Guys - Which X-mas gift would you rather have?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Shotgun shotgun shotgun!

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Shotgun

23

Games get old. He will shelve them after the system becomes arcane.

Shotgun! Every shot he fires will make him think of you, or turkeys.

24

I’d rather have the shotgun. Then I can get my own games, or liquor or damn near whatever I wants.

Merry Christmas.

25

Another vote for the shotgun. Once the PS2 gets replaced with PS 3/4/5, he’ll be able to have a bit of target practice.

26

It’s also easier to find video games on ebay in six months. I go for shotgun. It won’t be obsolete in three years.

27

Shotgun. Definitely.

28

Could I have the shotgun please as I am up to my neck in bunnies as the foxes seem to have disapeared this season.

29

If he has a place where he’ll use it, I vote shotgun. With some care, it’ll last a lifetime and beyond.

And speaking as a guy, something that goes BOOM and makes smoke is way, way cooler than a few games.

30

Figure it this way: which does he spend more time doing, hunting or playing video games? Which does he seem to enjoy more?

31

Shotgun. It’ll hold its value and will be around for a long time. It’ll remind him of who got it whenever its handled. Plus a shotgun is metal and will take better to engraving than a PS2 disc.

So the guy couldn’t take the missus out shooting??
Fighting ignorance and all that.

32

My husband will take weapons of mass destruction over a pussy-boy video game any day. I wish he was more of a pussy-boy, but in reality, all he does is “collect” WMD…he never actually goes shooting or or stabbing or anything. They’re simply something he acquires.

33

Another vote for the shotgun.

The Piratess and I got each other weapons (a shotgun for her, and a black powder pistol for me) over 20 years ago for Christmas gifts. Those are the only gifts from that time that we still regularly use. Video games? Meh.

As far as the waiting period - AFAIK you can walk out with a shotgun the same day out here. Pistols have a waiting period, but unless it has changed recently there are none for shotguns. YMMV.

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  1. Ask yourself: Is he more into Ted Nugent or Fosajiro Yamaguchi?
  2. Check elsewhere on SDMB for “Left Behind” end-times thread. When the Beast of Babylon comes a-calling, your SO will feel silly with nothing but a game controller in his mitts.
35

I call shotgun!

36

I would like the shotgun please…oh! it’s not for me?. Ok, buy him the shotgun, but please tell us about it so we (I) can live vicariously through him. Between you and me a new firearm and sex on the same day is a guy’s dream!

unclviny

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1-PS2 game value today 40$ --game value in 6 months 40 CENTS
2-shotgun value today 200-500+---gun value in 6 years 200-500

life of PS game 3 months, life of gun, 3 generations

easy choice.

38

Bam!

39

rent the games , buy the peace maker

Declan

40

Shotgun.

He will never forget your love.

It will be something his great grandchildren will remember you by.

Although it will considerably lessen any resale value, you can even engrave it: “to DH with love, from Scarlet, Christmas 2003”

(…and hopefully, he will buy you a shotgun, or a pearl and red rose handled silver revolver, for your next birthday!)