Your favorite handgun

I can't pick one. Each has its own reason. The Sig is laser accurate. The hi power is an elegant shooter, and the 1935 unfired Colt was one of my dads proudest possessions.View attachment 954149

Jeff olson

My vote, as if it mattered, would have to go to your Dad's unfired Colt 1911. In mint condition with a great family connection!

For a long time it was my Smith Shorty .45s. Would feed everything including an empty case, stunningly accurate and gorgeous. Then Smith told all of us 3rd gen owners to go to hell. *sigh* Had no flaws, until then.

I guess now it's my Glock 39. It's a .45/.40 & 9mm. When I started back into longer range pistol shooting (started at 80 yards) it out performed every other pistol except a Jim Clarke .45. Great little gun. I even think it's pretty.

It's flaw: ammo logistics! But I cast & reload so I guess that mitigates that.


Cat

RIA 6" tac-match 10mm

My mags are capped at 10........ Need some color too

HK P2000 chambered in .40 (SA/DA). Trigger is super smooth. Reset is a little long but not an issue.

I bought the Ruger MKI 6 7/8” Heavy Tapered Target Model as new in box 3 years ago with a 1982 serial number. To me this is the slickest, best looking, greatest shooting handgun I have owned. I call it my coffin gun.

My favorite semi. M&P compact 2.0 in 9mm. of all firearms I've handled, the M&P fits like a glove in my hands. The only bad thing. The trigger. APEX is the cure.

My favorite revolver, Ruger security 6. Love the size and weight of the gun. The only downside, the wood grips it came with. Way too small in the hand. I replaced them with Rubber grips, but wish they made chunkier wood grips.

Necessary_Nutrient said:

SA XDm-10 5.25 inch
Accurate, reliable, LOVES heavy loads

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Love the elite series. A truly ambidextrous firearm. Have both the 4.5 and 5.25. need more practice with the 5.25 because I am to be more accurate with the 4.5. still love them both.

My favorite,

10" freedom arms 83. Downside- it's got a long barrel and only hold 5 (actually 4 if I'm going to carry it)

Desert Eagle 357.

Ruger Blackhawk, plenty of power in .357 and in a pinch 9mm. hdbiker

My favorite is a Colt 1911.

My EDC is a 38 snub.

Without a doubt it would be my SR1911 Target....

A 9mm 1911
This one
Really like it a lot



https://www.springfield-armory.com/...ed-target-9mm-handgun-stainless-ca-compliant/

Out of all of my handguns,,,
Stella, my S&W Model 15 is my favorite.



Fits my hand like it was made for me,,,
Solid as a rock and as dependable as an old dog.

It's one drawback is that it isn't a Hollywood revolver,,,
I actually need to reload it after 6 shots.

Aarond

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I have two, equally loved. I have never fired the C-96 and neither has anyone else except the guy at the Mauser factory who proof tested it. The 1911 is Les' retirement gift to me.. I have fired it, seven times, just to say that I did.

My old Super Blackhawk. It's so big that it's like having a carbine in your holster.
Biggest drawback: It's so big... .

My favorite would be my 2nd generation Colt SAA, or my 1968 Commercial 1911.

Perhaps I am a bit fickle. When I saw this thread I thought of another similar thread and in that thread I responded that my favorite handgun was my S&W 327 Night Guard.

That day, that gun was my favorite. But a few days later I decided my Glock 45 was my “favorite”. Then I decided I can have two favorites and here they are:


Faults? The 327, maybe “the lock”. The G45 - it’s as sexy as a fence post.


Then one day I took my “Cop Guns” to the range and as I was shooting each one I decided that each one was a “favorite” for a different reason. I call them my “cop guns” because these were the guns that I equate with what police officers carried when I was thinking of becoming a cop back in the 80’s, well, except for the 442, which is my favorite carry gun and a favorite BUG of officers everywhere.
Faults:
Capacity, maybe?

Here are my “Cop Guns”.
S&W 19-4
S&W 10-7 C&E gun
S&W 442-1
S&W 36-2


Not long ago I acquired my second Glock 34. I have wanted a pair of G34’s for years and now I have them. As I was snapping this quick photo before beating feet to the range to shoot them both together I thought “These will be my Favorites!” And then I thought “Dude, you are flakier than a snowstorm. You have no single gun or guns that can be ‘favorites’ because they are all ‘favorites’ for one reason or another”

Here are my new “favorites”. My pair of Glock 34’s.
Faults? See G45 fault above.



