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Posted: 1/19/2003 12:02:36 AM EDT
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Well, today I ordered my second AR. It's a Bushy V-Match 20" rifle. I already have the 16" carbine. Never thought I'd get a second one. I did a partial trade with a bolt gun. But...my wife still had a fit. She said that I didn't need to spend any more money on buying more guns. I told her that I wouldn't buy any more, (Had my finger crossed behind my back), but I was going to get some accessories for those two AR's. I told her I was going to make my carbine into an M4gery and the AR rifle into a SPR. She said that was OK as long as I didn't buy anymore. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!!! She has no idea the amount of money I'm going to spend doing that!  Rambosky |
| Rambosky,I did almost exactly the same thing today except instead of ordering one I bought it. I never thought I would get a second one either especially since I just got my first one less than four months ago. I went to the gun show on Saturday really just to look around and kill some time. I was buying a couple boxes of ammo and a ammo can and the guy reached under the table and pulled out a preban DPMS in very nice condition and put it on the table. I picked it up and gave it a once over and set it back down. A couple of guys came over and started looking at it and without hesitation I pulled out the plastic, handed it to the dealer and said write it up. My wife sounds exactly like yours. She does not know yet but when the 1100.00 bill comes in I know the stuff will hit the fan. She will get over it eventually, I hope. |
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Quoted: But...my wife still had a fit. She said that I didn't need to spend any more money on buying more money on buying more guns. Rambosky Sounds like what my wife says. Sometimes I have to "sneak" things past her. And also I never tell her what it really cost. Always tell her a much lower price. I see the "bug" has got you. Once you have one, you always have to have another. |
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After a while you will get addicted to trying every upper combo out there! Hell, I've bought, traded, and sold more uppers then I can ever count and to be honest I am not sure just how many uppers I even have at this time! From there, you will then likely start playing with the various attachements (sights, optics, stocks, grips, triggers, etc). Then you will need to look at the various RAIL systems so you can attach more stuff (RIS, RAS, FF RAS, SIR etc). Here again, I know I learn from owning, using, and playing with these things and I have bought/sold/traded allot of good stuff! Beyond that, you will also gain an addiction to AR-15 mags! You will find that a few mags just don't go with the huge assortment of everything else so you will start stacking them in your safe! Twenty and 30-rd mags won't match your desires and you will need a BETA or two and perhaps some of the other mags just to learn how they work. It's at that point, you will discover thet the cost of an AR-15 or two is nothing compared to the rest of the stuff you have bought! Besides that, you will then want to start again with a pre-ban, something bigger like an AR-10 or perhaps you will get the NFA bug and want a full auto M-16! This really is an addiction... I am just lucky to have a great wife that understands! Welcome to the club! |
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I'm glad that I have company out there with the AR syndrome. This weekend I made a list of what accessories I wanted for the 16" carbine and the 20" rifle. I want to make the carbine into a post ban M4gery. The minimum was six items for $850.00. The rifle I wanted to make into a SPR, it was 9 items at $1,100.00. My problem now is, which one I want to start on first? Rambosky |
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I am working off the same principle. I am single and buying my guns now. I do a few minor upgrades, but nothing major....yet. I figure after I am married my wife may have a problem with me dropping $800 on a new gun, but $100 here for night sights and $75 there for a bipod, well, hopefully I can still enhance my collection. In quality if not quantity! |
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Quoted: Its Ok though, girls cant tell them apart, shell never know you have more than two. Could you please explain that to Tweety? She has her own Shorty and has now laid claim to the new Cav 15. She's in the process of building a new precision rig with a 24" bbl for herself. She installed the NM 2-stage this weekend. |
| now i dont know where you guys find your women but my wife likes my rra m4, she does not like my vepr and has physically adopted the ltr enough that she will clean it after using it. about the only thing she doesnt get is my need for mags since ww3 will be fought somewhere else.2 or3 is the most any person should need but ive got a few more than that |
| I avoided all that when I became single again. Let me quote what I said. My ex told me that I should be spending money on her instead of buying guns. Well I told her the reason I spent more on guns than her is that the "gun" stays and usually women don't. I guess she did not like it LOL!!! Again I was right . |
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Just ordered my first kit from J&T today. I even got my wife's approval on this one. First time I've had to ask for permissions to buy a gun. I'll probably have to start sneaking them in the house after this one. Especially since I promised not to buy another gun for the next 9 months. Not sure I'll be able to hold off that long after I get my first AR built. The sickness continues to eat away at me!!! |
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I really blew it. This past weekend the wife wanted to move the safe to make more room in that area of the basement. Well, of course I had to take all the guns out of the safe so that we could budge the thing. Big mistake. After laying them all out she said, "Think you have enough? I guess you're about done buying guns for a while". Doh! She clearly does not understand the concept of The Right Tool For The Job. Each fine weapon has its own purpose with very little overlap with another fine weapon. Besides, a bunch of them are inherited from my Dad and I can't just go use them all the time and wear em out and stuff. They have to be taken out a couple times a year and fondled, perhaps take a duck or two, or a pheasant, then cleaned and put back. I need more new guns in order to preserve the heritage guns :D |
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Quoted: Quoted: Its Ok though, girls cant tell them apart, shell never know you have more than two. Could you please explain that to Tweety? She has her own Shorty and has now laid claim to the new Cav 15. She's in the process of building a new precision rig with a 24" bbl for herself. She installed the NM 2-stage this weekend. Ok let me re-phrase that, Girls not intersted in guns cant tell them apart. Chances are that if they can tell them apart they wont have a problem with you bringing home a new one because they like them themselves. |
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Quoted: You guys have the part about wives correct. The most dangerous part of going to a Gun Show and buying something, is trying to get from the car to the backdoor without being seen or heard. J. [ROFL] I wait til the middle of the night, sneak out, and get the thing out of the trunk[:D]. My wife can't tell the diff between an AR and an AK, so anything she sees is just "another one of his guns". Built an M4gery last year by getting the parts over a 2 month period and sying "it's just some parts, hon" whenever a package came in, or I picked up a lower at a show. |
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[B] Quoted: I wait til the middle of the night, sneak out, and get the thing out of the trunk[:D]. My wife can't tell the diff between an AR and an AK, so anything she sees is just "another one of his guns". . [LOL] How true!!hahaha. I just talk to my dad with the intention to return his old hunting rifle. He asked why. I said so I can have more room for the good stuff. Can't pack them rifles in anymore without removing something. Wife said no more safe, because she knows one more safe means another 10 to 15 rifles. |
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I get a profit sharing check once a quarter. (I some how have never gotten around telling the wife.) I had seen a FN Special Police Rifle at the local Leo supply house. I knew I had enough money to get it but I couldn't explain it to the wife since we were on a tight budget at the time. So I went to a local jewelry store, bought some tiny dimond earings in 14k gold. They were so tiny it really didn't cost all that much. I brought them home gave them to the wife and told her I got a spot bonus for working hard. She was so suprised and happy. I also took her out to eat that night. While we were eating I told her that with the rest of the money I was going to by a rifle from a guy at work who needed the money and was "giving it away". She said without a thought, "Thats a good deal, go for it." At times I start to feel guilty, but when I look at my toys, [b]NOT![/b] "Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to decive." Wasn't that Gen. George S. Patton? |
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