Please explain "Why cheap not the best"

[bwframe]

 

[churchmouse]

OK this and BW's posts are the winners.

And let me just say that some of the choices people offer up in this thread are......well...….

 

[DoggyDaddy]

 

[edporch]

Why would you carry the cheap gun and not the best (be it a Ravine or a Bear or the other way around) you can in defense of your life? It seems to me if your life or your loved one's life depended on it you would want the best tool to protect them in your holster that you could afford.

There is the "best" for the circumstances, which doesn't always mean the most expensive.
A $1500 pistol isn't 3x better or always more reliable than a $500 pistol to draw and shoot a bad guy up close.

Sure, if you have loads of money, and don't mind losing a $1000plus pistol when you lawfully defend yourself in 2nd Amendment UNFRIENDLY jurisdictions (Like Marion County for example) that won't promptly return your property when you're cleared, then don't give any consideration of $cost vs diminishing returns of reliability.

But everybody doesn't have that luxury.
For me, even having a $500 pistol taken from me and never returned by the police is a big bite.
Just as bad as a crook, robbing me of $500 at gunpoint.
I don't have money I can afford to give away to armed robbers or the police department.

 

[JettaKnight]

now you sound like me.

 

[HoughMade]

Methinks the OP shall never return to this thread...

He's too busy out carrying his Colt 1903 in .32 acp.

Talk about cheap, those sold for like 15 bucks.

 

[JettaKnight]

He's too busy out carrying his Colt 1903 in .32 acp.

Talk about cheap, those sold for like 15 bucks.

But I want to hear about this bear in a ravine!

 

[steif]

I carry a old davis .32 I found a long time ago at a show, my mom made me a holister out of a old boot and a flannel shirt. serves me well.. I found some ammo at a garage sale in a old tacklebox. it looks pretty good. I have other guns to carry, but the glocks and hi-points are just to purty to carry.

 

[churchmouse]

I carry a old davis .32 I found a long time ago at a show, my mom made me a holister out of a old boot and a flannel shirt. serves me well.. I found some ammo at a garage sale in a old tacklebox. it looks pretty good. I have other guns to carry, but the glocks and hi-points are just to purty to carry.

Uh.....eerrrr…...I am running a systems check to see why we have a purple failure here.

 

[steif]

purple? no, I don't happen to have a SCCY, however I do have a ed bear 45...

 

[Dead Duck]

I carry a old davis .32 I found a long time ago at a show, my mom made me a holister out of a old boot and a flannel shirt. serves me well.. I found some ammo at a garage sale in a old tacklebox. it looks pretty good. I have other guns to carry, but the glocks and hi-points are just to purty to carry.

 

[JettaKnight]

purple? no, I don't happen to have a SCCY, however I do have a ed bear 45...

1. Purple text is used to indicate sarcasm, which I believe your post was intended to convey.

2. Who is Ed Bear? Did you mean Les Baer or maybe Fred Bear?

 

[steif]

lol guys.. I know the purple.. I'm not too big on schpelling either, everyone knows what was meant by bear. The fine shop that makes Brown Baer 45's

 

[steif]

I have never been into custom work, I can see the ownership value of customs, or the carry value of one that is made just for you. not knocking anyone for anything. I just always preferred stock guns. However, I do not carry regularly, or carry a gun in the course of a business. If I felt the need, I would have no problem at all paying for premium and learning how to use it correctly. If I was in a different environment I would probably have a different opinion I suspect. I'm out in the country and my defender is usually a 870.

 

[HoughMade]

1. Purple text is used to indicate sarcasm, which I believe your post was intended to convey.

2. Who is Ed Bear? Did you mean Les Baer or maybe Fred Bear?

I've been trying to figure out a way to CC a Fred Bear for years.

 

[JettaKnight]

lol guys.. I know the purple.. I'm not too big on schpelling either, everyone knows what was meant by bear. The fine shop that makes Brown Baer 45's

I still got no f'ing clue as to what you're talking about.

 

[churchmouse]

I still got no f'ing clue as to what you're talking about.

Oh come on man...…..

I see what he is on to. But it threw me a curve when he said G**** and purty in the same sentence.....

 

[JettaKnight]

Oh come on man...…..

I see what he is on to. But it threw me a curve when he said G**** and purty in the same sentence.....

Well, yeah, I got that, and thought it was pretty clever.



But, Brown Baer, Ed Bear... ... I guess I'm not a cool kid.

 

[steif]

Ok, I'll just say them expensive .45's.. lol
And you could CC a fred bear if you had a applicable duster like this https://www.amazon.com/Outback-Trading-Oilskin-Duster-X-Large/dp/B000KRT9G4?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_3

 

[Route 45]

Well, yeah, I got that, and thought it was pretty clever.

But, Brown Baer, Ed Bear... ... I guess I'm not a cool kid.

The more bear you have, the less cool you are. To be really cool, you have to have less bear.