Favorite Handgun?

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AZAndy said:
I guess my favorite would have to be this Sig Ultra Compact in .45.

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I'd been to several shops looking for a Colt Defender. The one I got this one from didn't have any Defenders either, but I happened to spy this in the case. (If the counter guy had been on the ball, he might have mentioned it.) Weighs about a pound and a half, so is easy to carry, and shoots very well indeed. I was so impressed by it that I picked up a P938 as my first 9mm. I guess I'm a Sig convert.
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Nice looking gun. I haven't ever owned a 1911 style. I have been looking at the Sig p938s too. Can't decide between one of those or a .45. BTW I think I saw a Colt Defender at Sportsmans Warehouse this past weekend I liked it too.
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My favorite handgun was my Browning Buckmark. It was accurate fun to shoot and reliable. Actually we just picked another one up over the weekend as I had sold my old one and we regretted it ever since.
 
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If I were running out of my burning house and for whatever reason I could only grab one it would be this one just because to me it represents family.

It's an Government Model customized by Armand Swenson in the 60's for my dad. Back then in the 60's and 70's he shot it in competition and it's well worn.

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He died when I was 15 and I've always more felt like I was holding onto it for him rather than it being mine. I shoot it on his birthday once a year, I clean it and then back in the safe it goes. Out of the guns I own it would be that one though. I also have a Commander that was his that was also customized by Swenson, but the connection is strongest with this one because he shot it quite a bit more than that Commander and so in my mind this one is worth more from a sentimental perspective.
 
I've had the most fun shooting Ruger's MK series. Didn't care if it was the original MKI, MKII, MKIII, plastic framed 22/45. They all seemed to shoot the same for me and always have great time using them.
 
Browning said:
If I were running out of my burning house and for whatever reason I could only grab one it would be this one just because to me it represents family.

It's an Government Model customized by Armand Swenson in the 60's for my dad. Back then in the 60's and 70's he shot it in competition and it's well worn.

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He died when I was 15 and I've always more felt like I was holding onto it for him rather than it being mine. I shoot it on his birthday once a year, I clean it and then back in the safe it goes. Out of the guns I own it would be that one though. I also have a Commander that was his that was also customized by Swenson, but the connection is strongest with this one because he shot it quite a bit more than that Commander and so in my mind this one is worth more from a sentimental perspective.
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Really nice gun and my choice would be the same, I like the Colt Series 70 guns. I have a question though. I thought the Colt MK IV Series 70 guns began production in 1970 and ran through about 1983. My early Series 70 guns have serial numbers beginning with 70N or 70G the later guns are suffixed with the 70.

This gun would be among my favorites:
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But it is really a tough call with a S&W Model 27 also in there.

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Ah, so many that I love. SR9c is great. I'm LOVING my victory now that it's tricked out a bit. The p229 with a p228 slide on it is pretty darn sweet.
But, my favorite has to be the P226, stainless .40. It just fits me. I'm a DA/SA kind of guy, I guess.
 
Reloadron said:
Really nice gun and my choice would be the same, I like the Colt Series 70 guns.
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I have a question though. I thought the Colt MK IV Series 70 guns began production in 1970 and ran through about 1983. My early Series 70 guns have serial numbers beginning with 70N or 70G the later guns are suffixed with the 70.
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I'm not sure if the Colt Series 70 came out in late 1968 or 69 and were called the Series 70 in preparation for 1970 (somewhat like vehicles do or how some guns that came out in the mid-90's with '2000' in the model number) or if it came out well into the 70's. I'm not someone who knows the minutiae of Colt history.

I was more going off it being a gun from the 60's because it's a Swenson pistol from when he was in Gardena California (which was well ahead of his Fallbrook guns and those were mostly in the 60's) and because the photo album the pic was in was labeled the 60's.

I readily admit that I could very well be mistaken on when the pistol was made/customized.
 
Browning said:
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I'm not sure if the Colt Series 70 came out in late 1968 or 69 and were called the Series 70 in preparation for 1970 (somewhat like vehicles do or how some guns that came out in the mid-90's with '2000' in the model number) or if it came out well into the 70's. I'm not someone who knows the minutiae of Colt history.

I was more going off it being a gun from the 60's because it's a Swenson pistol from when he was in Gardena California (which was well ahead of his Fallbrook guns and those were mostly in the 60's) and because the photo album the pic was in was labeled the 60's.

I readily admit that I could very well be mistaken on when the pistol was made/customized.
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Matters not really when Colt coined the gun. The gun's importance are what it represents to you. My dad was a US Marine during WW II, the Pacific Campaign. Dad went through boot and trained with an 03A3 Springfield rifle. Many decades ago I gave my dad an 03A3 rifle which he treasured and made a nice case for. When dad passed away that rifle found its way back to me. While it does not get to the range often when it does I naturally have fond memories of dad and even looking at it in the safe, the fond memories. You have a very special gun and it is cool how you treasure it as you well should. Enjoy it as your dad would have wished.

Oh yeah, and have a cool yule. :)

Ron
 
I don't have a single favorite, but a class of models. My favorites are steel S&W K frames with adjustable sights.

I recently rounded out a collection of one each of the six model numbers, a 14-8, a 15-3, a 16-4, a 17-4, a 18-4, and a 19-4.

The Model 19 and Model 18 were purchased new back in the day and I have liked them ever since. The others were added used in recent years.

I've recently decided to replace the nickel S&W Classic 14-8 with a blued pre-lock Model 14 to match the other blued revolvers.
 
I'm sure I'll get laughed out of the forum for my answer, but my 1st response was my trusty little CCW CA Bulldog.... That said, if limited to just one handgun, I'd choose my 4" 629 because, well it's a 4" 629 LOL.
 
aarondhgraham said:
When I got back into fiery-arms about 11 years ago,,,
The first thing I did was to search out a S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece.

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63 fiery-arms later it's still my personal favorite,,,
Followed closely by my Model 18 in .22 LR.

After them it would be my Beretta Cheetahs,,,
Models 85 & 87.

I have more powerful guns and more expensive guns,,,
But these are my all-time personal favorites.

Aarond

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There IS something about those S&W Model 15s, isn't there?
 
dickydalton said:
There IS something about those S&W Model 15s, isn't there?
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Never gave the S&W Model 15 much thought. Suddenly they seem to be popping up and the irony is I just got my son-in-law one for Christmas.

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It's all wrapped and the more I saw of it the more I liked it. I keep telling myself it's a gift, I can't keep it. :)

Ron
 
My 3rd generation Colt SAA in .44-40. Not a gun I needed but one I had wanted since I was about 6 years old. I only waited about 60 years before I got it.
 
A good 1911. There are sloppy and crappy ones around, and some that are all show and little substance. But a well-made 1911, it's someting else... The way it fits the hand, the trigger, the all-steel, all-solid build, it's a sum of many subtle things. It's a gun that needs dedication, and in the end it's an aficionado's firearm.

Like a finely tuned Mauser 98 has a soul that no kevlar-stocked three-rings-of-whatever thingy will ever have, the 1911 has a peculiar appeal to people who love firearms for the way they are designed and built, and not only the way they look.

I carry a M98 as a tool and companion when I'm going after things that can kill, and the handgun that I really want when Oops hits the fan is a proper 1911.
 
Depending on where, when and what, it's my Kimber Ultra Carry (concealed)/my modified .45Colt Ruger BH or my S&W M15. Could change at some later date.


 
This is really hard...
Revolver--either my Ruger SBH44mag, or S&W625JM

Semi-auto--either my DW Heritage or my Sig P938sas

All my pistols have features I really like so I guess the others are all close seconds!
 
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