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Oh one more ! A full sized single stack Glock in .45 acp , 8+1 capacity ! Kevin
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Robbins290
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Not yet. I want to own a m1918. Semi auto.
cat_IT_guy
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Actually not one in particular. Theres lots of guns I'd love to own and dont for various reasons at this time (mostly financial, some because I dont have room to do them justice). What am I doing to get there? Living well within my means, paying off my credit card every month, extra mortgage payments and regular retirement account contributions.
Some of the top contenders would be....
Barrett .50 with good optics and a range to do it justice
AI .338 Lapua + optics + range
S&W XVR .460 + handgun scope
Beretta O/U shotgun
Some of the top contenders would be....
Barrett .50 with good optics and a range to do it justice
AI .338 Lapua + optics + range
S&W XVR .460 + handgun scope
Beretta O/U shotgun
The dream gun is always the last gun bought as a quick fix for the addiction. But like all medications, the soothing effects wear off with time.
The one below is a Korth Sport in the very rare .32 S&W Long that I have now since one week. It is a blast to shoot!
The one below is a Korth Sport in the very rare .32 S&W Long that I have now since one week. It is a blast to shoot!
JTHunter
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For over two years, I have been looking for a Marlin 1894 levergun in .38 Sp./.357 Magnum in decent shape & at an affordable price. No such luck! 
My mother has an SP101 in .38 Special and I have the GP100 in .357 so you'll understand why I'm interested in the Marlin.
Neither the Winchester 92 ($$$!!!) nor the Rossi clone would work for multiple reasons. Both are "top eject" (hard to scope) and have that curved buttplate that don't fit my shoulder. The Uberti version fails for the same three reasons the Winchester fails ($$, eject, & buttplate).
My mother has an SP101 in .38 Special and I have the GP100 in .357 so you'll understand why I'm interested in the Marlin.
Neither the Winchester 92 ($$$!!!)
nor the Rossi clone would work for multiple reasons. Both are "top eject" (hard to scope) and have that curved buttplate that don't fit my shoulder. The Uberti version fails for the same three reasons the Winchester fails ($$, eject, & buttplate).Main gun Battery Townsley, Fort Cronkite, California. I stumbled on the first Costal battery site by mistake in 1969 looking for a place to fish. Over thirty years I found all but one sight authorized by Congress. In 2001 a geo satellite photo and a gps led me to the last set of revetments. A barrel 16" in diameter, throwing a 1 ton plus shell clear past the Farallon islands stands out as the gun I sometimes dream about.
blindhari
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blindhari
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Bobson
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If by dream guns, you mean keep dreaming guns, mine is a legitimate late-model HK MP5A2. Sexiest gun man has ever created, IMO - and functional/reliable/efficient/effective too? Yeah, that's just about the perfect gun.
Well, you probably meant "dream guns" in terms of guns we will probably obtain someday as opposed to only if I win the lottery. In that case, mine isn't really a specific gun at all, but a custom bolt rifle I'll be building. That and an excellent condition, early 1900s Winchester 94 in .30 WCF.
Well, you probably meant "dream guns" in terms of guns we will probably obtain someday as opposed to only if I win the lottery. In that case, mine isn't really a specific gun at all, but a custom bolt rifle I'll be building. That and an excellent condition, early 1900s Winchester 94 in .30 WCF.
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I searched high and low for a Colt Magnum Carry and got one 2nd hand before the prices skyrocketed.
I have never pulled the trigger on a 44 Automag but I have come close. Have never found a deal on a red 9 C-96.
It maybe never that I get to buy a real BAR.. but a fellow can dream.
I have never pulled the trigger on a 44 Automag but I have come close. Have never found a deal on a red 9 C-96.
It maybe never that I get to buy a real BAR.. but a fellow can dream.
Jack Package
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My great grandfathers 1917 Artillery Luger he was issued in ww1 that my grandfather used in ww2 also. Not all the money in the world could buy that gun from me. Then when I was a freshman in high school my pops bout me a Mosin Nagant at a gun show and it is still my second most cherished gun in my safe.
C.R.
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well one I WANT would be a Henry in.44 mag just a SWEET lil lever action rifle! I also need to ad a bolt action in .308 and a cc pistol,a revolver in ,357 ....and a Red Ryder BB gun! 
just a SWEET lil lever action rifle! I also need to ad a bolt action in .308 and a cc pistol,a revolver in ,357 ....and a Red Ryder BB gun! js8588
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Dream guns?
Tigr Dragunov in 9.3 Brenneke
Browning Express Rifle in 9.3 x 62 (love the 9.3s)
Israeli FAL HBAR
Tigr Dragunov in 9.3 Brenneke
Browning Express Rifle in 9.3 x 62 (love the 9.3s)
Israeli FAL HBAR
cammogunner
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a barret m107 fully loaded with a nice scope.then maybe a glock 19 9mm..i am a simple man..btw i own none of the above
Zaydok Allen
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I have too many dreams to answer this in any sort of coherent manner.
