How much is too much

[mooman76]

The trick is to get enough that the wife can't tell anymore so when she says, is that a new gun, you say, oh I've had that for quite awhile.

 

[stinkyfeet]

My wife tells me i need to invest in more guns for protection and so on. Somehow to her this doesn't mean more ML's, I try the whole well modern ammo is getting harder to find routine. She isn't buying it anymore.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I figure when you have one of everything you can quit buying.....and then you can start in on cartridge guns. :grin:

Heck you don't even have a Matchlock, Gonne, or cannon yet!

You got a long way to go! :grin:

 

[Col. Batguano]

How many different calibers?
Any fowlers in there?

 

[azmntman]

When you can no longer close the door to your house because they are falling out the door. Then maybe you have too much.

Well I look at it differently? Perhaps your house is too small :idunno:

 

[roundball]

That is a bunch for sure...at my 'high water mark' I think I had 9 or 10, then sold the caplocks and stabilized for a few years at 6 Flintlocks.
Just sold one of those a week ago and have a 2nd one under discussion, LOL...then I'll hold fast at 4 for the foreseeable future.

 

[matt denison]

My wife has a half dozen of her own guns and another 3 or 4 modern ones too. We never argue about having too many.

I will admit that sometimes I think I have too many and too much stuff 'cause I loose track of it all. That is the beauty of a bag and horn for each gun, you grab the right bag and you have everything needed to shoot in there already. Plus there is seldom a club shoot that someone doesn't need to borrow something. If I rummage around in my shooting box I can come up with just about anything a guy might need.

 

[Alden]

...I try the whole well modern ammo is getting harder to find routine. She isn't buying it anymore.

Then she has experienced this first hand and is sympathetic!?

:rotf:

I decided too many was when my racks were filled. One day I found out I could, needed to, and did buy more racks.

 

[gwalker]

Every time I bring something home, my wife asks, 'how much did that cost?' I simply say just a couple of dollars as I head back to my work room. When I die, she is going to have one heck of a yard sale. If interested, you'll need to get there quick, as everything will be dirt-cheap.

 

[nkbj]

Well, you gotta have things balanced out.
Her bullets weigh 55 grains.
Mine weigh about eight times that.
She shoots eight times faster.
It all works out.

 

[mooman76]

When you can no longer close the door to your house because they are falling out the door. Then maybe you have too much.

Well I look at it differently? Perhaps your house is too small :idunno:

So you move to a bigger house. Then you no longer have too many and need to buy more. It's a never ending cycle.

 

[tenngun]

Tell her somthing flowery like "my dear, guns are like our days together, there will never be too many... a million are not enough" If she dosn't give you the "look" or just out right laugh at you you will be ok. Floweres and lots of wine help turn the 'look' in to the 'oh arnt you sweet response.

 

[swathdiver]

1. 7 flintlocks 1 percussion
2. 10 shooting bags
3. 12 powder horns 3 priming horns
4. 5 brass primers
5. 15 antler and brass powder measures.

With 15 measures you're short 7 rifles, 5 shooting bags and 3 horns!

 

[coloradoclyde]

There are 365 days in a year, and shooting a different one each day is not too much of a request. :grin:

 

[trent/OH]

Man,oh man. This is a GREAT thread!!!!

 

[Ken Cormier]

Tman as to how many pairs of shoes does she have. One pair she wears to marrings or to burings. My lovely(most of the time) wife of40 yrs is as n ole hippie chick back to the lander. And is most comfortable in pair work boots. Or her muck boots in the garden. She does not have any jewelry t o speak of. Jeans and flannel shirts are her norm I am a lucky man to have tricked her into marrying me. LOL

 

[Alden]

Kennyc;
Flowers in the garden then... One plant is nice but a bed of many of some kind of flowers or a row of shrubbery is nicer. You need a bed of muskets, row of rifles...

Swathdiver's math is quite correct. And then a set of measures for each gun is necessary for each bag for each gun, and so on, and so on...

 

[RonRC]

I have a sly wife.
She has been pushing for a wood floor in some areas and recarpeting for the rest.
But I have some tricks up my sleeve after all these years. I opposed the flooring and carpeting as unnecessary. Finally, I said I would go for it. Then I bought another longrifle and 2 cap-and-ball revolvers. She volunteered to pay for the revolvers for Christmas because I acquiesced on the flooring.
She's happy. I'm happy. We are poorer. :wink:
Ron

 

[Pete G]

With an agreement like that you are not poorer. You may have less money, but you are definitely rich.

 

[Alden]

But the flooring and carpeting were unnecessary -- they were obviously walking on SOMETHING already. But new guns? That's different...