Addiction or bad habit.

[lightman]

Now that I'm retired I do about the same thing. I'll make a pot of coffee and browse the forums that I belong to. To me, its like others that read the paper. Now if hunting season is open I'll go a week or few without being on the computer. When I was working it was an evening thing.

 

[Speedo66]

Retired, so 6-7AM or so before the 2 mile dog walk it's the NY Times, THR, and ADVRider, a motorcycle adventure riding site. Pop in to THR later in the day, also.

Addicted? Like someone else said, I could stop, if I wanted to. lol

 

[BWS]

Early morning with coffee here as well.

But also after shooting or loading...... which is pert near, every day. My loading room is just so durn relaxing. Hit the radio button,do some dryfire practice out the window,work on cast rifle rifle loads.Sharing with folks on here just extends or bolsters all that.

 

[GAF]

I have a morning routine that includes coming here , drinking a couple of cups of coffee and moving on with the remains of my day.

 

[stonebuster]

The forum is infested with Boomers i guess. My morning routine is shower, cheerios, coffee, work.

Another Boomer here, and my routine used to be like yours. I like my new routine better. Now it's up at 5am, shower, make coffee, walk dog, feed dog, feed the wood stove go to computer starting with THR. May through November I substitute "drive down to boat yard and go fishing" for "feed wood stove and sit at computer." Not an addiction, more a habit but not a bad one.

 

[doubleh]

I'm a Before Boomers and do much the same thing as the OP. It's cold outside early in the morning and since I don't have to go out in the cold I don't. I can get by without the daily dose of THR but it's entertaining, interesting, and I learn something now and then. I'm dang sure not going to waste my time on TV news and talk shows.

 

[fireside44]

Coffee, feed dogs, let em out, thr. I can hunt and browse thr at the same time I ain't even gotta leave the house. Just found out I got a few more days to fill the freezer...

 

[Captcurt]

I check the forum several times a day on my lap top when I am home. I don't use my phone for THR. Don't have much signal at home and none on the farm that I hunt unless I am on top of the main ridge.

 

[Ignition Override]

Much better than wasting thousands of dollars on ponies, casinos and "t***y bars (strip clubs)".

A secondary addiction is to scan the ever-changing selection on Armslist.
New comment, at 2258, 1/1/20---YouTube music from the 70's and 80's is also incurable.

 

[Armored farmer]

My day(off season) starts about 6am with me making a pot of coffee, turning on RFD tv for the ag news.
Youversion daily bible reading app on my tablet
CBOT grain markets on my tablet
THR on the tablet.

Then it's out to the shop to work on a project, or haul grain, or make decisions about 2020 crop year........and another cup of coffee.

 

[JulietTango]

Youversion daily bible reading app on my tablet

+1

 

[TikkaShooter]

daily bible reading app on my tablet

I'm retired, so I get up any where from 05:30 to 07:15. I take the Pitts out, then feed them and after that, I read the Bible. Where I find peace. I enjoy watching the sun rise or the rain falling.
Everyone needs to find peace within; the question is where do you find it.

 

[Trey Veston]

The forum is infested with Boomers i guess. My morning routine is shower, cheerios, coffee, work.

I think most firearms forums are full of a similar makeup of demographics; 60% are between 30 and 55 years old, with 20% 18 to 30, and 20% 55 and older.

If you go to castboolits.com, then it is different. Probably 80% of members are 55 and older with most in their 70's. Tons of wisdom and information, but their "pistol" forum is 98% talking about things I have no interest in such as wheel guns in obscure calibers or converting various wheel guns to even more obscure calibers.

I once asked if they could create a sub-forum for semi-autos and self-defense pistols and was shouted down for being an uppity young whippersnapper, lol. And I'm 51!

 

[theotherwaldo]

I open my public library, get everything up and running, then open THR and sip coffee while waiting for the patrons to roll in... .

 

[WestKentucky]

In the winter when I can’t do much else I frequent the forum a lot more than times when I am more free to go and do stuff. Since I don’t have time to go to the nearest range and shoot, don’t have a good place to hunt, and it’s too cold on the water to go fishing I sit in my recliner and read what y’all are doing.

 

[Bfh_auto]

For me, it is a gun related form that keeps my mind off the fact that I only burned 4 pounds if gun powder last year. 2 were pistol powder, but it's less than a quarter of normal.
Having a toddler and a crawler keeps you from shooting much.
Sure is worth it though.

 

[Bush Pilot]

I finished up Patrick McManis', HOW I GOT THIS WAY. in my blind Saturday. Didn't see a deer. They probably heard me laughing.

Off topic, I knew Pat, he was one of the most genuine souls you'd ever meet.We didn't live very far from each other. RIP Pat

 

[Arkansas Paul]

My morning routine consists of hitting the snooze button so many times I have to shower in a frenzy and ends with me screeching to a halt at 7:59 in front of my office.

I'm a night owl. Hate mornings.

 

[adcoch1]

Night owl here, and I chase my two youngest for a living, so lots of time to pop on here and keep my imaginative brain alive between kids books and picking the others up from school. I really enjoy my "addiction", lots of good people on here to talk to...

 

[GAF]

I see ice fishing for the remains of my day, but I came here first.

 

[Thibaut]

I am pretty much addicted to The High Road. I consider it a positive addiction, for the most part. I have many friends addicted to Facebook. It was not my cup of tea. I tend to gravitate to a general group of people on THR. Even though I don't know them in person; who they are and what they have to say is of value to me. It has been a learning ground, as well. I don't take part in many discussions because I don't really understand what they are talking about and have nothing to contribute but I find the back and forth interesting, nevertheless.

It is a good place and I thank you.

 

[otisrush]

I'm a "young boomer". Born in 61 so at the tail end of the Boomers. Retired.

I visit THR multiple times per day. I definitely do so as part of my morning routine. And also it's part of my routine before I go to bed. Frequently I'll do a quick gander during the day.

Not only are the people here great and the depth of knowledge astounding, but I'm finding that with frequent visits, I pick up on things I likely wouldn't have encountered through my normal firearm experiences. A few weeks ago I was at the range with a friend and he had an unexpected issue with some of his reloads. He was really perplexed and we were talking about what might be the cause. I'd seen enough postings on similar behavior in the Reloading forum I said "My theory is X. When you get home measure Y." He emailed me a few hours later "You were right!"

I love reading through the postings here and getting a deeper understanding of so many different aspects of firearm ownership and usage.

 

[beeenbag]

seems like coffee and THR go hand in hand. I will do the same thing but I also use THR to read myself to sleep each night. I don't generally post at night but I will find a fairly technical type of post and read until I go out.

 

[LaneP]

THR has already saved me money. I was about to buy two optics mounting rails for my Ruger MkIII's when someone posted that the pistols come from Ruger with mounts. I've had mine for 15 years so I went down and dug through my pistol boxes until I found the one's they were bought in. Sure enough inside the box in zip lock bags were the Ruger-supplied rail mounts I was about to buy. Thanks THR!

 

[Sniper66]

Yep...guilty of frequent THR cruising. I've learned a lot from you guys out there and have made some friends. Newspapers have become propaganda rags, so don't read them much any more.