03-25-2012, 08:47 AM
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AKaholic #: 159059 Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Ohio
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The Kalashnikov Syndrome
What is it with this disease? How do I always end up with an extra one in my safe, I really think I have a problem? Am I alone? Bought my first one in 2007, a WASR GP 10/63, and it has all gone down hill. I wanted a semi auto 12 gauge, I bought a Saiga 12, I wanted a long range rifle, I picked up a PSL, I wanted another handgun, came home with a Draco C, wanted a folding stock rifle and got an AMD-65... well you get the point. When will it end, when will it ever be good enough? Speaking of which, anyone have the Saiga IZ-332, I'm looking to buy one when tax returns are all finished up
 I must admit, if this is my disease, I'm really enjoying being sick!My name is Jimmy, and I have a problem.
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03-25-2012, 08:54 AM
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AKaholic #: 643 Join Date: Nov 2003
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Hi Jimmy!
My name is John, and I'm addicted to FALs and AKs. 
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03-25-2012, 09:23 AM
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"Who Dares Wins"
AKaholic #: 7308 Join Date: Jan 2007
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Aren't tax returns great..... The govt gives you your money back so we all can buy guns and ammo to protect ourselves from a govt spinning out of control.....
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03-25-2012, 09:39 AM
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AKaholic #: 160501 Join Date: Jan 2012
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has: wasr 10 gp
wants to has: amd-65, draco, polish underfolder, dsa FAL and another wasr w/ a bumpski we should have a meeting once a week to discuss the effect this problem has had on our lives. |
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03-25-2012, 11:22 AM
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AKaholic #: 159123 Join Date: Nov 2011
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oh no
you ain't done yet, it gets worse,your family starts to notice and say something about it and that makes you want more, then soon you will have a room to yourself for them ,and after that its full blown . The wife says it looks like a gun store in my man room .. lol
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03-25-2012, 12:15 PM
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Curio & Relic
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Yeah, God help you if you buy a Mosin Nagant. You don't know sickness yet...
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03-25-2012, 12:21 PM
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AKaholic #: 93064 Join Date: May 2010
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It just starts, when you start analyzing, what specific function weapons you need to survive and snowballs from there! Last Prez election, was enough to prompt you, before prices take off on weapons and ammo.
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03-25-2012, 01:18 PM
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It really starts to piss you off when you realize the gun safe you purchased a couple of years ago ends up way to small!
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03-25-2012, 04:03 PM
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03-25-2012, 04:13 PM
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AKaholic #: 159059 Join Date: Oct 2011
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I'm scared... Everything you guys said is either true or stuff I have recently thought about. I'm just glad I'm not the only one out there, I feel so at home! As for the meeting, same spot and time next week, I'll bring the milk and cookies.
Jimmy
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03-25-2012, 08:19 PM
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Curio & Relic
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AKaholic #: 1190 Join Date: Dec 2003
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AKMs are addictive!
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03-25-2012, 09:14 PM
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03-25-2012, 09:27 PM
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AKaholic #: 643 Join Date: Nov 2003
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Wait until your couple of Eastern European AKs start humping and make a Chinese or Egyptian baby! Now that's messed up!
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03-25-2012, 09:43 PM
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Curio & Relic
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Welcome to the crowd,
It's a disease, but a "good" disease...: panzertruppe |
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03-25-2012, 10:02 PM
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AKaholic #: 161888 Join Date: Mar 2012
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My name is Brian and I'm an AKaholic! It all started when I was 18........
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03-26-2012, 02:29 AM
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AKaholic #: 158477 Join Date: Sep 2011
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Another sufferer here. Bought my first AKM, a Maadi ARM postban, 20yrs ago. Only fired maybe 200 rds in all those yrs. Then about 9mos ago it hit me, real hard! Since then i've aquired 9 more(type 56,Kassnar,custom yugo RPK from a well known member here,etc etc). Looking for a Polytech Legend after i get an AES-10B i've had my eyes on. I feel your pain.
