It will pass, we all go through it
I haven't bought a new gun in almost a year either,been spending my money on reloading supplies and improving the guns i already have, better triggers,scopes/sights,more mags etc
I think we all come to a point where we have enough weapons in the collection. That and once you own enough different weapons you come to realize if the caliber is the same there's not a lot of difference in the shooting experience. Manipulationof the weapon for loading and safeing it might be different but the recoil and trigger pulling aren't all that different.
I find some NFA items like suppressors was a good resparking agent for my interest.
Oh yeah. Normal gun accumulator malasia. I get it too.
Sometimes I look at my accumulated supply and think that it's just too many to shoot in a year - that it would be more gratifying to have fewer and shoot them all more frequently.
Now, I am finding that since my kids are getting older, I can set them all up with a nice little starter collection. That's kinda cool. And it keeps me from selling more off.
I am selling some though - intending to use the money for a down payment on some property.... but then, I just bought an EAA Bounty Hunter today - .22LR/22WRM convertible 7 1/2" barrel.... with some of the proceeds. So, the sickness lives.
ETA: man, I feel like I'm sitting in a GA meeting... (gunaholics annonymous).
~Nemo me impune lacessit~
I am soooooooo glad that the liberals cant put that stuff in our water. you know the stuff that takes away your gun wanting genes. here in fl we spend money we shouldnt on guns.
yueah im feeling that way too,i got a couple of saigas 545 and 308, after selling about a dozen aks that i had accumulated opver the years...... an ar, a savage 30-06 , winny 1200 20 ga. alby sks and a shitty ol marlin 22 rifle, a 22 pistol hk usp 45 and a snubby magnum.........with the exception of a 12 ga and another 22 rifle i cant think of anything i need or want..........im gonna focus on ammo now
i just dont feel the need to have the gunsafe overflowing like i used to.
Go out and shoot to break the spell. I just went and practiced with my combat autos yesterday, definitely put me back in the spirit.
I'm about to say fuck it and buy up some more pistol ammo for practice.
You never know what's around the corner! I was in that exact funk back in January ... when a buddy talked me into going to a gun show. For a couple days before the show I was thinking "there is nothing I need ... but I was wrong! I have several holes that could be plugged if I found the right deal.
I went to the show not expecting to really find anything but the first table inside the door had a Remington 1100 and a Hi-Power clone that caught my interest. I went through the show and ran across a guy with a nice Marlin 39A that the lever wouldn't work. Because of that he said dealers were only offering him $100 ... He was wanting $400 but I offered him 3 and he took it. I didn't find anything else, went back and negoitated a 2-fer-one deal and was pretty happy about it ... All 3 plugged holes in my "collection". Then a couple days later a guy at work was telling me about finding a 22 revolver at his Dad's house and asked me if I was interested in it. I didn't have a 22 revolver, but now I do ... Lastly a guy on another form was telling about a SCAR clone in 22LR that piqued my interest ... because while I'm not interested in spending thousands of dollars on another 223 ... I'm not opposed to induldging myself a few hundred for another in 22.
So while I thought I was done ... I was wrong.
Now I have to rebuild my gun-money fund ... and have listed a very nice UZI on GunBroker if you want to stop by
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=218174500
I've actually revved up this year. In the last 4 months or so I've acquired a Russian Saiga/Arsenal AK-74, a .303 Mk III Enfield, & a Winchester 1897 riot gun. Sold off a mismatch Enfield and a Russian Makarov pistol I never seemed to shoot. Went out shooting @ my range the other day with some of my AK rifles & had a blast. It seems to go in cycles but for some reason I'm in upturn mode right now.
Now THIS is gunporn! I'd do 'em both. The on on top is different though. The fixed carry handle w/A1 sight and 20 round mag with that M4 buttstock and M4 handguard (looks like, anyway) send a mixed message. Kinda mysterious and exotic. It's like that plain-jane homely chick in high school who went away overseas for a year or two and came back hot and sophisticated... Man, I've got more problems that a math book...
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