Are you a rifle kinda guy, shotgun or handgun or all?

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I own all three, but I think I take the biggest interest in handguns. Something about the complexity of them and the looks is what hooks me.
 
Handguns for me, and most semi-autos, followed -- distantly -- by rifles. While I do own a nice shotgun, it's the only one I have and likely will be the only one I'll ever own; I just never caught the shotgun bug.
 
I'll admit I like them all, but I only have 5 shotguns, the other 60 are more or less equally split between rifles and pistols.
 
I'm a shotgun man. I love anything that goes boom or makes a flash and smoke: handguns, rifles, sparklers, that drip torch from when I took my wildland firefighting class. I like them all, but I love my shotgun; It was the first gun I put money into, and the one I shoot the best. Not that I shoot it well, just less (Insert non-highroad-adjective here) than my other guns.

What I find endlessly fascinating about firearms is accuracy. What you have in your hand in a gun is a pipe, with a nail in the back of it. Inside that pipe is an explosive in a stamped (one of the less-accurate manufacturing processes) brass casing holding a usually cast (another crappy process) chunk of lead that is sometimes wrapped in copper. Then you take that explosive and are able to consistently propel that chunk of lead at supersonic speeds to 300 yards and beyond with enough force to knock over large game or in the right situation blow a hole through an engine block. Oh and you can do this repeatedly and land 100 (or 1000) more hunks of lead in an area smaller than the palm of your hand, at the same distance.
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I have thought of shooting in similar terms: Your using an explosion to hit something with a metal rock tens of yards away, and that metal rock is going at thousands of feet per second, and what you hit my very well shatter into a bunch of peices - thats about as masculine as sports get!
 
Like some here, I would have to say I have a definite preference for handguns over long guns. If I had to go to percentages, I would say 60% handguns, 20% rifles, and 20% shotguns. Still, love them all equally, each in their own way.
 
I have some of all three. I'm pretty handy with a rifle (thank you, USMC), but I love my handguns, especially my old colt revolvers that are older than me.
 
All of the above! Seven Glocks, maybe 10 1911's, revolvers, three shotguns, SKS, AR-15, AK-47, two .22 rifles, etc.
 
1) Rifle
2) Handgun
3) Shotgun

I am more into rifles the last several years since I handload and got bitten bay the black rifle bug. A few years ago I was more into handguns with CC and cheap ammo. Shotguns are always fun, but I don't bird hunt very much anymore, so they take a back burner.
 
I'm a three-gunner, so my answer is "Yes" :D

But for purposes of this conversation, while I'm a better shot with a rifle, I enjoy shooting handguns the most.
 
I appreciate all kinds of firearms for different reasons and in different ways. My favorite shooting activity is sitting on the bench with a rifle on a crisp morning and punching the same hole over and over and over again at range. It's zen.

I firmly believe all men should be able to do certain basic things. Using and maintaining a rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun are in the list.

I own a tricked out Mossy500 that has been built from the ground up for home defense in cramped environments. I have additional parts and furniture for it that I occasionally use to convert it to a suitable skeet gun for fun at the range with the guys. Not my favorite shooting sport, but one I enjoy a couple times a year.

Years back I acquired a CCW, and since then have spent a great deal of time working on my handgun skills. This too is enjoyable.

So, to answer the OP's original question: I'm a rifle kinda guy. Target shooting takes me to my calm place. I enjoy handguns and shotguns a lot, but they don't give me the same sense of inner peace that nice slow rifle shooting does.
 
I have both a shotgun and handguns in addition to my rifles but I prefer rifles to either a shotgun or handgun.

I do enjoy shooting all three types, I just enjoy the rifles more.
 
I like all of them,so I've spread mine out accordingly. If I could only have one of any catagory I'd have to take my CCW gun. Secondly would have to be my hunting rifle.
 
Geee, this should be easy! I'm a stone cold shotgunner. Funny though, I own as many pistols as I do shotguns. Use to love hunting squirrels with a .22 rifle and hunt deer with a 30-06 Gamemaster.
I carry daily so I like to stay sharp with my carry piece.
 
I'm more of a handgunner but can use others fairly well. My dad (deceased) was a rifleman. It comes down to what we trained with more. He hunted as a kid before he went into the Army (WWII) as an Infantryman. I didn't get much opportunity to hunt but went into private security as an armed security officer and Private Investigator, now I'm a Police Officer.
 
I'm a handgun guy, and I particularly love revolvers (even though I'm 25 years old).

I could definitely see myself owning a Remington 870 for home defense and a Ruger 10/22 in the near future though.
 
They all have their place, but I only really get into shooting rifles. Actually I like shooting my .44 mag revolver a lot, but it's got a scope and is used for shooting metallic silhouette out to 250 yards so that doesn't count.
 
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