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03-26-2012, 02:34 AM
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 I said the hell with the safe years ago, I started a gun room. My wife calls it the Bermuda Triangle, stuff goes in a won't come out including me.
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03-26-2012, 06:24 AM
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Trying to Get a Grip
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Thank God there isn't a cure - just fixes :-) LOL
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03-26-2012, 08:56 AM
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AKaholic #: 159059 Join Date: Oct 2011
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You guys are reminding me of what I don't have yet, and what's about to happen! Ahhh! Better start putting in overtime, best of luck to my AKbrothers and quite possibly sisters?!?! May we fight our temptations and get control of ourselves... Well after our collection is complete.
Jimmy
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03-27-2012, 01:26 PM
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AKaholic #: 157476 Join Date: Jun 2011
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buying the last one....
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Just when you think it's safe for the wife to go in the basement and not see anything,...you realize that all the safes are so full they fall out when you open the door, and you shake you fist in vain at the AK god, and you come home from the gun shows, with some killer deals. And you have to wait till the wife goes out and you hurry it to the basement....... |
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03-28-2012, 05:08 AM
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Hope everyone has at least one of each weapon they want w/ammo!!
Hope everyone has pretty much what they need, low end WASR's have gone up a $100 over the last year. This time last year Draco's were going for $329, now almost impossible to find, if you do they're $439 or more.
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03-28-2012, 12:38 PM
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Curio & Relic
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My name is Steve and I too am suffering from this horrendous condition.. It started with mosins and then a saiga and b4 I even started the conversion I just picked up a Chinese NHM-91, and now I'm hoarding mags
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03-28-2012, 12:46 PM
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A fine and pleasant missery it is.
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03-28-2012, 03:24 PM
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Thank God my wife caught the disease too. We had to convert the closet into a gun safe, not to mention the his and hers on each side of the bed!! I shouldn't post this but my wife now has more hand guns than I do. I still have her beat in the rifle department.
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03-28-2012, 06:40 PM
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AKaholic #: 159059 Join Date: Oct 2011
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Send her my condolences, together we can all pull thru this.
Jimmy
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America, it is time to stand up for your rights, CALL & HAND WRITE your senators, congressmen, and donate to the NRA-ILA. The only other option is to sit back and watch them wither away, what will YOU do? |
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03-28-2012, 06:52 PM
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AKaholic #: 3958 Join Date: May 2005
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I'm just now getting over it, I look at different forums ,magazines and auction sites and there isn't much to get excited about anymore for me . Am I going to sell any of my items ? No,am I going to buy anymore ? I doubt it.
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03-28-2012, 09:20 PM
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AKaholic #: 155256 Join Date: Dec 2010
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Started in 1980,and some 257 AK's later, I just bought a gold plated WASR today.Still going......
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03-29-2012, 08:56 AM
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03-29-2012, 09:54 AM
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Chilling like a quarter after five.
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AKaholic #: 6179 Join Date: Jul 2006
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I already bought most of what I'm going to buy. The Curio and Relics boom is ending, and the AK kits are mostly gone. I bought up a pile of parts kits, and am leisurely building them. I have one on the bench right now, and I'm working on headspacing it. While I won't likely be buying more guns, I'm sure as hell going to be adding to my collection - each time a finished AK rolls off my bench.
We'll see though. There might be another wave of kits and C&Rs coming into the country, and if so I'll be right there in line to buy up more. I think my count now is around 120 guns of all types including the Martini-Henrys I'm slowly restoring. I have about 40 kits set back, but it would make me feel better if I had more. I could run out one day! |
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03-29-2012, 07:07 PM
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AKaholic #: 157476 Join Date: Jun 2011
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me too...
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I tryed to kick the habit, had intervention, came over with a shot gun,......from the day I touched my first REAL AK-56 in Vietnam...I knew I was hooked , the more i fought the deeper I fell until I hit rock bottom.....jealous, yep just jealous of some of those wonderful AK-47's |
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