I discovered something this year that I should have known for many years by now. IT seemed so simple that I felt foolish for not recognizing it sooner and having saved a lot of money.
You can love a gun design and not have to won it. You can enjoy it just the same without having it in the safe.
For me, there are 3-4 of these guns. They appeal to me deeply, either through sentiment or cool factor, or for no reason that I can explain.
The first of these is the Benelli M1 Super 90 (and equally the Mossberg 590). I love the Benelli. I love the weight, the balance, the quickness of it. The reliability of it. It looks cool and is pretty much the MP5 of shotguns. The first one I owned was attained in trade for a Sig P228, and I've owned and sold 3 or 4 since that first one. I may just own another Benelli, but I don't really have a use for a shotgun, least of all a combat shotgun.
Second for me is the USP Tactical/Expert 45. I got a deal on an expert a few years ago, but one mag through it and ended up selling it for much more than I paid for it. It left some sellers remorse, so it wasn't long that I tried to replace it with a USP Tactical. The Tactical just wasn't as good trigger wise, and I sold it too. I really like the was those guns feel, like nothing else, but I don't really care for handguns. I own them because they can be concealed easier than a rifle.
Next for me is the Steyr SSG 69 (P1). Every time I see or think of them, I remember Magnum PI dressed in real VN tiger stripe, hiding in the bushes scoping the VN general dude with his SSG. I wanted one then and there. I have mostly resolved to let it be a want. I don't know that owning it will satisfy the want, since I don't have Thomas Magnums mustache, Tigerstripe or Ferrari 308.
There are a handful of other guns I like that just don't do it for me when I own them, so it was easier to not have them, but these three haunt me like a just quit smoker seeing someone take a long drag off of a Marlboro.
Is it just me?
You can love a gun design and not have to won it. You can enjoy it just the same without having it in the safe.
For me, there are 3-4 of these guns. They appeal to me deeply, either through sentiment or cool factor, or for no reason that I can explain.
The first of these is the Benelli M1 Super 90 (and equally the Mossberg 590). I love the Benelli. I love the weight, the balance, the quickness of it. The reliability of it. It looks cool and is pretty much the MP5 of shotguns. The first one I owned was attained in trade for a Sig P228, and I've owned and sold 3 or 4 since that first one. I may just own another Benelli, but I don't really have a use for a shotgun, least of all a combat shotgun.
Second for me is the USP Tactical/Expert 45. I got a deal on an expert a few years ago, but one mag through it and ended up selling it for much more than I paid for it. It left some sellers remorse, so it wasn't long that I tried to replace it with a USP Tactical. The Tactical just wasn't as good trigger wise, and I sold it too. I really like the was those guns feel, like nothing else, but I don't really care for handguns. I own them because they can be concealed easier than a rifle.
Next for me is the Steyr SSG 69 (P1). Every time I see or think of them, I remember Magnum PI dressed in real VN tiger stripe, hiding in the bushes scoping the VN general dude with his SSG. I wanted one then and there. I have mostly resolved to let it be a want. I don't know that owning it will satisfy the want, since I don't have Thomas Magnums mustache, Tigerstripe or Ferrari 308.
There are a handful of other guns I like that just don't do it for me when I own them, so it was easier to not have them, but these three haunt me like a just quit smoker seeing someone take a long drag off of a Marlboro.
Is it just me?
