Keeping up with the Jones

Keeping up with the Jones

  • pftfft The Jones are trying to keep up with me !!

    Votes: 28 9.6%

  • I buy the guns that others say are cool.

    Votes: 3 1.0%

  • I buy the guns that are practical to my needs

    Votes: 128 43.7%

  • I buy whatever guns I can get my hands on

    Votes: 32 10.9%

  • I think some people have more gun than brains

    Votes: 27 9.2%

  • None of my business buy what you want

    Votes: 104 35.5%

  • Some people think that you need a $2000 gun to shoot a moose, but I know better

    Votes: 31 10.6%

  • Some people think that a $400 scope/rifle combo is sufficient, but I know better

    Votes: 13 4.4%

  • Some hunters have more money than brains

    Votes: 39 13.3%

  • The only people who say that (9) are the ones with no money

    Votes: 16 5.5%
  • Total voters
    293
Get what you like, what you like to shoot. Who care what others have or think is cool...if you can shoot it well.....its good.
 
I kinda buy against the trends... my hunting battery is a Marlin 1895XLR (I think a lot more people would keep their 45/70 Marlins if they bought this rather than the guide guns... especially the ported ones,) a Browning BLR in 300WSM, and I'm looking into building a Marlin 336XLR in 30-30 (maybe AI) with a 14ish inch barrel and lightening up the stock as much as possible. If I ever build a bolt rifle for hunting it will probably be in 7mm STW and as light as possible.
 
I like what I like. Some is older and some is newer. I have used quite a few cartridges, only 2 were new, the rest were created before I was born. I have specific things I like and don't like about different rifles, and therefore I buy only ones that meet (or come close to) my criteria.
 
I buy what I want. It's none of my business what you buy or what you want.

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NAA.
 
I'd rather get a cheaper rifle and learn to use it well, and have spare money for ammo, than an expensive rifle I can't afford to shoot regularly.
 
I buy what I feel will work for me and couldn't care less what others think.

I am influenced by the performance levels of cartridges nothing more and I like Remington and Sako bolt rifles and Marlin levers the most.

Then they came out with stainless steel synthetic stocked firearms and then they added black/gray laminate stocks which was then the start of having to replace every older blued firearm I own...

I'm just finishing the deal on another 2 new Rem 700 LSS's in 30-06 and 300 RUM tomorrow and should have them both in 1 1/2 weeks tops.

and as long as Ruger doesn't come out with a 416 Ruger s/s black/gray laminate stocked rifle I am hopefully done buying rifles for now... :redface:


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I have always liked weatherbys, so when I found a deal on one, I bought it. Then I decided I wanted it to shoot better, so I bought a barrel. Then I decided I wanted a stock that fit me properly, so I'm making one. I stopped caring what others thought in high school. That was 17 years ago.
 
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