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Sign Up Here! Today’s show is about choosing the right gun. Sometimes you just know what you want and there are no problems, other times you have to go through a process to get the right one. Here are the questions I ask gun buyers at Sparks Firearms to get them into the right gun for them. It should help you with your next gun purchase.
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Podcast Outline:
What do you want the gun for?
- Self Defense
- Home
- Car
- On your person
- Carried in a bag
- Type of holster or sling
- Gaming
- Target Practice
- Plinking
- Hunting
- To look cool
- Gotta Have It!
Price
- Get a Ball Park idea
- Gun are forever, don’t be too cheap
- Are you going to sell it ever?
- Resale Value
- Don’t haggle over $5 on a $1,500 gun
- Or on a rare gun, just buy it
Fit
- Does it physically fit you?
- Can the person selling it help you with the fit?
Style/Function of the Gun
- Hammer Fired vs Stricker Fired
- AR, Bolt, or Auto Loader rifle?
- Double Action vs Single Action vs Traditional DA/SA
- Manual Safeties
- Magazine Capacity
- Location of Controls
What Do you Plan to Change?
- Build Out?
- Trigger Job
- Sights
- Tinker insdie?
- Alter the outside
- Color
- Grips
- Frame Grinding
- After Market Controls
Commonality of Gun to Get things
- Holsters
- Magazines
- Parts
- Sights
Brand Name:
- All the way on the bottom unless it’s a
- Hi Point
- Jimenez
- Or Hi Standard AR
- It doesn’t matter
- All just as good
- I can break anything and everything will fail sooner or later
- Pick the options above over brand name
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