Any other occasional shooters? (Homebodies)

[The_Next_Generation]

Like others, I try and shoot once or twice per month during school months. Then during breaks it usually ends up about once every 4 or 5 days

 

[Zach S]

Homebody here as well. I work full time and then some, have three vehicles that have well over 800k (collectively), and I'm a single dad. My little one gets most of my time out of work, and my cars get enough time to keep them running (or almost running).

I normally try to shoot every other weekend, when Nanny and Papaw have my little one. Doesn't always happen due to one of my cars need this or that on my one day off.

Due to the rise in ammo costs, I don't get as much centerfire in as I'd like, but thankfully I have a few .22s and rimfire is still cheap.

I miss living in the sticks, where I could take my .22 pistol out back and shoot my spinner. I'd try to shoot it back down while it was spinning up. I've tried many times. Succeeded once...

 

[bhk]

I can take four steps from my Lazy Boy and be out shooting .22s at the bullet trap outside my front door. Another 50 steps and I can be at my shooting bench shooting centerfires. Yet it seems I do a little less of this every year. I am over 60 now, enjoy owning my guns more than ever, yet find myself needing to shoot them less. I still shoot often, but expend many rounds fewer each time. Maybe because it is so easy.

I still hunt way more than most folks too, but it seems to be a little less each year. Hunting used to be a way to escape the world of work. Now I am retired and live in the woods. What is to escape from?

 

[jj1962hemi]

Hey Guys. I'm half-a-homebody. I work a lot and, now that my girls are in their late teens and I have more time, I joined a skeet club (2009). It's 45 minutes from home. I try to get to the Club twice a month (about six months a year) in good weather and here and there when the winter weather (midwest) gives us a respite. I am more of an accumulator than a collector. I like the Club as much for the socializing with "gun guys" as anything. Where I work, most people don't chat about shooting sports and it can be a conversation stopper.

Regarding non-shotgun shooting, I get to the indoor (pistol) range about six times per year. It's loud, tight, and expensive. It's also always crowded and not a place to relax. I hope to retire with enough property to shoot on it (like my man Hickock45...see Youtube) or in proximity to an outdoor range.

I don't own a handgun I haven't fired, but I own a few centerfire rifles I haven't fired yet. It's hard to do around here without making a day trip.

All that said, I have coveted guns since I was walking and have owned them for 25 years. I like old guns with history associated with them, both from my dad, grandpa and uncles and from military surplus, etc. I fancy myself an old school guy born in a time that I don't appreciate, but I know some of that is just the rose-colored-glasses hindsighted view of history.

Everybody's welcome here and that's one of the strengths of THR.

JJ

 

[HOWARD J]

I used to do a lot of shooting
Rifle in summertime only--the ranges keep getting farther away each year---45 miles is
the closest now.
Pistol range at a gun shop only 10 miles--summer & winter.
Old age & sending a grandkid to college cuts real good into any shooting.
Don't try it--you won't like it.

 

[Serenity]

I don't think I would like an indoor range: ours is out in the hills and absolutely beautiful. And quiet (except for the gunshots, lol). Rarely is anyone else there, and if they are they are all very friendly. It probably doesn't hurt that I box up our brass and give it away, or leave it in the shelter if no one is there

 

[Derry 1946]

Add me to the list of people who would shoot more often if a good range were closer, and if it were not so expensive. I get out a few times a year, as has been said above, to make sure all the guns work and to make sure I can still hit the targets at all.

 

[ShawnC]

My New Year's resolution is to hit the range at least once a month.

Ooh. New thread idea.