When I became a [legal adult] I put away childish things...

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What guns did you want in your callow youth that you no longer lust for?

I'll start the list:

Ithaca Model 49 .22 singleshot "lever action" (really a falling block)
The mighty Herter's .401 Powermag!
Those little Llama .380's that look like a tiny little 1911, grip safety and all.

I never acquired any of the above, and really don't want any of them.

I guess.

On the other hand, that little Ithaca wouldn't make a bad survival gun.

And I guess I could use the .380 as a trainer for kids, or even small framed adults.

And I really should learn how to handload someday, and if I did, the Herter's would make a decent sidearm for bear country.

Hmmm....

Anyway, what are some of your lost loves?
 
Ithaca Model 49 .22 singleshot "lever action" (really a falling block)
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Um ... I've had one of those for about 30 years now. I bought it from a disabled neighbor who bought it from a pawnshop and then decided he didn't really want it after a few days. A nice little gun for teaching kids how to shoot. It can be loaded/cocked/fired right or left handed equally well.

It's been riding around behind the seat of one pickup or another for many of those years.
 
An Uzi...:eek:

Yes. I'll admit it. When I was young and would thumb through Soldier of Fortune magazine and see 'em on TV, I thought they were the end-all-be-all of firearms.
 
When I was young, dumb, and full of...... :neener:

I wanted a pair of mini Uzis like Chuck Norris had in Invasion USA. Those and
the Auto Mag that Bronson had in Death Wish III.

I still kinda want the Auto Mag. :D
 
No working Man, you DON'T want an Automag: you want a Wildey. Bronsen didn't use a 'Mag in any of his movies, he used the Wildey (chambered in .45WinMag, IIRC)...

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Here's the link for that beauty...

BTW... I have a 'Mag. It's the gun that ALL the women like to shoot, for some reason... :shrug:

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I'm pretty sure I'm still in my callow youth, however i no longer want a Mossberg 500 with the sidewinder drum, pistol grip, vertical "assault" forend and numerous lights and lasers.

I will however take a Remington 11-87 set up like this...all those accesories absorb recoil right?:uhoh:
 
I wanted a Desert Eagle .50. Boy am I glad I didn't ever get one.

I also wanted a Mossberg 500 with front and rear pistol grips. Got one and realized it was dookie. I swapped out the grips for a full stock and fore-end and now it's by the bed.
 
No working Man, you DON'T want an Automag: you want a Wildey. Bronsen didn't use a 'Mag in any of his movies, he used the Wildey (chambered in .45WinMag, IIRC)...
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My bad... that's it... thanks Hunter Rose. I still want one. :evil: Thanks
for the link.

2TransAms, why are you glad you did not get a .50?
I have a .50 AE Mark VII and it's great fun. Only problem is my buddy's
baseball glove size hands (left handed) causes the slide lock to to engage if
he is not careful. :D
 
L.A.R. Grizzly

I wanted a LAR Grizzly in 45 Winchester magnum, and in hard chrome. Just like this one but I never bought one. Too much money and a hard to find round kept me from ever buying one.

Now I have grown out of it, mostly...
 

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What i bought when i turned 18

I remember picking up a Mossberg catalog when i was in third grade 10 yrs later I bought the gun i dreamed about a Maverick bullpup 12 ga. and a few years later i realised that it didnt serve much of a purpose so i traded it for the wifes new Browning Gold Sporting Clays I think i got more use out of her new gun too btw....

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That Wildey was actually in .475 Wildey Magnum, I believe.

"It's a shorter version of the big game cartridge. Makes a helluva mess."

Every time that movie is on I want a Wildey.

Hell, in press releases the Wildey folks admit their sales go up whenever Death Wish III is rerun. They probably owe TBS some serious coin...


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I wanted a cool-looking rifle with lots of black plastic on it.

The Army pretty much broke me of any affection I had for those things.
 
I wanted a Tech 9 which I did get and actually hated it because it was innaccurate and jamed so much. :cuss:

I also wanted an UZI which I still wouldn't mind getting if it wasn't for other things I want. Isn't that always the case, more wants than money to buy. :banghead:

And then their was the Desert Eagle .50 AE. Although I grew out of wanting that I did buy a 4" S&W 500. :D
 
Always wanted a Nylon 66 Remington...

now i have a dozen or so, in the nylon 11, 12, 66, 67, 77 and Kassnar varieties...

Also wanted the Ithaca 49... i have them in .22 and .22 mag...

IF I WANTED IT THEN, I STILL WANT IT...


anyone got any remington Nylons for sale?
 
2TransAms, why are you glad you did not get a .50?
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It's not the caliber,because I'd love to have a .50 GI 1911. It's the fact that there's a lot more pistols I now know that I'd rather have,so I probably wouldn't have shot it much or even kept it. In other words,I thought the Desert Eagle was the baddest pistol in the world.
 
hm

i guess i never had very high aspirations as a callow youth. or, perhaps I'm still one.

I really wanted a glock 19 for a very long time (9 years). I turned 21, had to work and go to school, put it off, 5 years later, all my guns got stolen.

THEN I decided to go and buy a glock 19. I re-did all the accumlated research, hemmed and hawed, and then went to the gun store...

and came home with a used sig p228 along with a faint, nostalgic memory of having loved a glock.

other than that, I suppose I've always regretted having had to make the hard choice two months before the cal ban between a bushmaster xm15 and a VEPR .308. I went with the xm15; it got stolen; now I have a small packet of VEPR pictures that I gaze sadly, longingly, after every once in a while.
 
As a kid I wanted an M-16....I still kinda want the M4 version...but primarily to plink, I wouldn't really count it among the better self defense weapons when AKs and VEPRs are to be had.

Also I had a serious jones for blue, snub nosed revolvers, probably because of Hawaii 5-O and the fact my dad carried one for years.

Lastly, the 1911, just like the A-Team had. Since then I've owned 3 and sold 3.

Oh, I almost forgot, the Ruger Mini-14, just like the A-Team....but not as much as I wanted that black van.
 
A Desert Eagle for me in 44 mag. I patiently waited for the day I could afford one. As time went on I kept buying other stuff but the DE was always in the back of my head.

Then one day I saw a DE in a display case and it just so happen I had the money for it also. But I handed it back and bought a Kimber 1911 for me and a Ruger 22/45 for my wife. Money well spent and I never looked back (made my wife happy too).
 
I have to add that when I was yound I wanted and AK. After having been in the Army using the M16 and then owning AR15s I developed a dislike for the AK. I must say that my biddest childished want which the Army actually helped fuel was for an M60. The M60 will stay on my short list of dream guns.
 
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