Gun Snobs and Collectors Taken To Task, Alduro Style

[surfinUSA]

Personally, I think medium priced guns are the best. In autos I like SIGs and Glocks although I also really like the beretta 92 and S&W 3913. In revolvers I like S&W.

If you like Highpoint, Taurus and Bersa better you than me. Feel free to protect yourself with whatever cheap guns you want.

The same goes for the other side. I've yet to see a $2000 1911(you pick the brand) thats more reliable and combat accurate than my $600 SIG 220.

Call me a gun snob if you want. But to a certain extent you get what you pay for. The lesser brands are fine for entertainment but not for serious work.

 

[SgtGunner]

Odd,

I do daily carry a $1200 Kimber in a $100 plus holster and belt with a $30.00 kershaw knife.

My $1200 Kimber looks like I used it to sand a table as does my leather. Tools are tools, but that doesn't mean that to "use" carry gear it has to or even should be cheap.

 

[Seraph]

I'm a gun snob, but I'm too poor to be a collector, per se, and I think my gun snobbery criteria might be a little different from that of other gun snobs. My inner gun snob delights in a seriously utilitarian sidearm, and, though it's not easy to afford, I think my life is worth a little investment. Here are my two carry guns, one fairly customized, and the other, not so much, but both with a fair bit of holster wear (though I admit the photos seem to gloss that over to a degree):

Valentine, a ~$1400 custom Springfield Armory Mil Spec, who rides in a $110 Alessi holster...


...and Gigolette, a ~$580 mildly tweeked Springfield Armory GI Champion, who rides in an $80 Brommeland holster.
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[browningguy]

Well I managed to ignore this thread for a while, but people just keep brining it up. I like being a snob, I like nice things, some are pretty reasonably priced though.

I've got a pair of these in 40 S&W, this one is stock outside and just a light trigger job, my regular carry gun is the same but with Esmerelda 1/2 Checkered grips, got to get a photo of it posted one day. Carried in a Don Hume $50 IWB holster, except when shooting IDPA, then I use a high tech carbon fiber looking holster and mag carrier

This one's a little nicer, Browning 1971 Renaissance Grade, nope, don't carry it.

I even have inexpensive cary guns, the little Bersa is often my backup gun or for just strolling through the suburbs.


And there is no reason you can't be pretty when you're our hunting.
This is a Gr.IV BAR that's been customized with gold inlayed deer and the receiver blued (I didn't do it but what the heck), I'll admit the BAR's are a little flash, but the stocks are just fantastic for factory guns.

And sometimes I use the late Gr.III in 30-06.

And I really like the checkering and carving on my 1891 Mauser for close range hunting.

 

[Plink]

I'm a bit of both. A gun snob and a realist. I like fine guns and I own a few. They tend to get shot a lot for pure enjoyment and are generally of the target shooting variety or hunting guns, though some see light duty as pampered home defense guns, or perhaps they hit a belt holster when I'm out on my land.

For my working guns, I tend to pick models that I don't care if they get scratched and worn. It doesn't take a $1500 gun to be reliable and accurate. I sold a Para Warthog that was a POS, and I carry a Bersa Mini-Firestorm in .45ACP during the cooler months and a Kel-Tec P-11 in the warmer ones.

I also collect knives and swords. They're strictly for show, as the same criteria applies to them also. Yet my working knife is a Spyderco Endura. It's proven itself to be durable, handy to carry and fast and safe to open and close. I use it hard, sharpen it a few times, and when enough teeth get chipped, I throw it into a tool box somewhere and just buy another.

 

[bearmgc]

My first carry gun was a FEG .380 carried in a nylon holster, then a Taurus 85.When I started making better money, I rewarded myself, and continued to do so. I recently pared down, divested and upgraded. I have fewer guns than I did 2 years ago, and am happy with what I got for hunting , ccw and shooting sports. When I got something I liked I posted about it. If finances take a downturn, I'll divest some more. I don't have a religious devotion to anything I own or any one brand, yet I do have an opinion about what works for me, and guns that have worked well. If people want to collect and show off, that's their thing, so what. Its sometimes hard to read into what peoples' motives are for posting pictures, because this is the internet, and frankly too much brainwork. This is just a gun Forum.

 

[buddyRoland]

My carry weapon. Picking up a Kahr K9 Friday. Will let the wife carry it if she gives up her G26. If she doesn't I am going to carry the Kahr mostly, backed up by my trusty P239. Had an older P239 9 but sold it then purchased this P239 40 used, saving $150 over a new one. It's hard to see the difference in this one from a new one. That's why I buy used.

The wife's G26.