The best hand gun that money can buy

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I have recently fallen in love with good hand guns. and wants to buy a hand gun which should be very good and beautifull also , so which gun do u think is the best ( in beauty and in quality ) if money does not matter then which gun should i buy . prefferably a semi auto.
or if some thing very special in .357 revolvers.

Secondly , does the korth guns really worth their prices ?
 
revolvers: centerfire :Freedom arms 97, perhaps a colt SAA
rimfire: an old ( prewar ) Smith K-22 or a freedom arms
Auto: centerfire: Sig 210
rimfire: older smith 41 or a hamden HS 106 victor
 
I would advise you to join the P7 club immediately. Find a NIB P7M8, not one of the excellent, but still used P7s that are still relatively common in gun cabinets. They are exceptional values, but if you can go high-end, go big. If you have an appreciation for really great designs that are well executed, it is a must have.
 
it depends on what you want.

If you just want big and bad, go for a Desert Eagle .50AE.

For more normal purposes, it will probably be some style of 1911.
 
Thank a lot boys for your help

I have done quite a research on hand gun in the last week and

few things that i have found by searching the internet are as follows :-

if accuracy is required then les baer guns are the best but they are claimed to be tight by many . ( although i don't exactly know what the " tight " means in a hand gun , although i can guess that may be it means the tight pull of slide .

secondly if a good combination of accuracy and quality is required then wilson comabt is the one.

Night hawk and ed brown are also praised by many in quality and beauty ,

i also find the nighthawk's master series model quite beautifull but don't know its quality and accuracy.

In .357 magnum revolvers majority of the people on internet are praising the S&W 686 , BUT it has quite a simple shape and its not appealing to me at least in appearence.

Atlhough korth handguns are expensive than many but in the openions of many its just a waist of money.

( i want some expert to correct me or add some info so that i can make a flawless decision as i am willing to spend quite a good amount of money on handguns ( round about 10 -12 k dollars ) i don't want some extra craftsman work like in some unique 100 k revolver but still i want some thing very attractive and also very accurate and reliable ) :-
 
Guns are a lot like cars. You can spend almost as little or as much as want. The questions you have to answer pertain mostly to the gun's purpose, and you need to decide if you want an auto or a revolver, or some of each, with that price range. If you are using it to shoot at the range, a nice looking pistol will be a lot easier to take exquisite care of. If it is used for hunting, field carry, or concealed carry, it is going to get more wear, scratches, etc, and I feel that going ridiculous with a very expensive pistol for these uses is a bit extravagant. I relate it to buying a new Range Rover to go to the mud pit with. But, to each his own. The best thing you can do is narrow it down to a few and try to find them somewhere and handle them, then make your final decision(s).
 
A top-of-the-line custom 1911...if money was no object, my choice would be a Bill Wilson Signature Edition:
http://www.wilsoncombat.com/p_limited.asp

My personal gun is a Wilson Master Grade, built by Bill Himself when he and I were writing THE COMBAT .45 AUTO back in the early 1980s.

Revolverwise, an S&W Triple-Lock .44 Special from about 1910. IMHO, the Triple-Lock is the finest revolver ever made on earth in the most perfect caliber. If I couldn't find a perfect one, I might accept a beater, have Hamilton Bowen at Bowen Classic Arms rebuild it and Doug Turnbull at Turnbull Restorations refinish it. Here's the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_lock

My personal gun is a custom Hamilton Bowen M28 S&W, vintage 1958, that he converted from .357 to 38/40. The gun was new unfired; plans are for Dan Love to engrave it and Turnbull to do a custom finish.

Single action revolvers...yeah yeah, Colts are what they are, but the first centerfire handgun I ever fired was my father's Ruger Flat-Top .357 Blackhawk back in the 1950s, so I've been partial to them ever since. The '50s Flat-Tops (and even the current model Flat-Top .357s) are wonderful "packing pistols."

My personal favorite SA is a 1956-vintage Flat-Top .357 that was completely rebuilt by Dave Clements of Clements Custom Guns as an "homage" to my father's gun. I told Dave to make it the most accurate Flat-Top .357 in the world...all I know it that it is a LOT more accurate than I am! I also kept the '50s vintage plastic "fake stag" grips that were so popular then. Doug Turnbull did the masterful refinish on the gun, Include a spectacular color-casehardening on the frame.


