We had a skeet range but the neighbor claimed the lead was ruining his crop field so the township closed it down. I used to go a lot to a private club open to the public but they started pulling all kinds of dumb stuff like had to buy shells there and cant take hulls home at $10 per 25 I quit going. I did enjoy it a lot and I've got about 100 rounds of skeet ammo. We even asked a couple farmers if we could use a field and they said no cause of the clays.
I think im bored with shooting!!
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My interest in shooting ebbs like the tide. In the winter I am at the range nearly every weekend. In the summer maybe once a month, but summer is for long range at the farm, not the indoor range.
I spend a lot of weekday nights throughout the year reloading, making fishing rods, making knives, building remote control boats and airplanes, and customizing my firearms.
Summertime sees more fishing and gardening plus time flying my airplanes. I guess my point is diversify. Keeps you from getting burned out.
I spend a lot of weekday nights throughout the year reloading, making fishing rods, making knives, building remote control boats and airplanes, and customizing my firearms.
Summertime sees more fishing and gardening plus time flying my airplanes. I guess my point is diversify. Keeps you from getting burned out.
thomas15
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As others have said I have also had times where I step away and some of those periods have been quite a while. In all the years I really haven't had a whole lot of exposure to handguns though. About 5 years ago I started shooting at my local range on pistol night and shooting IDPA competitions. I shot IDPA from about March to October using a Glock 17 stock service pistol. Over the following winter in a moment of total insanity I picked up my first revolver that is competition worthy. I shot that gun in a local steel league the following spring-fall and did really horrible.
I think the fact that I did so bad and was basically humbled and embarrassed and humiliated made me dig in my heals. I have a small boat and lots of tackle, mountain bikes, lots of yard to take care of, I'm a volunteer firefighter and EMT but the last 2 years I have more intense with my shooting than in any other time in my life and I have been in competitions off and on for over 50 years. I honestly don't know if its because I'm stubborn, or because I found the thing I really like to do or what, but shooting revolver at steel has become a passion. I'm not a champion or a standout but I set goals and work towards them. I'm making real progress and shooting scores that 2 years ago I thought would be impossible. In my steel league my revolver is starting to outdo more than a few that are shooting semi-auto pistols with 20 round magazines. Some of these guys remember me 3 years ago shooting terrible and now I'm handling them their * with an 8 shot revolver.
I really doubt that if it were not for the fact that there are numerous matches to shoot around here and I had I not availed myself to those matches and falling in with those that compete that I would feel this way. When I go to the range I go with plans to practice a specific thing and I simulate match conditions. Just hanging up paper targets and punching holes in them with no set goal gets old. I think it is from hanging out with those that shoot way better than me is what pushes me to do better and to do better requires a lot of shooting practice and the dreaded dry-fire time. I think as humans we like to so what we are good at best, if not we work at it until we get good at it or just simply give up.
I think the fact that I did so bad and was basically humbled and embarrassed and humiliated made me dig in my heals. I have a small boat and lots of tackle, mountain bikes, lots of yard to take care of, I'm a volunteer firefighter and EMT but the last 2 years I have more intense with my shooting than in any other time in my life and I have been in competitions off and on for over 50 years. I honestly don't know if its because I'm stubborn, or because I found the thing I really like to do or what, but shooting revolver at steel has become a passion. I'm not a champion or a standout but I set goals and work towards them. I'm making real progress and shooting scores that 2 years ago I thought would be impossible. In my steel league my revolver is starting to outdo more than a few that are shooting semi-auto pistols with 20 round magazines. Some of these guys remember me 3 years ago shooting terrible and now I'm handling them their * with an 8 shot revolver.
I really doubt that if it were not for the fact that there are numerous matches to shoot around here and I had I not availed myself to those matches and falling in with those that compete that I would feel this way. When I go to the range I go with plans to practice a specific thing and I simulate match conditions. Just hanging up paper targets and punching holes in them with no set goal gets old. I think it is from hanging out with those that shoot way better than me is what pushes me to do better and to do better requires a lot of shooting practice and the dreaded dry-fire time. I think as humans we like to so what we are good at best, if not we work at it until we get good at it or just simply give up.
entropy
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I used to combine the two. It's called duck hunting.
I even become bored with that too. I'm going to start fishing here soon and see if that changes anything.
SSN Vet
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Punching holes in paper can certainly get boring...
I shot steel plates for the first time last fall and it was a hoot. IDPA or IPSC matches are a lot of fun too. Ranges that host these events often have clinics to introduce new shooters to the sport, which are followed by a miny meet.
Trying something different may just put the spark back into the sport for you.
I shot steel plates for the first time last fall and it was a hoot. IDPA or IPSC matches are a lot of fun too. Ranges that host these events often have clinics to introduce new shooters to the sport, which are followed by a miny meet.
Trying something different may just put the spark back into the sport for you.
Riomouse911
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I’ll ebb and flow with shooting; sometimes trap, sometimes rifle, sometimes revolvers...rimfires,etc.
I always return tho... and Im glad I do
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Stay safe!
I always return tho... and Im glad I do
. Stay safe!
1KPerDay
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Try black powder. Buy a motorcycle. Shoot black powder from your motorcycle.
entropy
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Or a horse, I've done that, and it isn't boring. A bow on horseback is fun, too.
find something else to do then. over the past 39 years that I have owned firearms there have been a number of years where I did not fire a single shot.
I got that feeling about 10 years ago and it never went away. Now, I force myself to shoot. Mostly offhand and some field positions the closer it gets to hunting season. Dry fire is also helpful.
These days shooting for me is like doing my cardio and push ups, and sticking to my diet. It's something that needs to be done or else the skill diminishes, and I consider it a health issue.
