stinkeypete
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I have not owned a 9mm in 20 years and that one I got on a trade and passed along after 5 shots. I think it was a Glock 26. Chubby tiny little thing.
Just by chance and maybe by getting good buys on quality hardware I have been able to get guns, shoot them for 10 years while keeping properly maintained, and then sell or trade them in to something else I want to learn and experience. Some stuff makes the "never sell" list, but it's an elite club.
So... all you guys are shooting 9mm. I walk in the woods often (sometimes 5 times a week) and I am thinking something small and light enough to carry easily (us old guys get fat and lazy), accurate enough to plink at tin cans at 25 yards (got to give the tin can a sporting chance), a good trigger out of the box (Because once you have a custom trigger you can hardly go back) and something that will hold it's value or appreciate over time.
My thoughts so far:
Glock 19 Gen 5 because even though I don't really like Glocks, everyone else does. Maybe give it a chance, maybe it will grow on me. I don't think it can possibly be worth less in 10 years.
CZ P10C. I like CZs. Accurate with good triggers, maybe a little heavy, but will people still want a CZ in 10 years? What makes them desirable to the general population?
Sig 365XL. I like Sigs, too. Accurate and good trigger, and already cut to mount a dot sight and I do think dot sights will be the next "thing"... prices will come way down and tin cans will suffer for it.
Anything else?
Then part of me says "Oh, just bite the bullet and buy a nice old S&W .357 or .38 with about a 4 inch pinned barrel and lug it around because it's grand and in 10 years will have more than doubled in price" except I am a wierdo and maybe revolvers are like horse drawn carriages and who wants one of those anymore except old people? I already have a 3" LCRX .38 and although I don't love it, it's growing on me. It certainly drops in to the pocket easy enough! I just wish it had a 4" barrel, because I am strange like that. Tin cans and all.
What are your thoughts?
Just by chance and maybe by getting good buys on quality hardware I have been able to get guns, shoot them for 10 years while keeping properly maintained, and then sell or trade them in to something else I want to learn and experience. Some stuff makes the "never sell" list, but it's an elite club.
So... all you guys are shooting 9mm. I walk in the woods often (sometimes 5 times a week) and I am thinking something small and light enough to carry easily (us old guys get fat and lazy), accurate enough to plink at tin cans at 25 yards (got to give the tin can a sporting chance), a good trigger out of the box (Because once you have a custom trigger you can hardly go back) and something that will hold it's value or appreciate over time.
My thoughts so far:
Glock 19 Gen 5 because even though I don't really like Glocks, everyone else does. Maybe give it a chance, maybe it will grow on me. I don't think it can possibly be worth less in 10 years.
CZ P10C. I like CZs. Accurate with good triggers, maybe a little heavy, but will people still want a CZ in 10 years? What makes them desirable to the general population?
Sig 365XL. I like Sigs, too. Accurate and good trigger, and already cut to mount a dot sight and I do think dot sights will be the next "thing"... prices will come way down and tin cans will suffer for it.
Anything else?
Then part of me says "Oh, just bite the bullet and buy a nice old S&W .357 or .38 with about a 4 inch pinned barrel and lug it around because it's grand and in 10 years will have more than doubled in price" except I am a wierdo and maybe revolvers are like horse drawn carriages and who wants one of those anymore except old people? I already have a 3" LCRX .38 and although I don't love it, it's growing on me. It certainly drops in to the pocket easy enough! I just wish it had a 4" barrel, because I am strange like that. Tin cans and all.
What are your thoughts?