You Know You Are A Gun Enthusiast If......

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You realize you enjoy your gun hobby much more than previously thought when your wife asks you to take the 2 grocery bags with the "Better Homes & Gardens" magazines stacked (on end) to the trash/garage/dumpster and you have this wonderful craving to see what handgun in what caliber will get through the most pages.

Caveat: I live in the country and do not have to be concerned about noise restrictions, "in city" gun discharge laws or other "high population" concerns.
 
I was leaving a grocery store the other day and seen a pile of phone books by the exit. I wondered how many I could take before someone said something. They dont deliver them like they used to!:banghead:
 
You know you are marrying a gun enthusiast when...

...you take her to buy a dress for the wedding (not doing the big white gown thing like in the past) and she tries one on, turns sideways and says "does my holster show?" :D

...you buy her subscriptions to Combat Handguns, Soldier of Fortune and Shooting Times, and she wants them to come to her work address "because those liberal lawyers need an education." :rolleyes:

...you tell her you're planning to take one of the boys and attend a gun show while she has to be elsewhere, and she says "get a couple of thousand out of the safe, you might want to buy something." :)

Yep, I know a keeper when I see her!
 
1. The wife asks if your going on that d*** gun forum again.
2. Your ear muffs are on the dash of your pickup.
3. You file away all your gun magazines (paper and metal)
4. Youve named your kid after something gun related.
5. You've named your pets after something gun related.
6. The lgs relies on you to keep their kids in college.
7. The neighbor calls you before the police.
8. You check the gun forums on your iPhone and reply using tapatalk.
9. The wife says, I forgot you had that one, when she goes shooting with you.
10. You look for a gun subscription while in the waiting room.

Just a few I could possibly imagine. Keep the list going guys.
 
Whenever I look at a clock and it's 2:23, 5:56, 3:27, 3:57, 8:57, 9:17, 9:18, 9:19, etc... You think calibers instead of times.
 
when your looking at buying a house and your wife knows one bedroom will become the "gun room" and forever be lost to a sea of brass and bullets, and constantly smell like gun oil.
 
Whenever I look at a clock and it's 2:23, 5:56, 3:27, 3:57, 8:57, 9:17, 9:18, 9:19, etc... You think calibers instead of times.
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I have honestly thought of leading the following songs at church: page numbers 223, 308, and 22 and seeing if anyone noticed
 
When digging out your change for a purchase the hand full of stuff has a couple pennies a dime and about 25 9MM brass.:D Happens more than I will be willing to admit.:what::D
 
If you call out what gun you see whenever watching TV or movies. I do it all the time. It's a gift!
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Conversely if you call out all the gun mistakes during movies. Exceptions being the click-click of "cocking" a hammerless semi-auto, firing more than 6 rounds from a revolver without reloading, etc...

My personal favorite is from the movie "Man on Fire." There's a scene when Denzel's character hands the father of the kidnapped girl a Glock with the mag removed, round ejected and one round on the table next to the gun. The father loads the round into the empty gun and uses it on (well use your imagination). A brief camera shot shows the slide locked back on the dropped Glock, which would be impossible since the magazine was absent from the weapon. Chaps my butt every time I see it.
 
When digging out your change for a purchase the hand full of stuff has a couple pennies a dime and about 25 9MM brass
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You frequently have .22 brass stuck in the soles of your boots.

You have to carefully check luggage for empties before flying.

You know the local/state gun laws better than the local popo
 
3. You file away all your gun magazines (paper and metal)
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If you don't consider plastic box-like spring containing objects to be magazines. (Just kidding Glock folks :neener:)
 
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All 5 of your senses are in tune with firearms....

You can easily field strip and re-assemble your guns by touch alone.

You can identify different gun cleaners by smell.

You can tell the caliber of a gun by the sound.

You can name almost any gun on sight.

You know what gunshow beefy jerky taste like.
 
when you leave your spotting scope, targets, ammo & rangfinder in the back of your vehicle. so you don't have to keep putting them away & taking it out, along with the rest of the stuff you can't leave in the vehicle. also in the glove box of my grand cherokee i keep a box of 9mm gold dots & in the place for a garage door opener i keep 2 extra wilson 8 round mags for my 1911. when people ask you how many firearms do you have & you have to pause in order to think about it. when your boss ask you what you wiuld think, about "someone who has 12 firearms & over 2000 rounds of ammo?" your response is "now thats a guy i would like to meet"!! fun thread btw.
 
If someone asks you how many guns you have and it takes you more than 30 seconds to think of the answer.
If people tell you they are coming to your house when the zombies invade.
If the 3 digit security code on the back of your credit card is in one of your calibers. Mine happens to be one of my favorites.
You are known as "that guy" at work.
 
If you're always finding random spent casings in pockets, bags and luggage compartments...Sometimes even when I take off my clothes after an intense range session and some fall out of the creases. :confused:
 
We have a chain around here called 'Cartridge World'. Every time I drive by one, my heart rate speeds up, my excitement builds....then I remember it sells printer cartridges.:(
 
My flight to the US Virgin Islands got cancelled.

My replacement flight is in 2 days.

I was so happy cause now I can spend more time at the range.

How's that for crazy?
 
When your friends ask you when the next gun show is.

When walking through parking lots you look in the backs of trucks to see if they also have fired brass, wadded up targets, or other signs of the obsession.

When you pick up brass or an unfired round, no matter where you are or who it belongs to, you look at the headstamp, primer condition, bullet type, and crimp.

When you have a closet...just for guncases.
 
when your boss ask you what you wiuld think, about "someone who has 12 firearms & over 2000 rounds of ammo?"

I'd call him a beginner.

You are known as "that guy" at work.

Yep.

When the folks at work constantly come to you for advice on what kind of firearm to get for this or that.
When they come to you for values of guns.(Or to sell them to you)
When the local Fire Marshall tells you he will leave town if your house ever catches fire.
When the local fuzz comes to you for advice on firearms.
You move the sofa and find 2 pistols in the cusions that you forgot you had.
 
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