Have you ever noticed that you get hung up on a build, and then all of a sudden, your not so interested anymore and by that time you have thousands of dollars invested.

It is getting a lot harder to come with neat ideas, when most of what we want exist in the world with outfits like Nosler Rifles, Empire, Dakota, Miller, Cooper, Nesika Bay, Accuracy International, Sako, Blaser, Heym, Sauer, Steyr-Mannlicher, Anschutz, and others.

Just thinking of the customs in the safe that I should be swooning over instead of planning something new.

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Originally posted by D99:
Have you ever noticed that you get hung up on a build, and then all of a sudden, your not so interested anymore and by that time you have thousands of dollars invested.

Yes, I have been dealing with this as of late. It is sickening to think that you have X amount of dollars wrapped up in a half finished project that you most likely couldn't sell for 50 cents on the dollar.

Anyone interested in a great deal on a Ruger #1 in 300H&H, or a VZ24 barreled action in 458 Lott? Seriously....

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Originally posted by D99:
Have you ever noticed that you get hung up on a build, and then all of a sudden, your not so interested anymore and by that time you have thousands of dollars invested.

Yes!! & it seems to get worse the older I get

i have that afflictio.[be still my heart]

One of the benefits of having a 10 year backlog of "projects" is that some of them slip off the list before you spend any money on them.

I've had it since the '60s and it don't get no better with age, at least so far it hasn't.

I used to build hot rods and that was just as bad except it took up more space.

At any given time I have at least 6 personal projects under construction and another 6 actions-in-waiting just hanging on my project wall. I MAY just possibly end up keeping close to half of them until completion, that is if I'm lucky. Usually they end up being traded for something else about halfway through.

Apparently, like hunting, the real ultimate goal actually ends up being the process rather than the originally-perceived goal. Oh well, it keeps us off the streets anyway (grin).

I have a number of old abandoned projects in the shop, guess I should dig some of 'em out.
Regards, Joe

i am working on 2 that have been in my attention for years .. i have had interest wan and wax ..

about a year into something, without tangable benefit, i loose interest .. sometimes permanantly ..

The wanting is ALWAYS better then the having

I've almost always found the journey or the planning to be the more stimulating and rewarding part of the journey or project. That's not to say I don't enjoy arriving at the end just, sometimes, there are those interesting sidetrails.

Jerry Liles

Ditto for women

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Originally posted by kcstott:
The wanting is ALWAYS better then the having

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Originally posted by Nomo4me:
Ditto for women

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Originally posted by kcstott:
The wanting is ALWAYS better then the having

That reminds me of this.

Guns are still better than motor vehicles or women ,i have two vintage military 4x4s one in pieces for 20 years ,one together but needs new engine ,either way your screwed, sell them ''as is'' and get nothing for them ,spend a fotune on them, sell them and lose a fortune as no one wants to pay you anywhere near the ''cost'' of fixing them .Women well they are just a money hole which cost you a fortune and give you Grief 90% of the time for your money .the rifle is easy to store ,doesnt take up much room and you wont lose 50 to ,60,000 dollars on it ! you can alway change project to something else if your not to far into it ,sometimes liking something, is alot better than the curse of owning it

They all pale into insignificance in comparison to owning boats.

Holes in the water you pump truckloads of money into.
gotta have the right boat for the job, no boat does it all.

Sound like guns to you

Just add a bunch of zeros to the price of the guns in your mind & be thankful you prefer hunting............its a cheap sport in comparison.

Boats....well, yeah, but try AIRPLANES!

In 1970 I bought a Piper PA-28R-180, used, for $17K. Full IFR with 2 360-channel radios, 2 VOR heads, ADF, Piper's cheap version of an autopilot, you get the picture. Only had a few hundred hours on it. In order to pay for it I leased it to a local flying service and things worked well for a while.

That same exact airplane (not a similar or even an identical one, I'm saying the same exact one), now 40 years older and WELL-used with many many more thousand hours on the airframe, now sells in the $150K range. Annual & 100-hour inspections and insurance run into the thousands even if you don't fly it at all. Hangar or tie-down fees, ditto.

Still less expensive than some women though, and they don't argue or complain (grin)!
Regards, Joe

This is the bad thingabout how long it takes to make a custom gun. Like any self respecting gunmkaer, I have many projects in various forms of completion that were started several presidents ago. It takes so many hours to make them and my intrest goes soemwhere else before I finish, so I start a project that fist my current intrest, only to abandon it in a couple of years when or less when my interest and eemotions pull me in a different direction

If you could just buckle down on your own stuff and finish a rifle in 3 months or so everything would be great. But the overwheliming majority of gunamkers do it part time, with the rest being full time makers. There is precious little time to fit in your own projects when you have the money making projects staring you in the face.

BTW-I am a skydiver and one of my mantras is "Gravity is a heartless bitch." Any jumpers out there know what i am talking abpout. All of us have been hurt to some degree (I currently have a broken back) and we all have friends who have gone in.

I did not come up with that phrase, but rather heard it from a rigger who moved machine shop equipment on a daily basis. Some of that stuff is massive and must be eased out of very small doors. Gravity rarely does anything to help you in these situations. A gunmaker friend of mind (who may actually read this thread; if sio, hi Glenn!) says about heavy machinery,, " You have to be careful, that thing has a lot of gravity in it!."