What's your ultimate firearm related fantasy ... and is it attainable?

I’m going to throw caution to the wind.

I’d like a nice single shot 22. I’d shoot it a bunch. Ten rounds a week at least.

MacAR said:

I forgot to mention, I'd like hammer guns. Hammer-ejectors, to be precise. I think it's Purdey's who make them, and therefore covet a pair of them. Do they shoot as good as they look, George?

Mac

Click to expand...

The owner, an Englishman with a home here in Florida, is about 6 inches shorter than I, so the fit for ME wasn't perfect; that said, the triggers were crisp, the stocks were gorgeous. He had a matched pair for driven pheasant when he went to his home in England in the Fall. He also had a lot of other nice guns, including Belgian Brownings

No more ammo shortages, panics, scares, unneeded firearms laws, gun companies going bankrupt, gun companies getting sued, and no more 2A infringements.

ColtPythonElite said:

No more ammo shortages, panics, scares, unneeded firearms laws, gun companies going bankrupt, gun companies getting sued, and no more 2A infringements.

Click to expand...

Now you're asking for unicorns.................

Nice chunk of land in Montana to myself to hunt on.

You know, 1000 acres or more....

I am satisfied with my mancave.

I have room to reload. A workbench. Deer mounts on the walls. A woodstove. An a/c window unit. A beer fridge. Room for my hunting gear. A smaller gunsafe. A sink. A couch......i host an annual bp shooting event shooting from the covered porch. Backyard trap thrower.
All I want is more free time to spend there.
As far as my dream, I would like to have time and disposable resources enough to build bp rifles and do my leather work.

I suppose my ultimate firearms fantasy would be for the GCA of 68, the NFA and all other related tomfoolery to be permanently repealed and the gun owners of the US to have access to virtually any firearm in the world. The odds of that happening? Roughly the same as monkeys flying out of my butt.

My quasi-realistic fantasies would be to have an HK433 and a suppressed MP5. Neither are very likely with the former not being imported into the US as of right now and the latter being a two-stamp gun with a $30k price tag.

I guess the runner-up fantasy would be to simply have things to back to where they were before the pandemic when 9mm was $.15/round and 5.56 was $.40/round.

To die on the Trap range in my old age as a friend's wife did. Or out deer hunting in the woods, maybe trying to pull a too-large deer out. That'd be acceptable.

Had my dream already. Twenty acre farmlet with a 100 yard range with a big pile of sand dredged out of the creek fpr a backstop.. Oh, and nothing but other farmland beyond that for two miles. Not that the additional impact area was necessary. Every single shot went into the backstop.

Fantasy?

Over the years I wouldn't have minded seeing all the rickety tickety new homes for $500,000 moved away from where I used to hunt prairie rats to the other side of Denver.

I swear the bulldozers and concrete trucks have killed more prairie dogs than every prairie dog shooter in Colorado ever could have.

And with a much slower death, with their burrows plowed under and paved over.

I wonder if those owners of those homes could ever be aware of this.

Terry, 230RN

Heck,I reckon my firearm "dreams" have been realized. Always wanted to be in the position to,build from scratch,and be able to make unobtaineum parts. Got it. It came as a result of a very long trajectory,and some foresight. That is with learning to build equipment that supported our main business. Along that path,we found in effect,free pieces. Am making dies(rollers) for a 1910,brute of a cast iron "bead roller". All the china invasion pieces that have become so popular with the hotrod crowd use a nominal,2" roller. The Rapid(made in Ohio) brute we have uses a nominal 3". The P.O. wasn't in the position to fool with it.... well,there was a laundry list of issues but,in anycase he passed on it,giving it to us.

Sheet/gauge metal equipment is used for a variety of firearms related items. "Clips" being but one. I get a kick out of folks "wanting" but either,settle for chinesium.... or say it's a $$ thing. Will spare you the dz's of stories on free,or might as well be equipment. And can(should) write a book on machinery rebuilding. It came from the original premise...... building/making parts for firearms. I'll find a pic of a book anyone even remotely interested in the subject(armories and their contributions to the industrial revolution),and edit this post.

It is even more "telling" in these lean ammo times. Learn how to foundationally support your habit through freebys that others don't want,or have time for. It isn't JUST about the piece. The effort that goes into replacement parts,are EXACTLY inline with how the industry got traction 175 years ago. The milling machine came as a result of the gun industry. Look up a Blanchard lathe,it's a great springboard into the subject.

Sorry for the novel,it's what gets me up in the morning.

Got my dream. 10 acres, 200 yard shooting range and a river runs through it! Good hunting too!
I'd like to have a 30-06/12/12 Drillng

I would love to be able to shoot one more round of trap with my father.

My #4 son(getting his doctorate in History) STOLE this book from our library so,snagged a pic off the web.

The reason to mention the last of the crumbsnatchers is pretty close to what I was "trying" to convey above. He's a high school history teacher with a master's and headed for a phd..... and didn't/don't understand,until I sorta beat him over the head with this book at how gauldang important the firearms business was to the development of machinery,and almost exclusively,interchangeable parts.

NOT a political rant at all,it's just an extremely IMPORTANT point that continues to fall through the cracks...... at even the PhD level of not only American history,but for the world. Please don't make it politically "charged".... instead,buy this book. The first 100-150 pages is nothing but,filet mignon for firearm research. I found it looking for dope on Thomas Blanchard.

