How do you resist urge to buy new piece?

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Idahou said:
So how do you resist that urge to keep buying new guns or how you decide which deal is it worth it and what you should let pass?
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Renting, or shooting friend's guns can sometimes satisfy my "gotta have it" desires.

Otherwise, I really have to stop looking at gun stuff on the web and do something else. :D
 
jmr40 said:
When there is no more room in the safe. ...
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:(Yeah, that was my plan, too. That's what I told myself for a couple of years ... right up until I bought that 2nd 48gun Ft.Knox gunsafe (and with my custom dividers they do fit 48 longguns plus a LOT of handguns on the shelves at the top) ... and it didn't stop there ...

... thank goodness (for me) the inexpensive/thrifty/economical/CHEAP milsurp market fizzled a decade+ ago, or I wouldn't have any room to move around in here ... :)
 
I have 'collections' and a few 'using firearms'. I have all the 'using firearms (house handguns and rifles, hunting rifles)' I can use (or more).
So the only thing for which I look are primarily rifles from the First World War or .32 ACP pistols prior to the Second World War. Smith & Wesson revolvers I can afford. That want list gets more and more limited as time goes on.
I have no zeal for AR type rifles so I don't buy them. No desire for 'plastic' arms; no desire or use for belted cartridges. So... I have limited desires.
 
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I have a few rules when buying firearms.

1) Don't buy a gun for an amount you couldn't sell it for later. This forces me to buy used guns at good prices or new guns at great prices.
2) I only keep the guns I love. If I just "like" a gun, it gets sold or traded for the amount I paid for it, or often a little higher.
3) Money from gun sales only goes into other gun purchases, but don't let that cash burn a hole in your pocket: hold onto it until the next deal on something you truly want shows up.
 
How do I resist?

When I can't get ahold of my LGS to order something. They don't answer the phones anymore, or rarely text either.

So, just window shopping.
 
Not having the money always seems to do the trick.

I just spent several hundred dollars on tools and hardware to rebuild my macrophotography table.

I was thinking about buying a Citadel Warthog and upgrading it to a proper tactical shotgun to supplement the Ithaca which I refuse to wrench on. The photography expenses put that off for a month until I saw a bad review of the gun and the price at Rural King went up $100. I'm looking at an alternative that's $100-200 more than the Citadel, but again that's probably at least a month or two off... assuming that I don't see any seriously bad reviews (haven't found ANY so far, good or bad).
 
bassjam said:
I have a few rules when buying firearms.

1) Don't buy a gun for an amount you couldn't sell it for later. This forces me to buy used guns at good prices or new guns at great prices.
2) I only keep the guns I love. If I just "like" a gun, it gets sold or traded for the amount I paid for it, or often a little higher.
3) Money from gun sales only goes into other gun purchases, but don't let that cash burn a hole in your pocket: hold onto it until the next deal on something you truly want shows up.
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Same here. I've sold off all of the firearms that no longer appeal to me. Money from gun sales go towards something new or an accessory I want.

I love pinned (pre 1982) S&W revolvers but current prices for even marginally decent examples are rare though I'll always keep eyes open for that one. In the last couple of years I have developed a taste for older European automatic pistols and have picked up a few.

With modern firearms my interests change like the wind. I have been on a pistol caliber carbine kick for awhile but while looking around for another one this past Saturday I got lost in the world of bullpup shotguns. Might be my next purchase.

So OP I don't resist I embrace.:cool:
 
At this stage, I have one safe for long guns and another (small one) for hand guns. When there is no more space, no more guns until I sell something to make room. If I see something I'm interested in I immediately think, "Do I want that enough to sell something I already have?" If the answer is "no," easy to pass. If the answer is "yes," I decide what to sell. That's worked for me for several years. Now I'm on the verge of a major "safe cleaning" as I anticipate retiring in a couple of years and want to start focusing on fewer guns that I will shoot more.
 
The cruel reality of the budget is usually what curbs my desires.

Followed closely by lack of space in the safe.

I'm also old, been there and done that a time or two, bought and lost the t-shirt, too. So, the "new" has to be sore compelling, and not merely a really great bargain (those can be very tough). When I see something really cheap, I remind myself of the rule of "There's nothing more expensive than a 'free' puppy."

However, this applies:
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(mind, I've only recently 'given in' for one firearm, and that was a SIG 365X, ending a 21 month hiatus)
 
The few hundred I just spent replacing the crank sensor on my car helps keep new gun related purchases down.

The new tires and brake work that I need will keep that urge away.
 
After my buying experience on Gunbroker last week, it will be pretty easy for me to resist. At least from Gunbroker. Compliance fee (***?), sales tax, shipping, 3% fee for using a card instead of mailing the seller gold bullion or something equal. That and prices going to stupid levels on ordinary rifles. Take blue book prices and multiply times 1.5 to 2.
 
I created a guideline for myself that new purchases should serve a practical need and must be balanced with the current unused capacity of the gun safe.
 
does it do something you have doens't do? do you need something that does that?
 
