I think im bored with shooting!!

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I don't know what has come over me but I cant seem to get excited about going to the range. My range is 10min away and I have a bunch of 9mm, 223, 45-70 and 38spl to test out but I cannot get motivated to do so. I was invited to shoot at my buddies place today and grabbed rifle ammo instead of pistol ammo and had about 80rounds of 38spl in front of me and fired about 20 rounds and got bored. He offered me some 9mm and I declined cause I just wasn't feeling it.

I fired about 40 rounds of 22lr out of my rifle to sight it in and got a little bored with that too. IDK what the heck is going on but I don't like it!! I have 100rounds of 223 sitting in front of me I could be testing right now but not feeling it.

Not good!!
 
We all have changes in our life.
Do you know why you’re feeling this way?

How about changing things up?
Why not try a competition or some trick shooting?

Or take a break
Build a new AR?

Load some ammo?
 
You may be suffering from low Testacticalerone. I suggest building a new six millimeter Tac AR.

If your condition does not improve there are professionals that can help. Find a full auto range and rent an expensive machine gun. Spend at least five hundred dollars on ammunition. Marvel at the brass you won't have to load again. Be perplexed at a lack of concentration and enjoy the moments of sheer Manlyness.

To keep the disease in remission I also suggest doses of Tannerite at random intervals.

At home for therapy, ten shot groups at a time, with notes written on the targets. Plot your improvement in a graph based on group size.:)
 
Hokie_PhD said:
We all have changes in our life.
Do you know why you’re feeling this way?

How about changing things up?
Why not try a competition or some trick shooting?

Or take a break
Build a new AR?

Load some ammo?
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I used to love reloading and couldn't wait to get home from work and reload some ammo then run to the range to try out the new powder or bullet but now its like Eh, I'm good.

My club does pistol matches every Wednesday and I tried them but wasn't a fan. I don't think its right you score a guy with a service pistol against a guy with a burris reflex sight sitting on top of a $1k handgun so I quit going (More issues than just that)

I have no clue why I feel this way. It just doesn't do anything for me anymore.
 
ColtPythonElite said:
I have gone through that feeling more than once. I have taken breaks. Sometimes very long breaks. I have switched up the kind of shooting I did....The one thing I have never done is sell equipment.
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I too, have taken breaks, during which time I did a lot of handloading which got me re-interested in shooting again. The other thing that has worked for me is silouette! The "pings" are great fun! And a new firearm ALWAYS works. :D
 
ColtPythonElite said:
I have gone through that feeling more than once. I have taken breaks. Sometimes very long breaks. I have switched up the kind of shooting I did....The one thing I have never done is sell equipment.
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I will admit the thought crossed my mind with my reloading equipment. Today was the first time I touched it in about 6 months. I have 2 rifles I purchased cause I figured it would be cool to have but got bored with them but I'm not that far gone to start selling stuff.
 
I have felt that way from time to time. Got tired of going to the gun shops, the gun shows, the range and just being around the same old, same old. On a few occasions I just walked away from guns and shooting and took up another hobby (like photography), for awhile. Eventually my interest in guns came back and all was well!
 
Buy a Uberti or Pietta percussion 1851 revolver. It will be fun to shoot as is, but will malfunction just often enough to frustrate you, so you will research online how to improve it, and then you will get into the never ending spiral of blackpowder firearms.

Welcome to the madness, if you dare! :cool:
 
Hmmmmm.....never took a break from shooting altogether, but I went maybe 10 years without touching a smoothbore and 5 without any .22s.

Then kids came along and the .22s came back. Sometimes I bring the big guns with us when I take the kids and they don't even get uncased because we're having too much fun with the rimfires.

It took a great deal on a nice Auto-5 to lure me back into shotguns- I had always wanted one just 'cuz I thought they were a neat design. Turns out they are a literal blast to shoot: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.....:):D

Now I'm discovering the joy of little antique .32s......good luck finding something new for yourself!
 
ColtPythonElite said:
I have gone through that feeling more than once. I have taken breaks. Sometimes very long breaks. I have switched up the kind of shooting I did....The one thing I have never done is sell equipment.
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A LOT of good information in this...

I think we all have highs and lows, mainly due to our own doing. I feel we tend to obsess over things (even things we LIKE, good things) and our psyche has a way of drawing us back to some form of normal. It may take years, but eventually, the heat cools. Perhaps we move on to another hobby for a while. Some of us, me included, may have a rotation of hobbies that we focus on at some point. The main thing is to keep that tidbit of information given by CPE-- just cus it doesn't move for a few months/years, doesn't mean you need to sell it. Unless it's falling apart from neglect... You'll never get back what you had, for what you got paid for it to go away...
 
Like many, my interest waxes and wanes. At this point I really enjoy reloading and working to improve the accuracy of the guns I have, and am quite content with NOT getting to the range all that often. As a consequence, when I go to the range, I have a goal--pressure test a new load, or shoot groups as a part of load development, etc. I enjoy that much more than simply putting rounds down range. I also enjoy introducing new shooters to the sport, and introducing other shooters to some of the joys of an accurate rifle. And when I start getting bored with rifles, my attention will likely refocus on my revolvers.

But I also play golf and play (at) guitar which spreads my interest and keeps me from getting board with any one hobby. So I say, take a break. The interest is likely to come back.
 
Finding someone to teach brings back the enthusiasm.
The first gun my wife shot was a T/C pistol in 30-30. The long road of teaching her proper trigger control and defeating the flinch is keeping me interested.
 
A variety of interests not related to shooting helps, as others have said. Teaching helps, as mentioned, also. I didn't shoot trap for years, but teaching it the last 2 years for 4-H and now a High School team has rekindled my interest in it, and I joined a team on Thursday.
 
Shoot a competition of some sort,

Build a precision rifle with high end parts and chase tiny groups or long distances

Get a bow and shoot it a lot

Go fishing

Do something fun, life is short, don’t stress why you are not enjoying hobby A as much as you used to
 
Everyone should have more than one hobby. Hopefully recreational shooting isn't your only one.

Aside from that, new guns always keep my interest piqued. I don't own that many guns but I have a good friend with a range that I swear owns one of almost everything ever made. I always shoot something new to me every time I visit.

That said, I still never get bored shooting my own guns at my place.

I also enjoy carpentry, woodworking and cooking.
 
Just step back, embrace a different interest for a while. If you need to sell some, do it. If it is truly a passion you will come back to it. If not, what have you lost?
 
Lots of great comments
But no one asked are you ok?
Are you feeling blasé with other things too?
Is there a new stress in your life?

If so, you might be depressed. Everyone gets some depression at some point, so you might want to see if that’s an issue. If so, if it’s mild get more sun, exercise and adjust your diet. If more serious get help.

Otherwise another interest and a break sound like what you’re hinting at.
 
I'm there, too. Though I still buy guns from time to time, and periodically handle the ones I have, I've grown less stimulated by punching paper inside 25-yard pistol ranges. Anywhere I can shoot outdoors is at least an hour away, and you're still shooting paper. Gone, long gone, are the days of the first several years of this hobby for me, when I could simply drive out of town, pull off along a berm somewhere, and blow up whatever improvised targets I'd brought along.

But, I never fully step away from the firearms hobby as a whole, not at all. I still dry-fire a lot, handle, and collect to some extent. I'm also working up a renewed interest in backyard airgunning as well. Though I go months at a time without shooting, guns are still on my mind a lot. Even went to a gun show today, my second in less than a month (didn't buy anything, though.)

And, I'm here on this board. ;)
 
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