Thinking of a different hobby
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roval
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i didn't realize we are from the same state. that video was north of I40, so i really get what you call our windy days. sometimes it is fun watching the tumbleweeds rolling as a big group ahead of the car as you drive back from the range.Notrees.That's just a hop, skip, and long jump south and a little east of where I am. The conditions you describe are just that here. It's grassland all the way to the Pecos River and all I see is brown except for the scrub mesquites. The name of this place should be Tumbleweed this year.
MacAR
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Take up farming, and you can be broke all the time like me! 
In all seriousness, my other "hobby" is collecting axes; it's cheap enough and I really enjoy the hunt for the odd-ball, one-of-a-kind axe heads. I restore them, too, and that's almost as much fun as finding them in the first place. Of course, if you'd like to stay firearms related, there's always reloading, cartridge collecting, and leatherworking.
Mac
In all seriousness, my other "hobby" is collecting axes; it's cheap enough and I really enjoy the hunt for the odd-ball, one-of-a-kind axe heads. I restore them, too, and that's almost as much fun as finding them in the first place. Of course, if you'd like to stay firearms related, there's always reloading, cartridge collecting, and leatherworking.Mac
doubleh
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I inherited the dry land farm I grew up on. This year we are raising insurance. It seems like we make more insurance than crops.
I made my post as a joke. I have no intention of giving up shooting. The weather guesser even predicted winds light enough to stand up in for tomorrow and my #1 grandson and I had a range trip planned. He called earlier and cancelled. They just got word that his wife's aunt is standing at death's door so they are going to be with her.
I have other things to fall back on while the weather is unpleasant.. I do wood and metal working, leather craft, reloading, the inevitable yard work, and last but not least, honey-do's.
I made my post as a joke. I have no intention of giving up shooting. The weather guesser even predicted winds light enough to stand up in for tomorrow and my #1 grandson and I had a range trip planned. He called earlier and cancelled. They just got word that his wife's aunt is standing at death's door so they are going to be with her.
I have other things to fall back on while the weather is unpleasant.. I do wood and metal working, leather craft, reloading, the inevitable yard work, and last but not least, honey-do's.
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SP5
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I wish I had cheaper hobbies. If I just went with my main hobby, cars, I'm still spending way too much money
stonebuster
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I reload during bad weather a lot. My other hobby is fishing and it's not cheap if you've got a boat between slip fees, insurance, gas and maintenance. Find a cheap hobby and don't tell too many people about the "little voices" you hear. You know, red flag laws and all.
Shanvanvocht
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If you're interested in saving money, don't take up woodworking
Poper
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My other hobbies are wood turning and furniture making, though they often flow together in my projects. My latest wood turning project got really expensive when hollowing out my mother's ashes urn: a catch snapped off my 3/8" deep fluted, M2 high-speed steel, bowl gouge. Shopping for a replacement cost me $487 plus shipping. But the replacement M42 tools were SO superior to the original M2 gouge, I am going to shop for some more of them! 
But the replacement M42 tools were SO superior to the original M2 gouge, I am going to shop for some more of them!
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gwpercle
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Shoot handguns at 50 feet ...the wind doesn't have time to affect the bullets flight path ...
(... I can't spell the 50 cent word tra - ject- torey ... so I will use the 5 cent word...flight path )
Gary
(... I can't spell the 50 cent word tra - ject- torey ... so I will use the 5 cent word...flight path )
Gary
captain awesome
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I have too many hobbies....
scuba diving - not cheap at all unless you live somewhere with decent diving nearby, but an amazing hobby none the less. Wind is no big deal unless you get sea sick!
RC airplanes - haven't decided if its less or more expensive than guns/shooting depends on if you crash them like I do, but the wind! if you fly gliders it can be a good thing to a certain point.
rock collecting - wind doesnt matter. I quit doing it when I reached adulthood but really enjoyed it as a youth, and did some tumbling and polished up some really neat ones. It promotes hiking out doors and going neat places.
wood working/carving - wind is no big deal, enjoyable and leaves you with a sense of accomplishment and beautiful custom furniture. Can be extremely expensive or not so much, depends on what you do with it.
Leather working - wind doesn't matter, and once you have the tools not too expensive if you buy leather in bulk.
Hunting - I've done it in ALL weather AZ has to offer. Expensive, time consuming, miserable and demoralizing at times but I love it.
