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Offline petebum

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Another Handi
« on: January 18, 2010, 02:28:53 AM »
I found a used 22 Hornet for $190.00 this weekend and it came within a quater of a inch of comeing home with me.

I got my first Handi in 2004 and was very happy with the fact I only had one.  I found this group last spring and now I have four and looking for number five.  I can't understand what has happend to me, could it be something in the water?
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Offline jlj1948

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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 03:47:15 AM »
You drank the cool-aid. ha
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2010, 10:32:13 AM »
Its happened to all of us at sometime, I've bought a couple when I wasn't even looking for one  ;D
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2010, 10:49:34 AM »
At one time I had 7 Handis. Then I admitted to having a problem and sold them all off. I went Handi free for several years, but you know what they say once a Handiholic always a Handiholic. In the past two months I fell off the wagon and I'm right back to buying them up again. I feel so weak!
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2010, 01:01:30 PM »
 Petebum
 
  Its not your fault. They say the only cure is to buy more. When ever you see a replies from Quickdtoo and a few others here, there is always a subliminal messages hidden in it :D Ya know he used to be a secret agent for H&R.  ;)

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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2010, 01:56:43 PM »
Please, just buy them all when you find them cheap enough. If you dont like them after a while somebody here sure will (no names mentioned to protect the....guilty?)
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2010, 02:03:34 PM »
Quote from: petebum on January 18, 2010, 02:28:53 AM
I found a used 22 Hornet for $190.00 this weekend and it came within a quater of a inch of comeing home with me.

I got my first Handi in 2004 and was very happy with the fact I only had one.  I found this group last spring and now I have four and looking for number five.  I can't understand what has happend to me, could it be something in the water?

You need that 22 Hornet and you know it! ;D Now go back there and get it! ;D You won't be happy until you do! ;D

                                               Robert
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2010, 02:42:00 PM »
I started 2 yrs ago by getting the wife a 7mm-08 Handi, then came a 444. Since I had a 444 I needed it's little brother, so along came a 44mag. After that I needed a shotgun (for varmits & such), that's when the 12ga 3 1/2" full choke followed me home. For Christmas my daughter(12y/o) got a 20ga to go with the Versa Pak she got last year. Now my son(16y/o) wants a 45-70 or 444 because his step brother(25y/o) got a 45-70 for his birthday. I now have an itch for a 223 for shootin coyotes. Beware!! Being a Handiholic doesn't just effect you, it effects the whole family.   Paul
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2010, 04:01:27 PM »
I just bought a 28ga and an SB1 frame and stock set to put the 12ga tracker II barrel I bought from MSPRET on this put me into the journeyman hadi holic catagory. The addiction grows!
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2010, 03:09:40 PM »
I started with a 357 that I bought at a pawn shop for $125.  Then a 223 for about the same amount.  I now have 23 rifles and 5 shotguns.  I am on speed dial at a couple of local pawn shops now.  When they get one in, they call.  I look, many times I buy.  They are more fun to trade than bubble gum cards.  I've accumulated some nice stuff for reasonable prices, and some oddballs too.
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2010, 03:34:01 PM »
Is there anyone here that can hold a match to Tim? He's like the speaker of the house at the Handiholic meetings.
Don
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2010, 03:57:47 PM »
LONGTOM just passed me with 48 complete firearms, I still only have 46 or 47 now, can't remember.  ::)

Tim
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2010, 05:08:37 PM »
My addiction started innocent enough(don't they all).  My girlfriend(now wife) wanted to go deer hunting but because of eye dominance needs to shot left handed.  I picked up a Handi 243 so that I would have a gun she could use, but that I could use if she decided deer hunting wasn't her thing.  I always wanted to send it in for a 357 barrel but never did.  Then I found this website.  While cruising my local gun shop I saw a NIB 357 Survivor made in 1996!  I had to buy it because everybody says the 357 is so good and they don't make a 357 Survivor model anymore.  It was like a collectors item, yeah that is why I bought it.  Then I saw a 17M2 at the same shop.  Well they don't make them anymore, so it was like a collectors item, yeah that is why I bought it.  Then I picked up a 410 barrel on gunbroker and it fits on my 357 Survivor perfect.  Before I found GBO I didn't know you could fit barrels yourself.  Knowledge is power.  I actually thought I would be outbid, I only paid $32 shipped!  I just went Saturday and put a 45/70 on layaway at the same gun shop.  Well you know what they say "You don't have a Handi until you have a 45/70".  That and I picked up 187 virgin R-P 45/70 brass from the scrap yard for $10.  Who should I blame for this addiction my wife or you guys?  I will blame her if she finds out about the 45/70 before it makes it home and blends in with the others.
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2010, 05:21:12 PM »
I have sworn an oath to myself I would stop at # X and I am close to that now. UNLESS a real good deal comes by of course. I am working on buying another 45-70 right now, but you can never have enough 45-70's, right?....<><....:)

edited to remove # in case Big Brother is watching or reading over someones shoulder.... ;D

Call me paranoid if you want, I have been called worse. My favorite gunsmith just had his FFL pulled by a gay ATF agent because he is operating in a one person home business zoned area, he has been in the same location for almost 20 years and has had his license renewed every time with no problem. A new agent who suscribes to an alternative life style from another field office just took over within the past few months and he pulled the gunsmiths longstanding license, after it was just renewed for over $100 within the past month or two. It seems the ATF under obama is still trying to limit FFLs. My gunsmith did not buy or sell guns as a regular part of his longstanding business, he is a GUNSMITH, not a gun store...a sad state we are coming to in this country....<><.... :( >:(
 
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2010, 06:34:17 PM »
I'll bet you're tickled pink about tonights results there ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2010, 05:09:57 AM »
mrloring you got the handi disease bad now!

good pickup on that 410 barrel.  If you spot a spare 357 barrel in your PGH area let me know, I have an itch for that one too.

Joe
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Re: Another Handi
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2010, 11:21:50 AM »
   March 2010 Guns Magazine, page 49 quote..."The NEF is among the most "affordable" centerfires on the market, so in theory it shouldn't shoot as well.  But my Hawkeye bore-scope revealed one of the smoothest factory barrels I've ever seen, almost as pretty as a hand-lapped Lilja or Krieger."  These rifles are cheap but they shoot very well.  It's the best kept secret in the gun world. That's why there are so many NEF nutcases out there.  There would be more but too many people believe that if it doesn't cost $1000 or up it can't be worth anything at all. Smile and buy another!
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