GunnyUSMC
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Just wait until you get a lot of guns and see how they react.
Too many guns
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That's silly talk.
Archie
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I have a - uh - number of guns. Some of them just do not interest me anymore.
I am too old - perhaps fragile and sensitive to cold - to do any hunting. So I do not need or desire to but any more 'current' hunting arms. I used to shoot bullseye pistol and high power rifle. My eyes won't keep up and there is no point in such things anymore - other than personal desire and the quest to stave off decrepitude.
My interest is in two or three specific fields. They fascinate me and keep me busy.
So I suggest not just 'accumulating' more and more of 'anything' one finds. Not that I didn't, but I never was satisfied. Mere 'getting' isn't very satisfying any more. However, the 'finds' in the field to which I aspire are very pleasing and even exciting. Think about what whets your interest and concentrate on those sort of things.
Which is not to say one should have a selection of self-defense and 'fun' guns, like a good .22 lr rifle and such. I do not suggest one rid oneself of everything save a very tight selection of 'collector' items. But specialize and have a collection with some cohesion.
I am too old - perhaps fragile and sensitive to cold - to do any hunting. So I do not need or desire to but any more 'current' hunting arms. I used to shoot bullseye pistol and high power rifle. My eyes won't keep up and there is no point in such things anymore - other than personal desire and the quest to stave off decrepitude.
My interest is in two or three specific fields. They fascinate me and keep me busy.
So I suggest not just 'accumulating' more and more of 'anything' one finds. Not that I didn't, but I never was satisfied. Mere 'getting' isn't very satisfying any more. However, the 'finds' in the field to which I aspire are very pleasing and even exciting. Think about what whets your interest and concentrate on those sort of things.
Which is not to say one should have a selection of self-defense and 'fun' guns, like a good .22 lr rifle and such. I do not suggest one rid oneself of everything save a very tight selection of 'collector' items. But specialize and have a collection with some cohesion.
Decoy80
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Some people are hoarders of many things,I must be brutally honest with myself, I too have turned into a hoarder myself, of guns,tools, and more guns, I've just ordered another this weekend,on sale, too good of a deal to let pass. Some people go to the mall and hoard bags of many things new,they never try the clothes on,stash food they never eat. I am older now but still get a rush when I get a new toy, I do play with it before I let it join the hoard,who's beginning was a Marlin Glenfield model 60 22 rifle in 1974. I will try to be patient and play with the last one I bought, until the AR lower in pistol configuration gets here. Once in hand with obeying the law in mind, NFA rules foremost I'll get an upper on the way,upgrade the lower and upon the arrival of the upper I choose to get in the next few days, and with the same joy as the boy I was in 74, play once more. One day I won't be wanting another gun, I lcan not know when,we all will die, but the music will play still,maybe another boy will find the same joy I found, when my survivors auction off the hoard.
Sav .250
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A lot of truth in your comments. Age does change your mind set.
GunnyUSMC
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I will say that I have more than most, and those that know me would agree. It got bad when I started collecting milsurps. At first it was low cost rifles and cheap ammo. I could buy ammo cheaper then It cost to reload. Then I tried to focus my collection. I thought I could just buy one of each bolt action rifle used in WWII. I was wrong. There were various different models from each country.
Then it became the hunt. Going out every week looking for a deal, finding it and then getting it below the marked price. It became a game, and I really enjoyed playing. It has gotten harder to find the ones I don’t already have, but I still like the hunt.
Then there are those days that I just need a pick me up. Buying a Gun always makes me feel better.
So as long as there is a gun to hunt for, or the need to feel better, I guess I will never have to many.
Then it became the hunt. Going out every week looking for a deal, finding it and then getting it below the marked price. It became a game, and I really enjoyed playing. It has gotten harder to find the ones I don’t already have, but I still like the hunt.
Then there are those days that I just need a pick me up. Buying a Gun always makes me feel better.
So as long as there is a gun to hunt for, or the need to feel better, I guess I will never have to many.
Jason_W
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When I was younger and had way more disposable income, I started to amass a collection. Hard times hit and I had to sell most of that. As I get back into the whole thing, I find that I have little desire for a sprawling collection. I kind of want a more streamlined selection. 1 gun for every niche I need to fill.
