Ever Reached a Point

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Pretty much have finished my collection, at least for the time being besides my focus has shifted to my new, used steel horse and fixing it up to suit me.
 
Well, maybe I’m not done just yet…

Shot some clays today in preparation for dove/quail/duck season. I bought a Remington 870 last year for ducks and honestly, after shooting it this afternoon, I just don’t love it. I think I’m going to buy an auto loader of some sort. I’m leaning towards a Browning A5 Wicked Wings edition. Shot a buddy’s today and really liked it.
 
Everyone reaches a point.....as in, I have enough .22s, 12s, 223s,17HMRs, etc. I have plenty of all of these and no longer search for another .22. I have back-ordered 2 new rifles and when those come in, eventually, I'll probably be at another "point". As one poster said, you never know what direction this hobby will take you. I now help others find items on their wish list and help people sell guns, especially widows whose husband left them a mess. It's been lots of fun. I'm also upgrading scopes now that I can afford better ones. Always looking for better options and more places to hunt/shoot.
 
marksman13 said:
Where there wasn’t a “next gun” on your list? I feel like I might be there. I know several members here are shooters more than collectors. I fall somewhere in the middle between shooter and accumulator. I don’t want guns that I won’t shoot, but there’s always been a “next gun” for me. I’ve got money from selling a few guns lately and the rule between my wife and I has always been that gun money remains gun money, as in, it doesn’t get used to pay the bills and such unless there is a dire emergency. I think I’ve reached a point though where I just want to shoot what I have. I’ve picked up several new rifles in the last year and a half and haven’t really had time or ammo to really get used to any of them yet. Maybe something is wrong with me. I should probably schedule a doctor’s appointment.
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I have to hurry and hide this post from my wife she said one more gun and she's gonna smash my head in this key board...ha ha I ain't afraid of hhdhdjsksksjdhshshsudydyhw82gs7whay^@<#;&_hwuwusgsysudgzisjwuwydjsizhzyzgzhzhB;haidnzhzu
 
I am there as well. There isn't many guns out there that excite me anymore. I look on armslist every day and its like every other gun for sale is a Glock or AR. I do like weird different guns, but those are few and far between. I have shifted my collection over the years to the ones I love and want to keep, so I don't really have a bucket list anymore. I love the hobby to a point, which is the price of the gun and what would be my return if I decided to sell it down the road.
 
Ever Reached a Point

No, not really. Not anymore than having a list of nice to have or want. While I have quite a few 1911 guns nothing is really planned. It's more like if I see a gun I want and finances allow I buy it. My attorney was executor of his cousin's estate. He knows I enjoy guns and gave me a call. He had a Remington Rand 1911A1 GI take home from WWII. Seems his cousin's dad was a WWII Navy Sea Bee South Pacific. Dad passed away and cousin got the gun. Cousin passed away and my attorney was executor. Friend asked me about value and I told him it depends on things like condition. Friend brought gun over and it was super clean perfect with original GI holster. I told him what it was easily worth, he asked if I had interest. I made an offer and the estate took my offer. When I woke up that day I had no plans to buy that gun or any gun. I have a safe full of guns that I ended up with in similar fashion. Not like I had a list with any of them on it. :) Today at 72 I have no plans to change my buying habits.

Ron
 
Reloadron said:
Ever Reached a Point

No, not really. Not anymore than having a list of nice to have or want. While I have quite a few 1911 guns nothing is really planned. It's more like if I see a gun I want and finances allow I buy it. My attorney was executor of his cousin's estate. He knows I enjoy guns and gave me a call. He had a Remington Rand 1911A1 GI take home from WWII. Seems his cousin's dad was a WWII Navy Sea Bee South Pacific. Dad passed away and cousin got the gun. Cousin passed away and my attorney was executor. Friend asked me about value and I told him it depends on things like condition. Friend brought gun over and it was super clean perfect with original GI holster. I told him what it was easily worth, he asked if I had interest. I made an offer and the estate took my offer. When I woke up that day I had no plans to buy that gun or any gun. I have a safe full of guns that I ended up with in similar fashion. Not like I had a list with any of them on it. :) Today at 72 I have no plans to change my buying habits.

