Why I'm here.

I grew up in a somewhat liberal, extremely pacifist household in the equally liberal Washington state. I had some good friends who introduced me to the errors of my upbringing. Guns (any weapons really) were a forbidden topic in my house, so when I was first introduced to shooting sports I fell in love- kind of a forbidden fruit thing I think. My mother still wonders where she went so wrong.
Because of my upbringing, and my poverty in college, I am not your average gun guy. Most “gun people” buy a gun and it stays in the family, passed on through generations when the owner goes to their heavenly reward. I, on the other hand, go through guns like they were work pants. I get bored, or I look too close, or I shoot them till I don’t like them anymore. Over the past five years I have bought, shot, and sold or traded More than 50 firearms. Along the way I have learned TONS, established opinions, and had a great time. Now some will ask, “Why” ? It all comes down to a deal I made with my incredibly beautiful, and patient wife. When we were first engaged we talked about lots of important things in great detail, and one of those was firearms. She knew I liked guns and enjoyed shooting (though at the time neither of us had any idea how big this would become). She was worried about having hundreds of guns strewn everywhere around the house. We set a four gun limit at any given time. Over the years that deal has been revisited and modified, but the rule made me sell a gun before I could get a new one. It also has led me to play with a ton of platforms and a ton of accessories. This review blog is based on the experience gathered along the way. I have also figured out how to self-fund my gun addiction. In our house “gun money” is a separate entity, though I have on occasion used it to spoil my wife. “Gun money” is money made from a gun sale that is used for buying another gun or ammo. (Gun money also magically accumulates when I let my wife pick our sons names). Guns have become a real investment to mee, they hold their value very well. I have made a lot of additional “gun money” along the way. My addiction started with a $550 initial investment and has grown to around $15,000 in guns, and around $8000 in ammo (though little of that is left) in the course of five years.

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The browning a500g (12 ga)


I like puzzles, so when I saw someone post a a500g on ksl with the note that it was dissembled and stayed that way for ten years, and that he knew that parts were missing, and had no idea how many, but only wanted $100 for it I jumped. Now it is important to not that I didn’t want a a500g, it didn’t do anything near what I wanted to do. I just liked the idea of a fun puzzle. I downloaded some exploded diagrams and set to figuring out what parts I had and didn’t have. There was only about 6 missing parts, and I was able to source them online for less than $20 bucks. It was not an easy gun to put back together, but I had fun figuring everything out. In the end I shot 5 shots through it, and took it to a pawn shop when I had a tough time selling if for the it’s blue book.

FINAL THOUGHTS:
It can be a lot of fun to bring an old rifle back from the dead, I didn’t do any refinishing or metal work on this one as it looked great after I cleaned it up.

I don't get hunting shotguns, maybe because I don't know how to hunt...  


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