Do you have a surprise gun?

Kahr CW45.
My wife has carried a J frame .38 for over 40 years. The lightweight 642 was hurting her thumb joint. She wasn't having fun shooting it anymore.

We went shopping. I showed her wunder 9mms and .380s. She was leery of safeties on single action types and din't trust the Glock trigger for concealed carry.

She wound up with a Kahr 45 ACP. She liked the smooth revolver like trigger and no safeties to deal with.

I was worried that muzzle blast and recoil would be too much for her, but she took to that little rascal slick as a whistle.

I was sufficiently impressed with the little gun that I bought one for myself 3 days later.

Put an N frame .45 revolver away and stuck the Kahr in my waistband and it's been there ever since.

Hi Point 40 caliber carbine, phenomenal gun for $300. 100% reliable through 500 rounds, accurate and easy to shoot. The sights are awesome as well.

Taurus 24/7 compact in .45ACP

Around six or seven years ago I was looking for a compact semi-auto in .45ACP for concealed carry. I picked up a Taurus 24/7 as an impulse buy, it only cost around $300 plus transfer and it fit my hand decently well. It turned out to be just a hair too large for comfortable pocket carry with a pocket holster but I bought a used Crossbreed Supertuck for it and it fit me perfectly. That cheap little gun has eaten everything I ever fed it, I shoot it about as well as any semi-auto I own, and it's so ugly that I don't worry about it picking up "character" with use. I'll never get rid of it, for one thing it's not worth anything to anyone else and I've grown really fond of that gun.

Two that I am DELIGHTED with:

Para Carry .45ACP. A young man at a gun show offered me the pistol, two holsters, and 4 mags, and night sights, for my Beretta 92G. The little 1911 is as accurate at 50' as any standard sized 1911 I've ever shot. Has a Match barrel, and the easiest DA trigger ever.

Also, I had a Glock 42 that I couldn't warm up to. At the next gun show, I traded it for a 1911 Citadel (Rock Island) in 9mm. I couldn't shoot that Glock worth a hoot, but the Citadel 9mm is a bulls-eye pistol. Amazingly reliable and accurate. And CHEAP!

I dont post much... mostly lurk but I had a nice surprise so I'm going to share this.

I bought a Kel-Tec RDB about two weeks ago for $1300. I have an AUG and have access to a Tavor so I hAve some metric by which to judge. I like the Tavor but it is heavy and wide, doesnt suppress well, awful trigger. My AUG has a nice but heavy trigger , suppresses bad , it is terrible weak side shooting and is pretty heavy, so I have been eying this RDB for about 2 years now. I watched a video review by Tim on the MAC channel, he seemed to like it alot..... so I took a risk

I am glad I did take a chance because this is my new favorite rifle as far as 5.56/223 goes. I have over 700 rounds through this gun so far straight out of the box. It is lighter than my AUG or the Tavor, suppresses better than either easily, has a better stock trigger than either. Loving it so far.

Hi Point .45 acp $169 . It never jams, straight shooter. Ugly and bulky, but damn good gun.
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Do you have a surprise gun?

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Oh fer sure. At least two, if not more...

First time was when looking for a camp rifle, towards the start of my meager collection... I had been handling various .308 bolts in handy sizes... Ruger Compacts, that sort of thing. When the counterman then handed me what appeared to be in comparison a toy-sized bolt carbine, I asked him, "What's this?". He replied, "It's a SUPRISE..." That is a CZ 527 Carbine in 7.62 X 39. He was absolutely correct. It's a superb little rifle.

The second surprise was how easy it is to shoot a decent 1911. I say "decent" meaning "sights you can see and a trigger you can manage"...

I guess the third surprise is a Model 1892 carbine. I have two; one in .357 mag the other in .44 mag. What is surprising to me is how sleek, light weight and accurate they are. How easy they are to hit with. How beautiful a design they remain.

A trashed 10/22 I bought for $85. I picked up a new take-off barrel cheap, got a replacement stock for in exchange for feeding my friend's cat while she was on vacation, and that ugly little rifle really shoots! It needs the receiver refinished, but I think I'm going to keep it.

+1 on the S&W SD9VE. Bought it for next to nothing to play gunsmith with so that I didn't ruin a good gun trying to do something stupid.

