dan wesson

[CRridermike]

a local gun shop has a used dan wesson target 1911 in stainless for 450 bucks out the door. is this a good deal?

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I have one of the razorback 10mm's. It is well made and nice. I paid about a grand for it, so I think 450 for one is a pretty good deal.

 

[Jonathan]

I'd appreciate the phone number of the shop if you don't go for it.

 

[CRridermike]

since my dad wont let me buy another gun, here is the shops info. its a small shop that i have only been to a couple times but the guys are really cool.
Shooters Service Center
8242 N Lombard St
Portland, OR 97203 - 3102
(503) 289-1280

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Up Dad's can be like that. Now that I am a Dad, I certainly understand it more then when I was the son.

 

[CRridermike]

yeah, im 16 so he has to buy them all and he thinks i have better things to spend money on! better guns than drugs right?

 

[stans]

yeah, im 16 so he has to buy them all and he thinks i have better things to spend money on! better guns than drugs right?

Your logic is sound, but he is probably thinking about money for your college education.

 

[trickyasafox]

hey rider im in the same boat. have been for years. im 20 now and have 3 pistols on my dads permit, only my rifles do i own outright. thankfully only 6 more months till i apply for my own carry permit, then its no holding back. next on my list is a stainless gp100 in 4in . dad wants me to wait a while cause i just dumped about 700 on an encore in 223 and nice scope combo. heres my logic though: college is free. i got a scholarship. i still work at school for cash, but i dont drink. so i end up making money, not going out and buying more guns i agree with you completely. lot worse things we could be doing

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Trust me. When I was 16 I had a colt diamondback and a python and a hi-power in my name. They were all bought used because a 16 year old could not buy new back then. That was a while ago, but suffice it to say I was in hog heaven. Then college came, and the rifles went, then the handguns till I sold the python and hi-power for wedding rings. I still kept the diamondback. Made it through college, grad school, found a job, paid off the loans, bought a few houses (upgrades), had a kid, and now I look at my gun collection.

Getting a GOOD education and a GOOD job (both critical, set your sights high!, suffer now for later and all that stuff) has allowed me to have things like.
3 custom Les Baer 1911's
An unfired Automag pasedena version
A registered Magnum
Sig 210's (both -5 and -6's)
Sig 229 sports
4 h&k P7PSP's
A bunch of N frame pre-war and post war 38/357/45's
Pthons
Remington Sendero's
5 or 6 M1a's (Supermatch, NationalMatch etc)
etc.
but I still have the diamondback.

This is on top of the RV, the house, the great little daughter and still I love my job.

I am not trying to brag, just when I was 16, I had no and I mean absolutely NO idea how "wealthy" I would be now. It is truly hard to imagine when you are that young. Just last weekend I was walking around a gun store with over $2000 cash in my pocket looking for something fun to buy. Did not find it so I just dumped the money in the safe. A big chunk of the cash was from a bonus I got at work for a special project I did. I was just doing my job and I got a bonus for doing what I love. It was great.


Again, let me stress, you don't know me, but please seriously take this advice. Stay in school, work very hard, remember you are working for later in life. If you try hard, get your degrees, learn how to learn. You will be so much better off later in life. Truly it is hard for me to imagine back then that I would own the guns I do right now.



ps: when you are is school, take extra english classes. That way you won't have bad grammer or spelling like me. (as editted above).

 

[Richard.Howe]

What Eick said.

 

[DHart]

If you ever find yourself looking at someone's success and/or wealth and thinking "lucky them", consider that in most cases it had little to do with luck and everything to do with a lifetime of hard work and perseverance. All you see is the current display of success, you don't see all the years of trials, tribulation, study, work, successes, and failures that individual went through to get to the point you observe today.

As Peter communicated, if you're young and you wish to have great success in life, focus on learning, working, creating, contributing, focusing your energies. Discover what it is that "lights you up" and follow that path doggedly. You can't help but become successful if you do that. Try to make wise choices in life. Study the lives of people who have done well (Biography is educational as well as entertaining.) Don't waste time wondering why others have so much and you have so little. We each "make" our own luck, it doesn't just "happen".

 

[palerider1]

if you have the money and dont have to spend it on anything else, then mayby you should be able to get the gun, but if you are spending all of your money on guns, then mayby you need to slow down and look at what other priorities you have. too much of anything is bad. there will always be a deal out there. dad's have been on this earth 20-30 years longer than their sons and have already been through the trials and tribulations of being teenagers. believe me, your dad will get smarter as you get older, at least you will think that. i still ask my dad's opinion, and i'm in my 40's

 

[Richard.Howe]

consider that in most cases it had little to do with luck and everything to do with a lifetime of hard work and perseverance

It's strange, but in my observations, I think that wealth and success have a much more random distribution than that.

Hard work and perseverance gives you a huge advantage, but so does being in the right place at the right time. One you can control, one you can't -- so it's foolish to waste opportunities in high school and college -- but going to school isn't a ticket to wealth and fame.

I've seen a lot of lower-middle-class, educated, and brillliant minds, and a lot of wealthy fools. My days of judging someone's work ethic by their net worth are over!

That having been said, why waste opportunities? Do what you can, when you can, and be content (but not satisfied).

FWIW,
Rich

 

[DHart]

I agree that opportunity can also have a lot to do with success. Of course when preparedness meets opportunity, voila.