That they are. I have known only a couple really good shots. They are a lot like people who have the ability to do many sports. Some pick up a gun and soon are good. With some practice they become great. Can be fun to watch some of them as they of course make it look so damn easy. To them it was and is. An amazing number tell themselves how great they are and then suddenly can't do it when they get to a range though.
I have a nephew who is sickeningly good with guns and bows, thrown bladed weapons, etc. I don't think he has shot much. He is a natural as an archer (and is nationally ranked and a state champion) He is the one person I have ever seen that was great almost instantly. Probably has under 500 rounds down range and can outshoot most I have seen.That they are. I have known only a couple really good shots. They are a lot like people who have the ability to do many sports. Some pick up a gun and soon are good. With some practice they become great. Can be fun to watch some of them as they of course make it look so damn easy. To them it was and is. An amazing number tell themselves how great they are and then suddenly can't do it when they get to a range though.
Sometimes its both amazing and frustrating to see someone who is just so damn good without even really trying .
To a certain extent this follows almost everything in life but, you have to decide what you want any tool for. Some guns run a price that is very low and will still run longer than I will live. A lot will depend on how much you are going to use it as with any tool. With many guns of the "higher end" they can really shine when years down the road you may wish to sell them if that day comes. Look at what some things like old S&W or Colt wheel guns go for now. Many of them sell 30 years later for multiple times more than they walked out the door NIB for. I often see one of these I had owned decades back and when I look at the price tag think DAMN, why did I not hang onto one of these
I start new shooters with a suppressed .22 and progress to "the pissed librarian" a suppressed colt 1903. Then we see where they stand.
I know this looks and sounds good on paper but the correct number of guns is just one more. For me I didn't find out what were the right guns for me with out buying and shooting what I thought I wanted. One example of this is Thompson Contender pistols. Three or four times I've had a contender and with multiple barrels each time. They are fun, accurate and as a re loader entertaining to load for particularly the wildcats. Eventually I get bored with shooting a single shot and they get traded off for the next shiny squirrel.
As the saying goesTo a certain extent this follows almost everything in life but, you have to decide what you want any tool for. Some guns run a price that is very low and will still run longer than I will live. A lot will depend on how much you are going to use it as with any tool. With many guns of the "higher end" they can really shine when years down the road you may wish to sell them if that day comes. Look at what some things like old S&W or Colt wheel guns go for now. Many of them sell 30 years later for multiple times more than they walked out the door NIB for. I often see one of these I had owned decades back and when I look at the price tag think DAMN, why did I not hang onto one of these
Classic...
I had a similar situation of thinking a gun was empty. I had handed my Ruger MKII .22 to someone who wanted to look at it and try the action. We were sitting outdoors at a picnic table under a tree. I dropped the magazine and jacked the slide to eject the round in the chamber and handed him the empty gun with the slide locked back. He inspected gun, dry fired it as invited, exclaimed over it. Then he handed it back to me with the slide closed. I was totally sure there was no round in the chamber. But I had been taught to check anytime I'm handed or pick up a gun, whether I think its loaded or not. This was a completely automatic pattern for me, as it should be. So even though I had just handed this guy an empty gun and he had no ammo, and he had just handed that gun back to me, I jacked the slide. Imagine my surprise when a round flew out! I had never given the guy the loaded mag. How did that round get in the chamber???
This begs the obvious question, "Why would anyone do such a ludicrous and dangerous thing, and in particular not even telling you he did it?"
Yeah. Maybe his pattern when he loaded a .22 semi auto was to manually load a round into the chamber, close slide, then insert the mag. That's a pattern one might develop if shooting a CCI shot shell or .22 short, which can be fired in a 22 semiautomatic but won't cycle the slide or cycle from the mag. Or if getting the mag+1 capacity in full by adding one round manually instead of loading it from the mag and then topping off the mag.This begs the obvious question, "Why would anyone do such a ludicrous and dangerous thing, and in particular not even telling you he did it?"
I would say their value, while not always monetary, is increasing by leaps and bounds. The more they try to take them away, the more valuable as trading stock or in use they become.
