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i used to have too many. i don't anymore.
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Yes, looked at rationally, I have too many hunting rifles. So?  I am beginning to think I have too many hunting rifles, and I know it is heresy to suggest this. I have beanfield guns, brush guns, wet weather guns, guns I can loan out to new hunters, lightweight rifles, compact rifles, small caliber, large caliber, and just about everything in between.
I can remember when it was simple, when I only needed one deer rifle. In fact, it was the first rifle I ever bought, a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle in .280 that I picked up almost 13 years ago. Now, I find that I rarely hunt with it, as I am trying too hard to "match" the rifle to the conditions.
Anyone else notice this in their collections?
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Do you have too many hunting rifles? yes
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yes. in the lower 48 I can do all I need to do with a .22, a 6mm Rem, and a 280 Rem. That means I can sell the 17 Mach II, the 30-30, the 7x57, and the 300RSAUM. But I would be nuts to do that.... Geez, why did you have to start this thread? 
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yes and I only need one more, and I swear it will be my last one...
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Too many is just not enough... Yes, I have too many. No, I will not be thinning the herd, short of some catastrophe.
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I have both way too many and not nearly enough. This is me. Sorry, just being a red blooded American.
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What kind of a stupid question is that, you goofball? WIVES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO VISIT THIS SITE! 
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Too many?.........Maybe for someone who don't understand our sickness, but for a rifle nut I don't think you could ever have enough..............Rock On you sick Bastages .........547.
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Here we are to page 5 and yet no one has defined too many. Too many may exist in the subjective but does not appear to have a foundation in reallity.
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Too many? Well, hello... an old hunting buddy asked about what i'd bought since we last hunted, and while typing started to feel a bit silly, realized had way way more than need. Bothered me a bit. Am not even home in the US, so they're in storage or an FFL/gunshop - it's kinda stupid actually.
But you know, it's a hobby, a healthy pastime; "need" is not relevant, just "affordability". Have been this way since met my better half, so she "accepts" it as (almost) normal man behavior. So yeah, guess have just bout the right number of guns afterall. Caved and picked up another online last night :-p
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Too many hunting rifles?....well, yeah.Anything more than one is too many.How many pairs of shoes do you have?
The 280 Remington is overbore.
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Not so far..... Someday..Maybe...
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I thought having too many hunting rifles was a pre-requisite for participation in the forum? Yes, I must have at least 15 rigs suitable for eastern woods hunting yet I reach for my Model 7 S/S in 7mm-08 or my Ruger .44 carbine 70s vintage autoloader more than any others. I've also sold or traded perhaps another 10 rigs. For about 10 years I hunted in western New York which is shotgun-only. As a result, all my rifles merely sat in the safe while my Ithaca Deerslayer did all the work.
I've managed to limit myself to one shotgun rig, deciding that nothing was to be gained by owning a half dozen slug guns.
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Some of the confessions of the true loonies are funny! I don't have enough yet...but a friend who is 80 might. He emptied his huge safe the other day and discovered he had TWO of the exact same firearm. He has no recollection getting the second one!
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"Too many?" Nahhh. Just don't have enough time to use 'em all.
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One can never have too many. Although I have some thats not been shot in 20 years, I guess I'LL just hang on to them and pass them down to the relatives.
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Probably never enough.
My wife understands me. She says I have my silver and/or black rifles that I hunt with and then I have my "collection". Further that I may never have enough.
She was surprised at how many my 3 daughters, son and step son owned when they got to the moving out part.
She should know. Since we got married 16 years ago [I was married earlier for 19.5 years] she has bought me an SS .338 Model 70, SS 10-22, WW2 30 Carbine, SS Mini-14 Ranch, and a Glock 27. I have had to do the rest on my own.
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I have spent a bunch of times on planes this week, so used that time to try to rationalize my collection. I think I could cut it to about 20.
Not counting handguns.
Or family heirloom guns.
Or the guns that are promised to my boys.
Or air rifles.
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