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BE HONEST NOW GUYS....

n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
I want to know how many of you have actually bought a gun that you couldnt afford but had a friend along or someone else, and just wanted to "impress" or show off?...

Say for example you are at a gun show with a group of guys...How many of you will make a purchase that you cannot afford, and I mean you really cant....just to show off in front of the guys?..

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    [:I][^]I'm guilty[^][:I]


    I'm not sure if it was one I actually could not afford...but the money probably should not have been spent on it at that time...

    Eric

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Not me! I have to look Sandy in the face every day and be able to tell her the truth. I couldn't stand to say, "I don't have the money for that because I spent too much on that last gun."

    Sometimes, you just have to stand up and be a man, even if it hurts![;)]

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  • gbeggrowgbeggrow Member Posts: 5,499
    edited November -1
    I honestly never have.

    EDIT!!!!

    It just hit me why I never have!! My wife is always with me![:D]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    ohhhhhh wow...this is really rich....*LMAO*....43 people read it but only 3 responded.....Come a little close to the truth guys?....[}:)][:o)]

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope. If I am buying, I can afford it.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never to impress someone else. I have bought guns I "shouldn't have afforded" but it was because I spotted a gun on my must-have list, craved a good negotiation and the chance to walk out with it at the right price for my collection. When the price is good right, I tend to buy even when I have to stretch the finances, because the opportunities to get a deal on something on my must-have list do not come every day.

    But to impress somebody else wouldn't occur to me. In fact, I usually attend gun shows (and flea markets) alone and shop the whole room for "finds." I buy alone, and once I get them home no one but me may ever see them. I don't even look for attention at the range.

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  • chappsynychappsyny Member Posts: 3,381 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    nope. Have you ever bought a purse or pair of shoes just to impress a girlfriend? I bet most women have.

    New Hampshire, USA - "Live Free or Die!!!"
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  • gun_runnergun_runner Member Posts: 8,999
    edited November -1
    If I dont have it, I dont buy it.

    Larry
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  • Contender ManContender Man Member Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's do a reverse troll ...

    How many women when out shopping with their friends buy stuff that they don't need or is at prices that put a crimp in the family finances, rather than tell their friends that they can't afford it[?]

    [:D][}:)][:D]

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,452 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What Offeror said.

    He Dog
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  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never, That's not my style![8D]

    "I AM MY OWN WORST ENEMY"
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have done that once in my life....was going to a wedding ...spent, and I remember the price very well, 574.68 tax included....g/f at the time said it was the perfect dress....
    I took it back the next day...That the beauty of buying clothes, shoes, bags...they can be taken back...*LOL

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  • SuspensionSuspension Member Posts: 4,783
    edited November -1
    I haven't. I'm way to cheap to spend more than I can afford.

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  • kuhlewulfkuhlewulf Member Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NO WAY!
    I can't stand the thought of not at least getting a really fair deal, if not a really GREAT deal. If I can't buy it for what I want, I usually build it myself. I try my best to impress with my marksmanship, not how much I can spend.

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  • BOBBYWINSBOBBYWINS Member Posts: 7,810
    edited November -1
    I've come home w/lots of guns I couldn't afford at the time,but never to impress someone(except maybe myself[:I])

    BW (The layaway lover)

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    ohhhhhh wow...this is really rich....*LMAO*....43 people read it but only 3 responded.....Come a little close to the truth guys?....[}:)][:o)]

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    My dad used to say, "it's always the hit dog that hollers" In this case I think he just shut his mouth and snuck off![:D][:D][:D]

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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can say only once and it was because when I asked to look at it the shop owner said it was out of my price range. Bought it. Don't regret it.

    "Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,742 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, I can honestly say I've never bought one I couldn't afford to impress someone. I have bought stuff I didn't need (but could afford them at the time), but it wasn't to impress someone.

    I'm a little bit of a silent gun owner around my friends because there's no "skill" to buying/owning guns. For the most part it is directly proportional to the amount of extra money one has and I wouldn't throw that in someones face either...

