If you view the rifles as tools to aid in the final goal of hunting, then getting down to a small handful is an ideal goal.

If you like the rifles in and of themselves, the handling, certain features, loading for different calibers, whatever, it is a Sisyphean task. You'll miss the ones you had and have to replace them or just go out and buy new and different ones.

Don't know if this will work for you but what I've been doing for several years now, and especially in this soft firearms market, is taking firearms I don't shoot much, giving them a good cleaning and oiling and then putting them away. Not just "back of the safe" away, but someplace completely out of sight, out of mind. After a year or two or three, you'll get to thinking about it and remembering the nice features of it. So you go get it out of storage and it's almost like having a new rifle to play with but it doesn't cost any money.

Except for a new scope for it, maybe try a different stock on it.... wink


Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!