Ron
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At first I bought what I could afford, then what I needed, then what was perfect for the task ,then what I always wanted and couldn't afford, now it's things that were not before available and I think I may have gotten to the point of that looks fun I'll take it...lol
 
I've gotten there I think. I'm hitting 50 and starting to look at what I can pass on to the crumbsnatchers, nieces and nephews.

Also since I load my own ammo I can honestly say that each centerfire I own is potentially a different firearm when I decide to work on a new load.

PLUS since I've been getting into AR's I can play around with different uppers providing even more caliber options. (still want a 7 TC/U upper just because)

So yeah...last new purchase was a DPMS AR about 5 years ago. Just been bits, pieces an parts since.

D
 
Never. Doesn't seem to matter how many I accumulate, the "guns needed list" just keeps growing, or at best doesn't get larger. There has been roughly 70 of them on it for the last decade, but my collection has grown considerably in that time. I hear about something new (or old) or my interests, needs or focus change and on the list it goes. Or something comes along I think is neat and I impulse buy....thus the list doesn't shrink. I have however removed some things on the list I decided I just didnt want any more. Every now and then the list gets an audit.
 
Yes, I’m there, but I’m ok with that. I want my collection to be multi-functional (target shoot and hunt, range and compete..) and well used. If I have a gun that sits and doesn’t get shot much, if at all, that is money I could put towards upgrades, ammo, equipment, etc.
This still allows me to have a decent collection, and I will sell one to buy another, but I try to keep them filling a specific need, and not just filling a gun safe. Different reasons for collecting for different folks.
 
marksman13 said:
(Have you reached a point) where there wasn’t a “next gun” on your list?
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Pretty much, I'm a simple guy, I have a few expensive hobbies of which going bang at the range is only one and I'm not a zillionaire. I am content with what I own with one possible exception, an old gallery gun. A .22 slide action would tickle that one itch I do have. The modern Rossi doesn't do it for me and it's not that bad an itch that I actively search for one.

Funny story, about a year ago a guy came in the store and said he had a gun in his car and he wanted to show it to me. We're in a plaza and sometimes people feel funny about marching in with a gun, esp if they don't have a case for it. So I go out to the gent's car and I'm looking a the left side of an old Remington gallery gun, partially covered by a towel and I thought the gun gods had tossed me a bone. I picked up the gun and turned it over to look at the right side and I see there's no guts. No bolt, no nothing, not even a trigger. I looked at the guy and said "What am I going to do with that?"
He suggested I could hang it on a wall. I suggested he do the same and went back into the store.
 
I like to think that I won't get anymore. I always think long and hard before I make a purchase. I have to find the perfect gun for me to give in and make a purchase. I sort of have a rule where if there's anything at all wrong with it I put it down, be it condition, fit, expensive ammo, whatever. I don't need anything else, so anything new has to be perfect. It helps keep my money in my pocket.

I've found that if I find something I like, if I think about it for a while the lust for it eventually goes away. I can be absolutely itching for a particular firearm, but give it a couple of months and I'm indifferent. My desires certainly ebb and flow.

The stores around me must hate me for wasting their time. I come in and fondle their stuff, but I very, very rarely make a purchase. It's not that I walk with the intent to waste their time, it's that there's almost nothing that intrigues me enough to make me plop down my hard earned money.

Honestly, I'm more into ammo these days.
 
I think I'm about at the point of not purchasing any more guns. I'm a shooter/hunter, not a collector. Every gun I have serves a purpose even if it's slightly specialized and every one goes to the range frequently. While I have several nice firearms and cast/reload the cost of my gun hobby is small compared to money tied up in fishing and motorcycling.
 
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