CZ 75! Buy one for $400, spend $150 on a trigger job and you have a match grade pistol that will shoot with anything. Sometimes it happens without a trigger job!
You're probably asking about looks, and that works for me as well!
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Posts: 483 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: 18 July 2005
S-frame, 4-screw, pre-Model 29 44 mag, blued with a 6 1/2" barrel. The bluing on those old S&W's were very nice, second to the old Colt Python's bluing.
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I have seen 1 Korth combat pistol at the 2005 shot show. It was a work of art.
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Posts: 240 | Location: texas | Registered: 05 March 2005
Since this has gone the route of revolvers, I'll throw in my favorite, the French Manurhin MR-73. It is one great revolver, incredibly well made, and as good looking a revolver as can be. Here's a link:
+1 for the Colt Python. It is by far the most beautiful handgun I've ever come across, and not too bad performer either.
For some reason I've also liked the CZ 52 in 7,62 Tokarev. It has a really strong construction and with it's ergonomy the gun/round combination is a real bad-ass kicker. I guess that's what makes it feel it has character
Oh and of course Heckler&Koch P7. Don't ask me why, I guess it's because it reminds me of the 70's technology par excellence, which somehow has always appealed to me.
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Interesting. I never heard of the M73 before. Does the lower grip angle seem to help the pointing ability?
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H&K P7M8. Easy. If I can have a second choice, and we can go with form follows function, then the Astra 400. Damn gun was (is) ugly, but would work with anything from 9mm Largo to 380 ACP, in an emergency, with no tinkering.
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Posts: 6716 | Location: The Hunting State. | Registered: 08 March 2005
Interesting. I never heard of the M73 before. Does the lower grip angle seem to help the pointing ability?
Gatogordo, I lost track of this thread and never responded to your question. I have only shot MR 73's that belong to members of my gun club, and they point well for me. I have never analysed the effect of the grip angle and haven't shot enough different revolvers to have an opinion on the grip angle question. But these are very well made revolvers, better than any European revolver I know, except for the Korth. But the Korth is a very expensive target type of revolver while the MR 73 was a service issue revolver, although probably the best service issue revolver I know of.
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Posts: 7046 | Location: Rambouillet, France | Registered: 25 June 2004
A Colt 1911. I like the basics, not flashy, but that pistol looked great and gave you the impression of lasting utility and power. And with that Colt blue that seemed to go into the metal itself, like looking into a pool of blue water it was a knockout visually. A close second would have to be, for me, a Colt SAA, again with the Colt blue and a case hardened frame that only the masters at Colt could seeem to do. I own neither, but lust after both. Nothing kinky in gun lust now.
Posts: 4 | Location: Maine | Registered: 15 May 2007
70 cal double. The grip angle looks kind of odd until you pick it up, then it fits and feels perfect.
The 44 Automag is a great gun, but the grip could have used some more work. At least it isn't as bad as the Widley. I think the Sig Saur autos have the best feeling grip of all auto pistols.
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