Why do we have more than one or two guns ?

[Barryg]

A few year years ago I had a room full of guns but now I only have two, I was buying and collecting guns some I didn't even really like. (I had the bug lol)
I seem to enjoy and be a better shot just having and using two guns that I really like, just wondering if anyone else feels the same, if not why is loads of guns better? or is it just the collecting bug

[charub]

I have had periods of having loads of guns, then one or two, then back to loads again.
if one buys second hand and wisely, it's really only like a free hire because your purchase price can nearly always be obtained when it's time to move it on.
It's a strong willed enthusiast that can say no to that.

[Micky Spillane]

Ask your wife why she has a wardrobe full of clothes but nothing to wear, ask her why the bottom of the wardrobe is full of shoes but she needs another pair to wear with that little black dress that she just can't resist in the sale! I just look at mine and think that's too nice to take hunting where's my plastic stocked wonder gun?

[FPoole]

The reason I wound up with 8 TX200's is sort of like the old lady that has 30 cats. They sort of found me when they weren't wanted. A few of my FT buddies moved on to pcp after many years with their TX and I just rescued them. One was a world champ, back in the mid 90's, when the event was held in Michigan. One has finished at the top springer spot in our nationals and also placed 5th when the worlds were in Ireland. Another finished second at our nationals and was always a stand out locally. My only new bought gun won our state match a few times, so I have some capable guns, in the right hands. Not one of the 8 is a bad one, but I did try a different brand, once, and it was not good at all. In the end, it just sort of happened.

[Gareth W-B]

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Oh Barry ... Smell the coffee. For when you have the bug you are doomed, and for as long as you are hooked (for the majority of us, once bitten and smitten, that's yer lot, lol), your air arsenal holdings will fluctuate, and will most likely be an organic and ever changing entity, with increases in numbers held being dictated by impulse and passion, and macro economics coupled with the duo of rationalisation and guilt dictating the decreases in a sort of Ying-Yang swing.

My max holding reached 68 assorted air guns circa 2010 (coincidently the band 'The Alarm' had a chart-topping single back in the early 1980s entitled '68 Guns' which is one of my all time favourites), and my minimum air gun holdings since the 1990s saw numbers dwindle to just four during my divorce, which finally freed me in 2016.

Today I have an organic dozen air guns, although at any one time, it is fair to say, that as not all of these are 'keepers', that some are just passing through ...

So Barry my friend, you are 'infected' and I proffer in denial, as unless you have external pressing economics draining on your financial recourses, as sure as eggs is eggs -- and notwithstanding the completion of any air gun detox programs you may enter into (lol) -- your holding will increase again, I'll bet you a mint condition boxed BSA Airsporter on it.
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[Unframed Dave]

Too many guns, I didn't know such a situation existed!

Dave

[peddy]

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Oh Barry ... Smell the coffee. For when you have the bug you are doomed, and for as long as you are hooked (for the majority of us, once bitten and smitten, that's yer lot, lol), your air arsenal holdings will fluctuate, and will most likely be an organic and ever changing entity, with increases in numbers held being dictated by impulse and passion, and macro economics coupled with the duo of rationalisation and guilt dictating the decreases in a sort of Ying-Yang swing.

My max holding reached 68 assorted air guns circa 2010 (coincidently the band 'The Alarm' had a chart-topping single back in the early 1980s entitled '68 Guns' which is one of my all time favourites), and my minimum air gun holdings since the 1990s saw numbers dwindle to just four during my divorce, which finally freed me in 2016.

Today I have an organic dozen air guns, although at any one time, it is fair to say, that as not all of these are 'keepers', that some are just passing through ...

So Barry my friend, you are 'infected' and I proffer in denial, as unless you have external pressing economics draining on your financial recourses, as sure as eggs is eggs -- and notwithstanding the completion of any air gun detox programs you may enter into (lol) -- your holding will increase again, I'll bet you a mint condition boxed BSA Airsporter on it.
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Similar situation with me, had a room full of guns, fantastic collection of Webley pistols, starting again after a divorce ie with a empty house! I sold everything 35+ air rifles 20 pistols, shotguns and rim fires, even handed in my FAC. Was left with my child hood Webley hawk and premier. Now back upto 20 rifles and pistols that need reducing as space and finances dictate.

[angrybear]

A few year years ago I had a room full of guns but now I only have two, I was buying and collecting guns some I didn't even really like. (I had the bug lol)
I seem to enjoy and be a better shot just having and using two guns that I really like, just wondering if anyone else feels the same, if not why is loads of guns better? or is it just the collecting bug

I quite agree, different shooting situations may require a different tool, but a gun is just that - a tool, to do a job, not an ornament to sit on a shelf.
I really don't understand the collecting thing.

[Unframed Dave]

I really don't understand the collecting thing.

Nobody's asking you to. I don't think that those of us who collect understand why, we just accept the pleasure gladly.

Dave

[Murphy]

I was a big club shooter at one time.

I just liked taking and shooting a different rifle every week.

Now I just like hunting with different rifles.

[Zomboid]

Saturday: HW80 .22
Sunday: HW80 .177
Monday: HW80 .20
Tuesday: HW97 .20
Wednesday: HW77 .177
Thursday: BSA Mercury .177
Friday: BSA 635 Magnum .25

Oh and I've got another HW80 coming, in .25.

That's for Bank Holidays.

Answer your question?

[gorman805]

Reminds me of flyrods and side by sides.

Variety, having a choice, why not?

[negotiator]

Nobody's asking you to. I don't think that those of us who collect understand why, we just accept the pleasure gladly.

Dave

I think it's a sort of addiction, and probably one for which there is no known cure

[Gareth W-B]

I think it's a sort of addiction, and probably one for which there is no known cure

And long may your latter point remain so.

[Hartcliffer]

When I was 15, I could neither afford nor was I allowed to have more than 1. Now I'm in my 40s, I can. That's probably why. My Daystate is probably the only rifle I need, but I love having a play with the Meteors and Mercurys; they're a lot more fun and personable than the clinical PCP. Some I'll hardly ever use (the Relum springs to mind, although I bought it because it was ridiculously cheap, plus it's bombproof), some I'll use a lot, and there's still more that I intend to get. Plus, I have plenty of room in my "gun cupboard" for them, so why not?