besides the political shit we deal with daily, does any of you guys ever sit back with a beverage and ponder the changes you've seen in your time as a firearms enthusiast? two that i think about is...watching the semiautomatic pistol push to the forefront while tossing revolvers to the curb and the other, the emergence of the anemic, weak ass european cartridge with one bullet style and loading, the 9mm, into a powerhouse heavyweight contender. with several bullet weights and styles available to the reloader now as well as a bunch of commercially loaded good loads offered too. the 9mm has shocked me the most. knocking the .45acp almost out of the conversation.
1. Revolvers- this is due to companies that used to take pride on building cool sh*t stopping. Example: RUGER and SW. there was a time when they would build 454, 480 Ruger, 500, 460 ... and a lot of 44mag. Today, Ruger sh*t the bed and SW seems to focus on 75 different versions of the same revolver in either 357 or 9mm.
Few companies are keeping interesring revolvers alive, companies like Freedom Arms and Magnum Research. We could also add Taurus since they seem to have a better selection than SW and Ruger - but the support for Taurus guns s*cks a**. But they are trying.
But revolver overall where never that big, at least not in the last 60 or so years. Seems like it was mostly SW pushing revolvers, and they still do, they just stopped taking pride in X frame revolvers and all their Performance Center stuff is mostly junk.
Besides the interesting revolvers, there are a few others keeping revolvers alive in the Cowboy market - Uberti, Pedersoli ... Uberti and Pedersoli revolvers and lever actions are great quality. Their lever actions are second to none.
2. 9mm. Bruh, with the cost of ammo, what do you expect? ... also 1911 are everywhere. I don't think the 9mm pushed 45 ACP anywhere, the people that enjoy 45 still shoot it. But 9mm is a lot more convenient.
Also, 45 can be reloaded with small primers, which today is huge. I have a lot of small primers left, I will not pay $120 for large primers, so f*ck it, I reload 45 with small primers. Just makes sense and there is no difference between small, large, small Magnum, large Magnum primers. The difference is negligible. If it wasn't for different sizes they would all be interchangeable.
What bothers me is all the junk companies make. For every decent gun there are 10 junk guns in the same segment.
I get it, business are in the business of making money and people like to buy sh*t. But gun manufacturers are small enough that having a division creating good stuff is doable.
But then there is also the point at which you don't want cheap sh*t, you start to appreciate quality. Right now, there isn't a single gun I want that is under $1K. The only quality guns I would buy right now under $1K are Uberti revolvers or a Magnum Research semi auto.
For every person like me there are Probably 20 new gun owners that buy 20 cheap polymer guns when I only buy one nice gun. So companies cater to those people.
glocks are for the fight, CZ is for the fun, sig p365 for an EDC.
