Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What is your defintion of a rifle looney?

For me, and all apply to me, are as follows.

1. I have changed out numerous scopes on rifles that I really didn't have a solid reason to do so. And somehow still do.

2. I owned two exact same models of guns, in the same caliber. I am sure there was a valid reason.

3. I cant remember if I sighted in a specific gun or not.

4. I don't remember where I got a specific gun from.

5. I buy an item for shooting or hunting, put it away, and then forget about the item. And buy it again and have two.

6. Despite knowing where an article is going about a gun, I still read it.

7. I never have enough.

8. I regret every rifle that I have ever sold. I remember all of those.

Is my mind going or is this something that has happened to you?

Have new forms of evidence? Post them...

You buy a rifle specifically because you got a box of ammo sometime, somewhere and you needed a gun to shoot it out of.

Or the reverse of ROMAC's scenario. You buy a rifle because ammo can be had immediately and its a condition of the sale. Winc 1903.

With two grandsons I have a reason to buy guns.The youngest is one year old so I need a selection for him when he gets big.

Ha that's funny Jeff and I'm guilty of all of them!

Another I can add off the top off my head is that I have boxes of bullets in calibers I no longer even own and powders of which are no good or not preferred for anything I own, but but must have been damm good in something at some time.....

Anybody who has more guns than I do.

someone who doesn't own any?

Like them all! I have been wondering where all my loves will end up when I am gone. Maybe a moseleum �....

RAS, any one of those 8 might get ya' qualified.

How 'bout it being a while since going through the collection, and you forgot you bought certain rifles, and are just tickled to see them there!

.....and you congratulate yourself for being so smart to make that purchase(s) you didn't remember.

Despite every build or buy being the perfect rifle to round out my collection, I still seem to a find hole in my gun safe and start dreaming about the next one and everything I could do with it.

Get a good deal on a set of dies for a gun you don't have so you have to buy the gun for them. It has happened twice.

A lunatic with a rifle.

having loaded for load development for a new rifle. sell the new rifle before shooting it.

buy another rifle in same chambering years later. load up a box of 50 for development and then find the first box.

One I heard of was to have a certain modification done that , if done right, can't be detected so adds nothing to the value of a rifle; BUT if done wrong can be detected so detracts from the value of said rifle. Just wish I could Remember what the modification was.

Your jacked you have posted something you thought was important or funny 10,000 times...

W

when you have more pictures of your rifles on your IPhone than pictures of your family....

Making the distinction between caliber and cartridge when referencing the specifics of your rifle . . .

I'd say "Any young man above the age of about 5, who hasn't been 'politically corrected' "; but I have 2 granddaughters who love to shoot!

Mark

I badly needed a suitable scoped rifle for hunting white-tail deer, across long distant spaces - open prairie land.

So I bought a lever-action carbine, Marlin 1895-GS Guide Gun, 45-70 Caliber. Because I liked the looks of it better than anything else,
And I never put scopes on Lever-Guns. I buy firearms because I like them, and want them - no matter how impractical.