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Gun Porn/Collection & Retirement

This is actually my aspiration. Room and all πŸ˜πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
This would be my nirvana. Wife would have somehting to say about that though 😬


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I've been retired 11 years now. Generally hit the range about once a month. More if I've got a project going.
I've been accumulating guns for most of my life starting at about 12 years old. I have a good sized collection.
In retirement, I find I shoot a lot of .22LR. Its cheap, fun and easy on my old joints. ;)
In fact, I'm going to the range here in just a little while to try out and sight in my new Ruger Super Wrangler that I recently bought. Gonna take along a couple more .22s and just have a rimfire day. 😁
 
I've been retired 11 years now. Generally hit the range about once a month. More if I've got a project going.
I've been accumulating guns for most of my life starting at about 12 years old. I have a good sized collection.
In retirement, I find I shoot a lot of .22LR. Its cheap, fun and easy on my old joints. ;)
In fact, I'm going to the range here in just a little while to try out and sight in my new Ruger Super Wrangler that I recently bought. Gonna take along a couple more .22s and just have a rimfire day. 😁
Actually - that was one thing I was thinking/planning for - shooting more 22LR. I've got a Sig P322, Taurus TX22 compact and a S&W model 63-5 that I think will get a lot more action in retirement.
 
After a 39 yr career in education (mostly Higher ed) I have decided to embrace retirement (Mainly because at 62 I can get SS, with a pension and go on my wife's medical insurance).

In the past 3 years I have been both culling and expanding the collection to prep for this time. Weds. 4/1 is my final day at work.

I'm not saying I will never buy another gun, but if I never do, I'm very satisfied with the current collection. I have went with both quality and firearms that truly interest me and I enjoy shooting. (Never got into, or had an interest in distance shooting)

Purchase philosophy at this point - with a very full safe - If I buy one, I need to sell one.

Anyone else change up their firearm purchase and/or practice perspective in retirement or going into retirement.
Please share with me any wisdom any of you retired folks have for me as I step into this next phase of life. Thanks.


Here is most of the non-handgun going-into-retirement collection. I am very happy with all of these.

556, 300 blackout, 9mm, 10mm, and 12 gauge represented.
(Missing from this pic is the Ruger 10/22 I've had since the mid 1980s)

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i have found the key is having the CFO involved so much she searches for good buys for you :unsure: :ROFLMAO:
 
There's such a thing as having too much. There's such a thing FOR ME as having so much of something that you can't really enjoy it.

I've said this a whole bunch of times but I own less than 10 guns. I shoot less than four of them with any regularity and remember I have a range on my property. If I feel like shooting I grab a gun and a box of ammunition and I walk out the back door and I go shoot.

So I said all that to say that when I look at that photo of the people with the guns laid out all over their patio that's way too much FOR ME to enjoy.

If that's what they want to spend their money on more power to them. I hope and pray that when they die their heirs make those guns vanish into the mist before they even call the coroner.

If the ATF ever comes looking for them I hope they say we have no idea what happened, they were gone before he died.

(And if that's not crystal clear I hope they're lying their asses off when they say that.)
 
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