Well, 16 years ago, when I was 15, i was a traditionalist. I grew up around firearms, with my father shooting 2-4 matches a week. It was kinda beat into me that a real gun had a rotating cylinder, wood grips and was made in America. The only Automatics that were allowed in the house were built entirely of carbon or stainless steel and they better damn well say Colt on the slide.
I had lots of buddies who jumped on the Glock bandwagon, they would razz me for owning nothing but revolvers and Colt made 1911's (yes, i owned them at that age, my father had given me a couple of his old match pistols). "Revolvers are antiques." "it only holds 6 rounds and it takes forever to reload" "They aren't accurate", they would tell me. I would just reply, "6 rounds is enough to do most jobs, if you practice, reloads are not that slow and its plenty accurate if you know how to shoot with a double action trigger." They just didn't buy it.
As for the auto's, most of them liked my 1911's. The only complaints I would hear were, " its too heavy and it only holds 7-8 rounds". They all loved the trigger and respected the .45ACP cartridge but few of them really cared for the .38 super. They would say "its the same as a 9MM".
At this point in my life ive become more accepting of the new firearms. I understand the real benefits of new materials and ive even purchased a couple polymer weapons, im not against new and improved materials and designs. But when i close my eyes and dream of a beautiful gun, you can bet your butt that its blued steel and wood.
