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I'm not really a collector. I'm a shooter who likes a great variety of guns. Started out in high school on a rifle team shooting smallbore match guns. Switched to Mi Garand in college ROTC. Turned 21 and bought P-38 (cheapest centerfire gun available then, traded my old match rifle for it). Loved Lugers, Colt single actions, etc. but $$ weren't there. Made a few bucks and got a GI 1911. Liked it, got a Ruger .44 flattop (ruined my hearing but had fun doing that). Started in pistol matches and went through a variety of handguns--ended up with great ones (accurized 1911 .45, Gold Cup .38, Day .22 conversion on another 1911 frame). Shot the snot out of these guns for 25 years and finished off my hearing. Also acquired some long admired guns (M1 Garand, Win 94, Springfield, Colt Ar-15s, etc). Retired from competition so only have to listen to my own gun, preferably outdoors. Bought more neat 1911s, Colt SAAs and finally hooked on Lugers. Sad story but neat hardware and lots of fun trying to cure Lugeritis. My motto is they gotta be neat, gotta shoot great and it don't hurt if one of my movie heros used one of them. Don't mind refinishing if done well, accurizing is valuable, gotta be sighted in and gotta be reliable at all times.