[cslinger]

We all know .45 is the best and if you are going to own a 9mm it has to hold 85 rounds and that revolvers are old tech etc. and so on.

We all own, like, use, carry whatever certain guns that may not be the ideal weapon from a purely technical/tactical reason but we own and use them because we like them for some reason.

I will start. My quirk is....small guns.

I like small guns, especially single stack pistols and carbine length rifles. I have small hands and single stacks fit me great. I love my P225. As for rifles I like handy carbine type guns. M4s, short lever actions etc. I just like the looks and feel of them.

I realize that there are more practical handguns and more practical longarms but darned if I don't have a thing for compact firearms.

Chris

[Thumper]

Snubby big bore revolvers...

Puuuuuuugnacious!

[Wanderer]

I'm a handgun type o' guy, I can't get into rifles and such...

[Will Fennell]

I'm a BIG 10mm fan....there is something very kewl about a srvie pistol, small and comfy enough to CCW, that is powerful enough to hunt deer and Wild hogs with.......

Here in South Carolina, we have the longest Deer season in the USA[Aug 15th to Jan 1]...so it has its practical side too;)

[AlienSoul]

Well I am very new to owning any firearms (I am in my early twenties) but I have always been interesting in them. I like my 10/22 'cause it is tons of fun and cheap to shoot. I want to build a AR-15 and I am looking to buy a couple of Walthers (P99 & P22) but I like just about anything that goes bang. The things that REALLY interest me are odd firearms like penguns. They are just plain cool. BTW if anyone knows where I can find REAL penguns for sale let me know.

[762x51]

My latest quirk is green guns. I keep buying OD green guns.....and knives...and flashlights. There's something wrong with me.

Help.

[cslinger]

Pick up a copy of SAR(Small Arms Review) plenty of adds for pen guns and the like.

They are, however, classed as AOW or any other weapons by our benevolent maste......ahhh I mean the government so that means lots of paperwork but only a $5.00 tax on them.

Chris

[Santa CruZin]

Colt 1911s. I have not fired a more addictive handgun. My High Standard match .22 was fun too, but man those Colt .45ACP's. :cool:

[TheLastBoyScout]

I won't consider buying a gun unless it can be easily modified to have lefty or completely ambi controls.

[brownie0486]

Most pen guns will be restricted items not for sale tothe public.

I have one in .25cal that I picked up years ago which is legal as it has to be "broken" from it's profile [ of a pen ] which activates the firing mechanism and drops the trigger for access and use.

It sits in a drawer with all the other oddities I've gathered.

Brownie

[kenehsr]

Mine is shooting my walther ppk .32cal. The only prob is that it only has a 7 shot mag, so when you start getting a feel for shooting it , it's over. ;( At least to me.

[Dionysusigma]

Soviet MilSurp. 2/3 of my collection, in fact...

[axeman_g]

I dont like to shoot guns with wood grips ... just dont feel right. I replace all my grips with rubber at time of purchase.

Although there is nothing prettier then a well maintaned semi auto with cocoabola or rosewood grips all shiny and showing some nice grain.

I just dont like to grip the gun with them. I must sweat alot ... have to ask the wife.


I bad quirk ... I hate all S&W guns .... no reason ... just dont like. Predisposed for some reason I cant remember.

[C.R.Sam]

Pow, bang, whoosh, twang BOOM etc.
If it makes the sound, I like it.

Ma Deuces and K frame wheelguns at the top of the heap tho.

Sam

[Skunkabilly]

Carbon fiber grips.

[mtnbkr]

I too like small guns. My last rifle purchase was a Featherweight. Not exactly small, but smaller than my other rifles. Carbines and lightweight rifles always get my attention first.

I also like small handguns. Two of my three handguns are small. I make an exception for the GP100 because it's such a good "outdoors" gun for me.

Chris

[Soap]

I like fine leather, bluing, wood, etc. I've always wanted to own a double rifle or a custom '06 by David Miller.

[BigDeeeeeeee]

I geuss it would have to be Plastic. Over the last 5-6 years I've bought 2 Glocks, a Bushmaster carbine, and a KelTec. I would have said black was my quirk but the KelTec is Olive.

[RustyHammer]

Anything that goes bang ... from fire crackers to battleships. I love'm.

[Mike Irwin]

I guess, then, that my quirk is still older S&W revolvers.

