What do you do in your spare time?

[tws3b2]

Had my own place with my own gun range for 35 years. Got old and had to downsize, couldn't keep it up. Now I spend my time wishing

 

[doubleh]

Gee...do any of you think of the opposite sex?
I may have to find another forum.
And I am over 80.

Thing is about it but I'm older than you. My eyes still work fine so I can look too.

I can no longer walk very far or stand for long at a time and that has really put a crimp in my activities. It took a replacement hip to allow me to do even that much but it did away with the wheel chair and the cane that followed for a time. I am more of tinkerer now because I can sit down to do that. Range trips for handguns consists of shooting a little, sitting to get rid of the hip cramp, and repeat. I have to have someone with me to go put up targets at the rifle range.

The older you get the tougher life gets and I am in excellent health for my age excepting that dam hip.

 

[.308 Norma]

My only problem is remembering the day of the week. I gave up on day of the year when I retired.

Once retired, "day of the week" doesn't really matter anymore, and "day of the year" only matters when it comes to anniversaries and your wife's birthday.

 

[Chuck R.]

I Mow:

a lot.

and

cut firewood

When that's done, I shoot.

 

[Riomouse911]

I'm trying to divert enough attention away from guns and shooting to get my old truck back on the road but it's hard.

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I keep wanting to empty my new MP5 .22.

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My FIL is completing a frame-off full restoration on an 86 Toyota 4x4 that was a similar red color. He had to drive from New Hampshire to North Carolina to find and bring back a good bed that wasn’t salted out with rust. (Last June’s progress, he’s almost done by now.)



For my non-gun time, it’s juggling one kids dance (in pink dancing on Carnival ship last week):

one kids motorcycle racing (making a pass on rider in red)


coaching the JROTC kids at the high school:


family travel, and playing endlessly with this little fetching machine.


Stay safe.

 

[mm93]

Since I bought my first car project at age 13 yrs. I've been into building hotrods, so if I'm not shooting, restoring, or working on old guns, I'm building or working on my old hotrods. I build my cars from the ground up by myself, and the only thing I've ever farmed out was a paint job or two. I try to do the paint also, but sometimes it's just not in the cards.
These are my last three builds done for myself; not counting a half dozen I've done for friends in the last 15 years or so.
1937 British Austin. A street legal drag car that's won a number of show awards also:

1963 Ford Falcon. 468 c.i. BBC engine. Street legal drag car also:

1939 Chev coupe. Once a race car in the 60's, but left to rust away until I saved it in 2019 and spent two years replacing lots of rotted metal, and building all new chassis, engine, suspension, interior, paint, and lettering:

So not much time left between guns and cars for many decades now.

 

[sqlbullet]

I have several car projects around.

2001 Land Rover Discovery II I saved from the scrap heap. It is down to just needing a brake pedal switch, the headliner re-done and a winch installed and it will be "trail" worthy. It is intended to be the "snow" rig to get into the cabin in the mountains of eastern Utah even in the winter. We are only 0.75 miles from the highway, but that is a ways when the snow is 50-60" deep. The discovery has 32" tires on it now, but I could put 33X12.5's on it with a little bit of rubbing if I need more float. It has solid axles all around, and I have the locking center diff in mine. I have high hopes it will get in and out with minimal fuss this next winter.

2008 BMW X5 4.8. This was originally purchased for my son. He had a budget for a 5th gen Bronco like his older siblins all had, but the announcement of the new bronco made the old ones go way up in price. He found this beemer that was in his budget range so it became his first car. We addressed some core issues with the cooling system, then he moved away and I bought it from him as I had grown fond of it. I have addressed a couple of oil leaks and still have a few small ones left to address. And I need to replace the front prop-shaft before it grenades. Other than the oil leaks I have found the 4.8 engine to be a pretty decent power plant as long as you don't mind terrible fuel mileage and bending your arms in pretzel shapes for the most mundane tasks.

The "cabin" was mentioned above. The family has 40 acres and a 1500 sq foot cabin off-grid in eastern Utah. When we acquired it there was only generator power and haul your own water. We now have a solar system and a well. It is in a cell phone black hole, but Starlink works great. It takes up a fair bit of time cutting wood, trimming back brush for roads, etc. Someday I hope to move there more or less full time, but before that we need a garage or two there.

I also reload, do some woodworking and run a half-dozen or so websites.

