When to realize you have an addiction...???

[Mike Vines]

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

[KOOK68]

I guess I have a hoarder's mentality. I could never part with a bow much less any of my guns.

[Sean B]

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.

[David McLendon]

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.

[GreyGoose]

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!

[lpcjon2]

I'm in denial all around.    :D

[huskyarcher]

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  

[Rick Butler]

I've sold some firearms and other assorted hunting paraphenalia to fund this addiction.

[PaddyMac]

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!

[PICKNGRIN]

I knew there was a problem when I had to add extensions to my bow rack pegs!!!

[oz]

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

[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!

[Mike Vines]

Originally 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!

       

[jrstegner]

You are my new hero Bjorn!

[awbowman]

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.

[owlbait]

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!    

[Mike Vines]

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.

[youngarcher1]

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    

[Aunty]

Bjorn how you got away with that i will never know   . 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.

[TURKEYFOOTGIRL]

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!