What firearm have you replaced as technology evolves?

I retired my Colt Detective Special from BUG duty to safe security. I like the all-metal, single stack S&W Gen3 DAO models for concealed carry, so my new primary carry choice is either an S&W Model 3953 or 4053.
 
I have "evolved" all the way up to the S&W revolver, I have a G19, Ruger LC9, FS92, hve owned Ruger P95 P97, Star PD, Taurus 40 cal. Finally evolved to the 642, have 2 of them. The only one I still own that is worthless to me as a carry gun is the G19, too big, eats my trigger finger and has no safety.
If I decide to carry in a holster it will be a lightweight commander or Model 19 revolver.
 
None. But that I can hook my borescope to my smartphone still just tickles the heck out of me. And I can take video and email it! I'm old, so that's still cool to me. :D
 
I have had a Ruger P95DC for many years. But they've been discontinued, parts and accessories may become scarce. I bought a Glock 19 to replace it as primary. While the Ruger is still a good pistol, the G19 is a bit more compact in some dimensions and lighter.
 
Modern S&W revolvers to custom SA type 70 1911. I plugged Hillary hole with JD Winland’s plug but I don't like using the MIM parts and it's getting difficult to R&R them with forged parts.
 
two paths

Career/issue LE handguns:
M15>M10>M66>M686>P220/.45

Heavy woods roaming pistols:
6"M27>6"M29>4"Ruger Sec Six>4-5/8"Ruger B-hawk .357>4"M629 Mtn>Glock 20
 
Winchester 1873 .44-40 to .44 Magnum
Marlin 1895 .45-70 to AR15 .450 Bushmaster
M1 Garand to Noreen BN36X3

Oh, I still have the 'older technology' and will still shoot it every now and then, (at least the Garand and the Winchester) and will never get rid of them. I just find the replacements easier to shoot/carry, so the older ones get venerated positions in the safe.
 
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I bought a Glock 26 way back in 95 and thought it was the absolute best CCW firearm of its time. 10 rounds in a 20 some oz compact package.
Lived in Sierra Vista AZ then. You could shoot anywhere a quarter mile away from homes and roads - my officer friends and I shot up the desert on a weekly basis.
In the following decades I always carried that G26 with me as I hiked, biked, motorcycled, and four wheeled all over America. I had to replace the plastic sights several times but never thought of replacing this gun that ate everything it was fed.
Ah, but then I discovered an HK P2000 SK @ 2010 - steel sights, compact, double single action - so maybe it doesn’t always need a holster? They say to shoot a gun before you buy it - If I were shooting at a line I would place the line on top of my level sights - G26 hits the line, HK shoots below the line. No deal. This same sight test ruled out an HK P30Sk and a Walther PPQ sub compact.
This year a CZ-P10S sent my G26 to another home - steel night sights, compact, 12 rounds, well fitting grip, milled for an optic, and it hits the line. I’ve recently shot a Sig 365 and it has me thinking what a great time for the consumer.
So what handgun, shotgun, or rifle have you replaced as the industry evolves?
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When bolt actions became reliable, I retired the Brown Bess.
 
Walther P99as in 40 replaced my cz100 as a woods carry.

Touched off a general migration to Walther in the 9mm city carry space.
SR-9c, Sig P6 both were retired. XDS9 stopped being my summer carry in favor of a PPS.

I'm in another holding pattern now.
 
I haven’t really replaced/upgraded any.

The newer stuff coming out, really has no appeal to me. In pistols, i like my old school steel and wood guns, like my hipower and 1911. I prefer exposed hammers, single action, and metal frames. The only polymer frame in the house belongs to my wife. I’ve shot plenty of glocks, a few poly lower Sigs, and a couple of Taurus, and just can’t really warm up to them.

I was gifted a Sig 2022 from my father, had it for about a year and only put about 5 mags through it before I have it back. Nothing wrong with it, but every time I’d go shoot, it would just sit in the safe as I preferred the other pistols I had, so I ended up giving it back.

My carry guns have been 1911’s, hipower, or steel frame revolvers, even with the wife’s Glock and airweight Smith available as options. I’ve fired my fathers in laws G43 a bit, and do like the size and weight, and might be able to tolerate the trigger as a carry gun, and wouldn’t mind trying one out for carry, but that money got spent on a suppressor, so that experiment will have to wait.
 
I have several newer S&W revolvers, A couple Have been shot a lot, no failure of a part yet, molded or otherwise. I think it's time to quit worrying about MIM parts. At least in S&W revolvers.
There is a lot of other stuff I don't like about the new S&W.
 
I'm not going to say I replaced anything because my older guns are still very trusted and still get shot and enjoyed, but improvements in technology has definitely changed my choices for primary CCW and HD weapons.

Where I used to carry a Colt CCO 1911 in 45ACP, I then went to a CZ PCR in 9mm due mainly to the real world success of 9mm Federal HST and Speer Gold Dot in LEO shootings.

With improvements in light and sight technology, I went to a 9mm S&W Shield with a Crimson Trace 400 Lumen mounted light and Truglo TFX Tritium Fiber Optic sights to give me good target ID and sight visibility day or night, 24/7.

My most recent change was my confidence in red dot sights due to training with and testing leading me to finally incorporating red dot sights and more powerful lights with my CZ P-07 CCW and my CZ P10C nightstand gun.

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My CZ P10C with Holosun 507C Red Dot and powerful Streamlight TLR1 WML

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My CZ P-07 with Holosun 507C Red Dot and compact Olight PL2 mini WML

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CZ P-07 in a Werkz Bisect holster with 35-52 rds of 9mm on tap
 

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DMK - I think that someday I’ll get a setup similar to yours - that’s a lot of firepower and like you said night or day. I’ve never used a red dot on a handgun but think it is just a matter of time. I have a PX-45 and shield 45 with lasers - but lasers are so hard to see in sunlight.
 
When synthetic stocks for bolt guns came out in the late 80's early 90's I got rid of most of my wood stocks, they're much lighter and resistant to dings. Unless it's a high grade wood stock on a collector or range gun I never even consider wood these days.
 
I'll concede the percussion lock is more reliable than flint, in wet weather and that the enclosed metallic cartridge is more reliable than percussion. But that's all I will concede.
 
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