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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tt11758 on August 17, 2010, 02:38:06 PM
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I don't consider myself the owner of an arsenal. Don't have anywhere NEAR all the guns I'd like to have. My collection is very modest, especailly when you compare it to some of my friends (*cough* Benny *cough* MB *cough*). But today the wife's youngest brother was in town and we had lunch together. Over lunch he told me that, now that his kids are no longer little, he was planning to get back into the gun thing. After lunch we went back to the house and I took him into my gun room. When I opened the safe his remark was, "Holy shit!!"
Sure, I have a couple of guns, but holy shit?!?
I guess everything is a matter of perspective.
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Know what ya mean. I am no where near some of the guys here (cough cough Billt) and have heard the same thing. Sorta fun, ain't it!
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Know what ya mean. I am no where near some of the guys here (cough cough Billt) and have heard the same thing. Sorta fun, ain't it!
Yeah, kinda like when the homecoming queen was hitting on YOU back in high school. ;D
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Never enough,.... ::) Even though my Father, Son, close shooting friends, all pretty much say the same thing. Followed up by,
"What are you going to war or something?"
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Never enough,.... ::) Even though my Father, Son, close shooting friends, all pretty much say the same thing. Followed up by,
"What are you going to war or something?"
;)
Never enough when the zombies come.
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Know what ya mean. I am no where near some of the guys here (cough cough Billt) and have heard the same thing. Sorta fun, ain't it!
My gun collection has about as many guns as tumbled out of BillT's gun save when he replaced the steps to the second floor in it with a lift ;D ;D
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My gun collection has about as many guns as tumbled out of BillT's gun save when he replaced the steps to the second floor in it with a lift ;D ;D
Mine has about as many as Michael Bane drops out of his pockets when he puts his pants on in the morning.
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I just broke 50, I know local guys (yes with a s, as in more then one)that are well over 1000.
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My gun "collection" would make you cry if you saw it............out of sadness for me actually calling it a collection.
8)
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I just broke 50, I know local guys (yes with a s, as in more then one)that are well over 1000.
Doesn't really count TAB, You live in a relatively prosperous area.
Heck, Even you are married to a Doctor ;D
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Mine is smaller than it was. I'm about 10 guns lighter. BUT, now what I have is what I want/need (for generous values of need ;D), without me having had to spend money. There are just a couple of guns I think might fit into the (need) niche. After that, its just toy shopping. And and I like toys. ;D
FQ13
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I'm fortunate in the wife doesn't think we have nearly enough for WTSHTF, but my sons and friends all think in terms of one handgun, one shotgun and one rifle. I tell them I only have one.....of each caliber....okay I do have several .22lr and three .223s, but for the most part I have just one gun.
What bugs me is the way some people, the media especially throw around the word "arsenal". It seems anytime someone has more than one gun they call it an arsenal. I think of an arsenal as containing many of the same gun. You know, 100 M4s, or a 100 PT92s, or a 100 Rem 870s. Bunches of the same gun used to outfit many people. What I have is a "collection". Only one person to be outfitted, but many different guns for many different uses. With a few exceptions none are the same caliber and those that are are distinctly different. (e.g., a national match A2 vs a varmint A4 w/scope) Each gun has a distinctly different purpose. A collection....not an arsenal.
I still need a .243Win, a .260Rem, a 7mm-08, a .308, and oh what was that other thing a 7.62x54R? yeah one of them. Plus I never had a .41Mag or a .44Mag, much less a .38Super. And I hear the FN5.7 is a fun plinker.
One gun is all I have. My perspective.
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Technically they are correct
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arsenal
1 a : an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment b : a collection of weapons
It would be more accurate to use the term "Collection", or "Battery", since each has a specific purpose, but refering to your arsenal, (However humble ;D ) is proper English.
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I get that reaction sometimes. I love it. ;D
I also love when someone comes to me and says "I hear you're heavily into guns." or "I hear you like guns." It always puts a big smile on my face.
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My Step-dad who is more of a hunter than a shooter thinks I'm nuts for having a semi-auto 'coyote rifle', was spooked that the sight of my Bowie, and thinks my SOG Fusion folder is a big knife...It maybe a good thing he doesn't know about the auto-kinves
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I don't have a collection. I don't have an arsenal. I have an addiction. Firearms are my Mistress.
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Doesn't really count TAB, You live in a relatively prosperous area.
Heck, Even you are married to a Doctor ;D
who is still a half a mil in debt with school loans, her bring home pay is just a hair over 3k, from almost 15k gross.
You know its funny, all the guys I know with big gun/car/boat/ what ever collections, all busted thier ass for decades to get where they are now.
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I have more guns than I can shake a stick at (but my stick is very small).
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I'm fortunate in the wife doesn't think we have nearly enough for WTSHTF, but my sons and friends all think in terms of one handgun, one shotgun and one rifle. I tell them I only have one.....of each caliber....okay I do have several .22lr and three .223s, but for the most part I have just one gun.
What bugs me is the way some people, the media especially throw around the word "arsenal". It seems anytime someone has more than one gun they call it an arsenal. I think of an arsenal as containing many of the same gun. You know, 100 M4s, or a 100 PT92s, or a 100 Rem 870s. Bunches of the same gun used to outfit many people. What I have is a "collection". Only one person to be outfitted, but many different guns for many different uses. With a few exceptions none are the same caliber and those that are are distinctly different. (e.g., a national match A2 vs a varmint A4 w/scope) Each gun has a distinctly different purpose. A collection....not an arsenal.
I still need a .243Win, a .260Rem, a 7mm-08, a .308, and oh what was that other thing a 7.62x54R? yeah one of them. Plus I never had a .41Mag or a .44Mag, much less a .38Super. And I hear the FN5.7 is a fun plinker.
One gun is all I have. My perspective.
GET THE MOSIN!! ;D
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who is still a half a mil in debt with school loans, her bring home pay is just a hair over 3k, from almost 15k gross.
You know its funny, all the guys I know with big gun/car/boat/ what ever collections, all busted thier ass for decades to get where they are now.
No doubt, but never leave out luck and timing,you busted your butt to and where's your business ?
Truth is, I'm probably in the hundred plus group, just not all at once ;D
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I have more guns than I can shake a stick at (but my stick is very small).
That's what SHE said. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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That's what SHE said. ;D ;D ;D ;D
I don't get it.
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Never enough when the zombies come.
Many guns good, lot's of ammo better! ;D
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Many guns good, lot's of ammo better! ;D
Many guns AND lots of ammo best!!!! ;D
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Guns keep me sane. Without them I might start drinking, gambling, and............................... :o Bill T.
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Guns keep me sane. Without them I might start drinking, gambling, and............................... :o Bill T.
Keep you sane, huh? I wish I could use the sanity maintenance excuse, but in my case that ship sailed YEARS ago. ;D
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For those of us with a serious AR habit, and initialed the 'sanity clause' (Thanks Chico & Groucho):
http://store.colemans.com/cart/rifle-rack-gi-m16-p-1601.html
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I just can't stop. I try to go to GunAnon, but all they do is brag about the latest model(s)... ;)
from a closet 45-70 craver, preferably a Cimarron Arms Sharps replica...like Quigley... ;)
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Keep you sane, huh? I wish I could use the sanity maintenance excuse, but in my case that ship sailed YEARS ago. ;D
TRUST ME! I listen to him in the mornings...he is NOT sane! ;)
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