Dieseltech56
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Yes more than I would ever admit to my wife
Do You Ever Just Sit and Hold, Admire Your Gun Collection?
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Plunky McPlunker
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Umm, no. That would be kinda weird wouldn't it?
Who would ever want to get away from the wife and kids to spend time, (quality time,) alone with firearms. And knives.
Yep I'm not ready for recovery yet since I feel I don't have a problem. Denial is my position on this.
My rifles are around the corner.
Jim
Nice collection. Do I see some 3rd Generation Semi-Auto's there? I'm a huge fan of the 3rd Gens.
Youse guys aint's gots youse priorities right. Youse is fondling youse guns and leav'n youse wimmin alone? Me thinks youse is lust'n after plastic guns toose
"ell yes I handle my guns. only a couple on a regular basis but my muscle memory for the rest is reinforced by those two or three. Revolvers, pistols, and rifles I handle them all over the coarse of a year.
Biggest problem is I'm also handling other peoples guns so I never really lust to handle my own. I get one of my revolvers out and "shoot" one of the liberal news anchors on the TV in my basement. I'd never really do it in real life but i sure do get quick with the aim and shoot cuz they don't keep a frame on the tv on for long.
"ell yes I handle my guns. only a couple on a regular basis but my muscle memory for the rest is reinforced by those two or three. Revolvers, pistols, and rifles I handle them all over the coarse of a year.
Biggest problem is I'm also handling other peoples guns so I never really lust to handle my own. I get one of my revolvers out and "shoot" one of the liberal news anchors on the TV in my basement. I'd never really do it in real life but i sure do get quick with the aim and shoot cuz they don't keep a frame on the tv on for long.
Great post OP!! And of course I do. (And I know I have more guns than I can ever shoot...but I can't seem to part with any, I mean who's about to sell a Walther P4 or P5? Or any of my 1st thru 3rd Gen Smiths, or a Sig 220 in 9, or in 45?.....you get the idea. [And when I did sell one, like the 6906 'cause I didn't really "need" it what with a 3914 and 4513...I went out and found another to buy, 'cause how could I not have one?])
kbm6893
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Most of the reason I buy them is to fondle them. I have guns that haven't been shot in years. I have too many to shoot in a regular basis. It's why I insist on primo condition guns. Pride in ownership.
I'm in the same boat as kbm6893, own lots, most are rarely shot and some I have never shot, even though I bought them as used firearms. Now, with ammo and reloading components scarce, I shoot even less, so I fondle... errrr... admire more. 
I get mine out if my safes about twice a year to wipe them down and when I do that I usually take a few mins to admire them all at once and consider how fortunate I am.
OLDSTER
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I'm a "firearm fondler" for sure. None of my guns will ever have to worry about lack of attention from me.
max503
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I don't sit and admire but I'm an admitted Firearm Fondler.
gwpercle
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It's great to know ...I'm Not the only one!
10 months ago I bought a Ruger Wrangler ... and so far looking at it , fondling it and helping Alan Ladd , Audie Murphy , Matt Dillion (james Arness) , John Wayne and several others in shootouts and gunfights ...
I still haven't shot live ammo in it .
I'm 71 , have Glaucoma , blind in my right eye , half blind in my left eye , probably can't see the sights and don't want to dissillusion myself with reality that I could no longer hit a barn at 7 paces ... I'll just hold it and remember the days when I could .
Gary
10 months ago I bought a Ruger Wrangler ... and so far looking at it , fondling it and helping Alan Ladd , Audie Murphy , Matt Dillion (james Arness) , John Wayne and several others in shootouts and gunfights ...
I still haven't shot live ammo in it .
I'm 71 , have Glaucoma , blind in my right eye , half blind in my left eye , probably can't see the sights and don't want to dissillusion myself with reality that I could no longer hit a barn at 7 paces ... I'll just hold it and remember the days when I could .
Gary
I don't "fondle" them all that much, but I had some of my "antique" models sitting on top of my desk in my home office. I looked up often to see them. Now that I am selling off my collection and these are gone I do sort of miss them.
kbm6893
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Serious question: has anyone ever taken a polymer M&P or a Glock type weapon out to admire and fondle? I own those types of guns but they don't fall into the fondle and admire category. Last night, I was admiring my M&P .38 from 1946, but I don't give much thought to the modern plastic guns.
gwpercle
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Plastic doesn't have any heart , polymer doesn't have any soul .
