I've Got to win SOMETHING!

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warbirdlover

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Spent the day at the Milwaukee Sentinel Sports Show and also spent about $50 on 10 different gun board raffles. Now if I win them all..... (yeah right) I'll have the best gun collection this side of one or two guys in this forum.

Lot's of fun though dreaming about this stuff. Smart thing would have been to just put the money away and save up for my CZ but I've never been accused of being smart.

I DID get a super deal on an $80 Smith & Wesson knife. Got it for $25. I checked the web and the price range was $40-$80 so the old guy wasn't b.s.'n me. Man is that puppy sharp!!
 
Score! And good luck on those raffle tickets. A local fire department around here raffles off a nice gun every year. I've been buying tickets every time, no dice yet though...
 
Before I retired this company (bribe, bribe) used to take me to the Milwaukee Ducks Unlimited Banquet at the Pfister Hotel. Ritzy old place and man did they have the nice gun boards. Guys at my table and tables all around us were winning Browning and Beretta O/U $2,000 shotguns and A-bolt and other nice rifles and I never even won a .22 Stevens. Someday my rotten luck has to catch up with me. If I would have saved all that money I spent on those gunboards I'd have one of the nicest gun collections on earth, LOL. That's why I figure I'm "due" to win all those gun boards at the Sports Show.
 
Donations...

Agree with One Old Sap--Buying a raffle ticket is a donation to whatever cause is putting on the raffle. So, you make the donation, walk away, and forget about it.

Lightning strikes occasionally, but almost always it's "the other guy" who wins a raffle.

War Bird Lover--You can dream a bit, but just don't waste a significant amount of time nor effort on it. Some undeserving idiot who already has a nice gun collection will walk off with all the raffle guns you want.

I won a significant raffle once, but to you, I'm "the other guy." And I expect that that does it for my luck with raffles in this lifetime.

So make what donations please you, and enjoy a dream, and then go shoot your old whatever. You're not "due" for anything--Why do you suppose Las Vegas makes all that money for the casinos? Reality trumps dreams.
 
when we donated a pup to a returning vet through DU they paid for us to come to the weekend event and it was nice. People were winning some nice guns but they were putting a lot of money in the pot as well. I would up with a nice canvas back decoy from a raffle and I won a canvas back statue in the auction. It was a nice weekend and I sure wish I could have one a gun but such is life we had a good time any way. I know the ones who did win sure paid for them guns through tickets.
 
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