Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Do you have too many hunting rifles?

Hmmm....define 'hunting rifles'?
Can always stash one more somehow in a safe, so the answer is NO!

My wife doesn't mind at all.Thinks I need another safe,she helps me keep up with the inventory and enjoys shooting the 'little' ones.She has a Cat named Ruger?
I think she can't wait for my retirement so we can hunt more,she loves the stories about Africa and has great legs too....
I'm in Heaven here! I think too many may be impossible to reach...........rifle

Too many to hunt with in a given season, perhaps, but never enough to shoot, touch and enjoy throughout the off season.I do however find myself mainly looking at rifles that will increase in value, to help make a purchase legit.

The only rifles I feel bad about are the ones I traded or sold. The ones I gave away make me feel good. I have a bunch of hand guns that I really do not use anymore, but each of them have at least one good memory to go with, so whenever I think of selling or trading off, the tender gentler side takes over and I put them back in the safe. I have a S&W 586 that I have traded or sold four times, and somehow it has beei brought back home once more.

Right now I am thinking it is time I went small bore and am looking at 22hornet, 223 and 22-250 as options. The reading and ballistics study is reward enough for the process.
Randy
I am not a gun nut, or rifle loonie, I am a firearms afficiado...hehehe

Is this a rhetorical question?

Yes, am I going to do anything about it?....NOPE.

"Too Many" and "Rifles" don't even fit in the same sentence.

Rob

I've kept the number to what I consider an amount that I have time for. I like to spend as much time as I realistically can shooting and hunting but if I had a lot more rifles my time would be quite divided and I'd likely be less proficient with them.

While I own a total of nine long guns and one pistol, I've been doing all of my big game hunting with two rifles, a Ruger #1B in .270 Winchester and a Remington 700 BDL in .35 Whelen. Other stuff catches my eye but then I think "what would I do with it?" In fact my only varminter is a Ruger #1V in .22-250 and although I shot it on targets last year I never went hunting with it. That being said, nailing groundhogs with 110 grain V-Maxs from a .270 is pretty funny. I have on occassion even gone hogging with the Whelen.

For me the result of a not-so-big rifle collection is that I shoot better than I otherwise would be able to and I know the trajectory of my rifles very well. With my .35 Whelen, I expect my shots to land in a 6" group at 300 yards from unsupported prone. While I'm sure that there are guys here who can do better, I'm also sure that if I was dividing my practice I personally wouldn't be doing as well as I am.

So here is THE question: If yer gonna have too many, how many would that be, exactly?????





.....I don't know, either!

Somebody said you can never be too thin or too rich. I would like to add, or have too any rifles.

I agree. No hookers, no blow, no gambling, no girlfriend, no drinking, well a beer or two once in a while.

Haven't hit the 100 mark yet but I passed the half way mark a dozen or so ago.

Maybe I should re-think the girlfriend thing on second thought.

Don't think the wife would mind at this point.............

The answer to the question is yes, and no...
Yes, I have too many rifles to fit in the gun safe.
And, No, I WILL NEVER have too many.

No, I have to little room to store them. So I slowed down on rifles and started adding to the pistol side of the house. Seems to work for me. The collection grows and my gun junky fix is good for a while.


Hoeram
NRA Life Member

Someone who has a wife like mine!

Buying and keeping guns is a disease. Fortunately it is a hobby that can be an investment in most cases. I began buying and collecting guns (in duplicate) in the 1970s, explaining to my wife I needed two of each since we had two boys. I slowed down in the 80's and 90's but have since ramped up again. I must stop since I have totally run out of gun safe space. I have a half dozen muzzle loaders, a half dozen shotguns, a half dozen .22s and .22 mags, including two very nice Win 9422 mags with which I began my collection back in the '70s, an Anschutz Manlicher stocked .22 Hornet, a Cooper .204 varmint rifle, a beautiful and accurate walnut stocked Steyr .260, a gorgeous CZ custom 6.5x55, a customized Jap Arisaka mauser in .300 Savage, a Mauser 7x57, an beautiful Whitworth Interarms 30-06, a Rem 700 30-06, a Rem Model Seven MS .350 Rem mag, and a very nice Ruger Mod 77 .416 Rigby I hope to take to Africa one day. I also have scopes for most of those rifles. I have a few nice pistols as well, but that is another story. I must stop buying guns. Help.

Told my wife when I bought the last one, when she ask me why I bought another rifle, when you already have 11. Said sometimes a fellow, just needs to buy another rifle.

Not wanting a gun is better than having one.

OTOH, a hobby isn't a bad thing...

Mike,that is pretty funny!

Pretty fair assessment.

Rifle crank....yeah, pretty much that's me!

No not me. I'm the practical sort . I have my R93/338WM which I reach for every time I head high, my Bruno .22LR for foxes & rabbits for when the mood strikes me & I'm having a custom 338 Federal built up off a Pre-64, which I dare say my son will use. But I must confess I want one of those new FN Model 70's in 338WM. Just thinking about another 338WM in a CRF FN Model 70 gives me a woody