Guns you just HAD to have?

**slowjon** · 09-19-09, 14:21

My latest "had to have" purchase was a Simth & Wesson 686+ with a 5" barrel and smooth (non-fluted) cylinder. Added a pair of Ahrends smooth, round to square butt conversion grips. Damn it's sexy. The purchase was based on seeing an identical one on another board.

**Pappabear** · 09-19-09, 15:56

My I just had to have has not happened. HK Mark23. No good reason to purchase such a gun when you have the HK45, but what the hell. Thats what this thread is all about.

**Pappabear** · 09-19-09, 15:57

My I just had to have has not happened. HK Mark23. No good reason to purchase such a gun when you have the HK45, but what the hell. Thats what this thread is all about.

**exiledtoIA** · 09-19-09, 16:22

VP70Z, it was an interesting time in my life.
But i'm feeling much better now.
came to my senses and traded it away.
Actually got more for it than I paid.

**cobb** · 09-19-09, 17:21

Springfield Armory M-1873 rifle made in 1879. An old school fighting rifle with a 32.5 in. barrel. On to loading black powder I guess. A little history never hurt. Much...

**scar2099** · 09-19-09, 17:46

HK USP Tactical 45

i lived on the barracks and i couldn't own one but i had the money for it.. ,first thing when i EAS was to get that pistol and i have lived happily ever after

**Lonathan** · 09-19-09, 17:59

My first gun was an Argentine Mauser 7.65X55 I still got it. really flat shooting rifle. First pistol was a S&W model 4566 tactical that was nice but traded it for a G23 and carried it for a good while. After a few thousand rounds thru it, my buddy loved it so much he traded it for his HK USPC .45 I carry it to this day. The only regrets I have are getting rid of a LAR Grizzly mark 5 in .44 mag. That gun was ignorantly accurate and was in pristine condition.

**Alpha Sierra** · 09-19-09, 18:58

Originally Posted by slowjon

My latest "had to have" purchase was a Simth & Wesson 686+ with a 5" barrel and smooth (non-fluted) cylinder. Added a pair of Ahrends smooth, round to square butt conversion grips. Damn it's sexy. The purchase was based on seeing an identical one on another board.

Pics or it didn't happen.

**Savior 6** · 09-21-09, 01:01

Originally Posted by Pappabear

My I just had to have has not happened. HK Mark23. No good reason to purchase such a gun when you have the HK45, but what the hell. Thats what this thread is all about.

BS. That's not a good enough excuse, I have both. Just buy it and be happy

**30 cal slut** · 09-21-09, 05:58

Originally Posted by ToddG

HK USP40 -- Bought one the first day they were available at my local gun shop. Read an article by this high-speed low-drag uber-experienced gun writer named Duane Thomas saying it was the toughest, most capable pistol ever designed and was his #1 choice for a home defense pistol.

Browning Hi-Power .40 -- Bought one a couple months later when that same gun writer wrote that it was the toughest, most capable pistol ever designed and was his #1 choice for a home defense pistol.

After that, I stopped reading gun magazines.

Too funny.

My recent purchases as of late have been, for a change, made with careful deliberation and then transacted with absolutely zero self-control.