How to Fund Your Guns

[savage1r]

Basic budgeting ideas and making money in your spare time. Let me know what you guys think and if you have any other suggestions!
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The only thing I left out was liquidating safe queens that had no sentimental value and are rarely used.

[Reverend Recoil]

I have funded a few of my toys with poker winnings. Poker may look easy on TV but it is a tough game.

[savage1r]

I used to work at a casino, will never gamble. Saw too many people loose everything.

[Lefty SRH]

I build and sell target stand to help fund my guns and shooting. It paid for the welder first.

[scrapcan]

One of my coworkers sells his blood plasma.

[savage1r]

I've considered giving blood, but thumb printing and waiting in line doesn't appeal to me.

[iomskp]

I breed and sell lab rats for snake breeders, works for me.

[lavenatti]

-I went and got an engineering degree at 35 years old.
-Cut firewood myself for the winter (haven't bought heating oil in years)
-Still drive the Tercel I bought in 1994. (190K miles, never been in the shop)
-Have never taken a vacation as an adult. (i'm 46)
-Have never hired anyone to work on my house or mow my lawn, I do it all myself.
-The money I didn't spend on guns I put towards my mortgage. This alone saved $96,000 in interest and made for an unhappy banker somewhere.

No wonder everyone calls me cheap....

But I never pass up a good deal on a rifle

[savage1r]

You definitely have your stuff together, very impressive.

[W.R.Buchanan]

I sell junk that I accumulate. I funded my complete Jeep Project this way ( $50K+)and will fund guns and shooting as soon as the Jeep is done.

Right now I have probably $25K in unused junk laying around just waiting for me to get time to take pics, put it on Ebay, Craigs list, or the Autoseller.

I watched a show in TV lst week where Trump put a value on America. It was amazing to see all of the interesting ways different people make money in this country, and I have to say it even gave me a few ideas as well. One guy was making millions selling bottled water from an artesian well on his property that he was using to fill a pond. He got somebody to look at it and started bottling the water in his garage until he got enough money to build a bottling line. This is all off a water well in his back yard! There was a guy who was developer in Long Beach and they found oil on his properties so now he builds Condos with oil wells pumping right next to them. $10 mil per year off the oil. You do realize a small 10 bbl a day well will yeild @$360K per year. I can live real nice on that. You guys in Texas need to look at that possibility.

It is never too late to start a business. There was one guy who bought and sold stuff at garage sales. He made over $750K last year alone. I have to say there was nothing he was doing that was a secret or hard or beyond the capabilities of anyone who can read a newspaper and still drive a car.

You just have to have the desire to get out there and do something. The beauty of America is there is millions of ways to succeed, and only a few ways to fail.

One guaranteed way to fail, is to just sit on your **** and whine!

Randy

[lavenatti]

One guaranteed way to fail, is to just sit on your **** and whine!

I want that on a bumper sticker.

[white eagle]

I want that on a bumper sticker.

they do that around here its called welfare
most of them drive fancy suv's and wear leather coats

[savage1r]

I have a leather coat, but I drive a Kia Rio I got in 2001. 40mpg on the highway baby!

[badbob454]

i bought usaf airforce kniveswith a damaged snap repaired them , and ak 47 bayonets 800 dollars at a time re- sold them at 2 x the cost cant find any quality knives cheap enough to do that anymore plus now ebay wants to earn money you pay on shipping its getting harder to make any cash

[Reverend Recoil]

I sell my take-off AR15 service rifle barrels on Gun Broker for 1/3 the cost of a new barrel. I go through a barrel every nine months.

[Suo Gan]

Sell firewood, rototilling, yard care, snow removal, fence repair, buy/sell junk, handyman, mini storage, convert travel trailers into car trailers, finish concrete (offer your free or cheap services to a small local concrete guy you will learn) learn wiring (offer your services to a small local electrician) buy and sell real estate (there are many very cheap undiscovered lots and houses anywhere I have ever looked) many places out west make a home owner keep the land around their home be cleared of leaves, weeds, pine needles, elder care, dog kennel, horse stable, lease your land to farmer/rancher, bee swarm removal, there is good money in it, become a slum lord, ownership of chain fast food joint, dog breeding, home computer repair, locksmith, and thousands more.

Do not drink, smoke, steal, or buy anything on credit.

[izzyjoe]

i'm a mechanic, so i can alway's make side money working on cars and trucks. there's a broken down car in everybody's yard around here. plus i haul off old cars for scap. i ride the back roads and pick up soda/ beer cans while i'm hunting. there's all sort of way's to make an extra buck. and being "Cheap" help also!

[HotGuns]

I got an 07/02 FFL a year ago, just to fund my gun fund mostly.

I build custom rifles, do shotgun conversions, sell suppressors and NFA items, do transfers and do some gunsmithing work such as barrel swap outs, triggers, mounting scopes, drilling broken screws out and the whole bit.

It has really served me well. Before I started it took me months to save enough for a gun, now I just buy whatever I want and I usally keep at least a grand with me for those gun buys that are too good to beleive.

I plan on retiring in 3 years, and started it to have something to do. It has done better than my wildest expectations.

Suppressor sales are at an all time high, and they are legal to hunt here with, so that makes it even better.

[bruce drake]

$20 a week makes for over a $1000 by the end of the year. You will be surprised how easy it is to make that as a start when you consider bottles of pop are at $1.50 in vending machines and smokes are over $7.50 a pack here in NY.

I drink black coffee when I need caffeine and I don't smoke anymore and you can see where my gun and reloading money can come from.

Bruce

[3006guns]

-I went and got an engineering degree at 35 years old.
-Cut firewood myself for the winter (haven't bought heating oil in years)
-Still drive the Tercel I bought in 1994. (190K miles, never been in the shop)
-Have never taken a vacation as an adult. (i'm 46)
-Have never hired anyone to work on my house or mow my lawn, I do it all myself.
-The money I didn't spend on guns I put towards my mortgage. This alone saved $96,000 in interest and made for an unhappy banker somewhere.

No wonder everyone calls me cheap....

But I never pass up a good deal on a rifle

You're not married, are you?