When you want a new firearm, but...

Me, Also a Benelli M4, A Desert Eagle with .44 mag and .50 AE uppers and a S&W TRR8

Im on the fence about the new Sig P210. I really dont NEED another $1000 9mm, but......

If the stars align just right, a Python (new or old) might come home with me someday.

Ive already found all my grail/bucket list guns.

I had been saving for a Nighthawk Custom GRP. Between what I had saved and the money from two safe queens I sold I was there, but came across a Dan Wesson Vigil on sale. I bought the Dan Wesson, a Gen 5 Glock 17 and another 43x as a back up to my carry gun. I had money left over which went into my youngest son's college fund. As much as I wanted the GRP the practical side of me took over. The Vigil is excellent and I don't regret it.


https://www.nighthawkcustom.com/pistols/grp

Robert said:

I've wanted a Lewis Gun for years...

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There was a fully functional Lewis gun (minus magazine) in the little museum (above the library) of the small town I grew up in. It was just leaning in a dusty corner, no ropes, no protective glass or anything. I think 5 people a year went up there, including the librarian/curator. I played with it all the time in grade school.

Its probably still there, dusty and forgotten in that corner of the library attic.

Still looking for a decently priced ruger blackhawk 7.5in barrel 41 mag. Saw one a few weeks back. But $1100.00 price tag turned me off.

I’ll second the Eagle.

Wanting one since I was a kid. Seeing how much the ammo was. Checking over all the gaudy finishes.

Then when I began to handload and discovered that the 50AE was one cartridge that Home Rolls really shine. I could feasibly get one and feed its hunger for lead and wrist cartilage!

The want for the Fire-breather over rode any thought of need or practical purposes.
Its’ purpose was to exist, in my hands!

Looking at the prices fluctuate over the six months that I sat on the fence, teetering from “get it” to “don’t be silly”.
Then the new Stainless came out. And another six months of mulling whether the extra layout was worth it.

It was! I caved! I was beat down by Grab-A-Guns ingenious marketing gimmick of letting me shop pistols when ever I want, anytime of day. Where ever the mood struck. Evil I say! Genius, but evil.

I have a new axiom that goes, “I have been thinking of it so long, I know it without knowing it and I want it. Be happy. With a .50!”

And it’s one of my favorite pistols too!
Now I just think how great it is to shoot it!

When your desktop syncs to your phone and seven shop’s pages show up in your favorites, all with the same firearm in the description, it may be time to level the finances...

Demi-human said:

I’ll second the Eagle.
Wanting one since I was a kid. Seeing how much the ammo was. Checking over all the gaudy finishes.
Then when I began to handload and discovered that the 50AE was one cartridge that Home Rolls really shine. I could feasibly get one and feed its hunger for lead and wrist cartilage!

Looking at the prices fluctuate over the six months that I sat on the fence, teetering from “get it” to “don’t be silly”.
Then the new Stainless came out. And another six months of mulling whether the extra layout was worth it.

It was! I caved! I was beat down by Grab-A-Guns ingenious marketing gimmick of letting me shop pistols when ever I want, anytime of day. Where ever the mood struck. Evil I say! Genius, but evil.

I have a new axiom that goes, “I have been thinking of it so long, I know it without knowing it and I want it. Be happy. With a .50!”

And it’s one of my favorite pistols too!
Now I just think how great it is to shoot it!

When your desktop syncs to your phone and seven shop’s pages show up in your favorites, all with the same firearm in the description, it may be time to level the finances...

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The stainless Eagles are gorgeous and ingenious examples of firearms engineering. The grip is too wide for me, but it was fun to shoot!

For about 6 or 7 years I have wanted an S&W 327 TRR8.
Ever since I saw the Batman movie with Jack Nicholson and his S&W 25 I have wanted one. Not with a 30” barrel though.
I have wanted an S&W 586 for over 20 years.
I have wanted an S&W 27 or 28 for just as long.

One of the reasons I have not gotten these guns is whenever I find them, I do not have the money. When I have the money I cannot find them. It’s a game of car and mouse. I have purchased many other wanted guns so it is not like I sit around pining away for them.

