Gunny456 said:
I say if you like it and want it, go buy it and have fun with it. However if you are planning on someday passing on your firearms to your kids I have always gone by the auspices to go ahead and spend the money on the real thing or get a firearm of quality brand name that should increase in value in the future for your kids.
This brings up a topic that has been on my mind recently. I kind of took something like a 6 year break, not thinking much about firearms or buying any new ones.
So just recently diving in and taking a look again. Regarding pistols, I am struck by 1) how there are many more quality options than there used to be, i.e. great features, great reliability. 2) How cheap some of those options are now. It is now WAY cheaper to buy a quality pistol now than 25 years ago. The Keltec-types of 2025 actually work well.
You can buy a good functioning 1911 for $300 now (Turkish). There are many striker-fired pistol sub $400 that work very well.
Remember when Glock seemed to be the only reliable pistol? And then S&W M&P came in as the 2nd option? Now there MANY, MANY options of equal reliability.
So I think the idea of "just brand-named" guns has been turned on its head. What is brand name now? Is Canik "brand-name"?
How about Walther PPK? Yes, it is brand name. Yet we had several people talking here in a recent thread about how the guns aren't reliable.
The gun space is rapidly evolving. In the 1980s, the tooling was way different. Modern methods of manufacture have made things much more precise and reproduceable.
Who is to say how much a Girsan PC 35 is going to be worth in 20 years. Do I care? No. I just wanted a reliable Browning Hi-power to try, because of my interest in John Moses Browning and owning and using a small piece of history.
