Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Do I have it bad?

First gun purchased in early August this year a Sig Sauer P226.

I currently have now:
Sig Sauer P226 9mm
Ruger 10/22 22lr (heavily modified) Bushnell 3x9 scope
Savage Arms Mark II TRR 22lr with Nikon Bushmaster scope
Saiga 12 (converted and modified) with 20 round drum
CZ 75 SP-01 Tactical 9mm (with 22lr Cadet Upper)

and prepaid and being built:

Saiga 5.45 (converted and modified) (aka: AK74)

Ammo wise i currently have in stock:

9mm 1500 rounds
22lr 5000+ Wolf Match Grade
500+ 12ga Slugs
500+ 12ga birdshot
500+ 12ga 00 buckshot
2000+ 5.45 milsurp (2 spam cans)

Nope, you are not there yet, but I am sure you can work on it a bit more and you might catch up

Presuming you bought and paid for all of it, nope.

Taggure wrote:Nope, you are not there yet, but I am sure you can work on it a bit more and you might catch up

Catching up indeed.

Yes, I think you do. The first step toward dealing with hoarding or collection is to give it all away.

I started this year, too, and quickly built up my collection. I am done, though. Really. I am. Except for a .308. Then I am done. Really, I am.

I really need to get myself a AR/M4. This is something i have held off buying because i wanna build my own with all the right parts and if i ever wanna shoot one i can call any one of my friends who own firearms.

gunderwood wrote:

Taggure wrote:Nope, you are not there yet, but I am sure you can work on it a bit more and you might catch up

Catching up indeed.

This is why i feel safe in this state if we ever have a SHTF situation.

well you need to collect for a few years, get to 125 guns, 100,000 + rounds of assorted ammo a multitude for most of the guns, & then decide to sell all your collection & ammo, get down to 5, & then think what did you do? why did you sell them all, & yes I even gave a couple away, 3 to close friends that couldnt afford. now financially I cant really do alot. not what I would like to do anyway.

I have a H&K VP70 on layaway. If I am lucky I might have 2,000 rounds of assorted ammo, unfortunately most is rimfire 22, & the only 22 I have is a NAA mini pistol. for center fire ammo maybe a couple hundred rounds.

welcome to the addiction disease.

Later,
Randy

It's not a problem until you need multiple spreadsheets to track your collections (plural) and you have to build a house to store your ammo supply in.

Diomed wrote:It's not a problem until you need multiple spreadsheets to track your collections (plural) and you have to build a house to store your ammo supply in.

If you know how many guns you have you don't have enough.

rinkus wrote:

Diomed wrote:It's not a problem until you need multiple spreadsheets to track your collections (plural) and you have to build a house to store your ammo supply in.

If you know how many guns you have you don't have enough.

+1

I'm in a similar position, having started in February. One thing that has helped is to track every last expense dedicated to my new "hobby" on a spreadsheet, all the way down to my NRA membership fee and low cost accessories and supplies. I started to pay attention when I noticed that about one hour of my take home pay for every working day was going towards funding this new little habit.

FatAndy wrote:I started to pay attention when I noticed that about one hour of my take home pay for every working day was going towards funding this new little habit.

Is that all? Slash discretionary spending and buy some guns!

Taggure wrote:Nope, you are not there yet, but I am sure you can work on it a bit more and you might catch up

+1

You're not even close until you have at least 12k rounds and enough primer/powder to load another 12k...

In the next ten years these guns and ammo might be worth 10 to 20 times what they are worth now! Welcome to our world of addiction my brother from another mother. Good luck and enjoy!

zephyp wrote:

Taggure wrote:Nope, you are not there yet, but I am sure you can work on it a bit more and you might catch up

+1

You're not even close until you have at least 12k rounds and enough primer/powder to load another 12k...

Or when you serious have to consider the fire code and take action...

Fire code...? What's that?

CowboyT wrote:Fire code...? What's that?

Thats what you think about if your house ever catches fire and the twit down the street yells at the firemen "RUN...HE'S GOT A TON OF EXPLOSIVES IN THERE!!!!!"