I saw one of @GJM's older posts in the CZ P10 thread. Mentioning a love-hate relationship with Glock and a tendency to move every 6-12 months or so. It made me think about my own tendency to be a 'gun of the year' kind of guy.
I've carried and shot a lot of different guns since I got my first concealed carry license at 21. And I've gone full circle going from 1911 back to 1911. But it seems like every 6-12 months or so, I'm tempted to try something else. And it isn't "the grass is greener", I actually have enough data now to recognize I shoot the 1911 best and everything else 'second' to that. So, when I'm chasing performance the 1911 is my answer. None-the-less I get the itch to work with something different. I've found myself digging back through the safe and taking out different guns and running them for a bit, that usually gets me another 6-months or so. But usually I want to try something new after that.
Right now and for the past oh 3-4 months or so, I've been contemplating picking up something else. But I haven't done it because I just haven't figured out why I want to change guns.
So what makes you change your handgun of choice? Cycles of Moon, specific shooting challenge, desire to keep it fresh, changing concealment/carry needs?
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I'm primarily focused on pistols here. But in the past two years, I switched from shotgun to AR as a primary long-gun. That was driven by the fact that I haven't run pump guns enough to be comfortable with them any more. Whenever I would get out to the range, I wasn't smooth and practiced. By contrast the AR feels like a big handgun to me with it's manual of arms being highly similar to a semi-automatic handgun. I feel reps with a pistol are so much closer to the AR that the gap between my comfort with a shotgun vs. AR had grown to a point where it no longer made logical sense to go shotgun over rifle.