Some times I wonder why I even keep my firearms.

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Seriously! I have no REAL friends. I like to shoot and collect but, I'm 62 years old. All my friends are dead or have moved away. Sorta seems to me that if TSHTF, what the hell would I do? LOL.What is a 62 year old geezer gonna do?, REALLY? OH TO BE 35 AGAIN.:(
 
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I'm kinda in the same boat. I'm 69, have two fine daughters and sons-in-law but no grandchildren. I've started paring down my gun collection to those I still actually use, but some have sentimental value. If the SHTF, I'm too old and crippled to run, but not to shoot. They'll find me dead on top of a pile of empty brass! ;)
 
I’ve got a plan for your days...

Wake up and head to McDs for a cheap senior coffee and free used newspaper. Watch TV. For lunch head on down to the senior center for the $2 lunch meal and bingo after - lots of fellow miserables with whom to share gripes. Don’t worry, dinner is not far off at 330pm! You can kill time on the way at the local gun shop - make sure to talk about the good old days, how men were tougher, and how much millennials are the scum of the earth. Head home to watch the local news at 5. National news at 530 and local news again at 6. Then...it’s WHEEL OF FORTUNE!!!! See how good Pat and Vanna look? They’re older than you! Head to bed at 8pm and do it all again the next morning at 6am.

Remember - no caffeine after lunch! Don’t forget your various pills that keep your ticker ticking and mind from slipping!
 
Early 50's no kids, so not concerned about 'who gets what whenever'

Any real "SHTF" scenario is pretty much a joke to me as I have no desire to live in a 'mob rules' type of world. (Y'a'll can live in a cave and pair up with a goat or 2,,,,, not me!!! LMAO!!!)
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Life's a journey and I refuse to worry about sections of the road ahead of me that I cannot currently see,,,,,,,,
 
I get a big kick out of "What's in your bug out bag" and TSHTF threads. Really? Where you going to go that beats where you are? At least you are familiar with your surrounding if you stay where you are. Live off the land? Maybe for a few days and then you are going to be up the creek without a boat, much less a paddle and surrounded by people in the same shape.

I'll complete my eighty first trip around the sun in a few weeks. I still have a friend or two limping around and three generations of family close by so life is good as is my health. I just got back from a range trip and have date next week with a great grand daughter for another. Life is good but you have to kind of work at making it that way in your later years.
 
Audie Murphy said:
Seriously! I have no REAL friends. I like to shoot and collect but, I'm 62 years old. All my friends are dead or have moved away. Sorta seems to me that if TSHTF, what the hell would I do? LOL.What is a 62 year old geezer gonna do?, REALLY? OH TO BE 35 AGAIN.:(
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I'm your friend, and I assure you I'm real - I don't just exist on the internet.:)
I'm also 70, 8 years older than you, and don't feel I've reached "geezerhood" yet. Unless being a "geezer" means getting ticked off at a gun company every once in a while because they list a gun on their website that they're not really building. I won't go into it, but this time it's Ruger that's listing a gun I want on their website that they're not really building. But that's happened to me before with other gun companies, and even at 70 years old, I figure it will happen to me again. That is, I'll see a gun on some gun company's website that strikes my fancy, I'll try to find it for sale somewhere, only to find out that, unlike myself, it only exists on the internet.
Like I say, I'm ticked off at Ruger right now. But I'll get over it in a week or two, because in a "week or two" some other gun will have struck my fancy.:D
BTW, I don't know much about that "SHTF" stuff. I've never bought any guns for that.:uhoh:
 
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I'm your friend, and I assure you I'm real - I don't just exist on the internet.:)
I'm also 70, 8 years older than you, and don't feel I've reached "geezerhood" yet. Unless being a "geezer" means getting ticked off at a gun company every once in a while because they list a gun on their website that they're not really building. I won't go into it, but this time it's Ruger that's listing a gun I want on their website that they're not really building. But that's happened to me before with other gun companies, and even at 70 years old, I figure it will happen to me again. That is, I'll see a gun on some gun company's website that strikes my fancy, I'll try to find it for sale somewhere, only to find out that, unlike myself, it only exists on the internet.
Like I say, I'm ticked off at Ruger right now. But I'll get over it in a week or two, because in a "week or two" some other gun will have struck my fancy.:D
BTW, I don't know much about that "SHTF" stuff. I've never bought any guns for that.:uhoh:
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Pops lived to 83 and about a a year and a half before he passed he was still carrying rolls of tar paper up the ladder to us on the roof.
The last of his "old" friends died off in the mid 1990's (the oldest still vaguely remembered when Az became a state). He had friends that were a third his age that went with us shooting and fishing. There is hope.
 
Audie Murphy said:
Seriously! I have no REAL friends. I like to shoot and collect but, I'm 62 years old. All my friends are dead or have moved away. Sorta seems to me that if TSHTF, what the hell would I do? LOL.What is a 62 year old geezer gonna do?, REALLY? OH TO BE 35 AGAIN.:(
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I would not let this get to you. If you join DoubleGun BBS at 62 you will be considered among the young guys there.
 
Audie Murphy said:
Sorta seems to me that if TSHTF, what the hell would I do?
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I'lI assume you have a decent collection of working firearms, and that you also reload and have a decent supply of ammunition and components.

So here's my answer: Recruit young people, arm them, teach them, train them, create your own private army ......and make them cook for you and stuff! ;)
 
Audie Murphy said:
Seriously! I have no REAL friends. I like to shoot and collect but, I'm 62 years old. All my friends are dead or have moved away. Sorta seems to me that if TSHTF, what the hell would I do? LOL.What is a 62 year old geezer gonna do?, REALLY? OH TO BE 35 AGAIN.:(
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Well, ya could wait a couple years and then be 64 like me.
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Besides, some of us "Old Guys" know stuff... :)
 
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I get a big kick out of "What's in your bug out bag" and TSHTF threads. Really? Where you going to go that beats where you are? At least you are familiar with your surrounding if you stay where you are. Live off the land? Maybe for a few days and then you are going to be up the creek without a boat, much less a paddle and surrounded by people in the same shape.

I'll complete my eighty first trip around the sun in a few weeks. I still have a friend or two limping around and three generations of family close by so life is good as is my health. I just got back from a range trip and have date next week with a great grand daughter for another. Life is good but you have to kind of work at making it that way in your later years.
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You 60 year old kids, sheesh! Everyone gets a little depressed every once in a while. Find something to do other than looking at gun web sites, go out and actually shoot for instance. Figure out a project to do everyday.

I'm almost 10 years older than you and still riding my motorcycles, shooting, camping, dirt riding, etc. The trick is to not get stuck in the house, get your butt out and do things, then you won't have time to get down.
 
I am 73.
I have guns and still like to shoot for recreation, competition and self defense readiness.
I have friends. They like to shoot, too.
Most are younger. So what?
 
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