Your top three most iconic handguns

[paracarry]

S&W model 19
1911
S&W model 39
Only because they were the first 3 handguns I bought 40 years ago, wish I still had them.

 

[gerrycaruso]

Colt SAA
Colt 1911
S&W heavy barrel model 10

 

[fencer]

Colt Peacemaker (SAA) - TV & Westerns
S&W 29-- Dirty Harry
Walther PPK - Bond, James Bond

Followed by...
Colt 1911
Luger P08

 

[abundigas]

1911
Luger
Beretta 92

 

[Gidge]

1. Set of flintlock single-shot dueling pistols
2. Colt dragoon
3. Tie between an original 1911 and 1st Generation S&W .357 (I'm a revolver guy so I choose the latter).

 

[jasons]

Someone should make this a poll.


To me me "iconic" means a gun that pretty much any average person would see and could correctly associate with a specific cultural reference. "That's James Bond's gun," or "That's Dirty Harry's gun," etc.

1. 1911 (Every WWII movie ever)
2. Walther PPK (James Bond's gun)
3. S&W model 29 (Dirty Harry's gun)
4. Colt single action (Every western movie ever, Patton, etc.)
5. Beretta M9 / 92FS (Pretty much every gun or anti-gun sign has a silhouette of one. Tell a random person to draw the outline of a gun and they'll probably draw something that looks a lot like either a 1911 or a 92fs.)

 

[jtnf]

Any such list must contain the .88 Magnum.

 

[ccm75]

Colt 1911
G19
Ruger Redhawk

 

[The Edge Lab]

1911
Luger P08
Hans Solo’s blaster

 

[BrianWilson]

Government
Commander
Officers

 

[Lip]

1911,
Lemat
Harper's ferry

 

[Bob P]

Colt SAA, Colt 1911 and Glock G17

 

[M60]

For me it has to be
1. Colt SAA
2. Colt 1911
3. S&W Model 29

 

[timbo]

Colt Python
Colt 1911
SIG P229

 

[PL-52]

Colt SAA
Colt 1911
Any Revolver, Police Special, Carried by Chief Dan Mathews , Det. Sgt. Joe Friday & Det. Bill Gannon, or Officers Reed and Malloy