Three questions for our retired or semi-retired members.....

[rust collector]

Just retired at 68, but trying to stay active and engaged, and learning something new every day. I have always been fascinated by guns and other tools. My zeal for accumulating them has been reduced in recent years because guns should be used, and if I can't enjoy using them, they should be enjoyed by someone else. I am coming up on 40 years as a hunter safety instructor, and I still enjoy range work and hunting big and small game, although not as often as I did many years ago.
I just realized I have been on this board 16 years. Time to send my annual support check to Derek, and to thank all of you who share your wisdom with me. This is great fun, despite the aches and challenges that come with age.

 

[FTG-05]

Since my retirement at 58 1/2 in 2012, my interest has increased.

But then again, talk is cheap.

100 yard range:



200 yard range:

 

[Ignition Override]

Gun activities are a bit more frequent, and even before retirement (2016) we have been a 12 min. drive from the very best private gun club Anywhere near Memphis, or within approx. three hours radius.
Retirement allowed me to go Crazy with buying and selling via Armslist TN, as interests gradually changed.

Traveling as little as necessary by car for personal trips, and only to see immed. family.
Having flown airplanes since '81 with numerous narrowbody flights per 'duty period' and per trip, I only travel now (one flying vacation per year) so that my wife Won't have to go alone.
Not kidding one bit, and I'm not going to tell her, but she has figured it out.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

Retirement allowed me to go Crazy with buying and selling via Armslist TN, as interests gradually changed.

I know the syndrome, although I've allowed a wider net to be cast via Gunbroker, Armslist, eGunner, Gun Auction, Guns America, etc.

I'm now thinking best to liquidate my milsurps while I'm still kickin' vs leaving my heirs to figure out who wants what and the $$$ values. My hunting rifles are nothing special and a discerning eye isn't required to fairly evaluate their $$$ value.

 

[Ignition Override]

Me. Zieh: You still want “the stones”? Just kidding.
Some of us have a son with no dislike of guns, but no interest and with two small children.

if I had not been near a hospital when the Widowmaker artery was totally blocked in 2016 (felt like very sudden, Very bad flu) , my death would have resulted in relatives grabbing my guns when let inside the safe by my wife, and they would have been sold for easy cash.

 

[choppertime]

I have learned one thing for sure that after retireing.......I own way to much stuff!!! I musta thought while I was working that I needed all I could get....now I have the time I don't have the time for everything I own.....I still get to the woods to bowhunt and enjoy sitting in my tree stand till the chill sets in then it's home to get warm...I have a ton of reloading equipment kinda lost interest in that.....oh by the way I had cancer they removed 3/4 of my stomach and esopagas kinda slowed me down....that was in 2018..I'm 64...I still feel like I'm in recovery.....that ordeal really showed me life's values and how short life really Is! Anyway I'm cleaning all the guns I own to the very max 16 pistols semis and wheel guns various cals,12 long guns.....I don't get to the range like I used to and want to,fishing boat didn't see water this past summer...ole lady got hurt and I had to tend to her,loops sorry I'm rambling on here.....1 thing is make sure you live your life to the fullest cause it sure gets short quick!

 

[Mr. Zorg]

My health forced my retirement at age 50 in 2012. Unrelated to that I 5 surgeries and 4 STRONG chemotherapy treatments in a 13 month period in 2016 - 2017. In the past 12 years I've discovered more about my previously undiagnosed genetic and congential issues than in the prior 45 years. I have no children, one niece among my nieces and nephews has expressed honest interest in going hunting with me but I don't want to disturb her current focus on finishing a college degree now that she's returned to pursuing that.

All my milsurps were acquired before I ever met my wife. I seriously doubt she would simply let any relatives pillage my safe though. Luckily, only my brother would be greedy about grabbing everything he could for quick cash that would even more quickly vaporize pursuing who knows what. Fortunately she knows my stance is he especially doesn't deserve to have anything I value. My wife plus our nieces and nephews, no problems there beyond potentially getting ripped off by someone giving deliberately low appraisals / offers they wouldn't be able to recognize.

 

[GAF]

In the 90`s I was forced into retirement by chronic migraines. My interests have not changed just my ability to do the things I like on any given day.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

Thankfully medical botox was approved earlyier this decade, I started that regimen in 2012. Then health insurance started pulling the bureaucratic pocket veto stuff. I was the first pain mgmt patient at my practice to start an Aimovig regimen. I find it's about equally effective as medical botox with a monumentally reduced hassle factor.

 

[hk940]

Been retired for about two years. Moved to NC and cannot shoot out the back garage like WV.
I joined a range in GA last summer, I have been there once.I will get there more this year.
I did some jobs for some friends this past year and a side jot for a local builder (I was a ceramic, marble/granite contractor for 35 years).
At the present time I have most of all I want to shoot, there might be something I would buy if it interested me.
My problem is I made friends with guys who were 15 or more years older than me (when I was 18-20), Now they are dying off, It sucks.
We have been having Super Bowl parties for about 35 years, same guys. We used to have 30+/- .
This year we down to 6.

 

[BrocLuno]

Been retired for a few years now. Still tinker on guns and related projects