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Whenever anyone questions why you've bought any particular gun just reply, "because it delights me you joyless scold!"
I've had this conversation about my .45 Colt Anaconda a couple of time and I am fully aware that they made and make them in .44 Magnum.
Don't care.
That giant gun in the, by modern standards, under-powered round gives me the giggles and I really can't see anything changing that.
Strangely, I never see them complain about a S&W 25-5 when the Model 29 is the same gun except in .44 Magnum...
I get the same delight from my useless .25 ACP guns.
I went out of my way to find a .38 Super Gov't Model in as plain-Jane trim as I could get and then "ruined" it by putting a short trigger and arched mainspring housing on it. It delights me to do so.
Having a clone of an M16, M16A1, M16A2 and M16A4 delights me.
The XM177E2 clone delights me even though I had to make a short barrel rifle of it and am only a fraction of an inch shorter than a 16" barrel with the moderator screwed onto the end of the 11.5" barrel.
The purple AR delights me.
The people who are grimly utilitarian about gun ownership should really start relaxing.
Once your needs are met, Maslow, you can move up the pyramid.
I absolutely agree. Buy what you like. I’m a fan of .32s. I have a couple of .45s, and I have owned 9mms in the past, but some of my favorite handguns are in .32 ACP and .327 Federal Magnum (which can also use .32 S&W, .32 S&W Long, and .32 H&R). I even have a pistol in .30 Super Carry.
ReplyDeleteIf I had some spare money I'd own at least one combination gun like a Savage model 42 just for fun as well as whatever looks interesting and affordable at the gun show. A Ruby and an Eibar knockoff K Frame in 8mm French Ordnance would have me growing a mustache and dressing up as a trench cleaner
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about my Broomhandle. James
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about .45 Long Colt?
ReplyDeleteThe Henry I used to have would shoot either .45 mags or long colts.
If we were anywhere closer than FLA and TX, I could let you have about 200 rounds of various flavors of LC that I found after selling the rifle.
.45 Colt is erroneously called .45 Long Colt. There never was a long or a short Colt.
DeleteAs best as anyone has been able to tell it comes from when the Army issued .45 Schofield for both the Colt and S&W guns. .45 Colt is longer than .45 Schofield, so Long = Colt and it stuck.
"Because I can" is all the justification you should need to own any firearm.
ReplyDelete-swj