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Since I've just gotten back into shooting, I'm still in the "newness/infatuation" stage, part of that stage means trips to my local gunshop, I'm just lucky/unlucky enough to live a mere 5 minutes away from the gunshop, and a 10 minute drive from my rod and gun club, we have 50 acres of land, and I also have a small .22 target range set up in the field bordering our woodlot
I can shoot my .22's on my home range as much as I'd like, but I prefer the more controlled environment of my R&G club
anyway, part of my "infatuation" stage consists of going to my local gunshop on a regular basis and looking for good deals (read; CHEAP) in their used guns, almost every week, I see a gun that I'd *LOVE* to have, and it takes a good deal of self-control to not lay down the plastic and take 'er home
I'm trying to pay off my bills first, and it's difficult to do if I'm adding expenses to the credit card or debit card, if I get every gun I want, I'l never get out from under the pile of bills, but dammit, I *WANT* a new gun, every week it seems
So, what I've been doing is being brutally honest with myself;
"Self, considering that all you are using your firearms for is target shooting/plinking and varminting, what does <insert gun I want> do that your other guns don't, considering all you use them for is punching paper targets..."
"Self, do you *really* want to stock yet another type of ammo? I thought you wanted to keep things simple and limit the types of ammo you have to store"
"Self, you're not yet accurate enough with your existing handgun, why do you want to get yet another handgun that will take practice time away from the one you have right now, shouldn't you get really, really good with your existing pistol first?"
"Self, do you really *NEED* more than one handgun, given all you do is punch paper with it, and do you want to have to deal with the additional expense of yet another ammo type, yes, a .357 wheelgun, or .45 ACP or 10mm semi would be loads of fun, and yes, you can shoot .45 ACP incredibly well, but do you want to stock an ammo that's twice as expensive as 9mm, just to punch paper with?"
"Self, you already have an accurate, powerful, soft recoiling, and incredibly reliable 9mm pistol, *WHY* do you need another one?"
"Yes, self, you already own 3,000+ rounds of .22LR, but do you *really* need a .22 handgun, even though you have enough ammo stocked to feed it, you're a good shot with your two carbine rifles, and you can only shoot one at a time (no John Woo style shooting here
), do you really need a .22 handgun?"
"self, think of how much ammo you could buy with what you would spend on that gun you're drooling over, and think of how much better your accuracy would get spending it on ammo, rather than guns"
"Self, instead of looking at adding more guns to your collection, wouldn't it make more sense to get more magazines for the guns you already own?"
"Self, wouldn't it make more sense spending time getting more accurate with the guns you already own, rather then adding more guns to your collection?
"Self, remember these wise words;
"Be wary of the man with only one gun, he knows how to use it"
"you don't need a new gun, you need to use the gun you got"
So, how do you resist the siren call of new firearms?
On a side note, I always think it's kind of funny, whenever I go to my R&G club, with my Ruger 10/22, H&R single shot .22, and Taurus PT-99 AF 9mm, invariably there's some shooter in the next stall over shooting some ultra fancy, Übercustom 1911-chassis/Tactical Tupperware/Big-Bore Wheelgun/Black powder revolver or something, what invariably gains their attention is my lowly little H&R .22 single, every shooter that has tried it ends up with a huge grin on their face, it's just such a fun little gun
I can shoot my .22's on my home range as much as I'd like, but I prefer the more controlled environment of my R&G club
anyway, part of my "infatuation" stage consists of going to my local gunshop on a regular basis and looking for good deals (read; CHEAP) in their used guns, almost every week, I see a gun that I'd *LOVE* to have, and it takes a good deal of self-control to not lay down the plastic and take 'er home
I'm trying to pay off my bills first, and it's difficult to do if I'm adding expenses to the credit card or debit card, if I get every gun I want, I'l never get out from under the pile of bills, but dammit, I *WANT* a new gun, every week it seems
So, what I've been doing is being brutally honest with myself;
"Self, considering that all you are using your firearms for is target shooting/plinking and varminting, what does <insert gun I want> do that your other guns don't, considering all you use them for is punching paper targets..."
"Self, do you *really* want to stock yet another type of ammo? I thought you wanted to keep things simple and limit the types of ammo you have to store"
"Self, you're not yet accurate enough with your existing handgun, why do you want to get yet another handgun that will take practice time away from the one you have right now, shouldn't you get really, really good with your existing pistol first?"
"Self, do you really *NEED* more than one handgun, given all you do is punch paper with it, and do you want to have to deal with the additional expense of yet another ammo type, yes, a .357 wheelgun, or .45 ACP or 10mm semi would be loads of fun, and yes, you can shoot .45 ACP incredibly well, but do you want to stock an ammo that's twice as expensive as 9mm, just to punch paper with?"
"Self, you already have an accurate, powerful, soft recoiling, and incredibly reliable 9mm pistol, *WHY* do you need another one?"
"Yes, self, you already own 3,000+ rounds of .22LR, but do you *really* need a .22 handgun, even though you have enough ammo stocked to feed it, you're a good shot with your two carbine rifles, and you can only shoot one at a time (no John Woo style shooting here
), do you really need a .22 handgun?""self, think of how much ammo you could buy with what you would spend on that gun you're drooling over, and think of how much better your accuracy would get spending it on ammo, rather than guns"
"Self, instead of looking at adding more guns to your collection, wouldn't it make more sense to get more magazines for the guns you already own?"
"Self, wouldn't it make more sense spending time getting more accurate with the guns you already own, rather then adding more guns to your collection?
"Self, remember these wise words;
"Be wary of the man with only one gun, he knows how to use it"
"you don't need a new gun, you need to use the gun you got"
So, how do you resist the siren call of new firearms?
On a side note, I always think it's kind of funny, whenever I go to my R&G club, with my Ruger 10/22, H&R single shot .22, and Taurus PT-99 AF 9mm, invariably there's some shooter in the next stall over shooting some ultra fancy, Übercustom 1911-chassis/Tactical Tupperware/Big-Bore Wheelgun/Black powder revolver or something, what invariably gains their attention is my lowly little H&R .22 single, every shooter that has tried it ends up with a huge grin on their face, it's just such a fun little gun
