Poll: Traditional classics or modern guns?

[Tronster]

So tell me what ratio of old classic traditional guns vs modern synthetic parkerized/anodized you own.

For long guns it's a 2:1 in favor of traditional old school classics.
But in handguns it's mostly modern synthetic latest and greatest.
So for me I'd say 50/50 overall.

[JJ]

Define "modern guns". It's a relative term.

I have buddies that are muzzleloader fanatics that think any cartridge guns are MSR's. then I have friends that think any auto loading guns are MSR's.

Then you start to look at the age of platforms, and realize the AR and AK platforms date to the 50's and 60's, hardly new.

[xd ED]

The AK dates to.... '47.

[Tronster]

Modern, as in what we call modern sporting rifles (AR, AK, FAL etc.) vs classics such as 1903 springfield or side by side shotgun or wood stock hunting rifle. If you have a pump shotgun or hunting rifle but with a light synthetic stock on it, maybe you could consider it a 50/50 old vs new.

A 1911 could be old school vs a glock as new school.

[JJ]

Is my Remington 742 a MSR then? It's wood stocked, but an autoloader

Or an SKS?

In the world or single shots, a bolt gun is considered to be a MSR.

[Tronster]

I see what you're doing there...and I stepped into that bear trap!

I admit it's more about the overall general appearance than it's function.
I'd consider the 742 a classic style.
The sks is a conundrum with a old school wood stock but it's an auto loader and maybe a bayonet. I'd say the Garand is a classic, so the sks is to.

[Evad]

A 1911 could be old school vs a glock as new school.

What it the 1911 has a rail mount and the glock doesn't?

[Tronster]

LMAO

Oh good grief. Might as well ask about old tommy guns and new double tap derringers.

[Evad]

It's all good. I just couldn't resist that.

[crbutler]

My current interests are much more towards the classics, but that may be because I think everything new lately is like the glocks- calling it a 4th generation because they made some really minor changes in the grip. I don't need some "new" caliber that really does what I already have something older that does that job, either.

[Drizzle]

12 wheelguns, two .22s, eight .38s, one .357, one .45. A Winchester pump .22 rifle, a pre serial number Nylon 66 .22, and a slightly post 64 Winchester 94 .30-30.

I also have new stuff, but, yeah, I like old school stuff.

[Uffdaphil]

Classics or Modern? No decision required -- it's classics AND modern. My Colt M4 Socom2 and Rossi cowboy 1892 give me the same oooh when I rub and charge and lever and lay my cheek on them. Peeping through iron and turning on a hot-red reticule. Hubba hubba. Who's the fold-out in this month's Playgun.

[White Horseradish]

I have rarely met a gun I didn't like.

[JustPlainT]

Pretty healthy mix.

Shotguns - Right down the middle 50/50 between "traditional" hunting/trap shotguns and modern defensive concepts

Rifles - probably 67-75% modern and 33-25% classics

Handguns - Depending on how you define modern vs classic. If "modern" in handguns is code for "polymer frame", then mostly classics.

I like the classics, but I end up accumulating more modern ideas too. Except I just love a good revolver. They keep finding their way into my safe, even if I carry semi-automatics.

[FJ540]

We've actually stalled as far as firearm evolution goes. For the past 70 years, there hasn't been a lot of progress. We're still using cartridges, primers, powder, and projectiles. There have been attempts to go towards a cartridgeless platform, but that's as far as you can claim it's gone forward. We're still using gas and blow back operated auto's, and handgun design hasn't done much internally which isn't stolen from other older designs.

Looking at modern designs (striker fired), they're not really any different than any other linear spring operated action - which dates back to the 30's for the model 70.

I think whoever said black powder muzzle loaders would be the distinctive change was as close as one could get to defining the modern era.