I never thought it was but am starting to question that. Why, well when you don't know how many of what you have, forget about something then stumble across it and thing o ya forgot about that one. And have many you have not shot in over a decade.


So im thinking I may have to many. BUT the sad part is there are more I would like to have but surely don't need. I think its may be a sickness I suspect many of us suffer from.

I should probably liquidate some long unused items and replace with the new wants but that goes against the grain

Anyone else have this problem? Could be i have bought many guns the last several years but not one has been for me and im ready for something new to play with. But I know I don't need anything.

But I keep eye balling m 1 grands and 1911s along with double barrel and over and unders. Maybe a nee rifle barrel for my Thompson center encore In 7mm-08 for a short light hunting gun. ( have not shot a deer in years and have plenty of deer guns to use)

It just does not make any logical since.

Better to have a few really nice ones you use and enjoy rather than a bunch of cheap stuff that sits around

Have had more than 100 guns. But years ago started to thin the herd. Grand kids have some. Nieces, nephews and now some are earmarked for the great grand children.
When NY went from shotgun only for deer to rifle in most zones I sold a few slug guns but picked up as many, if not more rifles.
I probably have around 50 guns now and quit buying around 10 years ago.

Can't have too many, if that's what you want. But I only have one for each purpose. Or, rather, if I have a gun that fulfills a purpose, I don't need more than one. I guess you could come up with as many roles for a gun as your want. But I have one shot gun, one full size pistol, one concealed carry pistol, one general purpose AR, one battle rifle (m1a), etc. If I buy a new gun that fills a role I already have, I get rid of the old one. For example, when I bought my Beretta 92, I traded my SD40VE for a drum set for the kids.

Pretty broad question. Kind of like can you have to many tattoos? To many fishing rods?
All about whats your thing, what you can afford. Mostly what do you enjoy? Really not about what someone else thinks is to many or to much of something.
How many traps do you have? How many kids do you have?
Not everything has to be a competition.

Mac

Simple answer is no. No way in (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman).

To: to have Too many
two or 100

x2- Some people have less than several and some have several hundred or even more.

All mine sunk when the boat got a hole in it...

I have some cheap stuff that is inherited and other cheap stuff I got when it was the best I could afford and has a lot of memories so its all got to stay.

The best part is I seem to always favor and grab the cheap stuff to hunt. My savage 62 is a great example. Cheap beat to crap first 4473 I ever filled out. Paid $89 for it new in 98. Not worth $25 today with no blue, broken off front sight chunk missing out of the butt plate. Has a nice vx3 and is the first .22 I go for when I need one. The nice ones don't get out much. MY 39A is an example of this. Gun to shoot but to heaven to want to hunt with and to nice to let bug spray take off the finish. So it sits at home.

If you have start keeping some under a tarp in the yard you have to many

Too many traps---too many guns??

The news coming out of Australia this am should wake people up... I have enough to give to friends when it hit them in the face... Just hope they have time to get here and aren't already leaking

To many boats
To much ammo/components
To much fishing equipment
To many trucks
The list could go on for a while covering things you can't have to much of

Too many different calibers yes..

I never had a “ cheap” gun.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

...still dies and others take his stuff.

Yes its personal not a competition. some are good with bar minimum as long as its functional other like to collect or meet specialized. You can get by with a 12g pump for anything you need a shotgun for but you may want a high end semi auto duck gun, lighter gage quail gun, sporting clay guns, something else for dove and yet a different gun for rabbits. And possible a few different ones for each roll.

I never thought it would think I could have to many but am becoming more minimalist, purpose and function based as I get older. If I don't use it and have not in a l ong time I probably don't need it. Sentimental stuff from my grandparents is the worst. Not necessarily guns but things that we tree theirs i don't want out or to use because I don't want them getting broke or mesed up. So a lot of stuff sits in storage in the way taking up space.

I have some guns that get used the most 3 main ones and others that just sit around waiting for the dust to get wiped off and oiled now and again.

Heck I have guns at my in-laws, moms,&.brother inlaws. There are night stand guns, door guns, vehicle guns, barn guns ect.. Places I have found it to be handy to have quick access to more than the handgun on my hip over the years. I can find a a way to justify any gun purchase needed or not.

