My name is bluto77, and I am a gun-buyingaholic. I'm having the same running out of room problem with the safe. I've considered buying a bigger one, but ironcially (not sure if ironic or sad), I hesitate to do so as it will take away from funds "needed" to feed the gun addiction. I go in spurts. I'll buy several within a 30 day period, play with them for awhile, and then sell at least half of them and buy more. One of the problems there is that I'm buying much less than I'm selling. I've even set up a separate bank account just to be used for gun stuff and told myself that I'll only contribute to it with proceeds from selling part of the collection. Unforunately I always find a way to talk myself into moving just a little more over from the family checking account. And my rationale is always flawed at best. For example: I recently purchased a Savage 10 FCP .338 LM. The rationale....I was standing in my gun closet, yet I have a closet that also contains the safe, looking around for stuff to sell on gunbroker. I've already owned a Savage .338 LM about a year ago, the 110 BA. I sold it back then to buy something else. I had purchased 4 boxes of different brands of ammo, as well as a case (10 boxes) of S&B ammo. I shot 77 out of the 100 rounds of S&B prior to selling, and I kept every piece of spent brass b/c I was going to start reloading .338 (I bought dies and bullets too). I only shot 6 or 7 rounds total out of the 4 other boxes. Once I sold the .338 I kept telling myself I was going to sell the .388 ammo, sell the leftover brass and live rounds of S&B as a package, and sell the dies and bullets. I even went as far as taking the pictures to post on gunbroker. But the little voice in the back of my head kept telling me to hold off because I might own a .338 again someday. Fast forward to the present, I'm standing there looking for things to sell, looked at the ammo, and then decided I should go ahead and BUY a .338 rifle instead of selling the ammo because I'm waiting on Scout Supply Company to finish a build for me, so I figured I would play with the 338 LM until it was finished, and then sell it and whatever ammo was left over. The Savage was $1300 and the bullets/dies/ammo have to be worth $500'ish. So instead of selling them and getting $500, I spent $1300 instead.....that's an $1800 swing! Don't even get me started on the scope!
