What is your favorite handgun?

[Cross-X]

When you open your gun locker, what is your favorite handgun?

My old reliable is my Glock 17. I have had it for several years, tuned it up a bit and it is just the way I want it. I compete with it in IDPA club matches and state matches, and is utterly reliable plenty accurate.

Still, it is not my favorite, because I am in love with twins.

I just bought a couple S&W 1911s, one is full-sized stainless steel, and the other is a commander-sized scandium model. They are a ball to shoot, and amazingly accurate.

It will likely take a long to learn to shoot them really well, but what fun!

So what favorite handgun do you have in your gun locker?

 

[Skald]

Though I do not own any form of handgun at the moment, but without question it would be a Model 1911 just cuz I love the way it feels in my hands when I shoot my friends.

Also, there is something about holding a piece of living history at times.

 

[FPrice]

Colt Mk IV Series 70 .45ACP. Used to shoot IPSC with it in Washington State. I use other pistols in my "arsenal" much more now, but that one remains my favorite.

 

[Cross-X]

Colt Mk IV Series 70 .45ACP. Used to shoot IPSC with it in Washington State. I use other pistols in my "arsenal" much more now, but that one remains my favorite.

Frosty, is it a full-sized 1911? Sounds really nice!

 

[Admin]

HKUSP 45

 

[Cross-X]

HKUSP 45

How is your trigger? (On the HK, I mean)

Have you had it 'smithed?

 

[FPrice]

Frosty, is it a full-sized 1911? Sounds really nice!

Yep, it's a five-inch barrel, basically the 1911A1. It was lightly customized by Richard Neimer who used to be the head gunsmith at the original Detonics plant in Seattle. Nothing flashy. just a good, solid .45.

 

[Moderator]

S&W 6904, Love the trigger on it. Just wish it were stainless

 

[M1911]

I'll give you one guess.

 

[FPrice]

I'll give you one guess.

The dark side, i.e., Glocks?

 

[Moderator]

I'll give you one guess.

Jennings .22?

 

[Pilgrim]

SW CS45

with me all the time

 

[Marcus in the Darkus]

My Sig 226 in 9mm.

 

[Cross-X]

I'll give you one guess.

One of Ross's fancy lad COP .357 mag four shot derringers?

 

[JonJ]

My lowly S&W 4043 .40 Only because it's the gun that comes out of the locker every day that I carry.
Sorry about the rifle, the pic was the only one I had of the S&W. And I do "carry" that one everyday too.

 

[Adam_MA]

Mine is my Walther P99 in .40.

That is the gun that ALWAYS stays on my hip. However, I do shoot my Para 1911 just as much if not a bit more, but only because I am setup to reload .45 and I can't argue with the price of shooting it.

Adam

 

[Grifter]

Favorite without a doubt S&W 4014 .40. Many sentimental reasons plus it has never acted up one single time even after 8 thousand + rounds.

But now comming in a very close second is my latest project. Glock 17 (yeah yeah I know) BUT Jarvis threaded barrel, gemtech supressor, hi cap mags, Glock light/laser module and a little device on back that... lets just say makes the firearm "selectable".

 

[SiameseRat]

just for sheer fun, I go for my Ruger Mark III every time.

I paid the extra $20 so that it's stainless, not blued. Lord I love me a black and stainless gun...

 

[Cross-X]

Ruger Mark II and Mark III: a ball to shoot, but a real pain in the neck to reassemble.

Design could be better.

 

[Cross-X]

And I won't even talk about the time the cross-bolt pin fell out, I didn't know it, and, upon completing reassembly and dry-firing the gun, I ruined the barrel.

The nice folks at Ruger wanted me to pay $185 for a replacement barrel.

A couple letters later, I got my barrel from them for free.

Amazingly curious design on that gun. Amazing.

 

[SiameseRat]

yeah that's why I shoot it a hell of a lot more than i clean it

 

[Cross-X]

yeah that's why I shoot it a hell of a lot more than i clean it

Smart woman!


I guess that's what you get when you cross measured feline sensibilities with rat-like cunning!

 

[FPrice]

Cross-X,

A couple letters later, I got my barrel from them for free.

Did you get a good attorney to help you write these letters? (he asked with a perfectly staight face)

 

[Cross-X]

Cross-X,

A couple letters later, I got my barrel from them for free.

Did you get a good attorney to help you write these letters? (he asked with a perfectly staight face)

Cute, Frosty, very cute.

 

[FPrice]

Cute, Frosty, very cute.

Counselor, you keep calling me "cute" and I am starting to get worried!

[shock]

Surely you know I wouldn't kid you unless I knew that you were a loved, honored, and respected member of your profession? Not to mention a verbose member of this esteemed forum. (Is that enough groveling?)

 

[SiameseRat]

yeah that's why I shoot it a hell of a lot more than i clean it

Smart woman!


I guess that's what you get when you cross measured feline sensibilities with rat-like cunning!

Indeed it is, watch out world- I'm on the verge of something sensibly cunning... [lol]

 

[Cross-X]

Cute, Frosty, very cute.

Counselor, you keep calling me "cute" and I am starting to get worried!

[shock]

Surely you know I wouldn't kid you unless I knew that you were a loved, honored, and respected member of your profession? Not to mention a verbose member of this esteemed forum. (Is that enough groveling?)

Frosty, I guess I am not the only one around here who knows how to sling it.


Don't get worried quite yet.

 

[Lynne]

Cute, Frosty, very cute.

Counselor, you keep calling me "cute" and I am starting to get worried!

[shock]

Surely you know I wouldn't kid you unless I knew that you were a loved, honored, and respected member of your profession? Not to mention a verbose member of this esteemed forum. (Is that enough groveling?)

Frosty, I guess I am not the only one around here who knows how to sling it.


Don't get worried quite yet.

Oh oh...if he says don't get worried, then ya might want to. [lol]

Favorite - Sigma .40. I just LOVE that gun.

 

[SiameseRat]

I'm starting to get a complex that I'm the only one on this board that is in love with my .22. Both of them.

I shoot my 10/22 a lot more than my Mark III but either way, I shoot at least 5 times more .22 than 9mm (which is the caliber of my 2nd favorite gun, my Glock 17).

 

[Cross-X]

I'm starting to get a complex that I'm the only one on this board that is in love with my .22. Both of them.

I shoot my 10/22 a lot more than my Mark III but either way, I shoot at least 5 times more .22 than 9mm (which is the caliber of my 2nd favorite gun, my Glock 17).

I have a Ruger 10/22 that I love dearly. I have set it up just the way I like it, but it is still not my favorite gun.

You see, I am a pistol guy, and a reformed Glock-a-holic. I have all the Glocks I want or need, and two of some models, so I can stop collecting now.

I am suprised more folks favorite handguns don't happen to be revolvers.