Drought...

I realized something the other day, during a discussion of the "one gun a month" law currently being proposed here in MA: I am woefully behind in my gun acquisitions for the year. Last year I picked up 5 new guns; 7 the year before; and an even half-dozen the year before that. This year will be halfway over by the end of this month, and so far I've picked up exactly one new gun... And it was a 10/22 at that - not that it's a bad gun, just an inexpensive one (well, not if you take accessories into consideration, that is...)

Part of it is, as I've mentioned before, that I don't like buying new firearms. I'm in it for the thrill of the chase, for the sheer undiluted joy of finding a unique used gun somewhere that no one else has. Sometimes it has bitten me on the ass - witness my trials and tribulations trying to find a spare magazine for my VEPR; other times I wind up with the steal of the year. Buying a new gun off the shelf in a gun store holds little appeal to me - even leaving aside the 6.25% sales tax on top of the gun that I don't have to pay when buying privately.

Another part of it is that I'm trying to work on my actual shooting a little more - having a bunch of guns is cool, yeah; having a smaller bunch of guns that you can shoot well is also really cool. I need to get to the range more often, and to start taking the same guns to the range to improve my proficiency. Shooting a CZ-52 one range trip, a NAA mini-22 the next, then a Colt Official Police the trip after might be fun, but none are going to contribute much to my ability to consistently hit center mass with the guns I carry.

And, lastly, it could just be that I've got all the guns I want now.

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...just kidding. That'll never happen...

That is all.