What do you think is the coolest handgun?

Question

And why?

It could be looks, accuracy, anything you want.

Answer 1

The all around sexiest gun for everything you mentioned in the 1911. If you want to see some nice pictures type custom 1911 into an image search engine. You will see what i mean.

Answer 2

A tie(!!!) between the Colt Python 6" (Royal Blue) and the Colt series 70 1911-A1 (Blue Version). Need I explain myself? If you grew up in front of a tv/movie screen/drive-in in the 1970s, these were the guns you saw in a lot of movies that had guns to show off. Hutch had a Python (Starsky had a lousy S&W Model 59). McQueen liked the 1911-A1. Even the Duke ("Brannigan") had a "Python junior" (Colt Diamondback).

Answer 3

Colt Python .357 Revolver is the coolest old-school, A Glock 19 is the new bad-boy.

Answer 4

I've always wanted a stainless steel .45 Peacemaker with all the engraving and ivory grips with a 7 1/2 inch barrel.

Answer 5

My vote goes to the Colt Python .357 Magnum. Preferably, the 6" model in Royal Blue finish.

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Answer 6

The grand-daddy of them all is the Colt Army Model 1873, better-known as the Colt Single-Action Army. Colt sold it to the public as the Model P, which we know as the Peacemaker. The original load for the Colt SAA was the .45 Colt, which had a 250 grain conical lead slug atop 40 grains of black powder. Out of a 7.25" barrel, velocity was right on 1000 ft/sec, making it the most powerful handgun until the development of the .357 Magnum in the early 20th Century. This combination of load and sixgun served the United States until 1889, when the military adopted ultra-modern double-action revolver in .38 Long Colt.

The story of the big-bore Colt SAA didn't end there. When the United States took the Phillipines from the Spaniards in the Spanish-American War, the .38 caliber revolvers were found to be wanting against the Moro tribesmen who didn't like the Americans any better than they liked the Spaniards. Moros would take psychotropic drugs, work themselves up into berserker rages, and they bound themselves in tight wrappings. The anemic .38 Long Colt just couldn't do the job on them. So elderly Colt SAA's were pulled out of storage and sent off to the Phillipines. In 1902 and 1909, the U.S. sent two generations of double-action revolvers, chambered in .45 Colt, to the Phillippines, where the cartridge served until the introduction of the quintessential handgun of the 20th Century, the Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge.

This sort of stopping power made the .45 Colt the most popular chambering of the Peacemaker among civillians, even though the Colt cartridge was proprietary to Colt, it still outsold both the .44 WCF (Winchester Center-Fire, better known as the .44-40,) and the .38 WCF (a.k.a. the .38-40,) though the .44 WCF and .38 WCF were powerful loads in their own right. In fact. the .38 WCF fired a .40 caliber, 180 grain bullet at 1000 ft/sec. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's ballistically identical to that wonder-caliber of the end of the 20th Century, the .40 S&W . . . so a lawman or ranch-hand armed with the Peacemaker/Colt SAA would not be found wanting for firepower by today's standards.

The form and fit of the Peacemaker's grip cause the gun to point naturally. Take one (preferrably a modern replica thereof) and point it downrange. Chances are, you'll find the sights already lined up with the target. When you draw back the hammer, and pull the trigger, the shape of that grip also causes the gun to roll back in the hand, neatly putting the hammer back in thumb's-reach. Even with the crude v-notch sights, dropping rounds into a group you can cover with your hand, from 25 yards away, is no problem. This sort of accuracy, combined with the firepower available, made the Peacemaker a popular working-man's gun well into the 20th Century, with Colt producing several runs of the gun until the 1980s. The popularity of this gun was only encouraged by spaghetti westerns, where the Good Guy always carried a Peacemaker (even if a given western took place in a time-period where the Peacemaker would've been an anachronism.)

Today, many old Peacemakers manufactured in 20th Century are returning to regular use (not blackpowder ones from the 19th Century, though. One in shootable condition typically goes for many thousands of dollars. One in very good or excellent condition can sell for up to $20k!) The reason for this is the growing popularity of Cowboy Action Shooting. Cowboy Action is becoming so popular that firearms manufacturers are turning out direct replicas, or guns cosmetically identical to the Colt Peacemaker. For years, importers like Cimarron Arms have brought over and finished Italian-made replicas from Uberti (a subsidiary of Beretta.) These days, Uberti sells their replicas directly (as the Cattleman and a number of other names.) They're near-carbon copies of the old Peacemaker. Beretta sells the Stampede, which is a Uberti with a modern transfer-bar safety. Ruger sells its Vaquero, a cosmetically similar sixgun based on the Blackhawk. Even Taurus has gotten into the game, selling their Gaucho.

The original cartridge chambered for the Peacemaker, the .45 Colt, has begun the 21st Century with nearly the popularity with which it started the 20th. Loads for Peacemaker-pattern guns range from 725 ft/sec Cowboy Action loads, to 875 to 1200 ft/sec personal defense loads from Winchester, Federal, Speer, and Cor-Bon. However, strong, modern guns have been chambered for the cartridge too. These guns can handle top-end loads that lag just 100 ft/sec behind their .44 Magnum counterparts, and do it for 10,000 PSI less. In an Marlin 1894 or Winchester 94 rifle, the top-end of the .45 Colt's range overlaps with the lower end of the .45-70 Government!

Answer 7

My M29 S&W with a 6 1/2'' barell (Dirty Harry special) 44 magnum is the way to go (i also have one with a 4'' )

Answer 8

I am looking to buy a .357 Desert Eagle , It is reliable, well made ,accurate and easy to maintain and fun to shoot , I am getting one because I enjoy shooting and also for home protection , because you never now when something might happen and I am not going to be the victim.

Answer 9

Model 1911a1 .45acp "G I" Issue.

Plain. Simple. Defended Democracy in two world wars, Korea, Vietnam and dozens of dirty little conflicts in between.

Hell... some Marine and Special forces units still use a version of it.

Enough said.

Miketyson26

Answer 10

ive got a old hexegon barrel 50cal.muselloader pistol with a curved grip (like a old piriate gun) looks cool , fun to shoot pretty acurite but dosent always go off on the first try