I'm upset, why didn't tell me this was addictive

[Bazooka Joe71]

Hi, my name is Bazooka Joe, and I'm a gunaholic.

Yeah I'm still mad at my dad(ok, actually really happy) for buying me a Remington 870 and my own skeet trap a few years back...Since then, the disease has spread to pretty much the whole spectrum...Small and large bore rifles of all types, pistols, and revolvers...With every firearm I get, the urge for another one gets stronger even though it should seem to get weaker since I filled a niche.

My suggestion, stay away from milsurps and AR's AS LONG AS YOU CAN. Once you start into those, there is no helping you...Unfortunately it is probably already to late.

Seriously though, no help...There's no cure; no treatments of any kind will be able to fix you.

 

[Brad Johnson]

I was never informed that once I bought a gun I would be going crazy wanting to take it to the range. I was also not informed that once I took it to the range and put some lead through it, I would want to do it more and more. I was also not told that I would want to buy more guns.

*hisssss-kaaa*
*hisssss-kaaa*

Welcom to the Dark Side...

Brad

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Look at all the times when, for example, someone wants to choose between two guns and we tell them to buy both.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

Look at all the times when, for example, someone wants to choose between two guns and we tell them to buy both.

Well duh, that's because "both" is the only logical answer.

 

[vzenmn]

I'm addicted bad. But I will never try to break the habit as long as it doesn't lead me to have to put on a wig, fishnet stockings, and a easy access mini skirt and walk around in a shady part of town to support it.

At least with guns you have something to show for.

 

[arthurcw]

I'm addicted bad. But I will never try to break the habit as long as it doesn't lead me to have to put on a wig, fishnet stockings, and a easy access mini skirt and walk around in a shady part of town to support it.

I SAID, "DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!"

 

[highfive]

It is addictive.. but hey we love it...and I will be addicted forever lol

 

[siglite]

SAID, "DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!"

And another keyboard bites the dust.

And, that corner of Smith and Capitol streets is mine. You hear?

 

[armedandsafe]

Don't worry so much. It will wear off in time. I've been hooked only about 65 years and I can quit any time I want to.

Gotta go. That Hawken I saw in the shop is supposed to be going up on the shelf today.

Pops

 

[john917v]

Neededausername, welcome to the firearm sports. We would have told you, but our own gun addictions won't let us!

 

[Big Duke Six]

What ever you do, DON'T, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, GET YOUR C&R,,,,your mailman will give you strange looks, your banks account will be drained, and your "happy place" will become the nearest range!

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Well, it is one of those things once you're in it is tough to get out. I am the same way I have been shooting for about 6 years now & I constantly have the fever to buy a new gun. I don't know that I will ever be satisfied.

You won't. It is unfortunate, but I've been shooting for over 40 years and am getting very impatient waiting for an on-order GSG-5. It just doesn't seem to get old.

 

[2nd 41]

It's easy to stop. I stopped 10 x.

 

[Brian Dale]

I was never informed that once I bought a gun I would be going crazy wanting to take it to the range. I was also not informed that once I took it to the range and put some lead through it, I would want to do it more and more. I was also not told that I would want to buy more guns.

Lookin' for sympathy? Here? Didn't you use the Search function?

My own family got me hooked. My dad took me shooting for the first time when I was just a little kid and far too young to distinguish between right and wrong: SA vs. DA; 9mm vs. .45; AR vs AK; pump or auto. I didn't know any better.

He started me out on a falling-block .22 rifle; who could see any harm in that? I trusted him. The craving was often fulfilled as it continued to grow. The point of no return occurred when I was a young teenager. My grandfather banished any wish on my part for escape from my addiction with the gift to me of his own semiauto 12-ga. All hope was then and there abandoned. Maybe it never existed, for me. My direct ancestors all had powder-monkeys on their backs. No, that's only a figure of speech.

Where has this led? I'm completely promiscuous: I'll go for .22s of any kind; rifles, handguns and shotguns; .223 to .30-'06 and .35 Rem; .410s and 12 gauge; single shots, bolties and levers; break-actions, pumps and autos; revolvers and semis.

CMP stands for "Crazyguy, Mainlining Powder." You laugh now. Just observe your reaction when the truck with your rifle rolls into the driveway, then starts to pull away because your cars are in the garage. You'll burst out the door, chase him down, sign the form and cradle that box in your arms...yeah. Check your pulse when you've just done that. That's what addiction looks like.

Oh, and we can see that we've got your wife, too. Soon, the two of you will be helping to assimilate others, and it goes on and on...

My name's Brian, and I'm a gun guy.

 

[rockinrussky]

Yea, guns are good... I just hope there are no long term side effects other than hearing loss *too late for that here * and much emptier bank account.
I'll admit I worked 2 different jobs (60+ hours) while going to college just to keep up the habit last year. Either way, I've only really been into guns for 14 months, and I now have 7 firearms, reload, and a 'small' milsurp ammo stash. God forbid what it will be like 10 years from now... either way, like everyone else has said, the addiction will only get worse.

