Bucket List Purchases

No pics at this time but I recently acquired a 625 5 inch 45 acp and a 610 4 inch. Been looking for those two for several years. Found them for sale about 2 months apart.

Ruger 77 Hawkeye African in .375 Ruger. I enjoy shooting it. I had no need for it and have never (yet) hunted it. I've started downsizing but have no intention of selling this one any time soon.

Man, I feel so odd saying this.

So, a little history as to why this is.

Every February, there's a coin show at Maida's Shriners. Paper money was my first actual hobby. 2019, I went with my mother who pushed me to join, so I went to the recruiting table and started talking. At that point, I'd been collecting for 12 years. The guy asked if I had a concentration, which I didn't. Told me that ever collection needs a focus, so I chose mine to be combloc notes. Needless to say, I have a ton of sweet notes.

So now I also collect guns, so what's my concentration? Combloc guns. Specifically, I want a firearm in every Soviet caliber. Prior to the last gun show, I had an SKS, Mosin Nagant, and a Tokarev. So that's 7.62 Soviet, 7.62 Rimmed and 7.62 Tokarev. That means that I'm still missing 7.62 Nagant, 9mm Makarov and 5.45x39. So my grail guns are those in the calibers I'm missing.

Then came the last gun show, and I found one if my grail guns, a Makarov. A Polish P-83 to be specific. Also not really a purchase, i traded a Ruger Security 9 with extras for it.


Nothing special, but one of my grail guns.

The reason I feel off is because this is just milsurp. Not super expensive ,not a Korth or special Colt.

gobsauce said:

ever collection needs a focus

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So, THAT'S my problem!
No focus!!!

Well, I don't have a bucket list but... I would really like to have an Iver Johnston top break revolver in 32 S&W. I would have no use for it whatsoever but the one I saw long ago (and far away) was just too cute! I've wanted one ever since.

Still looking for a Ruger Blackhawk in 41 mag with a 7+ in barrel. For under a few tanks of gas in my old truck.

Shoot the 500 SW, it’s not that bad, just let the recoil ride. It’s the funniest thing since 1776!

I think that about my AK47. It serves no real purpose except for me to enjoy shooting it. And I do enjoy shooting it.

32 Scadoo said:

Have you ever bought something you have no earthly use for just because you always wanted it?

Thirty years ago I bought this .460 Weatherby, and recently a .500 Smith for that reason. I have never shot them and never will, but I like having them. Make any sense?

What were your bucket list purchases, if any?

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Why on Earth would you not shoot those, thats just cruel!

Oh, Ive had a few, pretty much found them all:
.357 Redhawk cuz I like Redhawks but not .44 Mag.
H&K P7- shot one years ago and it just felt right in my hand like no other handgun before or since.
Springfield M1922- all the goodness of an M1903 without the bruising.
Winchester M52- the GOAT of .22 repeaters (and actually lives up to the hype).
BSA/Martini .22- wanted a Martini ever since watching Zulu! as a kid.
Remington M51- rare, bizarre, and beautiful.
S&W 686- stronger than a Python at half the price, and just as gorgeous.

Still looking for a 2" M15 and a .22 No.1 Mk3 Enfield.

My Bucket list:

M2 .50 BMG
20MM rifle
H&H .577 Double Rifle
H&H SxS in 28 Gauge
H&H leather pants and plaid shirts
M203 40mm thumper
Phase Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt range

32 Scadoo said:

Before the .500 S&W appeared on the scene, I was compelled to get this Freedom Arms .454 Casull.

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that gun is Pretty!

99.9% of the stuff I buy fall into that group. Generally however I will shoot it at least once.

Now the thing I am looking for that could be called "grail".....hmm

I would like a Johnson......the WWII rifle, get your mind out of the gutter you sickos. I will likely never buy one as I am just not going to spend the coin. Just refuse to spend that money, I could, but I won't.

The no use for gets you, well I really want to try the long range game, so I have the hots for a chassis rifle, guess there is a use there. Also have the hots for (talked about in another thread) a m77/357 no use what so ever, I have a lever, but just think it would be really fun....and if I shot it half as much as the lever it would get used A LOT.

Only thing I have real "use" for is a SD gun, some shotguns if sporting clays get back into swing again and that would be about it. So about 4.95 safes could go away....think of the realestate in the basement I could have.

I guess the 40X that I bought last year was a bucket list purchase. Ironically, about the same time I found a new 40X action that I bought and used for a build. Now, I doubt that either will shoot any better than the 700's that I have used for other builds but I always wanted one!

I'm not into pistols or shotguns even though I have both. I missed out on a Remington 788 (LH/6mm) a couple years back but I have one now. When I find a Remington .17 I'll be done looking for anything and be content. Then it will be re-barrel time as necessary.

A .308 Savage 99 and 6mm Rem 788 I'm staring at but the .17 Remington eludes me. Mostly because of the price. I like the older firearms. Wood and metal with some heft.

I will shoot plastic rifles as long as it's yours.

When I was a college kid I really wanted a H&R 999 22lr.

Fast forward too many years and a minty H&R shows up in the local dealers case. Price was high but I thought I would look.

Turns out it was not a 999. It is a 777. Built to order by H&R in 1938. All kinds of custom features and hand tuned single action lockwork.

Seems H&R tried to get into the bullseye gun market. Built in 1938 and part of 1939. They were custom order guns and only about a thousand were made. Mine is serial U134.

So in one purchase I got a bucket list gun and a Unicorn.




Ironhand

I have been looking at stainless, railed, 1911s for about a year. I guess I want one. I want a good one. Maybe a colt or a sig. Maybe in 10mm.

Browning 1911 .22. I have about a dozen .22 handguns, pretty much everyone is technically more advanced and efficient from a BERSA M23 to a Sig 322. I don't know why, I just had to have it. I walked out if ACE hardware with a $450.00 gun I had done no research on and hadn't a clue if the price was good or not. This has almost never happened before. The gun is a winner, but that's not the point.

My Sharps 45/70 was my bucket list rifle. Have been thinking of a 28 nosler which I absolutely have no use for, other that it can reach and touch someone from a looooooooooong way.

I've been wanting a functional Luger ever since I found a relic-condition long-barreled Luger in an old German freighter that was tied up on the Portland, Oregon waterfront, waiting to be scrapped.
That was over 55 years ago.
I can't guarantee that I wouldn't shoot it if I got one, though... .

Yes, many. A safe full of US MILSURP rifles and handguns, and some other gems like a python, gold cup, etc. Many I have never fired, and I have been planning a future "culling"- in my head.

Ironhand54 said:

Seems H&R tried to get into the bullseye gun market. Built in 1938 and part of 1939. They were custom order guns and only about a thousand were made. Mine is serial U134.



Ironhand

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Ohhh! now that is cute too.

on my list is a Cabot .45 1911
Les Baer .45
Colt SAA! (please come down in price)
VP70 full auto
HK Mark 23 (Snake Eyes)
Ruger #1 600NE