You might be a C&R addict if ...

[Machodoc]

• The BBT of Happiness unexpectedly shows up at your house and your first thought is, "Oh, crap ... is my wife where she can see that?"
• You are in a hardware store, looking at a power saw, and you find yourself checking it for matching serial numbers.
• The bed in the guest bedroom can't be used because there are too many rifles on it.
• You have a dilemma deciding whether to store all the long cardboard boxes where they may be a fire hazard, or throwing them away (and you can't see yourself throwing one away).
• Your collecting focus switches over to handguns because you can smuggle them past the wife, and because they take up less space.
• You achieve a feeling similar to reaching Nirvana when you realize that you have too many firearms for your wife to be able to spot a new one.
• You give up on buying enough safes, and just replace the door to the spare bedroom with a metal one that locks.
• When you are getting ready to bid on a gun auction, you also factor in whether or not you'll have to buy loading dies and a bullet mold for that caliber--and what they'll cost.
• You spend far more each year on socks for your new guns than on socks for your family.
• You wake up in a cold sweat because you dreamed that you found an import mark tattooed on your wife ... and it was in a conspicuous place.
• Your idea of a great magazine subscription has nothing to do with periodicals.

 

[somd_mustangs]

Nailed it!

... You can justify (to yourself anyway) buying yet another of the same model gun because the markings are slightly different.

... You buy another gun just to get the grips, or the magazine, or the <fill in blank> and then wind up keeping it because it would be too painful to break it apart or swap out parts. SO you have to buy another one

 

[Reptile]

...you bid on and win the same model, but better quality, gun before the one you just won gets delivered to your door.

...you have a panic attack when you realize your wife can tell the difference between an M1 Garand, an M1 carbine, a Springfield 1903A3, an Eddystone M1917, and Springfield 1903.

 

[Maxsplat]

Nailed it!

... You can justify (to yourself anyway) buying yet another of the same model gun because the markings are slightly different.

Just to be clear serial numbers are ALWAYS different. So they count as markings.

 

[toolness1]

...you are no longer married because your wife made the mistake of saying "it's me or the guns"

...you justify buying a gun by how much more you'll eventually be able to sell it for, even though you'd sell a kidney before one of your guns

...your safe cost more than your car is worth

...you have your UPS man's cell phone number so you can meet him elsewhere in town if you missed your delivery (my town doesn't have a UPS)

...the value of your gun collection is catching up to your 401K

 

[KH195]

...you find creative ways to skim / launder money out of your bank account without raising suspicion from your wife. Offering to to make a trip to the grocery store provides a quick option for $20 or $40 cash back that can add up over the course of a month and it blends right in on the bank statement. "Wow honey, have you seen the price of milk lately?"

 

[Melnic]

* You get your wife to watch Zombie apocalypse movies so that she wants to horde guns and ammo and you tell her that 50 year old guns are the most cost effective way to do that and traveling 2 hours to gun shows will save the family money.

 

[embermage]

Your collecting focus switches over to handguns because you can smuggle them past the wife, and because they take up less space.
You achieve a feeling similar to reaching Nirvana when you realize that you have too many firearms for your wife to be able to spot a new one.

Those two were the best and apply to me.

 

[Melnic]

* you have the conversation starting something like this "Her: When did you get that.. You: long time ago, don't you remember.........."

 

[QuebecoisWolf]

-You show an old gun to your grandfather and he remarks: "my grandpa had one of those!"

-You feel that cosmoline has a more sensual aroma than roses, chocolates, or incense.

-The best part of HD television? Now you can see the markings on the guns in history movies.

 

[reverendbeer]

... You buy another gun just to get the grips, or the magazine, or the <fill in blank> and then wind up keeping it because it would be too painful to break it apart or swap out parts. SO you have to buy another one

There it is....that one right there.

 

[Machodoc]

While there is so much mention here about wives, this seemed to be as good a place to add this public safety notice as anywhere ...

Click for Gun Safety Reminder

 

[toolness1]

While there is so much mention here about wives, this seemed to be as good a place to add this public safety notice as anywhere ...

Click for Gun Safety Reminder

Hahahaha

 

[SmokeEaterPilot]

Thoroughly enjoyed this thread! Thanks!

 

[Arcamm]

You need to know the platoon strength of many different nations so you'll will know when you have more than enough rifles/pistols/bayonets/bandoleers/ to properly outfit said platoon.

 

[Drucifer]

You meet the UPS guy at the bottom of the driveway so you can stash the box in the garage or back porch, to retrieve it after the wife has gone to bed.
As said above, this often changes the collecting focus to more "portable" packages!

 

[MacGuns]

Being the smart person you are you redirect all gun related UPS packages to be picked up at the UPS hub. When you walk in they know you by name and don't even ask for a tracking number.

 

[h2u]

...you buy a lot of C&R firearms.


Sorry. Nothing cute-just the truth from my end

 

[mxrider]

When you don't want to go out to lunch with the wife because the BBT is supposed to be coming that day! (yup that is today for me )

 

[Arcamm]

You're house is on fire and you ask the fire department NOT to block the driveway because BBT is coming.