How many of you are into guns and target shooting? (Off topic again)

I have been target shooting for 2 years now. It has become a second hobby after the Porsche. I will soon be able to buy my first gun (previously I borrowed from the gun club) and therefore I'm curious what you guys prefer. Due to the legislation here I'll have to start with a cal. .22 and then later I might be allowed to buy anything up to 357 Mag. Everything above 357 Mag. like cal. 40, 44, 45 etc. are not allowed in any way here.

What do you guys have? Is it hightech german like your P-cars or do you prefer good old american hardware? Or couldn't you care less

Sorry for yet another non Porsche related thread.

Hi Mikkel
For target .22, then .45 for serious stuff.
You might go with a Colt 1911 or derivative, you can even get conversion for both calibers with the same pistol.
Barrier

I have a Kimber Compact Aluminum Stainless (1911 clone) that I've had for two months now. It shoots .45 ACP, and I am looking seriously into a .22 LR conversion for it, so that I'm not spending so much at the range. I go once a week, so it gets costly. I like the big bores, and it's a good defensive pistol. Pretty accurate, too.

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Cheers,
JerRed
1973 911T, 2.4 CIS

I have a nice little IMI. Desert Eagle 9mm.
It's fun and cheep to shoot.



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Leland Pate

___79 SC Targa

I have a nice little Czech CZ75 9mm. It gets the job done and is deadly accurate. It's never jammed on me and it's really easy to shoot.

I don't shoot a lot as it's kind of expensive at the indoor range I go to.

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Mark Szabo
1986 911 Targa 3.2
1987 Escort 5-speed 1.9
The Porsche Owners Gallery

This one topic that has come up several times and I have always been suprised with the amount of people on this board who own hand guns.

The contrast beteen here in Canada and the United States, in this aspect, is incredible. Here in Canada, it is unheard of for people to own hand guns. Although owning them is not illeigal, carrying them arround is HIGHLY illeigal.

Doesn't it worry you that the prick that just cut you off could have a gun in his golve box? I would be ****ting bricks half the time.

Just my view, not being anit US or anything really,

Adam Roseneck

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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net

I'm in the UK, and this surprises me, too.

Hey, We're Americans...
We love our guns...
Shooting is a fun hobby.
Only three of us have said that we own a firearm. Is that alarming?
I don't think anyone here is gonna be doin' a driveby cappin' fools,... kno wadd I'm sayin'??

It varies from state to state here in the US. Here in AZ you can wear a weapon in public without a license, as long as it is in plain view and identifiable as a weapon. You need a concealed-carry permit, however, to wear it under your clothes (or in a bag). When I first moved here I almost freaked out when I got into line at the post office--the guy in front of me had a .44 hand cannon strapped to his hip.

Welcome to the wild, wild West.

In other states you need to register your weapon(s) and may or may not need a permit to carry them (concealed or otherwise). I'm not sure since I didn't really get into shooting until I moved out here.

Oh, I own a Glock model 22 (.40 S&W). Ugly as sin but has never given me a bit of trouble through tens of thousands of rounds.


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blue
'81 SC Targa

Well guns are also a rare thing here in Denmark. But you can get a permit...IF you have A LOT OF patience, a clean criminal record etc. etc. And you're not allowed to carry it around loaded. Plus you always need to store it in a safe (when it's not in use).

Actually we have a guy in the shooting club who comes from England. He told me that all handguns (even cal.22) were banned there. Only airguns and guns using compressed air were legal. Yet still the criminals there have 9mm guns etc. Anyway I'm only into guns for the hobby.

Adam - not all of us pack heat in our glovebox. Mine sleeps at home in its box under a dresser, unloaded, but there's a full clip in the box. Ready to go but not lethal.

If I had kids it would be a different story - as in "gone". Guns 'n kids don't mix.

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Mark Szabo
1986 911 Targa 3.2
1987 Escort 5-speed 1.9
The Porsche Owners Gallery

I love shooting. I have: S/W 41, Ruger .22/45, Kimber 45, AMT 45, Bretta 92 SF, Ruger 85, 380 Russian, Tauras 357 mag, o/u shotgun, 2 pump shotguns, 3 different kinds of AR, M1A1, Ruger 10/22, 22LR bolt rifle, 303 Enfield, M1 Grand. 3 air rifles.

