Anything else like collecting firearms?

[Warhorse]

Try sailing, with your own boat, of course.

To get the feeling of it, stand fully clothed facing into a cold shower, making sure some of the water is running down the back of your neck, while tearing up $100 bills as fast as you can.

 

[Hong Kong]

I collect wrist watches and cigarette lighters. I paid more for a platinum and sapphire encrusted Cartier lighter than I have for new Rolex's. I also collect pipes, walking canes and wine. If you walked into my home however you'd assume I collect taxidermy.

 

[Murphy4570]

What does one repair on a firearm using a 32 ounce deadblow ballpeen hammer??

LOL I only use the little 16oz one for that. The 32oz one gets used on stubborn automotive components that I need to remove, and it doesn't matter if I break it in the process, as a new one is going in. If that doesn't work, I get my air hammer out. If that doesn't work, I get my cutting torch out. I don't play nice with cars.

 

[browneu]

Collecting fossils and meteorites can be. Someone paid $800 for a rock in the show meteorite men.

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[searcher451]

Books (often firearms-related), coins, powder horns and flasks (agaian firearms-related) all hold (or have held) some interest through the years, but mosstly ... Walthers. Lots and lots of Walthers.

 

[Jonah71]

Yeah, I used to collect guitars. A few a I made money on, but most I lost money on.

Since I started college, I pretty much quit playing anyhow.
Guns hold value better, some appreciate. They are easier to pickup and have a good time with (I've never been able to not shoot the same bullet that I shot last session x guitar maybe I played sloppier last time, or couldn't remember the riff)

I think I've had as many guitars as I have guns. But I've lost more money selling or trading guns than I did guitars. At least with guitars there was never a waiting period and no background checks. And I didn't have to be very good at playing them. But for some reason I find practicing with firearms more enjoyable now than I do the guitars. I sold all of the "good" ones about 10 years ago. I'm now down to a cheap Ibanez semi hollow, a solid Fender knockoff, an even cheaper Johnson and a very heavy old Silvertone I bought from Sears in 1968. Oh I forgot one. There's something called an "Austin" I picked up for $5 at our church sale.

 

[valnar]

I have to admit, part of the appeal (for me) of collecting firearms is because our right can be taken away from us at any time. I do hate that though. If every firearm I could ever want was as common or available as buying a hammer or wrench, I wouldn't feel the need to hoard. I'd know it was available in a store any time I wanted.

The other half is the rarity of some guns. Granted they don't change their models annually like cars, but between all the manufacturers, changes & deletions are frequent enough that it makes some of the older ones more desirable and thus collectable.