For a .22, and S&W M41...as others have stated, maybe the greatest .22 semiauto ever made. My personal gun is a 1950s vintage M41 I got from a pawn shop in Tampa. S&W did the refinish and it was tuned by Lou Lombardi at Falcon Machining, dubbed by AMERICAN HANDGUNNER as "The King of Rimfires." You've seen this gun in several magazine articles.

Michael B
 
A top-of-the-line custom 1911...if money was no object, my choice would be a Bill Wilson Signature Edition:
http://www.wilsoncombat.com/p_limited.asp

My personal gun is a Wilson Master Grade, built by Bill Himself when he and I were writing THE COMBAT .45 AUTO back in the early 1980s.

Revolverwise, an S&W Triple-Lock .44 Special from about 1910. IMHO, the Triple-Lock is the finest revolver ever made on earth in the most perfect caliber. If I couldn't find a perfect one, I might accept a beater, have Hamilton Bowen at Bowen Classic Arms rebuild it and Doug Turnbull at Turnbull Restorations refinish it. Here's the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_lock
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Two very, very fine choices. :cool:
 
If you want your best gun in the world, forget about all production pistols. I myself would get a stainless steel Colt 1911, have it customised or reworked to my own specifications, whatever exotic wood grips fit my pleasure, or even ivory or the like? and have a high polish put on the stainless steel or maybe even have it engraved. IF money is no object, have it your way. Don't expect a mass produced product to be 100% what you want. It is what they think the market wants. Even goes for "custom" guns that are built to a formula, or off the shelf items from a "custom" maker. SOmeone will tell you to buy one of those, but not unless it is exactly what you want. Make the word "custom" count for something.
 
Tom2,I just saw a spotless Colt Stainless 1911 MkIV Government Model for $700 in the used gun case at a local gun store.

The gun was in brand new shape.

It had the classic wood grips with checkering so new it would still hurt your hand to grip it too tight.

An absolutely stunning handgun.

I simply cannot jump on a $700 handgun right now.

The was also a 44 magnum Smith six inch barrel revolver with full length underlug on the barrel with the power port in the end of the barrel for $700.

It too was stunning.

Then there was a Stainless Wather PPK semi auto n the gun case used,an old Interarms model so it's a genuine German PPK,that had some scrub marks on one grip but the stainless looked brand new for $499.

And there was a frikken 10 MM Smith semi auto pistol,full metal,all stainless,a former FBI gun with a double action trigger that could'nt have been more than seven pounds and broke everytime as dependable as the sunrise for $525.

And there were not one but two 45 acp full sized Smith semi auto's (4506 style) in the guncase that were both stainless ,a little rough but not by much for under $450 each.

And there was a six inch dark blued 586 Smith and Wesson revolver in great shape that was ready to go for under $500.

Being poor does'nt bring the glad in gun looking but I was just happy to see so many guns that if I had the money,they would ALL be on layaway.

Nice to at least be able to hold some of my dream guns.
 
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If I was gonna (could) spend that kind of money on a single handgun, it would look like this... (Damascus 1911 by Ken Crawley)
 

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get a colt python...you won't regret it. simply the most beautiful DA revolver on the planet, IMHO.


and anything with nighthawk on it, is definitely quality. one day a t2 will find itself in my collection, if not on my duty rig.
 
It really does depend on what you plan to use the gun for.

My most expensive and new favorite handgun is a Targetmaster by PMI. Smooth as silk and accurate as can be. But it's not a gun I will carry for personal defense or use for home defense.

I've never laid hands on a Korth as the price is prohibitive for me.
 
My personal favorite is my Colt Trooper .357.
I also recommend the Dan Wesson Pistol Pac in .357, basically gives you 4-5
revolvers for the price of one.
As with so many things, it depends on what you want do? Target shooting?
Plinking? IDPA? Concealed carry? Will you be reloading? The general rule is a
.22 for a Beginner, a combination of light recoil and inexpensive ammunition encourages practice.
In semiautos, a Colt Mark IV or Gold Cup with a .22 conversion unit-I have the Ciener.
A full size CZ with the Kadet unit.
 
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