Are You a Contrarian?

[94045]

Are you a contrarian?

I bought wheelguns during the Wonder 9 Fad.

I bought 9mm during the .40 Fad.

I bought Double Stacks when the Single got hot.

I bought the .45 when the 9mm and .40 where the guns to have.

Now I'm buying .40's.

Do you follow the herd or do you tend to be a contrarian?

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

I got into AR's when I got into 3 gun.

Come at me.

ETA:
although I got into 3 gun at near the height of the AR trend so...

I guess I am both.

I shoot and enjoy revolvers and I haven't purchased a Glock yet.
On the flip side, I like AR's and such. so there you go.

 

[Middletown]

I don't know about being a contrarian.
I usually buy a firearm when I realize;

What is my gun doing in your display case!

After that I have all the platforms you mentioned and like all of them.

 

[david58]

Simply, yes, by nature, avocation, & profession.

 

[ATLDave]

No. I don’t care what you say, you cannot convince me that I’m a contrarian.

 

[lightman]

Are you a contrarian?

Do you follow the herd or do you tend to be a contrarian?

No! I'm not much of a herd animal. I buy what I want when I want. I don't follow fads. I don't load up on the newest whis bang whatever. I don't jump on the newest cartridge. The 300 WSM is the newest cartridge that I own. Either the 44-40 or 45-70 are the oldest. I'm not a YouTube fan. I drink the beer that I like. I drive the vehicle that I like.

Heck, I'm still married to the original Mrs while passing up the latest High speed low drag model!

 

[Legionnaire]

I am sticking with my .260 Ackley rather than switching to a 6.5 Creedmoor.

I sold my .30 calibers (.300 Win Mag, .30-06, .308) in favor of my .284s (7x57, 7mm-08, 7mm RSAUM).

I have more revolvers than semiautomatic pistols.

I prefer an accurate bolt action to an AR.

Am I a contrarian?

 

[LRDGCO]

No. I’m a constructive non-conformist...

 

[Deus Machina]

I like having things that are different.
As long as they still perform the function I need.

 

[sparkyv]

Usually I am, I'm still acquiring. 40s. But i recently jumped on the much hyped SIG P365 bandwagon. Gotta say, it's not hype!

 

[BigBore44]

I’d say I’m more “old school” than I am a contrarian. I like 1911’s, wheel guns, and lever actions. Have nothing against new things. I have AR’s and poly pistols. But my older designed firearms feel more worthy to make memories with. When I shoot with my buddies and their AR’s and polys and I break out one of my big bore leverguns, Redhawk, 66, 1911’s, or my Sharps, they quickly lose interest in their new(er) designed firearms.

 

[jmorris]

I am a myselfian, whatever “floats my boat” is what I do but I hate boats, I do enjoy just about every type of firearm from muzzle loaders to machineguns though.

 

[Pete D.]

I got into Bullseye match shooting just when people were getting started in action shoots. I shoot a 1911, even the one Glock that I own is a .45.
I do own a 9mm but it is a HiPower and all steel.My two favorite guns are both single action revolvers. I still call those things that we put in guns cartridges when everyone else calls them calibers. the last gun that I bought is a snub nose 1851 Navy .44

 

[nettlle]

I probably am. I bought a White Super 91 and shortly after that White went out of business. Around the same time I bought (2) Clackamas Kimber rifles and Kimber of Oregon went out of business. I can't get bullets for the White but the (2) Kimbers I purchased were money well spent.

 

[Wisco]

I like what I like and do what I want. Sometimes it’s popular. Sometimes it’s unpopular.

Heck, I'm still married to the original Mrs while passing up the latest High speed low drag model!

I’ve only been married once, but I upgraded that Mrs very quickly for a better model.

If your Mrs is a perfectly serviceable and a quality model, that’s all you need. Let’s say a nice Browning Hi-Power or Wilson 1911 or Sig P210. My Mrs was like a Taurus Judge, but less quality and more useless, if that’s possible.

