How often do your gun tastes change?

[Maverick44]

My tastes flip flop at random. One month I might be into C&Rs and the next I'm into more modern stuff. For the last 7-8 months I have been really into ARs and modern handguns. Then one day for no reason at all, I start looking at antique rifles and end up buying a Springfield Trapdoor. Just like that, my tastes flip flopped and now I am apparently into cartridge firing guns from the Civil War to WWI. I blame the ADHD.

How about you guys? How often do your tastes change?

 

[FireInTheWire]

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[baboon]

I think my taste in guns have changed very little since I was a little kid. I have wanted machine guns since I first read about them being legal in the back of gun magazines. Having always liked hunting I have always had that covered too. Black powder was a very short lived deal as the smoke sucked. Never owned cowboy guns as I never was into it.

 

[Axxe55]

For the most part, my tastes still gravitate towards bolt actions, revolvers, and 1911's.

But there are always guns that intrigue me. But to be honest, most any guns intrigue me! I like them all.

 

[m5215]

20+ years ago I was more into rifles than pistols (about 80% rifles and 20% pistols). Now I am more into pistols than rifles (95% pistols and 5% rifles).

The only thing that has not changed for me over the years is that I do not like frames made of plastic as well as striker fired actions.

 

[no2gates]

If it goes BANG, it's something I want.

 

[Bozz10mm]

I went from striker fired carry pistols to ARs to AR pistols during the past 7 years. Now I'm thinking hard about pistol caliber carbines. I want one or more of everything.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

My tastes are fairly wide and varied, but I wouldn't say they change. Might just focus more on a particular type of firearm at a particular time depending on current inventory and needs/wants.

 

[Maverick44]

My tastes are fairly wide and varied, but I wouldn't say they change. Might just focus more on a particular type of firearm at a particular time depending on current inventory and needs/wants.

I think that's a better description of what I was getting out by taste change. I still like modern guns, C&R and all of that. My focus has shifted to older guns though.

 

[BMF500]

Not much. I have condensed the calibers that I own for simplicity in the struggle to find space to store a galaxy of different types of ammunition.

 

[majormadmax]

I wouldn't say they "change" as much as they "expand." "Change" would imply I am no longer interested in past interests, and that is simply not the case. Instead, I find something new that I am interested in, and I add that to the list.

In terms of acquisitions, I definitely go through phases. For several years, I almost exclusively bought CR items; but I have not added a firearm to my ledger in years. In fact, my overall interest in acquiring new firearms has waned. I've picked on one gun this year, and I am not even sure I added one to the collection last year.

Does that mean I have lost interest in shooting? Well, I definitely don't go to the range as much as I used to; but I haven't given up on the hobby. It's just that I've "peaked" in terms of acquisitions, so these days I tend to be a bit more selective in what I pick up.

Of course, having a kid in college for the past five years may factor into that!

 

[Axxe55]

I think that's a better description of what I was getting out by taste change. I still like modern guns, C&R and all of that. My focus has shifted to older guns though.

I don't own any really old or collectable guns, but I enjoy them.

I had a blast shooting your Mosin Nagant revolver!

 

[BRD@66]

Looking back, I'd estimate my firearms preference changes (gradually) about every 15 or 20 years.

 

[skfullgun]

My taste for guns changes like my taste for women. I like them hot and crazy, and I tire of drama and want peace and tranquility. Then, I tire of boredom and want wild and crazy ! The cycle continues. That's why I'm old, broke, and lonely.

 

[EZ-E]

I like them all, but cant afford them all

 

[Axxe55]

I like them all, but cant afford them all

I have a champagne taste, and a beer budget!

 

[majormadmax]

I had a blast shooting your Mosin Nagant revolver!

You mean the Nagant M1895, designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant...

Nagant and his brother Émile had previously been involved with Russian Sergei Ivanovich Mosin in the design of the 3-line rifle, Model 1891 (Russian: "трёхлинейная винтовка образца 1891 года"), colloquially known as Mosin–Nagant; but Mosin never made a revolver.

