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It's common, so you're not deranged...........yet.

MM

i have 7 rifles in 8mm mauser, 6 rifles in 30-06, 3 rifles in 6.5x55, 2 rifles in 7.62x54r, 2 rifles in 7mm mauser, 2 rifles in .22 flobert, & 3 pistols in 45acp.
having multiple guns in the same caliber isn't loonie, having more guns that you haven't shot than you have shot is a little loonie

There was a time when I had no interest in owning more than one rifle in the same cartridge but that's changed a bit over the last few years. For eons I wanted a clean lever gun in .25/35 WCF but could just never find what I was looking for so I ordered a custom Contender Carbine barrel from Fox Ridge and was totally happy. A couple years later Winchester brought out the 94 Trail's End in .25/35 so I had to have one. So now I own two .25/35s, a lever and a single shot. Also own two .32 Win Spls. Had a 94 for years and then ran across a Marlin 336 so chambered. I figured I needed a .32 Spl that I could scope to go along with the iron sighted 94. I picked up a Browning 71 Carbine .348 Win about 15 years ago. Just a couple years ago I was GIVEN an original Winchester 71 Deluxe Rifle so I now have an original rifle and a reproduction carbine in .348.

You're perfectly normal. You need various different configurations to suit various different tasks, and then there are the "guest rifle(s)", R&D rifles, "loaners", "truck guns", etc:
7mm-08: 2
260: 2
6.5 X 55: 3

Best Regards

what happened to "a pair and a spare"? while you're at the shopping getting the 2nd 6.5, get the 3rd too and also another each in 223, 243, 25-06, 7x57.....

they put multiple spaces for guns on the 4473 for a reason... go forth and mulitply

Poole

2 7x57,Ruger 77 MKII,and #1A.
Both shoot Sierra 140 BTSP real well with 46 gr H-414.
Both sighted in the same.
M-77 has VX-II 4x12x40,and the #1A has a VXIII 1.5x5.

Do I qualify as a looney?
Mike

I have about 8 center fire rifles. The only two that are the same are 358 win.,my favorite deer caliber.

Now as a trap shooter you need at least 5 different 12 ga.

Jbmi,

Id that a Winchester lefty short action or a Montana action???

Doc

I have four 35 Remingtons. Three in Remington 14's and one in a Marlin SC.

i just tell myself that they were good deals so it dosnt matter how many rifles you own because you got a good deal on them.

Doc.Encore, "Montana"

None of mine are duplicates, I've got the 223 sporter calling rifle, and the 223 heavy varmint. I've got the classic M99R 250 Savage and the near classic M77mkI 250 Savage.
Alan's reasoning is fine if you own rifles in order to hunt, but what if you hunt in order to play with rifles? For some reason, I'm more content at the bench or on my backyard range trying out a new load or rifle than sitting in a treestand waiting on a buck to show.

This may have been said already, but I use my T/C Encore as "backup", with barrels matching calibers of several rifles I own. So I always have a .30-06 backup, a 7mm-08 backup, etc., by just changing the barrel.

A friend of mine bought a Ruger 77 in 220 Swift many years
ago, and after scoping it and sighting in, was so pleased with
the accurracy, that he went back to the shop he bought
it from and purchased another Swift the very same day.

I say Which is better?
I have
6 6.5x55
2 45/70
2 30/30
3 303 brit
4 38spl
10 .22lr

and I aint confessing that I have a problem
Randy

sev..,


Not only have I wound up with several rifles in the same calibers, I make a point of buying pistols that way. Hmmmm, most of my shotguns seem to be 12gauge as well.

I have two .325's right now... for a while I also had two 7mm-08's.

I dunno about having multiples in the same caliber... it restricts what you can do for reloading for them, unless you get really lucky and find a load they both love or just give in and load seperatly for the two rifles. But then, if your die is set to neck-size only for one of the rifles, cartridges might not chamber in the other... a load that is max for one, might be dangerous in the other... etc. Just a PITA to keep track of.

So it's not something I aspire to. In the case of my two 325's, I see them as having different functions. One is a lever action BLR and is my heavy timber rifle, so squeezing that last 1/4 MOA out of it isn't necessary. It just shoots what the bolt gun prefers and I call it good. It still seems kind of silly to me to have both.

I guess it's safe to say I'm more entertained by having a bunch of different calibers, I guess, than a bunch of different rifles in the same caliber.

-jeff

Jeff: Yours is an interesting approach in that you use the same caliber for different functions,ie lever for the timber, and bolt for more open country, or something like that.

Back here we get a lot of rain and snow during hunting season, so lots of guys I know may have one or two iron sighted rifles hanging around for nasty days.A pair of 30/06's for example, one scoped and one with irons.

For the most part, though, and particularly for hunting the west, I never believed in timber rifles,cause I often wondered what you do AFTER you come out of the timber, to a clearcut, say, and get a 400 yard opportunity? Can todays lever action handle that?

Jeff,

You do bring up a problem I have just experienced. My 7x57s both like the same bullet and load however, my 223s do not. Also, with my 243s one is used for deer with 95gr bullets and I will use the newest one for coyotes on windy days with 70gr Nosler BTs. So I guess I will be doing a bit of die readjusting or perhaps get a separate set for each rifle or at least extra seating dies or? Maybe if I spend enough on reloading stuff I wont buy anymore duplicates.

This looniness is enough to drive you loony!

PITA yes, but still fun.

The best entertainment is to spend your money on out-of-state hunts.

One of my friends has mostly hunted with the same 300 Wby. that he's owned over the last 40 + years, and he's gone though at least five barrels on that rifle. That doesn't sound very exciting, does it? Yet, he's used that rifle to literally hunt all species of the world's big game (some of which you can't hunt anymore), and he's filled a 5,000 + sq. ft., three-story trophy room, mostly with that one rifle. He's won every sort of big game hunting award there is, including the Weatherby Award, and again, mostly through the use of that old 300 Wby.

In contrast, I know a guy who owns over 100 rifles, and he's constantly experimenting with them at the range, yet he only hunts when the good old state of OR throws him a bone and issues him a mule deer or elk tag via the drawing. He's never hunted anywhere else. But man, he'll tell you all you every wanted to know about rifles and cartridges for hunting in Alaska, for Africa - heck, for everything. He's even been known to tell guys (self included) who just got back from hunts in places he's never been what they should have taken instead of the rifles and loads they did take. But in the real world, he hasn't shot squat himself, and he mostly runs his mouth about stuff he doesn't have any personal experience with. It's a joke.........

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