[Dorrin79]

I really like milsurp rifles. I think their cheapness is a major part of the attraction

I really like little .380 single-stack blowback autos. They are pretty much obsolete these days (you can get 9mm and .40s about the same size) but Bersas and Maks and the like are just fun. I can't explain it.

[Brian Williams]

Wood and Blue.

I kinda like sets or Combos
like my 2 favorites, S&W 13 and Marlin 1894 both in 357

[Kharn]

Mine's being tactical on a budget. I cant hold a candle to most AR15 gear junkies, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got. I sew my own tactical slings, gun rugs and gear bags, and I have a milling machine that I can use to (functionally) duplicate most stuff that catches my eye since I cant afford to buy the expensive stuff.

Kharn

[BigG]

Soviet Dragunovs and Colt 45 Autos head my list. At least, today... :D

[Majic]

Old Colt revolvers and N-frames. Smith builds nice revolvers, but only the N-frames catch my eye. Just about any old Colt is worth having to me. I'm working on building a nest of snakes right now.

[Schuey2002]

Pre- ('89) ban rifles make me feel all warm 'n fuzzy inside.. :D

[Sean Smith]

Single-action autoloaders. BHP, 1911, SIG P210.

And of course the 10mm Auto cartridge. :D

[OEF_VET]

Full-Auto. Nothing like the feeling of rockin' and rollin' with a -60 or a SAW. One of these days, I will own a Class 3 weapon.

[Stetson_CO]

I like single action revolvers and small guns like cslinger, for the same reasons.


c):{

[Phyphor]

Nothin' like that PING to make ones day.....

[Atticus]

I should probably wait till tomorrow to see if my jones changes.....but for now it is Marlin lever guns, with S&W revolvers coming in a close second.

[pbman]

I switched from auto's to revolvers, cause i don't like to pickup brass.

[JShirley]

I could find one without a loading gate, I'd probably carry a single-action revolver every day.

I'm good with Glocks, but last times I carried, 'twas a 657 .41 Magnum.

[Standing Wolf]

.22 caliber match pistols for me. They tend to be big, bulky, awkward-looking, and finicky, but they're the most fun I've ever had while wearing shoes and socks.

[seeker_two]

Single-action revolvers & double-barrel shotguns... :D

...and a few .22lr autoshuckers for fun. :evil:

[Shooter973]

My personal quirk would have to be CAST BULLETS. 99% of my handgun shooting is done with cast bullets. About 50% of my rifle shooting is done with cast bullets. :)

[NewShooter78]

Cowboy action is my new jones. I'm a big history buff, and the history behind the American West and its weapons really facinates me. One day I'd like to have a pair of colt SAA's, but I'd make due with a couple of Ruger Vagueros.

[number6]

My quirk is 1911's. Whenever I see one that suits my fancy I just have to have it.

[Telperion]

I like suppressors and suppressed guns. But I can't have one. Boo! :(

[Darrin]

Shotguns for me. Pump, SxS, O/U, single, whatever. 12ga preferred, but 20ga and 16ga are fun too.

Never shot a 10ga.........................yet! :D


edit to add: I do not care for PG-only SGs.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

'Smith revolvers made between around 1950 up until they stopped making square butts.

Oh yeah, and I kind of have a thing for small bore rifles. Just picked up ANOTHER 22-250... *sigh*

[Kamicosmos]

Big Bore pistols. (outside of .22s, nothing smaller than .357 for me)
Small bore rifles. (I think a .270 packs a wallop!)

[DWS1117]

M1 Garands. As was mentiond before, PING!

HKMP5SD. Love the feel of rock and roll on low volume.

[lycanthrope]

Light bullets. Fast Speeds. Even for .45 ACP I prefer the 155gr Sinterfire.

The recoil just feels better.

[DMK]

Short, light and handy rifles. Pistol calibers, intermediate rounds, full power battle rifle calibers, semi-auto, bolt action, lever action, I love 'em all!

[stevelyn]

Quirks?


Yup! My name is Steve and I'm an ammo snob. Especially ammo (bullets in particular) that I trust my life to. I don't care about the caliber, big vs. small, bolt, auto, single-shot, revolver, or whatever. If I'm going to use it for anything off the range like hunting or SD, it has to be stuffed with the latest, greatest, custom, premium ammo money can buy. With emphasis on premium or custom cast bullets made or loaded by the usual suspects. And I really dig the High Energy and Light Magnum concepts using premium bullets by Federal and Hornady respectively. I really wish more manufacturers embraced this idea.

