I love handguns

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Amin Parker

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Since my school days, all i wanted was handguns. Lots of them. As soon as i legally could, i started buying them. I was 18 when i bought my first. I was a student and delivered bread, it meant being at work at 3 in the morning but every cent i made went into saving for my guns.

As my financial situation improved so did the rate at which i bought them. From the mystic and stunning beautiful Colt Python to the humble Rossi 38 snub. From the incredibale Gold Cup National Match to the pedestrian but reliable cz 70, i love them all.

I love restoring, maintaining and admiring them. I enjoy customising them. I enjoy buying accessories, polishing and sanding down imperfections carefully but most of all I LOVE SHOOTING THEM. Oh man i never ever bring enough ammo.

From this hopelessly addicted handgunner to all my fellow handgunners out there, all the very very best.
 
I love handguns also. I was late to start in shooting compared to many (air rifles and BB guns at 13 or so, firearms at 15) but I started with .22 rifles as did many. (most?) I shot four position smallbore, practice once a week with matches once a month. I also shot four rounds of skeet twice a week.

In the middle of all that, I was spending Saturdays, from about 8 am to 5 or 6 pm with handguns on the outdoor range. That was my "free" time, that was my "fun" time and it's still my favorite thing to do in shooting.
 
yeah, my favorite thing about turning 21 was being able to buy handguns, not being able to drink. my friends think this is blaspehmy.
 
I hunted squirrels as a teen with an old Smith & Wesson .22 that my grandfather gave me. It was always referred to as a .22 on a .38 frame by the brother in law who was a cop that he got it from. It has the old gold bead style front sight and was wickedly accurate.

A solid reputation for being an excellent shot with a pistol was anchored by friends who had seen me hit squirrels and things like running armadillos. I went on to use .357 Pythons, .41 and 44 magnums, and .custom .45's to hunt deer and pigs with. I've had S&W Remington Jet, and a slew of Thompson Contender calibers, XP100, S&W model 41, Colt Diamondbacks.

Now that I think about it I've had more handguns than rifles, shot them a lot more too.
 
Yes, I too love handguns. I love rifles also, but it isn't the same. There's smething about a handgun that just speaks to me. I'm also considerably better at shooting handguns than long guns. Probably my nearsightedness.
 
I go back and forth between what I like best. Right now it's rifles, but sometimes it's pistols. I better buy more of each to help me decide for sure;)
 
I also love handguns. I have a few long guns, but they are just not the same. I started buying 20 years ago when I turned 21. That was also how old I was when I started shooting. My father didn't take me shooting or hunting as a boy growing up, but I was always fascinated by guns. I couldn't wait to turn 21 so I could buy my first. It was a Taurus model 66. That gun is long since gone in favor of better and nicer ones.
 
Handguns are my cup of tea as well. Rifles, shotguns, they're all good, but my love has always been handguns. Started with dad's police issue Beretta 96, then moved on to the Beretta Bobcat, Colt Cobra, Colt Python, Colt Officer's Match, to my current PX4 Storm and LCP., and I've had trigger time on the Sig 220 and 226, M&P, XDM, PPS, Desert Eagle .50AE and loved them all. I want dozens more before my time is through!
 
Handguns have always been my favourite, I'm getting up around the 40 mark now, certainly helps that the range is less than 15 min from home so I usually go 2-3 times a week and go through 3-500 rds each week.

Picked up my first at 16, a Ruger 22/45 Stainless. I bought for myself my first centrefire when I was old enough at 18, a HK USP Match. Now, with several dozen in between, I picked up a Browning Hi Power Competition model coming upto my 25th birthday in January :)
 
Add my name to the list. I'm conservative by forum standards, my little collection at this point is only an even dozen, but I shoot each and every one of them as often as possible, which means at least two trips to the range per week. Handguns fulfill the same role in my life as golf does for others. They give me a complete break from the stresses and strains of daily living, from the pressures of my job, from financial and personal issues. As I told my wife the other day, a good day at the range puts me in a good mood for two or three days. She understood completely, she likes handguns almost as much as I do.
 
i really like guns in general, but i agree handguns are great. but i will have to get a few more just to make sure.
 
Good post Amin...I share your enthusiasm...been at it since '66...the best to you and yours as well.

Love those threads that begin, "If you could have only one...", geez what a dilema...Rodfac
 
Thank you Rodfac,

I was sitting here and detail stripping a 1911 for inspection (although completely unnecessary) and completely enjoying myself when i thought that surely, somewhere there has to be folk that share this passion and love for handguns.

They bring me such joy
 
I'm with Helter Skelter on this one. I also shocked my high school chums when they found out I wanted to be 21 ASAP just so I could buy handguns. Those other guys just wanted to be able to legally get drunk, but not yours truly. I graduated high school in the mid-1980s, and I still have yet to even sample any kind of alcoholic beverage [not complaining; I don't feel shorted at all]...but I enjoy handguns first and foremost. :D
 
It's good that Amin Parker brought this subject up. In some ways it's hard to admit to loving something inanimate but the reality is as many here realize there is a great admiration for the mechanics of revolvers and pistols and what they can do in practiced hands. I actually started rather late in my life in owning handguns. Probably the first handgun I shot was an H&R 9 shot 22, perhaps before I was a teenager. My first weapon was a Remington single shot 22 rifle, which I found many years later to be almost impossible to get sited in due to the front site being way off. My foster dad that gave me the rifle apparently didn't understand too much of things like that and because I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn I pretty much lost interest with guns. Then when I got in my 30's and started realizing what was going on as to the loss of freedoms in our country I got really interested in weapons of all kinds. Presently I own a balanced amount of each, rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers and one black powder rifle. My favorite of all is a Ruger Redhawk 44 mag which has put more venison in the freezer than any rifle I've owned. My next favorite is a Stoeger Cougar 40 that can drill holes in holes. If I could only have one weapon it would be the beloved Redhawk.
 
yeah, my favorite thing about turning 21 was being able to buy handguns, not being able to drink. my friends think this is blaspehmy.
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I'm with you...I've never quite understood the attraction for getting hammered to the point of stupidity and puking one's guts out on a regular basis, but that's just me.

I was well familiar with rifles and shotguns by the time that I turned 21, but I had never owned or shot a handgun. I got married 2 weeks after my 21st birthday, and bought my first handgun a month later...a Ruger .22 Standard model. That was in 1973, and I still own that gun, as well as about 35 other handguns.

I own 2 rifles, but never shoot them. Yeah, I guess I'm a handgun guy. :D
 
I love handguns too. I've been a shooter and a hunter all my life and have a nice collection of rifles and shotguns and have always had one or two handguns mixed in for fun. But the last few years I've decided I really love handguns.

I enjoy shooting them now much more than long guns. I live in the country and have my own shooting range out back. It's a natural gully in sand country so it's perfect.

Here in Wisconsin we finally elected enough pro gun Republicans to get the right to carry concealed. I'm looking forward to that. I open carry from time to time just because I can.
 
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