Some good options in this poll. "looks" are a
huge one for me, I have no problem admitting it! In fact, they drive my feelings far more than they probably do for a lot of gun owners. I can list many examples in my own, and how they hit me:
Coonan, Tanfoglio Elite Match, Springfield Loaded Stainless
I have each of these and I am deeply in love with all of them. The Coonan isn't like anything else in the world and for a dozen reasons, it hits all my happy switches. Sometimes when I can't sleep and I need to clear out crap from my head to fall asleep... I think about taking the firing line with my Coonan. (true story) However, the monolith frame is
UGLY. I wanna chop it off.
My Tanfoglio was a purchase that made me look like a genius. Got almost 4,000 rounds through it and the pistol just blows me away. I also like the two-tone. But the tac-rail on it turns my stomach. And the gun will not photograph well, it looks even worse in any picture than it does in my hand. I want to give it to a Hollywood makeup artist for a weekend. As a shooter, my awesome life IMPROVES with each range trip!
Springer Loaded Stainless. Got a good deal on this and it's a fun gun to shoot. If I
ever meet the man who put forward serrations on this gun, and/or his boss that rubber-stamped the idea, I'm going to kick two guys in the yamsack. They willfully made a fine pistol look like that rear-end of a charging rhino. I'm physically angry when I see the muzzle end of a fun handgun in my collection.
This is a fun topic.