If you were going to buy a higher end 1911, or a higher end shooter of any kind.............?

Which high end gun would you choose if you could buy one, and you would NEVER sell it.

  • Wilson Combat

    Votes: 20 11.7%

  • Les Baer

    Votes: 43 25.1%

  • Ed Brown

    Votes: 18 10.5%

  • STI

    Votes: 8 4.7%

  • Nighthawk Custom

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • Coonan Arms

    Votes: 8 4.7%

  • Some other Autoloader (listed below)

    Votes: 24 14.0%

  • All of these guns are overpriced, so none of them.........

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • We've done this type of thread too many times, so I don't care.

    Votes: 15 8.8%

  • A fancy CZ of some kind

    Votes: 26 15.2%

  • Tanfoglio fancy edition

    Votes: 4 2.3%

  • Go totally custom

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • If the Laugo Arms Alien pistol ever materializes, get that thing!

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Sig Sauer X-Five or X-Sig of some flavor.

    Votes: 5 2.9%
  • Total voters
    171
  • Poll closed .
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Other: Colt 1902 Sporting with a trip to Bowen Classic Arms for a complete restoration and target sights.
 
0. Luggerman Luger .45 - $5k and worth every penny
1. Delta AR (a very unfortunate name, haha)
2. Pardini GT45
3. Korriphila HSP 701
4. Korth PRS
5. very much maybe some kind of nicer P220
6. H&K P9S (despite the name it's .45)
7. If Bond ever resurrects Boberg XR45-S, I'm getting one
 
I have a mental block on the cost of firearms. $2500 dollars is not a difficult sum of money for most people to come up with, but for some reason I can’t bring myself to consider spending that kind of money on a gun. I spend at least that much money every year ice fishing and I just bought a $2500 torque converter to go in the $4000 transmission in my race car which has no practical use, but for some reason I see guns in that money class and I think of them as rediculous waste that nobody can afford. I’m working on getting over that but I will probably always choose to buy 3 or 4 moderately priced used guns than one really expensive custom.
 
TTv2 said:
Unless it's some sort of antique or rare gun, I wouldn't be interested.
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That's cool! Offer withdrawn. How about this one; Ill drive to your place and let you shoot a $0000.00 gun. It will be the same gun. My retirement present from Les. How bout THAT? :D:D
 
Something like this might fit the bill. I am not sure who made it because it has no name on the slide but I pulled the trigger on it anyway. I hope my buddies at the range still think I am cool. This ones is for you @paulsj

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I'd head over to Tilo Dedinski and get one of his Tatham & Egg flintlock pistols.

Oh, you wanted one of those suppository guns...a Browning worked over by Cylinder & Slide.
 
tark said:
That's cool! Offer withdrawn. How about this one; Ill drive to your place and let you shoot a $0000.00 gun. It will be the same gun. My retirement present from Les. How bout THAT? :D:D
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How about don't waste my time replying to this post and make me read your drek like u just made me do?
 
So I know guys who have no problem going out every other year and buying new trucks in the $50-60K range, $700 cell phones, $2000 big-screen TVs, but balk at paying more than $500 for a gun. Can't figure that one out ...

Unless one has actually experienced a good custom 1911, well, commenting on the worth of one of these is akin to a sixteen-year-old virgin proclaiming he'll never have sex because it seems as though it'd be too messy.

And I hereby designate member TTv2 with the new screen-name of "Thread-Crapper."
 
WVsig said:
Something like this might fit the bill. I am not sure who made it because it has no name on the slide but I pulled the trigger on it anyway. I hope my buddies at the range still think I am cool. This ones is for you @paulsj

Brilliant company name with brilliant marketing of outstanding product "No Name". I will always regret I haven't learned about this company until after I bought M45A1. I admit it could have turned out worse.
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Old Dog said:
So I know guys who have no problem going out every other year and buying new trucks in the $50-60K range, $700 cell phones, $2000 big-screen TVs, but balk at paying more than $500 for a gun. Can't figure that one out ...
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Cause they cannot afford anymore after those expenditures..
 
Old Dog said:
So I know guys who have no problem going out every other year and buying new trucks in the $50-60K range, $700 cell phones, $2000 big-screen TVs, but balk at paying more than $500 for a gun. Can't figure that one out ...
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The concept you're struggling with is known as "value". An item needs to provide more than $N to the buyer to be worth buying it for $N, in which case it is said that it "has a value of $N (or more) to the buyer". So the new truck in your example has a value of $50,000, and the gun has a value of $500. If the person does not have an interest in an item, its value can go all the way to $0. People in these cases say "you have to pay me before I buy this (piece of junk)". The value judgment varies from a person to person, as you keenly observed in your post. For my part, I do not care for art. I "balk at paying more than $500" for a painting. In fact, I would not even pay $50 - an order of magnitude less. Yet others easily pay thousands in order to decorate their residences with paintings, and feel exceedingly smug for that (actually, it might just be the reason why they like those paintings). It really is not difficult to figure out.

P.S. When buyers participate in a market together, items start finding sales among the pool of buyers and generally their transaction prices start to cluster around a certain number, known as "market value". So, a specific gun we're talking about may have a market value of $1,000, yet person who otherwise buys a truck for $50,000, would not necessarily be interested in buying the gun -- in fact probably would not. A small minority of buyers participating is sufficient to sustain a market value, while the personal value may be significantly lower across the general public.

P.P.S. Another community, members of which like to compare and complain about value judgements, are owners of airplanes. In their case though, it's usually not $50k trucks that prompt their ire, but boats. Why is it, they exclaim, that so many people pay $100k for a boat, but not $30k for an airplane! Can't figure that one out!
 
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I went custom for 1911's, twice. I was looking for detailed analysis and individualized care of guns I would be carrying. Plus, I had shot 1911's long enough to know what I wanted on the guns. I didn't feel I'd get those with a production gun, regardless of who made it.

I want to pay gunsmiths to help keep the craft alive, but to me, there are limits on what I'd pay. Fully stripping a 1911 and laying the parts in front of me, I didn't see six grand. Maybe others could.

One nice outcome, I've shot an Ed Brown and a Wilson Combat Supergrade and their owners shot mine. All agreed a custom gun can provide impressive results.
 
I said Wilson because I also dream of an EDC X9 in my future. Probably be a couple years out yet, I need another .308 first.

The most expensive 1911 I've shot is a Wilson CQB Commander in 9mm and it is easy to immediately notice the value in form and function vs my cheaper 1911s.

Still, I shoot my VBob better, and easily. Likely simply familiarity with grip and trigger, but the Wilson's owner doesnt seem keen on leaving it with me for a few thousand rounds.
 
harrygunner said:
I want to pay gunsmiths to help keep the craft alive, but to me, there are limits on what I'd pay. Fully stripping a 1911 and laying the parts in front of me, I didn't see six grand. Maybe others could.
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It not the putting it back together, any Armorer could have done that. It's what the gunsmith knows to do to acheive the customer's goals is where the 6 grand comes into play......
 
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