I used to buy guns all the time. But I've realized it was pretty empty in the end. I was getting momentary satisfaction and then burdened with upkeep on a bloated accumulation of stuff I didn't really want and couldn't use. Over the last few years I've added guns here and there but I've been slowly whittling them down to a number that makes me happy, I can manage, and that I'll actually use and get enjoyment from.

If I was to start over I'd own fewer than I do now but right at this moment I can't see myself selling anymore. Maybe it'll happen though. I've said that a few times now.

Sometimes less is better. Maybe re evaluate what is driving that purchase. You might get more from spending time with gun you already own or maybe taking a class or something like that.
 
How do I resist the urge to buy a new piece?
I still have the one I picked up 31 years ago.
Oh, you mean guns; Poverty makes it fairly easy to resist. But when I have money, the list comes out.......

I was in 3 gun stores today (looking unsuccessfully for reloading components) and saw several guns I want. (and a lot of them I had no interest in.) I have one AR project that's on hold, and a braced Charger I'd like to get and put together, and maybe a can on it. So when I have some $$, the list comes out.
 
GunnyUSMC said:
I remember back when I could only afford one gun a year. Paying for the house, making sure the wife and kids had the things they needed. I also worked hard and put in a lot of hours at work so that I could provide for my family.
It wasn’t until I got divorced 18 years ago that I found out how much money my Ex-wife was spending on herself or just wasting. I had pretty much let her take care of all the finances, boy was that a mistake. I ended up paying off all my bills and got rid of all my credit cards.
Even after paying child support and making sure that my kids had everything they needed, I still had plenty of money to take my boys on vacation for two weeks every summer and spend my days off with them. I found that I still had money leftover for buying guns. I also did stock repairs as a hobby which always made me extra money for buying guns and ammo.
I really got into buying surplus military guns and was always on the hunt for good deals. One year I decided I would buy a gun a week. It was hard finding one I wanted and would sometimes go a week or two without buying one, but by the end of the year, I had bought 52 guns. The next year I bought 79.:rofl:
I ended up with a lot of duplicates in my surplus collection, and a few that I didn’t have much interest in. For me buying guns was something I did for fun with the extra money I had. I found that the hunt for the next deal on a gun was more fun then buying the guns.
I retired at the end of last year and and paid off my house. I basically have no bills now. I did start to sell off the duplicates in my surplus collection to make room for other guns. I just sold three this past week for more then double what I paid for them. And I bought another gun to fill a spot in my Enfield collection.
Whit the pandemic and the crazy prices, I basically just put my gun hobby on hold, unless I found a really good deal.
I really love my gun hobby, but I have always put family first. Like my mom, she’s 81 and in great health. One day she said that she would love to have a nice patio in her backyard. So I made it happen.
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My youngest son is 17 and still lives with me. He just got his drivers license so I bought him a car.
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Now I will tell you, a gun hobby can get out of hand. I found that even with three gun safes and a walk-in gun closet, I was running out of room. By selling off my duplicates surplus gun, I went from just over 400 to a more manageable 375.

Here’s the best advice I can give you.
#1 Don’t spend money on guns that you don’t have.
#2 Family comes first.
#3 Don’t be in a rush to buy, look for deals.
#4 Don’t buy used guns for more then you can resale them for.
#5 Never sell guns when you need money. You will almost always loose money.
#6 Have fun with your hobby.
#7 Find a friend to go gun shopping with, here’s mine.
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Holy shi'ite man!!! :what:I always wondered what your total was, prompted by different pics you've posted over the years. Excellent job collecting!

As to the OP, I have had my bases covered for a while now. I am way past the point of "practical" and have more than I need. I occasionally see something I want and have long internal dialog with myself for days, weeks, months as to whether I really need to purchase. I have 20+ guns and I don't envision buying many more, but it doesn't stop me from looking or researching them constantly and occasionally I get a hair across my nose and make it happen.

I know for a fact that a nice o/u 12GA is somewhere in the future, maybe a couple nice revolvers....

If VT hadn't done away with private sales I could never make the above statement because who can pass up a good deal? I can't count how many awesome deals came along at total random because somebody got in a tight spot and needed quick cash. Well those days are over unfortunately.
 
When I reach into my wallet and there is nothing there. When I reach and there is, I do not resist.
 
When I first started buying firearms, I bought many, and I bought lots of accessories. I also bought lots of ammo. And I didn't do much shooting, because if I shot all that ammo, I would have to buy more, so I wouldn't be able to afford my next gun. Then I bought the next gun, and more accessories, and more ammo, which I also didn't shoot so that I would HAVE ammo.

Now guess what I wasn't very good at. Shooting!

These days when I buy a gun, I still buy accessories, and I still buy lots of ammo. But then I go shoot that ammo. And then I buy more ammo, and I shoot that too. The result is, I can shoot my guns fairly well (by my standards anyway). Which is much better than having a collection of cool guns that I can't shoot worth a darn.

Buying guns to buy guns, is just shopping. Like a woman buying a new handbag or pair of shoes. The magic wears off, and you want to buy something else.
 
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