JCC1895HG
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My Dream Gun was for many years a Factory Engraved Winchester. In 2002 I contacted the Winchester Custom Shop. They engraved my then Newest gun a 9410 lever action Shotgun that I ordered in 2001. It took nearly two years to actually receive that gun. The fiddleback walnut stock was really wort the wait, at least for me..
I have purchased a few other dream gun since then. Thankfully, I have no other dream guns. I have shifted gears and now I am having custom work done on some of the dream guns I have purchased. The current project is a Winchester 9417 lever gun. The work is being done for me by a Custom Gunmaker Guild member. eta? sometime in 2015?
I just love a good stick of walnut..
JohnC
I have purchased a few other dream gun since then. Thankfully, I have no other dream guns. I have shifted gears and now I am having custom work done on some of the dream guns I have purchased. The current project is a Winchester 9417 lever gun. The work is being done for me by a Custom Gunmaker Guild member. eta? sometime in 2015?
I just love a good stick of walnut..
JohnC
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Fella's;
For about the fourth time, I shall attempt to post about my dream gun.
But first, a little history. I purchased a centerfire rifle for my son' 16th birthday, quite a few years ago now. It was in 6.5 X 55mm, AKA a 6.5 Swede. As I reloaded for it and saw it's performance on game, I developed a fairly serious Jones to get one for myself. The rather large fly in the ointment is that left hand bolt guns in 6.5 Swede are somewhat hard to come by. Mannlicherr-Schoenauer was supposed to have imported some LHB 6.5's in the late 40's - early 50's, but go try to find one. Note, I didn't say; go try to find one for sale, I said go try to find one - period. I've never run across one in the flesh. Can't complain though, if I did have one I certainly wouldn't sell it.
After about a dozen or fifteen years, of wanna, I got serious about it. I found that I could buy a commercial gun if it was a Blaser or a Mauser G3. Both of which have a rather Weird Alice action, and both are expensive enough to do a custom gun. Furthermore, doing a custom does allow you to spend money at your own rate rather than risk meeting a nice man who's also a good divorce lawyer.
Custom it was. The action is a left hand Tikka, which immediately went off to the smith to be trued and have a Lilja 22" medium weight sporter barrel attached. He also got rid of the floating recoil lug and replaced it with a conventional sandwich type. The nice thing was that he got the hex pattern flats of the Tikka action matched perfectly. The barrel was throated for the Sierra 140 grain GameKing bullet, at a decent OAL. A major reason the Tikka action was picked was that it can accommodate the proper length Swede round in the magazine, no problem. It's my opinion that the Swede should not be put in a short action gun, it just ain't right.
Rob Smith had just received several nice walnut blanks from his supplier and gave me first choice of them for the stock. I think I done good on the pickin', but then I'm prejudiced too. In any case, Rob did the entire stock in house. It did not go out for profiling and inletting, he did it all. And a very fine job he did too. Tom Stevens did his usual exemplary job of checkering, and did the final finish also.
At that point I'd secured a Zeiss Conquest 3.5-10X 44mm scope with mil-dot reticle for the gun and the Talley mounts for it also. All of it went to Dennis Erhardt of the Frontier Gun Shop in Helena Montana for bluing. He managed to get both the barreled action and mounts blued to match the Zeiss. A wonderful job on his part.
The load for the gun produces 2725 fps over my Oehler 35P chrono and normally shoots just sub-.5". However, the best group I've ever seen out of the gun nearly stopped my heart. It was a .261", out of a sporter weight barrel! The load works rather well on game animals too.
Sorry, no pics, I'm an old film guy and the young computer whiz kids aren't smart enough to make instructions easy enough for me to follow. Sold the digital camera, I don't need to do those kinda things to my blood pressure again.
Oh, and I do have another candidate for dream gun in the works at this time.
900F
For about the fourth time, I shall attempt to post about my dream gun.
But first, a little history. I purchased a centerfire rifle for my son' 16th birthday, quite a few years ago now. It was in 6.5 X 55mm, AKA a 6.5 Swede. As I reloaded for it and saw it's performance on game, I developed a fairly serious Jones to get one for myself. The rather large fly in the ointment is that left hand bolt guns in 6.5 Swede are somewhat hard to come by. Mannlicherr-Schoenauer was supposed to have imported some LHB 6.5's in the late 40's - early 50's, but go try to find one. Note, I didn't say; go try to find one for sale, I said go try to find one - period. I've never run across one in the flesh. Can't complain though, if I did have one I certainly wouldn't sell it.
After about a dozen or fifteen years, of wanna, I got serious about it. I found that I could buy a commercial gun if it was a Blaser or a Mauser G3. Both of which have a rather Weird Alice action, and both are expensive enough to do a custom gun. Furthermore, doing a custom does allow you to spend money at your own rate rather than risk meeting a nice man who's also a good divorce lawyer.
