So, we went out the other morning and bought my wife a new car.
Not a "new to us" car, a brand new, no plates, eat the off the lot depreciation new car (can you tell I don't believe in buying new cars?).
What does this have to do with guns?
Well this morning I'm grumping around, muttering under my breath about said car, and my wife, bless her soul, came up with a solution to my dissatisfaction.
"Honey" she says "I got a new car and you didn't get anything, I think you should buy a really nice gun you've been wanting so you're not left out".
O RLY?
I mean either way it's still money out the door, but you know, permission from ones SWMBO makes it a lot sweeter.
So I'm looking at guns this morning. Nice guns. *expensive* guns. I'm sort of onto this 1911 thing lately, as many of you will recall I bought a Firestorm cuz it was cheap, and I like the platform, although I can't say I care much that model (it's in a bowl on my desk in 18 pieces atm, sanding down the trigger yoke). So I'm sort of torn, on one hand, I would LOVE to have a classic WWII 1911A1, like a union switch. On the other, regardless of cool factor, that's still a milspec 1911a1, that I probably wouldnt want to shoot much because of it's value.
On the other hand, there's all manner of super-sweet 1911's being made today, Wilson, Nighthawk, etc, etc.
So put yourself in my shoes for a moment, you can spend around $3,000 guilt-free dollars on a .45, what would you do?
BTW, the answer is not "I'd buy five other guns" so
to that.
Hralp!~
Not a "new to us" car, a brand new, no plates, eat the off the lot depreciation new car (can you tell I don't believe in buying new cars?).
What does this have to do with guns?
Well this morning I'm grumping around, muttering under my breath about said car, and my wife, bless her soul, came up with a solution to my dissatisfaction.
"Honey" she says "I got a new car and you didn't get anything, I think you should buy a really nice gun you've been wanting so you're not left out".
O RLY?
I mean either way it's still money out the door, but you know, permission from ones SWMBO makes it a lot sweeter.
So I'm looking at guns this morning. Nice guns. *expensive* guns. I'm sort of onto this 1911 thing lately, as many of you will recall I bought a Firestorm cuz it was cheap, and I like the platform, although I can't say I care much that model (it's in a bowl on my desk in 18 pieces atm, sanding down the trigger yoke). So I'm sort of torn, on one hand, I would LOVE to have a classic WWII 1911A1, like a union switch. On the other, regardless of cool factor, that's still a milspec 1911a1, that I probably wouldnt want to shoot much because of it's value.
On the other hand, there's all manner of super-sweet 1911's being made today, Wilson, Nighthawk, etc, etc.
So put yourself in my shoes for a moment, you can spend around $3,000 guilt-free dollars on a .45, what would you do?
BTW, the answer is not "I'd buy five other guns" so
to that.Hralp!~
