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Laser 1w ago

The gun guy rabbit hole is an embarrassing time suck and subculture.

Get good at one rifle, learn to shoot a pistol, carry every day, get a plate, build a belt, train, and always always treat it just like another tool and never a hobby to collect against and shoot the shit endlessly.

You can lose at life very quickly by becoming a gun guy and surrounding yourself with gun guys. Same goes for preppers and doomsdayers.

Life is scary and there are better strategies for coping with that reality.

Trust God.

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Daedalus 1w ago

For most its a consumerist cope. It's a way to try to sate the never ending desire for more material things under the guise of "protection" or "preparedness".

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Apatight⚡️ 1w ago

The right tool for the right job…

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Stirling Forge 1w ago

IMO just keep a few reliable guns in the house and car, and use VR video games to train your shooting skills. No need to waste ammo IRL these days. And you can get way more muscle memory using actual situations in VR versus targets

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Colezybear 1w ago

I don't think vr gun training is a good substitute for actual shooting the kick, jump, flash and boom are all things you need to work with to be a good shooter and I find it hard to believe vr can replicate that very well (the kick and jump of a large caliber rifle in particular).

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sdbtc 1w ago

As a gun guy I agree with this. Just get a 16” 556 for SHTF, 11.5” 556 for home defense, 22 for plinking and varmints, 9mm for defense, .270 for deer, 12 gauge for turkey. 300BO pistol for car, G43 for ultra conceal /summer, and another 9mm to go in car back pack. Anything else is over the top

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Colezybear 1w ago

Yes and no

in Canada we can no longer buy or sell handguns so more than one is a good thing as l see it thing do wear out and occasionally break we can no longer buy parts for said handguns. Also I don't want to shoot a whitetail with my 300 win mag but I don't want to shoot a moose with my 6.5 creedmore. I do kinda want to shoot gophers with my 300 win mag but the 22 is more reasonable both on my shoulder and my wallet. Plus a 12 gauge for ducks and geese is necessary when using required steel shot but a 12 gauge on a pheasant can make a pretty big mess of it. I do also just have a short barrel on my 12 gauge for home/bear defense.

But I also agree better to be trained well in 1 or 2 guns (pistol and a rifle) than a bunch of different guns with their own idiosyncrasies that you have to think about when using and its not just a automatic ingrained reaction.

I have a friend who has 5 different deer guns and I've seen him forget for a second wich gun is in his hands