Why is buying guns so addictive?

[C.V]

Yes. You need help (like most of us do).

However, there is no help / counselling / therapy available for this addiction. I believe this is quite common but resistance is futile!

As you stated, there is such a choice from fun and quirky airguns up to serious pieces of kit and sometimes temptation does make us make impulse buys.
However, its a great hobby. We can buy and sell our collections as time goes on to improve what we have or just if we fancy a change. Tuning and improving is another great aspect of our world.
Getting our kids involved is also a nice part of it too.

Storage can be a problem but remember that thinning out family members is always an option to provide extra space that shouldn't be overlooked.

Especially when (not naming names), she says "you do NOT need another airgun"!!

[where's it gone]

Acquiring another airgun often starts by the urge to change your present gun for another. It's when you try to sell your present gun and realise what you paid is nowhere near of what others want to pay that is when you become a 'collector'. All said, it's proberly a desease we suffer from !

[WinerackHWModel]

I knew I wasn’t alone! Thanks for the reassuring replies! I’ve already earmarked my daughter’s room as the armoury, she’ll be off to Uni soon.

I sold a Sig Sauer x-Five as I just couldn’t get on with it, other than that everything I’ve bought so far I wouldn’t want to part with!

[I. J.]

You have to learn to say 'No!'

[Alakar]

You have to learn to say 'No!'

Says the man with how many guns ?

Is that to the wife or to the collection?

[micky2]

Wecome to the world of airguns. airgun collecting is a desease very few escape from, and they usualy catch it again. but l can think of worse ones to catch. enjoy your shooting with your son l know l did.

[look no hands]

Yes it can get addictive but it can also be frustrating, a lot of members on here seem to collect HW's or BSA's which there seems to be a lot of about, so not so difficult to obtain certain models, the problem arises when you want a particular make or model which they only made in small quantities in the first place, that's when you get obsessed with perusing every site on the internet hoping to find the rifle you're after.

The problem we have around our area (I live near Southampton as well) is the lack of decent gun shops with lashings of secondhand air rifles, the only good place being Protek which have decent choice but not always what you want but they are still 40 miles away.

Pete

[I. J.]

Says the man with how many guns ?

Is that to the wife or to the collection?

My ex Mrs caught me ringing my fancy woman. "Thank God for that!" she said "I thought you was buying another gun."

ATB
Ian