Do you drink?
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Nando Aqui
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Used to drink recreationally, hard liquor and wine - didn't like the taste for beer.
Quit over 30 years ago, both drinking and smoking - cold turkey - (I was a heavy smoker) and now have a wine of glass with special dinners, about three times a year - tops.
REASON FOR QUITTNG: Set the proper example for my two sons. At the time, there used to be a TV ad, "Like father, like son", and that convinced me.
Besides the health advantages, quitting these habits has another great side-effect: Cheaper not to do it!
Alex
Quit over 30 years ago, both drinking and smoking - cold turkey - (I was a heavy smoker) and now have a wine of glass with special dinners, about three times a year - tops.
REASON FOR QUITTNG: Set the proper example for my two sons. At the time, there used to be a TV ad, "Like father, like son", and that convinced me.
Besides the health advantages, quitting these habits has another great side-effect: Cheaper not to do it!
Alex
I drink quite frequently. 99% of the time it is a single shot of a good Irish whiskey like Jameson or Tullamore Dew, Guiness, Heinie, or a glass of wine with dinner. I enjoy a glass of brandy from time to time when I smoke my cigars. As with anything, moderation is key. I also pack a pipe or cut a cigar about once per week. As long as I don't abuse anything, I feel no compelling reason to stay away from it. In the social circle that I run in, it is important to feel at ease and in control around such things.
I don't drink much anymore now that we have kids...maybe once or twice a year I will drink on some special occasion, like New Year's Eve.
Before kids, when I was going to drink I would divest myself of all firearms prior to doing so. Whoever was the designated driver would also become the designated CCW-holder and be the only armed person there (most of my friends and my wife did and do have CCW permits).
Before kids, when I was going to drink I would divest myself of all firearms prior to doing so. Whoever was the designated driver would also become the designated CCW-holder and be the only armed person there (most of my friends and my wife did and do have CCW permits).
Jesse H
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I can't refuse a Newcastle or Guiness...unless I'm carrying or riding.
pytron
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Ok, I must be in the vast minority here. I have 0-6 beers per week, usually one after dinner, but occassionally I have three on the weekend nights. I almost never drink in public, mainly because I'm too cheap. I don't visit many bars (where carry is illegal anyway) because I don't like smoke.
I have extremely good self control under 5 beers (I am 6'1" and weigh 210). If I am going to 4 or more (over the BAC limit for DUI and a very rare occasion), I retire the firearm. Under that, I just keep it in the holster. I have a rule that the only reason to ever touch my firearm (regardless of whether I'm drinking or not) is to remove it to put it in the safe or to defend your life. (Helps avoid printing, too, since I'm not constantly checking my piece)
To me, it is much like dry-firing. I use self-talk to keep me safe when drinking--"I am now retrieving the firearm from it's holster, being careful to keep my finger off the trigger and pointed in a safe direction". Similarly when dry-firing "I am now loading the gun with live ammunition. I will leave the gun in it's holster and not touch it..." Just as I can use the bathroom without soiling myself when I'm drinking, I can remember not to touch the firearm.
Yes, I realize that there are potential risks in drinking while carrying. Just as there are risks in being caught without a firearm three hours after your last beer.
To those who don't drink, go on you. I lived a whole year in a fraternity without drinking (me being the only non-drinker). In the end though, life for me is better with beer in moderation. Each of us makes his/her own choices.
The activity that I absolutely will not do after having a single beer - ride a motorcycle (especially since I never learned how
).
Time to go find my nomex undies...
-Pytron
I have extremely good self control under 5 beers (I am 6'1" and weigh 210). If I am going to 4 or more (over the BAC limit for DUI and a very rare occasion), I retire the firearm. Under that, I just keep it in the holster. I have a rule that the only reason to ever touch my firearm (regardless of whether I'm drinking or not) is to remove it to put it in the safe or to defend your life. (Helps avoid printing, too, since I'm not constantly checking my piece)
To me, it is much like dry-firing. I use self-talk to keep me safe when drinking--"I am now retrieving the firearm from it's holster, being careful to keep my finger off the trigger and pointed in a safe direction". Similarly when dry-firing "I am now loading the gun with live ammunition. I will leave the gun in it's holster and not touch it..." Just as I can use the bathroom without soiling myself when I'm drinking, I can remember not to touch the firearm.
