How many of you spend a lot of money on a hunting rifle you might use 1 week a year? I grew up piss poor and still am so I always try and review things and get the very minimal I need that will work.
for instance my hunting guns are Mossberg 500, stoeger condor 20ga, savage 22, cva optima/stalker, h&r 44mag,savage axis rifles. they are all the bare bones, cheapest but best rated rifles I could buy. I also have them all topped with vortex and Nikons budget optics. I have always done this because I only get to hunt once a week if I'm lucky so I don't spend a lot on a hunting gun.
Now I have gotten the itch for a Marlin 1895 45-70 and topping it with leupold quick release rings and base and a leupold vx1 scope. for some reason I cant seem to spend the $400 on the gun, $130 on optics, and $70 on mounts. I currently have a cva stalker 45-70 that's heavy, $200, bulky, etc but a large part of me 80% says I use it one week a year if that so just deal with it and the other 20% says buy the marlin and try and sell the cva but ive been down that road before with a shotgun and 2 rifles where I found an upgrade cheap/sale and said ill just sell the old one to fund the new one and never sell the old one cause its my "backup or someone else can barrow it"
IMO $600 is a lot of money for a gun especially when its only used 1 week a year. what do you guys think?
for instance my hunting guns are Mossberg 500, stoeger condor 20ga, savage 22, cva optima/stalker, h&r 44mag,savage axis rifles. they are all the bare bones, cheapest but best rated rifles I could buy. I also have them all topped with vortex and Nikons budget optics. I have always done this because I only get to hunt once a week if I'm lucky so I don't spend a lot on a hunting gun.
Now I have gotten the itch for a Marlin 1895 45-70 and topping it with leupold quick release rings and base and a leupold vx1 scope. for some reason I cant seem to spend the $400 on the gun, $130 on optics, and $70 on mounts. I currently have a cva stalker 45-70 that's heavy, $200, bulky, etc but a large part of me 80% says I use it one week a year if that so just deal with it and the other 20% says buy the marlin and try and sell the cva but ive been down that road before with a shotgun and 2 rifles where I found an upgrade cheap/sale and said ill just sell the old one to fund the new one and never sell the old one cause its my "backup or someone else can barrow it"
IMO $600 is a lot of money for a gun especially when its only used 1 week a year. what do you guys think?