There are a great many new people who visit this site looking to buy their first handgun. And those folk aren't familiar with all of the choices. There are a great many more like myself who put together our arsenals many years ago and have failed to keep up with all of the new toys on the market.
My proposal is that we put together a picture compendium of all of the handguns that are available, old and new. When we finish it, we could download the files and be able to run comparisons on our own time.
On the photograph itself should be all of the vital statistics about the gun. I know that many of you are outstanding photographers so you could show your skills as well as your guns, and the final result would be useful and entertaining for all of us. An effort should be made to keep the photo file to no more than 250 KB so loading would be relatively quick.
Further, we should divide our compendium into volumes so the thread wouldn't become too large and slow to load. I would suggest Vol I contain makes beginning with A,B,C,D. After 20 or so pic's, I will create Vol. Ia if needed. Vol.II would be the next four letters and so on. You could put your name or forum name on your entries so you can be recognized for your effort.
We can't get photos (makes and models) in alphabetical order, of course, but we can do that on the picture files we download and keep on our own computers.
Don't post photos to this thread. On this thread I just want to know if you would be willing to participate and whether you think such an endeavor would be useful.
I just quickly cobbled this sample together from items on the CZ site, but this is the sort of format I'm talking about. Yours can be in glorious color. But keep the file size down. And if you aren't a photographer you can swipe a photo from the manufacturer's site.
So, do you want to build this compendium thing?
My proposal is that we put together a picture compendium of all of the handguns that are available, old and new. When we finish it, we could download the files and be able to run comparisons on our own time.
On the photograph itself should be all of the vital statistics about the gun. I know that many of you are outstanding photographers so you could show your skills as well as your guns, and the final result would be useful and entertaining for all of us. An effort should be made to keep the photo file to no more than 250 KB so loading would be relatively quick.
Further, we should divide our compendium into volumes so the thread wouldn't become too large and slow to load. I would suggest Vol I contain makes beginning with A,B,C,D. After 20 or so pic's, I will create Vol. Ia if needed. Vol.II would be the next four letters and so on. You could put your name or forum name on your entries so you can be recognized for your effort.
We can't get photos (makes and models) in alphabetical order, of course, but we can do that on the picture files we download and keep on our own computers.
Don't post photos to this thread. On this thread I just want to know if you would be willing to participate and whether you think such an endeavor would be useful.
I just quickly cobbled this sample together from items on the CZ site, but this is the sort of format I'm talking about. Yours can be in glorious color. But keep the file size down. And if you aren't a photographer you can swipe a photo from the manufacturer's site.
So, do you want to build this compendium thing?
