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Need total of eight, but I would be fine with six because I don't need DGR and do not hunt with handguns. The breakdown is as follows: two handguns, two shotguns, three rifles. More than that is waste of financial resources.
 
"Dangerous game rifle". I kinda feel bad years ago I passed on english sxs .470 made in birmingham on webley scott action. It was kool and
I was young making good money there was no reason to pass on it. This was in them times before federal, wolfgang romey and kynamco loaded ammo for it.
 
I enjoy shooting and I enjoy reloading the right load, for each gun. Too many guns? Nope, not done learning yet, and just having too much fun.
 
I must have exactly enough, because I don't want to sell any that I have, and I spent today at every gun shop in the county, with my wife's blessing on bringing home anything I wanted within a good budget, and I came home empty-handed.
 
I have a hard time walking away from a good deal if its a caliber I already stock.....gotta say I'm a little proud for resisting a pair of nice fairly priced Savages the other day....a 99D in .300 Sav. and a 340 in .30-30. But if the calibers had been reversed.......probably would have found a way to smuggle the lever gun into the house!
 
I think we are all kind of in the same boat. I'm real old and I have a lot of
guns but I still keep buying them.

Zeke
 
Last year I really thinned down my collection, quite proud of myself actually. I just didn't see the point of owning as many guns as I did at the time considering I only shot a few of them on a normal basis.

Well back to square one! More guns than ever! But this time, I do shoot most of them fairly regularly!! :D
 
Promised the wife [ a saint ] that I would "start" to drop the numbers soon.

Soon as I stop shooting,hunting,CCW'ing etc

But really I will start in a few more years to sell off a good deal as I will be shooting and hunting less.

I hope to last at this rate for at least another 10 years = I am 70 in 2 month's..
 
Buy want you want, it's like money in the bank. What you don't shoot.you can sell for a profit down the road. Either that or your kids and grandkids will have a bunch of cool things to remember you by.
 
I have 50 some--haven't counted them in a while---i always got a kick out of the cops when they came cause the kids were in a fight""WHY SO MANY COPS WITH YOUR HAND ON YOUR GUN""--WE DON'T TRUST ANYONE WITH 25 REGISTERED HAND GUNS & REGISTERED SHORT BARREL RIFLES--THE GOOD OLD DAYS
 
I know half a dozen collectors who each own HUNDREDS of the various brands/styles that interest them. One guy is probably pushing 600 in his collection. They are all STILL buying.

Know another guy who has bought a gun he thought he wanted...Then gets home and finds he ALREADY has one or TWO of that model. THAT is IMHO when one has too many.

My biggest over indulgence is owning TWO of certain models ,that I really like. Giving me a shooter and a spare. An EASY mental sell or rationalization if the model is discontinued...Why I have a pair of Smith M-696's , M-19's/66's, K-22's/K-38's.

Though as I am hitting seven decades on the big blue marble....I am starting to get rid of a few here and there each year. Freeing up space in the safes with the ones I REALLY don't use, and never will use anymore. Not hunting like I used to, so how many BG rifles do I need? Really one or two would do it. Don't need nine.

LR varmint guns the same way.....I built a mess of them over the years and now only use a few...could get rid of a half dozen, easily.
 
No. My wife's job is to sometimes ask me whether there are enough.

A solution for finding extra gun money: I've sold (sometimes traded) about twelve, in order to have the cash for changing/blossoming interests.

The only real Change of my perspective was when a young, 49 year-old buddy died a year ago. What immed. became crystal clear is that we have No idea how much time we have left. Do You Know?
Translated-- why collect types just to have a museum of which most are seldom used, and if bench rest shooting is not rewarding, shoot clay pigeons and orange cubes from Academy instead, or whatever is fun.

Be honest with ourselves. We might be very healthy now, but next October some of us could be "six feet under".
 
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