I have an addiction

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Mausermolt

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I have a serious firearms addiction...earlier this year i bought all the supplies i needed to build a Rock River Coyote carbine. bout 1k$ into it. Then i bought a M1A National Match for 2300$ now i just found a CZ52 with 2 mags and 200 rounds of ammo for $250 that im getting this week. plus several other accesories and ammo when i found a decent deal for about another $1500 over the last 12 months. so that comes up to about 5k$ worth of toys i have bought over the last year....thank the lord i have a job that pays for my lodging and transportation ontop of my salary. but still! i keep telling myself i need to save money...but when i find these good deals, along with the recent hostilities against our 2A rights its hard to be conservative. i like to be prepared for these types of ammo/reloading droughts so i can still enjoy my hobby when things arent available....you never know when things will dry up permanently. i just feel like a crack head looking for my next fix when it comes to guns! :D anyone else with this "problem"?
 
welcome to your support group, we meet once a week, at a gun range bring your new guns for show and tell and after we all go to the LGS and spend money......

it really dosent work very well.
 
Keep hanging out on the gun forums. You'll kick the habit in no time. NOT! Just remember you can always sell some of your stash if you need cash. You can't do that with tattoos or trips to Vegas.
 
You can wean yourself off the high-cost addiction with a C&R license, called "Gun Methodone" on the street, and keep feeling fine for less money.
 
I have been doing the same thing lately. I bought 4 pistols and an AR15, plus tons of mags and ammo in the last 6 months.
 
Blasphemy! Sell guns?! Who would do such a dispicable thing?!
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Well, I have been. I've sold off a good portion of my collecfion and I'm not done yet. Even sold 1400 rounds of ammo today.
 
You have to be single. If married, your wife is very forgiving, or very angry, or really into your hobby, has given up on you, or dumb as a fence post. If married, let me know how you did it so I can duplicate!!!!!
 
CRAP! see what i mean guys!? i just hit up Joe_Pike for another fix! AAAHHHH
IT HURTS SO GOOOOOOD!!!!

bt380: been in a serious relationship for 5 years..tomorrow actually...crap...better buy her a box of ammo for her new Kimber as a anniversary gift.....that give you a clue how i pull it off? :P
 
When I bought -since April- a good bit of M2 Ball from the CMP, a second Garand (Aug. 31) and two weeks ago 1,000 rds. of ammo for the SKS, it hit me...

Do you qualify for a '12 step' recovery group when you have about 12,000 rds. of centerfire rifle ammo, but actually believe that it is not enough (in the very long-term: rest of your life)?

Hoping to have 90% of it for retirement in about two years.
 
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If you get your lodging and transport paid then what else are you meant to spend the money on?
Buy yourself a CZ452 then you can be addicted to them also. I only have one, but if I could afford it I would add 3 more too that.
 
Second that. 452s come in so many lovely flavors; and then there are 453s... and their nifty centerfire rifles...

Not to mention the pistols.

There should probably be recovery groups just for CZ addicts. :o
 
well this job is about to end in a few months and i have school loans to pay off still. also im going to be buying a new pickup in a few months....i keep saying to myself while i close the windows to gunbroker.com and AIMsurplus "Toyota Tacoma, Toyota Tacoma, TOYOTA TACOMA!"

ive got a freind that has one of those CZ's in 17hmr and 22LR, dont remember the model # but its an "CZ ***American". and i agree 1000X they are wonderful little rifles. so if i need to go scratch my 17 hmr itch i can go hijack his rifle :P
 
Glad to see there is a support group.

Hi everyone, I'm sierra280 and I am an addict. Friday I flipped another car (something I do when business slows down) pocketed the profits and Saturday morning I was in the LGS buying another project rifle. I haven't even finished the last build I started (almost there though). But the new one I got was just too good of a deal to pass up! Then I got home and continued looking at gunbroker/armslist and reading online gun forums. Then made another midway order (hopefully it comes while my better half is at work!). I know I should stop, but I just can't help myself.

Thank you for listening.

Edit--I agree, sell my guns :eek: but I don't even have enough yet!
 
If your spouse isn't helping enable your addiction, let her shoot one or two of those safe queens you have tucked away for a rainy day or JIC situation. We're not married but have lived together going on 9yrs, she had fired guns before (growing up in IL) but was never really that into them.

1 shot was all it took to get her on board:

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=534202

She even put the pic as background on her work computer!
 
Wow i just realized i have forgotten about a project rifle a guy is working on for me also....Belgian Mauser 98 im rebarreling to a 257 Roberts....but it dosent really count because i traded another rifle for the work he is doing. so that brings the tally up to 3 rifles and a pistol......hmmm better start shopping for a new shotty :D
 
^^awesome, the gun I picked out is on its way to something similar. Post-64 model 70 sporter, 25-06. I plan on shooting it until the old worn barrel is shot out, then getting a new barrel and trued action 25-06 AI.

All hail Saint Ackley. Patron saint of gun addicts.
 
I know that I am addicted because it has been 3 months since the last gun show and I am going through the DT's. I even tried the C+R therapy and that didn't help. A couple of weeks ago I went on a Marco Polo tour of the LGS in a 80 mile radius and bought two used pistols. The deals were so good I could not help my self. I plan on retiring in 2 years but I might be broke by then. I keep telling myself that its a good investment but normally that doesn't pan out because I never sell anything. I guess the only thing to do is substitute another addiction. I know I'll learn to fly!
 
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