How do you do it, personally?
Assumptions for this question:
-You have basic needs covered for the time being
-You are like most of us and always want this, that, and the other, it's never-ending
-Your budget is finite
So, say you have budgeted, received, set aside, built up, etc, a certain amount of $ to spend on whatever firearm(s) or related items you want. How do you decide if you buy a gun, a scope, ammo, a training course, entries into matches, etc?
Is it an organic thing where you just have an itch for XYZ at that time, so you scratch it? Is it a plan where you have a list or outline, even if rudimentary and only kept mentally, of the approximate order you wish to acquire various items and you simply work down it? Do you take a bit of quantitative approach and evaluate your firearms/spare parts, etc, and ammo on hand (or ammo + components for loaders) and decide which one gives you more marginal utility?
Just curious/idle conversation here.
For example, I recently sold a gun and everything that went with it (including all ammo in that cartridge) but could only afford to spend ~40% of the proceeds on more gun stuff. I had to decide between a replacement gun (different cartridge, similar otherwise) or a case or two of ammo for guns I already had.
On the one hand getting a new gun is more fun and exciting, because I have enough ammo I can go out and shoot as much as I want, short term, without running out. But eventually I would run out, of course, unless I bought more (ammo/components), and I don't have enough ammo to wear out probably even one firearm, let alone all of them, so that makes me want to order the ammo. But how fun/exciting is that, when it's just more of what I already hvae and when I go to the range next time nothing really changes? I also could have signed up for a nice training course using the firearms/ammo I already have. After all, being more proficient with them is both fun and practical.
How do you do it?
(my guess is most people will just get whatever they feel they want the most at that time, which doesn't follow a process, it just "is", but I'm curious)
Assumptions for this question:
-You have basic needs covered for the time being
-You are like most of us and always want this, that, and the other, it's never-ending
-Your budget is finite
So, say you have budgeted, received, set aside, built up, etc, a certain amount of $ to spend on whatever firearm(s) or related items you want. How do you decide if you buy a gun, a scope, ammo, a training course, entries into matches, etc?
Is it an organic thing where you just have an itch for XYZ at that time, so you scratch it? Is it a plan where you have a list or outline, even if rudimentary and only kept mentally, of the approximate order you wish to acquire various items and you simply work down it? Do you take a bit of quantitative approach and evaluate your firearms/spare parts, etc, and ammo on hand (or ammo + components for loaders) and decide which one gives you more marginal utility?
Just curious/idle conversation here.
For example, I recently sold a gun and everything that went with it (including all ammo in that cartridge) but could only afford to spend ~40% of the proceeds on more gun stuff. I had to decide between a replacement gun (different cartridge, similar otherwise) or a case or two of ammo for guns I already had.
On the one hand getting a new gun is more fun and exciting, because I have enough ammo I can go out and shoot as much as I want, short term, without running out. But eventually I would run out, of course, unless I bought more (ammo/components), and I don't have enough ammo to wear out probably even one firearm, let alone all of them, so that makes me want to order the ammo. But how fun/exciting is that, when it's just more of what I already hvae and when I go to the range next time nothing really changes? I also could have signed up for a nice training course using the firearms/ammo I already have. After all, being more proficient with them is both fun and practical.
How do you do it?
(my guess is most people will just get whatever they feel they want the most at that time, which doesn't follow a process, it just "is", but I'm curious)