 

[Walkalong]

I buy what interests me.

 

[Labguy47]

Not at all, I blaze a path into battle for others to follow. Surrender is not in my creed. ~ I choose my own path. Currently on a .22 kick, next week probably gonna be 9mm, ya just never know.

 

[Riomouse911]

I don’t try to be on purpose... but I guess I kinda am.

The last three rifles I bought are all bolt actions in 6.5x55, a .22 WMR and a 7 mm Rem Mag. No Creedmoor, AR big bore or long range precision rifles here...(Yet?!?)

The last two shotguns were a 28 ga and a 16 ga... both Browning BPS instead of extended mag 3-gun autos...

The last five handguns were in a popular auto caliber; a 9mm Glock 17L and four were revolvers in .22 LR, .38 Spl, and the less popular .44 Spl and .41 mag.

Stay safe!

 

[LoonWulf]

Are you a contrarian?

I bought wheelguns during the Wonder 9 Fad.

I bought 9mm during the .40 Fad.

I bought Double Stacks when the Single got hot.

I bought the .45 when the 9mm and .40 where the guns to have.

Now I'm buying .40's.

Do you follow the herd or do you tend to be a contrarian?

What answer do you prefer? Well I'm the other!

I buy what I like, and while I appreciate other folks opinions, experiences, and Input, I hardly ever go with something just bassed on popular belief.

 

[Old Stumpy]

Possibly. My gun rack has held a TC Hawken next to an AR-15 next to a Marlin 336. When IPSC arrived I ignored it. When CAS arrived I just kept shooting my Old West revolvers and lever guns for fun, not for competition. When everyone bought a Glock, I bought another 1911.
I've only owned one 9mm pistol, and sold it to buy a .45 and never went back. As others have said, I buy what I like and let others jump on the bandwagon when it rolls by.

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

I bought my first AR halfway through Obama's term. I think every serious pro 2A person should own one.

Aside from that I buy what I like, more handguns than long guns though, although I have an adequate amount of both.

 

[cslinger]

Not intentionally so yet I tend to like what I like. Sometimes it’s trendy with the crowd .... like the New England Patriots DON’T JUDGE ME!

Sometimes it’s radically different then the “herd”. I have gravitated back to DA/SA and sort of re-discovered .40 as it was on the wane.

I have an IPhone and IPad but I am not an Apple person
I own Glocks and respect the hell out of them but I am not a Glock guy.

I guess I like to have a little knowledge about everything and in doing so sometimes I appreciate what the masses have found and sometime I find myself on the opposite end of the spectrum, not to be obtuse but simply because it’s like what I like.

One of the things I appreciate about people is when they can verbalize about what specifically they like about a product. Not simply because Apple makes great X or Glocks are reliable and the PD uses them, but when they really are able to describe what actually works and doesn’t for them.

I have family who always has to have the “best” of whatever. They don’t know why it’s “the best” just know so because somebody told them or it cost X. I am a car/gun guy so they always try to justify things to me or ask my opinion. I give my opinion and they fall back on X is the GREATEST because..... I sigh and walk away from the discussion because I tend to have real first hand knowledge. That knowledge might agree with them but god it kills me to talk to folks who own X because it is what everyone says is the best.

So I can be contrarian but usually it stems from knowledge and personal preference and not just cuz.

 

[earlthegoat2]

One of my biggest contrarian opinions is that bolt actions are highly overrated as hunting weapons. Wonderful for competition target shooting though.

Mainly, I think that I have never put myself in a position where I thought I needed a target rifle as a hunting rifle though.

 

[Steve S.]

1873 Winchester all the way thru WC Recon 6.8; if God be for us, who can be against us!

 

[readyeddy]

I am not a contrarian. I hunt with 06 and refuse to switch to that new fangled 270 cartridge everybody has been talking about.