My real challenge is balancing the love of the beautiful with an innate need for the practical. It's fine to admire an old (historic!) and beautifully-wrought firearm specimen but I'm finding it hard to turn loose of long-held tools of impeccable utility. I'm also finding the fluidity of the overall sporting goods markets to be somewhat impaired these days. The free-wheeling markets of the even recent-past seem to be almost non-existent at the moment. "The times, they are a chang'en"...and not for the better IMHO.