Gun fever- scratching the unscratchable itch

>>33594658
Watched and watched videos about k31. My face was glowing red.
>how the fuck did I miss out on this Swiss marvel
Scoured armslist, no luck. Suddenly stumble upon K31, excellent price. Bought it. Bough some gp11. Finally shot it. Holy fucking shit I was hitting 15 inch plate with iron sights at 400 yards. So smooth, so precise, so beautiful. Went to the range 3 times a week. Shoot, and shoot and shoot.
Months have gone by. I kept acquiring. Got 10 cases of gp11, 2 more k31.
I'm finally cured of Swiss madness. Still shoot it all the time, but I finally feel that I am good with ammo and that I have enough k31 rifles.
Anyone else experiences this? Infatuation with a particular make and model ?

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I'll just keep going. I'm bored and drinking but I also really want to see someone else's example .
Another madness that took me over early in 2016 was Swedish M96.
I got one without knowing much about it. It was a fucking roller coaster for 6 months. Got 2 k of PPU match ammo for it, leather bandoleers, bayos, gf diopter, elint diopter, 3 M96 total, 2 walnut one beech arsenal refurb never issued. Been in touch with the author of 'crown jewels' the penultimate book about swede mausers. Took me little over 8 months to regain my sanity and stop researching swede mausers. Still, I shoot it about twice a month but I no longer feel that I need to buy more ammo or additional rifles. Thank fucking god

Oddball. Somehow one day I looked into revolvers. Nothing I really gave two fucks about when all of a sudden, a motherfucking S&W highway patrolman appears.
Research fucking everything. Acquire three of them in 2 months. 1k of .357. Various holsters and bills that ever so briefly mention them. Contact S&W and obtain letters for all three of them. My mission is done, I can finally rest again. Until another outbreak

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>"hey what's all the fuss about lever guns"
>research
>iconic most Americana seems to be Winchester 94. Of fucking course pre 64 production.
>dat walnut
>dat bluing
>loverly GunBroker, find immaculate win94, shell out dough. Get the gun.
>buy another one
>buy marlin 336 for fucks sake ?
>buy books about win94, listen to podcasts about it. Shoot the .30-30 like a moron in the indoor range
>finally cured
Safe is getting cramped

>2014, just started my foray into surplus
>M48 of all things comes into my crosshairs
>'it's basically a K98, just a bit more primtive. Still, it's indestructible and so much fun' says the internet
>by all versions, about 1500 7.92 Yugo sniper ammo. Corrosive so gotta make a lot of moose milk to pour down its soured up barel
>multiple books, bayos, pouches, and slings after and I can confidently say that I'm cured.
Didn't last too long, next one was a yugo sks.
Anyway, any one of you eve experiences this total immersion into a particular make and model? I can afford it and I never regret, whole experience is so enjoyable for me. Just wondering if you guys get satisfied with one of each, shoot once a year kind of thing or do some of you go nuts like me

I experience the same thing, mainly with fudd guns though occasionally I'll get the fever for a gucci AR or some oper8or cerakoted Glock or something.
Luckily I have very little space and a lot of constrictions on time and such so I haven't gone on a buying spree.

>>33594889
I seem to have the same affection toward steel and wood, or old school craftsmanship in particular. For example I got a colt le6920 and a tavor and a couple of other semis just for the hell of it but feel 0 need to go beyond that. But wood and steel, fuck

>>33594908
I know that feel man
I think deep down everyone on this board wants to live in a huge pine lodge with bookshelves to the ceiling and an arsenal the size of Waco dating back to Napoleon

>>33594721
you bought 4800 rounds of gp11? i love my k31 but damn nigga i dont even want to think how that would take me to go through.

