How Much Gun-Related JUNK Do You Have Laying Around?


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Skunkabilly
August 23, 2003, 04:54 PM
Seriously how much gun related junk do you guys have laying around? Unused and unwated parts for guns you don't even have, tac gear you don't use or even like any more, ammo for calibers you don't even own guns for any more, holsters for guns you don't have and wouldn't wear even if you did have the gun?

My pile is getting smaller but I still feel like I'm overburdened. (C'mon someone, buy my junk!)

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Okiecruffler
August 23, 2003, 04:57 PM
Well, lets just say that it takes up the spare bedroom. Gotta have me a garage sale one of these days.

BigG
August 23, 2003, 05:18 PM
Ha ha, Skunky. All I can say is it seems to be too much but never enough judging from the fact that I buy more. :o

2 gazillion rounds of ammo.... fortyeleven magazines... dum dum de dum...

stellarpod
August 23, 2003, 05:48 PM
To self: "Hmmm... I think I use to know someone that new someone that had a friend who said he/she MIGHT have a 22 Jet revolver. Guess I'd better go ahead and buy those dies. Never know when I'll run across somethin' like this again....."

This mentality has resulted in a veritable "cornucopia" of firearms paraphanalia around my domicile. Now, where did I put that 308 Norma Mag conversion kit???

BTW - anyone need to buy a Pagerpal?

:D

stellarpod

redhead
August 23, 2003, 05:55 PM
It's a good thing we have a spare bedroom...

DigMe
August 23, 2003, 05:57 PM
If any of you guys have any unneeded "junk" for a Smith and Wesson Sigma .40 or Remington 870 then feel free to send it my way! I'm currently too poor to have extra junk. :)


brad cook

C.R.Sam
August 23, 2003, 06:11 PM
Junk ?.........None.
Stuff ? +/- Ton.

Sam

MountainPeak
August 23, 2003, 06:13 PM
If it's gun related it AIN"T junk. O.K. I'll be honest, a basement full-1.21342 tons at last weighing. :)

Schuey2002
August 23, 2003, 06:16 PM
(C'mon someone, buy my junk!)
This sounds like a sublimal message for all to take a looksie at what Skunky is selling in the "Trading Post" on this board.. :p :uhoh: :D

DigMe
August 23, 2003, 06:24 PM
This sounds like a sublimal message for all to take a looksie at what Skunky is selling in the "Trading Post" on this board

There's nothing subliminal about "buy my stuff." Pretty clear really.

brad cook

Jake
August 23, 2003, 06:24 PM
I don't have all that much stuff laying around. Just a few boxes full. Although today I did buy ammo for a gun I don't even own yet. Of course the key word here is "yet".

cool45auto
August 23, 2003, 09:10 PM
Sounds like me.:p I was buying stuff for my SKS before I even had it!

Standing Wolf
August 23, 2003, 09:39 PM
Junk? You're calling this stuff junk? Why, it's positively valuable, and some of it's even useful, too, and what's more, most of it is in labelled boxes.

So there.

4v50 Gary
August 23, 2003, 10:19 PM
Junk is what other people pile up. Ours is valuable loot!

biere
August 23, 2003, 10:26 PM
I have less and less all the time, I keep sticking things up for sale and now and then some of it sells. But it is a slow process.

Being broke right now means I can't add to my pile so it is always shrinking.

berettaman
August 23, 2003, 10:27 PM
What did George Carlin say "everybody else's stuff is S%*t and our S%*t is stuff!:evil:

Spieler
August 23, 2003, 10:31 PM
I've got an untold number of ammo cans, kit bag and two duffels filled with gun related stuff - plus a little junk mixed in for good measure.

I just can't bring myself to get rid of most of it because you never know when you MIGHT need some of that junk, er....I mean stuff.;)

telewinz
August 23, 2003, 10:33 PM
I have tons of stuff, over 25 years worth. I can't throw it out, it might still be usefull someday. I have a 34 year old unused (new but old stock) rifle and pistol cleaning kit that sold for $35 in 1968! I just never had the heart to use it, its something worthy of an old English double rifle.

Majic
August 23, 2003, 10:35 PM
One mans junk is another's stuff. Let's just trade all this junk around.

glockten
August 23, 2003, 10:36 PM
One room, 117 square feet, of gun stuff. It's not junk, I need it ALL!:)

Sunray
August 23, 2003, 10:57 PM
Junk? It's all vital stuff that took me years to collect. And it does nothing but go up in value. Junk indeed. It's all historically important.

Sisco
August 23, 2003, 11:03 PM
I've got a few boxes full of "stuff". Last time we had a garage sale the wife suggested I get rid of some of that "stuff" I don't use anymore.
Couldn't find anything I wanted to get rid of. :D

LiquidTension
August 24, 2003, 12:47 AM
I really don't have anything that I don't use. If I don't need it, I don't buy it. My collection isn't as impressive as y'alls is, but it takes up less space and cost me much less :D

NewShooter78
August 24, 2003, 01:00 AM
I wish I could say that I had enough gun paraphernalia lying around to call junk.