Yes, I realize that there are potential risks in drinking while carrying. Just as there are risks in being caught without a firearm three hours after your last beer.
To those who don't drink, go on you. I lived a whole year in a fraternity without drinking (me being the only non-drinker). In the end though, life for me is better with beer in moderation. Each of us makes his/her own choices.
The activity that I absolutely will not do after having a single beer - ride a motorcycle (especially since I never learned how
).Time to go find my nomex undies...
-Pytron
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When I was in the Army I intermittently consumed vast amounts of alcohol. Always off duty and far away from a gun or a steering wheel. Heck, I was rarely far from the floor.
Once I became a civilian I kind of lost interest in getting plowed. Every once in a while I'll have a drink or two, but I mostly stick to stuff I really like in small quantities.
Once I became a civilian I kind of lost interest in getting plowed. Every once in a while I'll have a drink or two, but I mostly stick to stuff I really like in small quantities.
Yes I do, but don't before handling or carrying firearms. It's not that guns and alcohol don't mix, it's that ammo and alcohol don't mix.
Beren
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I generally have a glass of wine each day, maybe a half-glass. There have been periods of my life when I would single-handedly cause a trade imbalance with Puerto Rico due to all the rum I was consuming, but there were extenuating circumstances involved. If I'm going to get smashed, the guns get locked up first. If I'm "down" and plan to get smashed, the guns and ammo get locked up in separate geographic locations, "just in case."
If I'm going /out/ to get smashed, it's with friends, and we have a designated driver. None of my friends carry, however, so if I ever get rolled while drunk, I'll just have to hope for the best - and I only carry my ID + some cash on those occasions. ID is kept separate from the money. I tend to be a happy drunk, according to witnesses, and would probably invite the mugger to have drinks with us though he'd have to buy.
If I'm carrying, I generally don't drink, but have on occasion nursed a half glass of wine during the course of a two hour dinner and not felt guilty about it. (Well, the glass was full, but I only drank about half of it during the mentioned time period.)
It's been said before in this thread but it bears repeating: a man's got to know his limitations.
If I'm going /out/ to get smashed, it's with friends, and we have a designated driver. None of my friends carry, however, so if I ever get rolled while drunk, I'll just have to hope for the best - and I only carry my ID + some cash on those occasions. ID is kept separate from the money. I tend to be a happy drunk, according to witnesses, and would probably invite the mugger to have drinks with us though he'd have to buy.
If I'm carrying, I generally don't drink, but have on occasion nursed a half glass of wine during the course of a two hour dinner and not felt guilty about it. (Well, the glass was full, but I only drank about half of it during the mentioned time period.)
It's been said before in this thread but it bears repeating: a man's got to know his limitations.
Well as the people who came to the Colorado get together know, I drink Michelob. But only a few (you guys brought about a three week supply). But before the beer comes out, the guns get put away.
But only a few (you guys brought about a three week supply). But before the beer comes out, the guns get put away.shermacman
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I love to drink. Beer, red wine and Scotch. Now, I do not like to get drunk. I don't like hangovers, I don't like feeling unsteady on my feet, I am terrified of driving under the influence and I do not need any help in making myself any stooopider than I already am. But I have lots of friends and we like to party it up, to a point. Sometimes I carry, mostly I don't. The knowledge of the power of both guns and cars keeps me straight enough.
Oh, and I do like to set off fireworks...!
But I have lots of friends and we like to party it up, to a point. Sometimes I carry, mostly I don't. The knowledge of the power of both guns and cars keeps me straight enough.Oh, and I do like to set off fireworks...!
Augustwest
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Haven't since May of '92. Life's better for me that way.
bogie
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Knob Creek ain't just a machinegun shoot...
Moondancer
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Yup.
Here in Indiana, as El Tejon has said, it's legal to carry into bars and to drink while carrying. Good idea? No, but legal.
