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My dwindling arsenal.
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<blockquote data-quote="therifleman556" data-source="post: 1401319" data-attributes="member: 101898"><p>Who else is at the same point in their life where time and more importantly, funds, limits the hobby we share in common?</p><p>I can't help but notice reading through threads here that there is a LOT of time and money tied up into some people's rifles. I imagine some of these sticks with custom barrels, stocks and optics can easily exceed $3000, $4000, or more. This isn't a criticism of any sort. If anything, it's heartening to know there are plenty more rifle loonys in the world.</p><p>What I would like to know is after there any other members here that can count their firearms on one hand? When I graduated high school I had an appetite for anything that burned powder, surplus rifles, 22s, pistols, you name it. As life went on though I found myself with a family and limited time to enjoy the hobby and less money to work with. My big collection has been sold, bartered, and traded down to two centerfires, a switch barrel rimfire, a shotgun, and a flintlock rifle. The one thing I've tried to accomplish through this though, is an increase in the quality of my rifles, instead of a handful of rifles I don't get to use I've got two that I my self am proud to take out of the safe. The first is my M70 Featherweight in 7mm-08. It wears a Leupold VX-2 3-9 gloss finished in dual dovetail bases. It's not the most accurate rifle I've owned but it reminds me of the rifles I've seen when I was a kid that caught my attention, pretty wood and blue steel. The second one hasn't arrived yet, it was the subject of my last thread "help me pick a new rifle".</p><p></p><p>I'm going to cut this rant short (I know, too late), I just wanted to know if there's other gun nuts in the same boat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="therifleman556, post: 1401319, member: 101898"] Who else is at the same point in their life where time and more importantly, funds, limits the hobby we share in common? I can't help but notice reading through threads here that there is a LOT of time and money tied up into some people's rifles. I imagine some of these sticks with custom barrels, stocks and optics can easily exceed $3000, $4000, or more. This isn't a criticism of any sort. If anything, it's heartening to know there are plenty more rifle loonys in the world. What I would like to know is after there any other members here that can count their firearms on one hand? When I graduated high school I had an appetite for anything that burned powder, surplus rifles, 22s, pistols, you name it. As life went on though I found myself with a family and limited time to enjoy the hobby and less money to work with. My big collection has been sold, bartered, and traded down to two centerfires, a switch barrel rimfire, a shotgun, and a flintlock rifle. The one thing I've tried to accomplish through this though, is an increase in the quality of my rifles, instead of a handful of rifles I don't get to use I've got two that I my self am proud to take out of the safe. The first is my M70 Featherweight in 7mm-08. It wears a Leupold VX-2 3-9 gloss finished in dual dovetail bases. It's not the most accurate rifle I've owned but it reminds me of the rifles I've seen when I was a kid that caught my attention, pretty wood and blue steel. The second one hasn't arrived yet, it was the subject of my last thread "help me pick a new rifle". I'm going to cut this rant short (I know, too late), I just wanted to know if there's other gun nuts in the same boat. [/QUOTE]
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