Re: Gun collection
By: Sysop to All on Mon May 12 2014 01:34:43
My question is how many collectors out there there reading this.
Well, I may not have been in the financial placement to be able
to have been picky about what I've owned so much in my teenage and adult
life, but I've gone through a few. I haven't been picking up things
that are fancy, though, just what I know I can use effectively. It's
all been about utility so far in my life. I hope to be able to
'collect' for purposes other than survival and defense at some point in
the near future.
I have 7 handguns and 10 riles.... Heck I have a Mark5 340 Wheaterby from the 1970s.
I've got one handgun out on loan to a friend in a bit of a 'predicament' right now. The one that I've still got ready to go here
actually _IS_ probably my first borderline 'frivolous' firearm purchase, although I can justify it, anyway. ;) The one I'm talking about is an
Uberti .451 blackpowder revolver, the 18xx Colt reproduction 'Dragoon'.
I still haven't shot it, thanks to all of the financial problems that
I've had lately, lack of adequate transportation, and relocation to a
new area where I don't even know the location of a range, yet.
I can justify it, though, because it gives me an excuse to have
black powder & primer caps around (nobody can debate that those can be
useful even without a firearm to pack them in), and you don't need to
find reloading equipment and usable brass. All you need are .451 casted spherical musketballs of a suitable dense material. While it's a
bastard if you're in a fight that takes more than 6 shots to finish, it
might be there, and usable, long after your standard rifle & shotgun
loads are depleted.
I've had 2x9mm semiautos, and one Makarov 9x18 that I really miss dearly. The 9mm that I've got right now was boughten so low budget that
it's not even a piece that I can field strip. When it's time to clean
anything more than a barrel/chamber brushing, that sucker is coming
apart to every last screw and spring. You'll need a manual and a lot of
table space in order to ever have a hope of getting it back together.
But, until I've got more money, it's kept my back covered.
I've had 4 7.62mm chambered Chinese SKSes, all with the replacement/non-sharpening 'trident' swiveling bayonets and combat
slings. I don't joke with people about having it on there to stab my
deer with. I've got a bow for deer; this is for defense as a combat
rifle.
I've had a .50cal muzzleloader, this one being one of the
conical tapered w/plastic wadding collar round ones; nice weapon, but
don't expect it to last through a wet period.
I've got a 20ga pump shotgun, that my grandfather used to hunt
with when he was a kid, and my father did, as well. I'm going to be refinishing and rebluing that one soon. Might shorten the barrel a bit
at that point, too. I don't think I'll be taking that weapon out for
birds again. I'll be using a bigger ga gun for that, should I have the disposable income for it in the future.
I've also got a 2.5in shell gobbling single-action .410 shotgun.
I love that little thing. First long gun I ever fired. It's the .22 of shotguns. It's another one that my grandfather & father used in their childhoods. Firing pin keeps falling out of it, so it's out of
commission right now from the last time I had one put in and lost it in
the field the first time I took it out afterwards. I want to refinish
and reblue this one, as well, although I'm almost hesitant to take the
original finish off, chipped as it is. It's a beautiful cherry or even
darker, but more reddish, not mahogany, stock. I value it unchanged for
its sentimental purposes, but it would be REALLY nice to have a piece
that fits in one hand, or one pocket, that ends up being a small sawed
off shotgun.
My let me know want you all have collected...over the years?
How about yourself, good sir? I just gave my WWII bayonet to my fiancee on her last birthday here, or I'd add that to my list. Had to liquidate all of my swords, too, but I'll be getting more at some point
in the future. Used to have sai and some other neat things, too.
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Guh up the effbomb down wif yr bad self; seriously. That means 'shut
the effbomb up, in the parlance of the first child I raised from birth
on . . . I recommend it because my patience with people that are only
interested in passing judgement and making pointless jabs without
knowing the exact facts about what they're dealing with is waning.
Consider yrself warned.
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