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Things seem to be all over the place anymore. Black gun stuff is obviously being driven by fear, but what about the rest of it? Where are good, serviceable field guns these days?

Lloyd, Would you deny yourself the pleasure of ownership of some thing because you felt it was $100 too expensive?

I just spent 100 bucks putting gas in my truck and putting gas in the lawnmower. It’ll all be gone by tomorrow.

People quibble about the wrong stuff.

I will never be desperately trying to recapture my firearms investment while preparing my deathbed.

Buy what you like and enjoy it.

My real challenge is balancing the love of the beautiful with an innate need for the practical. It's fine to admire an old (historic!) and beautifully-wrought firearm specimen but I'm finding it hard to turn loose of long-held tools of impeccable utility. I'm also finding the fluidity of the overall sporting goods markets to be somewhat impaired these days. The free-wheeling markets of the even recent-past seem to be almost non-existent at the moment. "The times, they are a chang'en"...and not for the better IMHO.