Romance tells me: RustBlue and Walnut M987x57 claw mounts, and a Sidelock 9.3x74R.(I could really live with that! for a while anyway) more practicality tells me DropboxM98 9.3x64 with intergral barrel features
More Practicality still but sticking with romance tells me, 30/06 M98 and 375H*H Magnum mauser.

Technology/ practicality/experimental/Fun, tells me: Titanium M70Type reciever.270win with Integral Ti rings, carbon stock, fluted cryogenically treated SStube with magnaporting. and a Stainless M70 type in .375taylor 23"tube,Mcmillan dropbox safari style synthetic stock pushing GScustom pills. (Suppose you could be more prac. by going 375H*H,but this is just an example, to cover the experimental category.)

These are just some of the things I ponder,you obvoiusly will have some your own, but I sort of like them all to varying degrees at different times, but some do come in consistently stronger than others.

I like option #2

I wish I could focus on something. It gets expensive liking too many different types of rifles. I love nice custom guns, accurate SS guns, AR-15's, Sniper Rifles, BPCR guns, match Airguns etc.. It's expensive but then again it's a heck of a lot of fun too...... ....DJ

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Originally posted by djpaintles:
I wish I could focus on something. It gets expensive liking too many different types of rifles. I love nice custom guns, accurate SS guns, AR-15's, Sniper Rifles, BPCR guns, match Airguns etc.. It's expensive but then again it's a heck of a lot of fun too...... ....DJ

+1

Variety is the spice of life.

I too like variety but my variety tends towards the classic. I prefer rust blue but hot blue is entirely acceptable. I prefer wood stocks. Sythetic just hold no warmth for me. I prefer classic cartridges like the 257 Roberts, 30-06, 35 Whelen, 375 H&H, .270, 6.5X55, 8X60mm and 7X57. Although I do not yet have them all. But if a good deal crops up I have been known to buy some of the modern offshoots of those like the 7mm-08. I do have room for a nice .223 as well though.

O/U and SXS make for the nices shotguns in my mind and I have a fond appreciation for flintlocks as well. Pistols have there palce as well where it is either revolvers or the 1911 that float my interest.

Simple. You are a gun accumulator, rather than a gun collector.

Ain't such a bad thing. JMO, Dutch.

I like accumulator better than my 78 yr. mothers term. She says I am a Gunoholic.

My personal favorite is the term "promiscuous gun queer".

I like wood and blue bolt guns, Superposed shotguns (until I can afford a David McKay Brown O/U), Browning Hi-Powers, good 1911s, and M-14's. I have the itch to put together a tricked out M4.

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Originally posted by ForrestB: I have the itch to put together a tricked out M4.

Scratching it will feel really good.

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I have the itch to put together a tricked out M4.

Since you got the itch go ahead and add the scratch (about 15k) and get a full auto version.

I'd just say you were a renaissance man. Just think you need a few more to 'round things out'

Good Shooting--Don

wj

You are not alone.. Classic Mauser stocked 7x57 to camo heavy barrel M700 to Mauser 66 swapper.

That's what makes this a great hobby/sport.

Rich