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I'm definitely in the curmudgeon category LOL

Gee, my collection of 20s and 16s (multiples of each, including three drillings and an over-under combination gun) only includes barrel lengths of 23.6 (60cm) to 30 inches. Guess I don't, uh, measure up!

My shotgun addiction is probably a little worse than the rifles but much, much more expensive.

You guys are awesome! 😊

Not going to pull out the tape measure, but according to my inventory there’s only two lengths of scattergun barrels. 26” & 28”

Dan i am just glad i got rid of those brass shotgun shells.

Made a small difference,nope just wishful thinking.

Well, they have a good home! And of course, they are all loaded.

Thought occurs there might be another angle for evaluating loonyism. How many of you bird shooters have dropped a bird on one of your fellow hunters without putting them at risk? I’ve done it with pheasant, quail, dove and ducks. My best was one of the ducks. High passing shot from a shoreline hutch that landed in another like style blind platform. They didn’t see it coming and were sufficiently surprised that one of the guys fell into the lake. Well, he needed to rinse off anyway.

I still haven’t figured out what had them so totally distracted, and probably don’t want to know.

Well, yeah!

The two most expensive firearms I've ever purchased were a side-by-side shotgun and a drilling. Have yet to spend more than about 2/3 as much on a rifle.

I am probably sitting on 2k pieces of brass for which I don't own the firearms to use them. Anybody need 500 Linebaugh brass?

Maybe we need hats that say cost has nothing to do with it LOL
IMHO here are examples of the ultimate in Loony ism's I have sold my blood (actually it's the plasma) to make payments on a gun. I also have used the equity in my home when a Purdey 16ga two barrel set called my name so seductively I couldn't resist.
Good guns a good bird dog a fine cigar and a single barrel bourbon at the end of a crisp October or November day and life is great.

Wish I had a 500 Linebaugh.

The story of my life - I used to be a 10 but now I'm a 1.

Oops! I guess this thread was about cartridge brass.

drover

Sold this one a few years ago.

Very nice revolver Ed.

"I also have used the equity in my home when a Purdey 16ga two barrel set called my name so seductively I couldn't resist."

Well, I can understand that--but that's a line I have never crossed! Partly because I made a vow long to always live somewhere I could be hunting (or fishing) on public land within a few minutes of my house. Knew I could never afford an "estate" with all that, so settled on living in a small town in Montana, where the equity on our house might not pay for such a shotgun. (Though real estate values are rising as more urbanites think they can flee the coronavirus by moving to rural America.)

However, Eileen did recently get some baseball caps made with the logo "Gun Gack: Need has nothin' to do with it."

I think for the most part folks here are sharp enough to live within their means, we certainly have.

10001.....that's not even the amount of loaded 5.56. Throw in 308, 243, 6.5 Grendel, 9mm, 45ACP, probably well over the 20k cut-off. Then there the 22LR..... brass, buckets full...

The “LL” in you handle mean Lost Loony?

The home equity loan provided the immediate need for cash to buy the Purdey and in my case the interest was deductible. It gave me time to sell some gun (lots of pre64 M70's in rare calibers) and repay the loan. I made money on the guns sold so even with the small amount of interest I have net equity in the Purdey and it's a dream shotgun.

Another Looney way to buy a gun with other peoples money. I get credit card offers all the time for 0% interest for up to 18 months for a small fee usually 4% and for as much as $10K. The trick is to divide the loan into 17 monthly payments which is $588/mo I'll round it up to $600 so I get the time to pay it back and the net cost is $400. You can't get those terms from a bank. The credit card company is counting on you not paying off the loan and they then go back to the date of origin and charge you a horrendous interest rate. Theres money available
without digging into your savings account if you know how to work the system.