I went shooting on Sunday and now I kind of want to buy a gun...

[Lanyap]

I have a couple of duplicates, but most are different colors, generations, variations. Some old pics.

17 Glock 17's:

19 Glock 19's:

I live out of multiple houses.

Is that a real oak hardwood floor or laminate?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Isn't it amazing the varying aspects of shooting that draw folks to the sport. I enjoy shooting my semi-auto, but it gets tedious after a bit squeezing off round after round.

I grew up and still enjoy shooting black powder pistols and rifles, and enjoy the heck out of sitting around making paper cartridges by hand for my Pietta 1858 New Army revolver. In my opinion, lever action and single shot rolling block and high wall rifles are some of the most beautiful guns ever made.

I'm also a bit of a fan of the cowboy culture and grew up watching westerns. Back growing up in Los Angeles and later as a newspaper photographer I had opportunities to see and later photograph Monte Montana, Gene Autry, Clayton Moore and many other silver screen cowboys. When Gene Autry passed in 1998 I photographed portions of his funeral procession. I remember the cowboy actors and lovers of the wild west, young and old, lined up to pay their respect, many twirling their six guns, with hats off and more than a few tears in their eyes.

I photographed Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger, when he was inducted into a local hall of fame. He quietly took the stage, waited for the applause to die down, cupped the mic and broke the silence... "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty HI HO SILVER it's the Lone Ranger!" and the place went mad.

I know Bonanza, The Big Valley, The Rifleman and all that stuff is fiction. I know The West was never the way those hokey shows portray it, but I still have fond memories of playing cowboy as a kid.

That was kind of my thinking when I bought the Vaquero but once I had it I never really got into the whole cowboy shooting thing. I am 51 so I grew up watching John Wayne and Clint Eastwood in those spaghetti westerns and I watched some of those shows you mentioned too but the Lone Ranger was a little before my time.

I think Clint Eastwood’s movie ‘Unforgiven’ is probably a more accurate depiction of what life was like in the old west. Great movie, probably one of my favorites. His spaghetti westerns were just clever and he was more of anti-hero than the lead in westerns that came before. Flawed men you just sort of root for. Kind of like Dirty Harry.

I have a Winchester lever action rifle in .44 magnum that I take to the range and I love shooting it. My son likes it too. Great gun, accurate and fun to shoot. It’s a keeper for sure.

 

[sdifox]

Is that a real oak hardwood floor or laminate?

Looks like laminate

 

[PliotronX]

I'd look into a Canik TP9 (and series, sa, sf, etc) They make the firearms for the Turkish Military. Most reviews on them essentially say 'It out glocks a glock at half the price" I have a tp9sa. Really crisp trigger for a striker gun. Really well put together. Plus I paid under $300 for it.

Thanks for that! Looks like a better version of the M&P and even less expensive. I will keep that in my list of recommendations.