When I enter my favorite emporium for hunting or SD ammo, I turn my nose up at the regular off-the-shelf stuff by the major makers. No Core-Lokts, or Power-Points for me. Federal Classic? No way! Okay I have some of those on hand. But that's only because I couldn't find any 150 grain Ballistic Tips and it did pain me to buy them.
When it comes to SD ammo I even tell my department which to buy.

I believe that bullet technology and manufacturing techniques in the last few years has allowed us to use calibers for applications that a few years ago would have required a jump to a larger caliber. There is even a better understanding as to how cast bullets behave on firing and the optimum hardness to get them to perform their best in specific applications (explainations on Garrett Cartridges website are examples).

[Feanaro]

I like beat up guns. Not screwed up or badly mangled but I love a gun with some dents, marks and scrapes. "War Wounds" as I like to call them.

[gbelleh]

I like single stack .380s for some reason. PPK, Bersa, Mauser HSc, etc.

Anything by H&K (especially the innovative designs such as the P7, VP70, P9S)

Guns that are: strange, unusual, rare, funky, weird, etc.

[Skunkabilly]

I don't have any as selection in CA sucks, but pistol caliber carbines seem like they'd be loads of fun. I'd love to do an IDPA match with one...

"Uhhh yeah I carry it!"

[hansolo]

I love SMITH, but I don't really care for WESSON:neener:

[Hemicuda]

I got me a BIG soft spot for .22's... I have 7 or 8 Autiloaders... (10-22s, Nylon 66's (5) and Whatnot, 3 leverguns, and 8 or 10 single shots (falling block, rolling block, bolt actions, break actions) and I can't stop grabbing them up!

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Shotty Merchandise Syndrome. I can't make up my mind what ONE type of shotgun would be best for clay sports now and possibly HD later.

Over-under?
Pump?
Gas semiauto?
Recoil semiauto?

"All of the above" is not an option.

- pdmoderator

[bdhawk]

i will spend waaaaaay too much time lookin' for that last 9mm brass on the range. i have about 3,000 9mm so it's really silly.

i love the smell of burnt gunpowder. especially unique.


i am so cheap i still cast most of my own bullets. i have over 900 pounds of wheelweights/linotype/pure lead, yet i i pick up wheelweights off the parkinglot when i see 'em.

[TrapperReady]

Classics. I'm not exactly young anymore, but I still get a big kick out of using firearms of the same vintage my father and grandfather used. There's just something very satisfying about walking through the woods with a piece of history cradled in your arms.

I just went through a search for a deer rifle. I looked at quite a few options, including some lightweight bolt-guns with synthetic stocks and SS hardware. I'm sure that I could have gotten one with one of the new super short magnum rounds and been very effective.

However, those left me cold. I ended up with a used Winchester '94 that's over 50 years old.

[ShaiVong]

I'm with Vet; Full. Auto.

Some day I will have a subgun. It will be mine; Oh yes, It will, be mine.:D

AAAAANNNNDDD Military type guns. Sorry guys, but lever actions and sporters dont do it for me.

[Morgan]

Full size service pistols.

I hate "compact" guns that aren't small enough to fit in a pocket. If it has to go on the belt, make it a full size gun, damn it!

My carry guns go like this: J-frame/Mustang/Kahr MK, then jump right to HK USP45, 1911 (5", of course), CZ75, etc. Anything in between is useless.

[Bigjake]

big single action revolvers

[FXR]

On the good side: I really like single action .45 Colt pistols and lever action rifles. Just really cool and....totally indefensible to haul around a six-pound rifle that only shoots a pistol cartridge but-- it's still fun. Fat slow moving bullets rock.

On the bad side: I really hate the "strict constitutionalists" who slip up next to you at the range and talk about how they hate the "gubmint" and how they really like their newest SHTF rifle....:barf: Listen to me now and hear me later bud, but you're about the only one I *don't* want to have a weapon....friggin' freaks.

K

[cool45auto]

Old battle rifles, preferably bolt action snipers. And they have to look like they've been thru hell, I love the dents and dings.

[The Silver Bullet 1719]

Military Style Rifles: ARs, AKs, G3s, and FALs. Also, FN\Browning Hi-Powers.

[MPFreeman]

.22LR bolt guns. ACCURATE, .22LR rifles with real, honest iron sites.