For me the term “Favorite” depends on the day you ask me and what gun or guns I am shooting, cleaning, admiring, thinking about or working on. I do not own or keep for very long a gun that isn’t a “Favorite” for one reason or another.

Oh, almost forgot.
Here is my favorite .22. Fault? Fixed the fault. Got rid of the red fiber optic sight.

S&W model 63


And here are my favorite “Cowboy Guns”.
Ruger Vaquero .45 Colt
Ruger New Vaquero .45 Colt
Fault? Need matching guns for each



Like I said, “I’m a bit fickle”

One of my favorite all-time guns was a 1970 Detectives Special. Great old gun, easy to shoot, great lightweight belt gun. Flaw? Too valuable to carry or shoot with no replacements at a reasonable amount of money and few to no mechanics to work on it. Sold it for 2x what I paid for it. S&W 60-9 replaced it (can even carry .357 if needed, not exactly fragile! And stainless, no rust/blueing issues), carry a 642 for lighter weight in a pocket when that’s needed.

My first personally owned firearm is a long-term favorite for me and the family: Ruger MKII Standard 4.75” .22. Its grip is long enough for my big hands, it’s very accurate, insanely reliable, and runs even with a broken RSA. Flaw: non-adjustable sights make adjusting POI with varying loads problematic. Solution? Run one load.

But as I was thinking about that gun, I though about some other .22s I have. I learned to shoot with an old SA .22 revolver my dad had, and as an adult traded into a Ruger Single Six because of that old gun, and that’s probably my daughter’s favorite gun. Flaw? Fixed sights on a gun that runs everything from CB caps through .22 WMR make sure for POA/POI that really is only useful as a plinker. It’s quite accurate, but POI varies so much, load to load, and the sights are minimal to begin with.

My favorite .22, though, is probably my S&W M18 no dash. Super slick DA, accuracy for days, micrometer adjustable sights, great balance and feel. Flaw? Some loads extract hard to very hard from the tight chambers. Solution? Run only the easier to extract loads that are also accurate.

That gun is a great small game killer and sub-caliber understudy for my probably all-time favorite revolver, a S&W M15-4. Even better trigger than the M18. Flaw? Um. Haven’t found one besides that it only holds 6 rounds.

To get more rounds, I love my Beretta 92A1: Beautiful, reliable, rail to hold a light, safest semiauto design I can imagine while still being very shootable. Flaws? Heavy DA (replaced the mainspring), heavy gun (35oz unloaded), grip panels too thin (G10 full texture thicker panels), grip is too short (haven’t found a fix for that).

Cutting weight isn’t hard: use a Glock 19X at 25oz unloaded to cut 1/3 of the weight vs the Beretta, and automatically get a longer grip, and still completely drop safe, but then you don’t have that hammer for holstering (Striker Control Device), large enough girth (add M or L backstrap if needed). Not as pretty as the Beretta, but not uggo either.

That’s a start. Lots of favorites for lots of reasons.

That's a very difficult question to answer. As far as semi-autos are concerned it's an easy choice. It would be my Sig P226 Legion 9 because the only other semi-auto I own is a 1.0 PC Shield 9. The only "flaw" it has a 10 round mag because of our state law. The Sig was also my first handgun purchase at the tender age of 65 . My revolvers have too many different purposes and configurations to choose one as a favorite.

ALL of them........If they weren't I would not have bought them.

My favorite guns are the ones I’ve given as gifts, the ones haven’t bought yet, the ones I’ve enjoyed shooting with friends, and the guns I taught friends and kids how to shoot with.

Without the memories, all my guns are just things...tools that sling lead and copper really fast. They are fun, but none of them mean nearly as much to me as my dog.

Guess that rambling didn’t answer the original question...sorry.

My favorite handgun when out and about is the Glock 43X I’ll be carrying these days...and while I sleep, the G17 next to my bed.

Don’t have a favorite. Each fills a niche and when occupying that niche, it is my favorite.
Range, EDC, handgun, rifle...’only’ own 6...each is unique...have gone through the buy, try, like or not really hate, sell, trade, lose some $......journey so very content with what I have now...

Impossible to pick just one. High on the list would be my S&W model 21. It's only (flaw?) would be the front sight is nickel like the rest of the gun and in bright sunshine it glares.