Someday, maybe.

Ed Brown Kobra. ........ yes I caved but I got a good deal (I mean relatively speaking when your talking about a Brown pistol).

Now I have wanted a Smith 586 L-Comp for quite a long time but haven’t gotten there.......yet.

The only one I really want is a pre-war S&W M&P. I am a fan of the old serials and that's what they usually carried.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Im on the fence about the new Sig P210. I really dont NEED another $1000 9mm, but......

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They're $1200 now. And worth every penny. In a year they'll probably be $1400. Buy now!!

I don't have a single Glock in my collection, so you could probably put me down for a Gen 2 Glock 17, preferably with an LEO provenance.

JudgeHolden10 said:

So, crazily enough, I have shot three of those four (counting the Desert Eagle twice). My friend had a NIB M4 for several years until I convinced him to shoot it. I was hoping that would be the cure. It was not. Pure awesomeness.

As far as the Desert Eagle goes...well, I thought the .44 Magnum was pleasant to shoot. The .50 AE, however, was a huge difference in recoil, to the point that I just cannot see shooting it more than a handful of times in one range visit. It wasn't painful, per se, but it caused me severe flinch, and I haven't done that in years.

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That's why the .44 mag. I have lots of them and no problems but if you're going to get a DE you need to have one in .50 AE (Eg. I have multiple Sigs in .357 Sig, S&W's in .40 S&W etc.)

Ever since purchasing a P30 I've become a fan of HK...in the hunt for a P30SK v3.

I've wanted a bfr for a couple years now, I'll get it eventually - had the money & the go ahead from my better 3/4 two times since wanting one ,but that money is a slippery thing to hold, both times bought something else. I don't regret it either.

Demi-human said:

feed its hunger for lead and wrist cartilage!

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I got a good laugh at that. Deagles are sweet, do you ever carry that thing ?

I’ve always wanted a G/K 43 (really doesn’t matter which one), but will not spend what they go for now. Years ago, around 2009ish, I had an opportunity at a couple of them. First one was in a local ad that one was found scoped in the closet of an old WWII vet (grandfather of family), asking $1000. I called the number listed and was told they sold it earlier in the day. Second one was a few months later a guy I knew in Ft. Wayne, IN informed me he knew a fella selling one but it came in a reproduction stock. He said I could get it for $1500. I was talking to my wife about a road trip and she ever so wisely suggested getting an M1 Garand instead for around $500 at CMP (we live about 25 to 30 minutes away from the North store), as I had also always wanted one of those. So I have an M1, but no G/K 43. Maybe one day........

I have wanted a Kricotronic (sold through Beeman in the ‘80’s) bolt action .22 for decades. Only reason I don’t have one is I have never found one for sale.

I wanted a CZ PCR so bad and I'm really glad I didn't get it because I would have ended up selling at a loss when I sold everything off and went Glock

I started out with 1 H&K, now I have 4. As soon as this draught is over I am adding another a P30sk!

Taurus Judge/Smith & Wesson Governor. Never could talk myself into buying one since it served very little purpose. Finally gave in and bought one when I found a good deal on a Raging Judge. Having a gun that fires 454 Cassull was enough of a purpose for me.

A Perazzi; every time I get close enough, the price jumps 20%

JudgeHolden10 said:

What was it? Did you finally cave?

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I've wanted a Sig MPX pistol for a while, and finally bought one last week. It's a lot easier to "cave" in the current conditions where you don't know when another buying opportunity will come along.

I have a hankering for a .308 truck gun...

My dreamed about rifle for decades was an H&K SL-7. As a high schooler in the early 1980’s I loved creating an image of the cowboy pulling one from his saddle scabbard or the gun rack from his pickup while defending the herd from a predator. Even the ads were ruggedly cool:



$500 then was about $1,300 now, since those are now super scarce and mega pricy an M-1A Tanker at about $1,500 is filling the want... but nowadays they’re scarce and becoming pricier .


A Dan Wesson .357 Max 740 or a 741 in .41 mag will sooner or later cross my threshold. Shades of the IMHSA era from roughly the same early-1980’s timeframe.

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