Production of the M1895 began in Liège, Belgium; however, Russia purchased the manufacturing rights three years later and moved production to the Tula Arsenal at first then later Izhevsk as well as Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów in Poland to produce some 2,000,000 examples between 1895–1945.

While the 7.62×38mmR round was fairly anemic, it was unusual in that the round sat inside the brass...

The M1895 also had an interesting gas-seal system in which the cylinder moved forward to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel when the gun was cocked, providing a slight boost to the muzzle velocity of the fired projectile but more importantly allowing the weapon to be better suppressed! Original Nagant revolver suppressors are extremely rare, but many have used modern ones on them thanks to the already-threaded barrel!

 

[Axxe55]

You mean the Nagant M1895, designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant...

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Nagant and his brother Émile had previously been involved with Russian Sergei Ivanovich Mosin in the design of the 3-line rifle, Model 1891 (Russian: "трёхлинейная винтовка образца 1891 года"), colloquially known as Mosin–Nagant; but Mosin never made a revolver.

Production of the M1895 began in Liège, Belgium; however, Russia purchased the manufacturing rights three years later and moved production to the Tula Arsenal at first then later Izhevsk as well as Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów in Poland to produce some 2,000,000 examples between 1895–1945.

While the 7.62×38mmR round was fairly anemic, it was unusual in that the round sat inside the brass...

View attachment 210293

The M1895 also had an interesting gas-seal system in which the cylinder moved forward to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel when the gun was cocked, providing a slight boost to the muzzle velocity of the fired projectile but more importantly allowing the weapon to be better suppressed! Original Nagant revolver suppressors are extremely rare, but many have used modern ones on them thanks to the already-threaded barrel!

I believe so. Maverick knows. It was his pistol I shot.

 

[Maverick44]

You mean the Nagant M1895, designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant...

View attachment 210292

Nagant and his brother Émile had previously been involved with Russian Sergei Ivanovich Mosin in the design of the 3-line rifle, Model 1891 (Russian: "трёхлинейная винтовка образца 1891 года"), colloquially known as Mosin–Nagant; but Mosin never made a revolver.

Production of the M1895 began in Liège, Belgium; however, Russia purchased the manufacturing rights three years later and moved production to the Tula Arsenal at first then later Izhevsk as well as Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów in Poland to produce some 2,000,000 examples between 1895–1945.

While the 7.62×38mmR round was fairly anemic, it was unusual in that the round sat inside the brass...

View attachment 210293

The M1895 also had an interesting gas-seal system in which the cylinder moved forward to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel when the gun was cocked, providing a slight boost to the muzzle velocity of the fired projectile but more importantly allowing the weapon to be better suppressed! Original Nagant revolver suppressors are extremely rare, but many have used modern ones on them thanks to the already-threaded barrel!

I believe so. Maverick knows. It was his pistol I shot.

That would be the one. Mechanically, it's a very interesting gun. It's also fun to play around with. It was not a very good military sidearm in my opinion though. The TT-33 was a vast improvement over it, and the S&W Model 3 that preceded it was a higher quality, more useful gun due to it's faster speed in reloading, and it's more potent clambering of the 44 Russian. I believe those were in use until the 20s.

The main issues with them is that they are kind of finicky, they are not as reliable as you'd expect a revolver to be (mine has jammed on me multiple times), they are slow to reload due to loading not unlike a Colt SAA, and the double action trigger pull is so atrociously heavy due to it's need to operate the gas sealing function of the cylinder, that you are going to have a very hard time hitting anything beyond very close ranges with it. The single action trigger is much better, but still not great. I believe that these were mostly issued to officers, so these short comings were not that big of a deal. Though if I was a Russian soldier during WWII and I was issued one of these, I'd pick up the first German pistol I found.

This is why I like C&R guns. They give you a glimpse into things that history books cannot adequately show you. They give you perspective on what it was actually like to use one of these old guns.

 

[candcallen]

My tasts are directly related to the thickness of my wallet.

That said I'm almost positive God wasn't talk about guns when he says thou shall not covet.