These days shooting for me is like doing my cardio and push ups, and sticking to my diet. It's something that needs to be done or else the skill diminishes, and I consider it a health issue.
Reloadron
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Right up there with shooting is my love for riding my motorcycle. I was never drawn to black powder though. Bought and sold quite a few black powder guns when we had the shop but never really got into the black powder shooting. The timing is bad up here in Ohio for buying a bike but you could try that and if you decide you don't like motorcycles you can sell it to me for about half of what you paid for it.
Ron
As long as you give me the other half of what I paid for it as a gift!Right up there with shooting is my love for riding my motorcycle. I was never drawn to black powder though. Bought and sold quite a few black powder guns when we had the shop but never really got into the black powder shooting. The timing is bad up here in Ohio for buying a bike but you could try that and if you decide you don't like motorcycles you can sell it to me for about half of what you paid for it.
Ron
I'm not a BP fan either. I own a muzzleloader for hunting and despise the thing. One min it shoots lights out and then buckshot and all the cleaning. Its like it has to be 3 shots dirty to shoot well but more than 6 its terrible!
Not selling equipment is key during a break in a hobby not counting the need to put food on the table or keep a shelter over one's head. It is more expensive to get back involved the second time as it was the first if one has sold off the equipment.
I always seem to circle around back to previous hobbies over time.
I got back into amateur road racing a while ago after a 20 year break. I still had all the off track equipment that I needed to operate the race car even though some of it was very race specific. No big expenses, except the car and trailer, to get back on the track.
Same with shooting. I've taken several breaks along the way but all the stuff is there for when I pick it back up again. Breaks are good to refresh ones mind and attitude.
gbran
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Send me a list of all your guns and what you'd take for them.
Alte Schule
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I've had two hobby's most of my life.Collecting "pinned" S&W revolvers and shooting (I'll count that as one) and buying then accessorizing Corvettes and Mustangs with after market turbos. superchargers and exhaust systems. Sometimes keeping them for myself or my brother but eventually selling them and moving on to the next project.
In 2006 I was diagnosed with stage three kidney disease which required me, after 25 years of dealing with criminal types, to take an desk job. I lost interest in everything. Quit shooting and working on cars, my brother was doing most of the work anyway, and went into a four year funk. Then something happened. My grandson turned eight and wanted a .22. With the permission of his father I broke out my old early 60's vintage Glenfield .22 rifle and we started going to the range. We progressed to other firearms and he eventually joined the local 4H Shooting Club shooting clays. He's 16 now and has his own Ruger 1911 and is my usual range partner.
My firearm "spark" rekindled I got back into collecting and got a C&R license. Now retired I spend two or three days a week searching for the elusive pistol or rifle, traveling to gun shows and pretty much enjoying myself in the company of others that share the same interest. Summer break starts in two weeks so my grandson and I will, hopefully, be getting some good range time. He has an interest in sports and girls so I may take a back seat now and then. That's OK though I was young once......
In 2006 I was diagnosed with stage three kidney disease which required me, after 25 years of dealing with criminal types, to take an desk job. I lost interest in everything. Quit shooting and working on cars, my brother was doing most of the work anyway, and went into a four year funk. Then something happened. My grandson turned eight and wanted a .22. With the permission of his father I broke out my old early 60's vintage Glenfield .22 rifle and we started going to the range. We progressed to other firearms and he eventually joined the local 4H Shooting Club shooting clays. He's 16 now and has his own Ruger 1911 and is my usual range partner.
My firearm "spark" rekindled I got back into collecting and got a C&R license. Now retired I spend two or three days a week searching for the elusive pistol or rifle, traveling to gun shows and pretty much enjoying myself in the company of others that share the same interest. Summer break starts in two weeks so my grandson and I will, hopefully, be getting some good range time. He has an interest in sports and girls so I may take a back seat now and then. That's OK though I was young once......
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Just take a break and have fun with a different hobby.
rayatphonix
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My wife & I bought an old farm and built a house. Between my full time job, farm maintenance, property improvements, putting the finishing touches on the house, building a barn, garden, etc it seems I can never get everything accomplished I want to. It makes the time I can spend shooting precious and I enjoy it now more than ever. When I had more spare time shooting sometimes felt like an obligation. Now it’s a time I feel I can dedicate just to myself. Having a life with more activities than time reminded me that time passes too quickly. It’s taught me to enjoy all my tasks, many of which I used to dread.
I am kind of in a lull as it were. The last couple of years my firearms purchases have dropped way off. I think I bought one piece last year and my wife and mother-in-law bought it for me for Christmas. As someone else said, other things in life pop up. A son got married, a daughter had a baby which I am having to help take care of, wife changed jobs, lots of turmoil. The desire will return, might just take a bit.
For about 14 yrs after I retired from the Army I was white hot about shooting but got tired of all the tactical stuff, seemingly neverending political talk by gun folk and sold almost all of my firearms which was a considerable pile of handguns and longuns, getting into a couple of other hobbies. I had even sold guns for a couple of shops for half dozen years. Met this really smart guy who is about half my age but as enthusiastic as I was back in the day. We occasionally shoot saltine crackers at 200 yrds with .22LR rifles, each have more PCP air rifles than we need (new gun related hobby) which allow shooting without disturbing the neighbors or having to find a range with those neat lead dust collectors that are legal most places for air rifles without NFA paperwork with less potential collateral damage. Now I am amped up looking for a decent bolt action 200 yrd cracker .22lr rifle to go along with my fancified 10/22, Savage Varmint .17HMR and my single shot Savage .223. Even looking at handguns a bit again.
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