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I was pulling about $1200 a month after taxes, not including per diem while at OBC, I had a paid off car and no debts. Some months my phone bill hit $500 plus.
I haunted on the Fort Sill Skeet range shooting four times a week, and skipped the bars and other stuff my fellow Lieutenants focused on. I drank enough in High School and VMI and was beyond that by that point.
The maids in the BOQ must of hated me as I spilled lead shot from my reloader all over the carpet all the time.
Life was simple, focused, and good. All I needed was a wife in order to have excellent care for my future hunting dogs. Things have worked out.
Michael Dittamo Topeka, KS
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I was at the Ohio gun collectors show 15-18 yrs ago when my nightmare began. I knew who AO Niedner was and I knew who Tom Shelhamer was, but I had no comprehension of the value of the rifles. I would have been late 20's / early 30's and just hadn't seen anything like that for sale. Anyway, there was a like-new 1922 Springfield with a Niedner barrel and stocked by Shelhamer priced at $1400. I showed it to a friend who was looking at a Mauser 410b pretty hard (for the same money) and he didn't show much interest. Neither of us got it and I think about it regularly
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I declined the first graded Remington 1100 F grade as a gift. Did not know the person that well and figured it should stay in her family. The early F grade did not have any gold inlays. It was of course 100% engraved and had a stock with exceptional beauty. I think it was more of a prototype or after that one they decided to add gold inlays. I did buy three Colt Pythons, one 3 digit and two 4 digit serial number, 1K range, NIB from her for a good price. Still have them, NIB. Waiting for my old age. Never would have thought they would go up more than ten times what I paid for them. Insane.
I have missed dozens of bargains over the years and more than that because of lack of knowledge. A few due to lack of funds and more than that because I just wont pay but so much for any gun. Same way about land and trucks.
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Well since we're talking about 2nd Lt. days, that's what I was at Ft. Benning in 1972. I already had a law degree, a wife and house payments. No recollection of what my pay was, but I was glad when that phase of my life was over...Geo
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A pair of American Eagle Lugers from the estate of a good friend. I did end up with a 1944 1911A1 from that collection that apparently I've done well on.
Ljutic serial number 1111 with four aces artwork, a spare trigger, and a case. I could have had that in about 1985 for $1,300 but I just didn't have it. I last saw that gun in the rack at Jaqua's for a 'just slightly' higher price.
An as new Greener FH35. Again, lack of funds.
A Kimber Super America. I regularly kick myself over that.
How about an early GSI import Merkel 147E when they first arrived for about 2500? They have doubled.
I could go on...
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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...I was glad when that phase of my life was over...Geo
Been saying that for over 20 years. Just when you think youre out, they pull you back in. Judge gave me a choice between the Marines or jail. Ive been second guessing my decision ever since.
Guns, nah. People, a few.
_____________________ Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas. (first snow)
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Mine was a German drilling in an odd gauge/ CF caliber mix. It was a work of art. I could have afforded it if I had stretched the budget but in the long run it would have wound up a wall hanger even though the owner said that the odd Euro caliber could be re-chambered for a more common CF caliber, but I let it go.
Back then IIRC states I hunted in did not allow for a center fire rifle and shotgun to be carried simultaneously during small game season. Yet another reason to relegate it to being a wall hanger.
Regards,
Gary
"What you get for free has no value"
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This ain't a dress rehearsal , Don't Let the Old Man IN
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The one I miss, is my first gun that I got for Christmas, it was a Nobel 16ga SxS made in Spain. I had a hard time hitting with it so my Dad let me use a Model 37 20 ga and the Nobel sat in the gun cabinet. In High School I sold to a friend of my Mom's for $100. Twenty five years later I run into the guy I sold it to and he had given it to his uncle in FL and he was sure he would sell it back to me. Well Rob the guy I sold it to passed away before he could get me intouch with his uncle. So somewhere in S. FL is my first gun a Nobel 16 ga, like Stan said, nothing special except..................
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My problem is not the ones I didn't buy but the ones I bought and then let them get away. I will be 84 next month and have been addicted to double guns since the 1960s, during that time I have been the caretaker of many but not being rich meant some had to go to make room for the next one.
I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong
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