Ignition Override
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Meet me at my only trip to the Wanenmacher's show next month in Tulsa. At most I will buy one gun.
For a one-time trip to the show I've dreamed about at times, adding one more to the gun family is pretty reasonable.
There might be a lonely orphan from the Czech Republik: D-Technik or Czechpoint VZ 58.
And most of you middle-aged guys were bitten by the "gun bug" long before 2007 (when it "bit me" at age 52)
For a one-time trip to the show I've dreamed about at times, adding one more to the gun family is pretty reasonable.
There might be a lonely orphan from the Czech Republik: D-Technik or Czechpoint VZ 58.
And most of you middle-aged guys were bitten by the "gun bug" long before 2007 (when it "bit me" at age 52)
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Decoy80
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I don't think the bug ever really gets out of your system. It just has a kind of cycle effect. Buy them,play with them,modify, shoot,load for, and if you find a better one,trade,or sell.
Buying a gun is my right.
If I had lots of that paper stuff,the green stamps,if you will,then I would really have a hoarding problem.
Palmetto just sent e-mail the last one is on its way to the FFL.
I had to buy one this weekend and really didn't have "extra money" so I used something created just for robbing the poor. A credit card,unsecured of course.
When it arrives if my privilige to drive has been revoked its about 20 miles to the shop.
If I have to I'll walk to pick it up. I will walk upright a like a free man does to exercise my right. I guess I could use the tractor.
After I give it my own personal review I may let it also become a member of the family. In any event this one is a first, my first AR pistol.
Safe and happy shooting I enjoy reading that others have the same affliction.
Buying a gun is my right.
If I had lots of that paper stuff,the green stamps,if you will,then I would really have a hoarding problem.
Palmetto just sent e-mail the last one is on its way to the FFL.
I had to buy one this weekend and really didn't have "extra money" so I used something created just for robbing the poor. A credit card,unsecured of course.
When it arrives if my privilige to drive has been revoked its about 20 miles to the shop.
If I have to I'll walk to pick it up. I will walk upright a like a free man does to exercise my right. I guess I could use the tractor.
After I give it my own personal review I may let it also become a member of the family. In any event this one is a first, my first AR pistol.
Safe and happy shooting I enjoy reading that others have the same affliction.
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GBExpat
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Hmmm ...
... trying to remember if the old Guideline specified that we must acquire at least 2 additional firearms for every year that we have been alive or at least 3 additional firearms for every year since we reached the age of majority ... hmmm.
... trying to remember if the old Guideline specified that we must acquire at least 2 additional firearms for every year that we have been alive or at least 3 additional firearms for every year since we reached the age of majority ... hmmm.
Legionnaire
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^^ I fail either way. I have reached the age where I am selling off the less used items, sometimes to fund the purchase of a new interest. As I posted earlier, I expect that my aggregate number will decline over the next few years. When I reach retirement, I want to be "down" to a set that I know, like, and use regularly.
I got to add some new guns to my collection and my safe is now full. It is give up on buying guns or get another safe. My wife says I cannot have another safe so I informed her she needs to get a safe to hold her stuff she has in mine.
Decoy80
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I like that.
I too could find something to fill the space under the shelf the jewelry box and box of papers takes up. I might put some of the ones up that she says clutter up the end table, dresser and chest of drawers.
So its a trade off it seems around here. I consider myself lucky in that she dosent buy a ring every time I buy another gun. Sometimes I give her some money when I actually let one leave the hoard.
Usually one leaves and another is waiting to join, lol
theotherwaldo
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-It's like saying you have too much money or too much freedom.
huntsman
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because I crave freedom and don't have excess money I settle for fewer guns, shooting has always been more fun than buying and certainly more fun than working.
Swampman
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To me the phrases "Too many guns" and "too much ammunition" are like "too much fun", "too much love" or "too many good memories".
Not bloody likely!*
*Unless I just went overboard or I'm on fire.
Then I MIGHT reconsider...
Not bloody likely!*
*Unless I just went overboard or I'm on fire.
Then I MIGHT reconsider...
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