Im thinking to downsizing to literally just a pocket revolver, either in .327 loaded with .32h&r or .357 loaded with .38 +p or +p+, and maybe a shotgun for the house. Everything else seems superfluous since i barely go shooting once every 3 months. Im not sitting on a vast collection or anything but a 2011, micro 1911, 2 glocks, an AR and a lever action .357
>>65632635You said you already have a .357 platform, might as well stick with that. Do you have a budget in mind?
>>65632635Get rid of the 11s, i assume your glocks are both in 9mm so ditch one of those. Keep your ar in case something actually pops off. Since you have a .357 lever, get a snub nose in the same caliber.
>>65632635you'll probably regret it, do you need the money or are you one of those reverse hoarders who need to get rid of everything?
>>65632646Preferably under $2000 altogether, ive already got a sizable stock of .357 but no .38 and for a pocket revolver .38 is much "better" in that it performs well enough with much less recoil>>65632676The glocks are not pocket size (19 and 17), and i am solely interested in a pocket gun specifically a revolver because i will carry it literally every day>>65632738Dont need the money but literally just collecting dust while not being very useful
>>65632635I don't get people who downsize their collection. Are you really so poor that a one-off payment of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) dollars would materially impact your life? Or are you living in some tiny shoebox where you don't have space for a single cabinet somewhere?
There really isn't such thing as "too many" guns in the same sense as having too much clothes or something
>>65632781Colt Python
Always sad when a normie falls out of shooting and makes these threads. >a 2011, micro 1911, 2 glocks, an AR and a lever action .357JFC, little fella barely got to spread his wings.
>>65632809can't speak for OP but a lot of zoomers got obliterated by tiktok interpretations of stoicism and are now trying to live like a gay and socially stunted version of Marcus Aurelius that isn't allowed to own nice/frivolous things
>>65632635I pocket carry a .380
Not everyone is into guns, and that's (sort of) fine.OP, I'm glad you're at least still considering your self defense and home defense needs at least.
>>65633260You are loved too.
>>65632635I highly recommend the P365
>>65632635keep the AR, dont pay attention to what karl says since I know you just watched his video, keep a glock.
>>65632635Kinda based to be honest. I feel like theres no need to have a gun "collection" unless you're collecting something specific like milsurp, rare guns, etc. If you're going to have multiple of the same mass produced consumer slop glocks/ARs/2011s that you don't shoot, then you're just hoarding. If you have guns for practical purposes they need to fill a real niche, and you have to have time to shoot them. Also building out multiple different rifles for your fantasy SHTF scenario doesn't count as practical purposes. >I need a 18 inch SPR with MPVO to reach out to distance>I need need a 14.5 GPR with 1-6 LPVO>I need a 11.5 night gun with a red dot>I need a suppressed .5 .300 BLK PDW to shoot sentriesStatements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. I think you can reasonably justify having a maximum of three guns for self defence. >Small, easily concealed handgunSnubby/micro-compact for edc, comfortable to carry anywhere and in any clothing. >Large but still concealable handgunDouble stack semi auto or a very compact chassis system pdw, for carrying durings during periods of high social unrest, or to particularly dangerous areas>Long gunRifle or shotgun for home defence/farm defence, more important to have in rural areas. Obviously that excludes hunting, but for hunting you also don't need 10 different calibers, between a full power rifle, 12 gauge and .22 you should be fine.
>>65632635.357 in a pocket revolver is overkill, go with .327/.32 or .38 (obviously you can still buy a .357 snubby, but stick to shooting .38 out of it) Also, luv me .38 snubby, fits right into any pocket, super comfy. I would get a .32 cal snubby but the ammo is hard to find where I am. Keep either the 2011 or the Glock 17, and either the AR or the levergun.
do you need money?
>>65632809>>65632824>>65632911Whats the point of having multiple guns if you don't shoot them enough to be good?Nothing wrong with collecting interesting guns for its own sake, but don't pretend that they serve practical purposes, and then buy actually interesting guns instead of consumer slop.
>>65633519Dudes really will own like 12 ARs, 10 of which in 5.56.It's like old Mauser collectors, except old Mausers are actually cool and collectable.
>>65633550I'm one of the anons you replied to. Perhaps 1/4 of my collection is "practical", the rest is milsurp I've collected for over 20 years
>>65633550In case od a civic emergency arming family, friends, and neighbors might be important.
