Ever do anything drastic to acquire "gun funds"?

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Any of y'all do anything out of the ordinary or drastic to get additional funds solely for a gun-related purchase?

Right now a Nightforce NXS is #1 on my to-get list.... However, being a college student, that is not exactly easy. I work the odd job when it comes around, but that money goes for rent, books, etc. I make it a point to get that financially cleared before gun purchases are made.

So my question.... has anyone gone out and sold a kidney or stood on a street corner in a big bird costume to get some additional funds for a gun or accessory?
 
No. But if I make a committment to purchase a gun in some sort of lawaway, I bend all effort to pay for the gun within the stated period regardless of my short term finances.
 
Sold my eldest male child to the U.S. Navy for an M1 Garand. Paid for the Garand with money saved on food.
 
Yup...recently. To buy a rifle I really wanted (a like-new 1953 Enfield Fazakerley No4 Mk2) I sold a rifle I had two of (Inland M1 Carbine.)
Now that's drastic.
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Don't they still canvas campuses for paid sperm "donors"? If you're a healthy female, your eggs are worth many thousands of dollars each.
 
No, nothing really drastic. Sold a very nice Randall knife to raise funds and I also had a brother that frequently bought guns off of me from time to time. If money was in short supply I usually resorted to trading something in, along with some cash, to make up the difference. Typically it was some gun that I either wasn't shooting all that much or else it was being replaced by whatever it was I was currently buying.
 
Don't they still canvas campuses for paid sperm "donors"?
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I haven't seen any around my campus. But I do get about $25 each time that I donate plasma. Donating twice a week gets me about $200/month. Not a ton, but more than I would have without it.
 
I did the exact same thing (as did my wife) and still have the needle scars to prove it nearly 15 years later.
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Yeah, I'm not too thrilled about it, but it is a steady and reliable source of money at the moment...

Oh the sacrifices to be made for education....
 
I spent all my wife & I's monthly rent & grocery money to buy a Belgian Browning A5 shotgun in 1970, just after getting out of the army.
We had nothing, and no place to live, but I got my new Browning because I found one, and I had to have it!!

We borrowed money from family, and ate Egg Noddles in Spam broth for a month or two until we got back to work and recovered from Army Sargent E6 active duty pay.

Perhaps not my smartest move ever financially?
And Hell to Pay there for a while with the new wife for sure!
She short-sheeted me on my side of the bed there for a while!

But I still have the same Browning A5 shotgun.
And we still have each other after 48 years, tomorrow.
Our wedding anniversary!!!

Stupid of me to buy it, when we could not nearly afford it?
Yes!

Catastrophic, life altering blunder now?
No.

She finally stopped bitching about it 10 years ago or so!!

My BIG mistake was not spending the rent money on a Browning A5 shotgun.
The BIG mistake was not talking to my new bride about it first, before I did it!

If I had?
There would have been no problem with us both eating Egg Noodles in SPAM broth there for a while!

rc
 
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Anytime I take on "extra" work, that's "extra" money. When I was in college, I had a part-time commission sales job that paid the bills, I went to school full-time, and I worked at a LGS on my days off to support my shooting habit. I had two guns that I'd bought, and a couple family heirlooms/hand-me-downs.

After college, I worked full-time in retail management (lots of hours in the last quarter of the year) and took on odd jobs in the slow season. I welded as a hobby, and that grew into a custom fencing business - with a waiting list of 6-12 months. Build a better fence, and you'll always have work.

When I decided to go back to college and get a teaching credential, I worked as a security guard at the Naval Petroleum Reserve, built gates, pulled student loans, and used a home equity line of credit - NO extras for that year, but worth it.

When I started teaching, I had a lot of spare time, so I took on a night school job. That led to a charter school, of which I am now a site administrator - and also teach all day at a regular high school. The night job has always been "extra" money, and has grown both in hours and responsibility - and pay. Twelve to fifteen hours a week, 36 weeks a year adds up. Over the years, it's paid for upgraded flooring and all the furniture in our home, several Harleys, an occasional gun, and a lot of model airplane stuff. When I sold off the model stuff, I expanded my gun collection quite a bit.

