"I'm Good!"

[buck460XVR]

Either way, I can't get motivated to buy more guns. I'm good.

Do I need therapy?

No. I'm in the same boat. While my collection is not as vast as some, it's larger than many. While I see guns I'd like to own, I have no desire to own more. I have way more than I shoot now on a regular basis altho I do try and shoot them all. If I were to get anything in the near future, it would be a M1 paratrooper carbine or a 1887 lever shotgun just for ships and giggles. I'd rather be proficient with a few than ho-hum with a lot.

 

[crestoncowboy]

While I see guns I'd like to own, I have no desire to own more

I desire to own more. But not anything new by any means. I'm still bargaining (ongoing for 6 months now) with a guy on another flite king 12 guage. ....I have 2 already.

Personally I don't see any gain from 60s to now with shotguns. Rifles have gotten easier to make accurate. My old valuable rifles may shoot good may not... Most don't to be honest. Very few of my nice old blued/ wood stocked rifles would I bet against the sorriest axis as far as accuracy. Lol. Handguns evolved with most ccw/ service guns being designed from 80- present (92/226/usp/M&P/320 ETC).

But shotguns IMHO have not improved. Screw in chokes are nice if you want one gun for multiple purpose but for a designated purpose id take a blued/wood shotgun with whatever fixed choke i needed. Ive worked on two KSG now. I wouldn't have one. (Both had been assembled wrong by the shooter/cleaner.. not really broke...just for disclosure) i also have a spas 12. Paid 400 bucks many years ago because nobody wanted a 10lb shotgun....Id take an 1897 or model 12 anyday. And unlike rifles the new ugly painted/synthetic guns don't benefit in accuracy.

History often shows that the next great thing may not be great. Look at the next great model 12....the 1200/1300.

Or this..

 

[George P]

Been there, done all that. Read THR's sticky about buying girlfriends/wives thread the day it was posted.
My wife has shot all my handguns, semi's and revolvers. She's handled almost as many as I have in gun shops. She's the least recoil sensitive woman I've ever shot with. She knows what she needs in tigger pull length and weight. No greenie.

1st, we aren't looking at small revolvers. 2nd, she picked out her revolver. Though I'd like her to handle a few more for comparison, she did a damn fine job with her current selection.

Good advice, much appreciated, but she's on her game. I ain't telling her what to buy.

Great! Too many times we get well-intenioned, but misguided, males making that decision - good for her!

 

[crestoncowboy]

Too many times we get well-intenioned, but misguided, males making that decision - good for her!

And often not well- intentioned or at all informed. Too many men recommend the scandium 357 (or 44 like the 329). Just because "got mer pauer"

 

[hso]

I can't get motivated to buy more guns. I'm good.

Do I need therapy?

Nope

Sounds like you have what you need and want other than "just another gun" so why spend the money.

OTOH, you could spend it on some shooting training and some shooting travel so you get the best bang for your buck.

 

[commygun]

I’d buy the AR. One of those guns that, for decades, I didn’t see any point in owning (hell, I have this here AK-what do I need an AR for?). Until I finally bought one. What a fun platform. And, as a guy who isn’t getting any younger but is getting more recoil sensitive, a pleasant centerfire to shoot for as long as one pleases.
I used to think that leaf blowers were for people who were too lazy to rake. Then I got one and wondered how I’d kept the place tidy without it. That’s the AR.

 

[boomeradf]

I am fully into what I want and three kids under 5 so I have spent the past 5 years buying ammo/reloading items. I am also into the want end of everything being 2,000 or more and it just doesn't make sense nor do I have the funds.

The one caveat to that is I have taken a liking for lever guns and revolvers but thats also turning into an expensive proposition.

 

[DustyGmt]

I'm 74 and still chasing great options. Bought several new guns last year, otherwise known as the year from hell, which made the year more tolerable. I look forward to every purchase, every rifle build, and every trip to the range or field. The list of guns I would love to try out is shorter than it used to be, but still viable and active. Can't wait until the renewal of the Wanenmacher Gun Show in Tulsa come April. I love looking and learning. I'll still be buying, selling, building and trading as long as my health permits. Toward that end, I am also always building more friendships and mutual projects. I still have a lot to learn and knowledge to share.

I hope I'm blessed enough to share these sentiments when I reach 74. I agree, that first wild hair across your nose that sparks the interest in a particular firearm, researching it, chasing it down. It's half the fun. Then you finally get it in your hands. I am usually pretty hesitant to refer to the acquisition and collecting of firearms as a "hobby" because we always have our backs to the wall, forced to justify "need" and "purpose" but it is a hobby along with all the rest of it, whatever we all have different opinions about it but I would hate to see where some of us would be without this hobby or passion or whatever you want to call it.

Everybody zeroes in on some thing, whether it's boats, sleds, fishing, bowling, shooting, etc... everybody should have the freedom to pursue their own thing. For the OP, if getting an AR is something you think might become necessary at some point in your life, now might be the time to jump on it because of Washington D.C. and all the wonderful things they're doing down there, they could become hard to get or you might not be able to find one with a barrel shroud, which would suck because you would burn your hand.