I'm a total magazine whore. I buy magazines for weapons I don't even own. I just bought 7 USPc mags and I dont even own an HK. WTF is wrong with me? Anyone else do this?
I did that for a gun I planned to own, and eventually did. But, no: I've never acquired magazines for guns I did not own nor had any intention of owning.
I have enough drek laying around the place w/o adding drek for which I don't actually have a use.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
It’s normal for anyone who lived through the Federal AWB and paid $80 for a used pistol magazine. It also seems like anything slightly uncommon will vanish from the market as soon as I leave a browser tab to buy later.
Posts: 10070 | Location: Woodinville, WA | Registered: March 30, 2004
It’s normal for anyone who lived through the Federal AWB and paid $80 for a used pistol magazine.
Man, I remember that. I'd purchased a Glock G22 on the day Clinton signed that bill. Tried to buy spare mags afterward. Wasn't happening. There was a gun store (since closed down by the Feds for repeated, egregious violations) that had some used pre-ban mags for which they wanted $100 each.
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Originally posted by Voshterkoff: It also seems like anything slightly uncommon will vanish from the market as soon as I leave a browser tab to buy later.
I just had that happen to me Monday evening. In WTH? Mags, too?!?!" I related how I was searching for a couple Wilson 47NX (10mm 1911) mags. Out of stock everywhere except Wilson's site. Dinner was ready, by then, so I thought "I'll do this later." Only later they were out of stock there, too.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
If I see mags at a good price, I buy them and hold them. Usually mags priced low are going to be discontinued. I sold 20 226 and 239 mags in 40 this year tor 50 each. I paid 10a few years back.
Posts: 17297 | Location: Lexington, KY | Registered: October 15, 2006
Originally posted by Flash-LB: I buy bullets, brass and reloading dies for calibers I don't own and probably never will.
I don't do that, either. But I have purchased supplies and tools for a reloading bench that does not yet exist and, at the rate I'm going, never will
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
You can never have enough magazines, buy plenty and buy often. That said, what's the point of buying magazines for guns you don't have...unless you plan on re-selling them?
Posts: 15146 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: September 20, 2000
Originally posted by corsair: You can never have enough magazines, buy plenty and buy often. That said, what's the point of buying magazines for guns you don't have...unless you plan on re-selling them?
I justify it when I find screaming deals on mags. I tell myself that one day I may own that. Having said that I probably have 10 different types of mags for guns I dont own. One day right?
I have a magazine problem but I'm not hoarding them. Heck they're not even "high cap" mags, I keep buying 1911 mags for no reason. There's one distributor that every time I buy something, I get another Wilson mag. When I was shooting lots of USPSA single stack at my beach sand home range, it made sense. I never needed to clean mid match. Now I don't know why I'm doing it. lol If I take a 1911 to the range, I'll bring 1 or 2 mags. If I go away I'll bring 3. I don't need 30 or whatever I'm at now.
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What's wrong with you? You haven't bought he USPc yet. That's your real problem. You need to get looking.
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Originally posted by cajunmuscle: I'm a total magazine whore. I buy magazines for weapons I don't even own. I just bought 7 USPc mags and I dont even own an HK. WTF is wrong with me? Anyone else do this?
I just paid a not inconsiderable (yet not unreasonable) sum for 10 (new) 15 round and 1 (used) 10 round factory Beretta Cougar mags. I plan on acquiring a few 8000 series pistols as soon as finances and opportunity allow. I will sometimes stockpile mags for pistols I don’t yet own but plan to acquire in the future.
Posts: 3218 | Location: Manheim, PA | Registered: September 04, 2007
Originally posted by cajunmuscle: I'm a total magazine whore. I buy magazines for weapons I don't even own. I just bought 7 USPc mags and I dont even own an HK. WTF is wrong with me? Anyone else do this?
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: I buy bullets, brass and reloading dies for calibers I don't own and probably never will.
Rookies. I just bought a pistol because I found I had some grips I liked that fit it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Blackmore,
Harshest Dream, Reality
Posts: 3675 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008
I bought a couple boxes of .40S&W ammo a few years ago even though I didn't, don't and probably never will own a .40. At the time I was thinking about it but it never happened.
Posts: 7478 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007
Oh, I like that. Some of you guys (youse guys) have range bags that need cleaning. I'm worse, I have gunshow bags, too. They never get cleaned very well. At the last show, my pard left in a hurry. His wife went crazy/loco and got in a fight with is daughter. So she walked out in a huff. That left a huge open spot on my table. So I started digging for stuff to display. Found and sold a switchblade I'd forgotten I owned. And worse still, a pair of N frame jewelry grips. They were just in a pocket so I put them up. They were turquoise with silver separating the stones. OK, so I do have N frame Smiths, but none I'd put them on. Maybe. Still worse, I paid $500 for them, and its been years ago.
Ammo is easy. Everyone wants ammo.
Unhappy ammo seeker
Posts: 18394 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: February 25, 2001
I bought 8 mags on sale for a S&W 22 compact. Three years later, I bought the actual pistol.
I have some 300BLK ammo and no upper to shoot it.
* in both cases, I planned on buying the other stuff to make it complete. I've only had the ammo for a few months. Been putting off buying the upper for a couple years now.
There is one thing I have learned over the years. If you have mags and time there is zero chance you will be hurt even on an inflation adjusted basis. I've never actually bought mags for guns I don't intend to own someday, but what the heck. They are a valuable commodity and its rare they don't get more rare as guns are discontinued etc. Even modern guns have potential. I've sold probably 3 guns I hated over several decades, but in each case the mags that went with the gun made me way more return than the gun itself.
“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”
