Hello all, my name is Chris, and I’m a disabled combat veteran living in the Piedmont Triad area. Now I know the title of this thread is a little different for an “introduce yourself” forum, so I’ll sadly explain why I opened that way.
This has been a difficult year at my house. I apologize about the sob story, but it has been a bit rough. This summer, after cleaning up a flood, we had to put in a new hot water heater. Then we got the wonderful opportunity to change our electrical panel, because it couldn’t handle the new hot water heater, (even though it was the same size as the old one.) But, seeing as my house almost burned down (twice!), yeah, the electrical panel got changed/upgraded. Next, while labeling the new electrical box, we discovered that the AC wasn’t working, so we ended up getting a whole new HVAC system. That all put us over about $20k in repairs, out of our pockets, draining āall of our savings, plus some …And finally (well, as of yet it’s finally), two trees fall on my roof during a freak storm. At least the insurance is covering that one.
Now that brings me to the worst part of the story. Seeing as I have PTSD from my time in Iraq and Kosovo, I haven’t been hunting in a couple of years. So not having a reason to use most of my guns, I had them put in a safe place (not a safe though) in my basement, and haven’t messed with them for quite a while. Well, I haven’t messed with them. Someone else did though. They obviously messed with them right out of my house. Now with all the work we had done this summer, plus we had a contractor building a bedroom in our basement, there were obviously to many times when people were in and out of the basement without me there.
I had always known I needed a safe, so it was a hard lesson to learn when I found all of my long guns gone, plus a Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag, that I got in Alaska when I was 16 (30ish years ago). A lot of these were heirloom pieces, at least to me they were, so I think I’m understandably sick about it all.
Nice introduction I know, and I got here upon recommendation by my brother, who had found some rifles in the classifieds. I have decided that I want to actually participate though, and not just be lurking around the classifieds with no posts to my credit.
Now, I am pretty sure that this is too long for a lot of people to read, but for those who make it all the way here, I thank you, but I have a query that I am hoping someone can direct me to where the best place to put theeèp The question is; “if you had to start over with just one rifle caliber, and the time to buy is now, but the budget isn’t the greatest (due to my summer of love described above, as well as the fact that it is Christmas money that I will be tapping into as well.) which caliber rifle, which model of whichever manufacturer, would you chose to go with?” So, if anyone can point me in the direction of where to post that question, or series of them, it will be most kindly appreciated.
Thank you, and I’m mì sorry for the novella,
Chria
This has been a difficult year at my house. I apologize about the sob story, but it has been a bit rough. This summer, after cleaning up a flood, we had to put in a new hot water heater. Then we got the wonderful opportunity to change our electrical panel, because it couldn’t handle the new hot water heater, (even though it was the same size as the old one.) But, seeing as my house almost burned down (twice!), yeah, the electrical panel got changed/upgraded. Next, while labeling the new electrical box, we discovered that the AC wasn’t working, so we ended up getting a whole new HVAC system. That all put us over about $20k in repairs, out of our pockets, draining āall of our savings, plus some …And finally (well, as of yet it’s finally), two trees fall on my roof during a freak storm. At least the insurance is covering that one.
Now that brings me to the worst part of the story. Seeing as I have PTSD from my time in Iraq and Kosovo, I haven’t been hunting in a couple of years. So not having a reason to use most of my guns, I had them put in a safe place (not a safe though) in my basement, and haven’t messed with them for quite a while. Well, I haven’t messed with them. Someone else did though. They obviously messed with them right out of my house. Now with all the work we had done this summer, plus we had a contractor building a bedroom in our basement, there were obviously to many times when people were in and out of the basement without me there.
I had always known I needed a safe, so it was a hard lesson to learn when I found all of my long guns gone, plus a Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag, that I got in Alaska when I was 16 (30ish years ago). A lot of these were heirloom pieces, at least to me they were, so I think I’m understandably sick about it all.
Nice introduction I know, and I got here upon recommendation by my brother, who had found some rifles in the classifieds. I have decided that I want to actually participate though, and not just be lurking around the classifieds with no posts to my credit.
Now, I am pretty sure that this is too long for a lot of people to read, but for those who make it all the way here, I thank you, but I have a query that I am hoping someone can direct me to where the best place to put theeèp The question is; “if you had to start over with just one rifle caliber, and the time to buy is now, but the budget isn’t the greatest (due to my summer of love described above, as well as the fact that it is Christmas money that I will be tapping into as well.) which caliber rifle, which model of whichever manufacturer, would you chose to go with?” So, if anyone can point me in the direction of where to post that question, or series of them, it will be most kindly appreciated.
Thank you, and I’m mì sorry for the novella,
Chria
