People Looking for "Shooters"

[Redcoat3340]

I belong to a bunch of other boards (probably like most folks here)....S&W, Walther, Sig, Beretta, 1911, plus general boards as well ala High Road.

I'm noticing that here there seem to be more people looking for "shooter grade" guns than on any of those other forums.

Maybe because the other boards encompass modern, currently produced pistols, maybe because P 08s command such high prices, and maybe because everyone wants at least one in the safe but can't afford collector grade prices.

Anyone else notice this? (And yes, I'm pretty new to the board having just made the decision to add a P08 to the "collection."

So, before I jump into the deep end of the pool (and sell some safe queens to finance a P08) I've ordered a couple of books, am reading here every day (sometimes twice a day), checking the For Sale section, about to make the rounds of LGSs in the Seattle area, and have my prime LGS on the lookout.

I've got a few good guns...a couple of "classics" like a P38/P1, P5, P4, CZ 75, BHP etc. A Luger is the one gun I never thought I could afford....but I'm hoping that shooting one would be a semi-transcendental experience and just having one will give me the same feeling I had when I purchased my first Finn Mosin, WWI Mauser, and Enfield P14...that is, the experience of touching history.