How Many Duplicates Are Too Many?

[xfarfuldog]

Most of my police career I carried a Python. Our chief was conservative and would not allow either nickel or stainless revolvers. Shortly before he retired he relented. I would have purchased a stainless Python but could not afford one with my meager salary. Instead I bought a Smith 66. Of course the 66 was excellent and saved me hundreds.

After I left the department I sold all my guns except my P226 and my Python. As I grew older I had more discretionary money available. Now I have a total of 7 model 66's. A no dash 2 1/2 inch, 2 1/2 -1, 3 4 inch -1 and 2 three inch. That doesn't include several other handguns.

The last 2 four inchers were bought in the last 2 weeks. I guess that I see the 66's so rarely I cannot resist. Where do I draw the line?

 

[saemetric]

Get the Sig P226 a friend.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

More than two or three of any combination of barrel length and finish would raise the question of necessity. However, many here question the legitimacy of necessity as a question.

Next?

 

[Narragansett]

I think 7 is just about getting there. I would like one more M28

 

[Jon651]

Most of my police career I carried a Python. Our chief was conservative and would not allow either nickel or stainless revolvers. Shortly before he retired he relented. I would have purchased a stainless Python but could not afford one with my meager salary. Instead I bought a Smith 66. Of course the 66 was excellent and saved me hundreds.

After I left the department I sold all my guns except my P226 and my Python. As I grew older I had more discretionary money available. Now I have a total of 7 model 66's. A no dash 2 1/2 inch, 2 1/2 -1, 3 4 inch -1 and 2 three inch. That doesn't include several other handguns.

The last 2 four inchers were bought in the last 2 weeks. I guess that I see the 66's so rarely I cannot resist. Where do I draw the line?

I think a reasonable question to ask is "What do I want that I cannot get because I spent that money on a duplicate of something I already have?"

If you can come up to an answer to that question that includes a specific firearm (and doesn't include the word "nothing") then you might have just reached that point...

If the answer to that question is "nothing" then you don't need to ask the question!

 

[GypsmJim]

Legally, you can only have 1 wife. Morally, you should have only 1 girlfriend. As far as guns, you can have as many duplicates as you want.

....as long as your wife (or girlfriend) approves.

 

[bdGreen]

I ran out of prop rod for the rest...

enjoy,

bdGreen

 

[Old cop]

My 1973 4" Model 66 is one of my favorites too.

 

[mtgianni]

Wow you might be asking the wrong crowd if you expect restraint from us.
I am a shooter first and foremost, so I do tend to spread things around. OTOH, I currently have 10+ guns I can make go bang with a 38 special.

 

[Truckman]

Where do I draw the line?

Let's let Bugs answer that question......Ben

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cf4O-hUg78&ab_channel=VelocityEPHC[/ame]

 

[Scharfschuetzer]

Bugs is spot on!

The duplicates that I have are two Model 27 S&Ws and two Winchester-Parker side by side shotguns. Oh, I also have two duplicate Brittany bird dogs for hunting upland game too.

I have made an effort to replace all of those guns that I had to trade or sell to buy another one of need or interest back in my youth. So far I've replaced many (S&W Models 10, 14, 19s and 28) and I enjoy shooting them all the more in my retirement.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Dude. I'm not your comptroller. Do what you want . . .

 

[tominboise]

Well, I am down to 7 Garands. Had something like 12 or 14 of them at one point. So, keep on keeping on, I say.

 

[rbmac52]

I used to think I needed every model, in each finish and barrel length. Started on that journey once and got pretty far. But I came to realize that I am not a collector, but a shooter, so I cut way back on my revolver collection. Today I have just one 44 Magnum, one 44 Special, one 41 Magnum, one 10MM, and one .357 Magnum. For some reason, though, I have eight 38 Special revolvers. Can't seem to pare down that part of my inventory!

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Where do I draw the line?

I'm trying to figure out why you need to draw the line.

You're just getting started.

 

[SS57]

I don't have a problem, said the guy who has 11 Smith wheel guns that shoot the .38. Oh that's right there is one in the birth canal. Two N frames, three L frames, 5 K's, and a J. And the one enroute is an N. Oh boy I think I need a Crown-7 now.