 

[ralphie98]

Yep - we don't like to talk about that addiction part... don't want to scare anybody away. Just wait until you get into more aspects of the hobby. Reloading... 1911s... black powder... high power rifles... trap/skeet... IDPA... whatever floats your boat. You think its fun plinking with a .22 now, just wait until you NEED that deer rifle, or that shotgun for bird hunting, or the varmint busting .223. Just remember this... when you go to buy a safe to hold all of these things, make sure you get the biggest you can afford because you're gonna fill it up. We're all addicted, and I think its safe to say none of us would change that if we could. Sure, we can quit at any time, but who would want to?

 

[Floppy_D]

"You mean this stuff is fun? Is that why you guys like it?"

Yeah buddy, welcome to the club! Great people, good times, and history, science and math all rolled in to boot!

 

[neededausername]

It's funny how some of you comment that you have me and my wife. My wife won her division in the Arizona state championships when she was 11, in small bore silhouette. So guess who it got first... Of course as much as I love my little Mark III 22/45(No I can't go shoot it in the backyard, no I can't go shoot it in the backyard, have to keep telling myself that, sorry). I really want a long barreled gun. My wife is kind of against shot guns, so it'll have to be a rifle to start her off. I was planning on getting a SKS, as that's my favorite thing that I have ever shot, but she has a bad shoulder so I'll have to find a good deal on a .22. Plus the gun club we are going to join, yes it has us that bad after a couple of weeks, shoots small rifle silhouette, seems a good way to introduce her to the longer ones....

Oh and I can't tell you how much I've done to find my brother-in-law that GP100 he wants. They are all sold out around here and I've been calling dealers in other states that I found online. It's not because I want him to own the gun, it's because I want to shoot it.

 

[Waitone]

You need a distraction from shooting. Lemme see here. . . .what would be a good distraction. . . . I've got it! Give reloading a try! Yeah, that's the ticket. Start reloading. That'll cure a gun addiction for sure. (And then you will have complementary addictions) You think your wallet is a disaster zone now; just wait until reloading wrecks full vengeance.

 

[Pigspitter]

You'll soon start thinking "I can't be biased towards one Ruger action....I need three" and then you'll remeber that other companies exist and you must support capitalism. And then you'll need to remember the past and start buying mil surps like their going out of style. Then you'll buy guns because they are "unique". And then......

 

[Flash!]

don't they call it an obsessive compulsive disorder..or something like that? I know I have it whatever it's called.....

 

[Threeband]

Somebody a few posts back mentioned the CMP. Forget those initials! For your very soul,man turn back!

Do not, I beg you...do NOT press this link:

http://www.odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/sales.htm

Doom! Doom!

Oh, it's too late for me. Fed Ex is bringing me TWO Garands tomorrow. That's the hard stuff, I know...oh, I KNOW... but is it enough? Is it?

I already sent in ANOTHER order yesterday,... just for a rack grade carbine... that's all. Just a cute little carbine. I only have one, you know... really should get another...

Oh, it's too late for me...But you're young, you still have a chance. Just don't...don't press that link, this one...http://www.odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/sales.htm

no... don't

 

[bensdad]

when you go to buy a safe to hold all of these things, make sure you get the biggest you can afford because you're gonna fill it up.

Yeah, that's funny. Watta you, some kinda wise guy?

I DID get a big enough safe. That was three safes ago.

 

[dont_matr]

I remember just over 5 years ago, on my last day working as an employee of a certain AR manufacturer,I bought a used, but excellent condition Glock 22 with about 25 rounds of PMC 155gr FMJ and one 10rd mag from one of the gunsmiths that worked there. I figured I'd use it strictly for protection at home and in my vehicle and that was it.

For about a year, the Glock sat either in its small safe at home, or in the glovebox of my car.

Then sometime in Feb. '04, on a particularly boring day, I went to Wal-Mart, did some grocery shopping, then pushed my cart to the sporting good section, and bought 3 packs of WWB .40SW for $45 (oh, those were the days...). Don't recall why I did, though.

After stopping at home to drop off the groceries, I took a 40 mile drive south to the only public outdoor range in the area, and after some hands-on guidance by the rangemasters (which I greatly appreciated as I'd never fired a firearm in my life in my then 25 years on this planet and was quite nervous), I proceeded to blast away at my single 15yd target for the next 2-3 hours with my Glock and its single 10 round mag until I used up my last box of WWB....

Since that first time 4 years ago, I've been trying to figure out *** happened since then....:banghead:

What's even more irksome is after I bring my M1A home, I won't have any more space in my safe, meaning I'll need to buy another! And on top of that, seeing all of those damned milsurp guns in Shotgun News gives me these urges to get a C&R license, urges which I can only fight off for so long!