Re: Dear John:
- From: dazed and confuzzed <dedmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:35:13 -0500
Lee Bell wrote:
Newbie Diver wroteDUde, you really should stock up.
I'm pretty sure I have enough guns to make up for those in my neighborhood who don't have
even one. I'm considering selling some to make room in my gun safe.
Wrong technique. Just get a bigger gun safe.
I've been following that technique since I was 6, for 53 years now. It's time to try another. Actually, I didn't have a gun safe until a few months ago. Guns that were not in the display case in the family room were in hard cases under the bed in what is now my reloading bedroom. I didn't have much to worry about as long as my half dobie half shepherd was alive. He's been gone a year or so. When the next door neighbor's home was broken into, I got the message and bought a safe. A half a dozen less expensive long guns, nothing particularly useful to criminals, are still in the display case. That would include a couple muzzle loaders, an 1800's vintage break action single shot 410, a couple of .22s, that sort of thing. Everything else except my carry gun and our home defense guns are in the safe I bought about 6 months ago. I have room for more handguns, but there's a limit to how many I can shoot in a year. I have enough. I don't have any more room for long guns and I don't have any room for another, or a larger safe.
The problem is compounded by my reloading equipment. A month ago, I bought cabinets for one wall of the room. They run the length of one wall and around one corner. $3,500 worth of cabinets, and they're already completely full of reloading supplies and loaded bullets. I keep 1,000 of each caliber I shoot regularly, on hand. That sounds like a lot, but then again, I shoot a lot, at least 200 rounds a week, more on weeks my pistol club holds rifle/shotgun matches. I have 1,000 precision rounds waiting for my prairie dog hunting trip in Wyoming in October, about 1,300 rounds for my 22-250 for the same reason, about 1,500 for my tactical AR-15, the one I bought for competition, 1,000 rounds for my 9mm, 10mm, .45 and .40, all guns I use in competition plus the two 9mm home defense guns. I have 1,000 rounds of .44 Magnum, half with a reduced load for my pistol club that does not allow magnum power guns to be used and the same for my .357. I have something over 20,000 rounds for my various .22s. I got a deal and took advantage of it in a big way. Good thing, too. The deal is history. On tops of all of that, I have enough components to load another couple thousand rounds for most of the guns I like, 4,000 for the guns I shoot most often in competition, and 6,000 for my tactical AR-15. Those I my most recent purchase. I didn't used to load standard .223, but all sources of bulk quantities have dried up over the last few months. It would really tick me off to have three or four thousand bucks tied up in rifles I could not shoot.
At any rate, I have enough of everything except time to shoot some of my stock so I can reload more. I'll take care of a couple hundred tonight.
Lee
I mean, you need to be real and keep a decent supply around.
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