When you want a new firearm, but...

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Riomouse911 said:
I have a hankering for a .308 truck gun...

My dreamed about rifle for decades was an H&K SL-7. As a high schooler in the early 1980’s I loved creating an image of the cowboy pulling one from his saddle scabbard or the gun rack from his pickup while defending the herd from a predator. Even the ads were ruggedly cool:

$500 then was about $1,300 now, since those are now super scarce and mega pricy an M-1A Tanker at about $1,500 is filling the want... but nowadays they’re scarce and becoming pricier o_O.

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I had no idea that HK made a carbine with wood furniture. Very cool.
 
Obturation said:
do you ever carry that thing ?
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Not yet...

But my neighbor was attacked by a feral mower while cutting her grass the other day!

An imitation Cub Cadet.
The factory breeding makes the genes unstable and if they get pest the fence...
Well, look out!
This one was positively mad!
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Luckily, I was cleaning the Eagle when she called for help. The thing had her cornered and her John Deere couldn’t break it away.
I had the ammo box just inside the garage.
I only grabbed three, fortunately again, it only took two.
I was shaky, as Shila was just to the right of it at the shed.
I’m sure the first one did it in, but it squealed and threw a belt. It was smoking and lunged.
I was worried for Shila and gave it another.

A 300 grain plated straight to the case, through the connecting rod, the aluminum case again, and into the dirt on the other side.
This blew the hood off and stopped it cold.
Well, not cold.
It’s last throes were to burst into flames.
Highly indicative of Chronic Abused Mower Syndrome.
C.A.M.S. can be prevented. It doesn’t have to end this way for mass manufactured licensed mowers.
They’re not just bad mowers!
It just needed a good home that could maintain it better.:(

Since the incident I’ve given more careful consideration to what I carry whilst in the yard.;)

:D
 
Rarely any more. I tend to be very specific in what I want, and if I dont have a use for it and if it wont get shot, I am not interested. For many years...(decades actually) I craved a Colt 1911. Couldnt justify the cost. And it had to be a genuine Colt. Finally last year I sold off some dead wood that never got used, found what I wanted and took the plunge. Couldnt be happier. It has become my favorite handgun to shoot, load for and carry.
I very much want a quality flintlock, northern PA styled, probably more of a poor boy type as would likely have been carried in southern NY in the early 18oos. It is in a toss up with a Lehman style 1/2 stock percussion in .45 to replace a locally built rifle from the 1830s that was stolen from the family about 20 years ago. I have long wanted a flintlock long rifle, but the percussion would very likely be shot much more.
 
I have a few on my list - Browning Auto-5, Ruger No.1, M1 Garand, IBM M1 carbine, Mosin M39, No4 Mk1, K31, Glock 21 - but I need to sell a few to buy a few.
 
There is only one firearm on my wish list and, as I consider it an "ammo waster" (too easy to get excited and pop off the entire magazine), is a Keltec PMR-30 in .22 Magnum. The 10/22 I have taught me that pricey lesson !
 
I am thoroughly enjoying this thread.
I have most of my grail guns save for a colt python (still waiting on my preorder to show up, already paid for...9 months and counting :() and a Ratzeburg Korth. A few others will probably never happen, a genuine full auto Thompson, m240B, BAR, AA12, 20mm vulcan rifle.... I will more or less probably settle on a semi auto Thompson as long as it has the drum mag and forward vertical grip...the rest I couldn't say

There is how ever a list roughly 70 firearms long of things I would like to own or at the very least try some day...and the vast majority if It was a priority i could have done it already, but something else always gets put first. I am too much of a sucker for big bore revolvers....a good deal on something neat comes along and I just can't say no. The last was a BFR in 475 Linebaugh with genuine buffalo horn grips, 200 pieces of new brass, 26 pieces of once fired, 74 loaded rounds (which I pulled to verify the included load records were accurate, and safe before reassembling) 400 Speer and Hornady bullets, and a set of reloading dies....less than $900 for the whole deal. The Korth was just going to have to get pushed farther back.

Fyi, the 475 shoots like a dream.
 
There’s a few that are pretty realistic.

