American_Fusilier
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Ruger SR9e
Here's another vote for the Ruger SR series of handguns. They were very good and very underrated. The SR9e even got rid of some of the ridiculous safeties that were on the original.
Ruger SR9e
Seeing this list makes me feel like my gun safe is the island of misfit toys.
I have a PX4 40 S&W and love it.
I have a couple of Mossberg rifles that are accurate and reliable. I see a lot of derision of these online and usually it is "I saw it on the so and so forum" yet most haven't ever fired one.
Love it!I have one. And it's a gun I built back as a very young guy over 50 years ago. I wanted a target .22 rimfire rifle, but had no money for one. So I tuned up a buddy's car and he paid me by giving me his old Stevens bolt action .22 I reworked the stock by adding wood here and there, and using some autobody filler to blend it in. Then painted the stock black. Didn't have the skills or money to put a heavy bull barrel on it, so I used some schedule 40 3/4" plumbing pipe that measured 1.125" OD as a sleeve over the barrel. I used wood spacers to center the sleeve over the barrel, and poured Acraglass epoxy around the gap at the crown. Let it set up overnight, and removed the wood wedges the next day, and topped the epoxy off. I blued the barrel, did some stoning, and spring work on the trigger, and assembled it. Mounted an old 3x-9x Weaver scope on it, and it was done.
I still have it, but it's kinda homely compared to real factory target rifles. But it actually shoots very well. Not like my Badger barreled Ballard target rifle, but then it's nowhere near as much gun.
Beretta PX4 Storm. I got two of them (one in 9mm, the other in .40S&W), but despite being a thoroughly modern polymer framed, combat proven duty pistol, they get very little respect, at least in the US market. Much of that lack of respect probably has to do with its polarizing "space gun" looks.View attachment 1192122
I don’t mind the safety on the SR series, but yeah…..very underrated and one of the best value double stack nines made.Here's another vote for the Ruger SR series of handguns. They were very good and very underrated. The SR9e even got rid of some of the ridiculous safeties that were on the original.
I don't know what that rifle is, but that is one of the best looking stocks I have ever seen.
Universal Carbine-
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Ya, later production had some serious issues, but the 1st Gen were the only commercial guns on par with a wartime Carbine. Mine is a 4-digit serial and looks and shoots better than either of my GI guns.
They all get a bad rap from the 2nd Gen. and the shortcomings of other commercial Carbines.
Anything I have in a .32.
Mine has to be my Astra A75. People at the range always seem mystified by what it is, and snicker as soon as I tell them. Until they shoot it. Not only does it look kind of like a little Sig, the DA trigger is like glass, and the SA ir pretty great too. Only my worked on Sig P220 DAK comes close. Then they want one too. My first one was a nickel .40, and it wasn't pleasant to shoot, but in 9mm, it's all steel heft make it a very pleasant gun to shoot, and it eats anything.