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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on April 09, 2020, 09:42:29 AM
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I bought my Walther CCP through Bud's last year.
Pretty much every e-mail I get from Bud's these days specifically tries to sell me... Walther CCPs.
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I bought my Walther CCP through Bud's last year.
Pretty much every e-mail I get from Bud's these days specifically tries to sell me... Walther CCPs.
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Don't think the CCP has been selling too well and maybe they have glut of them on hand.
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I know plenty of people (myself included) who have a couple of the same gun.
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I know plenty of people (myself included) who have a couple of the same gun.
In no way am I saying it's a bad gun, it's actually a fairly decent one especially the M2, just that they may have a glut of them hence the ads. Right after the CCP was released the market got flooded with similar guns.
I've considered buying one myself.
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In no way am I saying it's a bad gun it's actually a fairly decent one especially the M2 just that they may have a glut of them hence the ads.
I don't mean that gun. I mean that I have 2 guns in my safe that are exactly the same. In my case it's 2x Stevens 820B 12ga shotguns.
If you ignore variations, I have 2x buckmarks and 2x CZ-75s.
Just because someone bought one, doesn't mean they won't buy another. =D
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I got what you were getting at now.
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Just because someone bought one, doesn't mean they won't buy another. =D
In fact, if you're going to buy another, there's a lot of good reason to buy another like to what you have, than something else. You have a spare, and a spare for parts, if necessary. You don't have to add to the Box of Regrettable Holsters, trying to find something that works well. etc.
Why I have 2 XDS-s, and 2 more or less compatible snubbies. And why I contemplated a second Gen 3 compact Glock.
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I just did that. I recently bout an FNX45 tactical and like it so much I bought the regular FNX45 (different sights and no threaded barrel) as a carry gun.
1911s are a different animal with all the variations, but if you like 1911s, there's a good chance you have more than one. Or many more than one. =D
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The only pair I think I have that are identical are two CZ 83 pistols in 380 just because I liked them and they don't make them anymore. I have multiple models of some guns, but no other twins.
My CMP 1911 and my Springfield 1911 Loaded are both 1911's, but I don't consider them at all the same gun.
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One is none, two is one.
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The only guns I'm really willing to double up on are Smith & Wesson revolvers, and even there I don't really do the completely identical... I'll do variants of the same model.
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One is none, two is one.
But when I have limited funds, the collector in me does not allow me to buy the exact same gun. I would rather buy a slightly different one or a similar model made by someone else that I haven't tried before.
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I should have added, the only guns I have exact duplicates of are my two Delta Elites. One I bought new, and the other one from a guy who wanted dough fast, so it was too good of a deal to pass up.
I had multiples of milsurp rifles I had collected, but recently sold most of the "extras" off and just kept my favorite of each specimen. Though of course with them, there really is no "identical" to collectors.
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I did, for a short time, have identical Star BMs, the little 1911ish 9mm. Really fun handgun.
I solved that issue by gifting one of them to one of my oldest and best friends.
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1911s are a different animal with all the variations, but if you like 1911s, there's a good chance you have more than one. Or many more than one. =D
I feel attacked. =D
I also have two pretty similar Hi-Powers, and my set of Glocks is getting kinda big.
Let's not discuss AR variants.
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I feel attacked. =D
Hey, there's no such thing as too many 1911s. :laugh:
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Somehow, I always end up with multiples of the same gun, but they are never exactly the same, like my 4" and 6" GP100's, I have a couple Berettas, a 96FS, and a 96G, etc.
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I once had two Model 1911s...
But one of them was a Schmidt-Rubin straight pull rifle.
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I once had two Model 1911s...
But one of them was a Schmidt-Rubin straight pull rifle.
Bastard.
I had K-31s (still have one with the buttplate tag) but never found a deal on the 1911. I would have liked to have one of those.
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When I first got into defensive handgun shooting, I was advised to get a duplicate of my defensive handgun. Reason? Not what you would think. Not as a spare in case of breaking, but as a backup when you shoot someone and the police take that pistol as evidence.
Me, no duplicates. Can't afford that. But I do have handguns with the same manual of arms for defensive use. Don't want to forget a safety or deck under stress.
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Hey, there's no such thing as too many 1911s. guns. :laugh:
FTFY
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When I first got into defensive handgun shooting, I was advised to get a duplicate of my defensive handgun. Reason? Not what you would think. Not as a spare in case of breaking, but as a backup when you shoot someone and the police take that pistol as evidence.
I subscribe to that theory. I also make it a point to carry the more beat-up example ... for the same reason. If I ever have to use a carry pistol for the intended purpose, it's a given that the police will take it as evidence. I may never get it back (even if I avoid prison). If I do, it probably won't be in the condition I would have kept it, and it may have a police evidence number scratched or electro-engraved on it.
At the moment, however, I have strayed. My current carry is a Colt lightweight Officers ACP. My two spares are both all-steel Colt M1991A1 Compacts.
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Bastard.
I had K-31s (still have one with the buttplate tag) but never found a deal on the 1911. I would have liked to have one of those.
Yeah, well, in a fit of absolute stupid I sold it for virtually nothing. Actually, the guy I entrusted to sell it for me basically stole it. He sold it to a friend of his for a ridiculous cut rate and then took his cut off the top.
I told him that was bullshit, he told me tough, so I made sure that I spread far and wide what he did. He threatened to kick my ass, I told him he could try, but I pointed out to him that he violated his own seller's agreement and he couldn't dispute it.
I like to think it had something to do with his business going bankrupt because I made sure to spread it around the gun show circuit.
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I've got two HK USPs, but one is in .40 from 1996, the other in 9mm I got in 2009. The 9mm was purchased as a suppressor host, and for cheaper shooting at the range.
I bought/traded for it with a G19 I won in a raffle at my gun club plus an extra hundred in change. From a tiny guy desperate for a smaller carry piece I met on a WI gun rights FB page.