The biggest issue with buying more guns.

[Marley5]

 Noticed since I've accumulated more guns, a pecking order has formed. 

The guns that shoot less accurately hardly gets much attention. I shoot almost every day and have shot close to 500 pellets from my most accurate gun in the last week alone.

I realize that we usually start with entry level guns and progress from there but without the intent to sell, the less accurate gun becomes a wall ornament, in my case. 

Humor me and with this question. Why would you grab your least accurate gun for a shooting session when you own other guns that produce superior results?

 

[CyberDyneSystems]

to make matter worse, I bought my first rifle safe recently and it was advertised as a "12 rifle safe" It can in fact fit no more than 5 of my air rifles. 5 vs 12. Talk about a bad investment.

I am going to part with some of my older rifles. My boyhood springer can go. The SAM Marauder is both not the sharpest tool in the shed re out of box accuracy, it is also beastly heavy, far heavier than the published specs. (like WAY heavier than a SamYang Dragon Claw in .50 with dual tanks? Its crazy!) So it is either going to go, or I am going to remove the action and remount it in a custom made wood stock that doesn't needlessly include about 50% more timber than necessary.

That will leave five rifles that will fit in that safe, and three of them are really deadly accurate. (Kratos, Akela, LCS) the Big bore is not as accurate, but that .50 serves another purpose, so I'll still shoot that on occasion as well. and the R9 Springer, just because it so sweet.

 

[boscoebrea]

A mistake because I just grab without looking.

I have many accurate pellet guns,so I pick them for style, form and function.

Your right; another thing is trying to get a known "good" shooter to shoot good....uh can be so time-consuming and in the back of my mind I am thinking why go through all of this....

 

[crowski]

I’ve been in air gunning for 3 yrs. and have bought several nice guns. Since June I shoot daily trying to break them in. Every day I grab 2 different rifles. Definitely feel the difference between them. Now my challenge is to improve them, with spring kits and different accessories. Safely called an obsession. Crow 

 

[SeeOhTwo]

If you're a lefty, and you like FX stuff, you won't have much of a problem with too many guns. 

Glenn in Texas

 

[MikeVV]

Noticed since I've accumulated more guns, a pecking order has formed. 

The guns that shoot less accurately hardly gets much attention. I shoot almost every day and have shot close to 500 pellets from my most accurate gun in the last week alone.

I realize that we usually start with entry level guns and progress from there but without the intent to sell, the less accurate gun becomes a wall ornament, in my case. 

Humor me and with this question. Why would you grab your least accurate gun for a shooting session when you own other guns that produce superior results?

Plain ol "variation". 

I have one rifle that has a horrible trigger, that I've fixed about half way, but have no intention of ripping it apart to properly fix the problem.

But yet, I do pick it up every now and again to put a magazine or two through it, as I say, just for the variation, or the hell of it.



Mike

 

[Long_Gun_Dallas]

Simple.... All of my guns are accurate if they aren't, I will find a way to make them! I've got no use for something that doesn't do what I ask of it.

Now, I do like pistols a lot because they are more challenging to shoot accurately. My hw50s also takes a bit more work than my fx crown. Nice to mix it up from time to time. But as stated, all 9 of my airguns are shooters! 

 

[AndyKunz]

Humor me and with this question. Why would you grab your least accurate gun for a shooting session when you own other guns that produce superior results?

Sometimes it's fun to see if it's really the gun, or if it's me. Sometimes nostalgia - I enjoy an old one just because it's an old one.

Andy

 

[Moog]

I have a variety of different guns. Some are more accurate than others but they are all great shooters otherwise I would not keep them.

You have to ask yourself what is your own definition of accuracy? In other words what are you going to use the gun for? A small bore target rifle is going to be more accurate than a big game rifle.

I also get bored if I shoot the same thing all the time. It's just more fun to shoot something different once in a while.

 

[dizzums]

why, to work on it .. i rarely shoot just to shoot, im either killin somethin, teaching somethin a lesson, or working on a gun ... its what i do lol .. i try to impress myself more than buying a 5k$ gun and posting a 250y shot online to impress the idiots lol ...

 

[Skip-in-WV]

The wife!

 

[L.Leon]

If talking about PCPs, specifically AAs, Brococks, Crickets, Daystates, FXs, Taipans, Vulcans, etc. The biggest issue is price. Put together any four or five and kit them out? 10K, price is the main reason I've restrained my PCP rifle purchases. I rather have a solid HPA compressor and a few good guns.

 

[AirShot]

I learned many years back that air rifles take up more space than firearms, so when it was time for a new safe, I just had the xabinet made and finnished and did the interior myself. Allowed more room in between guns, have a section for airguns and a section for firearms. Since I have retired, I thinned out my selection so thay my remaining guns each have a purpose. Depending on what I am shooting at, there is a gun for that purpose. Never had much time for serious hunting so did not have a selection of big game stuff. What I have left are the guns I use on a regular basis, no collectors here, just usefull tools !!!

 

[Mattnshilp]

It’s a disease. A wonderful disease!!! 


Want a Prophet. Bought a Daystate Renegade cuz hard to find these days. Still want a Prophet. Bought a BSA R10 SE cuz found in the caliber I wanted and hard to find. Still want a Prophet but now want an Impact 3 also. Don’t need both. Oh, also want a Crown 2!!!! 


Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

 

[needledriver]

I have a 22 Marauder and an NP Varmint. I love the Mrod but not so much the Varmint. I shoot the Varmint often to overcome any bad shooting habits I may be developing.

 

[FelixS]

I have FX, JSARs, and AEAs. AEAs are not as accurate the others, but at 50 yards they are the most fun to shoot, and although I shoot them all, I currently shoot the AEAs the most. Tiny, powerful and accurate enough at that range.

 

[SteveP-52]

Only issue I have with buying more guns is actually having the money to buy them...lol

 

[dv8eod]

It's good to have variety. Shooting the same ol' same ol' all the time gets boring. Plus, with a bunch of different types and calibers, you can try to sucker, i mean introduce, new people to this annoying, frustrating, exhausting, relaxing sport that is airgunning.

 

[shoot44]

Back in my RC airplane days a friend had about a zillion engines, no planes just engines. I ask him why. He said cause they are pretty.

Don't need to shoot a airgun to enjoy it. Their all pretty.

 

[Shiloh1944]

It is the same in any shooting sport. One of anything is never enough. I have been in traditional archery for over 50 years. I currently have 7 custom recurves and have had as many as 10 at one time. I have been in airgunning for about two years and I now have 6 air rifles. I will not say how many centerfire guns I have collected over the years that I actually never intended to collect. I don't own a gun or bow that I don't enjoy shooting.