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Post by Lord Newport on Aug 22, 2021 1:15:23 GMT
Nice first gun! IMHO, The Beretta 92fs Centurion is the best of breed...full size farm for mag capacity and controllability and compact barrel/slide for carry ability and balance. It had to look for some time to hunt down a NIB unforced example for my collection. Today they are rare as hens teeth.. My brother has a Beretta M9A3 pistol and that thing is dead eye accurate. A bit too big for my tastes but even a mediocre marksman like him was drilling the cat’s eye on a target 30 feet away. Weight/balance and that long sight radius give the 92 series a lot of traction in the accuracy department. More importantly, I don't think I've ever seen a single stoppage or serious malfunction in a Beretta 92 and I've been in or helped train a lot of tactical handgun classes as well as participated in a lot of USPSA / IDPA and 3 gun matches. |
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Post by tera on Aug 22, 2021 2:17:37 GMT
As someone with large palms but shorter fingers, I definitely appreciate the slimmed up ergonomics of the M9A3. I'm also a sucker for factory threaded barrels. Never ran one suppressed, though. I wonder if it would have more "port noise" due to how open the breach is when the slide moves to the rear. Lord Newport might know, he definitely has a great deal more experience with that line than I do.
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Post by nerdthenord on Aug 22, 2021 2:21:49 GMT
It’s a beautiful, perfectly crafted handgun but while he loves it it’s...a bit too much for me. It’s too big for my hands and is a bit awkward with that cut out slide. It’s like the 6 foot 4 Italian supermodel of pistols, compared to five foot five me lol. It’s beautiful, sexy, and well designed, but I prefer my basic, reliable Glock 19 Gen 5.
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Post by tera on Aug 22, 2021 2:50:06 GMT
One day you need to shoot a an HK P7 or P7m8. Single-stack 9mm, so fairly slim, with a gas-retarded blowback system. Fixed barrel and the action stays locked until the bullet is headed downrange. They are laser accurate an super soft shooting (of the already soft 9mm).
Only 3 downsides. 1, they are no longer made or imported so hard to find and expensive. 2, the gas system gets the dust cover and forward portion of the frame hot, and fast. Not a good choice to run a high round count competition with. 3, low magazine capacity for it's size.
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Post by Lord Newport on Aug 22, 2021 3:15:21 GMT
One day you need to shoot a an HK P7 or P7m8. Single-stack 9mm, so fairly slim, with a gas-retarded blowback system. Fixed barrel and the action stays locked until the bullet is headed downrange. They are laser accurate an super soft shooting (of the already soft 9mm). Only 3 downsides. 1, they are no longer made or imported so hard to find and expensive. 2, the gas system gets the dust cover and forward portion of the frame hot, and fast. Not a good choice to run a high round count competition with. 3, low magazine capacity for it's size. I had an P7M13 for many years as a safe queen. I bought it back when I really couldn't afford it and it was the most expensive handgun in my safe for many years. Only shot it once...I sold it a few years ago at a great profit to another buyer looking for a safe queen. I don't think they are so much better as to justify the huge premium to other handguns that you will shoot. TO buy to to collect it? Well I made money on it and I am sure the new owner will as well. |
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Post by tera on Aug 22, 2021 3:28:12 GMT
I had a P7m8 for a while. Paid $900 for it at the time, sold it years later for more. I regret that to this day.
I love the pistols, but I won't say they are worth the prices these days. That's the HK collector world for you. It used to be my daily carry, but I'm not slapping $3000+ of unobtabium to my hip where it may end up locked away for ages as evidence in a defensive scenario. Glocks, S&W M&Ps, modern HKs, and polymer CZs all do just fine. Pick what fits.
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Post by Lord Newport on Aug 22, 2021 4:19:11 GMT
I had a P7m8 for a while. Paid $900 for it at the time, sold it years later for more. I regret that to this day. I love the pistols, but I won't say they are worth the prices these days. That's the HK collector world for you. No semprini! I was able to pick up in partnership with a friend who works at a police supply company, twenty used HK416 10.5" uppers with suppressor flash hiders on them from a local Police Department SWAT team that traded them in to buy new ones from his company. Since they were complete uppers only, they were not "firearms". We paid his company $750 each and sold them all within two weeks for between $3500 and $4000 each and every buyer was VERY happy to get one. I have a few HK weapons I am very happy with... a couple HK91's, a HK93, a few VP9's and a VP9sk but I had no idea the LE/Military only HK416 piston uppers were that valuable to the HK collecting community. Seems crazy to me but hey...I am sure many would consider high end sword collectors crazy too.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2021 9:52:27 GMT
Glock 20 in 10mm. Sold it to my best friend who was hunting more at the time. I used a Glock 20 for conceal carry. As a fat man it was not hard to do. The 10mm has always been my favourite cartridge since it came out. I did not get my Glock until years later as I was still under twenty-one. I loved it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2021 9:54:28 GMT
My first shotgun was a Winchester 1300 Defender in 12 guage. Let me tell you. I learned that a shotgun made for personal defence is not good on the skeet range. 😹
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Post by pete085 on May 18, 2022 7:27:51 GMT
My first gun was old single shot 28 gauge shotgun. I found it at the attic of my grandparents house. I brought it to the local gunstore to have it have it restored. It is still with me and working fine.
