YAY! and OY! gun purchases.

[Deus Machina]

Yay: A sporterized Carcano.
A local shop had a booth at a gun show and were clearing out estate sale guns. No one knew what it was. Good condition as far as the metal was concerned, got it for $40, and a couple minor parts later it made a nice little project. $55 by the time it was back together, and nothing that needed more than a screwdriver, file, some steel wool, and touch-up blue.

Oy: The... same sporterized Carcano.
Then I had to track down ammo, with clips (not magazines), which are nearly nonexistent, absurdly expensive, and had different loads from the same factory and even loaded on the same clips. And they were made to fire round-nose bullets... which are even rarer than the spitzers. No idea what the spitzers are for, but they're really all that's out there now (or even five years ago) and it wouldn't feed three in a row.

 

[Riomouse911]

I’ve had a ton of YAYS; rifles, shotguns and handguns.
I’ve only had a few OYS.
My most recent OY is a Smith Model 48-4 from GB. This gun and its issues has soured me on DA .22 Magnums for sure. I’m delayed by S&W to send it back because if the Covid, so it’ll be even longer before I have to pay to get it working.
Stay safe.

 

[jjadurbin]

I can drive tacks with the sweet-looking .22 with the box, a gift when I was first learning how to shoot. By way of contrast, on a good day I can likely hit a barn with the P-22 below, unless it jams, and this is the first and last firearm I will ever own that is made from the new metal. Right after I bought it, my only thought was ...what were you thinking? It hated most ammo and was accurate as a homemade slingshot.


I dropped it on our local Smith, the guy's a magician, and he corrected most FTF, FTE, etc., so now it's good for punching holes in BIG TARGETS.

My Smith said the picture inset is the logo this company really wanted, but it was taken.

 

[JumboJVT]

Very few Oy's. Never had the scratch to impulse-buy a damned thing. Well, maybe more correctly, too much Scotch in me (heritage, not whiskey) to spend money unless I was sure it was a keeper for me. That said, (all) three 10/22's have come and gone, as well a Remington 11-87 Special Field. Thought it would be a successor to the 1100 SF: what a club! 10/22's are cheap, so I don't really consider them a variance from my norm. But the 11-87 was simply a failure of judgement. The rest are staying.

 

[DRJ1911]

Yea would be my MCK micro conversion. I love this thing.
Oy would be a 380 Seecamp. Cut by trigger guard on every shot.

 

[LOLBELL]

Yea would be the first .327 Fed Mag I bought, a Blackhawk. That revolver introduced me to the 327, now I own 10-12 of them and enjoy every one of ‘em.

Oy would be a shot gun I ordered from Western Auto in ‘76. Brother and I were sharing a model 37 in 20ga. I wanted to have a shot gun of my own so I ordered a 16ga Revelation (Mosberg sold under Western Auto’s name) pump. When the gun came in it was a 20ga. The idea behind ordering the gun was to get a bigger gun, they already had 20 ga guns on the shelf. If it wasn’t for the fact dove season was coming in in two days I would not have taken possession. I used the gun through out bird season then traded for a 12ga Revelation ( Franchi sold under Western Auto’s name) auto loader. I enjoyed that gun for many, many years.

 

[Trashyshoots]

The same gun fits both those categories for me, just depends on the circumstances.

My volquartsen scorpion. When its clean and at the range my god, it's too good.

When its time to reassemble it (before I figured out its trick) there was a fountain of verbal diarrhea that spewed from my mouth. "Why didn't I just spend 1600$ on a &$^@,÷>$&@*÷&,#,#(@*÷&$?@( 1911? *$&×['nfk . &$(÷>$^ and a <=&=[#(@^#^$!!!1!"

 

[FlSwampRat]

I can drive tacks with the sweet-looking .22 with the box, a gift when I was first learning how to shoot.

Sweet looking Colt. Please tell me you still have it!

By way of contrast, on a good day I can likely hit a barn with the P-22 below, unless it jams, and this is the first and last firearm I will ever own that is made from the new metal. Right after I bought it, my only thought was ...what were you thinking? It hated most ammo and was accurate as a homemade slingshot.

I dropped it on our local Smith, the guy's a magician, and he corrected most FTF, FTE, etc., so now it's good for punching holes in BIG TARGETS.

My Smith said the picture inset is the logo this company really wanted, but it was taken.

I had a P-22 also that had a peculiar failure to fire issue. For some reason the hammer wouldn't fall all the way to the firing pin. Occasionally. Frequently.
Gun would go "Pop, pop, click click click pop, pop, click click pop.." You get the idea. Traded it for a working one. Made by Ruger.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My biggest YAY was my Colt Mark IV. Bought by trading likely my biggest OY, a AMT Govt. .45. Beautiful guns, both, but the Colt was boringly reliable, while the AMT was hair-pullingly UNreliable. Only thing wrong with the Colt was underwhelming accuracy. Didn't matter, as I bought it for the simple reason of turning it into my version of a race gun. After that it was a tack driver. Still is.

Another Yay, Ruger Mark IV 22/45 Lite steel shooter

Another Oy, Taurus PT-111 Millennium