 

[silicosys4]

Shoot, these days it seems I spend my spare time trying to keep RennWax in business. I'm looking forward to the housing market to crash so I can work on some projects around the future house.

 

[Walkalong]

Spare time you say?

That said, since we bought the property going on 11 years ago, I actually do less shooting than before, so many projects. I’m slowing that down more lately though, making time to relax.

 

[balin]

I'm retired, it is all spare time.

 

[drk1]

Translate German regimental histories from World War I into English.

 

[Legionnaire]

Dunno. Hope to find out next month.

 

[jmohme]

In my spare time, I look up.

 

[ms6852]

I catch up on sleep I lost as a teenager and a 38 year career in the military and medical field being on call. Still have a loooooong way to go.

 

[Walkalong]

I catch up on sleep I lost

being on call all those years.....

 

[The Happy Kaboomer]

I built me a pond to fish in........A rifle/pistol range and a skeet field....And I plant for DEER/TURKEY/DOVES & QUAIL........All here at home.............LIFE is good......BLESSED BY GOD.
PLUS. I'm retired so I can do these things 24-7 iffen I want to.........Iffen it gets boring here....I go to my house on Clarks Hill lake.

 

[Bazoo]

I Mow:

a lot.

and

cut firewood

When that's done, I shoot.

So you're saying you never shoot since mowing and firewood are basically never done? That's a dang lot to mow, I take my hat off to you.

 

[Armored farmer]

Im still working, for a few more years.... but i have three adult sons who work on our farm. I can take time off....'cause I'm da boss! (don't tell Mrs F that I said that....)
I fish...
We eat good....


We cook...

We honky tonk....
We travel...
We boat...

We jeep...


We got to church every Sunday.
.....and I'm almost always carrying iwb.

 

[entropy]

I'd trade that small bass out for lobster, too!

 

[orionengnr]

Still working full time for a few more months.
After retirement comes, I have so many projects waiting that I don't think I will ever know the meaning of "spare time"...

 

[Ignition Override]

ksh: I might not want to walk away from a home, or a car parked elsewhere while wearing that T-shirt advertisement.
"Watch me and my wife drive to work/school, pause a while, then break-in." According to Memphis police, this is when most burglaries here take place.

There's no doubt that it's a good t-shirt.

 

[herrwalther]

Sounds like me. To the point the gf gave me this shirt for Christmas

 

[CraigC]

My FIL is completing a frame-off full restoration on an 86 Toyota 4x4 that was a similar red color. He had to drive from New Hampshire to North Carolina to find and bring back a good bed that wasn’t salted out with rust. (Last June’s progress, he’s almost done by now.)
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Cool! I'm not having to go quite that far. The frame was stripped and painted when we did the solid axle swap in 2004 and it's held up well. The bed was shot so I just ditched it and started building a flatbed. The cab is in pretty good shape except for a couple rusted holes in the floor and rocker panels. I'm in the process of getting rid of all that faded red. I'm going to blast the fenders and doors, flap wheel the floor and hand sand the rest of the cab. I just wanted to tear it down far enough to cover the red paint everywhere it's visible. I've already rewired it with a new fuse block and installed a billet serpentine conversion, along with new headers, valve covers and some other stuff. Completely gutted the interior to change the color to charcoal gray and install aftermarket buckets. It'll get new door panels, headliner, carpet, all new glass, weatherstripping, etc.. Once I get the cab primed and the inside sprayed with bedliner, it'll start being fun again.

 

[Smokin Gator]

We have 3.3 acres. At this time of year I'm busy mowing and weed eating. Recently built a greenhouse for my wife. We have 3 large fenced in garden areas. We've got a few goats including one my wife is milking. About 20 chickens. I'm setting up another pen to move them to during the spring and summer where they'll have more shade.

Grandkids are busy with sports including year round swim team. We go to as many events as we can. I try to shoot 3 matches a month, miss a few in the winter.

 

[small town life]

no spare time with kids in school even when it's between 7:55am and 3:35pm. with the "against UIL policies" all summer practicing, the kids never have any time off either. 3 kids have grduated and 1 will this year then i have the twins that lack 3 years before graduation. hopefully i'll be joining a gunsmithing class? not sure when i'll start as i'm juggling trying to get all of my damaged equipment from last years fire replaced. that alone will take months on finding farm equipment and replacing center pivot systems along with everything electrical, fertilizer tanks, hydraulic pumps and getting 2 buildings built.