What is your “gun budget” per month?

[blackd24]

How much do you budget for yourself monthly on all firearm related purchases? Guns, ammo, reloading, etc.

 

[WooD]

Never had a gun budget. I have a savings account that I'll get into if there is something I really like, or a killer deal on ammo.

 

[Dr. Dingus]

I don't shoot frequently enough to really have a "budget", but if I had time, I'd probably shoot 300-500 rounds of various calibers from about 4 different guns each month. Prices would vary, according. Let's say $250 to $500 depending on caliber and availability. Now BUYING guns? My safe is almost full at 60 weapons of various types, (Rifles/Shotguns/Pistols/Revolvers/Flintlocks/flamethrowers) but I always find a way to make more room, and my purchases aren't really based on measured time, it's mostly based on when deals arise online or in person. I recently got an M1 Garand!

 

[Old Dog]

No limit. I simply don't budget. If I need something, or want something, I pay for it out of my savings.

But I voted the last option.

In any case, I may spend around 2 or 3 hundred bucks a month picking up ammo I don't need, the occasional cleaning/lubrication product. Bought a pistol yesterday, just under a grand, first gun I've bought in a few months.

I've gone a month without spending anything except maybe indoor range fees, a couple crazy months last year spent almost ten grand.

Summer months are the heaviest in terms of spending, especially if I go to a training course (usually about $2500 a pop if it's a weeklong class, excluding travel, lodging, food).

 

[Reloadron]

I have no budget. I see a gun I like, I buy it. I see a gun I like exceeding about $1,000 I do consult with my wife. Not like I have a gun of the month club. With kids grown and homes and kids of their own finances are really not a major issue. Life is good.

Ron

 

[Frulk]

No fixed budget. Outlay varies from month to month. Could go several months without purchasing anything gun related and then drop several hundred dollars or more because I found something at a gun show I didn’t know I needed and couldn’t walk away from.

 

[stonebuster]

Budget is what we had to do years ago so we wouldn't have to worry about money now we're both 70+. We have been lucky and we were DINKS (dual income no kids). We don't live large but don't deny ourselves either within reason.

 

[JFrank]

I’m poor , I have to plan things out like ordering barrels, bullets, powder and making motel reservations way in advance as that alone can have a significant effect on my budget.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

No budget here really. I can buy something if i want it. Nice thing about being older. No mortgage cars are paid off ect ect. Last 2 cars i paid cash.

 

[armoredman]

With the last wife? Budget was about $20 a month. If I was lucky. New wife? Substantially better.

 

[Spats McGee]

I'm at <$100. Fortunately, I'm not really buying guns right now, just ammo, cleaning supplies, etc.

 

[.38 Special]

I have a "hobby" budget of about a grand a month (depending on how business is going) and a lot of hobbies! Usually I am focused on just one, or perhaps one-and-a-half, so there are months when I blow the whole thing on guns (and even dip into the future budget) and months when I spend zero on them.

 

[Jim Watson]

I am a sad case, I don't have a purchase recent or planned large enough to impact the overall budget. Haven't bought a new gun in years. I might buy a reloading press, but it would include selling the old one.

I have been ordering components this month and last so as to beat the next round of price increases, for a year or so anyhow.

 

[Robert]

At present zero. There are just more important things to spend my limited resources on at the moment.

 

[Zendude]

Mostly reloading components and a range membership.

 

[.308 Norma]

How much do you budget for yourself monthly on all firearm related purchases? Guns, ammo, reloading, etc.

I checked "No limit," but that's really not the case. My wife and I have never had a "gun budget" per se. We're not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but we've always been able to afford the guns we really wanted. Either that, or we've laid guns we really wanted away, and paid them off a little at a time.
And as far as "ammo, reloading, etc." goes, just this morning we went for a drive down to Logan, Utah (75 or 80 miles south of here) for our weekly "breakfast out," and after we left IHOP, we went across the road to "Al's Sporting Goods" (a large sporting goods and gun store) because I've been looking for a holster for my new Springfield Hellcat. I didn't find a holster at Al's, but I did notice they had a few boxes of .410 shotgun ammo (which has been scarcer than hen's teeth around here for over a year now), so I picked up a box of that. It was pricey, but I was running low on .410 shells.
In the meantime, my wife found a new wool hat that she just "couldn't live without." So, she bought it. Pretty soon she's going to have as many hats as concealed carry purses, I think.
At any rate, as I said - my wife and I aren't rich. It's just that we both use money for what it's for - we spend it on needs and wants - in that order.

 

[tark]

No formal budget. I spent about $7,000 on guns this year. When I see something I want, I usually have enough money in savings to cover it. If not, and I want the gun bad enough, I will factor in a gold coin. Finding another coin is easier than finding a minty rare gun.

 

[CapnMac]

I'm at "no limit" mostly becasue I don't really have a "per month" budget that way.
I have a gun savings fund, that gets contributed to on a catch as catch can basis. And, I know what my monthly discretionary spending budget is, too.

And , after forty years of this, I'm kind of at the "I have the one of all the things I want" so, it's cool things at good prices that catch my eye, and not "must have now" or "grail" type items.

 

[huntsman]

I have a small pension that the CFO lets me spend

 

[WestKentucky]

Gun stuff is too low on the priority list to set a budget. I have enough guns and ammo to satisfy any needs so beyond that is simply wanting. There’s enough needing to supersede the wanting.

That said, this year I have spent about 1000 directly on gun stuff. if you count hunting licenses it goes up to 1200. I guess it’s easy enough to say $100 a month but it’s far from that and it’s never a budget line item other than me getting a new hunting and fishing license when they come due.

 

[tmd16556]

I guess it might average around $100. Some months it’s $0 when work and kids are all-consuming. Some months I do a few range trips, or Midway runs a free shipping special and I stock up on some wish-list items. Every few years the itch gets me and I buy a new gun. Otherwise it’s grabbing a box or two of ammo here and a pound of powder there.

 

[Hookeye]

Never had a budget.
Money was pretty tight for many years LOL
Just buy what I want now.
But I don't want much......... as I just hunt, have lost any competitive ability.

The ol lady told me to go buy a Grade 2 Hunter Citori 12 ga or a CSX to shoot clays/hunt.
But I already have the plain jane Hunter in 20 ga.
And I didn't hunt doves at all this yr.

Too practical.

 

[GRIZ22]

I really don't have a budget for guns. Due to dumb luck I make more money in retirement than I ever made working. Contrary to what many might say, I have too many guns now. My heirs, not anti gun, won't want most of my guns. I'm still in the process of selling one, then buying two. My more valuable guns I'm keeping and my heirs know where to take them for the best price.

 

[Lo-Profile]

What's this budget thing you speak of. I spend more than $150 on gas just going to the shooting range for Skeet, Trap or Sporting Clays once a week. It's a 90 mile round trip in my 14 mpg truck. Then there's ammo, lunch and snacks.

And my wife knows exactly how much my guns are worth, we keep then documented for insurance reasons. She's bought me quite a few. Ruger Blackhawk, couple Beretta O/U's, Remington 870, Wilson Combat CQB compact

 

[Ignition Override]

It has been sporadic and there’s no way to estimate.

My Wife’s shoe budget? No idea, but she sends most of them back.

She has owned more pairs of shoes than I have guns-
The current price of .308 ammo means that my four Battle Rifles are enough guns in .308.