 

[Benchrest1]

You can never have too many.

 

[Tytan01]

Most of my police career I carried a Python. Our chief was conservative and would not allow either nickel or stainless revolvers. Shortly before he retired he relented. I would have purchased a stainless Python but could not afford one with my meager salary. Instead I bought a Smith 66. Of course the 66 was excellent and saved me hundreds.

After I left the department I sold all my guns except my P226 and my Python. As I grew older I had more discretionary money available. Now I have a total of 7 model 66's. A no dash 2 1/2 inch, 2 1/2 -1, 3 4 inch -1 and 2 three inch. That doesn't include several other handguns.

The last 2 four inchers were bought in the last 2 weeks. I guess that I see the 66's so rarely I cannot resist. Where do I draw the line?

You draw the line at the moment you think you got everything you ever needed and it's finally time to get that Jiminez .32 or Hi-Point 9mm you had your eye on.

That's when someone close to you should step in, pop you upside the noggin and point you to A/L or G/B to get another M66 or even an M27or M28.

Hell...sell the P226 and put that $ towards a new Stainless Steel Python!

 

[CALREB]

Model 14s, underlugged . I've acquired 2 more since this photo, both 6". When I find a good deal on one, I cant let it go..

 

[rockquarry]

When the late gunwriter Kent Bellah ran across a gun (usually a revolver) that he really liked, he remarked that he needed "a pair and a spare".

 

[BAM-BAM]

Right now that's like money in the bank; Good guns,popular barrel lengths, folks want them they are hard to come by........

I had a few back in the late 80s early 90s...... most got traded off except for the two 3" 66s........by the early 21st century I realized I'd like to have a couple 2 1/2 and 4 inch 19/66s.......but unlike a decade before the LGSs didn't have any P&Red guns sitting on the used gun shelf waiting to be bought ......................

Today, personally I have as more than I need; but it took me a decade to get as many as I wanted in the condition I wanted.

Got to know when to hold um...... when to fold um!

 

[gwpercle]

Six is enough ... Twelve is too many .
Gary

 

[tops]

I think "need" and "want" are just 2 ways of saying the same thing. I also don't think there is such a thing as too much money or too many guns. One of my mentors told me that there are some things you can buy that when you want too sell you won't be able too find a buyer so you've lost all your money but somebody will always give you something for a gun so at least you haven't lost all your money. Larry

 

[Fredo Batali]

I try to look at it this way. One is none, two is one and three is better, four is way better

De Oppresso Liber

 

[Old Corp]

Well, before getting bitten by the S&W-bug, I never even wanted a .38 Spl. anything. Heck, I already HAD a .357 or two - why would you do that??

And then they started pulling me in...... too embarrassed to say how much hardware I have that shoots .38.

Same with stuff in .45 ACP - had one (1) Colt Series 70, why in heck would you EVER want a weird revolver that shoots that?
Now - Have M25-2 (and a -5), a near-perfect old M1917 and a M1937 Brazilian as a 'woods gun'.

All part of the enjoyable dysfunction.

 

[xfarfuldog]

Not Dayton PD but a small but very active suburb. The 226 is long gone but I'd like to find a reasonably priced P228. Have another 9 revolvers plus 10 misc autos.

I don't look for a particular gun anymore have been running upon the 66's lately. I don't consider myself a collector. But do not shoot most of these either.

 

[Muley Gil]

I don't have a problem, said the guy who has 11 Smith wheel guns that shoot the .38. Oh that's right there is one in the birth canal. Two N frames, three L frames, 5 K's, and a J. And the one enroute is an N. Oh boy I think I need a Crown-7 now.

Is that ALL you have? You're just getting started.

 

[625-7]

Six is enough ... Twelve is too many .
Gary

Sky may be too many

 

[jcelect]

I call all these as "different" guns, no duplicates here! My excuse and I'm sticking too it!

jcelect

 

[Rudi]

As I used to tell the kids in math class, "what's the biggest number?" They would blurt out various numbers. "Nope, just add 1"