Have you ever coveted someone's gun

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Alright guys like the title says I know I have I have a friend that has a tikka 270 that I would kill to have first load for it .473 5 shots at 100 yards :what: I looked at him and said yep I'm done doing load development for that so do you and what is it :evil:
 
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An old guy showed me his Para Ordnance 1911 once, with the double stack magazine. I thought it was pretty dang cool.
Another old guy showed me his 475 Wildey. I thought it was really cool.
But honestly... I'm happy with my own stuff.
 
I do but not frequently at the range or gunshop. I'm a much more classic kind of guy and the stuff I covet is typically in somebody's safe-queen collection. Then there are the guys who have more free time than I do who can search the pawn shops and garage sales to come up with the true beauties. With all that said if anybody wants a safe to store their old colt or s&w revolvers, long recoil operated guns, rabbit ear double guns, or early cartridge rifles, I feel like I could make room to babysit...but the brass cases and lead projectiles may be found a bit further apart than when they come to visit.
 
Not too often anymore as my collection has grown to cover most of my "needs", but some of the classic military rifles still get me, specifically the Garands & M14s.
 
Sure!

A gent walked into a gunshop with a BHP while I was visiting. Standard WWII-ish, but with the exception it was one of the very rare Finnish contract guns. One of my "Holy Grail" guns for my collection. He sold it to the owner for $700. The owner barely dickered at all. As soon as the guy left I asked if the shop would sell it to me, but the owner knew exactly what he had and told me it was going into his collection. He did let me hold it and inspect it for several minutes.

Knew a guy with a BHP Renaissance that he'd never taken out of the case. He let me drool on the glass display cabinet.

Knew a guy with ... well, you get the picture.
 
I'm laying in bed trying to go to sleep. The wife is making odd chainsaw and tea kettle noises and I'm thinking about Drillings. Why must my mind torture itself.
 
This may be an extreme but it is true. Every gun i see at a gunshow and every person that has a firearm i don't have i Covet.:D But hey that's the thing about guns you can't stop at one and the cooler (blacktical:evil:) the better. But the most extreme case i had was when this guy was selling his 3d printed lower designed as a p90 like stock for an sbr upper. Wow that was nice.
 
Not really this in particular. But when I get the chance to handle/shoot something I see as odd or novel I might put it on the "if I find one reasonably priced I'll buy it" list. I also have tried some firearms that I thought I might want but then said "why did I think I wanted one of those pieces of crap".

I do appreciate those that are kind enough to let me try out their firearms and will always offer to let them try mine as well.
 
Yep. My bff-shooting and fishing buddy-cousin has 2 pre1964 Winchester model-70 Westerners in .264 Mag with consecutive serial numbers. I've tried to buy one of them for 30 years. I've offered to have my will state that if I die before him, ownership of the rifle will revert to him. No sale yet, but I'll keep trying.
 
Funny you should ask.

About a year ago I guy I go to church with showed up at the range with a S&W 4006. Nothing special about that particular gun but I have always wanted one. I let him know I’d always wanted one and long story short he walked into church the next day and offered it me for 200.00 $
 
Only one I've really "coveted",,,

Only one I've really "coveted",,,
I mean I get the "want-it's" all the time,,,
But to really covet it was my friend Jackie's little gun.

It was a little Nickel plated Model 34,,,
Every time we went out shooting she brought it,,,
Every time we went out shooting I offered to buy it from her.

It's the gun on the left.
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My friend Jackie passed away a bit over two years ago,,,
I was helping her brother go through her stuff,,,
I told him of the pistol and offered to buy it,,,
He handed it to me and said "It's yours."

I almost wept.

She told the story of how for her 11th (or 12th) birthday,,,
Her father took her to a gun shop and said,,,
Pick any .22 you want as your present,,,
This was the one she picked out.

I told her one time that she had good taste in guns,,,
What was it that made you want this one,,,
She replied: "It was shiny."

If I ever have to get down to just one handgun,,,
It will probably be this one I will keep,,,
Functionality and sentimentality,,,
All in a piece of shiny steel.

To keep his rifle orientated though,,,
He also gave me the rifle she used in her H.S. Rifle team,,,
I never "coveted" the rifle so much as I was jealous of her accuracy with it.

Mossberg 340KC with precision peep sights.
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A hunting buddy of mine inherited a Win. 21 from his Grandfather. He showed it to me, ever handle a shotgun that was so perfectly balanced it seem to be alive? This was one of those, with the most gorgeous wood I've seen. It was like a scene from"lord of the rings" I didn't want to give it back! It's now a safe queen seeing the light of day 2-3 times a year:(
 
Not really except for someone with a sako Finnwolf or the member(someone link his hunting stories) on here with his very nice drilling. Or maybe a Rockola M1 carbine or........

All right, I lied.
 
It would be easier to tell what I didn't covet I believe. Not that I'm gonna stick my friend's Ruger MkII with the 10" barrel under my jacket and slide out the door or anything. But I have tried to talk him out of it for years. No dice. Then there's the Sako's the Anschutz rimfires, the M1's, the 1911's, the Accuracy Internationals, the Martini-Henrys... I should start from the other end really. I don't want another Raven P-25. nothing Bryco Arms/Jennings, no Nambu pistols, no pepper boxes... Well I would probably take some of these just to point at and laugh.

Sorry, no guns I don't want. Next question. :)
 
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