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AndyC wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:24 am You know, I've found myself in the fortunate position of having more guns than I can reasonably shoot - not that there's anything wrong with that at all. However, my most recent rifle-build (a full-length 21" FN-FAL on a DSA receiver) is really making me question my life-choices.

It's a very nice build; I cranked the barrel on carefully and used timing-sticks to make sure the front-sight was perfectly aligned top-dead-center, headspaced it well, etc - but it brings me little joy to just have it there in the safe. I've fired *maybe* 40 rounds through it just to get it run-in and sighted in and it performs marvelously, but my Para FAL is my go-to and gets all the love. I always figured having both variants would be cool, but I'm just not feeling it.

Anyone else have a red-headed step-child in their safe? Something that's very decent but the love just isn't there?

I'd be glad to adopt it! As long as the adoption fees aren't to steep.

AndyC wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:24 am You know, I've found myself in the fortunate position of having more guns than I can reasonably shoot - not that there's anything wrong with that at all. However, my most recent rifle-build (a full-length 21" FN-FAL on a DSA receiver) is really making me question my life-choices.

It's a very nice build; I cranked the barrel on carefully and used timing-sticks to make sure the front-sight was perfectly aligned top-dead-center, headspaced it well, etc - but it brings me little joy to just have it there in the safe. I've fired *maybe* 40 rounds through it just to get it run-in and sighted in and it performs marvelously, but my Para FAL is my go-to and gets all the love. I always figured having both variants would be cool, but I'm just not feeling it.

Anyone else have a red-headed step-child in their safe? Something that's very decent but the love just isn't there?

The appropriate term is "barter guns" as there is really no such thing as excess guns.

AndyC wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:24 am You know, I've found myself in the fortunate position of having more guns than I can reasonably shoot - not that there's anything wrong with that at all. However, my most recent rifle-build (a full-length 21" FN-FAL on a DSA receiver) is really making me question my life-choices.

It's a very nice build; I cranked the barrel on carefully and used timing-sticks to make sure the front-sight was perfectly aligned top-dead-center, headspaced it well, etc - but it brings me little joy to just have it there in the safe. I've fired *maybe* 40 rounds through it just to get it run-in and sighted in and it performs marvelously, but my Para FAL is my go-to and gets all the love. I always figured having both variants would be cool, but I'm just not feeling it.

Anyone else have a red-headed step-child in their safe? Something that's very decent but the love just isn't there?

Fake News. No such thing as excess guns.

montgomery wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:37 am

AndyC wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:24 am You know, I've found myself in the fortunate position of having more guns than I can reasonably shoot - not that there's anything wrong with that at all. However, my most recent rifle-build (a full-length 21" FN-FAL on a DSA receiver) is really making me question my life-choices.

It's a very nice build; I cranked the barrel on carefully and used timing-sticks to make sure the front-sight was perfectly aligned top-dead-center, headspaced it well, etc - but it brings me little joy to just have it there in the safe. I've fired *maybe* 40 rounds through it just to get it run-in and sighted in and it performs marvelously, but my Para FAL is my go-to and gets all the love. I always figured having both variants would be cool, but I'm just not feeling it.

Anyone else have a red-headed step-child in their safe? Something that's very decent but the love just isn't there?

Fake News. No such thing as excess guns.

This.

It like having too much money or being too good-looking. I've never experience any of these things.

I have a couple that I don't shoot but I still enjoy owning them.

My real excess guns are really just temporary custody holds... that my late father-in-law left for my son... but they take up room in my safe and I can't really fit anything else in it. So until I find another storage option, my buying is at a standstill. (and he's only 10, so it's not a short term problem!) And I have no room or budget for another safe.

I am running out of space, my wife suggested to open a gun shop and me as a gunsmith, precision shooter expert, store manager, etc...
She wants all my toys out of the house to their new dedicated house.

When I got
This https://photos.app.goo.gl/zVAuS2j8CJ2senPi8
After I have had this https://photos.app.goo.gl/GsYfvyaRokornD2e9
Maybe it is the time to sell the Turkish delight.

Send links to photos, maybe someone can help you with your dementation.

Beiruty wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:52 am When I got
This https://photos.app.goo.gl/zVAuS2j8CJ2senPi8
After I have had this https://photos.app.goo.gl/GsYfvyaRokornD2e9
Maybe it is the time to sell the Turkish delight.

Nice looking SIG!

I know we all jest and have fun with things like your post.. But in a way I agree with you...

I like to shoot... Plain and simple.... I have both tools and toys.... My tools are my carry guns, varment guns, etc... My toys are all of the rest... I tend to buy and sell guns like baseball cards.... If it's not one of the "tools' then it's fair game as to whether or not I'll keep it... My AR-15 went to the range 2 times in 1 year... SOLD..... My little Ruger SR-22 3 times last year.. SOLD.... I just got a new wheel gun in and my MP-43 is sitting at my LGS waiting for me to pick it up....

I have 5 9mm fun pistols.... 2 I would sell immediately because I just don't shoot them.... The other 3 are all different enough to keep me interested.... I just don't see any reason to keep them if I can sell and use the money to buy something different that I want to play with....

Well, the first one that comes to my mind is my Marlin 1895G Guide Gun in .45-70 Gov’t. I’ve wanted one for years, and the one I own now is a VERY nice pre-Remington JM stamped example, but I’ve found that I just don't enjoy shooting it. I never used to be recoil sensitive until I bought this rifle. I’ve come to the conclusion that .45-70 Gov’t is similar to a 500 Kt Russian thermonuclear warhead I was reading about just yesterday, for which hitting 500 meters from a hardened target was considered a direct hit achieving total destruction of the target. I’ve had the devil's own time zeroing this rifle because it beats the snot out of me, and I don’t want to fire enough rounds to achieve and verify zero. I’m guessing that a .45-70 hit ANYWHERE on a game animal's body is considered a direct hit, achieving total destruction of the target. I’ve tried selling it here for a few months now, but all of y’all are as scared of it as I am.

I think that .45-70 is a good reloader's platform for anyone interested in reloading....... Andy ......

I’d be open to trading a Jm stamped Model 1895G in .45-70, with upgraded sights, 118 unfired factory rounds, and 62 pieces of once-fired brass, for a nice example of a 21" FAL built on a DSA receiver, with a couple of proper magazines.

I do not understand the concept of "excess guns". Perhaps it is similar to the observable phenomenon of "excess rockets". I have 20 or 30 model rocket kits on the shelf. I may get around to building them or I may not.

I have two pistols. I carry two pistols. No excess.

Rockets, however, one can never have too many rockets.

Andy, I understand. I had a budget Turkish over-and-under. Nice enough for what it was and for what I paid for it, but I rarely shot the thing. Ended up trading it toward something else.