>>65633519>theres no need to have a gun "collection"Agreed. I'd rather have my bases covered then just stack ammo without needing to buy a bunch of different calibers.>556>12g>22>9mm>38sp>30-06I could do without my pocket revolver but I do really like it for cci shotshells for when mice work their way into the shop in colder months. >10.3 and 14.5 AR's>pump 12g w/ 18.5" and 28" barrels>Mk iv pistol and 10/22 rifle>G47 and G43x>S&W 637-2>Dads old hunting rifleI truly want for nothing.
>>65633224Same, but poorer
>>65633879I've never understood this argument. The people who wait until after an emergency to decide that they need a gun are going to have zero training and zero sense of how to handle and operate a firearm safely, and I highly doubt a crash course during SHTF is going to be enough to make them competent. I'm not handing a rifle to someone who's liable to ND into me or anybody else because they have no idea what they're doing and don't have the muscle memory from range time/dry fire to take their finger off the trigger and switch to safe when moving. They can filter and boil water, cook food, etc., but I'm not giving them a gun.
>>65633917Exactly. It’s the dumbest idea ever. Not to mention in the time of mild emergencies your friends and family are likely to be the ones to fuck you over. Found that out during Covid. A national emergency with no food, water, or safety shortages caused loving friends and family to go for each others throats. No way I’m trusting anyone else with a gun, let alone letting them inside my home.
>>65632809>Are you really so poor that a one-off payment of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) dollars would materially impact your life?Just depends how much do your net worth is guns. I'm sitting on maybe $150k in guns, and my only debt is two mortgages with around $200k/ea. I've got some good money in my retirement accounts but I don't want to touch that for obvious reasons. The desire to sell off all the guns and pay one of the houses off is something I toy with from time to time.
>>65633922Depending on your interest rate you'd be better of putting that money into your ira or brokerage account and retiring earlier than planned. My wife has 30k in student loans but the interest is so low that it makes more sense to keep that 30k in the market and continue paying the interest every month on the loan.
>>65633921>>65633917Sorry y’all have such shit relationships. Sounds like suburbia.
>>65633955Buddy you’d be surprised what your best friends and closest relatives will do when they miss 3 meals. Unless you have made friendships forged in previous struggles and hardship, that friendship will pale in comparison to survival. Or the idea of surviving. Personally I don’t see the US hitting any real collapse, so I don’t helping friends during hard times, because I know things will get better and life will go on.
>>65632809>I don't get people who downsize their collectionDon't want to bust your bubble, but people change priorities from time to time. Cars, videogames, computers, tools and guns. Nothing wrong here.t. 46 oldfag here.
>>65633955>such shit relationships. Sounds like suburbia.Not at all, my network of friends and family is small on a local level because I have acreage innawoods. They're all competent with firearms and own their own. People I've only spoken to a handful of times don't get to come knocking to ask for a teaspoon of sugar and a rifle just because we are on good terms.
>>65633960>Muh covid tore my family apart waaaaaah!Jesus Christ what a sad larp. Covid was a big joke and anyone who fell for that bullshit sick break should be culled like the cattle they are. Your pathetic family genes shouldn't even pollute this earth.
>>65634024Exactly, Covid WAS a huge joke. And yet people turned on each other. Family’s happily informed on their family members for not taking the shot or wearing the mask. They were HAPPY to shame them and hang them out to dry. All for the slightest taste of moral high ground. And when there was a hint of toilet paper shortage they MOBBED Costco and everywhere else. Most of my family was chill about it, but there were a few than flew off the handle.
>>65634024>>65634032When are you getting over it? It was many years ago by now. You guys are pathetic
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>>65634032I never wore a mask, worked every day, never had anyone say shit, never had a problem getting any sort of product locally. Sounds like you're just repeating a bunch of bullshit you were fed by the Internet, larp boy.
>>65634043I saw it all up close. Worked retail at the time and saw the tardest of the retards. Old white women throwing a fit because someone’s mask was under the nose. Ridiculous masks and plastic face shields. Gallons of disinfectant dumped around the store. My friends refusing to. go to a bar or hang out because “the numbers are up this week, gotta stay home”. All the ridiculous videos we post, I saw in real life. Unfortunately I didn’t have the money or ability to escape at the time so i had to marinate in it for 2 years. You never know who your friends and family are until a crisis hits. Hell, even going to the airport is enough to expose someone as a dysfunctional child.
