I have a problem and need help....

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So, I’ve been on a quasi early mid-life crisis. I was early because I sure as hell hope I have waaaaaaay more years. Because if my current age is a mid point, I’m dying young.

Anyways. . .

I’ve been on a splurge buying up guns I passed by in the early to mid 2000s. Guns that I could have gotten cheap then.

HK VP70Z
S&W Model 745
Taurus PT-92FS
GLOCK 17 Gen 2 (I carried one as a rookie cop too.)
S&W Model 645
Ruger P90
S&W Model 909
S&W Model 5903 SSV (Well, I didn’t pay for this one, it was free.)
SIG P239
S&W Model 4040PD (though technically, that was in the 00s. STILL COUNTS!)
etc

A bunch of guns that I thought were cool when I was a kid in the 80s and teenager in the early 90s.

Well, this is my problem. I STILL WANT MORE! I even went and got myself the retro remake Gen 1 GLOCK 17. But there are just so many cool guns from the 80s and 90s that I want.

I want a S&W PC .45 Recon and a Colt Series 90 Double Eagle. Along with a working Tec-9 and the Mossberg 500 Bullpup shotgun.

But this is where I think I have the problem and need mental help. I want this ugly chud of a gun.

Yup, a S&W Model SW9F in 9x19mm.

Why? I don’t know, but I do. It is so ugly, so ungainly, so horrible, the trigger is crap and the design is just wrong.

BUT I WANT THE DAMN THING.

I know that a few agencies back in the day issued the original Sigmas and they had problems, but I think that was with the .40 S&W Model SW40Fs and not the SW9Fs.

I think the 9mm models actually worked okay, other than the horrible trigger.

But hear me out. I get one of these and drop a trigger kit in it to make it passable, and it can hang out with my 90s era plastic fantastics like my gen 2 G17 and original 1999 made HS2000.

So, am I crazy and need mental help?

2

You need to find a South African Mamba and a Star Model 30.

3

Problem with the Mamba is they can’t be shot. I actually want to shoot the thing (and keep all my fingers).

4

You got a Star Model 30? Because as I recall, they actually made an M9 Trials pistol, so, it’s kind of an important model…Steyr GB is another one from that era AND a Trials pistol too…

5

I have a Star PD 45 (two actually) and walked away from a Steyr GB recently. It wasn’t a “bad” deal. It was priced around $3k, came with a duty holster and four mags plus the gun and its original box. Problem was… it was a left handed holster and I didn’t have the $2.5k at the time, because they were willing to let it go at that price.

6

Ok, I’ve read through the post three times. What is the problem exactly cause I’m not seeing one. :wink:

7

Are you shitting me? $3k for a GB? Cause I got one in the safe! With 5 original mags!

8

Yes, you are crazy, but good crazy. Your post made me laugh, laugh hard. Thank you .

PB

9

I’m thinking you need a Steyr GB, a truly funky gun.

10

You need a Star Firestar .40 in hard chrome (or nickel, I can’t remember which it was). It was the first .40 I owned, pre-dating my first Glock 23 in maybe 1993 or so? Single action and a chunky little biotch, but it defines that era when .40 was the new kid on the block.

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I went through a thing where I collected German P series guns.

P1 - Walther P-38
P2 - SIG P210
P3 – Astra 600
P4- Short barrel P-38
P5 - Walther
P6 - SIG 226
P7 - HK
P8 - HK USP
P9 - HK
P10 - HK USPC

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Cool hand guns from the 80s and 90s? Your collection simply cannot be complete without an HK Mark23. With a folding butt stock it could damn near be a rifle. And if ever you run out of bullets, its a hell of an impact weapon! I can’t even imagine what a vintage one of those would go for now…

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Wanted one but silent decock still wasn’t very silent and the Mk23 offered very little that the USP45 couldn’t do in a more practical size package.

For the size of a Mk23, I’d rather go up to a MP5k-PDW.

14

That ain’t no lie!

15

Daewoo DP51 and Zastava CZ 99/KSN Golan were on my “back in the day list”

16

It could be worse, you could be selling them all and buy a Harley.

17

Mk23 was an interesting “concept gun” that led to the USP series and while the USP series was a rather dramatic leap by incorporating Browning and Walther designs into a improved series, the Mk23 was still essentially a concept gun much like the Borschardt proved the concept that eventually resulted in the Luger.

Very often you need a big clunky “proof of concept” gun before you arrive at a practical design.

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I went through a thing where I tried to collect wonder 9s. Got a few but not many

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At one point in the mid 00s I had 3 DP51s. They were actually importing them again about 6-7 years ago as Lionheart 9mm

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OP just needs a new credit card. Do it.