My hand guns.

[Bigbore458]

I have two revolvers and one pistol.

Ruger GP100



Astra 44 Magnum:



Glock 27:

[sctt77]

very nice guns i use to have a gp100 357 nickle plated i sold it didnt care for it

[Alpo]

Just for your general store of knowledge, when Sam Colt patented the thing, he called it a "revolving pistol".

You have three pistols. Two revolving pistols and one semi-automatic pistol, but all three of them are pistols.

[Bigbore458]

Originally Posted by sctt77

very nice guns i use to have a gp100 357 nickle plated i sold it didnt care for it

Hi I did not quite understand your post. I guess you are telling me not to sell the Ruger GP100.

Regards,

Bigbore.

[Bigbore458]

Originally Posted by Alpo

Just for your general store of knowledge, when Sam Colt patented the thing, he called it a "revolving pistol".

You have three pistols. Two revolving pistols and one semi-automatic pistol, but all three of them are pistols.

Hello, I did not know this fact. In my country they always say "Do not lie, not knowing a thing." Thank you.

Bigbore.

[savage170]

nice

[Alpo]

Originally Posted by Bigbore458

Hi I did not quite understand your post. I guess you are telling me not to sell the Ruger GP100.

Regards,

Bigbore.

I read what he said as he used to have one, but did not like it, so he sold it.


Many people claim that revolvers are not pistols, they are "revolvers". Only semi autos are "pistols".

Since firearms designed to be held and fired with one hand have been called "pistols" since the 1500s, several hundred years before semiautos were invented, I find that funny.

From the way your post was worded, I presumed you were new to firearms, and that your friends had told you, "This is a pistol. Those two are revolvers"., so I was attempting to correct your false impression.

From your following posts I've decided that English is not your first language, and some unfamiliarity with the language may have lead me to presume unfamiliarity with handguns.

[UncleFudd]

BigBore

First, Welcome to the best and most friendly, knowledgeable forum, period.

Second and certainly not the least, You have three very nice handguns and if it were me, the answer is a definite NO, do not sell the Ruger.
Arguably the strongest and most reliable DA revolver on the market today.

UF

[Bigbore458]

Thank you all for the replies and welcome. The truth is that English is not my native language, I use google translator is not very good, so I apologize for the mistakes you may commit.

regards,

Bigbore

[76Highboy]

I have the same GP100. Nice guns.

[gdmoody]

Welcome bigbore458, where are you from?

[Bigbore458]

Originally Posted by gdmoody

Welcome bigbore458, where are you from?

I´m from Spain.

Oscar.

[ozo]

Welcome....Oscar from Spain
My buddy from the south.....'dogfood" , er, I mean Alpo,
hasn't had the pleasure of me pickin' at him for far too long.....
so please allow me to use this moment to 'catch up' so to speak.
I have axed you a million times if I have axed you once Alpo........
please contact all the big online gun sellers.....bud's, GI, etc.
and tell them to stop this 'political correctness' on their
websites, and quit differentiating between categories of
'pistols' and 'revolvers'..........call them handguns....period...
if they must !!!!!

[yetiman]

Nice weapons Oscar!

[RunningOnMT]

Originally Posted by Alpo

I read what he said as he used to have one, but did not like it, so he sold it.


Many people claim that revolvers are not pistols, they are "revolvers". Only semi autos are "pistols".

Since firearms designed to be held and fired with one hand have been called "pistols" since the 1500s, several hundred years before semiautos were invented, I find that funny.

From the way your post was worded, I presumed you were new to firearms, and that your friends had told you, "This is a pistol. Those two are revolvers"., so I was attempting to correct your false impression.

From your following posts I've decided that English is not your first language, and some unfamiliarity with the language may have lead me to presume unfamiliarity with handguns.

This is new info for me. I have always called semi autos, pistols and revolving pistols as you call them, revolvers. That goes back to my earliest involvement with handguns. In fact I've corrected people for referring to a revolver as a pistol.

From now on I'll drop the corrections but likely continue to refer to them myself as revolvers because that's what I'm used to and how most people refer to them.

[Alpo]

Lemme tell you a little story, from 20 years or so ago.

I worked for a company that did Non Destructive Testing. It don't matter whether or not you know what that is, for the purpose of this story.

So this girl comes in one day, to apply for a job. She says, as she's handing in her application, that she does not have very much experience with NDE. She had helped out a little, and it looked like NDE would be a career she would like.

After she leaves, Pam, our secretary, kinda snickers. I ask her what's funny. "She's trying to claim experience in this job, and she doesn't even know what it's called. She called it 'NDE', and it's 'NDT'.'

So, I explained to Pam that the Navy called it NonDestructive Testing, and since the boss and the other two guys were ex-Navy, they called it NDT, and since they had trained me, I also called it NDT.

But, the don't have NonDestructive Testing, in the Air Force. They have NonDestructive Investigation. NDI.

And the Army don't have NDT or NDI, either one. They do NonDestructive Examination - NDE.

Now, Pam, since she had been told it was called was NDT, thought that anyone that called it NDI or NDE were total morons.

So it goes with guns. You get someone that has been told, by someone he believes, that "revolvers are not pistols", or "there never was a 45 Short Colt, so anyone saying 45 Long Colt is an idiot" or "only idiots think that clips and magazines mean the same thing", they believe it. Until someone shows 'em where they have been misinformed.