[MagKnightX]

I am Walther's consumer whore. I have a P99, and want to buy the official Walther-made scope-mount-thingy with a red-dot sight with walther's logo stamped on it, and in a while a supressor officially produced by walther with a walther-made threaded barrel. I want a PPK/s or /e (whichever comes in .380 ACP) or two, a P22 with both types of barrels and a threaded barrel adapter, and a walther-sanctioned supressor, a P-38, and even a P5, if I can find one, plus hats, shirts, pins, and other promotional junk. I can name most of the importers, and know how to tell if any given P99 was made entirely in Germany, what the little stampings mean, and how to identify the date of manufacture. I lust after the WA2000, and want a KK100 for a target rifle, with both an OSP and GSP. I even have a P99 airsoft and will be getting a CP99.

I also really love BIG guns, and I don't necessarily mean big-bore, but that works. The full Mosin is wonderful, and I want an FAL and a Barret M82A1, an M60 (I also long to fire full auto firearms), a Desert Eagle complete set and a few BFRs, some huge Taurus Raging series guns, the new S&W 500, and an HK Mk. 23 SOCOM, and basically anything that needs a carrying handle, and would probably give sexual favors for a minigun.

I love the smell of burning powder, too.

I guess that's it.

[ShaiVong]

mmmm. I love the smell of shotgun powder in the morning. Smells like; Victory.

[cobb]

Quirks?

I like bores with big holes, and I don't like anything that has a new type safety device on it.

[jacketch]

I make them all the time, lots of holes all over the place. LOL

I love steel guns with wood grips, no plastic guns for me, at least not now.

I also love to have a knife for every gun, it's got to be just the right one for the gun.

[dsgrntldPW]

I seem to be developing a case of BBS (Big-Bore Snubbyitis). An old Rossi 720 .44 special, 386PD .357 and a Taurus 415 .41 mag.; all seem to be taking up more and more of my limited range time these days. So does my S/A 1911 Micro-compact .45.

It is nice to know that my choices in firearms do not seem to be an attempt to compensate for other shortcomings in my life. :D :rolleyes: :D

[MeekandMild]

RIMFIRE! I don't care whether it is .22 short, long, long rifle, CB or magnum or even the .17 HMR, rimfire is great. Rifles, pistols, revolvers, all the same with me. Sure there is a place in the world for centerfire, but rimfire is cool.

[Stoney]

Old Mossberg .22's. I have seven and one on the way I just picked up
on Gunbroker.com. A nice model 35 single shot target. A couple years
of looking for that one.

[Stoney]

Why do my paragraphs always go wacko on the High Road. Anybody?

[JeepDriver]

9mm's

I can't stop buying them. It's a new addiction so I only have 7 9mm's so far but I don't have any plans to stop!

Thinking about a CZ 75, Walther P99, Another Beretta 92 FS, Some more Sigs basicly anything that looks good at the time! (live in MD, can get one new has to be used :( )

[Hand_Rifle_Guy]

I have a few quirks. I'm a rather quirky guy, after all. ;) We'll start with the obvious.


Wrist-wrenching, face-slapping, palm-stinging, bench-clearing RECOIL! I am shamelessly addicted to thumpers. Examples: The Monster, various S.A.S.S. conversion kits, AMT .50 A.E.-cal'd Automag V, .44 Mountain Gun.

Oddnesses. The odder the better. Typified by the "What the HECK are you shooting?" inquiry. Super-thumpers tie into this bit as head-turners also. Examples: Astra 600, Steyr-Hahn 1912, Broomhandle Mauser, The Monster, AMT .30 Carbine-cal'd Automag III.

BIG bores. Examples: .45-70 Trapdoor Springfield, Automag V, Webleys, 1917s, ADC .45 ACP M-1 derringer, Shansei Arsenal .45 ACP Broomhandle Mauser, .358 Winchester S.A.S.S. conversion kit.

Cool calibers. Examples: Glock 32, CZ-52, Automag III and V, .44 Mountain Gun, .400 Cor-bon 1911 barrel, Remington M-81 in .35 Remington.

Classics/Antiques. Typified by Blued Steel and Polished Walnut. Embodying Style, Character, History, and Panache. Examples: Trapdoor Springfield, Colt Lightning Rifles, Webleys, 1917's, Colt 1903, Broomhandle Mausers, Police Positive Special, Remington M-81's, Swedish Mauser, Mannlicher-stocked Mexican Mauser, Parker 10ga. SXS hammer shotgun, Winchester M-'97 shotgun.

I like my quirks. Lots of overlap in the collection, which makes for liking a given gun for LOTS of reasons.