Do you qualify as a gun enthusiast?

I did edit out about 40% of this list so you could read the best ones!

You might be a (Gun Nut) enthusiast if. . .

If you consider the money you lose on your frequent trades as "entertainment money", 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 have a separate safe for your pre-ban magazines, 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 have a stockpile of rifle cases and gun rugs "because you never can have too many of these", you might be a gun nut.

If you forget birthdays and anniversaries but remember the production figures for the pre-64 Model 70 Winchester.

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

If you spend three nights up till 2AM in a row trying to get the finish on that stock just right.

If you drive over fifty miles to buy anything gun related.

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

Your standard Sunday-afternoon question to guys selling surplus ammo at gun shows is "How much for all of it, so you don't have to lug it home?"

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.

You could identify on sight all rifle bolt-faces as in - "that's a Ruger, that's a Savage, that's a Winchester .."

If you can identify gunshots from faraway as to caliber, whether from a rifle or pistol.

If you consider concealed carry every time you shop for clothes.

If you buy a gun safe much larger than you think you'll ever need and still fill it up.

If you need a second gun safe.

If you need yet another safe for all of the ammunition.

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...

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 visit a friends private range 150 miles away more often then 3/4 the local members, 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've ever run out of film photographing your guns for insurance purposes, you just might be a gun nut.

If you've ever photographed your entire gun collection, but "insurance purposes" never entered your mind, 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.

You just buy a type of gun (say a Win Mod. 70) you love the rifle and go out and buy every Mod 70 but in different calibers.

You fall in love with a caliber (say 243) and go a buy every different manufactured rifle in that caliber.

If you have a library filled with back issues of American Rifleman, Handloader, and Gun Report magazines, and you bought a computer to index them on.

If all your computer passwords are firearms related, you just might be a gun nut.

If you gave your daughter a brick of .22s for Christmas, you just might be a gun nut.

If you have three guns in the same model and caliber, you just might be a gun nut.

If your answer to the recent thread, "How many guns do you need?" is, "How many do you have room for in your house?"

You do all metric-to-English unit conversions starting with the phrase, "Well...thirty caliber is .308 inches and 7.62mm, so..."

Your personalized license plates read COLT AUTO, FNFAL, M1911A1, M2HB, 762 51, or GLOCK.

You might be a gun nut if ...your reloading bench is made of better wood than your bedroom set.

You practice your draw when walking along a path at work and scare someone (unarmed - like air guitar)

If you bought a Russian SKS so you could shoot DCM matches and qualify for an M1 Garand, 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.

You just might be a gun nut, when you look at a beautiful sun-set, and all you can think about is how much sight adjustment you'd have to make in the fluky light!

You just might be a gun nut, when your idea of the perfect vacation is two bug-filled weeks at Camp Perry!

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

You just might be a gun nut when you measure the passage of seasons by which rifle you're loading for!

You can't remember the plot of the last movie you saw, but you can name the model, caliber and finish of every firearm in the movie.

You reflexively count the number of shots fired by every weapon in the film, then gripe to your friends when the actors exceed the magazine capacities.

Your friends refuse to see ANY films containing firearms with you.

You're a gun nut if you bought 5000 5.56 bullet heads because you are afraid that the ban will go through and you'll have to shoot soft points through your AR.

You shout out gun names makes and calibers during every movie you go and see.

Every time you see a structure you wonder what kind of penetration your favorite round will have on it.

You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full gun case.

All your shirts say things like HK, Colt Mossberg, and all your hats have names of ammunition manufacturers.

You get blisters on your fingers from loading magazines.

You've ever bragged about the size of the groups your semi-auto throws with its empty brass.

You notice that every time you look at a digital clock it reads 1:17, 2:19, 2:20, 2:22, 2:23, 2:43, 2:57, 3:03, 3:08, 3:57, 4:04, 4:16, 4:44, 4:58, 5:56 or any of about fifty-odd calibere you instantly recognize.

After realizing that you DO own one of every caliber, you find that you should have at least TWO of each so that they can "share ammo." This explains how you consider your Anschutz 2013 and your Mitchell AK-22 to be "Companion Guns." And your Churchill side-by-side .410 with the fancy English walnut stock to be a companion to your "Thunder 5" revolver! An your Barret .50 BMG to be the companion to your Desert Eagle .50AE...

If you buy a gun that is a duplicate of one you already have because the original one might break someday....

If you ever bought two brands of the same weight and type of bullet, just to see if one "shot better"...

If you read the sports section, just for the gun ads...