Custom it was. The action is a left hand Tikka, which immediately went off to the smith to be trued and have a Lilja 22" medium weight sporter barrel attached. He also got rid of the floating recoil lug and replaced it with a conventional sandwich type. The nice thing was that he got the hex pattern flats of the Tikka action matched perfectly. The barrel was throated for the Sierra 140 grain GameKing bullet, at a decent OAL. A major reason the Tikka action was picked was that it can accommodate the proper length Swede round in the magazine, no problem. It's my opinion that the Swede should not be put in a short action gun, it just ain't right.
Rob Smith had just received several nice walnut blanks from his supplier and gave me first choice of them for the stock. I think I done good on the pickin', but then I'm prejudiced too. In any case, Rob did the entire stock in house. It did not go out for profiling and inletting, he did it all. And a very fine job he did too. Tom Stevens did his usual exemplary job of checkering, and did the final finish also.
At that point I'd secured a Zeiss Conquest 3.5-10X 44mm scope with mil-dot reticle for the gun and the Talley mounts for it also. All of it went to Dennis Erhardt of the Frontier Gun Shop in Helena Montana for bluing. He managed to get both the barreled action and mounts blued to match the Zeiss. A wonderful job on his part.
The load for the gun produces 2725 fps over my Oehler 35P chrono and normally shoots just sub-.5". However, the best group I've ever seen out of the gun nearly stopped my heart. It was a .261", out of a sporter weight barrel! The load works rather well on game animals too.
Sorry, no pics, I'm an old film guy and the young computer whiz kids aren't smart enough to make instructions easy enough for me to follow. Sold the digital camera, I don't need to do those kinda things to my blood pressure again.
Oh, and I do have another candidate for dream gun in the works at this time.
900F
Steve CT
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I have my Dream Gun, and it's pretty different from most posted here.
I am a handgun shooter, and I got the urge to own an AR. My son knew this and started accumulating bits and pieces to build his old man one. The "Dream" part is that he bought most everything while he was deployed in the Persian Gulf. For Christmas, Fathers Day, my birthday, etc he ordered something and had it shipped to me. We spent time talking and emailing about what I wanted, what he recommended, etc.
Once he came home, he pulled a lower out of his safe, sat down at the kitchen table and put it all together for me. Nothing high end or radical about this AR, but My Dream was that he would come home safe and sound. Every time I shoot this gun, I relive my Dream.
I am a handgun shooter, and I got the urge to own an AR. My son knew this and started accumulating bits and pieces to build his old man one. The "Dream" part is that he bought most everything while he was deployed in the Persian Gulf. For Christmas, Fathers Day, my birthday, etc he ordered something and had it shipped to me. We spent time talking and emailing about what I wanted, what he recommended, etc.
Once he came home, he pulled a lower out of his safe, sat down at the kitchen table and put it all together for me. Nothing high end or radical about this AR, but My Dream was that he would come home safe and sound. Every time I shoot this gun, I relive my Dream.
ColtPythonElite
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Steve's story is better than anything I could tell.
cat_IT_guy
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That is great Steve. Some things really are worth more than just their cost in parts.
Steve CT
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Thanks. Here's another project he undertook for me this past Christmas. I already owned a lot of the parts used, got some as xmas gifts...
SA Champion Before
And After
Lot's of good parts went into a pretty inexpensive gun, a really great gun came out
SA Champion Before
And After
Lot's of good parts went into a pretty inexpensive gun, a really great gun came out
sigman2
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I've been collecting for over 50 years but there's always something that I still want.
All in 95%+ original condition.
Singer 1911A1
Colt 1928A1 Thompson
Winchester 1918A1 BAR
DWM 1915 Artillery Luger complete rig
S/42 1937 Mauser Luger complete rig
SA Gas Trap M1 Garand
1903 Springfield .30/03 w/rod bayonet
1903 Springfield .30/06 w/rod bayonet
StG44
1873 Winchester 73 .44/40
1876 Winchester 76 .45/75
1886 Winchester 86 .45/90 or .50/110
Colt SAA 2nd generation 5.5" .44/40
That may hold me for a while!
All in 95%+ original condition.
Singer 1911A1
Colt 1928A1 Thompson
Winchester 1918A1 BAR
DWM 1915 Artillery Luger complete rig
S/42 1937 Mauser Luger complete rig
SA Gas Trap M1 Garand
1903 Springfield .30/03 w/rod bayonet
1903 Springfield .30/06 w/rod bayonet
StG44
1873 Winchester 73 .44/40
1876 Winchester 76 .45/75
1886 Winchester 86 .45/90 or .50/110
Colt SAA 2nd generation 5.5" .44/40
That may hold me for a while!
Vern Humphrey
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If I'm going to dream, I'll dream big -- an M1917 water-cooled machine gun and an M1841 howitzer.
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