Anyone else wants TWO of everything?

[rocinante]

I have 13 firearms and 2 of them are matching vaquero revolvers. If I like a particular firearm I get the urge to get another and start looking for 'rational' to do so but that means money is spent on duplicates instead of something different for my collection. INSANE.

Here is current rationalizing.

I have a S&W 915 and see 5906 on sale for 339. I want it. Basically a stainless version of the same gun with better sights. The rational is same magazines between the two.

I have a saiga 7.62x39 and want another. Rational is two guns sharing magazines again. Plus they are getting more expensive every day but still are best bang for the buck.

These two particular firearms would be my SHTF choices. So if the world ever did go Mad Max it would make sense to have backups of primary weapons or to share with a fellow defender.

Anyone else want two of everything?

 

[JesseL]

I'm still working on getting one of everything.

When I finish with that I'll get back trough the list and get duplicates.

Reminds me of the line from "Monty Python's: The Meaning of Life":
"...Which brings us once again to the urgent realisation of just how much there is still left to own."

 

[MT GUNNY]

Yea

I want two New Ruger Vac

i have one of the old ones I'm thinking of trading it in

 

[steveracer]

I haave two of most of my favorite guns. Two .38 K-frames, Two .38 J-frames, Two Maks, Four 1911s, two HiPowers, Two .44 N-frames, Two 870s, Two AR-15s, but only one of a few things, namely stuff I don't carry, or rely on for defense. I have seen the need for redundancy first hand too many times to not have backup.
If I was starting all over again, I'd buy two .44s, and two 1911s, and two 9mm that use same mags, and call it done. (for carry guns) The rest is gravy.

 

[Ian]

Yes...but when I finally get two of something, I find that I then NEED to have three or four or six of them.

 

[DaleA]

Maybe it's a cowboy thing

I never felt a real desire to go out and buy a second identical firearm until I got a single action revolver. Might have something to do with all the westerns I watched as a kid.

 

[Rmac58]

I have two cars, two computers, two hand guns, two rifles, none are the same manufacturer, size or caliber. OK, same engine in both cars.

 

[rbernie]

I have more than a handful of weapons for which I have multiples. In fact, there are some for which I have five or six copies.

Spare parts, dontchyaknow.

 

[Shung]

i'd like 2 GF, but the 1st one firmly disagreed

 

[CountGlockula]

Two Glocks, different model...same caliber:


And the G35 mag fits will to the compact version.

 

[springmom]

Anyone else want two of everything?

Nah; I'm still working on getting one of everything. Then I'll think about two.

Springmom

 

[justin 561]

I am working on 1 of everything, then tons of ammo, then I'm going for 2 of everything.

 

[LJH]

This is not rational. I can not explain your need to have more that one of any firearm. With that said, I have duplicated most of my collection. My wife thought that this was bizarre until I asked about her shoes. She gets it now.

 

[IdahoFarmer]

I picked up two Kahr PM9s the last time I was at Cabella's. Awesome guns.

Farmer

 

[AK103K]

I've got the "two is one, one is none" thing going on. I have duplicates of everything I might carry or use.

One advantage is, you always have an exact duplicate back up, and you can rotate your carry guns with one of the same.

I shoot the one in the holster every week or so, and replace it with its duplicate while the other is cleaned and used for dry firing.

 

[briansp82593]

I buy two guns at a time, same caliber, different gun, then move to the next caliber

 

[.cheese.]

I have 2 of every gun. I'm just weird like that.

 

[Hank Zudd]

I'm getting two, not always the same model, but the same style & caliber; got twin sons to pass on down to.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I plan on having two J-Frames soon. One 642 and one 442 simply because they are different colors and I can tell them apart that way.

One in a pocket holster and one on my ankle.

 

[rocinante]

I'm getting two, not always the same model, but the same style & caliber; got twin sons to pass on down to.

That is another rational for the madness. I have two sons and I am partly buying so I can pass them on to them. I got thinking about tangible objects that are durable and with enough value they would be held on to. Definitely not electronics or cars and everything else durable (art, jewelry) except tools is just static to draw dust. If they used one maybe even with their own kids and it invoked the memory of me or an activity we did together with the object then it appeals to me.

 

[DWARREN123]

Not quite but almost, G23 and G27.

 

[clarence222]

I do

I have two of almost everything, and more of some models, I figure if I get a good deal why not get two of them. Plus I have two kids this way they wont argu about it when I'm gone they can just split them in half. I always tell my wife I'm bying one for me and one for our son, and she falls for it

 

[scrat]

heck you i cant wait to get another WALKER

 

[Gun Slinger]

I can relate.

I have multiples (two ain't enough) of Glock 17's, 17L's and 19's, HK USP9's, USP45's, Tikka T3's and Winchester Model 70's .

My thinking is: One is none, two is one, three is two and four is plenty until I realize that five is even better than four.

It's a sickness and it gets worse when we start talking about magazines for the handguns.

Like rocinante, I view them as "inheritance material" for my son...

 

[borntwice]

I would like a CZ 75 PCR to go along with my CZ 75 P-01. Does that count?