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I definetly qualify as a gun nut.
1. Almost every conversation I have with co-workers is gun related.
2. When several people are having a conversation, and I join in, in less than 5 minutes, it's going to be about guns.
3. I rather look at gun magazines than any of those hound-and-horny celebrity and entertainment mags everybody else is reading.
4. I stayed up all night one time just to polish the grips on my Ruger Old Army so I can get the rich reddish color that I wanted.
5. I can take apart ANY Single Action revolver or milspec 1911 auto, and put them back again without even thinking, yet I don't even know how to operate a MP3 player.
6. During boring rides on the subway I find myself thinking..."Hmmm....... I wonder how famous I would be if I necked down a .50 BMG casing to accept a .30-06 Springfield slug and then market that off as a new, ultra velocity varmint busting ammo?"

............And many many more.

I think I qualify:)

I must be a gun nut because I know that An your Barret .50 BMG to be the companion to your Desert Eagle .50AE... doesn't work because .50 BMG and .50AE are two different rounds.

Yup, I'm defintely a "gun nut".If it weren't for the wife keeping me in line, I'd be $250,000 in debt ,living under an overpass, in a cardboard box, surrounded by 30 full gun safes.... :o:D

Well, I do have two very big gun safes........

Yesit'sloaded and I might be gun nuts because we both noticed a caliber error in the "you might be a gun nut if..." thread!:)

Are you watching me? How do you know all of that info?

I notice the time every day at either 10:22 or 3:57.

You have brass or ammo in a caliber for which you don't have a gun

You have brass or ammo in a caliber for which you don't have a gun

Hey, I might reload it someday!

You have brass or ammo in a caliber for which you don't have a gun

Or, um in three calibers for which we don't have a gun... :uhoh:

ETA: and one gauge...I'm not gonna throw out 16 gauge hulls!

I have to plead guilty on many of those counts! :uhoh:

Hokkmike pondered:

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

That's just sad!!!! 36-32-34?!?!?! :neener:

Oh, and they missed my personal event...every time I watch the news, and the weather comes on, I watch for the barometer reading...every time it hits 30.06 I think "Springfield!!!!".

Yes, I am an enthsiast. :)

Doc2005

I think I'm a gun nut because the page numbers 223, 300, 303, 308, and 454 have Remington, Win. Mag, British, Winchester, and Cassul written next to them in my American History Textbook

You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full gun case.


Pure genius.

You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full gun case.


Pure genius.

Under those criteria, I do not qualify as a gun nut.

Guilty as charged. :)

(in my best keanu reeves voice)


WHOA!!

If 30.06 or 8X57 to you is just as appealing as 36-32-34
It's even better when your 36-32-34 is holding a 30.06.

"You're a gun nut if you bought 5000 5.56 bullet heads because you are afraid that the ban will go through and you'll have to shoot soft points through your AR."

Well it could ya know:eek:

"You're a gun nut if you bought 5000 5.56 bullet heads because you are afraid that the ban will go through and you'll have to shoot soft points through your AR."

Well it could ya know
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You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full gun case.


OMG, I did it two months ago . . . I said I was going shooting when I was really going buying. I am evil. EVIL. :evil:

I do qualify for a few of those.

I must be a gun nut. A scary number of those things listed I do, and it has given me several new ideas. Also - today when I went out to mail those letters and wash the car and drop off the dry cleaning - I stopped at TWO gun shops (make that THREE with the one I went to on the way to work) but no good deals so didn't buy anything.

Yeah, I'm a gun nut, aka enthusiast.:D I have a whole pile of 357 and 40 S&W brass laying around, several thousand peices, I'm always looking forward to my next reloading night, I shoot every weekend, and I love to talk guns all the time. I'm also a reloading junkie, always have a desire to do it, keep spending money to feed the habit.:D

Yup im guilty....and proud of it!

I notice the time every day at either 10:22 or 3:57. I notice the same thing. I also notice 4:40, 3:18, and 3:08 (440 and 318 Mopar engines :) ) and 3:08 is my room number and .308 caliber too :D

Yes I am.Re:English walnut stocks,the walnut is French,English has never been up to scratch.

3. I rather look at gun magazines than any of those hound-and-horny celebrity and entertainment mags everybody else is reading.

Dude, I qualify as a gun nut and all, but I would rather punch myself repeatedly in the throat than read that crap.

I think that most people are one form of gun enthusiasts or another,because we all share a common interest in guns.However there's the recreational shooters,the serious competition shooters and practical/combat shooters.Being an enthusiast is a healthy thing to do,because it's about the love of the gun and the sport,like any other sports around and unfortunately we have morons amongst us,who are quite emotionally immature and who become enthusiasts,because they're weak-minded and like guns,because it gives them a sense of power.I've met some right plonkers or 'muppets' at some shoots before and it angered me,because these types had similar traits to Hamilton and Ryan,who were mass murderers,who used legal weaponry to murder many and got us our famous or infamous,bans.It's these types of 'so-called enthusiasts' that should stay away from gun clubs,because they are not mentally-fit to join.
A good example is the freak who apparently killed Jill Dando,because he joined Kensington and Chelsea Pistol Club in 1982-and he said that he was called Steve Majors(Lee Majors and Steve Austin.) and his occupation was an SAS stuntman.He later changed it to Thomas or Tommy Palmer,the hero of the 1980 Iranian Embassy Seige-whose Mp5 jammed and whom shot an Iraqi terrorist in the head,with his Hi-Power.

