Funny you should say that. I've been shooting and collecting for over 40 years. I've shot in competition for decades.I finally arrived at a point in my life where I can afford to buy all the guns I wanna buy, I joined cherry Ridge for years I never went there once. I joined shongum and cant even figure out how to make the required back stop so I never went there either. I have at least 6 new guns that I've never fired but always wanted. Now they are all going to be outlawed by the new legislation. So I'm done too. I can't bear to sell them and lose all that money I have invested. So now I just sit and wait to see what happens.

I have slowed down because my tastes are evolving. Last guns how I went to I saw guns that just a year ago I would be doing cartwheels down the aisles for. Now since tastes have changed, the price of what I buy has drastically gone up. So of course it slows down so I can save up for another big score. This year alone, I added an original Berdan Sharps(a hoot to shoot), an original documented 7th cav Little Bighorn Trapdoor Carbine(also a blast to shoot)' and a couple of broomhandles. This on top of the fact that work has been killing me and I haven't been home for months has drastically slowed me down.

I have read several articles in the past few days discussing how stores have racks full of guns and the "Frenzy is over".

 

It's quite possible that this is true.  I'm now seeing ammo specials in my inbox daily and while I can't speak to full gun racks, there's no shortage(with a few rare exceptions) of any make or model gun you want like there was in 2008-10.

 

While I've owned and shot guns all my life, in the past 2 years I rebuilt my house and got a new dog, both of which conspired to consume all my spare time.

 

I was big into guns before I left Ohio in the 90s but once I moved to NJ in the mid 90s I didn't pull the trigger on a round in NJ until 2008 mostly due to NJ's draconian gun laws.   I would shoot when I went back to Ohio, but that was infrequent.   From 2008 to 2012 I was shooting frequently in NJ.   I think I've been to the range 4 times since May 2012 when we broke ground on the house.

 

I was at the Range on Sunday and had a great time, but I'm clearly in a down phase rather than an up phase.     I've got enough guns for the moment, but I'm still in the market for some particulars, like a .44 magnum and a good varmit rifle.  It's just life happening I suppose.

To Kingsoverqueens:  Time to GET OVER IT!  

Doing the best I can.

 

I should get out to shoot steel this weekend, and starting next week I'll take a half day on Thursdays when the boy has off and we'll go practice, bang up our steel and then perhaps shoot in the trap league so he can get his fill of "adult time."  

In my opinion, as long as you can distinguish between a "duty and responsibility" and a "hobby" you will be all right.  Hobbies come and go, but being a responsible for the safety of the people you care about does not change.  Maintain what you feel you need for protection.  And, consider firearms are in investment. Think of what they will be worth someday on the Black Market!

Cost of ammo is coming DOWN / just saying.

 

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Cost of ammo is coming DOWN / just saying.

 

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Perhaps from the outrageous prices of early last year but gone is the under $10.00/50 for re loadable 9mm. Prices have indeed gone down but the new normal.and totally expected I might add is quite a bit higher since our recent unplesentries and the slew of new firearms owners.

Doing the best I can.

 

I should get out to shoot steel this weekend, and starting next week I'll take a half day on Thursdays when the boy has off and we'll go practice, bang up our steel and then perhaps shoot in the trap league so he can get his fill of "adult time."  

WAY TO GO DAD!   Enjoy his company EVERY time you spend time together!  I KNOW what 1K miles of separation feels like!  Where there's a will, there's a WAY!

 

Best to you and your family!

 

Dave

Funny you should say that. I've been shooting and collecting for over 40 years. I've shot in competition for decades.I finally arrived at a point in my life where I can afford to buy all the guns I wanna buy, I joined cherry Ridge for years I never went there once. I joined shongum and cant even figure out how to make the required back stop so I never went there either. I have at least 6 new guns that I've never fired but always wanted. Now they are all going to be outlawed by the new legislation. So I'm done too. I can't bear to sell them and lose all that money I have invested. So now I just sit and wait to see what happens.

Yeah, but don't blame the system, Brutus. "The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves." It's ok to lose interest in a hobby. Older people even lose interest in sex, which 40 years ago I could never imagine. But it happens.

 

Remember though that this hobby has some practical benefits. You can still defend yourself in your home, and on your property. You can still hunt if you enjoy that. In other words you still have the liberals' definition of the 2nd Amendment. That's still worth something. And you can still support people who believe in 2A rights.