Buying a gun, from your year of birth?

[Independence Arms]

What would you buy?
I was born in 1974, and was thinking of picking up something from that era.

Any suggestions?

 

[Mil-Dot]

1974! I really feel old right now.

 

[jshooter]

Colt or Smith revolver.

 

[SMagee]

Smith and Wesson Model 19 fits there I believe.

 

[Boris]

uhm, AK 74 ???

 

[eisenhow]

Why? You're just going to sell it in a month.

 

[samandglove1]

I have a sweet S&W Model 19-2 with a 2.5" barrel from my birth year (1968). I had a few different ones but I was always searching for something better, until I found this baby with its original box.

I'm sure that I have at least a couple of 1974 S&W's in .38 or .357 if you want me to check.

 

[alohadoug]

My edc is a S&W Model 36 from my birth year.

 

[Independence Arms]

I have a sweet S&W Model 19-2 with a 2.5" barrel from my birth year (1968). I had a few different ones but I was always searching for something better, until I found this baby with its original box.

I'm sure that I have at least a couple of 1974 S&W's in .38 or .357 if you want me to check.

Can't hurt! Thanks. My preference there would be a .357, although I would love a .44mag.

 

[Independence Arms]

Why? You're just going to sell it in a month.

Smart a**. Haha

 

[mark056]

If the sky is the limit, a Colt Python otherwise a vintage S&W K or N frame from the period, or a nice S&W M39 9mm...or maybe a Ruger Security Six.

 

[Inferno]

uhm, AK 74 ???

This!

 

[Deer Slayer]

Check out some AK's

 

[MetalgodZ]

I was thinking the same thing Mark was - classic Ruger or Smith & Wesson.

Was just reading a recent thread about a hex receiver Mosin, then saw this...Not my birth year, but I got ahold of a nice condition hex receiver 91/30 made the same year my grandfather was. Adds a little sentimental attachment to a rifle I'd otherwise have little for.

As for what I'd get from the year I was born? Dunno what was made back then, really, but it'd be more a form thing than a function thing.

I have a friend who's got an engraved Ithaca bottom-eject pump gun from around then that's pretty nice, and I've always kind of liked them, but Ithaca was in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings in '82, and I don't know if any were made. Maybe a Hi Power or a Dan Wesson .44 mag with nice wood/burl.

 

[bullseye]

I'm good to go, got my 1884 trapdoor.

 

[Exousia]

Let me see...1945. Perhaps I should look for a M1 Garand.

 

[Kevski]

I recently did the same thing - I was born in 1981 and picked up a 1981 nickel finish Browning High Power. Good luck in in your search

 

[FrugalFannie]

anything good from 89'

Holy crap! Now I feel old. Are you even old enough to hold a gun yet?

 

[Inferno]

Holy crap! Now I feel old. Are you even old enough to hold a gun yet?

Atleast I beat him by a year! Although his .50 puts me to shame

 

[PATRON]

Get yourself an old GUNS&AMMO magazine from 1974, then buy what ever was new for that year.

 

[samandglove1]

Johnny-

I have clothes from 1989 (that I still wear)......

 

[chinalfr]

Johnny-

I have clothes from 1989 (that I still wear)......

LOL, need some S&W born in early 70's. Got any recommendation? I know you got the bible for S&W.

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[Coyote Hunter]

1974! I really feel old right now.

'78

Sent from my telegraph

 

[FPrice]

Many years ago I came across a nice S&W M&P (the old revolver line, not the new POS semi-autos) that Roy Jinks verified as being shipped the year AND month I was born (Sep 49). It's a keeper for me. RB with a 2" barrel.

 

[Dench]

what about 93?

 

[FPrice]

what about 93?

1893 or 1993? (he asked, innocently)

 

[samandglove1]

I'm sure I have a bunch. What year specifically?

LOL, need some S&W born in early 70's. Got any recommendation? I know you got the bible for S&W.

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Wait a second. How am I so much older than you ???

 

[Mike-Mike]

Colt SP1

 

[chinalfr]

Wait a second. How am I so much older than you ???

I'm over the hill already and begin my mid-life crisis journey now.

 

[center442]

One nice thing about getting old is that guns from your year of birth become C&R eligible.