...If you always log onto THR 59 times a day.

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


Every year.
Birthday, christmas..
I always say the same thing:
"Besides!? What is that supposed to mean?"
"I guess I'll settle for socks then."

If you have reloading manuals next to your Tom Clancy book on the night stand...

The "Companion Gun" idea is gonna end up costing me SO MUCH.

If you are contemplating a 31-30 wildcat to fill the performance gap between your 30-30 and your 32 Special.

If your 44 Special handloads produce more velocity than your 44 Magnum handloads because you want to see what you can get out of a 44 Special but you want to baby your S&W 29-2.

You have a revolver that's widely available in 454 Casull chambered in 45 Colt because you want to see how hot you can run a 45 Colt.

You have a 9 mm revolver to use up the 9 mm handloads that won't feed in your self loader.

You have to be careful to segregate 44 Special or 45 Colt handloads because some of your revolvers will take a hot load and some won't.

Then I m a gun nut I do most of them.
But you did miss one if you have bought 357 ammo and then bought a S&W to match the ammo then you could be a gun nut
Maybe I m the only one that does that

When first married I lived in a small multiplex. Sometimes, I would see my neighbor take out the trash in a hurry and rush to their outdoor storage closet to get in a few practice strokes with his putter or club. Once, he hit a ball and cracked my windshield. I thought he was a nut.

Now, every time I go through the garage I'm tempted to pull one of my firearms from the safe to admire it. Did I mention I ran air ducts to my garage for heating and cooling? You know, for the children.

Yes. I've got it bad.

...If you always log onto THR 59 times a day.

who logs out?

Now, every time I go through the garage I'm tempted to pull one of my firearms from the safe to admire it. Did I mention I ran air ducts to my garage for heating and cooling?

Sounds familiar, I also added an insulated garage door. Cars in garage, no way it is my gun/reloading/woodworking shop

"6. During boring rides on the subway I find myself thinking..."Hmmm....... I wonder how famous I would be if I necked down a .50 BMG casing to accept a .30-06 Springfield slug and then market that off as a new, ultra velocity varmint busting ammo?"

Hey, careful there...that's getting awfully close to my patent-pending ".17-50BMG Improved!"

Or its big brother the '".17-20mm Ultra Mag Improved!"

The "Chipmunk Youth Rifle" version of that one is still in development. :what:

-Sam

You have brass or ammo in a caliber for which you don't have a gun

Not any more..............

I am truly sick , I've been keeping my brass since 1986 and I still dont own a reloading setup (BUT I MIGHT ONE DAY!) . BTW , a few months back I bought 10MM dies to justify buy a 10MM pistol (er ...well 2 of them now)

Im a gun nut.
Cant watch a movie without constantly making comments about guns
and how they are used.
And I got T-shirts with gun name on them.....actually I got a Ruger coffee mug right beside my keyboard right now.....
And these are just two....many of those listed fits my profile...

You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full gun case.
:Dive done this lol:D

This weekend I ordered a red dot scope for an AR i hope to own one day. It's into the safe for now. I guess I qualify.

The wife just told me that the next time I leave the house with a gun case, she is checking to see if it is empty.Darn you Hokkmike, darn you!

"You're a gun nut if you bought 5000 5.56 bullet heads because you are afraid that the ban will go through and you'll have to shoot soft points through your AR."
Bullet Heads!!!!! What kind of "gun guy' calls them Bullet Heads??

You're a gun nut if you figure out a way to turn an old cofee table into a reloading bench :)

What else... oh, if you've got a full time day job, a part time night job, you go to school, and you STILL find time to go shooting at least once a week.

uh, folks we're on our gun forum at 1 in the morning. yes, we would appear to be enthusists. *grin* (now i'm going to bed)

How about "Stock parts for guns you do not own".
I've got a drawer full, you never know.

or your torn about buying your own gun safe cause you filled the 'family' safe- knowing that you won't be able to lug it back up the flight of stairs in 2 years when you move out.

own brass for a caliber i don't have a firearm for? molds, brass, jacketed bullets, and mags. . . i may be young but i realized i'll probably at some point try to buy one anyway- so if i see a sale and can afford it get it now.

or you buy firearms of similar make and appearance, hoping to fool those you live with into thinking they are the same. . . .

Meh. Only 13 are applicable to me at the moment. Supposing I were married, had more money (oxy moron, I know), and had a more available space, I would be over 20.

I qualify on more than a few of those counts.:)
I'm happy in our little world.

Didn't read the list... but I am sure I qualify... for better or worse... :evil:

I guess I am an Enthusiast - just got a Christmas Card from my FFL!