Along the way, I raised three sons, helped my wife finish college, and later we both went back and got Masters degrees, together.

Guns are, by and large, luxury items. They come after all the necessities, the family, even the stuff it takes to make a man's house a woman's home. (If Momma ain't happy, NOBODY'S happy!).
 
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No wiseacre comments or stupid jokes, just this once.

Happy anniversary, RC.

Speaking of anniversaries, right after my 8th wedding anniversary, I got promoted and got an annual cost of living increase from Uncle Sam all at once (it wasn't that much). I set up a savings account my wife knew nothing about, and started a $100 a month pay allotment to it. My wife never missed the money because she didn't know how much more I was getting.

For our 10th wedding anniversary, I put a new 2.5 CT wedding set on her pretty little finger.

Pay yourself first and get used to living within the means you set for yourself. Pay cash for what you want, and let the money take care of itself.
 
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I have. My first AR 15 was purchased using money I made saving scrap metal-Aluminum, Copper, etc. When I started building it, we were getting by, but I couldn't justify those funds for the purchase of the rifle. It is part of the reason I built it a piece at a time. I have sold ammunition that would be considered rare to fund firearms purchases.

I have also sold firearms to purchase other firearms, but nothing special.
 
I once had to sell a kidney.. and it wasn't mine..


Na I've been pretty fortunate so far, although I've racked up a pretty big tab with my LGS but like RC said, sometimes you just HAVE TO HAVE IT. :D
 
I got a 401k loan from my work to get an engagement ring for my wife. A friend had a GP100 i had been wanting so maybe the ring wasn't as big as it could have been. But she was happy so it worked out.

I also just traded some .223 ammo for a remington 870. When i told her about it she said (with a smile) " OK, so what are you getting next?" I think she is starting to get it.

And happy anniversary RC.
 
In 1986 I was 26 years old and newly married. I wanted a Rem. 11-87 and there was absolutely no money for it ,so I used my spare time and some vacation to cut and house tobacco. Still have the gun.
 
It might benefit us to resist the wanting of things to the point that we'd do something 'drastic' to get them. Patients, humility, hard work and self control are each a virtue. [/sermon]
...purchased using money I made saving scrap metal-Aluminum, Copper, etc.
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This is not drastic. This is prudence. This is where the bulk of my gun money comes from. Not a penny from my household's income goes to this hobby of mine and yet I have a collection of guns, ammo, reloading equipment & components, safes, class III items and many accessories that not man would be unsatisfied with.

I have a "gun money envelope" that scrap metal proceeds and money from odd jobs goes into. Bit by bit, coin by coin, and every time I buy a new gun (once or twice a year) I also buy my wife a one-hour massage with the money out of that envelope.

You have to think outside the box, but there are many opportunities to make extra money here and there all throughout the year.
 
I stand on a street corner in shabby clothes with a sign that says "hungry please help". At Christmas time I put on a Santa costume and stand outside a busy store with a pot and ring a bell.

Actually, I make some extra gun money selling scrap metal that always seems to accumulate in my garage. One Friday I sold some scrap brass and on Saturday I was at a gun show with an extra, and free, $600. The scrap metal also puts extra money in my pocket for Christmas presents.
 
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Never done anything drastic, but I work hard for my gun money.
My gun money does not come out of the budget. I get side jobs for most of it. In the summer when overtime is abundant I skim a little off on payday too, but only if I'm over 50 hours...so pretty much every week from May through October. :) I also sell any and all of my scrap brass. Thinking about trying to get in with a local range to sort brass. They used to sell their brass sorted, but don't have the time any more. Gonna see if they will pay me in brass to sort all of it.

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Last November, after Obama got re-elected, I sold my Snap On Roller Cabinet for this.

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