Take that 1911. I have never had one. It will work on on contact shots if its locked and loaded and you pull the trigger and hold it before you turn off the safety it will fire when the safty is turned off. . Most other autos can be pushed out of battery if pressed against the target keeping them from shooting. But the safety keeps the slide on a 1911 from being pushed backwards so if the trigger is pulled before safety turned off it will fire when it is turned off. The other solution is use a revolver.

I don't have a shower gun probably should get that fixed. A stainless revolver in plastic case with o ring that suction cups to or hangs from the wall .

Also should have toilet guns but typically have the gun on my belt handy then so not as important as a shower gun.

I Wonder how caried away with silly ideas we can get.

When my son moved to Texas I gave him most of mine, he would have got them anyway, some were my fathers..Told him they're just tools, use em, sell em, whatever...
I have a few left that I might use again, . If he ever drives back up he can take some more home...

Don't be the guy that drops dead and his wife put his guns in garbage pails and put them out for pickup....true story....

I don't have half the number of guns that I had 15 years ago.

I Went through and sold of the majority of the duplicate calibers I had accept 22,22mag and 41 mag.

I Still have more than I use on a regular basis.

I just hope that when I die my wife don't sell them for what she THINKS I paid for them. Lol

She probably won't sell any of them, she's a gun but too !

Nope and remember buy as much ammunition as you can while Trump is president

And ain't gonna care because you're dead.

Just what would the number of having too many be?

FYI - guns=fun.

When I quit hunting with a rifle I gave most to my son. Still have a couple of shotguns, a few handguns, my two control weapons, and my old .375 that I just can’t part with!

I am in the process of thinning the herd at my place. I am getting rid of several utility guns that I don't really use or in some cases have duplicates of and converting that money into really nice stuff.

I had a true custom rifle built a few years ago and a couple more since and it is just so much more pleasurable to hunt with those guns than it is the other stuff. I am also looking at picking up a couple of higher end custom handguns. I will always keep some utility guns around because obviously there are situations that you don't want to expose a nice gun to but just not a bunch of them.

I mean really a person only needs so many synthetic stocked bolt action mass produced 22 rifles or run of the mill shotguns or centerfire rifles if you aren't using them they are just taking up space. So why not convert them to something you will use, now I am not talking about true collectables or heirlooms but just average run of the mill stuff that if you want another they are everywhere.

Just depends on you as a person I guess .. if your the type where a gun is just a tool and you just want what you NEED to get a job done and anything else will just be a waste, then definitely you can have too many.

But if there more of a hobby and you just like playing and tinkering then eghhh who cares ...

I mean I know a lot of guys with found yard full of square bodies or other vehicles, just because they like them and like fixing on them . For me that would be way too much because I just want a vehicle that does what it's supposed to do and that's about it

No BUT the GOVERNMENT does

I am working up the courage to go through the safe and get rid of some that I bought years ago before I knew what I really wanted/needed. It will probably start happening in January.

And, then I will likely buy a few more of what I really want/need.

yes, I have thought about this too, i have a bunch of guns, that I have won over the years, and never used still in the boxes that they came in

I guess I'm too frugal and practical to have too many guns.

It's hereditary, my dad had one rifle he used most of his life, a Win M70 in 30-06 that he used for everything; whitetail and mule deer, elk, moose, bear, even groundhogs, hundreds of them. He had one shotgun he used for small game and two he used for trap shooting. He was really into trap shooting that's why the extravagant expenditure. LOL

I have a few more than he did, including the ones I inherited. They all serve a specific purpose. I don't own any that I don't use regularly, none that I own just to have them.

Can your wife have too many shoes or clothes

Yes it’s possible. I know folks that have just about every cheap gun there is and they have a couple really nice guns they actually use. Same with calibers. I think one of my buddies mission in life is to have every caliber known to the World.
I’m a keep it simple kind of gun enthusiast. It HAS to have a purpose and I stick to about 3 caliber’s and that’s it. Easier to keep massive amounts of ammo too. Guns just sitting in the safe just to say I have one isn’t in my budget. Find what works and stick with it.

That's like asking if you can have too much fun!!

Probably, my grandpa died with about 100. That became a manageable problem for my uncle, moms brother.

Don't talk such nonsense


Make sure to tag them with a description and value, along with a contact of someone to help disperse so your loved ones don't get taken advantage of.

