How diverse is your collection?

Pretty danged diverse. I don’t want to venture a guess as to how many brands I’ve owned or how many different chamberings, but my interests span from Ruger No. 1s to ARs with almost everything in between.

I'd like one of everything, and redundancy in the ones that are the most common cartridges, .22LR, 9mm, .223, .38 Special, Shotgun. Always can use one more, just have to ration myself on how much I shoot the one's I actually have, vs. getting more. I'm kind of on an I need to shoot all my stuff, all of it, before I really get anything else. I do need a scope for getting out to like 200 yards or maybe a little further, but - I can probably work with open sights, or the 2.5x scope I have or a red dot, out to 100 150 yards, and save the scope for next season, for a new challenge.

25 calibers
24 manufacturers
12+ decades
Multiple types and configurations of style/function/design.

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12+ decades
Multiple types and configurations of style/function/design.

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12+ decades? What is the secret sauce to your longevity? I'm kidding. I'm a kidder. Me=Kidder.

I'm what I would call a "Collector" and by that I collect guns that pull my interest and I never know what will interested me from time to time. As such my collection is varied and wide in regards to manufacturers and calibers going back from early model milsurps to modern day firearms. A smoke pole or two as well. I like it this way as I'm not tied down to any one manufacturer, model type or manufacturing time.

S&W, Glock, Colt, BCM, Ruger, PSA, Browning, Remington, Mossberg, NEF and probably a few others I didn't think of.......

Pretty diverse not gonna count manufacturers or countries but I go from 1873 Win/Colt clones to ARs and Tupperware. Oldest guns are well over 100 newest are less than a year.
I reload for more than 20 calibers.

Fairly diverse
25 cartridges including rimfire and shotgun gauges
14 manufacturers
Break-action single shot, break-action double, bolt action single shot, bolt action repeater, pump action, semi-auto rifle and pistol, single-action revolver, double-action revolver

That's down from my high water mark. In the past couple of years I've eliminated half a dozen cartridges and I plan to keep reducing ... slowly.

igotta40 said:

That’s why I don’t call mine a collection- to me that implies a theme. I prefer to call it an accumulation.

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Truer words were never posted. 1888 to 2022. Pick one. The "Golden Age" of C&R hit me hard.

Focused on 10mm from the start. Did decent job of representing samples from those available. Ended up with lots of 22LR.
Reload 9mm, 10mm, 40S&W, 45ACP, 38/357, 44 Special/Mag, 7.62x51, 5.56x45, 30-06, 270 Win... Have dies for 30-40 Krag and 50 AE. Built over a dozen AR pattern and 1 P80.

Diversity with focus if there is such a thing...

igotta40 said:

That’s why I don’t call mine a collection- to me that implies a theme. I prefer to call it an accumulation.

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Same here. To me, a collection is something you only polish, and hang on the wall to admire, like having a Model 27 in every series number and every barrel length, one each in blue and in nickel. I have a very nice bunch of shooters, very clean, but not overly rare. I have 9 S&W revolvers and 1 S&W pistol, 5 1911's in 5 different calibers and 3 makes, 1 Colt semiauto, 6 shotguns, of which 4 are double barrel (side-by-side), 2 Mosin-Nagant rifles (1 91/30 and 1 M44), 2 AR's, 2 .22 rifles, and a M1A. It's a mash-up of guns, but I love 'em all

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I had never given that much thought but a count just came up with 31 different manufacturers.

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I just realized that my spread sheet was not complete. My son had borrowed my Merkel several years ago to go dove hunting and I almost forgot about it.

My guns are tools. I need them to be multifunctional and fill several rolls. I am not rich, so I can't afford really nice guns. But I want my stuff to last a long time and work, I get rid of any guns that don't work right or aren't reliable, and I get rid of guns that hurt me to shoot (hammer bite, etc). What's left is a collection of useful, reliable guns that I will have for many years to come.

It's pretty limited. I think that alphabetically it ranges from Ashton to Zouave; chronologically -- from about 1750 to the present; materially -- from "B" for a bar of soap to "W" for Württemberg. There are a couple of prints and a statue in there so maybe it really begins with "A" for art. I know that I shouldn’t be so narrowly focused, so I'm always looking to expand a little.

My object propelling devices are so diverse they don’t stop just with firearms.

^ you a slingshot collector?

huntsman said:

^ you a slingshot collector?

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Was teaching a little girl how to use one last Saturday. When she gets bigger, I teach her how to shoot bowling balls (as the projectile), if she’s interested.

From clerke to Korth, from hi-point to Nighthawk, from maverick to Parker. And from a Patriot to Barret.

Pretty diverse. I agree with "accumulation"

Well mine is pretty diverse. I took the time to make a list of all the manufacturers/brands that are represented in my collection. I have more than I realized. There are single and double action revolvers, DA/SA pistols, SAO pistols, break open rifles, shotguns and handguns, bolt action rifles, lever action rifles and shotguns, semi auto rifles and shotguns, pump action rifles and shotguns, bolt action rifles, and a derringer. Stainless, Blue, ceracoat, nitride, plastic, fiberglass, carbon fiber ,wood, camo, anodized, polished, matte, other random finishes and treatments. I dont have any nickel though.
Baikal
Barrett
Beretta
Black Aces
Bond Arms
Browning
Colt
Christensen Arms
Dan Wesson
EAA/ Tanfoglio
FNH
G force
Glock
H&R
Henry
Kimber
Magnum Research
Mec tech
Molot
Mosin Nagant?
Mossberg
Palmetto State Armory
Para USA
Pedersoli/Navy Arms
Quentin Defence
Remington
Ruger
Savage
Sig Sauer
Smith and Wesson
Springfield
Thompson Center
Weatherby
Winchester
I think thats it...there's some noticable gaps that need filled now that I look at it. H&K, CZ and Taurus to name a few though I have had an H&K and a few Tauri come and go over the years.

3 brownings, 5 rugers, 4 Christensen, 3 CZ.....the rest are different
I buy what i like, dont care whos stamp is on the side. But those companies obviously build guns i like lol.

I started with the goal of having one example of each major type of firearm, e.g. Lever-action, SA revolver, semi- auto rifle, etc. I still have a way to go - there are many types I still do not have.
Trying to limit the types of ammo: 22, 380 acp, 9 mm, 38 sp, 357, 45 acp, 5.56 mm.
Brands: Remington, S&W, Ruger, SIG, Henry, CZ, Springfield

The only way mine resembles a collection is they are all firearms. Mostly a mish mash of inherited and purchased for a much lower than normal price over many decades. From .17 to 500 NE in rifles and from .22 short to 500 S&W in handguns. Even a High Point or two LOL. Shotguns I have lost track of what I even own anymore . Single shot to full auto suppressed and everything in between. Hard to believe a single firearm is now worth more than I paid for my house 25 years ago but thats the way it goes. Its been a fun ride and still going strong.
Got into reloading to feed the hoard and that's developed into a different accumulation as well.

tuckerdog1 said:

Have an old friend, who was 100% a S&W guy. That's all he owned. That collection of S&Ws was really nice though. I messed that up for him when he moved to Montana, and I gave him a Ruger as a going away present.
On the other hand, I like to mix things up. Things are always in flux, but currently have firearms made by 19 different manufacturers in 16 different chamberings. I do have brands & platforms I seem to gravitate to, but not locked into any one thing. I guess I like options.

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I choose each gun with regard to how I can use it. No purpose, no place in my safe. I don't have that much money. And, as it is, I don't use them enough... Need to shoot more.

Not very, most are S&W revolvers and pistols. Long guns run a bit more with M1s, SKS and AR15. Two odd balls the Glocks.