It had a horrible trigger but was still accurate. I stuck some Apex parts in it, polished a few pieces and it wound up as one of my favorite guns ever - and it is still very accurate.

My sis in law sold me her old man's nicked up scratched up Marlin 60 for $50 when he went skirt chasin. At the time I thought I was being pretty generous. I got it out a few weeks later, what a tack driver!

I got this Springer and a 4" S&W model 65 for $600 a ways back. Sold the 65 for
$350. This gun will feed and fire anything (even "gunshow reloads) as long as I use the Wilson mags. Trigger is excellent and accuracy is better than I can hold. Best $250 I ever spent. Joe

Every K-frame I ever shot. The bullet always seemed to go right where I wanted. Strange.

Rossi Model 92 trapper in .357. Light, accurate, and fun. Works for targets, hunting, home defense, ISIS attacks, etc.

Lionheart LH9
Shoots like a champ.

Savage 29 made in 1929. Never handled shot one or even seen one until I found this one at my gunsmiths booth at a local show. It just felt right, so I brought it home. What a great shooter it has turned out to be.

For me, it was my 30-30 lever action. I got it just to round out my collection. It has since become one of my most favorite firearms.

My first Glock. A Glock 17 I got for IDPA matches. I was a P35 Highpower man, and I treasured reliability, and still do, over just about anything. Well that old 2nd generation Glock went well over 100 k rounds before I traded it off (and it would have gone another 100 k rounds if I had of kept it.)

Hence while I have many S&W revolvers I pack a Glock.

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I wanna see that! PM me a pic, or post one!

My surprise gun was a long ago purchased 90% S&W 629 that I "found" again when going through a pile of Zip-Loc bags in the reloading room yesterday. Sad part was I had purchased a couple other 44 MAG's recently cause I was lacking in that caliber.

My surprise gun was the small Kimber Ultra Carry with the 3" barrel. It was one of the more expensive handguns that I ever bought, and I had hoped it would be my every day carry gun. But right from the beginning it was very unreliable, with frequent FTE, FTF, stovepipes, etc. After two trips back to Kimber it still was giving me frequent failures, so there was no way that I could use it as a carry gun. Maybe they had not, at least at that time, worked out the problems of having such a short barrel in that configuration of a gun, because I never heard of anyone having those problems with the longer barreled Kimbers. But it sure looked good, and felt just right in my hand. I traded it off to someone who accepted its lack of reliability as not a problem.

This little gem would be my biggest surprise. Bought it for 100 dollars at a gun show (Yes, Hillary, there WAS a background check performed) last year. It looked brand new. When I asked why so cheap I was informed that the gun couldn't hit anything.

It was bought decades ago for the purpose of pest eradication. The original owner found that it couldn't hit an orange at fifty feet. In disgust, he bought another rifle and set this one on the closet, He died, his son, who is my age (67) shot it briefly and couldn't hit anything either, so he took it to the gun show where I bought it.

The gun had had less than a box of ammo fired through it. It didn't take long ti diagnose the problem; It was a SMOOTHBORE!!! So, I told myself, I had one of those guns made to shoot miniature clay pigeons.

EXCEPT..... Winchester never made the model 60 with a smooth bore. A smoothbore model 60 isn't supposed to exist. I'm not sure what I have here, a valuable one-off factory mistake or an interesting but not really worth much curiosity.

Probably the latter, but it was a big surprise. And it groups- oops- patterns beautifully with those butterfly killing 22 shot rounds.

Someday....I might even learn how to post a picture right side up

Mine would be the RIA .22tcm. Runs like a top accurate right out of the box,
It also came with a 9mm barrel. First 9mm I have ever owned. I'm 73 yrs and always had a .40 or bigger. One fault is the cost of .22 tcm ammo but as long as the wife doesn't know the cost I'm fine.

I bought a makarov because I ended up with a thousand rounds of 9 X 18 ammo in a bulk deal.
Best $200 pistol I've ever had!

I'm sure there are better pistols and I have some, but this little import really grew on me because it's simple and ALWAYS functions flawlessly.

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I have one too, it's an absolute BEAST of a handgun! It'll handle loads that make me cringe. It just laughs at me and calls me names. First saw one in 1980 and wanted it bad, but never got one until this came around a few years ago.