Has this happened to anyone else here?

[MontClaire]

In about a year you'll fall in love with your collection again. So don't sell it yet.

[henrybucki]

click on the pic its a photo bucket,sorry for the pics that get in the way.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

when ever i get bored i buy another broom

So that is where all the broomhandles disappeared to.......

[SVT-40]

The passion ebbs and flows... But just because you don't shoot your rifles doesn't mean it's time to sell them and move on....

I've had times where I didn't buy anything related to my collection for over a year, then Bam, something caught my eye, and I was back in whole hog...

Besides the actual rifles or pistols, it's also the knowledge about the items which excites me...

[ccandgc]

^this.

[ezb57]

I shot pistols and rifles for years and was having fun. Then one day, I came up with a Remington Wingmaster shotgun. I went to the trap range to try it out and was instantly hooked.
I moved on from Trap and now shoot Skeet and Sporting almost exclusively. I get out the hand guns once a year to stay familiar with the house guns, but that's about it.
Nothing compares with shooting moving aerial targets. Being out in the open, no crazy blasts around you, reasonable ammo costs, you can talk and be social, different mind set of the shooters too-not so much macho BS. It's just so much more fun than punching holes in paper or ringing gongs.
You really ought to try it out.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

The passion ebbs and flows... But just because you don't shoot your rifles doesn't mean it's time to sell them and move on....

I've had times where I didn't buy anything related to my collection for over a year, then Bam, something caught my eye, and I was back in whole hog...

Besides the actual rifles or pistols, it's also the knowledge about the items which excites me...

No doubt. They are living history, not just wood and metal. I love having a row in the safe with from left to right:
1903
M1 Carbine
Garand
Enfield
K98
Arisaka

On top of that, all of us are caretakers, or stewards if you will, of historical items which we care for and preserve for a future generation.

[omega]

the older I get the less fun it is to shoot magnums and high powered bolt action rifles

I used to shoot at least 100 rds out of Mosin Nagants, and Springfield M1903, Mausers, etc

now I only shoot 20 - 40 rds

[Divernhunter]

I got tired of the sore shoulder and at my age it is not good for my RA.
Solution was to get a PAST shoulder pad and I also sometimes download any handloads I shoot.

I stopped collecting mostly because my daughter was not interested in the mil surplus firearms. So I sold off many extras and used the money for an African hunting trip.

Still have a couple of mint Correct Grade M1 Garands(H&R and Springfield) that I want to sell. I will keep the last remaining Service grade one I have for shooting. Like to sell them to fund another hunting trip.....maybe Canada or Africa or.........
Sold at least 7 Mosin 91/30 and 6 M44 rifles. Just keeping a correct 38 and a sniper to shoot.
Plan to keep the one Enfield and sell the original #5 Jungle carbine. Then there are the bayonets I need to sell. Just been busy and too many people who what stuff for next to nothing. Just causes me to not list the stuff.

[Che762x39]

Just woke up one day and you weren't into it anymore?

20 years ago I got sooo much stoke from C & R collecting, you know? So much so that watching History Channel became financially hazardous: anything I saw in action on the program became my next "gotta' have it."

But a week or two ago I was at Angeles Range passing the time, and discovered I was having a lot more fun shooting my SKS than I was my Mauser. Quick follow-up shots, no recoil, banging the gong at 200 meters one mag after another. I'd been shooting bolt guns for SO long, I never really noticed that it wasn't so much fun anymore.

So that's it for me. I'm getting old I guess, but somehow I've had enough of getting my jaws rattled around shooting large caliber, centerfire bolt guns. I had a heck of a run, but that's that.

Am I the only one?

I am with you. Over the years, marriage, divorce, marriage again. Children, new job, another job, retirement.

If you look in your safe and that firearm has not been used in years, maybe it is time to move on. Not hunting anymore? No relatives or friends into hunting? So I might as well sell off to Calgunners who will enjoy them. 20 years ago I was really into < 1.00" groups. Now I am okay with hitting the gong at Angeles with an SKS or AK.

Its all good

[aghauler]

Two life threating events at the end of Sept have caused me to re-evaluate things considerably including retirement. I'll be selling off some research books and some firearms.
My daughter and son-in-law are interested in a few items but they don't have the inclination or time to get into "collecting". Hopefully they will get into shooting more back in Albuquerque when she's done with her Internal Medicine Residency in a few months.

[echo1]

I got tired of the sore shoulder and at my age it is not good for my RA. Solution was to get a PAST shoulder pad and I also sometimes download any handloads I shoot. I stopped collecting mostly because my daughter was not interested in the mil surplus firearms. So I sold off many extras and used the money for an African hunting trip. Still have a couple of mint Correct Grade M1 Garands(H&R and Springfield) that I want to sell. I will keep the last remaining Service grade one I have for shooting. Like to sell them to fund another hunting trip.....maybe Canada or Africa or.........
Sold at least 7 Mosin 91/30 and 6 M44 rifles. Just keeping a correct 38 and a sniper to shoot. Plan to keep the one Enfield and sell the original #5 Jungle carbine. Then there are the bayonets I need to sell. Just been busy and too many people who what stuff for next to nothing. Just causes me to not list the stuff.

I got one, thanks again. PAX

[orangeusa]

Make a new hobby until you get bored with that, keep what you have.
Astronomy (cubic $$ in scopes), pistols, reloading.. fishing.

I don't think I am helping here.

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[orangeusa]

Two life threating events at the end of Sept have caused me to re-evaluate things considerably including retirement. I'll be selling off some research books and some firearms.
My daughter and son-in-law are interested in a few items but they don't have the inclination or time to get into "collecting". Hopefully they will get into shooting more back in Albuquerque when she's done with her Internal Medicine Residency in a few months.

What research books? (Said the MSEE)

[Rosereader]

I'm having the opposite problem, intermediate caliber weapons, and semi autos in general, bore me.

The market is just so over-saturated! Lame stuff.