One rifle away from contentment..

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Anyone else feel like they're perpetually one rifle away from contentment? Is this just the nature of firearm ownership?

Years ago I thought I was "done." I had my .22 plinkers, my 223 black rifles, 9mm carbines, 45-70 lever guns, hunting rifles in .308, 30-06 etc.

I was done, until I wasn't.

I had to add more black rifles, more lever guns, milsurp Mausers in 6.5x55, thumpers in 338 WinMag, 375HH, 416 Rigby, 458 WinMag and many more.

I always have my eyes set on that next rifle around the corner.

Anyone else suffer from this same ailment?
 
I figure I'll never be done. There will always be something I want that I don't yet have, especially if you include stuff I'll likely never get like a bespoke double rifle from Holland&Holland.
 
I'm pretty much done with a fair variety of calibers and actions with allegiance to Ruger, Winchester & Browning.
There are a couple more I'd like if the right ones come along with preferred F to F, namely; an unmolested Marlin waffle top in 30-30 & a Rem 7600 carbine preferably in .308 (I keep watching)
 
I see many guns I would like to have but when I think about it I know I probably will shoot them a bit then put them down. But there are some I see and just know I need to have them- even though I have plenty of firearms.
 
I wouldn't have to work very hard to come up with a list of guns I'd like to have.

I often look at what I do have and say to myself I should trim things down because I don't use most of them.

I have a dozen or two pistols I would put up for sale tomorrow if we still could, and quite a few rifles that just never get taken out. I bought them because I thought I needed to have them. Turns out I really don't, I only have a handful that get regular use.

My 1911s are a perfect example: I only ever really use one of them, the rest just sit in the safe. I have a couple I've never even fired.


But I do need two firearms I've never owned: a Springfield 87M, and a Caesar Guerini Ellipse Curve.
 
I have t bought a rifle in years , money problems
But when ever I buy a rifle I have bought all the reloading equipment for them
I have a number of 1886 rifles , that if have original reloading equipment and bullet molds for
Winchester bullet molds and reloading equipment
 
What??? Nobody slagging those of us who buy guns and don't shoot them?? I haven't thought of any good reason that I shouldn't buy guns, lots of guns, and don't get around to shooting all of them. I have been considering a CZ457 Canadian .22lr. I only have four 457's - so far. I added a 457 Premium .17 HMR to the pile this summer. I was in the gun shop at Bashaw in the summer of 2022 snooping, and a young fellow had just bought a 457 premium in .22. When he saw me looking longingly at it, I'm sure he tightened his grip on that rifle. This past summer, I stopped in again at the Bashaw shop, and there it was a .17 Premium. :d
 
Have been through the thinning phase, only to buy the same again in a different cartridge. Not really needing more, but there is always that one itch that needs scratched.
Recently its been for a hex barrel levergun that could be blk pwder, 38-55, 44-40, with tang sight or a good ladder sight.
also something with a classic deluxe safari piece of wood, cartridge not important
 
It s like that old James Bond movie “Never say never again”There is always a gun that you have to have no matter how many times you have told yourself you are done buying.There is a big difference between want and need as well,I always fall in the want category lol
 
chasseur said:
It s like that old James Bond movie “Never say never again”There is always a gun that you have to have no matter how many times you have told yourself you are done buying.There is a big difference between want and need as well,I always fall in the want category lol
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I'm definately beyond the need category, buying things now just because they scratch an itch.

In the coming years I'd like to add:
A double rifle in 470 NE
A falling block in 450/400 or 7x57
A case hardened Winchester lever rifle
A lightweight backcountry rifle in 7mmPRC or 280AI
An O/U or drilling rifle
A muzzleloader
Amoung others
 
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I'm pretty much done, i have a high powered pellet gun for silent squirrel dispatch, a 22 lever that is great for plinking and larger pests. I have an 870 shot gun that i use for clay and bird hunting, a scoped 308 x bolt that is my primary hunting rifle, and finally my beloved marlin 1895, which is a good all around rifle, it was a present from my wife, mostly i suspect i have it for fun, but of course it would always be good for.... BEAR DEFENSE!!!:p

So i'm pretty much done.

However, two things that i would like, are on my wish list.

I would like them to allow hand guns again, and then i'd get a nice heavy calibre revolver. A classic stainless steel one.

And, because i'm a boring history buff, i'd like to one day get a beautiful lee Enfield. Right now i don't know a lot about the lee enfields, i've only been reading about them off and on for the last year. I think i mostly love the idea of them. I'm still sorting out all the different models and versions, all the different features to look for. I only just recently learned what monstrous reality was being communicated by describing a lee enfield as "sporterized" ! I mean, good grief, the jerks cut half the wood off, it's like they circumcised the poor thing!!!

Some day though i'd love to really know everything i need to know about them, then i'd be able to find a good specimen and really enjoy it. I would probably display that one on the wall when i wasn't shooting it.
 
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