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chuck_in_texas
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« on: July 28, 2010, 01:03:15 PM »

Ever since I've been shooting, I get caught up in trade fever.  Just when I get comfortable with my personal arsenal, there's always one more thing I need to have.   When I was younger, and working full time, I just saved up a bought one.  Now that I'm older, I'm more conservative with my cash - - - - - so I trade.

I bought an LCP last year, didn't like it, and traded it in for an LCR.

The LCR had a crappy trigger pull, and has been replaced with a "keeper"  ---- an 851UL.  And for a while, I was a happy camper.

Now, my Ruger P95 is making me unhappy in that  - - - - - - I could trade it in on a Glock or a Beretta 92.  Never owned either one and am getting the urge.  So the Ruger will probably go.

I wonder if there's somekind of pills you can take?    I'm guessing I'll keep trading.
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 01:07:33 PM »
For me it is a check book balance that reads $"0"!!

Bummer is I have not started trading guns I bought, I just keep buying more, and I buy new, not used.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 02:55:23 PM »
It's only a sickness if you lose money with each trade.
If you break even or make a little bit, it's an investment Smiley
If you just want it, it makes you feel good, relaxes you, it's therapy!
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2010, 03:00:15 PM »
This is a good question. Some shrink needs to look at it and come up a good name for some kind of "syndrome"

Maybe "Gottahaveititis".
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 03:06:53 PM »
Could be if yer eatting beans every night
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 06:47:36 PM »
I guess you could call it a sickness.  I like the word affliction.  Only alleviated (temporarily) by, trading and buying more firearms.
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2010, 08:25:13 PM »
I have had to take a break from buying for a little while as house repairs and
improvements have taken priority.

I hope to return to amassing my arsenol soon.
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2010, 08:37:42 PM »
Quote from: Big Ugly Tall Texan on July 28, 2010, 03:00:15 PM
This is a good question. Some shrink needs to look at it and come up a good name for some kind of "syndrome"

Maybe "Gottahaveititis".

Now maybe you are on to something BUTT. We could get Obama to force the insurance companies to cover it while the government pays us a full ride pension! Cheesy
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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2010, 09:08:10 PM »
Lil... Not bad but I am not sure I want a firearm decided on by committee with politically correct ammo. Smiley

Sounds like they might give me a pink squirt gun!

My problem is I don't trade I just keep buying. I just had to ask forgiveness from the wife again this weekend...  Yes I do believe it is better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission!
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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2010, 09:10:38 PM »
Quote from: gl1200a on July 28, 2010, 02:55:23 PM
It's only a sickness if you lose money with each trade.
If you break even or make a little bit, it's an investment Smiley
If you just want it, it makes you feel good, relaxes you, it's therapy!

Thanks!   I feel better already about the four new Taurus handguns I've bought since January.  Guns Guns Cheesy
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« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2010, 09:38:10 AM »
I wouldn't call it a "sickness" since that implies it's something that needs to be cured. I'm perfectly content to live with the "problem".
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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2010, 01:07:46 PM »
If it is a sickness then I've had it since I was 12 or 13 so I don't think it will kill you but it is definetly not cureable.
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« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2010, 01:20:49 PM »
Trading has been going on since the birth of our nation, but has diminished over the years, it takes special skills to pull it off today
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« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2010, 01:37:06 PM »
I think it all started with the big bang when the universe was created!
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« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2010, 01:40:55 PM »
Quote from: BigSkiff on July 29, 2010, 01:37:06 PM
I think it all started with the big bang when the universe was created!

In a "trade" of energy for mass.
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