What's funny, is for me it was same guns, different order!
Steyr M95 8x56rh (shortly Pre-Cruffle, but I still have it and it's sister M95/34 now.
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Then the Cruffle.
M44s (only my first like 5 at a time, when SOG sold them 5/$175...they breed in the dark, looking at my book I've owned about 35 of them, even though I only own 6 now...)
91/30s...when they were 3/$99 I went though about a dozen of them, now haveonly four left, wish I would have bought more
Then the Nagant Revolver(s) Bought one for $49.99 shot it, got offered $125.00, sold it when they started drying up the first time, kicked myself for 6 months, new batch shows up for $69.99, bought another and found I can shoot it with .32 Long, need to buy another to "hedge" against the urge to sell it when they dry up again, then I'll still have one....
That's not counting of course the Odd M91, and all the FIins that have "visited" for a couple of years but since moved on, the 8 M38 carbines I went through until I found the ONE "shooter" I had to keep, a couple of Mausers that briefly came by that I grew quickly bored with
, and the couple of Enfields and the Yugo SKS (that replaced the Romanian) that stick out on my gun wall like prostitutes at church surrounded by all those Mosins....
Yep, PS has it right, it's an addiction. And while many may think it's my own damm fault I lament the "passing" of so many guns that I USED to own, the way I look at it is that when each one sold or traded for a lot more than I paid, it contributed to me getting to handle and shoot at least for the short term MORE of their buddies, and the best ones or most enjoyable ones get to stay, so they did not "die" in vain!
AND I didn't have to be wealthy to do it...