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Originally Posted by tabs
Would U like to have some wine with your whine. It is a nice fking spoon that I got at a good price relative to its retail and Dealer costs.
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I'm sure it's a great gun, for a guy like you. You collect, I shoot. Two different ways to enjoy our guns, and I'm sure they have brought a great deal of enjoyment to both of our lives.
I just look at guns from a very pragmatic, practical point of view (o.k., with a fair dash of old school romance and nostalgia thrown in to spice things up). I will never have any "NIB, unfired, original papers" guns. I will never have wall hangers or safe queens. I shoot everything I own. A lot.
As such, I'll never fully appreciate the extraordinarily expensive custom 1911's. Maybe the more historic and collectible ones from top 'smiths who have earned a reputation, but not the run of the mill "custom". Especially after witnessing the "performance" or the latter (and increasingly, the former) on the range. Even the ones that manage to go "bang" every time shoot no better than mine, and the majority of their owners can't shoot anyway. And god forbid one of those gentrified 1911's get dropped in the mud or sand... they are like the prissy "four wheelers" (Cayenne, Range Rover, etc.) that will never get their boots muddy.