Pew pew daydreamin'

[FlSwampRat]

Okay, so it's a rainy Friday in Fla as a cold front comes through. Caught myself staring out of the front glass at the rain coming down and drifting back to sunny Saturdays decades ago (When I didn't work this many hours a week) at the old gun club and having a lazy day with my muzzleloader. (Only had one back then.)

So, my question to y'all is this, when you have one of those drift away firearm daydreams, are you shopping for a new gun? Designing your own dream gun? On a hunting trip? At the range blowing out the bullseye?

 

[Pat Riot]

I catch myself making plans for mods to guns or thinking about ways to improve my shooting skills. I also reminisce about past shooting and hunting trips. I also think about my motorcycles and going on rides.

 

[Iggy]

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[Labguy47]

As I drove to work in that same rain this morning I found myself thinking about have vs need vs wants. I have enough guns, I shoot all of them, but what one gun would round out the collection to where I am satisfied with not needing any more. The startling realization that an FX-9 would round it all out and let me relax more was a disturbing thought.

 

[Legionnaire]

I daydream (reminisce) about hunting whitetail in the PA and NY woods with my now-deceased father-in-law. I'll never hunt with him again, but look forward to hunting with my sons-in-law and grand kids as the opportunity presents itself.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I’m usually thinking about what guns I want to trade in towards better guns in order to have the guns I really want.

 

[WestKentucky]

Trying to replace a couple that I let go in a fit of stupidity. Taurus 689 is out of production, but they occasionally pop up but usually in stainless where I had blue. Most of the blued ones are 4” where I had 6”. I’m seriously considering a 608 instead because that kinda bridges the other gap to the Taurus m44 I let go after trading into it from a Taurus 405 that was also incredible. The other guns I beat myself up on are a Colt DS, and a Winchester lever .357 although I sold it for a huge profit and would t want that model back as the long octagon barrel was way too heavy. I’m more in the mind of a rossi.

But sometimes I’m not reminiscing, but rather pondering the future. I have another girl on the way so I’m trying to decide what they need to already own in the very near future, and for when they are old enough to be trusted with firearms of their own. I’m pretty well settled on them having a 22 rifle, a 20 ga shotgun, and a handgun of some sort. I’m leaning real hard towards a ruger wrangler but my first was a Phoenix hp22 and it has served me well. Then again Ruger makes affordable guns in the colors that they like, but those guns look like toys to me soooo....

 

[WestKentucky]

I’m usually thinking about what guns I want to trade in towards better guns in order to have the guns I really want.

Don’t do it!!! Unless you generally dislike the gun you don’t want to do it. Keep it if it even remotely is of interest. Don’t even “trade up” because you don’t want to be like me and go from an incredible Taurus to a junk Ruger Gp100 or a similar but not impressive S&W 686.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Don’t do it!!! Unless you generally dislike the gun you don’t want to do it. Keep it if it even remotely is of interest. Don’t even “trade up” because you don’t want to be like me and go from an incredible Taurus to a junk Ruger Gp100 or a similar but not impressive S&W 686.

I usually consider for a year or more before getting rid of a gun. I have traded many away and don’t really regret getting rid of any of them.

That being said, I make damn sure first it’s what I want.

 

[MedWheeler]

A lot of my gun-related daydreaming is about teaching new shooters about the different types of firearms and how they operate.

 

[brewer12345]

I am jonesing for a few muzzleloader sessions at the range. Burning some powder and trying out the new barrels, rifles and bullet molds I have gotten my hands on...

 

[Ks5shooter]

Dreaming that all my brass is prepped and ready to load.

 

[Armored farmer]

I have some shooting adventures on my horizon to dream about....
Today is my combat pistol class. I'm taking my SR9C and 250 rounds to see if an old dog can still learn new tricks.
Mid March is our trip to Texas hill country to visit family. I have a hog hunt booked for st. Patrick's day. I'm going to try to produce some sausage with my 7.62x39 RAR.
Late march is Pall Mall Tennessee for Alvin York's Memorial shoot. That will be my .45 flintlock, unless I decide to take my old family heirloom caplock (that would be a hoot).
....so I have plenty to dream about, and practice for.

 

[IJustLikeGuns]

My gun daydream is my LGS has the exact guns I’m jonesing for TODAY so I don’t have to wait for ‘em. Almost never comes true.

 

[JR24]

I’m usually thinking about what guns I want to trade in towards better guns in order to have the guns I really want.

Me too, been really downsizing the collection a lot lately, replacing quantity with quality. It's been long enough experimenting with all the options out there and I know what I like.

Don’t do it!!! Unless you generally dislike the gun you don’t want to do it. Keep it if it even remotely is of interest. Don’t even “trade up” because you don’t want to be like me and go from an incredible Taurus to a junk Ruger Gp100 or a similar but not impressive S&W 686.

I still have a safe full of guns that haven't been out, other than periodic cleaning, in a year or more. Those can go in my mind, none of them nice, pretty or special enough to end up as collectors items down the road.

The only outlier is my Hi Power. I don't really like shooting it, but being difficult to replace keeps it in my safe.

 

[MistWolf]

Okay, so it's a rainy Friday in Fla as a cold front comes through. Caught myself staring out of the front glass at the rain coming down and drifting back to sunny Saturdays decades ago (When I didn't work this many hours a week) at the old gun club and having a lazy day with my muzzleloader. (Only had one back then.)

So, my question to y'all is this, when you have one of those drift away firearm daydreams, are you shopping for a new gun? Designing your own dream gun? On a hunting trip? At the range blowing out the bullseye?

Pew Pew Pew is the sound of pulse lasers and means I'm also thinking of the schhRACK of PPCs (particle projection cannons), the WHOOOOSHboomboomboomboomboom of LRMs (long range missiles), the budadadadaduh of machineguns, the hypersonic CRACK of a Gauss Rifle, the DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA of the auto-cannon and the desperate transmissions of PBI (Poor Bloody Infantry) as they're trampled under the heels of a 70 ton armored behemoth.

Hmmm. It's time to dust off my Griffin, Phoenixhawk, Jenner and Stinger and see what skulduggery Chancellor Romana and her Cappie lapdogs are up to...

 

[JR24]

Pew Pew Pew is the sound of pulse lasers and means I'm also thinking of the schhRACK of PPCs (particle projection cannons), the WHOOOOSHboomboomboomboomboom of LRMs (long range missiles), the budadadadaduh of machineguns, the hypersonic CRACK of a Gauss Rifle, the DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA of the auto-cannon and the desperate transmissions of PBI (Poor Bloody Infantry) as they're trampled under the heels of a 70 ton armored behemoth.

Hmmm. It's time to dust off my Griffin, Phoenixhawk, Jenner and Stinger and see what skulduggery Chancellor Romana and her Cappie lapdogs are up to...

Always a fan of the Thunderbolt myself.

 

[MistWolf]

Good mech. My buddy is a huge fan. My favorite 70 ton mech is the Warhammer.

GO TEAM Mjölnir!