buying them. It's a new addiction so I only have 7 9mm's so far but I don't have any plans to stop!

Thinking about a CZ 75, Walther P99, Another Beretta 92 FS, Some more Sigs basicly anything that looks good at the time! (live in MD, can get one new has to be used :( )
 
Refer to username.

I have a few quirks. I'm a rather quirky guy, after all. ;) We'll start with the obvious.


Wrist-wrenching, face-slapping, palm-stinging, bench-clearing RECOIL! I am shamelessly addicted to thumpers. Examples: The Monster, various S.A.S.S. conversion kits, AMT .50 A.E.-cal'd Automag V, .44 Mountain Gun.

Oddnesses. The odder the better. Typified by the "What the HECK are you shooting?" inquiry. Super-thumpers tie into this bit as head-turners also. Examples: Astra 600, Steyr-Hahn 1912, Broomhandle Mauser, The Monster, AMT .30 Carbine-cal'd Automag III.

BIG bores. Examples: .45-70 Trapdoor Springfield, Automag V, Webleys, 1917s, ADC .45 ACP M-1 derringer, Shansei Arsenal .45 ACP Broomhandle Mauser, .358 Winchester S.A.S.S. conversion kit.

Cool calibers. Examples: Glock 32, CZ-52, Automag III and V, .44 Mountain Gun, .400 Cor-bon 1911 barrel, Remington M-81 in .35 Remington.

Classics/Antiques. Typified by Blued Steel and Polished Walnut. Embodying Style, Character, History, and Panache. Examples: Trapdoor Springfield, Colt Lightning Rifles, Webleys, 1917's, Colt 1903, Broomhandle Mausers, Police Positive Special, Remington M-81's, Swedish Mauser, Mannlicher-stocked Mexican Mauser, Parker 10ga. SXS hammer shotgun, Winchester M-'97 shotgun.

I like my quirks. Lots of overlap in the collection, which makes for liking a given gun for LOTS of reasons.
 
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