The model 58 in my avatar ... like the 1946 .38 M&P ...
...has both , Heart , Soul and Class .
Gary
I'm sure that young guys or folks that own one or two handguns maybe feel that way about their tupperware guns. I don't, but I fully understand the sentiment.
I can say that while I get great utility from my few tupperware guns, I have no deep passion for them. At the same time, I'd rather fondle a tupperware pistol than any shotgun.
I can say that while I get great utility from my few tupperware guns, I have no deep passion for them. At the same time, I'd rather fondle a tupperware pistol than any shotgun.
Gunhohulk
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Nope! Not once! Ever… Oh wait, they all seem to be on my coffee table right now.
I have way too many guns for that sort of thing!!!!
But on occasion I might handle a couple, some people call it fondling but I dislike that term...........I think.
I do laugh a lot when I open my safe but I'm weird that way.
But on occasion I might handle a couple, some people call it fondling but I dislike that term...........I think.
I do laugh a lot when I open my safe but I'm weird that way.
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Absolutly
Some of these have been a multi-year journeys to locate, others took working extra hours and sacrificing to be able to afford, some took incredible luck of being in the right place at the right time and still more just have a beautiful glow of ingenious simplicity
For the last two or three decades, there have been one or more firearms on display in my study. In my old house, the two long gun cabinets were in there as well holding 18 lever action rifles and shotguns.
In a hard to spot compartment next to my desk is a 5 1/2" Colt SAA in 45 LC that I love to dry fire. There is a 627 V-comp also within easy reach and sometimes I just have to pull the MP5/357 out of the closet for a bit
However, more than just fondling them, I enjoy when friends come over and I get to talk about guns like my Model 45 that was manufactured in the 60s, but did not ship from the Factory until the 90s.
Or the Deluxe Texas Ranger that I first saw in 1973 but spent 23 years searching before I was able to purchase one. You have to understand that back in the olden days we used to call the Internet . . . Shotgun NEWS
Some of these have been a multi-year journeys to locate, others took working extra hours and sacrificing to be able to afford, some took incredible luck of being in the right place at the right time and still more just have a beautiful glow of ingenious simplicity
For the last two or three decades, there have been one or more firearms on display in my study. In my old house, the two long gun cabinets were in there as well holding 18 lever action rifles and shotguns.
In a hard to spot compartment next to my desk is a 5 1/2" Colt SAA in 45 LC that I love to dry fire. There is a 627 V-comp also within easy reach and sometimes I just have to pull the MP5/357 out of the closet for a bit
However, more than just fondling them, I enjoy when friends come over and I get to talk about guns like my Model 45 that was manufactured in the 60s, but did not ship from the Factory until the 90s.
Or the Deluxe Texas Ranger that I first saw in 1973 but spent 23 years searching before I was able to purchase one. You have to understand that back in the olden days we used to call the Internet . . . Shotgun NEWS
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Years ago when I had all my WWI and WWII US firearms they would get taken out of the safes looked at, inspected then wiped down and put back. My friends would sit around at re enactments, shows or displays and ask, wonder what these weapons saw? If they could only talk……
Sssshhhhh! We don't want "them" to know about that. We...I mean y'all could be judged as mentally....uh.....off kilter, by some "normal" types.
DMcBB
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In all honesty, I'm starting to feel this way about my M&P 2.0 Compact 3.6 inch. It's a feisty little buddy, and it's upgraded trigger and sights, together with its outstanding grip, put it up by there with my favs.
I have way too many guns for that sort of thing!!!!
But on occasion I might handle a couple, some people call it fondling but I dislike that term...........I think.
I do laugh a lot when I open my safe but I'm weird that way.
That's why I coined the phrase "periodic maintenance inspection"... easier and safer to tell the wife where I'm off to in the house, than to say I need to get my "fondling fix", and it wasn't referring to her
All of my guns stay in my safe until I ether need to clean them or I want to shoot them.
If I need to fondle something my wife is usually around and up for that.
If I need to fondle something my wife is usually around and up for that.
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