>>65634048>Worked retailOpinion discarded, not a real job and you lived with your parents. Subhumans like you don't get to have an opinion when you let your entire life and livelihood get controlled by an outside party. Sorry you willingly cucked yourself. Actual human beings were unaffected. You're like a homeless man bitchimg about potholes in the hardball, stfu lol
>>65634055lol okay dude. I was 20 and figuring my shit out. Right after Covid I managed to save enough neet bucks and moved out.
>>65632809>>65632918Good posts, it’s a real thing going on right now, TikTok and instagram have been weaponized
>>65634057its just the one guy whos too proud to namefag. he always posts like that.
>>65634057You lived a bullshit sheltered life with bullshit people. Your sheltered sandbox of a world wasn't reality, it was an echo chamber of propaganda. Don't be offended when actual human beings that live actual lives treat you like the child you are mentally and physically.
>>65634055nta but the day my old man told me my mom had to lie to her psycho siblings about being vaxxxed (my parents, my wife, myself and our kids) so we can fucking celebrate christmas together like every year last 50 years in the last family owned property, I too realized I'd probably should not handle those people guns, sadly enough.
>>65633930I know this, especially because one of the houses is 2.5%. The other is 5.75% - arguably better to take the guaranteed return there than put it in the market but it depends what assumptions you want to make on future performance. Either way the point is I understand the appeal of downsizing a gun collection to put the money elsewhere, especially stuff that rarely gets shot. I like my guns a lot so I probably won't ever do it, but I get it.
>>65632635Why does everyone forget the 9mm revolver? It sits nicely between.357 and .38sp and it’s a shit-ton cheaper, not to mention easier to find. I’ve seen Taurus 905s in the $360 range, Diamondbacks in the $680 range, and Charter Arms in the $440 range…
>>65634381because using moon clips sucks
>>65634473Charter Arms has an ejector. No moon clips needed. Or you could just look at moonclips as a speedloader.
>>65634479>charter arms has an ejectorI have to check that out. I thought the 9mm revolver was a cool idea but the moon clip thing put me off it.
>>65634479>charter arms makes the transfer bar safety and doesnt jew out, lets everyone use its design>also makes a rimless case ejector designAre they underrated as a company? Seems like theyve done some important things despite not being held in regard
>>65633869I have a mess of ARs I don’t care about (and two that I do) because selling guns is a pain in the ass. I’d rather sit on the ones that my taste moved on from than bother. Yes, this means I have ones I never shoot.
>>65634479How does that work? Surely you need moon clips to hold/headspace a rimless cartridge like 9mm.
>>65634510Severely. They aren't as good as Smith and Wesson, but they're a fuckton better than Taurus. The problem is that most people buying J-frame sized revolvers are cheap old people who balk at the notion of paying anything but bottom dollar for a revolver they're going to throw in their underwear drawer for the next 5 years until they're dead.
>>65636733The little teeth on the inner rim of the ejector star hold the rimless cartridges in place. It's pretty nifty. If you zoom in on the picture you'll see them.
>>65634473Modern moonclips don't suck and all the demerits/fuddlore surrounding them are from old shitty steel clips>muh hard to load>muh need a tool to unload>muh bending & locking up a cylinderAll obviated by using good modern polymer moonclips.
>>65632635Keep the AR (functional), the lever action (fun, great for introducing people to shooting) and one full sized semi auto pistol of your choice.For the revolvers I won’t knock the .327 ones but I personally carry a 340pd for maximum lightness in the pocket. This will have the benefit of sharing a caliber with your lever gun. Note that Speer makes a short barrel .357 +P specifically for these guns as well as a .38 +P so you can carry whichever you please.
>>65632635I really like .327/.32 H&R and having 6 in a j frame instead of 5 is really cool, but desu the ammo is expensive and hard to find locally, so I would not recommend it unless you reload or want to get started reloading. And unless you are seriously strapped for cash, don't sell your guns.
>>65632809THe real winning move is to only buy things you don't get bored off after a few months.
Man I wish I had the balls to do this. If I could only have one rifle and one handgun it would probably be a suppressed 11.5” and a Glock 19.
>>65641747>it would probably be a suppressed 11.5” and a Glock 19.
>>65641759I know, I know. Its extremely reddit, but it makes the most logistical sense in the USA. 77gr TMKs for HD, G19 w/speer gold dot +p for ccw. I also carry a 19.5 for work so I have the most trigger time with it.
>>65632646where is your other finger?
>>65641786In my nose, why