Browning SA22
Rossi Cyclops
Trooper MKIII
Colt Light Rifle
I hate to admit this one...Glock 43. (Have a 42)
Birdshead Heritage Rough Rider
Side by side double shotgun (passed on a LC Smith 3 months ago at $400 that was a steal but I had just bought 5 revolvers)
 
I always wanted a Desert Eagle in .50ae but the size and weight made them impractical for anything but range use. Then DE came out with the lite weight (2lb 14oz) 5" barrel DE in .357. Cool but I was not really interested in a .357. When they finally came out with the L5 version in .50 ae it was enough to make me actually buy one... and I REALLY enjoy shooting it!

There are other firearms that I would really like to own:
FN49 in 30-06
Egyptian Hakim
German G43
Swedish Lahti
Springfield Hellcat
Stainless double stack 1911 in 9mm with a good trigger
Combat 12 gauge like a Tavor TS12 or a DP12

But at this point I am quite happy with my current collection and really need to make time to shoot what I have more rather then add more guns to my collection.
 
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I will have someday a 8" 458s pistol ar with a holographic sight and a 26" 260rem bolt action rifle with a scope more expensive than the rifle
 
Pat Riot said:
...I have wanted an S&W 586 for over 20 years.
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I bought a 581 when they came out. Carried it as a Border 'Troll; liked it and still have it. Delightful.
Pat Riot said:
...I have wanted an S&W 27 or 28 for just as long.
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Also delightful. Have five inch and a three and one-half inch. Part of my estate.

Takes a lot of looking. Happy hunting!
 

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I want a 7.5" SAA in 45LC, I want a 50AE Desert Eagle, and I want one of those fancy new Miroku winchester levers to pair with the SAA.
 
JudgeHolden10 said:
I have firearms that I have wanted for four or five years, but the opportunity cost and lack of specific need has prevented me from ever buying them. I keep thinking that, some day, I'll buy them. Who knows? Anyway, here they are.
  • Benelli M4
  • Winchester Model 70
  • Browning SA-22
Who else has wanted a particular firearm for a long period of time, but just can't quite convince himself or herself to buy it? What was it? Did you finally cave?
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Yes.
Since I was 14 years old I have wanted a Browning Auto5 "Sweet Sixteen". A semi-wealthy hunting buddy of my father's had one and he let me shoot it one time. It felt very different from my 20 ga. Stevens shotgun and also very different from my dad's old Winchester Model 40 semi-auto shotgun. It just felt 'right'.
Years later I learned that the Sweet Sixteen was designed and built on a frame specifically for the 16 ga. shell. Many guys looked at it as a "woman's" shotgun, but in reality it is a very effective gauge. For me, the Sweet Sixteen has always been the Goldielocks of shotguns. It's "just right".

About 10 years ago (I am now 65) I felt it was a "now or never" time and I bought a Sweet Sixteen off Gunbroker for the opening bid of $450, IIRC. I have used it sparingly. Usually when I go deer hunting with my brother and son in SD there is an opportunity to hunt pheasants and sharptailed grouse.

The only thing I regret is not having bought my Sweet Sixteen 30 years earlier. It would have been a hoot to hunt with it in my younger days when we would be up 2 hours before the sun and would hunt waterfowl 'til the sun went down. Or walking the cornfields and stubble for pheasants with my dad and brother.

I guess we can't do everything in this life, can we? :notworthy:
 
Hi all. I have a somewhat love of mouse guns and have started a collection in my later years I've always wanted a Beretta Model 20 and just yesterday took the plunge with the wife pushing the final bid button. A nice older model Python may be next on my wish list
 
I like leverguns, but I never could quite justify a .45-70. It's a LOT more gun than I need and factory ammo is rather expensive.

I went ahead and caved because I had the means at the time, my LGS had several in stock at a fair price and I wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen with Marlin.


I was basically right about all the reasons I held off.
That gun is ZERO fun to shoot. :)
Still glad to have it in the collection.
 
HK SL-7: Such a cool-looking gun.

Geography is a critical factor when we first want to handle an unfamiliar gun--

--the issue is that the vast majority in TN are between Nashville, Chatt., Knox., Tri Cities. Not feasible unless one has other reasons to travel to the beautiful areas of the Exotic East.
By comparison, the Memphis/Jackson area seems impoverished >> even regarding guns <<.
 
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I'm not hunting for anything, but there are a few that I'd jump on if the right opportunity presented itself:

H&K P7
DE .44 Mag
IMI Timberwolf .357
Ruger No.1 RSI in 6.5x55
 
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