[Wild Romanian]

There is also one other point no one seems to touch upon very much. When laying out a series of pistols on a table at our weekend getaway Tthe pistols everyone seems to get enthusiatic about buying and owning are the pistols made the old fashion way with solid steel forgings and high polish beautiful blue finishes. High tech sheet metal pistols and pyro-plastic pistols are shooting machines, nothing more, nothing less. What is missing from these weapons is pride of ownership. Men down through the ages have always taken great pride in their personal weapons, they have engraved them and plated them and put fancy grips on them. The indians used to drive tacks in the stocks of their weapons. Although it is true the modern handgun may have very rust resistant finishes (ugly is the word) the weapons people seem to get very enthusiatic about are never the newer types. They all seem to grab the older guns off the table and completely ignor the newer ones. I own and shoot both types but the esthetic value is entirely missing in the newer type of weapons. Perhaps the younger generation that grew up with only the high tech sheet metal and plastic weapons really does not know or understand the difference. W.R.