Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire what would you do if your ship came in?

Folks the question I believe has not been asked at least for a long time if at all. what I am asking is what would you do if you strike it rich, win the lotto, a long lost uncle dies and leaves you untold wealth. How would your life change, would you switch brands of beer etc..

If I were to come into riches, the kind that I would never run out of money no matter what I was doing I think I would move out of the State of Wahington at least part time. I would also set a trust fund for our kids local school that funds meals for any kid who needs them while in school and during the summer. I have not found a place that really captavates me like SE Alaska or northern Idaho or both. But first I would buy a motor home and see this nation and come and meet and few of you folks. Naturally I would do a lot of hunting from hogs to squirrels to plenty of deer and bear. A custom rifle or two would be in order and a house in SE Alaska near a Small town. and a new Porsche boxter and a new Dodge 4x4 diesel. DREAM DREAM DREAM.

Bullwnkl.

1. Buy my widowed mother a home overlooking the ocean.
2. Go on a firearms purchasing orgy which would include production and custom rifles, shotguns and pistols.
3. Have a summer home in the wilderness.
4. Buy a motor home and see a bunch of stuff.
5. Make sure Alaskan outfitters stay in business.
6. Hunt in Mexico, South America and Asia (never had a desire to go to Africa). Oh, I guess I should take a Cape Buffalo, lion, and rhino, so throw in Africa too.
7. Give money to charities and God and thank Him for sending such a serendipity my way.
8. Buy a couple huge storage areas for all my "stuff" because I don't like throwing anything away.
9. Try out every Mexican restaurant in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
10. Have a winter home in the desert.
11. Dress like an indigent person, and try to get a pretty girl to marry me. After she gives me a disdainful, "No!", reveal my financial status to her.
12. Take flying lessons.
13. Buy a couple nice cars and trucks. I like a whole bunch so I'm not sure which ones.
14. Buy a bunch of other stuff.

Oh, all of the usual pipe dream stuff; guns, hunting, vehicles etc...
However, one of the things I'd really like to do is start a scholarship fund. I know a bunch of very intelligent, well-read guys in the 30-50 age bracket that, for whatever reason, never had the chance to pursue an education. For them and guys like them,I would set up a fund that would enable a working man with a family to get an education.

Boily
I would hire a famous seafood chef to spend as much time with you as it took to teach you how to make proper oyster stew! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Money may not buy happiness, but it sure buys the stuff that makes me giggle!
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Naturally buy some cool guns and buy a brand new truck, but overall, I would book an elk hunt for the wife and I. Other than that I can think of too much to do with it. If I had it in my hands it might be a different story but we dont need much.

Bullwnkl,

I'd help those that don't have a "ship".
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Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The older I get the less I "need". Would like to travel, find people really in need and discretly help them. Kinda like the old "Millionare" show, but not a million, just enough to help them get started. The homeless shelters are full of professional homeless. The like living that way. -- no

I'd be on Concorde US bound with a large empty holdall for my goodies!! may have to take a cargo ship back home though!! shares in Mcmillan would go up ~ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well, I'd get out of debt and then probably just keep on farming until I used all the money up.

BCR

Ha ha ha ...

How do you make a small fortune farming? ~ start with a really big one!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

The same is said of racing. Having done a little driving, I'll vouch for the accuracy.

That's where the summer months would see me, back on the dirt tracks, having a blast! Hunting season opens about the same time the tracks shut down, so I'd be busy until it was time to start a new car for next season. In my heated shop of course! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Supposedly a true story, but has been retold so many times that it is just a tale by now....

Back in the booming early 80s if you knew oil patch speak, you could go to almost any big city bank and borrow all you could talk them out of.....

At any rate, these 2 good old oil patch boys, borrowed about $5 million, drilled one duster for a million and had expenses.....

So, when the bust came, and the bank was in receivership, and the federal examiners got to them.....they asked them what they did with the money....

"Waaaalll, they said, we drilled that dry hole for about a million, and we bought that airplane for about a million, we gambled away about a million of it in Las Vegas, spend about a million on booze, drugs and women.....and the last million.....we just kind of pooped it off."

If my ship came in, it had better be loaded, because I'm a world class pooper and could be the champion if I had the bullets. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Very easy...Retire and ENJOY!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Kudos to BCR for his clever response <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

As we are drawn as outdoorspeople and shooters to this place, what most of us would do is a forgone conclusion. I am no different.

But before building a brace of rifles, buying the new homes, and booking hunts in Africa, Alaska, BC, New Zealand, Scotland, (these are hunts for my entire family! And I daresay that my problems finding rifle actions would be over, and that Sitka Deer and JJHACK would be hearing from me on a professional level), I would like to do something good that would outlast me here on earth.

Threre's always the option of just giving money to folks, and I would certainly make sure my family was feeling no pain. But on the whole, I feel about charities the same way I feel about auto mechanics and surgery -- I'm really in over my head and need a profesional. So I'd look for the best 'machine' I could build to accomplish the most for the money. That machine would be run by people I trust. That machine already exists, and I count myself fortunate that I am already a part of it -- my church. I would take advantage of it. Then I would relax, butt out, and let God handle the matter.

I'd also employ 2 accountants and 2 lawyers. That way they could take turns doing their jobs while their counterparts watched over them.

And once every few months I would require them to call me on my satellite cell phone so I scould say "Buy! Buy!" and "Sell! Sell!". Then I would close up the phone and throw it overboard.

Boggy, that was the best I have heard, you get five stars. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
When I hear how bad the farmers are having it and loosing their farms and families and I pass a field being plowed, with a new John Deer tractor, air conditioned and heated cab complete with stereo and TV, riding on eight tires and I can't afford to buy a John Deer lawn mower. Some of those farmers must think money grows on trees and planting a section or two. I have a high dollar Bonn Allen saddle use little and can't sell it for $300 cause farmers don't have horses anymore and all the working cowboys are riding 4 wheelers and
Dodge 4$4s. A retired person finds out quick how expensive inflation is. Car dealers are giving no interest loans or $3000 off MSRP WOW what a deal the pickup only cost $25,000 and the 2X2 suburban was only $36,000 and it had leather seats made from Boggys cows. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> -- no

I'd continue to go to my work but with a difference.
I'd just start loafing until they fired me, hire a good lawyer, force them to rehire me, then quit on them! LOL!
Would definitely go the RV/see-America route.
Endow the local school with whatever equipment it might need , like computers etc.
Buy a small ranch in the mountains.
Spend a lot of time fishing!

Need One:

How big is the tree on that saddle? What kind of saddle is it, western I assume, roping,cutting, riding?

Bulwk - Not sure about the details, but I would be going between my place in Acapulco and place in Alaska most of the time.

Regards, sse

Probably have a heart attack, then my wife and kids would get to spend it!

Bull.............

1) Quit Work
2) Buy my mother a house
3) Buy my wife a house of her choice
4) Buy my current hunting lease and hire my buddy to maintain it.....
(Cook shack, Food Plots, etc.)
5) Take care of all my close personal friends, that have been there for me in the
past...
6) Buy a place on the beach.
7) Buy a place in the mountains..
8) Join a really nice Country Club.
9) Days that I wasn't huniting......I would be golfing.....

Other than that....Not to much..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />