Guns and other hobbies

Stickjockey · Jan 20, 2004

ChiefPilot-

RV-6A? Sweet!

Aside from guns, I like to:

read (science fiction and history, mostly)

fly, when I have the cash

and someday I'm going to rebuild one of these:

mustang45 · Jan 20, 2004

I just do the one thing that I really enjoy. I feel lucky to have found a hobby that I always find so interesting. I have been known to snow ski a few times a year (but I usually have my gun with me). I used to fish like a madman. Does that count?

How the hell do you fish like a madman? Well, at least you don't hunt like a madman.

I like shooting pool too. I have a pool table, which is kinda cool. The best part is that I have a shotgun mounted underneath of it a long with flash lights.

One thing I haven't done much is snowboarding. I am ok at it, but it is one of the hobby that really take a lot of preparation time and the actual hobby part is very short. It is also a place where it is hard to carry. I wonder if anyone ever carry a gun to ski resort. I haven't and that's because I have been there since I was 20.

I like to own a Harley sometime, but I don't like the service people and the "we don't need you" attitude I have encountered. I have a Yahama and love it. I probably get a Honda bike next year.

Airplane??? Not for me. Boat??? Love it and can't afford it yet.

HogRider · Jan 20, 2004

Harleys.....

71Commander · Jan 20, 2004

Harleys.....

Speaking of which.......

Larry Ashcraft · Jan 20, 2004

Those Harleys are cool, I dig 'em. But how about this: the tractor I posted on page 2 is also a 2 cylinder - 321 CUBIC INCHES - 36 hp at the drawbar, top speed 11 mph. 1950 John Deere AR.

nuther one, different tractor (1966 1020 diesel, three cylinder), different grandson:

RCL · Jan 20, 2004

A very large part of my time in the summer months is spent turning wrenches on this........

JohnKSa · Jan 21, 2004

Gewehr98

That's a nice pic of the WC.

I work with 128 662, 663 and have some pics of 664--it crashed before I started on the program.

I also did one project on the Devil's Sled--it came off the line directly before the one in your pic which accounts for the name, if you think about it for a bit.

Gewehr98 · Jan 21, 2004

John , we called 61-2666 Satan's Sled.

And I was flying on it when it *almost* made a divot in a mountain on Hokkaido one night in 1989. We pulled up 500 feet to clear that ridge by 300 feet. I feel I've been living on borrowed time ever since. As you already know, it soldiers on with those ugly "cheeks" now. I *think* it still has the bronze plaque aboard for the record it held all those years.

61-2667, as pictured, is a lonely WC-135, all the rest are either at Davis-Monthan or have been converted to OC-135's. I saw 61-2665 at the boneyard last year, it's missing everything forward of the cargo hatch and it's tail. Funny thing is, there's a certain EC-135C Looking Glass in your neck of the woods...

Okiecruffler · Jan 21, 2004

I don't concider them to be a hobby, more of a fascination, but anyway, here's my favorite buzzworm.

Ford · Jan 21, 2004

Skunkabilly,
I would love to be able to play bluegrass. I have not been playing very long. A friend of mine is helping me. He is awesome. I can play a few country songs and a couple praise and worship songs but that is about it.

Oh yeah On the subject of guitars.
Any recommendation on an acoustic guitar with cutaway and pickups. I have a Martin already and was looking at a D-16. Trying to stay in that price range. I think the Martin I have been looking at is $1100.

thanks

JamisJockey · Jan 21, 2004

If I can ever get out of utah and back to NC, I'll be adding something like this to my hobby list:
http://adcache.boattraderonline.com/6/5/0/63436850.htm

BerettaNut92 · Jan 21, 2004

Oh yeah On the subject of guitars.
Any recommendation on an acoustic guitar with cutaway and pickups. I have a Martin already and was looking at a D-16. Trying to stay in that price range. I think the Martin I have been looking at is $1100.

Nope...sorry. I have a phobia for things with more knobs and switches than strings

BluesBear · Jan 21, 2004

My hobby.

HO scale of course.

Detritus · Jan 21, 2004

Let's see...

Military history
Build 1/48 scale airplane models

Play Darts and pool (reminds me i REALLY need to either move the dart board insdie or clean the junk out of the garage!)

also collect interesting (to me at least) Zippo Lighters, and i don't even smoke

does getting (custom) tattoos count as a hobby?? :evil:

(course this one's on hold till i get more important things, like getting back int eh work force :banghead: , and buying a number of gun items, taken care of)

since so many others have brought it up i'll fess up to wanting a Bike as well, (had Fatboy for about a month when i was 17, long story with a sucky ending)
which brings me to this thought

but I don't like the service people and the "we don't need you" attitude I have encountered.

interestingly, where i am it's the other way round, the local import-bike dealer is a real D--khead and (at least when i've been there) the Harley dealer is a nice place to go, take a look, talk to folks and get legit info. in other words teh Harley place treats folks as if they WANT them there, the other guy has the attitude of "whatever, let me know when you wanna buy one. in the mean time i'm playing on-line poker, so leave me alone!"

NOW if i go up to Houston (i'm a little under an hour away) THEN things begin to change, Honda of Houston (the only import cycle place i have much experience with, since i want to get a honda first.) has a friendly staff, but your service at the next nearest to me Harley place depends on which sales rep etc you get, some don't wanna talk unless you have cash in hand, others will do whatever it takes to insure that when and if you buy an H-D you come back to HIM/HER

BerettaNut92 · Jan 21, 2004

Other stuff

My Korean-American mandolin

Me on the cover of the UC Irvine student catalog

A 5x5x5 Rubik's style cube from Mefferts. Toys for masochistic geeks.

Travel photography, when funds permit. (not this isn't me, I wasn't that cute)

A palace in downtown Seoul

Traffic cops in Korea are about as useful as a scope on an SKS.

TamThompson · Jan 21, 2004

Here are some of me:

PCRCCW · Jan 21, 2004

Well this sucks because MY HOBBY is now my FULLTIME JOB. I never realized I HAVE NO MORE HOBBIES..........WWWAAAAAHHHHHHH!

I am a fulltime single dad........NOT A HOBBY! I USED to read

I play with guns WAY TO MUCH (and I dare bitch? sheesh) but this is what I do and need to find a NEW HOBBY................maybe golf???? hmmmmmm.

I used to teach MSF Experienced Rider Course, then I sold my bikes!
I used to ski, then my knee went way more south than it already was.

I guess changing my guns.......amatuer gunsmithing is a hobby......or is it?

Shoot well...........

Stevie-Ray · Jan 21, 2004

Guns will always be the main hobby along with reloading, especially after I retire. But here is my other passion.

Ukraine Train · Jan 21, 2004

My first true project car, waaaay too many hours into it.

I also help design/build/race the Mini Baja car for my school.

mustang45 · Jan 21, 2004

I just found a delete scene from The Fast and The Furious. Nice Camaro.

carpettbaggerr · Jan 21, 2004

How the hell do you fish like a madman?

Dynamite?

Okiecruffler · Jan 22, 2004

"How the hell do you fish like a madman?"

In one of those little shacks out on a sheet of ice.

71Commander · Jan 22, 2004

Hey Stevie-Ray

Where do you work ? There is a truck like that, that parks in the lot where I work.

standingbear · Jan 22, 2004

my other hobby..

hauntings.. unexplained phenomena.its cheap and requires absolutly no sense whatso-ever.(so I've been told a dozen or times)

Duke of Lawnchair · Jan 23, 2004

Black Majik,

I take it that you're a 'cocker guy??

Jim

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