Satisfied without all the other calibers

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Nothing necessarily "wrong" with having a low level of commitment/interest. You have only yourself to please. For me, it wouldn't even be scratching the surface.
 
I tend to need applications for my firearms to really find interest in any particular model or cartridge or type over any other. I’ve long outgrown an interest in going to the range just to make noise and burn powder, I prefer to have an objective. When I go to the range, I find my enjoyment in practicing or developing certain specific skills for certain specific applications. Whether it’s sustaining or improving my precision, improving my speed and fluidity, practicing functional manipulations, or what have you, long range, short range, variant distance, etc, I like to have objectives.

In the context of variant objectives, more and more cartridges are “interesting.” If I were only ever going to the range and poking holes in paper with a handgun at 10yrds, I’d be shooting a 4” GP100 or G19/34. It would get boring quickly, and I might find myself agreeing with a premise of, “I don’t need anything else.” But in my life, I’ve dabbled in lots of different competition platforms; 3 gun, bench rest, gas gun, F class, smallbore, service rifle, Handgun silhouette, cowboy action, bullseye, IDPA/IPSC/action pistol, tactical rifle, precision rifle... and of course, hunting on 3 continents. There are hundreds of 2“interesting” cartridges well suited for these respective applications, and I’ve enjoyed the pursuit of the firearms and cartridges in the pursuit of each respective game (double entendre intended).

I shoot my G19 and my LCP more often than anything else - my primary carry pistols. Neither of them are interesting pistols, nor are they chambered in interesting cartridges. I do have firearms which make me smile every time I handle them, and I do have cartridges which enchant me at every outing. I’ve never met a .475 Linebaugh I didn’t love, nor a 6 Dasher. I’m actually quite fond (surprised myself by it) of the Sig P224 in .357sig, and have been finding it thoroughly pleasant over the last couple of years - it really revitalized my interest in semiauto pistol range time, after I’d been in quite a rut with my other autos. Finding something more interesting than a 9mm pistol has been about as easy as “close your eyes and point.”
 
I have interesting guns that I like to shoot and/or consider to be just neat.
I do not have interesting calibers; I had rather have two widely different guns in the same caliber for simplicity of ammo supply. I could be tempted by a .30 Luger gun or barrel, but those are not common around here, so my resolve is not likely to be tested.
 
You're a shooter more than a firearms enthusiast. That's it. Nothing wrong here. A lot of people enjoy shooting even fewer calibers than you do.
 
If you've never tried other guns and other calibers, you don't know what you're missing.

If you have tried the other guns and calibers and came "home" to .22 and 9mm, you do know what you're missing.

Same result, but one was by a route that gained greater wisdom.
 
There are certainly more than enough enjoyable pistol platforms in 9mm and 22lr to keep many/most people happy, and there is nothing wrong with that. I just find that 7.62x25 gives me the widest grin.
 
Rick in Iowa writes:

I just find that 7.62x25 gives me the widest grin.
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Looking forward to that myself. I've had the gun for a few years now, but never cleaned it up of the Cosmoline. Will be doing that soon, I hope.
 
John_R said:
If you've never tried other guns and other calibers, you don't know what you're missing.

If you have tried the other guns and calibers and came "home" to .22 and 9mm, you do know what you're missing.

Same result, but one was by a route that gained greater wisdom.
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I don’t have a lot of diverse caliber experience, but have shot quite a bit of 38 Spl/357 Magnum and .22 WMR besides my two favorites.. I think all three suck. Mainly because I really dislike revolvers but for other reasons too.
 
I find the .22 pistols to be dull, but I don't have a lot of chance to shoot dynamic targets like soda cans.

I see nothing wrong with sticking with 9mm as an only caliber. I do like having a .380 to rotate in, but if all I could carry for the rest of my days was a SIG P320, I'd be ok with that.

I do think that a good single action. 357 makes a fine do it all gun.
 
I started out as a firearms enthusiast. I enjoyed having a bunch of different firearms.

