El Tejon
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Tamara, I'm sorry to see you're leaving the hobby.
Consolidating the gun collection.
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Tamara
Senior Member
No, El T, I'm selling useless guns to buy equally (or even more) useless guns. 
F'rinstance, I can afford a fairly decent Smith collection or a fairly decent Ruger collection, but not both.
I'll still leave the tactical weaponry Iwannacoolgun stuff to you; fear not.
F'rinstance, I can afford a fairly decent Smith collection or a fairly decent Ruger collection, but not both.
I'll still leave the tactical weaponry Iwannacoolgun stuff to you; fear not.
I can see where you are coming from. It's your money so you decide. I shot for many years and invested in the best I could afford. Based on this fairly wide experience, once I found out what I really liked, I sold the ones I didn't want. Got most of my money back and bought more of what I liked. I do believe that too many calibers in one collection is a pain. Especially if you get military rifles. Why do you need a 7mm/8mm/303/308/30-06/7.5/7.62X54/7.65all virtually interchangeable and a logistics nightmare (to me).
MountainPeak
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BigG, you are right, I don't NEED 99% of my collection. I do want them though.
Ala Dan
Member in memoriam
Well, partner I've been there and done that on
several occassions. Grant it, its not a fun thing
to do; but sometimes you have to do what it
takes to accomplish a particular mission.
Finally, I narrowed my choices down to guns
that I shoot on a regular basis; or guns from
my collection that have great folklore or some
personal memory that I keep stored inside.
The only handgun from my current inventory
that I don't shoot is my late fathers 1971
Smith & Wesson 2" pinned barrel model 30,
in .32 S&W Long. Its more of a family heirloom
than anything else!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
several occassions. Grant it, its not a fun thing
to do; but sometimes you have to do what it
takes to accomplish a particular mission.
Finally, I narrowed my choices down to guns
that I shoot on a regular basis; or guns from
my collection that have great folklore or some
personal memory that I keep stored inside.
The only handgun from my current inventory
that I don't shoot is my late fathers 1971
Smith & Wesson 2" pinned barrel model 30,
in .32 S&W Long. Its more of a family heirloom
than anything else!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Mannlicher
Member
I see no reason to sell anything. I just keep buying more. The logistics don't bother me one bit.
Tamara
Senior Member
Mannlicher,
Must be nice; wish I had unlimited funds, too!
Since I don't, when I see some new $2k gun I just can't live without, some $2k gun I have now has to go. Luckily, I'm not too all-fire attached to 'em. Easy come, easy go...
(PS: If by "logistics" you mean keeping bolt action milsurps in 7.7 Jap, 7.5 Swiss, 7.62x54R, 8mm Mauser, .30-'06, .30-40 Krag and 7.62x51 NATO fed, then that doesn't bother me in the slightest, either. Some of those only eat a couple of boxes a year, anyways. If by "logistics" you mean shaking loose the gelt to spring for every pre-ban FBPP that catches my eye every three months, well, then, that's a different matter; if I want the Valmet, the Beretta has to be sold. Que sera, sera. )
Must be nice; wish I had unlimited funds, too!
Since I don't, when I see some new $2k gun I just can't live without, some $2k gun I have now has to go. Luckily, I'm not too all-fire attached to 'em. Easy come, easy go...
(PS: If by "logistics" you mean keeping bolt action milsurps in 7.7 Jap, 7.5 Swiss, 7.62x54R, 8mm Mauser, .30-'06, .30-40 Krag and 7.62x51 NATO fed, then that doesn't bother me in the slightest, either. Some of those only eat a couple of boxes a year, anyways. If by "logistics" you mean shaking loose the gelt to spring for every pre-ban FBPP that catches my eye every three months, well, then, that's a different matter; if I want the Valmet, the Beretta has to be sold. Que sera, sera.
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