>>33594923
That's exactly what I want

>>33594928
It all ties back into my affliction. When I start to get into a particular gun that of course is long out of production I start to really fear for my future of enjoying it. I'm deathly terrified that a crucial part will break, but without knowing what that might be I need to have a few more of the gun I enjoy so much so that I can keep enjoying it. Gp-11; well that's just because I never know who to trust. It seems that it comes and goes, ever so expensive, not sure how much more importation of this stuff is in the works so i stocked the fuck up and now I'm at peace

>>33594955
new imports are what, 82-84 and they made it into the 90's IIRC. at your point i'd buy 1500 rounds of new production re-loadable brass. that would last you a lot longer than 4800 shots. do you have 800 mags to put the ammo in? lol

>>33594955
Pick up reloading then; the ability to load your own rounds will let you use all your weird fetish guns more consistently and probably save you money on impulse buys in the future

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>>33594658

Happened to me recently with Argentine Mausers, specifically 1891's. Never paid much attention to them, thought 7.65 Mauser was a goofball round. Then I started reading up on them one day.

>Muh cock on close
>Muh 19th century craftsmanship
>Muh aesthetics
>Mug low price point

Now I have 2, and goddamn do I not regret it a single bit. Easily my new favourite Mauser.

7.65 Mauser is a great cartridge, easy to load (form from .30-06 brass, which is everywhere for cheap).

Worse yet, now Belgian 1889's are on my radar (almost the same gun as an 1891).

RIP my wallet.

>>33594980
Yea I need to look into reloading and some boxer primed brass. God help me if I get obsessed with reloading, although that's too tedious and scientific so hopefully I'll dodge that bullet.
Yea they're at 84 now. Supposedly ruag was making them until 95. There are 'supposedly' about 200 mil rounds of gp11 in Swiss at the moment. Ruag restarted the production on new machinery but its mostly for Swiss target shooting needs

>>33594721

>10 cases of GP11

That shit goes for $400 a case here....are you telling me you spent $3-4k on K31 food?

You're my goddamn hero. Also, save some for the rest of us.

>>33594987
I agree man. I really need to look into it

>>33595015
Most of them I got on various midway sales for $250 and less. Some from armslist. I paid about $2800 total for the ammo roughly

>>33595008
>but its mostly for Swiss target shooting
was ever really for anything else?

>>33595037
Hehe true true, we are lucky Swiss are OCD motherfuckers and like to surplus off perfectly good ammo

>>33594997
Welcome to the club. You know you're affected when you started noticing all the mind blowing 'amazing' details about your gun and you start thinking to yourself how lucky you are to have discovered such marvel of engineering and aesthetics

>>33594658
I got my K31 for $125 years ago (w/ soldier's name tag under plate), then bought about $2k worth of those black cardboard ammo cases in anticipation of it drying up, still pretty much the same price for the surplus. That's a lot of money to me is my point. Have only fired maybe 300 rounds in 5 years by being stingy, loved every shot. Got the Ruger 10/22 for putting holes in paper.

>>33594721
It was love at first sight for me
that grainy black and white photo in the J&G Sales ad in Shotgun News
I was just in highschool with no job, so saving for such a rifle was hard, and, by Christmas I'd only saved up ~$150 of the $300+ needed for a fine piece of Swiss steel

we drove out to California from Illinois that Christmas, to visit relatives and have a green Christmas for a change
part of the whole deal was less presents this year, as a lot of money went towards a cool Cali winter vacation
I didn't expect ANYTHING good that year, much less a rifle
I didn't get it on Christmas morning
the last thing my dad handed to me was a card, inside was a cutting from shotgun news where I'd circled the K31 in bright red sharpie
my dad had added, in thick black sharpie "YES!"
on the way back from Cali, our route took us through Prescott and we stopped at the J&G Sales store in person
there, on the wall, were several K31 rifles, one of them was mine
draconian Illinois regulation prohibited us from taking the rifle home that day, but the rifle was forwarded ahead of us to a local IL gunshop
by the time we arrived home, the rifle was already there
and a short 24 hours after that, my father and I were on the range with 120 rounds of 1970s Swiss precision
the gong rang dozens of times that day

