I recently got a CZ PO1 Omega.
To me it is a pistol in the G19 Compact niche that is amazing.
Yet will probably never have a big following.
SIG556R-
Best combination of ergs, accuracy, etc. in an AK mag rifle I have played with. I have never messed with a Mutant or the new Windam AK mag AR, but beats any AK I have used, and any AR 7.62x39 mag I have tried. Yet it is a dead platform.
the Canik TP9SFX-
For a little over 500 bucks out the door, I grabbed one. Someone mentioned it on here about a year ago. Depending on your transfer fee, tax, shippin, whatever it is a little over 500 bucks for a nightstand gun or Production out of the box. It should be a piece of crap, but it is straight out of the box with a decent trigger.
Someday it will be some little footnote like the SteyrGB.
I love my XDm .40… it is custom gun accurate (my example) and has been incredibly reliable for me. I’m at the point that I don’t give a shit what the rest of the internet thinks about it.
I also have a Canik. I won it at a Friends of NRA event. It is a pretty darn good gun.
Out of all the guns I own and shoot, those are the ones that never fail to trip my trigger. Also love my Colt 6933, 6945, 6520 and SIG P226 but I tend to think of those as work guns rather than recreation.
Beretta Tomcat .32- don’t care for .32 but I like the size of the gun, fits in a pocket easily and you don’t have to function the slide with the pop up barrel.
Sig P230 .380- I like the overall slim shape and comfortable feel, but dislike the European style mag release on the bottom of the grip. I love it and hate it at the same time.
Compact CZ’s. I bought a Compact CZ years ago, sold it before really giving it a chance. I then bought a P-02, and sold it and I don’t know why. I now have a P-01 that I am planning on keeping forever though.
SKB/Ithaca 600 20ga O/U - I’ve had it almost 20 years now and love this little 20ga. I just bought a Benelli Ethos 28ga and it’s a sweet little shotgun.
I first owned one back about 1990 - while it weighed a ton, it was one of the earliest “pocket .45’s.” And for some reason, I was always accurate with it!
They’re ugly, heavy, clunky, and Star hasn’t built ANYTHING, since they went out of business in 1997. I’d sold all mine by 1994, as I recall - but decided I wanted another as a truck gun in 2007. All mine had been Starvel finish, but I got this blued one off a local gunboard for around $250, and I’ve had it ever since.
I went shooting with it last week, for the first time in forever (I shoot my 1911’s and AR’s a LOT more)… it still feels GREAT in the hand, & I’m still more accurate with it, than my new RIA truck gun replacement! And if I ever come across another one in Starvel, I’ll buy it too.
Ditto with my XDm 3.8C 9MM. Carries like a G26 with 13+1 capacity, sits on my daughter’s nightstand with 19+1 extended magazine. 100% stock except for Ameriglo Hackathorn sights. Trigger is better than any of my Glock’s, which have polished internals and 4.5 connectors. Accuracy is excellent and never a hiccup in 3000 rounds. Sweet ergo’s. I swear, if it didn’t have a grip safety (which isn’t a big deal for me), it would be the gun folks talk about as a challenger to the Glock line. I also think the fact they have that base XD line also hurts it’s appeal to some degree.
My Bren Ten. I love it for its place in history and its rarity. Great trigger, ergos, and wonderfully accurate. However, plagued with bad magazines, my early example has Allen screws for rear sight adjustment that come loose and now I don’t dare shoot it for fear of an exploding slide. So it’s a safe queen now. Perhaps deservedly so.
I had a beautiful 922(r) compliant Maadi AKM that I loved. Except for the lack of a slant brake it was 100% Red Dawn. I wouldn’t even fire the thing. After many years of admiring it I decided it wasn’t doing me any good in the safe and I sold it.
I had one of those dissembled in my gun tool box…in a ziploc. My 12 y.o. son discovered it and pestered me to allow him to put it back together. He found an exploded parts diagram online and went to work. There’s a couple springs that are tricky, but he got it back together. I gave it to him when he turned 18. That little gun is a ton of fun to shoot for a small .45.
One of my favorite guns to shoot is my Ruger Security Six 1.75" .357 Magnum.
It’s a brick in the hand, yes- but it’s accurate as hell and so much fun to shoot. Pretty well balanced for how beefy it is.
I had a trigger job done to it and it breaks at 2# SA 5# DA. Handles the recoil of full magnum loads like a champ.
After 10’s of thousands of magnum rounds, the lock up is solid and the rifling/bore is like new. Almost zero flame cuttting, and I shoot full mag loads 90% of the time.
I’ve tried several other flavors of .357 mag wheel gun including some S&W performance center customs and none of them are as fun or accurate as the old Security Six is.
It was my first wheel gun; got it from a very close friend who passed away and it has a special place in my heart.