I do my own reloading to keep the cost down. When people ask me how many guns do you have. I tell them: More than I need, less than what I want.

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1984 911 Cabriolet

Skeet for me, with fine Italian 20 and 12 guage shotguns. Timing is everything, rather like driving the P-car.
Mrdi

Interesting subject, after being a gun dealer about 10 yrs ago. California laws are making it scary to be a dealer these days. Looking around, I figure I would list what brand I don't have,...Howitzer. I saw them in the shotgun news before, (cut up of course). My favorite is my Stevens pump .22 my first gun, which I still plink with today.

Tim in Sac

I do some competitive shooting, primarily US NRA Highpower service rifle (Standing/Sitting/prone at 200/300/600 yards). I do some competitive pistol shooting as well, and was fairly active in local USPSA/IPSC and PPC matches. I also shoot a little Trap for fun, and handload for everything but shotguns.

I used to hunt deer & wild pig quite a bit, but the political climate here in the Peoples Republic of Californa makes it difficult. Private land access is nonexistant, and public land is a long way from me and way overhunted. Now my hunting is pretty much limited to one or 2 trips to eastern Washington state every year for Pheasants and Hungarian partridge.

In the US, last I heard 32 of the 50 states have "right-to-carry" laws, where if you pass a background check, you can go get a permit to carry a concealed weapon (CCW). The requirements vary by state, and in some states, by county. California is a good example. In some of the more rural areas, CCW permits are comparitively easy to get. Here in the SF Bay area, and in Los Angeles, you need to be a celebrity, a huge political contributer, or an anti-gun polititian to get a CCW permit.

Every state that has passed right to carry laws, the crime rate has gone down after the law was enacted. Now I am not saying that this is the only reason the crime rate went down, but it certainly isn't the blood- running-in-the-streets that the alarmists always predict.

Enough politics, back to Porsches.

Tom
82 SC Coupe
Fremont, CA

In Idaho all you need for a CWP is to go to the local Police station and register.

I also have a 12Ga. Browning Superpose (sp) that my father gave me and a sporterized 8.mm 1918 Belgium Mauser. Really pretty but kills my shoulder.


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Leland Pate

___79 SC Targa

Sounds like another shooting at a school, this time in California. What a damn shame!

Jw

I didn't mean to imply that all americans were gun slingin' cowboys. It just alarmed me that they were so common

This isn't the first thread that guns were mentioned. I think there was one about car security systems where guns came up as 'good security'.

I just would feel slighty uncomfortable (at first) to be standing next to a guy with a big-ass cannon on his belt.

Here, the police can't even unholster their wepons in public without having to fill out a MOUNTAIN of paperwork.

Different cultures I guess.

Adam Roseneck

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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net

I have had a few 9mms a Taurus SS which is a Baretta clone and a S&W 910 both were okay

I think it depends on your upbringing, I had several guns as kid including a few muzzle loaders and was brought up around them, its the people that don't respect them that cause problems for everyone else

I am looking to purchase a .45 auto soon and have been eyeing the SIG Saurer 220 which is a German made quality piece, if anyone has had one I 'd like their opinion on them vs the 1911 clones


Jeff
78SC

Frankly speaking, if the crooks can easily get guns, I want some too! I was a counter-sniper for an Army TAG unit linked with the 101 Airborne. Shot a lot of stuff. Still shoot a lot today:

H&K Model 91 with Nikon 6.5 X 20 / 9mm PS5
Harris M1987 .50 Cal Sniper Rifle with Leopold ART scope
M1A - Super National Match Douglas .308
M1 Garand, fully restored 30-06
Glock 27
Colt US ARMY issue 1911
Desert Eagle 44Mag
S&W 357 Mag
Poly Tech Legend AK-47
Long barreled Norinco AK-47
Shorty AK-47
Stoner AR-15 with heavy barrel and Nikon 6.5X20 scope
Chinese High Powered Air Rifle
Sling shot.

"If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns" –You don’t really think the government will rush in and save you, now do you?