Best all around gun?

[Larry Caldwell]

at least for my area anyway, you have 5 types of people concerning guns.

people who cannot own guns

people who do not want a gun

people who want a gun but don't have one yet

people that own 1 gun

people that own a WHOLE BUNCH of guns.


For every person I know that owns 1 gun, I know 15 that own 20+ guns, and a few that won't admit to how many they own..

i know way more gunowners than non gun owners, and of the non gun owners, many of them are in the 'yet' category due to age or financial restrictions at this point.

soundguy

When my nephew turned 18 I gave him my dad's (his grandfather's) guns, a .22 rifle, a shotgun and a deer rifle. That's the traditional rural tool kit, and people who live in rural areas generally gravitate toward it.

In my area, there aren't any people who won't own a gun, and I don't know of any who can't. Everybody for miles in any direction owns at least a deer rifle, most have the full tool kit, and quite a few accumulate more guns because the wife and kids want to shoot too. Buying guns just to store them is a minority activity.

I have to admit to a full gun safe, but I like to tinker with them. I'll buy an old clunker, give it a new stock and blue and re-sell it with a new lease on life. I do have a 1957 Ithaca 37 that I put a new choke tube barrel and stock on that am going to keep, because I was 10 years old in 1957 and thought the Featherlight glowed in the dark. It's still my favorite upland shotgun, but I shoot trap and skeet with a Browning Citori.

 

[shortbusgeek]

Without reading all the various replies, if I'm looking for just one gun that will serve a variety of uses I personally opt for the Glock 19. Easy to grab in the middle of the night for homestead protection with 15 rounds in a magazine. I keep an extra magazine in the holster as well, so I've got 30 rounds at my disposal pretty darn quickly, with more loaded magazines easily accessible in the house should I happen to need them. Some are loaded with target rounds while others are loaded with hollow points. I have a CCP (Concealed Carry Permit) and it's small enough to carry - either around the farm or out on errands.

 

[RoyJackson]

Without reading all the various replies, if I'm looking for just one gun that will serve a variety of uses I personally opt for the Glock 19. Easy to grab in the middle of the night for homestead protection with 15 rounds in a magazine. I keep an extra magazine in the holster as well, so I've got 30 rounds at my disposal pretty darn quickly, with more loaded magazines easily accessible in the house should I happen to need them. Some are loaded with target rounds while others are loaded with hollow points. I have a CCP (Concealed Carry Permit) and it's small enough to carry - either around the farm or out on errands.

Yep, great handgun!!! I carry one as well.

 

[Soundguy]

But are you legally permitted to have a loaded shotgun on the back seat of your car, say?

i don't know of a fl law that prevents an unconcealed loade dlonggun in a vehicle...

 

[wdchyd]

i don't know of a fl law that prevents an unconcealed loade dlonggun in a vehicle...

Long guns must be unloaded in NH to be in vehicle......heck, it can't even be leaning loaded up against vehicle too......

 

[Larry Caldwell]

i don't even shoot lowbrass for skeet. too many probs with it ...

What problems? FYI, "low brass" is just the tradition of manufacturing target loads with a smaller brass collar. There's nothing to keep you from loading a standard hunting load into a target hull, and it will function just fine.

For reloading, the Winchester AA trap hull is considered the best, just because it lasts longer than other brands. Remington STS and Fiocci are also good, but you will get fewer reloads out of the Remington before the hull wears out. I haven't reloaded enough Fiocci to know, but they seem popular among shooters who order empty hulls.

Some hulls are best not reloaded because they have a two piece shell base that can become detached and form a barrel obstruction. However, this is most common with "high brass" shells. They are safe enough for the first shot, but then should be discarded.

 

[studor]

Without reading all the various replies, if I'm looking for just one gun that will serve a variety of uses I personally opt for the Glock 19.

Might be a great handgun but sure is not the all around gun that the OP talked about -- what would "the variety of uses" be?

 

[studor]

I'll stay on this side of the border and spend my money here, like next year in New Mexico hunting Mule Deer.

And when you go to get on the plane, have your concealed carry on you but lie to them and tell them you don't -- I bet there is a penalty for that stupidity too. And as far as never crossing the border because you can't have your gun with you without filling out paperwork, hope you never want to hunt outside the U.S. again cause just about everywhere else in the world requires some paperwork or just plain won't let you do it. JMHO

 

[Soundguy]

And when you go to get on the plane, have your concealed carry on you but lie to them and tell them you don't -- I bet there is a penalty for that stupidity too.

I believe you have your 'facts' wrong...

If you look at crime and arrest statistics based on population data, CCW holders are among the TOP of the law abiding citizens. and that includes police officers in that data too.

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

What problems? FYI, "low brass" is just the tradition of manufacturing target loads with a smaller brass collar. There's nothing to keep you from loading a standard hunting load into a target hull, and it will function just fine.

For reloading, the Winchester AA trap hull is considered the best, just because it lasts longer than other brands. Remington STS and Fiocci are also good, but you will get fewer reloads out of the Remington before the hull wears out. I haven't reloaded enough Fiocci to know, but they seem popular among shooters who order empty hulls.

Some hulls are best not reloaded because they have a two piece shell base that can become detached and form a barrel obstruction. However, this is most common with "high brass" shells. They are safe enough for the first shot, but then should be discarded.

Please don't assume I'm stupid and don't know the difference between low brass and high brass.

If you want 'info' on low brass and the SPECIFIC type of autoloading shotgun I mentioned, feel free to log in and read up on many A5 forums. You will find that many A5 owners experience feed, ejection / hang /stovepipe and similar issues with low brass shells.

I didn't wake up the other morning and make that up out of thin air..

it's a mag tube ring issue.. and I don't particularly feel like disassembling and breaking down my shotgun each time just to shoot cheap ammo...

soundguy