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  • ruger0_7ruger0_7 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live in Ontario,Canada.I don't think we have gun shows,wish we did.Would I buy a gun to inpress a buddy? No way,the first thing they would do is run and tell my wife.

    Chris Powell
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  • SilverBoxSilverBox Member Posts: 2,347 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    I want to know how many of you have actually bought a gun that you couldnt afford but had a friend along or someone else, and just wanted to "impress" or show off?...

    Say for example you are at a gun show with a group of guys...How many of you will make a purchase that you cannot afford, and I mean you really cant....just to show off in front of the guys?..


    Never. But I'm single with a decent job and I have a decent amount of extra cash. Most of my purchases are thought out months ahead of time and when I go to buy typically I'm by myself. I've bought 2 handguns on impulse, because they were "off-list". In California when you run across off-list handguns for a reasonable price you buy them up like they were gold, because they are. The legal supply of off-list handguns in California is finite and those handguns have tremdous appreciation potential. I'll impulse buy them all day long..
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  • woodshermitwoodshermit Member Posts: 2,589
    edited November -1
    Never. I have never bought anything to try to impress anyone.
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  • punchiepunchie Member Posts: 2,792 ✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, never to impress anyone. As others have said bought some I shouldn't have afforded but could.

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  • 0311marine0311marine Member Posts: 3,233
    edited November -1
    i plead the 5th

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  • greeker375greeker375 Member Posts: 3,644
    edited November -1
    Never

    "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and a lightning bolt" - Mark Twain.
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  • Chevyman TxChevyman Tx Member Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shop alone. Women are the ones that spend to dam much. They go out and buy things they dont need only to through them out the door a week later or wind up selling it at the yearly garage sale. WE men buy guns and use them and keep them.

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  • ItGoBangItGoBang Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It will hurt you, More than it will hurt me..

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  • shootlowshootlow Member Posts: 5,425
    edited November -1
    nope
    if i buy it i can afford it

    Lt.RRG

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  • kingjoeykingjoey Member Posts: 8,636
    edited November -1
    Not me, I don't even go into the gunshop without a big grip of $$$. Don't think I can stand the temptation to just "shop"[;)]

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  • hawkeye6020hawkeye6020 Member Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nope, I plan ahead for whatever it is I am wanting. with a family i have to do it that way. no impulse buys for me




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  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    Never. I go to gun shows alone and besides,I`m too tight with my money to buy guns I can`t afford.
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    quote:How many of you will make a purchase that you cannot afford, and I mean you really cant....just to show off in front of the guys?..

    I do my homework, shop for the deal...couldn't afford? I can't wrap my mind around that concept.

    Only one I am trying to impress is me. And I'm a picky a**hole.


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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never!
    I have a $40,000.00 Szesei & Fuchs in .700 nitro, Impressed? [;)]
















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  • WagionWagion Member Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a gun once becasue a girlfriend wanted to try it out but I think that more of an excuse to buy the gun then to impress but maybe a little

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  • HUNT WALKERSHUNT WALKERS Member Posts: 362 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On occasion I have spent a little more than I should have. But it was NEVER done to impress anyone at anytime and never will be. I try to keep things simple and I'm not interested in impressing anyone.
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  • cletus85cletus85 Member Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have on many occasions bought a gun I probably shouldn't have, but In all of these cases it was to satisfy a felt deprivation of mine, not to impress anyone. In fact my taste in firearms is not the same as my friends anyway, so I doubt any of my purchases would impress them anyway.

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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    I spend my time at the gunshows trying to talk Select-fire into buying all the guns I want. Then live vicareiously through him[}:)][:D]
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  • A J ChristA J Christ Member Posts: 7,534 ✭
    edited November -1
    Not yet!
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never even thought of it. I have always shopped alone.

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had very few toys when I was a kid, now that I'm all grown up I can have just about anything I feel that I can afford. So I do. If that's impressive, I'm it.

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  • Gibbs505Gibbs505 Member Posts: 3,175
    edited November -1
    Not sure I could afford them all but I necer brought one just to show off. I may be shallow[:0] but I am not THAT shallow!![:(]

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