Do you suffer from Gun Shop/Gun envy??

[Arik]

I know one guy like that. Nice guy, knows his C&R and gave me a few pointers here and there. As for what he buys, i dont care, most of it im not interested in or way iut of my price range anyway.

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[Rule3]

I find it easier to give the shop's owner a list of guns that I want with my name and phone number and if a gun on the list shows up he gives me a call. I am not kidding, I really do this with three local shops

I tried that, he would if he could but is just so busy he can't.

Everybody would want a call and he lives on the damn phone anyway.

I asked for free home delivery so I could call in orders, I mean the shop is about a mile away, but nope!

 

[mesinge2]

I tried that, he would if he could but is just so busy he can't.

Everybody would want a call and he lives on the damn phone anyway.

I asked for free home delivery so I could call in orders, I mean the shop is about a mile away, but nope!

I have about 35 guns from one of the shops so he makes an exception for me.

When he got the Shield in he just put it in the safe and called me. I came in the next day and bought it.

 

[perrazi]

you guys are all fortunate to even have a gun shop to go into.the nearest to me is almost 100miles. that's why gunshows in my area are usually busy.

 

[Moonman]

A regular at a LGS is 70 Plus years old, always is picking up

another Handgun, Rifle, Shotgun, along with looking to order something else.

The other day he was inquiring about SUPRESSORS while picking up his

pistol grip only shotgun (whatever they call those things).

Some time back I walked in and he had received a 24 KARAT GOLD DESERT EAGLE 50 Cal.

That baby sure did shine in the light.

He likes his hobby and it appears that he can well afford it.

 

[Fishslayer]

Generally if a gun is nice enough for one of the big buck guys to pounce hard it's gonna be way out of my league $$$-wise anyway. I live for those holster worn, "carried much, shot a little" revolvers.

I will say that I was the pouncer on one occasion. I spotted my 4" 686 no dash from across the shop when I went in for a box of bullets. I am not exaggerating when I say the ink was not even dry on the price tag. I would say I "bought too soon" and also had to wait 30 days but haven't regretted it for a millisecond.

 

[Gunslinger808]

I have a few customers that specialize in a certain category of firearms, and they all have list should I get something special in.
One of my more esoteric buyers collects strictly WWII Japanese battle rifles.
Other than that, everything goes on display, first come, first chance.

 

[feralmerril]

Once again I am going to let my butt overload my mouth here. This is how it went for me: I was as avid gun lover as anyone here. I haunted the gun shops, had tables at gun shows and lived and breathed guns for many years. I amassed a fair collection of what I like and needed.
I have bought only a few guns in the last years. My collection seldom see`s the light of day. I still like and talk guns. Probley its a age thing.
Maybe it wouldnt be a age thing had I got involved with guns at a late age instead of at the dawn of my memory. Now I am worried about who gets my guns at my demise. I am torn thinking about what ones to sell for my widows sake. Now retired with not much income I am beating myself thinking about trips I cant afford and guns that could be sold sitting in the dark safe totaly unused or even petted.
I never was impressed with fine collections of very rich people. Everything has a price if you bid high enough. How hard was it putting a nice collection together for a rich man? Once I was in mexico and met a old apatche indian married to a lot younger girl and they had a herd of kids. They lived on the ocean poor with no electricity or money. He seemed a happy man. He showed me his heavley used beat up single barrel shotgun that many of us wouldnt have picked up out of a ditch. He was as proud of that shotgun as many of us would be of finding a fine parker.
Guns is just a small piece of life. For others it might be stamps or rare coins. Were I to live life again I would have the finest high end examples, but only of my nessasary working guns. Ones that get used.
Of course I am not talking about safe keeping old family guns etc.

 

[Rule3]

^^^

Thank you Feral. Very well said and puts "things" in perspective

 

[carpriver]

Here in my little slice of heavn there in a Ace hardware store, the owner stocks a few hand guns and a few AR's mostly hunting rifles. He is the only gun shop in town. I go in from time to time just to check out what is new. When I am intrested in buying a new/used gun I have done my research. I will call he and ask if he knows any one that is looking to sell what in might be looking for; if no one is selling I look on line and should in find a used gun I have I shipped to him. If not I may have him order a new one for me. He is a decent guy and he normally will give me a discount because I do most of my gun buying with him.

