Signs of being a gun nut, revisited

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What about when a friend asks you how many guns you have and you can't answer because you don't remember? Would that qualify one as a "nut" or merely an "enthusiast?" Or better yet--this actually happened to my dad--he went to the gun store one day and after looking at the pistols for a while, realized he already had at least one of everything...

freedomlover

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Or your better half asks you how many guns do you have and you have to think about it long enough that you get in trouble for not answering her. :D
 
All I know is I have so much ammo scattered in all of my cars that when I go to Mexico (where guns and ammo are illegal) I have to park and walk accross the border.
 
How about your fiancee thinks #9 is an aftershave.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JCH:
How about your fiancee thinks #9 is an aftershave.
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Hmmm...I dont think my wife would mind that...we BOTH like the smell of ole #9 :D

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Mike
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When you really want to go shoot but don't have any money or ammo you scrounge around your cleaning bench, dig through your hunting bag and all your hunting jackets, rummage your gunsafe, look in your dryer lint trap, behind your dresser, in the cracks of the sofa(s), etc...

and end up with enough for a couple of hours of fun.

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Anarchism: The radical notion that I am the sole authority when it comes to deciding what's best for me.
 
You know you're a gun nut when you excitedly peruse the monthly reloading catalog even though they haven't carried a new product in 26 years.

Don (not pax, I just used her pooter, and since she's not a gun nut -- just your regular sorta run of the mill every day nut -- she didn't want her name associated with this post.)
 
When you have a shot up target, a sign stating "This Office protected by Les Baer", four bowling pin shoot trophys, a Second Place CDP plaque, Cooper's Color codes AND the four rules of gun safety ........ in your IBM (No firearms allowed) office...... You might be a gun nut. :D :D :D

Bubba
 
How 'bout these:

Me:
1. You have some 'braggin' targets mounted around your no-guns-allowed federal workplace....

2. You have a mousepad with the logo of your favorite firearms manufacturer in said same no-guns-allowed federal workplace....

3. Your only friends at said same no-guns-allowed federal workplace are also shooters....

4. You have 400 bullets (not even loaded ammo) for a caliber of gun you haven't had in eight years!....

5. You reload for your friends and family because you love load development... for calibers you don't even have personally....

6. By the time you finally get around to getting that bigger safe for your guns you need yet a bigger safe still....

7. You get more gun-related magazines than any other type....

8. You hang around gun-related message boards (TFL being but one) more than any other type of web site....


Brother-in-law:
9. You have a rubber 'counter mat' from one of your favorite firearms manufacturer that you use as a mouse pad in your Information Systems/Database Administration computer geek cubicle?....

10. You wear a button-down white oxford dress shirt with the logo of your favorite firearms manufacturer (worn with requisite computer-geek tie) and your co-workers are trying to figure out your initals in the design.... (It is a S&W shirt with the interwoven S and W logo -- my brother-in-law's initals are neither S or W!)

11. You have 'strategic stashes' of 'hot' guns around the house....


I'm sure there are more! :)


Hello, my name is Cougar and I'm a gun nut.

(all together now)
Hello, Cougar! :D :D :D




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Remember, just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you!
 
You buy holsters for guns you want so that if you stumble across a 'good deal' you'll already have leather for it.

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
10mm: It's not the size of the Dawg in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!
 
When you neighbor comes out and says "Why is there a pistol in your bathroom?"

When you have loading dies for guns that haven't been made since the Franco-Prussian War, and they are USED.

When you find yourself explaining the difference between a Trapdoor Springfield and the Colt Berdan Rifle to your wife, who only likes her .38 Charter Arms Off Duty.

When you call friends a 100 miles away and only manage two or three general howdy questions before asking "Have you cast any 45-70 300 grainers lately?"

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TexasVet:
When you neighbor comes out and says "Why is there a pistol in your bathroom?"[/quote]

...and you spend 20 minutes explaining how little kids get baby alligators through mail order, and when they get too big (the gators, not the kids), parents flush them down the commode, and they live in the sewers and mutate on all the chemical wastes and there is always the danger of a 20 foot mutant gator charging up out of the bowl while you're doing your business, and that's why there's a Glock 21 with a .45 Super Bar-Sto mod job and a LaserMax guide rod in your john. :)
 
Similar to Tamara's,

"..when you buy hicaps, parts, etc.. for rifles/pistols you MAY own in the future.."

Chris..
 
Your 10 year old saves up her allowance and gives you a case of high brass field loads for your B-day...

Your loving wife does a fast inventory and states she didn't know you had all those guns, and you respond,"Honey, only ten of them are mine, the rest belong to the kids".

Your in laws ask what's in the spaghetti sauce before eating, because the joys of groundhog consumption,etc, are past them.

Your third grader LIKES shooting your GM, and does a passable job.

Daughter's Sweet 16 present has the number 640 on the bbl.

And even your citified, never shot in his life, Brother in Law knows that a Double Tap
has nothing to do with Riverdance....
 
I have been told by several that I am a gun nut. One of the first things I did about a year ago when I met my girlfriend was take her shooting. She had never shot a gun before and was really quite affraid of even seeing me with one.
I sat up an empty, (I'm a nut, not stupid), beer can.Showed her how to load an old Remington bolt action .22lr.I explained what the sight picture should look like, and we stepped back to around 10 yards.
Her first shot went dead center! She was elated! She set that empty can, riddled with holes, on the stove in the kitchen. That was more than a year ago and it is still sitting there! This February she and 4 secretaries from the high school where we work, took a handgun safety course at the local indoor range.
She came home beaming with the target she shot. Three different handguns, three different calibers, around 50 total shots. All but 2 shots in about a 4 inch circle, dead center!!! She hung this on the fridge for several months! Every time I have gone shooting since, she has been with me.She will shoot anything I take along and outshoot me nearly all the time.
Now she wants me to let her shoot my 50 caliber muzzle loader!
Jeez, I thought I was the gun nut in the house.
What a gal, life IS good!!!!
Dennie, NRA Life Member GOA
 
1. When you reach in your pocket for change and have more 22LR's than coins.
2. When you buy 7MM TCU dies and have to search for half a year to find a Contender barrel to shoot the ammo in.
 
Thought of another one:

You notice one of your pistols has oil where it shouldn't, so you whip out your shirttail and . . . .
 
1. When your license plate says "375 H&H"

1. When you use the dinner table for reloading and the hobby-room floor for eating

3. When you store tea in empty IMR-3031 cans

4. When you open UPS packages with an Enfield bayonet

5. When ALL of the said UPS packages have Midway, Hawk Labs, Old Western Scrounger and Cabela's on the return label

6. When you use a shot-out Martini Cadet as a stick to reach the air-conditioning grill on the ceiling

7. When getting a concealed carry permit is higher up in the priority list than getting health insurance

8. When you remember the ballistics of the .333 Nitro Express but forget Mother's Day

9. When "rifle-stroking" becomes a legitimate and accepted activity among your inner circle

10. When you plan months ahead on spending Thanksgiving Day at the range instead of eating turkey

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