Having said that, I occasionally will have a drink while out to dinner and while carrying. Note the adjective "a". I know my limits and after 32 years of being of legal age to drink, I've reached them a time or two!
I am a firm believer in the moderation axiom, and that includes taking this both ways. But... again, I know my limits. I have went out with the intention of drinking and I don't carry. If I'm carrying, I'm not going to drink more than the one, and that will be when I'm eating something.
YMMV, but it works for me.
Here in Indiana, as El Tejon has said, it's legal to carry into bars and to drink while carrying. Good idea? No, but legal.
Having said that, I occasionally will have a drink while out to dinner and while carrying. Note the adjective "a". I know my limits and after 32 years of being of legal age to drink, I've reached them a time or two!
I am a firm believer in the moderation axiom, and that includes taking this both ways. But... again, I know my limits. I have went out with the intention of drinking and I don't carry. If I'm carrying, I'm not going to drink more than the one, and that will be when I'm eating something.
YMMV, but it works for me.
Mastrogiacomo
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I don't drink, with the occassional exception of Irish Bailey in my coffee on cold mornings -- that's it. Even then I drink it rarely because I just don't care to drink as is and it tends to give me a headache. Never do when I go out and given that I don't even drink to toast at weddings, on New Years Eve, Christmas, etc....it's never really an issue. Cappuccino is as hard as I like to go.
redneck2
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Mixing drinks with guns isn't smart...
you gotta find one with a long enough barrel so your fingers don't get wet
makes the booze taste like gunpowder or Hoppe's #9
rusts the barrels unless you wipe 'em out real well
bars I go to have them little glasses filled with them swizzle stick thingys
Jeez....you guys call rednecks dumb
you gotta find one with a long enough barrel so your fingers don't get wet
makes the booze taste like gunpowder or Hoppe's #9
rusts the barrels unless you wipe 'em out real well
bars I go to have them little glasses filled with them swizzle stick thingys
Jeez....you guys call rednecks dumb
Ala Dan
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HELL NO, or SMOKE EITHER!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
RTFM
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You know, I have a friend in Dallas who swore off alcohol. I thought it was strange, then I received my CCW.
I did the same damn thing.
When I am armed. NOPE, never have, never even wanted to.
Only at home, if it's in the safe and my wife is home.
She does not drink. If I'm alone at home, nope, won't do it.
I think in the last 3 years I can account for 2 Six packs of beer, out if the 12 beers, I probably finished 5. FWIW
RTFM
I did the same damn thing.
When I am armed. NOPE, never have, never even wanted to.
Only at home, if it's in the safe and my wife is home.
She does not drink. If I'm alone at home, nope, won't do it.
I think in the last 3 years I can account for 2 Six packs of beer, out if the 12 beers, I probably finished 5. FWIW
RTFM
Gus Dddysgrl
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I must admit I have had a couple of drinks. However with most of them I never got past the first sip. The only thing I can stand drinking the whole drink is a wine cooler, but even then I didn't like it that much. So I don't really drink.
I've never been drunk (or had a hangover) and don't plan to. I like being able to remember the things I've done. I do enough stupid things on my own without any help.
Carrying and drinking is thus not a worry since I prolly won't be drinking, but will be carrying.
I've never been drunk (or had a hangover) and don't plan to. I like being able to remember the things I've done. I do enough stupid things on my own without any help.
Carrying and drinking is thus not a worry since I prolly won't be drinking, but will be carrying.
pistolwhipped
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No. Not for years.
Theophorus
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Maybe I've skipped and skimmed the thread too quickly, but I haven't seen the term "drink" or "drinking" defined. I will carry and "drink." I will even carry after I've been "drinking." Of course for me, if I'm out, "drinking" is one or two beers. In AZ we can't take a pistol into a bar or an establishment that serves alcohol, but you better believe that I'll strap when I come out. BG's aren't gonna wait for you to relieve your system of a couple of drinks before they attack you. And that should be the primary concern--surviving the fight.
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Carlos Cabeza
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Only the really, really expensive stuff, so I'll run out of money long before there is a problem....
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