 

[feralmerril]

My main interest is old classic winchester, colt and s&w`s. I am really interested in old west guns that saw history but cant afford them. What hurts is many years ago I had some and being dumb, they got away. I had a sharps, springfield 45-70, winchester 73 and 92`s, old colt saa`s, 1877 and 1878 colts, a old whitneyville big 50 that saw hard use as a buffalo rifle, remington derringer etc. While I made money on them I probley didnt get a tenth of what they would bring now.
In my experiance a person would do well to know other type guns. By that I mean if you are only interested in one brand or era you are really passing over other valuable guns at shops and shows that turn up. When I was starting out a guy offered me what looked to be a unfired triplelock in .45 colt for I think in 1970 $200s. I turned him down because I wanted one in .44 special like elmers. I later found out there was like only 12 or 15 of them thought to have been made!

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I have a friend that goes to all of the local pawn shops every day before he goes to work. He is a car salesman so he goes to work around 10AM and works until 6 or 7 PM.

He calls me one day and tells me I need to go to this pawn shop to look at a 26-1. I got there about an hour later and the pawn shop had 2! I bought both and my brother Charlie now has one and so do I.

Charlie had been looking for a 26-1 for over 10 years!

For pictures got to an older thread here: http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-revolvers-1980-present/262802-i-bought-2-26-1s-today.html

 

[chud333]

The LGS that i frequent is a very small shop but
i'm on good terms with the owner and he knows
what i like. He called me just this week and said
he had gotten in some Smiths and he would hold
them back for me to look over if i could make it in
soon. I headed right over before work and he had
gotten in 3 guns. A 6" 586 no dash, a 4" 686 no dash,
and a 17-1. All three looked as Brand New !!!
I asked him what he was gonna ask for each of these
and i ended up putting the 2 Blued guns, 17-1 and 586
on layaway. He told me some time ago that he has a
regular who comes in "every" friday and buys a new
gun from him. He said the guy considers it his retirement
fund that he can enjoy now....
I'll never be a Big Hitter so to speak and be a player on
the RM's and Triple Locks but i can and do buy some
nice Smiths when my salary allows.
I harbour no ill feelings towards those who can buy
these guns. Good for them i say. Just hope they take
good care of them cause they don't make the old
"Classics" like that anymore.

Chuck

 

[MP1983]

Yeah, I know the type. Hard to beat them to anything. Makes you feel like you are always a day late and a dollar short.

_________
James

ohhh, but doesn't it feel great when you do

 

[NMPinNYC]

We do not own our possessions... our possessions own us...

 

[JJEH]

I was lucky with my dealer. When we moved to OK I chose him and not others for some good reasons. And now we do business all the time. I see alot of nice stuff in his shop, but honestly cannot afford it.

But this is a lesson we have to learn; we cannot have everything...

 

[DeathGrip]

I love guns. I know people that love guns. Some of those people can afford more than me but I don't envy. My priorities are different than theirs and my bank account certainly is.

I'm always happy to see a friend doing well.

 

[JJEH]

I love guns. I know people that love guns. Some of those people can afford more than me but I don't envy. My priorities are different than theirs and my bank account certainly is.

I'm always happy to see a friend doing well.

That's the point. If I go back on the timeline, while working for Mercedes-Benz; We had alot of customers with high $ cars and most of them I drove. But they own them. So I was always happy for and always honest to my customers because if I had the money for that particular car - I would buy it as well.

That particular car was a 2007 CLK63 AMG convertible and it was a breeze...

 

[Engineer1911]

I'm spending the kids inheritance and enjoying every $ of it. Who needs the stuff more than me? I've bought 2 guns early but so what? I now have them.

In 5 or 6 years, I'll have a living estate sale. Based on past experience, I'll do better selling quality guns than investing in stocks, bonds, or "high interest" CDs.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I think I'm over it, a combination of having quite a collection of quality pieces combined with less shooting in recent years. Also several of my favorite shops have closed,alas.