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Village Idiot
If you can wait a couple of years. Took my wife shooting for the first time last week. Finally. Pulled a revolver (Colt OP) out of my range bag to show her how to shoot it and she freaked out.
She knew I’d bought a handgun before. She had thought I’d only bought one. And I had just shown her how to shoot the other one.
She is scared of guns (former die hard liberal anti-gunner).
Precipitated a massive fight. She only knew of 3 of the guns I had bought over the last year (I had bought 11...and told her subsequently of 6). As I told her, I was mostly leaving her alone about stuff she was spending money on and figured she was doing the same.
Anyway, I need to down size by a few guns and keep some of the other handguns I collected on the down low. Also show less interest in guns for awhile. Let her cool down and get a bit more comfortable with things. Only been owning and collecting about 3 1/2 years now.
Not sure if things will change. As she said, once the kids are grown up and out of the house, so long as I don’t bankrupt us, she probably will stay out of it and I can do whatever I want and she probably doesn’t want to know.
Until then, I had better tell her (her words) about any damned gun or gun thing I buy.
I may never be able to grow out of my 25 gun safe...time will tell (VERY unlikely before the kids move out. Only chance of that is maybe if some relative leaves a bunch of guns to me).
I sold a P64 last week afterwards. Looking to part with a Winchester 370 youth 20ga, sporterized Gewher 1898 and possibly a JC Higgins .410 pump. If I have to I may have to part with the other P64 and maybe my M57.
She hates my AR-15, but she isn’t insisting I sell it. She is also willing to let me pickup the Savage Rascal I ordered last week for the kids. Been teaching them to shoot on my scoped 10/22 and a neighbor’s borrowed old youth 22. The borrowed one just got returned. She gets that different guns have different uses.
She still can’t wrap her head around what all the different uses can be. Plus collecting.
Anyway, all that aside, she really enjoyed shooting the 10/22 (handguns were WAY too loud. At least till she gets used to shooting. She wanted me to bring something that she’d like, something she could use if SHTF and something to scare her. I should NOT have listened to her).
Threw a bunch of clays out on the 50yd berm and she busted them up. She wants me to take her again in a couple of months.
I don’t get it. It is what it is though. Most of my major bucket list items I already have, but still a small number I really want (1903 or preferably 03A3, 1911, a 1903 pocket hanmerless, K98, a bolt gun in .223, Vz58, Vz61 (semi auto version...I wish I could own the full auto one, or the SBR version)).
I mean, my wants stretch to about 40 or 50 guns I don’t own. But those are the bucket list ones I don’t have. I can probably get most of all of those in the fullness of time.
But I probably won’t be able to get more than maybe 1 gun every year or two till my kids are of it the house (12 years till my youngest is moved out). And probably at least a couple of those acquisitions will need or should be ones that are parts or “parts” sitting in my safe (a couple were stripped down before she inspected my safe, a couple were taken apart in put in ammo boxes temporarily). A few more are bare receivers I would like to build eventually (like I have basically all of an AR308 that I’d like to assemble eventually and a couple of other AR-15s with completed uppers, but the lowers are bare).
A bit of that I can likely offset by getting rid of a gun or two. Like I’ve got two SKS. A complete one and a barreled receiver I just got like 3 weeks ago I am 90% assembled. I can probably live with getting rid of the one that is 90% once I’ve finished it and shot it a bit in a couple of years. Especially if it means swapping it out for a gun on my bucket list, like a 1903A3.
Sorry for the ridiculously long post. Been weighing on me the last week and a half.
Sorry for being late to the party (see: Holiday)
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