Where do you do your gun Research?

[anthonywork6727]

Just curious..



Anyone have a favorite site where they find info such as specs, reviews, prices, etc when they are in the market for a handgun? Or do you go to various sources (i.e. forums for reviews, google shopping for prices, etc)

 

[gbran]

THR, Rimfire Central, TFL, Cal Guns, google and wherever it takes me.

 

[tyeo098]

Google knows all.

 

[Shadow 7D]

ask on a few forums, post
LOTS OF PICTURES
and usually you get pointed in the right direction.

 

[Ignition Override]

We start topics on specific forums, such as those sites which feature milsurps: Surplusrifle, Gunboards, Parallaxandcurio etc. We also read for a few hours, i.e. trying to learn about 7.62 versus comm. .308 issues and others.

When a very helpful guy includes the chart with the huge psi factor, to allow conversion from military "cup" (7.62x51) to commercial psi is more valuable than many pages of hearsay and rumours.

Maybe THR will one day start a generic forum, if they have the digital capacity and moderator specialists, such as "Tiki-".

 

[sugarmaker]

In recent times...start here on THR, get the general direction. THEN...get whatever I think is the best starting point. Use it, learn about it, improve it, optimize it (I can be a bit obsessive at this point) - if it's not right and can't be made so, hopefully I've learned enough to get it right on the 2nd buy. Often I have 2 or more of an item, 1 of which I'm very happy with when it's all over. It's only $$$.

 

[Oxide]

As for price, Gunbroker is good. Get an account and you can see what completed auctions actually went for.

Since there's a no-criticizing-ads policy here, those ads that have absolutely NOBODY responding? Yeah, people went and checked gunbroker and realized the guy wants more for his 5000 rounds down the pipe, carried for 3 years on active duty pistol than what many vendors on gunbroker want new.

 

[mortablunt]

http://www.wikipedia.org/

 

[Jonah71]

Bud's to get a general idea about prices and then to THR for most anything else.

 

[22-rimfire]

I get a lot of useful information on the forums. Price is not one of them in a strict sense although the prices people say they are paying give me a yardstick. I occasionally will search completed auctions in GB and Auction Arms. I use the Blue Book quite a bit. The Blue Book of Gun Values is quite useful for many things beyond price.

I take responsibilty for my own buying impulses.

For more historical research, I buy books. Lots of books.... I also visit with "experts".

 

[Sky]

Many threads at THR start out with a question and many answer with their personal experience with regards to the topic. Sooner or later someone will usually post a link that more than covers the topic at hand with pictures, graphs, and expert expertise on the topic at hand.

All forums hopefully have individuals who are knowledgeable and well informed in different topics while others are there to learn or gleam different approaches to a certain topic.

We all see threads on the same topic week or month after month where a simple search might have answered the question to begin with.

The search function is a useful tool but does not have the same feeling (or info/direction) of belonging to the THR community as a direct question to those who are logged on and are willing to post to the OPs thread.

For the forum to stay alive it needs new blood and new ideas on old problems or just the same old stuff repeated in so many different ways; forums are for communication IMO. Kinda like all things in life you just have to sift through the chaff to get to the wheat sometimes.

I have been very pleased with the outside links of forums/videos that have been posted in different threads here at THR; due to me being less than proficient in the ways of the Internet and sometimes to lazy to do the research myself it is nice to ride the shoulders of those who have traveled a particular road before.

 

[OARNGESI]

Google

 

[Sav .250]

If you don`t use the web as a source, your leaving a lot on the table.