The list of "needs/wants" keeps growing! What's on yours?

[fastbolt]

Good luck with figuring out when enough is enough.

When I was a younger man I had simpler tastes and wants in firearms ... and the marketplace was a much simpler place.

As a young cop and firearms enthusiast with disposable income, I wanted lots of copies of the different handguns I liked.

Once I became a firearms instructor, and then started going to a bunch of armorer classes, I wanted an increasingly wider range of "working" guns in my safe. It didn't hurt that I was able to buy a lot of guns by taking advantage at reduced armorer program pricing after each armorer class & recert, either.

Nowadays? I've decided that I not only have enough, but probably too many. I could carry a different handgun with which I've trained & qualified every day, and not carry the same handgun twice in more than a month. That's doesn't count my target/range enjoyment handguns, either.

Now that I'm in my 60's, I just don't have as much desire to continue to accrue guns for "collecting" purpose.

I'm also less eager to keep all of them clean after using so many different guns when I'm working ranges. Having to help support and maintain some hundreds of other guns issued to, & owned by, other folks ... which can include having to deal with the results of neglect and the "cleaning practices" of other folks that borders on abuse ... I just don't enjoy cleaning my own guns as much as I did as a younger man.

 

[BSA1]

Need?

I really do need a revolver with interchangeable cylinders for 22 LR and 22 Magnum.

Want;

SKS is at top of the list. From it gets rather long.

 

[stchman]

I took care of all my firearms "needs" years ago, it's nothing but "wants" now.

 

[monk d]

I "need" a 45-70 lever or falling block rifle, and,
1000 small pistol primers
2000 large pistol primers
2000 small rifle primers
5000 large rifle primers

along with applicable powder and bullets.

Oh, and 2000 more rounds of 22LR

 

[Cee Zee]

2000 more rounds of 22LR

Might as well wish big if you're gonna wish. Make it 20,000 or maybe 200,000. You could get rich selling some of it.

 

[Warp]

The top of the list:

-More range time
-More (wannabe HSLD type) training
-More ammo (always)
-CZ 455 American
-More magazines (AR and Glock)

 

[Manny]

I've mostly handled my needs, but there are a couple newer items on the market I'm considering upgrading to: The new Ruger KLCR in 9mm, a chamber ing I've been wanting since the LCR series was introduced, and a 5" S&W M&P CORE IN 9mm with either a Trijicon or Leupold Delta point sight. I already have a KLCR in .357 and a Glock 34 that are very good guns, but I think there is still room for improvement. I also have a yen for a TC Pro Hunter Encore with a 20" barrel in .460 S&W that would make a great companion gun to my Ruger .45 LC & .454 Casull revolvers.

Beyond that I'm mostly looking at upgrading what I already have with improved sights, grips and getting some quality optics & a few other accessories.