My "collection" mainly consisted a guns that I had seen on TV growing up and I thought were cool ( M1 carbine, 1911, Colt model 1873, Winchester lever-action, and the like) but over time I lost interest. I didn't find shooting my lever action any more enjoyable than shooting my Mini 30 or qualifying with an M16 which is never fun.

Then I got into a phase were I became a CZ afficiando. I wanted to get one of every gun that CZ made. Well that got expensive quick and it got old.

I realized that I wasn't really getting any pleasure out of owning any one particular gun right around the time that I started being able to get some professional defensive handgun training. At some point during that time I made a conscious decision to quit having firearms as a hobby and start seeing them as a utilitarian tool.

I decided that I was going to streamline my "collection" down to as few guns as possible and that I was going to focus on compatibility.

In my mind I can't see the benefit of having two guns that occupy the same space. I already have a Glock 19 why do I need an M&P 9C 2.0? Especially when I can buy OEM Glock magazines all day long for roughly half the price of a Smith & Wesson magazine.

Currently my wife and I own 5 handguns, predominantly 9 mm Glocks. Four of the five are 9mm the one that isn't is a 3rd Generation Smith & Wesson that I bought in a private sale right before private sales became illegal in Colorado.

For that reason alone I will never get rid of that gun but I don't feed it either. I have a couple of thousand rounds of ammunition on hand for it I'm sure but the bulk of the space goes to 9 mm.
 
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rpenmanparker said:
I don’t have a lot of diverse caliber experience, but have shot quite a bit of 38 Spl/357 Magnum and .22 WMR besides my two favorites.. I think all three suck. Mainly because I really dislike revolvers but for other reasons too.
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Ain't a whole lot of difference between 9mm and .38 special, other than principle platforms. I'm curious as to what the other reasons may be. I wonder if you had the experience to shoot a Coonan, if your opinion of .357 would change. Nice thing about America is the wide variety and the availability of firearms. Most all of us have a preference. If one is only going to shoot paper indoors, one really needs nothing other than a .22 and a 9mm. But there's a reason there is a multitude of other handgun calibers available. Not every hand-gunner has such narrow parameters.
 
Doesn't like revolvers! Call the doctor! Wait maybe I need to get checked out, I don't like 9mm.:eek:
 
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Gotta have a revolver.:)
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Or two or even more. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy simi-auto's too but it's really nice not to have to hunt and pick up empties when shooting revolvers.

I can understand someone (but it's really hard) not liking revolvers. Even my grandsons that are heavily into AR's and plastic fantastics like my revolvers. Add in a 10 year old GGdaughter that likes grandpa's "cowboy" guns.
 
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Outside of two of my handguns, one 22LR and one 44SPL the others are '35' calibers. IOW 0.355 to 0.357 in diameter.
 
Varminterror said:
Now you don’t like revolvers... in a lot of your threads, I do kind of wonder:

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Oh, I like the way they look. But that's all. For the most part they are stupid heavy with the solid metal frame. Even steel framed semi-auto pistols are mostly hollow and therefore lighter. They are under-loaded and slow to reload. Precise shooting requires a lot of technique on a very stiff and long DA trigger. And don't tell me you mostly shoot SA. That is just a cop out. Plus they are a PITA to clean with all the extra tubular area in the multiple chambers. They are bulky in the middle. And the grips are seriously misshapen compared to semi-automatic pistols for comfortable and effective gripping.

Hey, I am just fooling around with you guys. I do believe everything I am writing, but I also know that YMMV. Each to their own.
 
Horses for courses. You don’t have an application where a revolver is superior to a pistol, that’s a symptom of the small world in which you live. Step outside and go hunting with a handgun, a revolver makes a lot more sense than any pistol, and there’s no “cop out” of shooting predominantly or exclusively SA there.
 
I'm of the same mind on this. I only have 3 handguns, two in 9mm, and one in .22, because I'm both working on a low budget and don't like to have more than 3 or 4 calibers to worry about.
 
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