After your last rifle-can you justify one more bargain?

[Ignition Override]

How often have guys been kind of new at shooting, or not (rare to get 'bitten' at my middle age), and after declaring last March to your wife that it was your last gun purchase, very last, you now have the fever to buy one more $90 rifle.
She has never even wanted to plink with the lightweight old Savage .22.

As she looks up into air and rolls her eyes and head, staring out into space (towards the female planet...Venus, looking for a secret signal).
She was a music major...see the picture now?
Why do we NEED a twin for another rifle we have?

Because Mosins are getting more popular and:
1) The rifle and ammo costs could go higher soon (they won't?),
2) You might need a spare part one day as our country goes the way of the Roman Empire in the year 330 AD,
3) You can probably get your money back about anytime, and your son in college might -one day- show an interest in shooting, but guns + even Wolf ammo might be twice the price when he finally 'sees the light'.
4) Because many more people will discover the value and buy up the better ones soon.

Protecting a nearby swamp from floating fruit. Where do we get such men?

 

[Raw-Dog]

But I saved us $450

I was just in the market for a 223 Bolt Tack Driver. Our local shop is going out of business (imagine that in California), so I had to take a good look at all the stock they had...My wifes argument came back to bite her (honey I didnt spend $300 on new clothes I dont need, I saved $175 on clothes so I wont have to buy them later).
So now I am the new proud owner of a Remington 700 VSF .223, and honey I didn't spend $700, I saved $450!

 

[Higgy]

I look at every gun I have as an investment that gives me a great amount of joy and pleasure while I am here on this Earth. I tell my wife that these guns are for her and the kids when I am gone. After 31 years of marriage, she's gotten used to the idea.

 

[wayne in boca]

I tell my wife that I can either buy family heirlooms to bequest to our children someday,or run around with loose women and stay drunk like her first husband did.This has worked for twenty-five years so far.The truth is ,of course,that I can not afford loose women or booze because I need ammo,and also I need a scope for my AR180,and a stock for a MAK 90,but I'm broke because I got another Garand.

 

[Titan6]

You see my absolute last gun was three or four guns ago. I solved that problem by "not" declaring that I would "not" buy anymore. The beauty of this soloution is it allows me to be flexible.

All gun purchases now are investment grade purchases. Since most guns have gone up in value much more than the stock market in the past ten years showing how it is an investment grade purchase is not hard. Not that I would ever sell them unless I was upon really hard times and standing in an unemployment line somewhere getting ready to lose the homestead. Since the odds of that are pretty low I should enjoy them for years to come.

To keep myself honest I really do buy guns that are either rising or destined to rise in value. A new AR, Glock or a 870 shottie will likely remain flat, but a Garand or Barrett will likely only go up.

 

[H2O MAN]

After your last rifle-can you justify one more bargain?

Sure, no problem

 

[Z71]

My wife is a die hard Republican. An Air Force brat, and just hates Democrats! I can always justify another weapon. Sometimes borrow the money from her. All I need to do is give her a cool looking handgun once in a while, and she never bitches.

 

[RonE]

How do you justify one more rifle (or pistol or shotgun)? In one word, "Zombies".

If they shake thier head and ask "What do you mean, Zombies?" Just reply that you are trying (for their sakes) to be prepaired but that they wouldn't understand.

If she stomps her foot and exclaims: "You're using zombies as an excuse to buy another gun?" Just reply: "Hell yes! And I'm doing it for you as much as for me and the rest of the family!"

On the other hand, you can just explain to your wife that for some reason or another you have become interested in guns and having a few around isn't going to harm anything.....Should the interest fade they seem to be a little more valuable with time and we probably won't loose any money on them.

If your wife can be convinced that a hobby with guns is a lot less expensive and safer than some other things you could be doing she might accept it as the lesser of the evils.

 

[NG VI]

I just get her something she wants around the same time, for instance CZ PCR/engagement ring, no worries, CZ 40B and FNP-9m/ab lounge, paid off my only credit card (a Dick's card I used to buy my first shotgun), and bought her some time from her only creditor, so she doesn't even need to know I just spent 1000 on handguns.

 

[Walkalong]

Don't bother telling yourself you won't buy another after this one. It just saves us lying to ourselves.

 

[AR-15 Rep]

I use the "it was on sale" line like she uses on me...and then there is the old "buying in bulk saves in the long run"

 

[Rifleman 173]

Being a firearms instructor, I NEED my different guns to teach other people all about them. I NEED my guns to teach people how to use revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, carbines and rifles. Heck, if we could legally own submachineguns in the Peoples' Republik of Illinois, I would NEED some of them too but, alas, the jerks in Crook... errr... Cook County keep that from happening. Becoming an NRA firearms instructor was a really GREAT reason to own and buy all sorts of firearms. If nothing else, my wife can write some of the guns off at tax time for us.

 

[aka108]

If I gave my wife a dollar for every time I told her I had just made my last firearm purchase she'd be a wealthy woman. Glad she understands.

 

[no_problem]

...the truth is ,of course,that I can not afford loose women or booze because I need ammo,and also I need a scope for my AR180,and a stock for a MAK 90,but I'm broke because I got another Garand.>>

There's a man after my own heart!

 

[skinewmexico]

Simple. Don't ask, don't tell.

 

[280shooter]

nope no more,
i'm done,I dont shoot all i have now,I like to start selling some of what i have now,kinda make room for something else,ohhh did I say that outloud,

 

[pbrktrt]

i take mine shooting with me & she thinks it's a great time & keeps her targets for bragging rights. i used to have a mini-30 but she has pretty much claimed it as hers. i'm stuck with my vanguard .270 but i'm not complaining. we have plenty of ammo for both & shoot quite often. it's a win-win for me. i do miss the mini though, i have it shooting real well.

 

[theotherwaldo]

It's easy!

I'm not married, so I don't have to make promises that I won't keep!

 

[chauncey]

I tell my wife that I can either buy family heirlooms to bequest to our children someday,or run around with loose women and stay drunk like her first husband did.This has worked for twenty-five years so far.The truth is ,of course,that I can not afford loose women or booze because I need ammo,and also I need a scope for my AR180,and a stock for a MAK 90,but I'm broke because I got another Garand.

wayne in boca, you are a minor deity. or a man of great wisdom. I would like to use your statement as my signature.

God Bless you, and your new Garand.

 

[transformerguru]

my wife lets me AS LONG as we have the extra money and she doesn't wanna go play... which she is good where we play then buy then play....

 

[Plink]

Simple solution. Never promise such a thing! You know you're always going to want one more. I have way too many that I'm still trying to get to even consider such a promise.

 

[gcrookston]

My wife loves me. I can buy whatever I want as long as I put an equal sum of money in her shoe account.

 

[Drgong]

No wife, no problem...

 

[daveit]

Waiting for my C&R...but I also want to get a .223 (Ruger Mini-14 or AR-15 with a .22LR conversion kit) and a Marlin Camp 9 or 45...and some others...saw an awesome old Marlin 1891 at gun show yesterday $1800...haha!

Buy some stock in FTD boys...I'm going to be buying a buttload of flowers after those purchases.

 

[jkingrph]

I just saw a trio of CZ Safari American rifles, one ea in 375H&H, 416 Rigby and 458 Lott at $999 ea. The 375 had fantastic tiger stripe stock, the 416 a bit more subtle, but nice. I wish I could have taken one home but had just spent almost that on a Para Ordanance PDA handgun. The problem would be choosing between the two, I alreadky have a 375, so 416 would be nice, but that is an expensive cartridge to shoot.