Fishing - can be very cheap, can be super expensive. wind can be a PITA.
Yoyos - wind has no effect, can be a lot of fun and keeps you moving to some degree. your average high quality yoyo costs about 1/5 to 1/10 as much as a gun of comparable quality. There are cheap plastic fixed axel yoyos that cost a few bucks, ( like hi points, or "Saturday night specials") or high end boutique titanium yoyos that cost a few hundred but are Ooohhh so smooth and play like a dream. (Like les Bear, Turnbull, Wilson Combat ect..) and everything in between. It also leaves you with a sense of accomplishment when you land that difficult trick you've been practicing.
Cooking - dutch oven, grill BBQ, smoke BBQ, and inside on the stove with cast iron cookware being my favorite styles. gotta eat anyway, may as well enjoy it! Wind can put a damper on some of it though.
Family - highly expensive, can be done in any weather. Rewarding, frustrating, heartbreaking, extremely time consuming and once you're in, you're in for life. wouldnt trade it for any of the others.
I jump around and cycle through these things space and time being the limiting factors. Family is always the highest priority, if you're good at it you can mix it with the others some times.
scuba diving - not cheap at all unless you live somewhere with decent diving nearby, but an amazing hobby none the less. Wind is no big deal unless you get sea sick!
RC airplanes - haven't decided if its less or more expensive than guns/shooting depends on if you crash them like I do, but the wind! if you fly gliders it can be a good thing to a certain point.
rock collecting - wind doesnt matter. I quit doing it when I reached adulthood but really enjoyed it as a youth, and did some tumbling and polished up some really neat ones. It promotes hiking out doors and going neat places.
wood working/carving - wind is no big deal, enjoyable and leaves you with a sense of accomplishment and beautiful custom furniture. Can be extremely expensive or not so much, depends on what you do with it.
Leather working - wind doesn't matter, and once you have the tools not too expensive if you buy leather in bulk.
Hunting - I've done it in ALL weather AZ has to offer. Expensive, time consuming, miserable and demoralizing at times but I love it.
Fishing - can be very cheap, can be super expensive. wind can be a PITA.
Yoyos - wind has no effect, can be a lot of fun and keeps you moving to some degree. your average high quality yoyo costs about 1/5 to 1/10 as much as a gun of comparable quality. There are cheap plastic fixed axel yoyos that cost a few bucks, ( like hi points, or "Saturday night specials") or high end boutique titanium yoyos that cost a few hundred but are Ooohhh so smooth and play like a dream. (Like les Bear, Turnbull, Wilson Combat ect..) and everything in between. It also leaves you with a sense of accomplishment when you land that difficult trick you've been practicing.
Cooking - dutch oven, grill BBQ, smoke BBQ, and inside on the stove with cast iron cookware being my favorite styles. gotta eat anyway, may as well enjoy it! Wind can put a damper on some of it though.
Family - highly expensive, can be done in any weather. Rewarding, frustrating, heartbreaking, extremely time consuming and once you're in, you're in for life. wouldnt trade it for any of the others.
I jump around and cycle through these things space and time being the limiting factors. Family is always the highest priority, if you're good at it you can mix it with the others some times.
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doubleh
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I just live in NM. I'm Texan thru and thru. I followed a job here, met the love of my life, married her, and stay here because of all the state and federal land I can roam around on without being arrested for trespassing. Tumbleweeds are annoying but mesquite bushes and prickly pear are worse. I bet I have sprayed at least 50 new mesquites this year and got five more yesterday. I don't know how they find enough moisture to come up. As soon as I finish my coffee I'm going out to dig up some more prickly pear. Ma Nature sees I get my exercise.
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JFrank
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Maybe I should take up flying kites and just forget about shooting. Darn wind just blows and blows and keeps on blowing. Might get a still period for about an hour just around sunrise now then and here it comes again, 20, 25, 30 miles an hour. Even if I don't start flying kites I can spend several hours a day dusting. Do it today and everything is covered again by tomorrow. It's got to stop sometime. That is what I tell myself regularly and I am regularly wrong.
I open my safe regularly and assure my guns that I will take them to the range soon. Lately I'm hearing little voices in the back of it saying, "Liar, you just keep telling us that but it never happens".
The wind is your friend.
doubleh
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Sometimes it's too friendly. Like most of this year.
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