If you could go back in time and advise yourself

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If you could go back in time and advise yourself before you bought (or sold) your first firearm, what advice would you give?

I'd keep it simple:

--Don't waste your time with the really big magnums. They hurt to shoot.

--Get one good revolver in .357 or .44 Mag and don't buy any more.

--Pay attention to things like sectional density and twist rate, and try to figure out what you plan on shooting BEFORE you spend the money on a firearm. Read Chuck Hawk's website, most of all.

--Pay more attention to cartridges than the things that fire them. A firearm is merely a platform for the cartridge, and the choice of platform should come second, after you have chosen a cartridge.

--Always take a look at the crown. If you can't see nice lands out to the end, pass on that firearm.
 
Hehe, how about:

--> Buy the MP5. You'll make at least a 300% profit on it. :p
 
Good judgment is based on experience. What is experience based on? Poor judgment.

Just be glad what you know now! :)
 
Don't sell the Hk 91 or 93! And pick up a MP5 while you still can, that's what the credit card is for, remember???? "Emergencies!:D"
 
Excellent question.

1. I'd go back to the time I got my first BB gun, second grade: Learn to shoot a long gun right handed!

2. Start working earlier - anything, like a paper route, even in junior high - to build savings & experience sooner.

3. Learn how to study - yes, public school is a joke and you don't need to study to do well, but when you get to college you'll take it in the shorts the first couple of years, and you'll waste time & money getting up to speed. If you learn how to study now, you'll graduate sooner and you'll be able to buy guns that won't be available when you can finally afford them.

4. "Assault Weapons", "Assault Weapons", "Assault Weapons"!

5. Don't take the Mustang to the meeting in Santa Rosa. The resulting theft will set in motion a chain of events that will cause far more grief, pain, anger, etc., than just the loss of the car.

6. Double check the offset on that survey point.

7. Get 2 or 3 870 Expresses while they're still $200 new.
 
Buy that ugly Austrian Steyr-AUG or two or three. Same with the MP-5 (SP-89?).

When the Sedish Mausers cost $69. Buy in qty.

Adios
 
Since this should be gun related I can spare myself from having to think about all the important decisions that I should have made but didn't.:eek:

Anyway, I would have got my C&R FFL as soon as I could (18 I think) and I would have saved a bundel of cash on certain guns.:eek:

I also would have checked into the 9mm a lot sooner than I did, I could have saved a lot of time. I would have started shooting in leagues a lot earlier, it has made me a much better shot than before and I learned a lot of good stuff.

THE MOST IMPORTANT thing I would have done was to find a good gun forum and read it and post to it! These forums have informed me more and faster than 1st hand experience ever did. I just made mistake after mistake until I got some good advice from these places. They may not tell you what you should and shouldn't do but they do give someone some insights on what are god guns and what are poor guns. I didn't buy a S&W Sigma because of info learned on the net and I found out about CZ guns through the net. I got a CZ-452 based on info from a gun forum and it is one of my best buys in a new gun.
 
H&K 91 Styer AUG

Need I say more? :D

Couple of other notes:
- Make damn sure that last minute, voice vote approved machine-gun amendment doesn't make it into the 1986 Gun Owner's Protection Act.
- Make sure Bush v1.0 doesn't ban imports.
- Tell Ross Perot to forget about running.
- Randy Weaver would be forewarned, as well as the Branch Dividians

I could go on, but you get the point.
 
1977 - Buy several Colt MKIV Series 70 pistols, put some away for future use. Eat sparingly for several months to lose those un-warranted pounds.

1980's - Buy that submachine gun. Eat sparingly for several months to lose those un-warranted pounds.

1993 - Buy three (3) pre-ban Colt Match Sporters/AR-15 A2's, put two away for future use. Eat sparingly for several months to lose those un-warranted pounds.

Anyone see any re-curring theme???
 
Buy GE and Microsoft stock. Sell it years later, use money to purchase everything I want now.

Start reading forums like this at age 15.

Don't EVER talk to that one girl.

Don't speed on the Blossom St. bridge in July 2001.

Keep the P7.
 
hmmmmm......

The blonde, not either one of the brunettes.

Shift out of second gear.

Don't bother with the LDA.
Read the Midland paper. (2 Citori's, one 20ga, one 12ga for $600 each the day after I bought my 12ga Citori for $1000)

Don't bother with that cheap 300 Winmag
Buy more heavy barreled rifles in smaller calibers
Buy Microsoft at any price.
 
Stuck with the brunette in'75, (then I wouldn't have met the blond, the redhead [shiver]...)

Bought that little 2 bedroom house for $7,250.00, out of HS

Gone to college somehow, out of state...instead of doing it now.

Bought the first stock, more of the 2nd,and run when I heard about the 3rd.

I could now be retired with $ for the rest of my life, with a house paid for, college education and all the well made series 70 GM's and other various guns I've always wanted.

I would have also traveled, taken Safari's. Reading history or Ruark,Capstick and Hemingway is one thing...going there and tracing steps is another.

And I should have ,when the offer was made, taken the Bondurant driving course, run the BAJA, and the Salt Flats...

20/20 hind-site and the guns I'd bought....
 
If I could give young Standing Wolf some good advice, one item would be to sell fewer guns and buy more, and another would be not to move to the People's Republic of California in 1992 and back to the United States a decade later.
 
If I could advise myself about the first gun I sold, it would go a little something like this, "Stop! What the hell are you selling a brand new Browning HP for! You'll regret it all your life."

Also if I could talk to myself as I was browsing in Potomac Arms and Ye Olde Hunter in Alexandria, VA back in the '60's looking at all the neat surplus rifles from almost all eras, I would tell myself, "Stop looking you idiot! Buy the whole lot! And while I'm at it write this down, don't buy that Rover 2000 in about 10 years, it's a dog."
 
Buy Microsoft stock in the 70's
For the love of God don't sell the HK91 in 1993!!!
Keep the Speed Six and use a credit card for the M24.
 
Circa 1987, any St. Louis gun show, don't look at the price of the AR15, buy it and every other one you can find. Ditto on the Gold Cup (I did buy one). A few years later erase the "These SKS's will be worth a fortune someday" thought from my brain.
 
get as many s&w model 41s as i could afford.buy an original thompson 1927a1 deluxe and several drum mags.keep the ingram "powdersprings" mac 10,keep the colt ar15 i had in 85,dont buy that p.o.s ar15 22 l.r lookalike made in the philapines just because it looks like my ar and cheaper to shoot.follow the directions exactly on shooting a blackpowder revolver rather than listening to what my neighbor said.marry my wife right out of high school(where we met) rather than waiting 10 years(she went off to college and her folks encouraged her to see other men) to meet up again in a grocery store.this way,i wouldnt have spent all that money on the other women i let move in who were lazy and irratating(lol) and brought me such grief
 
hmmm go to the doctor and tell him about the headaches when I was 14 , stayed with the redhead in Highschool instead of the one I married and listened to the guys when they said don't marry her. Never think of quitting the academy , Don't even look into driving a truck . and I shouldn't have listened to her.... oh yes and kept my crosman 860
 
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