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Post by 14thforsaken on May 19, 2022 13:20:09 GMT
My first was when I was 12, a semi-automatic Marlin tube fed .22 rifle with a 4x15 scope. The tube held 17 rounds and you could put another in the breach. 38 years later I still have it and it's in almost perfect condition with only a slight gouge about the size of my pinkie nail on the stock to mar it. I did change the scope out to a Tasco 3-9X50 I had lying around from an old project. I find as I get older, the bigger apertures help. Aging sucks.
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Post by Yagoro on Jun 20, 2022 2:08:54 GMT
My first gun was a yugoslav m48 mauser
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Post by drakegmbh on Jul 23, 2022 22:16:22 GMT
My first firearm was this Colt King Cobra. It is chambered in .357 Magnum. I still have it in my collection. While Colt recently reintroduced the 'King Cobra' name, they are not the same gun. This one was made in 1995.   |
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Post by tera on Jul 23, 2022 22:35:56 GMT
My first firearm was this Colt King Cobra. It is chambered in .357 Magnum. I still have it in my collection. While Colt recently reintroduced the 'King Cobra' name, they are not the same gun. This one was made in 1995. Having worked in firearm sales, I can affirm this. Those are classic, highly desired pieces and the original runs are still much sough after over the re-release. Hold on to that one, it's worth a fair bit. |
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Post by UkroAm Swordsman on Oct 12, 2022 16:42:24 GMT
Mine was a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 I picked up for $75 back when they regularly went for less than $100. It was a beater of a rifle, the stock in particular had been through the works, but the bore was good and it could put up 4 inch groups at 100 yards, not bad for the type. In college my friend and I would buy 440 round tins of surplus 7.62x54r for about $80 each from a local gun shop and every few days after class go off and bang off some rounds at the local range. I had a lot of good times with that beat up old warhorse, but after school I needed money at one point and ended up selling her for some quick cash. I still regret that decision to this day.
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Post by LeMal on Oct 12, 2022 19:59:01 GMT
Mine was a Russian made Baikal single shot 12 gauge--purchased in 1981 for a mere 100 bucks when it had somehow made its way across the Iron Curtain to a long gone awesome Minnesota clearance store called Banks!
No longer have it, but it was simply--literal pun intended--the best hunting shotgun I've ever had. Light to carry in the field, yet recoil never a problem; while pheasant hunting it was comical how everybody around me was unloading their pumps and semiautos--and often missing--while I could track effortlessly and use that single shot to great effect.
Missed it so bad that in recent years I made sure to pick up a couple Baikal 20ga single shots. Work just as great, but that mischievous allure of getting one through the Iron Curtain ain't there.
(Though I suppose--especially since my family's half-Ukrainian--current events could bring some of that feel back. 🙄)
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Post by UkroAm Swordsman on Oct 13, 2022 5:42:16 GMT
(Though I suppose--especially since my family's half-Ukrainian--current events could bring some of that feel back. 🙄) Same here with the Ukrainian heritage so I know what you mean, Брат! Personally, I have been avoiding Russian products since 2014 unless absolutely necessary. That said, the way things are going there might end up being a glut of Russian AK Parts kits entering the US market when things calm down in the Old Country so I will definitely be keeping an eye out for that. |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 13, 2022 6:25:01 GMT
I didn't ever own a gun myself but during childhood and youth my dad owned a Walther PPK 7,65 I was allowed to handle sometimes unloaded.
He inheritated it from an uncle.
I never shot with it but later trained a bit loading, unloading, disassembling to a degree.
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Post by LeMal on Oct 15, 2022 0:35:22 GMT
(Though I suppose--especially since my family's half-Ukrainian--current events could bring some of that feel back. 🙄) Same here with the Ukrainian heritage so I know what you mean, Брат! Personally, I have been avoiding Russian products since 2014 unless absolutely necessary. That said, the way things are going there might end up being a glut of Russian AK Parts kits entering the US market when things calm down in the Old Country so I will definitely be keeping an eye out for that. Haha, at this rate gun parts won't just be from AKs, there'll be a few from T-72s and T-90s. |
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Post by rjodorizzi on Oct 21, 2022 15:17:39 GMT
First gun was a Mosin Nagant bought for $90 at a gander mountain on a Black Friday sale. Terrible gun from a weight and usability but boy it made a big BOOM every time!
Was the only hobby I started that was more expensive than swords :-D
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