krs
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You're right, Travis - character and history too.
Guns with Character
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I've got a M-28 S&W that was a Texas Department of Public Safety gun. Shows lots of wear, but it's awesome and it has TONS of character.
I paid $169 for it at a gun show, the guy had a 15 or 20 of them at that price. I should have bought all of them.
I paid $169 for it at a gun show, the guy had a 15 or 20 of them at that price. I should have bought all of them.
rdrancher
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SharpsDressedMan - Thanks for the photo. Very nice!
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SharpsDressedMan
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Most welcome. I've littered THR recently with pictures as I just became photo-competent. Well, relatively so.....
hogmanruss
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Mauser Broomhandle!
krs
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Shouldn't leave out the venerable....
dagger dog
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Colt SAA, 1911, 1903, Python.
S&W .38 44 Outdoorsman, Certified .357 Magnum, Bodyguard.
Luger, Mauser HSC,
hogmanruss's broomhandle fur sure!
welcome bud!
but my all time favorite icon firearm
The Chicago Typewriter
Thompson 1927 100 rd drum mag finned barrel and Cutts Compensator.
S&W .38 44 Outdoorsman, Certified .357 Magnum, Bodyguard.
Luger, Mauser HSC,
hogmanruss's broomhandle fur sure!
welcome bud!
but my all time favorite icon firearm
The Chicago Typewriter
Thompson 1927 100 rd drum mag finned barrel and Cutts Compensator.
rswartsell
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I think this old S&W Military and Police qualifies.
Colt Model 1902 'Sporting', .38 ACP, was a Lettered Gun, letter lost by prior owner, but was said to have been shipped late December 1902.
Magazine carries the James Paris Lee Patent for detatchable Magazines.
I put well over 10,000 rounds through this Pistol in the 1980s when I was shooting minor Competitions, usually 148 grn Semi-Wads, which always fed fine...looks no different now wear or tolerance wise, from the day I got it. Solid as a Rock...sweet...carried it for years too.
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patrick526
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For me, it's still the:
SharpsDressedMan (# 20) :
That picture is so cool ! I'd trade half my collection (amounts to 9) for your 3.
(Well, as a matter of speaking. Not really, though, don't call my bluff).
True modern-day classics, and they look it as well.
Great guns !
That picture is so cool ! I'd trade half my collection (amounts to 9) for your 3.
(Well, as a matter of speaking. Not really, though, don't call my bluff).
True modern-day classics, and they look it as well.
Great guns !
Deus Machina
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Give me wood and worn blue steel. Guns that show some wear and get some patina on the holster marks develop a sort of warmth. They're like the old friend you've known since fifth grade--the one who bailed you out that one time, and let crash at his place that night without a word--watching from behind your shoulder.
Newer guns--especially duo-tones--have always seemed... brief and businesslike to me. Which is fine, but they just don't have the personality. They're more like the big guy in a suit standing next to the door. He might be sliding on a set of brass knuckles, but he's only really there because you paid for him.
Newer guns--especially duo-tones--have always seemed... brief and businesslike to me. Which is fine, but they just don't have the personality. They're more like the big guy in a suit standing next to the door. He might be sliding on a set of brass knuckles, but he's only really there because you paid for him.
woad_yurt
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If it was an engine, it'd be a slant six.
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For me without a question its the FN 5-7 as well as the Mateba Unica Auto revolver (my friend has the 8in in 44mag)
007BondJamesBond007
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10-Ring
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For me there is a difference between the tradition & character -- a lot of guns have tradition -- 1911s, classic S&W and Colt wheelguns, PPKs, et al -- character comes from use - maybe some abuse - some wear, some tear and maybe some great story.
For me, the 2 guns that fit the character bill are my mod 60 Smith and my Colt 1911
For me, the 2 guns that fit the character bill are my mod 60 Smith and my Colt 1911
IMTHDUKE
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I always think of Character Brown........
sohcgt2
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Anything with history behind it. I love 1911's and Colt revolvers, I also like engraved Magnums and oddities like matched duelling pistols. (sorry if my spelling is off).
Sport45
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My Iver Johnson Target Sealed 8 probably has the most character of my handguns. It belonged to one of my wife's uncles and was given to me by my father in law. It's not the best, most reliable, or most valuable handgun I own, but to me it has the most "character".
Mr. Bojangles
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Mosin Nagant 91/30. Stands about 5'6" with the gigantic rusty screwdriver they call a bayonet attached. And it's loud enough to make children cry.
SharpsDressedMan
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This thread is too long overdue. I just about agree with everyone, on every gun. With regard to my guns, I'm like a guy who has too many women and can't decide which one to keep. PPK, Broomhandle, Walther P99, Model 10, they are ALL so cool. Each has it's own personality. I used to have a pistol for every day of the month, and although I didn't carry that many different guns, I could have. I love pistols and revolvers, and have had to whittle down, but they are all like friends who never let me down. I have always been glad that some of them have even gone on to "good homes", to other die hards who will appreciate them. It is very hard to pin down a "favorite" handgun. There are times when I pack only the lowly Colt .32 auto, and even though I know there are better defense handguns, in almost all ways, that particular day, THAT .32 is the gun for me, that is the one I am carrying, and THAT is the one I will make do with. When you reach a certain level of competence and confidence in your shooting ability, you become at peace with your surroundings. Anyone else feeling the same way? ( I am 56, been shooting pistols since 14, retired from law enforcement for 13 years, and thoroughtly enjoying my new life.)
Elbert P . Suggins
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Mr. Bojangles you are right about the MN-91\30, what a sleeper! Cheap as hell and as accurate as anything you can buy. But on this handgun thread I would choose the Springfield GI, the original Colt 45 in 7 1/2 barrel, S&W Schofield, and the Colt 1860 Army in reverse order.
Well...things, Guns, Holsters, various things can have Character when brand new, or when as 'new' but now old.
What the Japanese call Wabi Sabi, are the dimensions and depth of character an object acquires through time and use, handling, wear or injury/repair/modification even...
So ideally, we should have one Thread for 'Character' as intrinsic to the quality of design and form, and 'presence'...a Gun has going for itself...
And, one for the Wabi Sabi of how time and use and intrinsic, cumulative History, have acted upon the Character a Gun started out with.
An "as new" or 99 percent, Model 1911 Colt .45 Auto, has tremendous Character, it did when new, and does now...but has about no Wabi Sabi.
So, these are two different hings...but in English, we have no ready term for how time and use and whatever else, effect he original Charater, or positively lend dimensions of Character, to whatever the aesthetic-presence had originally been...
What the Japanese call Wabi Sabi, are the dimensions and depth of character an object acquires through time and use, handling, wear or injury/repair/modification even...
So ideally, we should have one Thread for 'Character' as intrinsic to the quality of design and form, and 'presence'...a Gun has going for itself...
And, one for the Wabi Sabi of how time and use and intrinsic, cumulative History, have acted upon the Character a Gun started out with.
An "as new" or 99 percent, Model 1911 Colt .45 Auto, has tremendous Character, it did when new, and does now...but has about no Wabi Sabi.
So, these are two different hings...but in English, we have no ready term for how time and use and whatever else, effect he original Charater, or positively lend dimensions of Character, to whatever the aesthetic-presence had originally been...
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