Is Your Favorite Hobby Firearms?

[Golden_006]

This poll sort of works with the other Millionaires thread

Other, choice 4, could be something like "I'm a diehard. I eat dog food just to buy ammo" or "I don't take vacation to have money for firearms" or "I do my own car repairs for firearms"

 

[possum]

yes, training, shooting, reloading, and cleaning guns in that order!

 

[CoRoMo]

Yes, it is easily my favorite, but not my most frequented due to the costs.

I dabble around with woodworking and welding a lot because I can afford it.

 

[Legionnaire]

Favorite is hunting, with firearms in general a close second. It was the former that expanded my interest into the latter.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Definately my favorite. I'm a full time student right now and work part time, so I don't have the time or money to do all the shooting that I want to do. We've recently started reloading, so that helps a lot. I like doing anything that has to do with shooting. From hunting to plinking to skeet shooting to reloading. I fish a little and like to play golf, but I would much rather have the wonderful aroma of burned gunpowder filling my nostrils.

 

[NMGonzo]

travel by land

Is going to cost me a fortune to cross asia on a motorcycle.

Guns are a second far hobbie.

 

[axeman_g]

Nope....

I have kids and they are my most expensive hobby. I enjoy traveling with them, doing there sports with them, trying new things with the, Whatever is left over might go to guns/ammo.

 

[9MMare]

My (one and only) gun purchase was not started as a hobby. I felt it was, if not a necessity, a prudent idea.

I am much more involved in shooting now, because I enjoy it and have started practical action shooting to develop my skills with the club at the local range. Also, I like learning and developing new skills, so shooting is a good challenge.


Thus far it is not even close to as expensive as my other hobbies like horses, scuba, skiing, and buying tools and 'toys' to run my 'hobby' farm.
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Edit: I'm reading the Millionaires thread and feeling a little guilty. I tend to respond to posts very 'literally.'

But altho I do like to spend my $$ on 'experiences' (rather than 'things' usually), I also have to make sacrifices elsewhere....2 vehicles both over 15 yrs old, an ancient horse trailer, my TV is over 10 yrs old (and I bought it used!), I'm not into clothes or shoes, etc. Life is all about compromise....but it's also about focusing on what you enjoy.

I'm thrilled when I read the threads here where people are spending their time and focus on their wives/husbands, families.

 

[kanook]

when I visit friends and family i try to go to gunstores in their area.

My vacations are planned around hunting seasons (yes we hunted on our honeymoon and we celebrate our anniversary hunting, lost a 12' (we think) gator this year on it)

 

[zombienerd]

My cars take a bit more money than my guns But I'd have to say it's a 60/40 split.

I love restoring old cars though... It's a bad habit

 

[UranusDestiny]

No, but its a close second. My favorite hobby is collecting die cast Robot action figures. As of right now, yeah, I've got far more money invested in robots than I do in Firearms.

http://www.collectiondx.com/review/chogokin/dygenguar_aussenseiter
This was my most recent purchase a few months ago.

 

[Ester IX:XVI]

have many hobbies: hiking, snowboarding, camping, basketball, drawing (with pencil and paper ) but as far as money spent its probably in this order: Gardening, collecting books and then guns.

 

[Golden_006]

Gardening? I'd never thought I'd see the day that anyone would have those 2 together

 

[Walkalong]

Three loves. Baseball, wandering in the woods, and shooting. Problem is I am now too old to play baseball. Last year was my last. So, that leaves shooting, and walking along through the woods.

I should be able to do those two until shortly before I croak.

 

[cjl8651]

It's one of my favourite hobbies, but maintaining my car is pretty much a full-time "hobby."

 

[Rat Robb]

It seems that during the winter months guns is where most of my expendable cash goes but throughout the year I'd say that I spend the same or less on guns than my other hobbies. Just depends on what I "need" for my car or if I'm gonna get another tattoo.

-Robb

 

[Ester IX:XVI]

Golden 006, by gardening (and i do really love it) and preserving, we are able to live all winter on a small grocery bill, maybe i should tell millionare this.

 

[McCall911]

Firearms rank "up there" as an interest, but I have a couple of other things which might be called a hobbies that don't really cost any money.
Unfortunately, most of my money is currently tied up in things like groceries, car payments, utility bills, etc.

 

[Internet Protocol Freely]

Im sure alot of you will roll your eyes...

video games. Ive been playing video games since i was 3. im 24 now. I have a pretty big collection. I have NES, Top loading NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, 2 Sega Genesis, 1 fat ps2 1 slim ps2, ps3, xbox 360,Sega Saturn... Probably some others im forgetting... and thats just the stuff I still have.

Also Im a pretty huge computer nerd. I know alot about computer hardware in general. I build them. So all of my hobbies are pretty expensive.

 

[Sav .250]

Nope...... As i live in central Florida, bass fishing is my main hobby. Living close to the St John`s river (less than 5 mins drive) 3 or 4 days a week I hook up my bass-boat
and spend mostly the early hours of a day on the water. Afternoons to hot. Unless
I`m in a "T" that is.

 

[dusty14u]

It is one of my top hobbies and one of the more expensive ones right now. I am a musician- guitar to be exact. I have played for 35 yrs and it used to be more than a hobby as it payed bills. I have almost as many guitars as guns and I own several tube amps, which are expensive to maintain. I don't play for pay anymore but I do studio work and play for a large church where I have played on two different continents. We travel around quite a bit.

One of my other hobbies is Harleys but the one I have now is paid off and I am not jonesing to add another anytime soon. This is a hobby as well as practical transportation as it gets way better gas mileage than my cars do. I haven't had to invest much in it except for routine maintenance for a while.

I also fish and hunt but they seem to go hand in hand. I have an older bass boat and a kayak. The bass boat can soak up some money but I enjoy a good day of fishing. Heck, I even enjoy a bad day of fishing. Better than working. I have most of my gear bought so it is more a maintenance fee for fishing.

 

[LeonCarr]

Shooting first, handloading a very close second.

 

[NWCP]

I spend quite a bit of time hunting, or at the range. I also have been an avid motorcyclist for years. There's still plenty of room for family and friends though.

 

[cfendley]

Firearms and shooting is one of my favorite hobbies but it's not the one I do the most. I also spend a lot of time hunting in the fall and winter but over the years course I spend more time knife making or doing leathercraft. Firearms and shooting is an expensive hobby which is a big limiting factor. At least Knife making is a hobby that somewhat pays for itself if I don't count my time worth anything.

 

[knights_armorer]

guns first

these second
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUyLeiMsWw&feature=related