Got mine in 1981 for $129. After the lenses fell out of the really cheap scope I bought for it I put a $175 scope on it. Those 2 are still together to this day.
That was part of the problem. Retirement gives you the time to do everything you want. My problem was falling in love with an inexpensive .45 acp carbine that's more often times then not is a $1 a shot. I do want one more higher caliber gun, but after that I think its going to be .22 if any.
Ammo cost has been killing me here lately, so to offset the price a bit I've been shooting .22lr a bit more. I've had a Ruger 10\22 since 1981 and my SR22 is probably 10 years old. After a 2 month back and forth with RK I finally got a Heritage Rancher carbine. I gotta say I'm happy with this...
I'm no expert either. I do know that about 5 years ago my cellphone caught fire in my front shirt pocket. That was exciting! Not willing to risk that on a larger platform. And I also know that deep cycle has years of a good track record. I'm fine with them
The first bank were just regular lead acid deep cell and lasted 7 years. They were 75ah and cost $140 a piece. I have 8 of them. The new ones are AGM and cost $120 a piece (battery tech has gotten better and cheaper). By comparison a Tesla wall costs about $11k, so I got the same storage for...
I've got half my house running on solar. Its very easy to do. Most of the stuff I use is from renogy. My first bank of batteries were deep cell wheelchair batteries. The last ones were just deep cell agm's from amazon. A decent charge controller can be set to whatever type of battery you want to...