Bucket List Purchases

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Bucket list would basically be some cans and one or more guns with fun switches. But I'm not going through the illegitimate/unconstitutional rules to get them.

Therfore, for the time being, as a law abiding citizen I won't have them.
 
1858 Remingtons. The Italian reproductions. Started with an 8", then needed a Sheriff, o-o-o-o-look! A revolving rifle! And then I discovered North American Arms mini versions in .22 caliber--1860 Earls. Anything with that 1858 loading lever and a top strap.

The grail was a steel-frame .31 1863 Pocket Remington. Watched for years, then one showed up on Gunbroker. Placed a nuclear bid 15 minutes before the auction ended and got it! Ridiculous price but I have the satisfaction of knowing that SOMEbody was only $5 less crazy than me.

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32 Scadoo said:
Have you ever bought something you have no earthly use for just because you always wanted it?
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I've bought plenty of stuff that I don't "need" but I wouldn't say I've bought any that I have no use for. I've never bought a gun that I didn't think I'd enjoy shooting a lot and didn't intend to shoot ASAP. I've also never bought a gun, as far as I can recall, because it was popular or because other people thought it was "cool." I've bought stuff that I myself like.
 
Part of the fun of pursuing a bucket list gun is finding it at a good price.
Otherwise you could just go out on Gunbroker and buy one.
A Ruger Super Blackhawk has always been on my list. I scratched that itch about a month ago.
I’m always on the lookout for a John Wayne Winchester but I’m not willing to pay the $2k they are asking on GB.
I found one in a pawnshop a couple of years ago but it had some surface rust and no box.
Had been thru a flood.
Then I found one on Armslist 3 hours from my house at a great price. I texted the guy and told him I would come pick it up. He kept insisting that he could ship it so I left it alone.
I checked a couple of weeks later and it was still out there so it was a scam.
 
welldoya said:
Part of the fun of pursuing a bucket list gun is finding it at a good price.
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Exactly. It's the hunt.

For years I read about the .375 H&H Magnum and its use on safari. I didn't need one but thought the concept was cool. At the same time, I was never a fan of belted magnums; the belts just struck me as superfluous. When the .375 Ruger was developed, I thought "I'll own one of those someday." I didn't start looking right away, but kept my eyes open. Several times I came close to pulling the trigger on a nice rifle so chambered, passing up some good deals over the years. Then I saw the McMillan stocked 77 Hawkeye African pictured earlier in the thread. Didn't (and still don't) need it, but it checked all the right boxes, was a very good deal, and I had the discretionary cash. Very happy with the results of the extended search.
 
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I live in an urban/suburban area. I have no where to shoot one and ammo and mags are very expensive, but I still plan on buying one. A semi auto 50 bmg.

Other than that, I want a 2" Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan for no other reason than I think it looks cool. I have zero piratical use for one.
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My daughter in law bought my son one of those, a Barrett M-82. He lives in Montana, but he still hasn't shot it.

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The Winchester 52s on our high school rifle team consistently outshot my Remington 513T. No way it was the riflemen, had to be the rifles!! So I have always lusted for a 52. I could buy one, I could punch paper over a rest. Arthritis makes it impossible to shoot 4-position, or 3- position, or prone, or offhand. So I could look at it. It would just remind me I’m no longer in high school.

Nah.
 
J-Bar said:
The Winchester 52s on our high school rifle team consistently outshot my Remington 513T. No way it was the riflemen, had to be the rifles!! So I have always lusted for a 52. I could buy one, I could punch paper over a rest. Arthritis makes it impossible to shoot 4-position, or 3- position, or prone, or offhand. So I could look at it. It would just remind me I’m no longer in high school.

Nah.
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Target .22s were on my bucket list for a while. The top two are Remington 40Xs, the next two down are a Winchester 52D and a 52C. At the bottom is a Weatherby .460 Magnum. All these .22s are as heavy or heavier than the Weatherby.

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I tend to look at it as part of my retirement portfolio. Almost all of my guns are worth 30-50 percent more than i paid for them Only a few are worth what i paid. With the crappy stock market, my guns are doing much better in returns of value. I dont see them ever going down like the stocks.
 
I tend to look at it as part of my retirement portfolio. Almost all of my guns are worth 30-50 percent more than i paid for them Only a few are worth what i paid. With the crappy stock market, my guns are doing much better in returns of value. I dont see them ever going down like the stocks.
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That has been my plan. I've owned a bunch of guns. Some that I lusted after for a while before being able to get it. But I'm now 64. I've given my kids quite a few from my collection and have sold quite a few more. If it hasn't been in the family or if I don't actually use it, it's out the door at this point. Just last month I sold 3 lever guns and got almost $5000 total. I paid $500 for one of them new in 2005. The other 2 cost me $200 each used.

I liked them but had basically just looked at them all these years. With lever gun prices they way they are I'll gladly let someone else have them at those prices. I sold 5 others 2 years ago for about 2X what I paid. I thought the market was high then, but if I'd waited 2 years could have doubled that.
 
My grail guns have always been single shot rifles. My first was a Ruger #1 in 375 H&H, which I should have kept.... but times were really tight. I have since purchased a few more single shots, but one day I will have a Dakota..
 
As a kid, I was highly influenced by firearms that I had seen in movies. My parents were not strict concerning the content of "R" rated movies, but more so encouraged me to ask questions concerning violence, gore, and language found in film. One of my bucket list firearms came after seeing the 4th Dirty Harry movie "Sudden Impact" with my parents. At a young age, I had a fascination with firearms and already wanted the S&W 29 from the original "Dirty Harry", but even though I was a kid when it came out in 1983, I felt that the Auto Mag was next level. There are other bucket list firearms that I have acquired, but I still have a fascination with Auto Mags.

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Big44mag said:
As a kid, I was highly influenced by firearms that I had seen in movies. My parents were not strict concerning the content of "R" rated movies, but more so encouraged me to ask questions concerning violence, gore, and language found in film. One of my bucket list firearms came after seeing the 4th Dirty Harry movie "Sudden Impact" with my parents. At a young age, I had a fascination with firearms and already wanted the S&W 29 from the original "Dirty Harry", but even though I was a kid when it came out in 1983, I felt that the Auto Mag was next level. There are other bucket list firearms that I have acquired, but I still have a fascination with Auto Mags.

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Wow!!!!!
That has got to be one of, if not THE, best collections of Automags in the world. Kudos, sir!
 
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