What do you classify your gun interest as?

What do you consider your main focus to be?

  • Black Rifles & other military style weapons;

    Votes: 47 21.7%

  • Military surplus (garands, mausers, lugers; etc.);

    Votes: 31 14.3%

  • Mainly hunting firearms;

    Votes: 18 8.3%

  • Handguns (modern or classic but own few if any rifles);

    Votes: 104 47.9%

  • Vintage/Classic firearms collecting (wild west style lever actions, single action revolvers etc.);

    Votes: 5 2.3%

  • Black powder (modern or classic);

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Sport shooting (lots of competition grade firearms);

    Votes: 9 4.1%

  • Machine guns;

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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All of the above except the class III.
Too spendy for me now, maybe someday. :)
 
All of the above.

Hunting rifles for hunting.

Shotgun for upland birds and trap.

Handguns for CCW and sport shooting. (USPSA)

Milsurp and Black Rifles for SHTF scenario.
 
What do you consider your main focus to be?

YES ----- Black Rifles & other military style weapons;
YES ----- Military surplus (garands, mausers, lugers; etc.);
YES ----- Mainly hunting firearms;
YES ----- Handguns (modern or classic but own few if any rifles);
YES ----- Vintage/Classic firearms collecting (wild west style lever actions, single action revolvers etc.);
Yes ----- Black powder (modern or classic);
YES ----- Sport shooting (lots of competition grade firearms);
NO ----- Machine guns;
 
Handguns for me. I'm not that interested in shooting rifles or shotguns except for hunting. Nearly all my "fun" shooting is done with revolvers. I try to shoot my 1911 enough to remain proficient.
 
Didn't see a category in the poll that describes me.

I'm a handgun hunter, but also have rifles and shotties. Like to shoot paper, cans, game, birds and varmints.

I own too many darn fine guns, but none are collectables, they aren't cheap, but all are working guns. I buy and own guns for their specific purpose.
 
I did not answer the poll because it was too narrowly formed for me to include my main interests in firearms. You included "black" rifles, and included handguns but few if any rifles as a choise, yet left out rifles in general.

You did not distinguish between centerfire and rimfire, but somehow included blackpowder.

You included Machine Guns - by which I imagine you mean fully automatic weapons and yet left out choices of other actions such as: single shot, bolt action repeater, semi-automatic, O/U, S/S.

You also tried to lump everyone into restricted categories apparently without considering the generalist.

Those poll choices do not fit me. I am more the generalist. I like to keep as many types of firearms as I can keep legally and afford to keep. My largest number of one type of firearm would probably be rimfires in .22lR, but I have many in centerfire too. These included military arms, collectible firearms, hunting firearms, self defense arms/tactical arms, and so forth, all made up of rifles, shotgun and pistols, and a revolver.

All the best,
Glenn B
 
Lets see, I've got:

  • 2 black rifles, an AR and an AK
  • A Mosin, a Luger, a US Army issue M.1911 from 1917, and a Ballester Molina.
  • Sporters in 22lr, 22-250, 6mm, 6.5x55, 30-06, and 308 Norma Magnum, along with shotguns in 12, 16, 20 and 28 gauge.
  • Handguns in 22lr, 380ACP, 9mm, 38 Special, 40 S&W, 41 Magnum and 45ACP
  • The 41 Magnum is a Ruger Blackhawk, plus I've got a Colt 1862 Pocket Police in 38 rimfire.
  • A Uberti 1858 Remington.
  • A few Remington 37s and a Winchester 52 set up for competition

The only thing I'm missing is machineguns. My collection is pretty unfocused :neener:
 
Since there's not and "All", and that really doesn't work for me anyway, I'll answer like this...

Black Rifles & other military style weapons: Have an AR, an AK, a “black” shotgun (except it’s green) and see “Handguns”

Military surplus (garands, mausers, lugers; etc.): No.

Mainly hunting firearms: Yes. But not “mainly”. Have big game & varmint rifles. And see “Black Powder”.

Handguns (modern or classic but own few if any rifles): Semi-Autos, DA wheelguns and see “Vintage/Classic”

Vintage/Classic firearms collecting (wild west style lever actions, single action revolvers etc.): Instead of “Vintage” I’ll go with “Wild West” since I’m a Cowboy Action Shooter. So we have “competition grade” SA revolvers, lever action rifles and SxS, pump and lever action shotguns. I shoot both smokeless and BP... depends on the mood.

Black powder (modern or classic): An in-line ML for hunting and see “Vintage/Classic”

Sport shooting (lots of competition grade firearms): See “Vintage/Classic”.

Machine guns: No.
 
Whatever floats my boat. Some weeks it's handguns, others it's black rifles, the next it's long range shooting, and the week after that it's a STI so I can compete better. I prefer to have a nice variety of guns rather then just a lot of one category.
 
I like military weapons of all ages and eras. Everything from black powder muskets to Lee-Enfields to modern EBRs. I don't have any NFA stuff yet, but I hope I'll have an SBR and maybe a few suppressors eventually. A machine gun would be lovely, but there's no way I could afford one (legally).
 
All of the above + more. I don't care if it's a M1 Garand firing .30-06, a BB gun firing .177 pellets, or a Nerf gun firing foam darts. Anything with a trigger that shoots something down a barrel catching my interest.
 
There is not an option for me, I like handguns, especially revolvers. I also like accurate hunting and target rifles as well defensive and double shotguns.
 
No what i really want to see is if my hypothesis is true. It seems hand gun owners tend to be the most politicaly active for whatever reason. All is a waste of time since we are all gun enthusist on here. I made this in response to someone elses post talking about the different gun groups not helping eachother. Its pretty straight forward if you own only 1 black rifle but several hand guns you are a hand gunner.
 
How would this poll tell you whether or not someone who owns a hand gun is more politically active than someone who owns a rifle? I see no correlation at all between the two as could be established by a poll simply asking which type of guns you prefer to own. On the other hand if you asked folks something like the following:

Into which category do you fit?

1) I prefer to keep handguns and am very active plotically regarding gun rights.

2) I prefer to keep handguns and am not politically active regarding gun rights.

3) I prefer to keep handguns and am somewhat active politically regarding gun rights.

4) I prefer to keep rifles.....and on and on until you covered the types of guns you wanted tocover in your study.

Then maybe you could make some factually suppoted correlation between type of gun opwned and political activity level. Otherwise, while it seems simple and straightforward to you to assume that someone who owns a "black" rifle, and several handguns is a "handgunner" and that somehow equates to them being more politically active; it seems an exercise in futility to me. I mean even if you try to call that person a handgunner, without making some conjecture about his politically activity level, you could well be wrong. Case in point: I own more rifles than handguns, does that make me a rifleman? No it does not. I carry, practice with, train with, and depend upon my handguns more than I do my rifles for work, self defense, home defense. Would I then be a pistoleer or a handgunner. No I am not. I am a firearms enthuisast for sure, but do not fit either of the other categories very well just because of how many of a certain type of gun I have in my collection.

All the best,
Glenn B
 
No odds are anyone on this forum is politicaly active therefore if majority are hadn gunners its fairly simple.
 
I prefer handguns since they are easy to store and fun to shoot. All of my rifles are shooters.
 
My major interest is studying the various ways that inventors have come up with to do the same jobs.
I've traded guns more than most because unless a gun has the feel that I like its just not a keeper regardless of its monetary value.
I study the actions, get used to them, then trade for something I haven't seen yet. Aquiring is more the point than owning for most such guns.

I've found that by trading I have owned dozens of guns with very little overall expense. I don't keep money tied up in the hobby.
 
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