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Do you own more pistols, or more rifles?

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#1 ·
Or maybe even shotguns? I have been a believer in keeping my collection somewhat small and restricted to guns that I actually need. Therefore, I have one carry pistol, one hiking/woods carry pistol, a .22 plinking pistol, and a CAS single-action pistol. I have three shotguns; a home defense/turkey gun, a waterfowl upland game gun, and my sawed-off single shot snake gun I built in AZ. For rifles, I have the AR for predator hunting, three bolt-actions for various game in .35 Whelen, .257 Roberts, and .30-06. And finally my competition Winchester 1885 high wall in .45-70 govt.

So, I have 4 pistols, 3 shotguns, and 5 rifles.

I suspect having such a relatively balanced collection may be a bit rare around here.

So, for the paranoid types who lost all their guns in a boat accident; do you have more rifles or more pistols, or more shotguns?
 
#3 ·
I prefer pistols to rifles.
 
#4 · (Edited)
Just going from memory, not counting my wife's guns, I'd say I have 6 rifles, 5 shotguns and around 18 handguns (half of those are revolvers). My wife has another 2 rifles, 2 shotguns and 8 handguns.

Edit: updated the numbers to add 3 more guns I forgot we had.
 
#9 · (Edited)
I enjoy rifles and carbines more that hand guns. As for handguns I have:
1877 Colt Lightning .41. LC
1877 Colt Thunder .38 LC
1966 Colt Scout SAA .22
1905 Colt SAA .45 LC
1911 Colt National Match SS/Ivory (Father gave to me)
1911 Colt MKIV Bright SS/Ivory (Wife's)

All the above I have for collecting purposes. The only pistol I have that I carry and shoot regularly is:
HK USP compact 9mm

As for rifles and carbines, these are my pleasure. I love building and shooting them. I feel that they have a more practical purpose. I have 16 rifles and carbines. I can spend all day running drills with one of my carbines or just simply sitting at a bench seeing how accurate one of my bolt guns can get.
 
#13 ·
8 (soon to be 9) long guns
6 (soon to be 5) handguns
 
#14 ·
Only handguns. Every time I buy a .22lr rifle, pistol caliber carbine, 5.56 rifle, or a shotgun, they never get shot. They are then sold within a year or two. I figure if I can repeatedly do headshots at 25 yards with pistols, everything else will seem too easy.
 
#15 ·
More pistols. Mostly because that is the only thing most ranges around here allow. That and I have gone through a few duty and off duty pistols.

I like to try to keep the numbers down too. Although I pretty much have a set stable now for the most part. I might sell off a couple of guns I just haven't shot in years.
 
#17 ·
I'd have to drag everything out and count, pretty sure more handguns, but it is close.

I only have one shotgun, an H&R Pardner pump that has been shot exactly 4 rounds, cleaned, and put away. Not a thing wrong with it, recoil isn't bad, and it actually cycles pretty smoothly.

I think everyone needs a 12 gauge pump, but the rest of the shotgunning thing just isn't for me. A lot of both my rifles and handguns are the same way, fit a niche but aren't really something I can say make me happy.

The ones that regularly go to the range are the Witness .45, Glocks 17L and 26, Ruger P-89's, Sub 2k and Mosins. Always gonna be at least one Mosin, love sitting down on the bench next to some guy with 5 grand tied up in his AR-10 and ringing steel at 300 yards with iron sights and a 75 dollar rifle.
 
#22 · (Edited)
More pistols... But like rifles and shotgun a lot... Honestly don't know numbers off top of head... Get confused since sometimes digging in the safe I see a gun that I think -- haven't shot this one in a while lets go old boy...

What amazes me is how many perfectly decent value priced rifles there are now new.

Black ones, Mossbergs, Savages, CZ etc all fine.

I'm hating on Remington lately, but still like their shotguns...
 
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