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Title: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Mike Vines on May 14, 2012, 08:35:00 AM
I've always known I have an addiction to hunting (different phases throught life), well yesterday I decided I might as well sell a couple shotguns.  Listed them online and within 15 minutes a buyer was on his way.  We both walked away thinking we got the better of the other (so in my eyes that is a REALLY good sale).  Decision was brought upon by the purchase of a trully custom bow built to my specs (Tall Tines longbow).  When I get it, believe me there will be a HUGE homecomming party to welcome it.

What all have you sold off to pay for your bowhunting addiction?  Just a question I ponder while thinking back over the years at what i have bought and sold and how I always find a way to come up with money somehow for what I want so as not to upset my overwhelming better half, and or go into debt to satisfy he addiction.

So please, tell us your ways because it just might spark the minds of others as to ways of raising a couple bucks to fund their next Trad Bowhunting purchase.

I'm looking forward to reading the responses to this thread.

Mike
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: KOOK68 on May 14, 2012, 08:54:00 AM
I guess I have a hoarder's mentality. I could never part with a bow much less any of my guns.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Sean B on May 14, 2012, 09:04:00 AM
i go through phases.  I bought my first custom bow when I was young, single and made alot of $$. I was also very involved in "living history", and thats not a cheap hobby either.  I make repro engraved 18th c powder horns and sell them.  that $ goes to my hobbies. I've sold some guns, both modern & flintlick muzzel loaders.  ive also have owned several bows, that ive sold to buy other bows.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: David McLendon on May 14, 2012, 09:06:00 AM
I buy,sell and trade all the time so the bow addiction kind of supports itself. The consequence is that nothing is ever really safe around here, just about everything has a price.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: GreyGoose on May 14, 2012, 09:13:00 AM
I KNOW I have a shooting addiction; I'm trying to support my hunting addiction; I try to give put the acquiring bows addiction last!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: lpcjon2 on May 14, 2012, 09:16:00 AM
I'm in denial all around.    :D
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: huskyarcher on May 14, 2012, 10:14:00 AM
Real simple for this ol' country boy. WORK WORK WORK. Its all worth it when that long brown box is sitting on the porch though   :jumper:
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Rick Butler on May 14, 2012, 12:13:00 PM
I've sold some firearms and other assorted hunting paraphenalia to fund this addiction.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: PaddyMac on May 14, 2012, 12:54:00 PM
I've got a Stevens 20 ga with a refinished stock on the local bulletin board right now.

But the real clue was last week when I was driving through the Public Development Authority and a guy was throwing away big hunks of ethafoam packing blocks that solar panels came in. I said, "Throwing those away?" he said yeah and I asked to have them. Then he said there's a whole pile of them over there if you want them. So I filled up my tahoe... had to make two trips. Now I have a pile of polyethylene blocks in my yard the size of a VW. Not sure how I'm going to turn them in to a target yet, but that there is a sign of a serious disease!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: PICKNGRIN on May 14, 2012, 01:08:00 PM
I knew there was a problem when I had to add extensions to my bow rack pegs!!!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: oz on May 14, 2012, 04:22:00 PM
don't seem to have a problem with collecting bows or guns cannot afford them, the problem here is hours in the field, I knew I had a problem when 14 years ago my wife said the bow goes or the kids and I go.  I didn't touch the bow for 12 years until my son asked to take bow ed..  I have been better about the hours in the field the past 4 years, but it is a struggle to not be out, when I'm not out I want to be out so bad that is all I think about. I never quit hunting completely just archery, it was the one I was obsessed with.  I guess if I liked to work as much as I like to hunt I could afford more bows and guns.  

OZ
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Bjorn on May 14, 2012, 06:02:00 PM
I sold my wife's car to buy my new ACS CX-she now takes the bus to both jobs; they are not that far. We need the truck for hunting-duh!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Mike Vines on May 14, 2012, 06:27:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Bjorn:
I sold my wife's car to buy my new ACS CX-she now takes the bus to both jobs; they are not that far. We need the truck for hunting-duh!
:biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: jrstegner on May 14, 2012, 06:28:00 PM
You are my new hero Bjorn!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: awbowman on May 14, 2012, 06:32:00 PM
Good one Bjorn.

I have sold ONE gun in my life and still regret it.  Bows?, now that's different, I go through those like water.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: owlbait on May 14, 2012, 06:43:00 PM
I don't like how you use the word addiction, like its a bad thing.   ;)   I have sold bows, turkey calls, hunting clothes, and used refinanced mortgage money to buy bows. I've sold a gun or two that I no longer "needed' to help with a purchase, to build up my war chest for St. Jude's or Compton's. I wish I was talented enough to make something I could sell!    :knothead:
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Mike Vines on May 14, 2012, 06:58:00 PM
I once tried selling my wife on getting a home improvement loan to go up to Alaska for a hunt.  My reasoning is that MY home life would have been greatly improved if I did it...I still have yet to make it to Alaska.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: youngarcher1 on May 14, 2012, 06:59:00 PM
Well I seem to have caught the bug a few years ago and i found my self donating plasma (freshman year of college) to pay for my Dwyer Endeavor, next semester is going to be Bigjim TC    :help:
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Aunty on May 15, 2012, 07:32:00 AM
Bjorn how you got away with that i will never know  :notworthy: . I realised i had a hunting addiction when i killed my first rabbit at the tender age of 6. I trap Possums in the winter to help fund my interests. The best part of it my mrs loves that i hunt. I am thinking about selling a shotgun to help pay for a pair of stalking boots. But maybe my mrs will buy them for me as my birthday is coming up soon.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: TURKEYFOOTGIRL on May 15, 2012, 08:36:00 AM
Constantly sell in stuff to afford to go on hunts.  I've sold guns,  bows, made pedestals to sell, and am currently sell in my two horses and my horse trailer.  Excited bout sell in these since they will easily pay for next years moose hunt and with the money not spent on hay I can afford the down payment on the next hunt.  The easiest way I found though is drive a cheap truck so there is no payment.  I paid cash for mine 8 years ago and ever since I put 400 bucks a month into my hunt fund instead of into a truck payment.  Easy to justify!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Gen273 on May 15, 2012, 09:25:00 AM
Bjorn-----Wins!!!

That is what I call dedication.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Goshawkin on May 16, 2012, 11:24:00 AM
I just sold a Browning A-5 Stalker with a custom Bearcoat teflon finish to fund having a new HH Wesley special built.Had money left over so I bought my wife a new vaccum cleaner(That's honestly what she wanted!)and still put a little in my pocket.I had my Black widow advertised at the same time and that sold too. Took that money and just bought a Pete George longbow.I've sold alot of guns over the years to buy better ones,sell 2 or 3 cheaper ones to buy a good one.I like to be able to get things with no money out of my pocket.Just swapping toys for toys.Work is slow right now,so that's really my only choice right now anyway!
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: huntmaster80 on May 16, 2012, 12:34:00 PM
I realized that I had an addiction when I opened my sliding glass door and was shooting at my target on my covered porch through the living room at about 15 yards. I was doing this because it was raining cats and dogs outside and I just had to shoot   :archer2:
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: Atennishu on May 16, 2012, 12:47:00 PM
My wife thinks I am addicted, but I think I am normal,  at least in this group.  I do get the cold sweats when I havnt shot in a couple days,  and I will say I am guilty of shooting in the house when she was out.
Title: Re: When to realize you have an addiction...???
Post by: on May 16, 2012, 08:18:00 PM
i know that I am sick. I ended up having two of every weight longbow in 5 pound increments up to 65 pounds. I gave half of them away, a couple of months later and I was just about back where I started.