The one where I'm a professional hunter/guide in Africa and I have to attempt to fight off all the client's young beautiful wives?

I may have passed the sell by date for that one. lol

earlthegoat2 said:

Nice chunk of land in Montana to myself to hunt on.

You know, 1000 acres or more.

Click to expand...

I live in Indiana. Here, 1,000 acres is a lot.

It’s hard to describe, but in the part of very eastern Montana I hunted, that would be a postage stamp. One ranch we hunted had 16,000 acres, another about 10,000. Antelope cover 1/2 a mile in the blink of an eye. You can be up on a plateau and scan a thousand acres in a few minutes

Maybe that would work in the more western mountains. Dunno. Never hunted that

Actually, my one thing that I always wanted and never did was an elk hunt, preferably in New Mexico. Now that I’m easily able to afford it, my body could never take the physical activity required

MCMXI said:

I think that fantasies are a good thing. They tend to point us in the right direction. We might not reach our final destination but we'll see and achieve all sorts of things on the journey. I've been thinking of excavating under my house for a few years now, one bucket at a time.

Click to expand...

That’s hard work. I have 7 ft from dirt to floor joists. The previous homeowner started digging and I have done a bit more, and when I hit 12x12 I poured a slab and laid down block retaining walls. I now essentially have 11x11 as a shop. It’s harder work digging under the house than it is digging out in the open. Small tools aren’t good tools but full size tools hit everything under the house. Perhaps my new E-tool could be of use... or maybe I should just rent one of the little bitty walk behind bulldozers.

redneck2 said:

I live in Indiana. Here, 1,000 acres is a lot.

It’s hard to describe, but in the part of very eastern Montana I hunted, that would be a postage stamp. One ranch we hunted had 16,000 acres, another about 10,000. Antelope cover 1/2 a mile in the blink of an eye. You can be up on a plateau and scan a thousand acres in a few minutes

Maybe that would work in the more western mountains. Dunno. Never hunted that

Actually, my one thing that I always wanted and never did was an elk hunt, preferably in New Mexico. Now that I’m easily able to afford it, my body could never take the physical activity required

Click to expand...

Maybe not enough. I’m a Midwestern and eastern fella too and have only visited out west. So maybe I am out of touch with what’s required.

Right now it is to be awake and alert and on the mend next Wedneday after my aortic valve replacement on Tuesday. And, to be back on the trap field by mid January and maybe in the deer blind for late season. Big hopes get downsized when things go to pot.

Hmm, my fantasy involves a nice parcel of land with a nice underground gun room and range where I can comfortably retire to minding my own business and waving at my neighbors on the drive into town.

Oh, and a phased plasma rifle in the 40W range.

Speedo66

The one where I'm a professional hunter/guide in Africa and I have to attempt to fight off all the client's young beautiful wives?

I may have passed the sell by date for that one. lol

Click to expand...

Not if you looked like and had that certain swagger about you like Clark Gable did!

40 acres of hunting land

I'd love to be in a spot where I'm no longer a worker bee... sufficient benefits coming in monthly so I could afford to choose not to work, even though I'm able. Then, I could shoot whenever I felt like it and hunt as much as I wanted. I'd have plenty of time to reload and hit up all the shops as soon as their trucks come in. Fantasy indeed. Perhaps I'll put it off til retirement like lots of you fine folks have. If that day ever happens

WestKentucky said:

Mine sounds simple, but there’s a whole bunch more to it than the initial thought. I want a shop which is relatively secure in which to work on and build guns. That means a knee mill, a lathe, heat treating furnace, quench tank, a pile of tooling for the machines, a few benches for various projects, a reloading area, a large area for storage of guns and ammo, and a lane from corner to corner totally unobstructed to give me at least 20 yards to test fire the guns which also means a shooting bench and a bullet trap. For safety purposes that means ridiculous amounts of moving air, and a suppressor that can handle the majority of the things I would shoot.

Sounds simple enough right? Not so simple. Most machine tools worth having run on 3 phase 480v power supply. It’s not terribly hard to create that but it would be preferable to have it on tap, but that means it would essentially have to be in an industrial park and that’s no bueno for a few reasons. Put mine at my house, but I don’t have 3 phase 480 so build me a nice sized pond with a small hydroelectric dam setup.

It doesn’t take much... just a shop to tinker in...

Click to expand...

That is child's play, with enough money you could equip a 3 phase generator and have a power system built to support your application any where in the world.

Never give on the middle of no where

bannockburn said:

Speedo66


Not if you looked like and had that certain swagger about you like Clark Gable did!

Click to expand...

I could out swagger him, not sure about the looks though. lol

I’d love 120 acres of land with a 300 yard range, a nice gun room, and a separate reloading and cleaning room. And about 2 dozen more guns. Almost have the gun room and I can imagine a reloading room in the next few years.

Land will take some time. And it’ll probably be 20 acres instead of 120, but, a man can dream.

PapaG said:

Right now it is to be awake and alert and on the mend next Wedneday after my aortic valve replacement on Tuesday. And, to be back on the trap field by mid January and maybe in the deer blind for late season. Big hopes get downsized when things go to pot.

Click to expand...

I'll be submitting a special request for your speedy and complete recovery.
Those clay pigeons ain't gonna break themselves.