Is it collecting or hording?

[Garvin]

Some collectors seem to have a particularly favourite airgun model and go to great lengths (and expense) to acquire as many examples of what is essentially the same gun. I was wondering if this is true collecting, or is just another form of hording? While not wanting to be critical of this type of collecting in any way, one wonders what the motivation behind it might be. What do others think?

I think it's just another, more obsessively focused, form of collecting, closely related to the general or maker-non-specfic collector.

I rather admire their persistence, as it may mean waiting years until that elusive variant turns up.