Excessive Riflousis

[cynthialee]

I got it man....
I got more rifles than I can carry to the range and I just can't bring myself to sell a couple off. Each one has a reason to keep it that equals "wahhh I don't want to" !
And to make matters worse, I find myself making excuses to buy another one.

Seems to be no cure.

Cleaned my guns today just as a preventative maintenance thing. Spouse was commenting I got too many guns. Then I went and spouted off about their increased value in the current market....I shouldn't have said that I think. I saw dollar signs in her eyes. Think I better hide the keys to the gun safe in some other place.

 

[bubba.50]

Nah. Just comment on her too many shoes/jewelry/cats/whatever and agree to each their own.

 

[user 48679]

Seems to be no cure.

Yeah, there is - just wait until you get as old as some of the other older forum members …

 

[hanshi]

The only reason I can think of for selling a BP rifle is using the money to buy an even better one. Now I've heard this comment "too many rifles" many times before and still can't understand what it means.

 

[tenngun]

I got it man....
I got more rifles than I can carry to the range and I just can't bring myself to sell a couple off. Each one has a reason to keep it that equals "wahhh I don't want to" !
And to make matters worse, I find myself making excuses to buy another one.

Seems to be no cure.

Cleaned my guns today just as a preventative maintenance thing. Spouse was commenting I got too many guns. Then I went and spouted off about their increased value in the current market....I shouldn't have said that I think. I saw dollar signs in her eyes. Think I better hide the keys to the gun safe in some other place.

You got it bad.
unlike most addictions MLaholics can not be cured and withdraw cause profound unhappiness and feelings of loss.
Hide your guns, and take your lady out to dinner any time she mentions selling.
Be sure to change the subject first

 

[Whitworth]

 

[cynthialee]

What I need to do is save up and get a nice custom Hawken style rifle. Bet then I could get myself to part with the less attractive rifles....

That might work.

 

[akroguy]

My gun safes have overflowed with Hoppes, patch lube and Cosmoline soaked goodness. Starting to get that uneasy feelin...time to sell a few but then....

My son just secured a contract for a house that has A WALK-IN GUN VAULT. He's gonna need help filling it and I'm a helpful dad. It's the least I can do.

 

[windini]

Riflousis is a dreadful malady, but it is survivable with regular sulphur smoke treatments.

Now, if you wind up with Pistolphelitis or RNS (Revolving Nipple Syndrome), or - Heaven forbid! - two or more of those, then... well...

 

[deerstalkert]

about 5 years ago we had a forest fire heading our way so close we could see the flames while sitting in the recliner.
wife and i had his and hers Jeep Grand Cherokees. hers got filled with pictures, old bibles and such.
mine had 4 layers of rifles, quilts, rifles, etc.
we evacuated to our neighbors alfalfa field to watch the show.
wife commented "we have too much stuff"
kinda miss some of those pictures!

 

[bang]

Only time I get the look is if I have to buy another vault.

 

[APG]

You cannot have too many/much guns, tools or money.

 

[French Colonial]

I got it man....
I got more rifles than I can carry to the range and I just can't bring myself to sell a couple off. Each one has a reason to keep it that equals "wahhh I don't want to" !
And to make matters worse, I find myself making excuses to buy another one.

Seems to be no cure.

Cleaned my guns today just as a preventative maintenance thing. Spouse was commenting I got too many guns. Then I went and spouted off about their increased value in the current market....I shouldn't have said that I think. I saw dollar signs in her eyes. Think I better hide the keys to the gun safe in some other place.

You probably just need a bigger truck, may I suggest either a Peterbilt or Kenworth and then you can add trucks as needed.

 

[windini]

You probably just need a bigger truck, may I suggest either a Peterbilt or Kenworth and then you can add trucks as needed.

Modular secure storage! Love it.

 

[sheriff john]

Onliest thing about saving gun stuff I've learned is that junk remains junk for the most part. Tastes and market prices will vary, but a "pos" saved for 50 years don't suddenly become a "mint, unfired" cased jewel of historic interest (unless you become an object of historic interest).

Time to "thin the herd" is an individual thing. If, when a thing no longer provides a bit of nostalgic pleasure, isn't what you enjoy using, or realistically you don't forsee any rise in value, replace it with something. Hindsight is always 20/20. Better to enjoy passing things along while you're alive than leave it for an estate sale.

 

[nebraska steve]

The supply chain may cure me, sticker shocked.

 

[Harry Collins]

My father told me, "Anyone that doesn't have 30 guns is underprivileged." Did he mean total guns? I error on the side of each category.

 

[Whitworth]

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My father told me, "Anyone that doesn't have 30 guns is underprivileged." Did he mean total guns? I error on the side of each category.

I believe a man should have more guns than his age in years. I'm a senior citizen and have the next decade or so already covered

 

[TFoley]

I got it man....
I got more rifles than I can carry to the range and I just can't bring myself to sell a couple off. Each one has a reason to keep it that equals "wahhh I don't want to" !
And to make matters worse, I find myself making excuses to buy another one.

Seems to be no cure.

Cleaned my guns today just as a preventative maintenance thing. Spouse was commenting I got too many guns. Then I went and spouted off about their increased value in the current market....I shouldn't have said that I think. I saw dollar signs in her eyes. Think I better hide the keys to the gun safe in some other place.

Only one gun safe? Are you really American? Thort most of you guys had at least three, maybe four walk-in gun safes......... Even I have THREE here in UK.

Mind you, they are not very big.

 

[deerstalkert]

my wife is certain that my guns fornicate and reproduce in multiple births when left in the dark! at least she has been known to mutter something about "all those f'ing guns". but i still love her!