If you can name every gun you have,make and model,you don't have enough.
To tell if you have too many
If you buy a gun because you would really like one only to bring it home and find out you already have one. . . . . . .and you did it 2x.

I have a ton of guns (I weighed them).
I need every one of them to defend my lifelong hoarding collection of every thing that you can imagine that fills numerous buildings on numerous properties.

I force myself to clean out some now and then, but NEVER sell one that shoots really well.

Wonderful Wife tells me to keep on buying. Who am I to argue?

Moosetrot

I used them as a investment. Bought years ago and plan to sell when i retire.

I have "several" and feel that is far too many. I hope to get it down to a "few" or possibly even a "handful".

Several hundred?

Nope.

Not that I have found.

Suck to be good a hiding stuff.
Buried treasure is the worst…

You should see me hiding my own Easter eggs.

I downsized by about 8 a year or so ago... no family guns or favorites, don't miss them a bit.

I lost all of mine in a boating accident.

I thought I had enough until last summer I saw this real cool little Ruger PC9 carbine with the 17round magazine…. I’ve now carried it around on this trapping gig I was on practicing with peep sights…in a constitutional carry state…mostly I was only surrounded by Lutherans….

I know guys with hundreds. Most are collectable.

Yes and No

Yes , when storage & maintenance become a burden.

there are guns I have not shot in a few years , but I like to take everything out and give it a wipe down , it every year or every other year. now my storage is climate controlled and generally on the dry side so 2 years isn't an issue.



No. because there will always be some other goal , game , new thing you want to try. so as long as you are learning and growing and enjoying getting out shooting don't worry about adding another if it is in the budget.


back to the yes there is a case where you might be spending too much of your time and money budget on storage or storage concerns.
the stuff I shoot the least tends to be more historical pieces and no I don't have any thing close to a super special collection by any means and everything is a user/shooter.
least likely to get out for action are my WWII stuff or guns that aren't really collector pieces but that I also don't want to take out on bad weather. I have a gun with a plastic stock for bad weather that cleans easy and is also easily replaceable.
some have know wear points with little way to fix them so they don't go out much.

the guns I play gun games like USPSA get the most round count , that said if they got broken there are parts available and a trip to the store they could be replaced in a week or less. Some guns are actually wear items like tires , heck they cost less than tires often.

I am also at a point I am not buying anything just to have it , I want to try something new , learn something do a different hunt , the education and experience is what drives the purchase.

I feel the same way about fishing rods as well.

I have a core 4 that go out alot , I have some past rods that get out sometimes , and a bunch that sit.

I am only going to put new line on what I use that year and a fishing rod is just sort of a thing hanging in the garage rafters if I haven't put new line on it this year to use it.

I like what I like and my fishing doesn't go that wildly different in species as fresh water Wisconsin species and not really targeting muskie , but anything else that bites.

Why is it you can't have to many guns, but if you have a bunch of ammo you are a ammo hoarder and cussed?

It depends on if you’re buying the ammo I need, then you get cussed, something I don’t need then it’s okay.

That is a silly question. One can always use another gun.

No

Makes perfect sense to me.

first rule of ammo ownership is the same as the first rule of fight club.

don't talk about it and no one will know it stores best in a ammo can out of sight any way.

I know I own too many traps and too many knives. I'll probably buy more of both. So yes, it is possible

I have more than one that I've never shot? Doesn't everyone?

No i don't think I have any I have not shot at least a few times currently. I have had some I never shot but sold. AR's i saw at a great sale i didn't need but bought because the price was to good to pass. Then again panic hit and the profit able to be made selling them was to good to pass up. I didn't buy them with the intent to resale but just to put back for just incase. But the profit over came just in case and paid for new suppresors I valued more at the time.

I guess I may have had 1 gun to many.

My grandfather's old Remington 760 in 30-06.

I'm giving it to my cousin's boy this weekend. He has been using his dad's deer rifle to hunt with, so I offered to pass down the ol bruiser. He's a strapping 18 year old, he can shoot it for many years before he decides it's pretty unpleasant to shoot.

Looking for a replacement for it now. Lol !

Yes I have too many, but I am still in the market for certain guns. When you forget where you left some, or do not recognize some, you have too many. I have gotten rid of a few, always from the bottom in value.

Isn't there a law against even asking that question in public??? GEEEEZZZZ