collector, enthusiast, hoarder or just obsessed?

[.20calguy]

So, no shooting until you save enough for a "nice" airgun?

All I hear is, "You young people with little money that are raising a family, no "cheap" airguns for you, you need to wait a decade or two until you've saved a couple grand for a "nice" one."

Is that accurate?

I shot a P17 and loved it, I wore it out in short order. Then, when the funds were available, I replaced it with HW40. There's two differences between Chinese, and German airguns, price vs quality. The Chinese gun did sell me on the German gun, along with other Weihrauch's I own.

 

[Airgunbeast]

i would say collector/enthusiast/marksman. I have too many now though so I'm going to sell some.

 

[R+ck]

All of it

 

[daddypaddy]

to me cheap guns are under $250 and expensive guns are over $650. in between those prices are my unknowns.. like they can be cherry or a lemon. anything over$1000 is an expressive purchase that i would prefer to only have one of. so far, i think i’m doing good with my hobby. i do have many kinds of scopes though.. cheap ones and rather expensive ones.
i’m an obsessive tinkerer without the proper tools to make what i want..

 

[daddypaddy]

Yes to all three, but I'm losing it. There are fewer and fewer places to shoot. If you own a lot of land (I've owned parcels as big as 477 acres), you're stuck with all the maintenance, which does not appeal to me at 69 y/o. On smaller parcels, there are more and more municipal rules, HOA rules, and subdivision rules.
it is getting more and more difficult to sell, ship or receIve payment for anything gun related PB's and now even airguns.
I owned mid to high priced airguns since 1997. Hearing all the talk about budget guns and wanting something to tweak around with in winter, I bought an Umarex Notos, Gamo Urban and AirVenturi Avenger, all in .22.
I was really impressed an wonder if I wasted all my money on those higher priced guns, especially since even if like new they can hardly be sold unless you are willing to lose 50%+

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do what a lot of people do here. post them in the classifieds for 90% of their retail and wait for months until you get a bite