Ex-wives. They have their own club with a facebook page and everything. I am not kidding.
As for guns I never really thought of myself as collecting them. I just like to hunt so of course I need guns.
I enjoy and appreciate fine examples of the gun maker's art as much as anyone you'll ever meet but they're still mostly tools to me.
Teach your children to love guns, they'll never be able to afford drugs
I don't really collect anything beyond US service firearms, but I do seem to accumulate running shoes, watches, and camera lenses.
- I am a rifleman with a poorly chosen screen name. -
"It's far easier to start out learning to be precise and then speeding up, than it is having never "mastered" the weapon, and trying to be precise." - Dan C
The only thing I accumulate that I don't need, is antique axes. I like to buy neat ones on eBay, fix em up, sharpen them, new haft, and use them. I give them away, too, to guys that help me with stuff, young guys that are starting out, need a good axe (not many of those around).
Different axes for different tasks, hatchets, boys axes, double bit, single bit, cruisers, heavies.
If you use an axe, or maul, there's NOTHING, out there today that cuts or splits like antique steel. Unless you pony up $200+ for a Gransfors Bruks.
Other than guns and a small knife accumulation, not much. In the past few years I've been focusing more on collecting experiences...food, drink (according to untappd I have tried 421 different beers in just over a year), concerts/events, travel, and now that I'm single, women! I'm also pretty good at collecting friends.
"Finding out that you have run out of toilet paper is a good example of lack of preparation, buying 10 years worth is silly"
-DoctorWho
I just remembered my other collection! Broadheads!
I have them all in a shoe box that I haven't opened since we moved into this house 6 years ago.. 24 different kinds. I also have some old arrows with broadheads on them....
Someday I want to make a display like this..........
That reminds me...... I need to check the mothballs in the arrow boxes. Moth larvae love to eat feathers
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
English literature. Entire works of Sir Walter Scott, circa 1874. Entire works of Alfred, lord Tennyson. Samuel Pepys, etc. Old books and/or highly relevant (politically) books. Had four (4) exhibition grade Weatherby custom rifles at one
time, but had to sell three of them; broke my flashy, shallow heart.
I just remembered my other collection! Broadheads!
I have them all in a shoe box that I haven't opened since we moved into this house 6 years ago.. 24 different kinds. I also have some old arrows with broadheads on them....
Someday I want to make a display like this..........
That reminds me...... I need to check the mothballs in the arrow boxes. Moth larvae love to eat feathers
I hate you more now.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
I collect memories.................of both good times and bad.
Its a private collection, not open to the general public but, they are shared with those who were with me when I collected them. I have a section devoted entirely to hunting and fishing, another section which specialises in good times shared over wine and food.
There is a very special category of friends I have met, both in person and through electronic means. Highlight of that section is the events surrounding the SE at Jerry & Miss Mary's place and the hospitality and friendships I finally realized through person to person contact.
When I meet up with people I sometimes trade memories or share them and in turn they share theirs with me.
They don't take up much space..............a hat box full I guess. They don't need packing and shipping when I move house, some of them diminish with age .........but they are still regarded as priceless.
I guess I will continue collecting them as long as I am able................and when I die I will take them with me.
I used to collect ex girlfriends and wives.............but it was too expensive to house them.
Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
What? You can't show up to work in a cashmere sweater??
Oh, I could. Then get flogged. And lose all my credibility, and the respect I've earned over the years.
I wonder how cashmere holds up to grease, diesel fuel, and mud? :tooth:
Yep, for good or bad my professional battle ground is full of troops uniformed in silk ties, handmade suits (something I try to avoid since they run $2-5,000 and travel like hell), expensive watches and high-end shoes.
I'm sorry to hear that. The best thing to do with a necktie is to combine it with about 30 others and make a skirt out of them. That's the only way I'll wear one of the things - as far as I'm concerned, they're the mark of the male slave. No thanx...
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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Yep... but it made 1 1/2 house payments on it's own.
My oldest brother has over 20 recurves. Bears, Brownings, Damon Howatts, Shakespeares, Wings, Herters, and Ben Pearson
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
As for guns I never really thought of myself as collecting them. I just like to hunt so of course I need guns.
I enjoy and appreciate fine examples of the gun maker's art as much as anyone you'll ever meet but they're still mostly tools to me.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"It's far easier to start out learning to be precise and then speeding up, than it is having never "mastered" the weapon, and trying to be precise." - Dan C
Different axes for different tasks, hatchets, boys axes, double bit, single bit, cruisers, heavies.
If you use an axe, or maul, there's NOTHING, out there today that cuts or splits like antique steel. Unless you pony up $200+ for a Gransfors Bruks.
Yes. Horse traded that one......
Also had a 72 Super Kodiak for awhile..... it was the first to go.....
I hate you.
I have them all in a shoe box that I haven't opened since we moved into this house 6 years ago.. 24 different kinds. I also have some old arrows with broadheads on them....
Someday I want to make a display like this..........
That reminds me...... I need to check the mothballs in the arrow boxes. Moth larvae love to eat feathers
time, but had to sell three of them; broke my flashy, shallow heart.
I hate you more now.
Good Lord!!! You're a certifiable Flamer!!!!
:that:
:tooth:
Uhhhh, I think I'll pass!
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Its a private collection, not open to the general public but, they are shared with those who were with me when I collected them. I have a section devoted entirely to hunting and fishing, another section which specialises in good times shared over wine and food.
There is a very special category of friends I have met, both in person and through electronic means. Highlight of that section is the events surrounding the SE at Jerry & Miss Mary's place and the hospitality and friendships I finally realized through person to person contact.
When I meet up with people I sometimes trade memories or share them and in turn they share theirs with me.
They don't take up much space..............a hat box full I guess. They don't need packing and shipping when I move house, some of them diminish with age .........but they are still regarded as priceless.
I guess I will continue collecting them as long as I am able................and when I die I will take them with me.
I used to collect ex girlfriends and wives.............but it was too expensive to house them.
fify
You forget the names of half of them! :uhm: :bang:
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
Good luck classing up the joint!
What? You can't show up to work in a cashmere sweater??
Oh, I could. Then get flogged. And lose all my credibility, and the respect I've earned over the years.
I wonder how cashmere holds up to grease, diesel fuel, and mud? :tooth:
If it ain't broke............
About as well as overalls at a Euro Board Meeting.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."