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Offline kevin.303

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you might just be a gun nut...
« on: January 24, 2005, 06:41:14 PM »
1.If you buy a Dillon 650 because you are constantly shooting up your ammo and thats the only thing that will let you keep up.

2. If you can shoot a different gun every day of the year

3. If you worry about having enough belts and you are not referring to holding your pants up

4. If you reload for more than a dozen different cartridges

5. If you have more than one reloading press

6. If you have Gun Parts inc on speed dial

7. If you subscribe to more than one gun magazine

8. If you can't get in your closet without knocking over a gun.

9. If you use Hoppe's No 9 as an aftershave

10. If you have more than one can of WD-40

11. If you have memorized Ian Skennertons books

12. If you can quote James Paris Lee's, and Hiram Maxim's biography

13. If there is always room for "one more gun"

14. If you know the MV of a .303, 455, 577-450 and 577 Snider

15. If you can field strip any commonwealth firearm blindfolded

16. If you lust for a No4Mk1T or a L42A1

17. If you think pornography is the gun registry

18. If you consider Zulu, A Bridge too Far, Saving Private Ryan, The Battle of Britain, and other such films family entertainment

19. If your wife hates to watch films with you because you are constantly pointing out errors in the equipment. (that web gear was'nt used then, or those are the wrong rifles for that time period)

20. If you have more cleaning rods than you have socks.

21 If you think a brush is something you run down a barrel

22. If you forgot the grocery list but remember that you need ammo.  

You just might be a gun nut when your littlest son cheers and yells "DEER MEAT" when Bambi's mother gets shot!

If you consider the money you lose on your frequent trades as "entertainment money", then you might be a gun nut.

If you suggest your company picnic should be held at the local range instead of the country club, then you might be a gun nut.

If you have dog named after a firearm or firearm company, then you might be a gun nut.

If you decline a date because you plan on reloading next Friday night, you might be a gun nut.

If you go to the range just to hang out, you might be a gun nut.

If 30.06 or 8X57 to you is just as appealing as 36-32-34.

If you experience the signs of loss and grief whenever you trade a gun away.

If you buy a gun at a shop only to find out you used to own it a couple of years ago.

If you buy a gun you know is cheaply made and won't work well out of the box because all the guns you have work too well and you don't have anything to play with....

If you make $30 per hour at work, but spend 30 minutes on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of 40 S&W brass.  

If the largest gun store in your area *calls* you if they need something they can't get elsewhere.

If, when buying a new gun, you plead with your gun shop to keep it until you have space for it.

If you build a gun rack in your bedroom and it's closer to you than your wife.

If you get a flat and realize that you've got 400 pounds of shot, a Hefty bag each of wads and empty hulls, and enough primers to re-open the main shaft of the Lost Dutchman on top of your spare tire.

If you have to structurally reinforce your house due to this hobby

If you think there is some special significance when you glance at a clock and it shows 3:08, 3:57, 2:23, etc., no matter how many times you see it... ( i do this at 3:03 )

If you use a spot on the windshield as a targeting sight on that (censored word) driver in front of you.....

If you start wondering if you should spread out your ammo boxes a bit, to more evenly distribute the weight on the floor...

If you start eyeing the floor space around your gun vault wondering if you could fit another one there along side it...

If you have a magazine loader on your key ring, you just might be a gun nut.

If you approach total strangers and ask if they're going to keep their brass, you just might be a gun nut.

If friends and family ask what you want for Christmas "Other than gun stuff." You just might be a gun nut.

If you try taking one big 'family photo' of your gun collection, but just can't fit them all in one frame, you just might be a gun nut.

If you tell your wife that you happened to talk to your friend the gun dealer and she says "Oh Lord, what did you buy this time?"

If you buy a gun because you haven't bought one in a while.

You've ever risked your life for that one piece of brass that landed just a little too far beyond the firing line.

You've ever carried your toiletries into a hotel in Toronto contained in a .50 cal ammo can!

You take out your ammo and arrange different rounds in a pretty little row.

If you have a drawer full of holsters that weren't quite right (don't we all?), you just might be ...

You just might be a gun nut if you start feeling uneasy if you have fewer than 500 rounds on hand for your favorite shooter.

If you ever had to explain " its not the SAME gun, its a different VARIANT"...
" oh we didn't sink the bismarck, and we didn't fight at all, we spent our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball. chasing after women while our ship was overhauled, living it up on grapefruit juice and sick bay alcohol"

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You might be a gun nut if...
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2005, 12:31:31 PM »
You are planning a 31-30 wildcat to plug the performance gap between your 30-30 and your 32 Special.

You have a revolver that's sitting on the shelf as a back up for the revolver that's sitting on the shelf as a back up for the revolver you actually shoot.

You have a list of several different cartridges you're looking for and the dealer at the gun shop never heard of any of them.

You never hunt with a cartridge that isn't older than you are.

Some body you don't know calls you up from Europe and wants to buy one of your guns.

The fire department refuses to answer a call to your house.

You offer advice to a custom bullet maker and they act on it.

A major fire amrs manufacturer sends you parts gratis for your ballistics experiments.

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you might just be a gun nut...
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2005, 02:58:33 PM »
If you slap on some "Hoppes" #9 before you go to church on Sunday.
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you might just be a gun nut...
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2005, 02:05:41 AM »
Quote from: BamBams
If you slap on some "Hoppes" #9 before you go to church on Sunday.
Do all of BamBams' female companions not wear Hoppes #9 as perfume to please him, ask Dali Llama? :)
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