What "gun bug" do you have right now?

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Generally, I crave guns with prancing ponies on them.

Specifically, I want Snakes.
 
A safe... Would really like something in 10mm. And then the wife's LCP makes me want a P238. Or even better a 700 5-r, but could not afford a scope


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currently I am afflicted with a desire to own a Colt 1911 Gold Cup....... saw a regular Colt 1911 at my local shop and liked it. Looked into it a little more and decided I'd rather have the Gold Cup. So my radar is on passive mode currently as i browse different online forum classifieds and visit other shops. No luck so far, but I did come across a nice used Ithaca model 37 12 guage($125). Gonna pick it up, have the front sight replaced and get it reblued. Will make a nice early Christmas gift for my nephew to hunt with this fall.

And last but not least I would really like to find a Hammerli Virginian Dragoon in 357 mag. Can't seem to locate one anywhere.
 
Most gun bugs come and go for me, and that's how I know they're bugs. The ones that are persistent are the ones I consider real needs:

Latest bugs: bolt rifle in .338 WinMag, semi-auto 12ga, steel-framed pistol in 40S&W, 4" revolver in .357Mag, Glock 31 barrel

Real needs: pocket-carry .380 or 9mm, AR in .223/5.56 with an added 300 Blackout upper (ok, that last one is a bug)
 
Suppressors and tax stamps to make some SBRs. I also really want to get to a good training course soon, I wouldn't mind a carbine one, but I think I'm due for a pistol one.
 
I own about every firearm and accessory a gun lover could ever dream of.

You must have a HUGE collection. I know a guy with a personal firearms collection numbering in the thousands. Not even he has every gun I would want to own, let alone could dream of.
 
1911 kick. Have a bad, bad hankering for a Dan Wesson VBOB right now, and I want to send my Lightweight Champion Operator back to the SA Custom Shop for some work.

Sheesh.
 
Kel tec pmr 30 at msr price
S&W 686 6" barrel
9mm carbine not sure which one matbe old marlin
22mag semi auto rifle Magnum Research
 
At the moment just this:

1. 30/30 lever action
2. Better "assault rifle" which takes 5.56nato (I have an ar180b).

I need to get serious about selling off my excess from when I was collecting like mad 15 years ago.
 
Been reading quite a bit abou the new .17 that Winchester/Savage is going to release this year. It's the .17 SuperMagnum. Pushing 20 & 25 grain pills at 2600 and 3000 FPS, respectively. I guess it's based on the .27 shell that Winchester makes for construction guns. I'm 1st on the list to get one at a local shoppe.
 
Even before things got crazy, I was seriously looking for a few items,
A R-25 in .243 AND a .357 Desert Eagle

I may still be able to find the Eagle ,but the R-25 is worth gold according to anybody selling one anyway.....
 
As with many in the past - firearms I have "backed into" with no previous desire to own have pushed me in a new direction of interest.

A converted (.45ACP/.45AR) Mak VI Enfield and a Llama .38 Super.

I'd been dodging ever opening the Colt .38 Super conversion that came with my 9x23 1911 but after shooting the Llama, I might give it a go in the Colt now as well.
 

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Semi-auto version of a battle rifle - something is .308 / 7.62 x 51. Not a good time for that is it? I kind of feel I need one, not sure what I want, just feel a need for one.

I'm also feeling the full auto version, but that's another story.
 
.45 ACP. Not a 1911. I was looking at a nice Sig P220, then the Glock 30, then the Glock 36, then I just heard about the soon to be released Glock 30S...now I really want one.

I also just read a good review of the Sig ACP, and I really want one for my G34 !!!
 
I like that others noticed that sometimes it's just a bug, other times it's a genuine need. Usually, it's a bug.

My bugs:

A really nice 1911

A pistol caliber carbine

A Remington pump-action rifle in .308 or .30-06

A nice old drilling

I do need a Glock 23 (GenIII) then the bug is a .357Sig barrel

Chopping the long full choke barrel on my 870

Getting into reloading

I need AMMO! I'm out of range-safe 5.56 & .50 Beowulf, and I'm not as stocked as I'd like to be in .45-70, .45LC, 12 bore 00 Buck, .410 bore 3" 000 Buck, and range-safe 7.62x39 & 54R (local indoor range says no steel case or steel core).
 
Wanting to build up a what the M40 basic sniper rifle would have been had it had the Winchester Model 70 Action. So basically a M70, with a target barrel, hoping that maybe they will release another Stealth model as a Shot Show Special, if not I may be looking to pick up a cheap Ultimate Shadow model and re-barrell it. Get a McMillan stock, 1913 rail to mount some expensive scope on maybe a Nightforce or Huskemaw, and a nice Harris bipod, all in 7.62 NATO / .308 to keep ammo costs lower and not burn through barrels as a 'practice' rifle.

That and I'm also toying with the idea of a 80% AR15. We'll see when they get out of backorder though!
 
I have been trying to get my rifles topped with practical, handsome, classic looking scopes, without breaking the bank:

1949 Model 70 with a Weaver K2.5:
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Kimber 84M with a Leupold Vari-XIIc 2-7:
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Winchester 88 with a Weaver K3 60:
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I'm all but done with outfitting my AR. A set of back up iron sights, canted to 45 degrees left, is the last thing on my list aside from mags and ammo.

Other than that, I'm itching for a .22 semi auto pistol, and a left handed .30-06 bolt action.

The .22 I've kicked around for so long and have put off due to indecision on which one I want to get, but that left handed bolt action has been in my head for awhile. I've contemplated selling my M-44, ammo and accessories to help fund it.
 
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