This is actually a very good poll, with the exception of one glaring omission: You need an additional category entitled: "Old enough to know better and still young enough not to care."

Mauser720 - Ron

We seem to be a buncha old guys. Not surprising.

Well, I see this Poll has popped up again.
We're all a year older now since I first posted this poll.
Just had my 72nd birthday. And belated Happy Birthdays to all.
Pappy

Rod, its funny how our perceptions change. I brought this topic up again because this morning my wife happened to ask me if most guys on the forum were a lot older or younger than us. I said, most are our age or a bit older. I showed her this thread and she said, oh, most are our age? (we are 47 and 48)... :cheers:

PS when I re-brought this up, there were 77 responses, it is at 83 right now, so another 6 responses just today :)

Ed

I wonder if we're a dying breed? They say that the number hunters and fisherman is declining. Here in California each year more gun control laws are passed. The latest is microstamping. If the Democrats have their way, California could end up like the UK in the next 10 to 20 years.

A friend of mine collects toy trains, he's 60 yrs old. They say the average collector for toy trains is 54. I think we collect things we remember or were fascinated by in our youth. The youth of today is interested in high tech gadgets. They maybe collecting old iPhones in 20 years.

Price is probably another reason Luger collectors are older.

Tracy

I'm 39 and fixin' to turn 40. Perhaps I should buy another Luger for my birthday!

I think I am one of the younger members at age 16 :D

To answer your question, high tech gadgets are fun and all, but I appriate collecting firearms and german militaria SOOO much more. As far as Lugers... I don't really have a collection, just the one. But I plan to buy more... they ain't cheap though.

I am not as old as ED is, But I am chasin him real close.....LOL

Old is a relative thing. Anyone under 60 seems young to me (71). Forums such as this one should help maintain the luger collecting fraternity. Bill

I think the youngest member we ever had was Brandon, he was 14 when he joined if I remember correctly... and quite a bright and enterprising young man... he should be around 21 or so now. Haven't heard from him in a while...I guess his passion may have turned to young ladies somewhere along the way... BRANDON are you still out there? :)

John, that is funny, just the other day I was talking to a member from the forum and Brandon's name was brought up. We both wondered if the car bug / girl bug hit him and drove him away to other pursuits (probably temporarily). That said, I bought my first luger book (Datig) in high school, but did not really get "into" the hobby until after I retired from the army in Jan 2000 :)

Ed

Well, for the last several years I stated on the forums I visit that I was on the "edge of geezerhood." A few weeks ago I actually hit 65 and I'm having a hard time believing it!

My hair is still pretty much gray free, but my beard betrays me if I don't keep it scraped.

Age depends on where i am.
On the range blackpowder Cowboy shooting. "20"
Early morning. "74"
When wrenching on my bike. "30"
When my kids talk to there friends. "240"
When the cops pull me over for speeding and ask for id. "47":cheers:

Good to see so many younger members here. I too am worried that no one young will keep Luger collecting going. (I am 42.)

Anyone think prices will fall as the WWII aged collectors start to sell off their Lugers?
Personally I doubt it! To me the internet & the new WWII movies keep P08 interest at high levels.

The number of people interested in all things gun-related is declining precipitously and I believe the reason is crystal clear...

Pay careful attention to the media and politicians when in the spotlight. Everything gun related is put in a negative light. If it's a cop show the first question they ask the "suspect" is, "Is this gun registered?" As if we all know that guns are "registered" everywhere instead of just in the police-state cities of NY, D.C. and Chicago.

Men who own guns are ALWAYS portrayed as beer-swilling imbeciles shooting at school buses through a drunken haze. And politicians ALWAYS talk about the 2nd Amendment is if it were a privilege granted to us by them.

There is no doubt about it. The national conspiracy to make people feel undesirable if they own guns or hunt is resoundingly successful and will only continue to convince people they don't want to own guns.

This is the same kind of subtle long-term brainwashing our beloved leaders and the media have engaged in for years with regard to the very definition of our country. Sound paranoid? OK, proof-in-point... Read the Constitution. Any mention of the word "democracy" in there anywhere? Of course not. The founders of this country hated the very idea of a democracy. They referred to it as "a tyranny of the majority". Yet do you ever hear politicians or talking heads refer to our "Constitutional Republic"? No! Never. It is always "democracy". Ask yourself why we are always trying to export "democracy" to other countries when we ourselves are NOT a democracy!!! It's simple. Either our leaders are monumentally stupid (OK, I admit that IS a possibility), or they are trying to lead us all down the garden path and are already very successful at it.

OK, I'll get off my soap box now. But the short answer is, there is a very good reason people are less and less interested in guns and hunting.

Hold the phone! Are you saying this has become law in the People's Republic of California?

I just turned 55, thank you! I consider myself lucky to have survived relitivly intact. My eyes don't work, my hearing is bad, and other things ( none of your d*mn business! ) don't work either. But I can still enjoy the looks of a lovely woman ( I married one! ), and can still enjoy a beautiful firearm.. the P 08!!

mIKE:cheers:

Sneakin' up on 58.

And like tac, I get up early every morning, look in the mirror and say, "Good Mornin' Dad". Seems like he's always there looking back at me.

Ron,

There's worse things we could call ourselves than " Dad " !

Mike

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