Would you sell all you had (your guns, that is) to buy something really special (another gun, that is)? This is sort of a pearl of great value thread.
I've been getting rid of guns over the last twenty years because no one else in the family has the least bit of interest in them and I no longer do any shooting. Yet my interest in them is as strong as ever. Only my income isn't. The guns I still have are ordinary and one is obsolete (a revolver). So I am still paring down the collection, trying my very best to wind up with the perfect and most desirable gun (Ha!), at least for me.
Personally, a Colt fits that specification to a T and why on earth I don't have one already, I don't know. I've had several, all desirable and mostly perfect. I've also owned imitations, so I know the difference. Doesn't matter which Colt. They're all pretty much the same, the differences being in the size and in some of the minor details. Personally, I've always like the lightweight Commander model but all models have something other models don't. I think I've owned most variations except a Gold Cup or one of the new models introduced in the last few years. One in particular caught my eye the other day.
The New Agent seems to be a nice gun for certain specific purposes. I realize it is a blue gun, not stainless, but that's okay. The one I saw was 9mm and that's fine, too. I'm not one to be devoted to a single cartridge. But trade away everything? Well, now, Colts are shockingly expensive these days and that New Agent was the lowest priced one they had. Browning Hi-Powers are almost equally desirable and I've had a couple of those, too, and they are up there in price, too. Nothing like having expensive tastes, is there? It's probably a good thing Colt isn't making their old pre-war .380 pistol, too (and I've had a couple of those).
What would you do? What would Jeff Cooper do?
I've been getting rid of guns over the last twenty years because no one else in the family has the least bit of interest in them and I no longer do any shooting. Yet my interest in them is as strong as ever. Only my income isn't. The guns I still have are ordinary and one is obsolete (a revolver). So I am still paring down the collection, trying my very best to wind up with the perfect and most desirable gun (Ha!), at least for me.
Personally, a Colt fits that specification to a T and why on earth I don't have one already, I don't know. I've had several, all desirable and mostly perfect. I've also owned imitations, so I know the difference. Doesn't matter which Colt. They're all pretty much the same, the differences being in the size and in some of the minor details. Personally, I've always like the lightweight Commander model but all models have something other models don't. I think I've owned most variations except a Gold Cup or one of the new models introduced in the last few years. One in particular caught my eye the other day.
The New Agent seems to be a nice gun for certain specific purposes. I realize it is a blue gun, not stainless, but that's okay. The one I saw was 9mm and that's fine, too. I'm not one to be devoted to a single cartridge. But trade away everything? Well, now, Colts are shockingly expensive these days and that New Agent was the lowest priced one they had. Browning Hi-Powers are almost equally desirable and I've had a couple of those, too, and they are up there in price, too. Nothing like having expensive tastes, is there? It's probably a good thing Colt isn't making their old pre-war .380 pistol, too (and I've had a couple of those).
What would you do? What would Jeff Cooper do?
