I was just thinking, would it be better for your first gun to be a cheap gun you can abuse, scratch, and generally beat up. Or a nice expensive gun that you take care of, polish till it shines, be proud of, and then cry if you scratch it the tinest bit.
Beater or Safe Queen?
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My first pistol was an HK P7, which became my safe queen for a little while. I sold it recently and now almost all my pistols are Glocks. I like Glocks because I can abuse them and not feel bad. IMO, it is better to get pistols you will actually use...a lot, especially if you're new to shooting. Learn the fundementals and then when you have attained a certain level of competency, get a safe queen if you like.
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That would depend on what kind of a person you are . If you generally abuse scratch & beat up your possessions even a nice new shiny gun will end up that way will it not ? If you take care of your stuff then it won't .
My first 'user' handgun (aside from military, non-shooter collectables that I had previously acquired) was a NP22 (Sig 226 clone) from Marstar. $349 plus tax and shipping, I think. I bought it to inexpensively get into the game and to shoot often. And for so little, I wasn't concerned how it looked when it arrived nor how it would look 20 years down the road.
That was 6 years ago. I've since put more than 11000 rounds of commercial, commercial reload and home reload through it with less than a handful of FTFs or FTEs. I swapped grips for Hogues and replaced a broken spring (spare included with the gun at time of purchase). It's been holstered, handled, cased, exposed to all environmental nastiness and it pretty much looks and shoots as good as it did the day I got it.
You have an entire lifetime to acquire safe queens and collector pieces. My advice, for your first gun, buy something you can can take of and enjoy shooting without having to worry about babying it every time you break it out of the cabinet.
That was 6 years ago. I've since put more than 11000 rounds of commercial, commercial reload and home reload through it with less than a handful of FTFs or FTEs. I swapped grips for Hogues and replaced a broken spring (spare included with the gun at time of purchase). It's been holstered, handled, cased, exposed to all environmental nastiness and it pretty much looks and shoots as good as it did the day I got it.
You have an entire lifetime to acquire safe queens and collector pieces. My advice, for your first gun, buy something you can can take of and enjoy shooting without having to worry about babying it every time you break it out of the cabinet.
thing about safe queens- sonner or later they "acquire" safe kisses, bumps, etc- might as well use them - i have a browning bar that was absolutely factory pristine- 10 years and 10 rounds later, it wouldn't stay cocked- had i used it from day 1, browning would have gone good for the new part
Learn your tools; use your tools; look after your tools; maintain your tools and your tools will look after you when you need them. isn't it make sense brother. Do not abuse them is the key to become a good shooter.
trigun
trigun
#1bcshooter
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How do you know??? I use their drill bits and has been very impress for that price
Trigun
^this.
Plus... most of the "pretty" guns I see are usually the ones that don't seem to run all that well...
Chances are some guy who shows up at a match with a pristine AR... One which he handles as if it were a Faberge egg will have more jams etc than the guy who's shooting a beat up AR that looks like it's been thrown down the driveway a few times...