I'm still addicted
I've gone to years of therapy, gone through the 12 step program, but I cannot shake this addiction
my plan is to move to Switzerland where they offer revolutionary treatment to addicts of strong drugs like heroin or K31s
rather than criminalize or demonize us hard drug addicts, they feed our addiction and manage it
there are clean facilities with trained professionals who distribute gov't produced narcotics of only the finest quality for use addicts

This entire thread is blogposting

>>33597368
This entire thread is about some guys' love for guns. Literally the essence of /k/. Maybe you should go to patch thread to circle jerk over Kiki delivery service, it'll look good on your rothco plate carrier

>>33594721
Sell me one of those k31's fgt. I can't find one anywherr.

>inb4 gunbroker

>>33597792
No. Not now at least. Sorry bro. They are on gb but go for $550 plus. I actually just got another one last night in my drunken stupor for $730 lol.

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The K31 is an amazing rifle, it has some bad things about it but overall it's quite a nice milsurp that is able to compete against modern guns at 300m shooting practice.

>>33599047
Where can I get a leather Swiss cheekrest like that from?

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>>33594923
>tfw spending about a month house sitting a Swiss Log Cabin in the Alps
>tfw owner even trusted me with access to his K31
I know for a fact that I indeed want such a life.

>>33594908
Marko?

>>33594923
Sometimes I have dreams where I have a range in Wyoming where I spend my time cleaning my guns and watching the skies for black helicopters.

>>33599265
We will never know I guess

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I too got stung by the Swiss bug. Here is MY story.
>be me,
>gun nut and history nut who fixates on Swiss rifles
>become newfag nogunz who just got his PAL
>Rush over to Wholesale Sports with shiny new firearms license, a pocket full of cash and a twinkle in my eye.
>"Sorry sir we sold our last K-31 last week"
>REEEEEEEEEEEE

fast forward 2 years
>trade my way from an sks to a 1858 enfield to a Ljungman.
>trade my AG-42 for an Schweizer Gewehr

BURY ME WITH MY K-31

>>33599341
>tfw you're already living that dream

Now all's I need is some Stingers and I'm good to go

>>33594658
did with ak's 4 years ago but nothing since, still like em a little more than my handguns, k31, and ithaca 37

>>33599161
Make one, nerd

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>>33594721

I've been on the hunt for a decent deal on a 1903A3.

I purchased one online about 10 days ago and picked it up from my FFL last Saturday.

Shoots amazing, just wish it was in a bit better shape. See one online this morning for $100 more than I paid, looks cleaner than any 1903A3 I've ever seen.

Fuck it, bought that one too.

I'll post a pic of the one I bought last week, followed by the one I bought this morning.

p.s. I have a K-31 and know your feels. I shot it today, actually. I'll be buying another when I find one like the one you posted, op.

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>>33603950

Couldn't pass this up..

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>>33603967
BLUE BOARD

But really, nice a3, here's mine

>>33604648

Blue board?

>>33604648

Is that a Smith Corona?

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>>33594658
I just want to shoot BP all day since shooting my 1860 Army for the first time a month ago.

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>>33594923
>everyone on this board wants to live in a huge pine lodge

I want to live in a brutalist style house, the kind that make you say "what the fuck?" when you see them.

>>33605212
Blue boards cant show porn, and I think he's implying you posted gun porn (which is fine)...or hes drunk...just take it as a compliment.

BTW was that one of the refurbished miltech/gibbs ones or OG?

>>33594658

I can relate. When Classic Firearms started getting their M39's in I thought they were pretty cool. Didn't buy though. Then Iraqvet8888 did an in depth review of one of their shipments, and I caught the fever. I bought 2, and like 6 tins of nugget food from a lgs. My M39's are my go to range guns now.

>>33594887

I'm particularly fascinated with ARs right now. I know this sounds boring but they're just so easily modifiable that I'm going to start collecting all kinds of shit for them from those fancy Cobalt rifles that drop the mag on empty to .50 Beowulf uppers to AR-57 converters. So much variety, so little time.

>>33605295
Remington, July of 43