Is it dumb to add to your collection when you don't have time to shoot?

[Cone]

My buddy and I were talking the other day about how neither of us have enough time to go shoot as much as we would like and he thinks it's dumb that I keep adding to my airgun collection when I rarely shoot the rifles I have. I have eight rifles right now and if all goes to plan I am going to order a American Air Arms Evol TAC .30 later this year. I was just wondering if anyone else is like me and enjoys expanding there collection even though you can't shoot very often?

 

[bouddha]

Not dumb at all! I have two in my collection that I'd have whether I ever shot them again or not. Moderation is for Twinkies & political debates, not airguns.

 

[Cone]

I'm with you bouddha!! I have no time for moderation. 

 

[Hynzie]

Stack em up never. Enough 

 

[wyshadow]

I think someone who has a large airgun collection can provide input to other people's questions.

 

[Keyman62421]

SEAL MOTTO (I heard) if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!

 

[Vudongthoai]

Sometimes I don't have to shoot...just look at the collection I have, it will make me relax after a long day of work (I work 7days/ week, don't have much day off). I won't stop buying if I like the way it looks and shoot. 
Vu 

 

[Cone]

For me the thrill of getting a new airgun is just as exciting as shooting it.

 

[Imold]

Do you ever say you have to much ammo?...I doubt it.....Airguns are the same way, you can never have to many. Women collect shoes, we collect airguns of all sizes,shapes,caliber's.

 

[Imold]

"Cone"For me the thrill of getting a new airgun is just as exciting as shooting it.

Oh so true...

 

[NMshooter]

The answers is......Yes.......... but...............do it anyways. LOL. I haven't shot much this summer but still deciding what my next rifle will be. It cetainly is not a necessity but I will eventually do anyways.

Enjoy!

NM

 

[Bizill]

First thing that popped into my mind reading the OP is the great feeling of a rifle cabinet full of sexy airguns. How much do collectors pay for fine art or paintings? What benefits are there to art besides visuals? Think of an entire closet full of rifles as useful pieces of art.

 

[Deja]

just picked up a streamline 22 that i will make time to shoot. but last week i just had to try a daisy bb rifle and a qb 78. Daisy was junk but maybe fun for my nephews but qb was really a pleasant surprise . 

 

[Cone]

"Bizill"First thing that popped into my mind reading the OP is the great feeling of a rifle cabinet full of sexy airguns. How much do collectors pay for fine art or paintings? What benefits are there to art besides visuals? Think of an entire closet full of rifles as useful pieces of art.

Great point, who can ever get tired of looking at a fine airgun art?

 

[bowwild]

I understand the question and respect the responses as personal choices. I've only been in this air rifle thing for about 3 years. I didn't build a "pile" of them but I recently decided that 5 was too many for me, because I neglect shooting them most of the time. I typically get the bug in the winter to shoot indoors here at home. 

While I don't think it is "dumb", it bothers me personally to have nearly $2,000 air rifles just sitting in the safe. That's why I've sold three of mine this year. I was awed by my Daystate Air Wolf MCT but it is now gone.

I did just buy the Umerex Full Auto MP40 BB gun last week. It is pure fun to shoot. I am pleasantly surprised how accurate (for BB) it shoots and that I get two, full 60-shot magazines of shooting from 2, 12-ounce C02 cartridges. 

 

[Ravenred]

You can never have too much of a good thing 
I have 4. streamline, wildcat,Bobcat,impact. And getting ready to order the crown. Love FX guns. 

 

[Saltlake58]

Moderation in all things, but, it's up to you to define, "Moderation"! If you think 20 or 30 air rifles is moderation, that works for me.

Just remember great art collectors typically collect things you CAN"T USE, as art is typically something you just look at. Go to your local art museum and try to touch something. They'll have a hissy fit! Even the local science type (paleontological here locally) museum doesn't collect things you can use, just look at. Ever seen the collections in the "Back Room"? They have trouble cataloging that stuff. Those outfits are always "acquiring" new finds. The staff gets paid to acquire stuff. They can't have too much, so how can you?

Ya know, 20 or 30 airguns, you can at least catalog those and use them from time to time. And everyone needs a "reference set" of guns to help friends make good decisions. You now how hard it is to find a place that has FX's, Daystates, and other high end guns on the shelf? Not easy at all! Someone has to fill that void.

So, go ahead and define "Moderation" and see where it takes you!

 

[Bruce]

You can never have to many air guns. Buy what Your pocket book or credit card will let you. Then brag or show them off. Myself I like to keep the accompany stimulated.

 

[chasdicapua]

For me, it's not the number of rifles that is important, but what it is one is feeding by getting them. If it's simply enjoyment, even by just looking at them, or shooting them now and then, then what's being fed is simple enjoyment. If however, the getting of the new next thing is a manifestation of the addictive mind (BTW, I know that about myself), then that's whats being fed. The addictive quality of mind. So, it's not the final count, but what's behind the final count that, in the end, matters. 

 

[Gunnertrones]

This is a "quantity vs quality" question to me.
There are big differences within the pcp kategory, within springers, and between pcp's and springers (both ways aktually). 
But the tendency is you use what you like to use,when you can. You grab the gun that fits you and give the good feeling.
But the guns you don't use, or seldom use, have a purpose. They represent the "others", those who underline the quality of the one, two or three guns you prefer the most.
Without this references you start doubting the preferred one. ........To overcome this, you bring out one of "the others", give it some rounds, and you are back on the track.
Or not. We read and watch reviews. New brands and new upgraded versions yearly, or even monthly. The have to have feeling creep on to you, and the itch won't go away until the unpacking is done - once again. One thing for certain, the itch will come back - if not a gun, than a scope or something else you didn't know you couldn't live without just a week ago.