Handgun preference change with age?

I'll turn 32 this year and I still like polymer, black, and SS. The older I get the bigger the caliber I want. I love .45ACP!

Shok
 
As time goes by I increasingly prefer to use a revolver rather than a pistol, as the bending, crawling and stooping to retrieve brass becomes onerous, not to say painful...

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Turned 34 in Dec. Been shooting seriously since I joined the Air Force 14 years and change ago. I think the older I get, the more I respect the simple genius of John Moses Browning's original design. For me the 1911 has lots O' stuff I want, and anything I don't, I can change.

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Slowpoke, for once you make me glad I don't reload.
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In my teens I had a love affair with Colt and Ruger SA pistols in deep blue. In my 20's I went to S&W DA in deep blue. By the time I hit 35 I was a dyed in the wool 1911 fan. All of my 1911s have been matte black with Pachmar or Para-Ordinance grips. I still have one M1917 S&W (.45 ACP). It has accquired a matte black finish too.
 
I turned 26 in March. When I first got into guns, I loved AR's. My Beretta's all had Hogue rubber grips.

Now I buy all 1911 style pistols and bolt action rifles. I still prefer the stainless on my 1911's. However, I do not care for the matte stainless look. Hardchrome is also very nice. My favorite is my Les Baer two tone, blue and stainless.

Beautiful Cocobolo and Rosewood grips look sooooooo sweet on 1911's.

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Its been 1911s all of my life and it hasn't changed but I do have a soft spot in my aging old heart for Glocks.


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deep blued colt autos from the fifties are sooooooo good looking you dont want to THINK about giving them holster wear.. that's what those ugly parkerized guns with rubber grips and night sights are for...

most of my handguns are blue.. but my cowboy gun is shiny and stainless and has ivorex grips yellowing with time.....

and lately I've been thinking of getting a nickel plated commander with skinny cocobolo grips.. (pimp gun?)

then again i think my last two pistol purchases were black powder guns. (one a real colt and one a replica.. no contest) three more and I can be josie wales.
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and the older i get the more "cool" guns from the turn of the century seem to me, my only DA revolver is a colt 1917 Army with matching numbers and no import marks.. its an old re-blue but its an honest to god 1917 gun, smooth buffalo horn grips and simple as hell, wish it was IDPA legal.

then again.. every once in a while i get that craving for fast food instead of well crafted meals.. and it takes me over to the glock case.. anyone else supicious of a pistol that comes in tupperware?

Now if i could get an 1897 trench gun and a 1895 lever gun in .405 and .416 rigby bolt gun i'd be pleased as punch.. but then there is that enfield 455 "snubby" the RUC carried.. maybe i'm just wierd.

cause when I was a kid all i really wanted was a 44 automag... come to think of it, still would like one of those too.

Dr.Rob
 
No Rob, a pimp gun is a 2 1/2" Model 66 RB with Hogue Finger Groove in Goncalo Alves with jeweled hammer and sideplates.
I forgot which magazine I saw that one in!

Gator
 
It may not be a question of age so much as money for me. I'm 33; bought my first gun as a poor 20-year-old college student. At first it was Taurus, Auto-ordnance, et. al.; now it's Glock and Kimber, and I'm thinking of treating myself to my first full-custom gun.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MRH:
I turn 30 in June. In the last six months, I've had a complete turnover in my gun inventory -- everything but my shotgun. Single action revolvers to Glocks, to Brownings, to Walthers ... now, I've got 3 1911's and a Walther PPK/S, German made, 1969. My favorite 1911 (at the moment) is a Colt 1991A1 Government with stag grips.[/quote]

BLASPHEMY! Turnover! You buy guns, you don't sell them!
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Blasphemy? BAH! Now, I grant you that once you get a gun you don't want to part with, you shouldn't part with it just because some other sweet young thing catches your eye, but I've only had a couple of those. My shotgun's a Merkel 147E boxlock, and I will have it til the day I die. But, not being a handgun shooter til a couple of years ago, and therefore having no idea what I would like and not like, what was I supposed to do? Trading has allowed me to sample the great variety: Rugers, Glocks, Berettas, Brownings, Walthers, Cimarrons, Colts, Kimbers, Springfields -- and still remain happily married.

Or, it could be that my eye wanders to that sweet young thing and loyalties to my previous favorite disappear.

Actually, I only have one gun at the moment that I'd even consider trading (Springfield "Loaded") ... and I have a Freedom Arms 97 .357/.38 4.25" fixed sight single action on the way.

That's pretty good for me.
 
Please don't discuss age (my bones hurt); keep discussing how 'good-looking' a gun is...

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I turn 46 in October,
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So what
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Three phrases I live by with a sometimes possible 4th
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I See, I Like, I Buy
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The 4th.
I Catch Hell
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Happy Shooting
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Anonymous
 
Let's face it, as we get older, usually we make more money, so we can afford to get the guns we think are pretty, and the guns that perhaps shoot the best, or the gun we always wanted. We become collectors.

That said, when the chips are down, I will have my Glock 19, but I would love to get a Browning HP Capitan, just cause I think its a gorgeous pistol.

Note to johnwill - I agree, I can't find it in my heart to trade any gun in. My first handgun was a .38 special Ruger SP101. Like a cherry, I will always keep it.
 
Interesting, I used to be into the black, tactical handguns (G27, P239, P89) but lately I've aquired a 686+ and a Ruger Bisley Vaquero and now looking at a Vaquero or a Bearcat.

Must be contagious...

(of course I just picked up a G30 and fired it today, terrific gun! Shoots better than my G27)
 
You know now that I look back on it (I turned 31 on the 14th), I really only bought my first pistol in 94'. Much deliberation was put into it and I picked up a Glock-21, never been happier. Now I also own a Glock-30 and strangely enough am contemplating picking up a Kimber Ultra.
I think maybe it has to do with the style and lines of the 1911, or maybe I'm just looking for something different. I was going to purchase a S&W 60 as my CCW, but I think I'll trade off between the Glock-30 and the Kimber.
The only bad thing about it is that I really only get a chance to put 100 rounds a month through my babies, though I do dry-fire religiously, and practice as much as I can with "safety mag's".

Good to know I'm not the only one, course than ALL my rifles and shotguns are bad and black, and I do plan on putting Meprolight (sp?) sights on all my pistols. Maybe it was something they fed me at Ft. Benning!
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Jon
 
I started out loving "six-shooters", 'cause that's what Roy and Hoppy and Gene had. So that's what any cowboy is 'sposed to have.

Around 1950, I discovered Mr. Browning's social arbiter and patented settler of disputes.

Life is simple. Single action for fun; the 1911 for social work.

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, Art
 
Age and treachery beats youth and vigor every time.

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