📈 End-of-Year Balance: How much $$ did you spend in 2024❓

[delooper]

I got the scope virus bad, real bad.

(I'm going to unsubscribe from that March thread.... It won't cure me, but hopefully it will prolong my [financial] life.)

Matthias

They are pretty sweet scopes. They're much like a Rolls Royce. If you have trouble with it, they'll put you in contact with the engineers that both designed and hand-made all the components of the scope.

. . . and as far as I know I don't think I spent more than $80 on airgunning this year. Forget if I got my replacement pump this past year (2024), or in 2023, though. Maybe I spent $400.

 

[JungleShooter]

They are pretty sweet scopes. They're much like a Rolls Royce. If you have trouble with it, they'll put you in contact with the engineers that both designed and hand-made all the components of the scope.

. . . and as far as I know I don't think I spent more than $80 on airgunning this year. Forget if I got my replacement pump this past year (2024), or in 2023, though. Maybe I spent $400.

Rolls Royce... —
yeah, that sounds like me. NOT!
Mostly cars the age of my son at graduation (and I don't mean highschool grad).


Delooper, you certainly have more financial wisdom than I have shown since I entered this AG rabbit hole.
Maybe you should give me a little workshop on how to keep my money in my pocket/ account — instead of splurging it on AG stuff.


I assume we can skip Lesson 1:
The lesson where you teach me not to go on airgun forums, scope webpages, and to have my wife throw away all the mailed catalogs.
Because trying to hold on to my money — but going on the forums and websites, that's like:
▪Holding a Weight Watchers meeting — at Wendy's.*
▪Or an AA meeting — at the local brewery.*

Matthias




*Thank you, Jim Gaffigan, for those vivid illustrations.
I sometimes wish you got into airgunning: You would tear us to pieces with your humor...!

 

[beerthief]

if it makes you happy , it is worth the money .

 

[Sleestak]

I have a deep sense of shame...& don't want to talk about it

 

[delooper]

Rolls Royce... —
yeah, that sounds like me. NOT!
Mostly cars the age of my son at graduation (and I don't mean highschool grad).


Delooper, you certainly have more financial wisdom than I have shown since I entered this AG rabbit hole.
Maybe you should give me a little workshop on how to keep my money in my pocket/ account — instead of splurging it on AG stuff.

I haven't been terribly wise. But when I got into guns (again -- I had a 12-year stint out of country where I sold all my stuff) I basically had an agenda. I was buying for pesting, hunting and potential civil disorder. So I had a list of what to acquire. I got those things, and I was done. It took me about 3 years to acquire everything as my credit card would have fried to a crisp if I bought everything in one month.

When I started buying, it was around the beginning of the COVID lockdowns. So here in Canada, almost nothing was available. Then came the Trudeau restrictions on what kinds of things you could buy, so there was even more panic buying, etc. My first purchase was the wrong rifle for me, but I was just trying to acquire something approximating what I wanted, as there was almost nothing on the shelves. It took around a 1.5 year backorder to get what I was looking for.

On airguns there was some trial-and error, too. At first I got some 1322's. Even though they're pretty light little pumpers, they sit in a weird legal pocket in Canada. The slightest modifications of them can turn them into PROHIBITED WEAPONS, i.e. categorized basically like a fully-automatic rifle or anti-aircraft gun. The criminal penalties can be severe. So I acquired the Leshiy 2 -- far more powerful and versatile, but strangely not in such a weird legal situation. The reasons are all dumb and technical, stemming from our lawmakers not really knowing anything about firearms.