Out-of-Control Gun Lust — “I May Need an Intervention!”
Forum member Kevin (aka “N10Sivern”), revealed he needs some help with a compulsion — a compulsion to keep buying more and more guns and ammo. Particularly ARs, all shapes and sizes of ARs. Way too many ARs. You could say he has an ARdiction….
In a Forum Thread, Kevin posted: “I may need an intervention. Trying to clean my office and pulled this stuff out. I’m missing an AR10 lower somewhere and an AR15 upper. I’ll find them before the day is done. I have a big box full of parts as well, and 4 barrels still in the cardboard tubes. Sigh. This is gonna be a lot of Cerakoting for me.”
Another Forum member said: “For the love of God, man. Delete this thread lest you be accused of hoarding!”
Kevin replied: “I guess I am hoarding a little. But it’s good hoarding right?”
And then he posted this “Mail Call” photo:
Kevin’s caption: “It only gets worse. Mail Call today: 20″ .308 Ballistics Advantage barrel, 26″ Savage 25-06 barrel, 700 pieces of .38 special, 300 pieces of .357 magnum, 500 pieces .308 Win, gas tube, Hornady Modified Case Gauge. I have more crap on the way too.”
Forum Member’s Chime In…
Kevin’s “Need Intervention” post drew plenty of comments from other Forum Members:“God! It is so refreshing to see that my illness is widespread with little hope (or desire) for a cure. I smiled reading each post.” — Gary0529
“You know you have a problem when you open a drawer and find components you forgot you bought.” — JoshB
“It’s not hoarding if you intend to use it. Says he who has 12,000 primers.” — Uthink
“I guess I’ll go ahead and volunteer to help you with your obviously much needed intervention… send me the pictured items and then you’ll no longer have to deal with those nasty temptations. Just think about it, you’ll have less clutter in your office plus you’ll not have to fret over the need for any cerakoting either. I’m just one human being volunteering to help out another fellow human being who needs help!” — PikesPG
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Kind of hard to say whether that’s a problem.
Having said that, my primary ambition is to live long enough to use up all the small rifle primers I have on hand.
The one guy who said you have a problem if you open a drawer and find stuff you forgot you had…well yeah, that’s me. Over 130 firearms I’ve won or bought since the mid 70’s, ammo which seems to propagate on it’s own…bench rifles which I no longer shoot, but that I can’t bear to sell, NFA stuff that I won’t even talk about…yeah, when a person is on his 3rd 125 gun gunsafe, he has a problem.
“It’s good hoarding, right”
This is where family planning enters. Guns obviously do kill because we men who obsess over them don’t live as long as our wives, who (generally) do not.
Ever take a pile of nice, new brass to a gun store for credit on a trade? The guns themselves are your silver sets and China, – while the brass, bullets, primers and powders are the ribeyes in the refrigerator.
This logical explanation is why our wives notice when we purchase more actual firearms, as opposed to more ammunition than we will ever need, and thank us for the taking long term residual value into consideration.
When scrutinized, explain that you actually wanted more reloading components, instead, but that by picking the rifles, by themselves, to tuck away, you chose to preserve your hearing, and therefore to prioritze your listening abilities.
be happy! Wait until the African Hunting virus infects you. Double rifles are a lot, make that L-O-T more expensive than AR’s…
I went Cape Buffalo in late 2008. I just wanted to go once. A year later, maybe just one more. Plains game in RSA. Two years later, I just want to go one more time.
Now, I just want to go one more time…
Rich
at 67 years old it is still tough
8 plus presses portable ones for matches
get brass or make brass then build a gun . brass just in case varmits to African guns , bench guns too . maybe at 70 i’ ll slow down