AZ Husker
August 24, 2003, 01:11 AM
Every time I've got rid of excess "stuff" I ended up needing something later. Then had to pay retail for the same part or thing I just sold for a buck.

sam3
August 24, 2003, 03:17 AM
all i know is ,as soon as i get rid of something i didn't need i buy something i could have used it on !

Tamara
August 24, 2003, 07:57 AM
This isn't junk, this is a museum.

Byron Quick
August 24, 2003, 09:01 AM
I've got an extra bedroom piled with stuff. It's invaded the living room now.

BryanP
August 24, 2003, 09:43 AM
I guess I'm a piker. The only "junk" I have is most of a box of .45LC that I forgot to give to the guy who bought that POS off of me. It sits there with the thought that maybe one day I'll buy a Ruger Blackhawk or Vaquero convertible .45

Now as for BOOKS, that's another story. I'm always out of room for books and I keep buying more. I forget who said it, but it was something like "Of course you're out of book space. We're all out of book space. If you're not out of space for books you're probably not worth knowing." :D

TimH
August 24, 2003, 09:58 AM
Not Much. My wife although she's not an anti, doesn't care much for guns. When I buy an issue of Shotgun News or stop at a gun shop shes like what are ,buying /looking at, this for. I know if she went shooting she would love it but....

AZLibertarian
August 24, 2003, 11:14 AM
It is NOT junk. You've been talking to my wife about my gun stuff--Haven't you?;)

tex_n_cal
August 24, 2003, 05:40 PM
Mmmm...two safes, two reloading benches, books, books, books...Hmmm

tatters
August 24, 2003, 10:47 PM
That's how I knew I was a real gun owner. I had left over screws, sling parts, sights and such.

brownie0486
August 25, 2003, 07:57 AM
Two refrigerators full of "stuff".

One for the 5 m1a's "stuff" and the other for all accesories to support the other toys.

Two safes and a closet full of "toys" means lots of "stuff" to support it.

Then there's the garage, ammo? Did you say ammo? Stacked to the ceiling in 308, 45, 9mm plus the reloading equip and all the supporting "stuff" for that venue.

I need a bigger house and garage.

Brownie

Okiecruffler
August 25, 2003, 09:12 AM
We need a forum just for trading jun... I mean valuable pieces we no longer need.

OEF_VET
August 25, 2003, 09:17 AM
I don't have too much, I mean, a foot locker full of 'stuff' isn't too much is it? I've got holsters, grips, scope mounts, etc for guns I don't own anymore. Heck, I've got a DeSantis leather holster for a Beretta 92 that my dad gave me, and I've never even owned a 92. Anyone want it? You pay shipping, and it's yours.

Frank

Kharn
August 25, 2003, 09:20 AM
My ammo supply occupies the entire area under the double bed in the guest room, and the ammocans I keep ready to go in my room (I dont want to disturb Grandma if she's in the guest room when I want to leave for the range) have slowly moved from being up against the wall to almost sitting in the middle of the room (it friggen HURTS when you stub your toe on an .50cal ammocan full of 7.62x39), with a pile of shooting related junk behind them (range bag with CO2 pellet pistol, cardboard target frames for the same, spotting scope, etc). There's a shotgun vest (Walmart had it on sale for $8, so I had to buy it) hanging on my desk chair, which I've never used as I rarely shoot clays. One of the 4x8' workbenches in my dad's shop is covered with all the parts of an AR15, cleaning accesories for the same and my FAL tool kit for some reason. The desk in my room is also covered with shooting related gear, Fobus holsters, 1911 parts, a few manuals, etc.

I've got a lot of cleaning to do before I move back to college next Sunday. :o

Kharn

Dr.Rob
August 25, 2003, 02:14 PM
if we were talking pounds of stuff..

well lead bullets weigh a LOT.

As does lead shot. Funny thing is i rarely load shotshells anymore, its just cheaper and less labor intensive to buy them.

45R
August 25, 2003, 02:18 PM
I just cleaned out my JUNK yesturday. A "few" boxes and gun magazines are now getting recycled into toilet paper and other unmentionables.

Hutch
August 25, 2003, 04:08 PM
OEF-VET, I'm at least considering buying a 92. Does that qualify me?

OEF_VET
August 25, 2003, 06:22 PM
Hutch,

You send me $5 for shipping, and the holster is yours. I don't own a 92, and I don't see me buying one in the near future, so someone who would use the holster might as well get some use out of it.

Frank

Hutch
August 25, 2003, 09:21 PM
PM sent...

Freedspeak
August 25, 2003, 11:45 PM
The main thing I have been looking for for years is a set of dies to cast .411 JDJ slugs. That is some junk I could use, other than that my wife does occasionally ask what all this "stuff" is for, but after I explain it she wants to know when we can use it. (Guess I am a lucky guy!) :D

My father had a saying about holding on to old stuff: You can keep it for 20 years and never need it, but if you throw it out, you need it 2 minutes after the garbage truck came by!:neener:

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