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

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When the folks at work constantly come to you for advice on what kind of firearm to get for this or that.
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If I had a nickle for every time someone asked me a question like this...
 
jeepguy said:
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.
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Surely I'm not the only one who has several times that number of rounds stashed away between all my calibers. I think I've stocked up almost twice that in .22lr alone...

I hear the "and police found hundreds of rounds of ammunition" kind of thing on the news every here and again, and after being a gun owner and reloader for a while, I find it ridiculous.

Anyhoo, I re-realized how into firearms I am when I was attempting to study for a math test up at the school, and I simply couldn't because of the random gun discussion that fired up a couple tables over. :D
 
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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Happens all the time...same story for birthdays, parking spaces (think airport and large parking lots), and most anything else that has digits. There are a great many cartridges, with a great many designations (many are known by more than one)...I don't know anywhere near all of em, but I can name several hundred at any given time. Whoever said knowledge of firearms wasn't practical in everyday life? :D
 
how about when you clean out the closet to fit another safe. or if you ever had to walk around the house looking for a rifle. and yes i know all about being "that" guy. People i haven't seen in months come up and start conversations with "so i just bought" or "what should i get?"
 
When you realize you have three bottles of hops, several bottles of oil, two bags of patches, and a bag full of cleaning burshes lying around.
 
When wood crates of ammunition have taken the place of common furnishings in your home such as end tables, book stands, stairs to the attic/cellar, benches, etc. When you have enough empty wood ammo crates to use for firewood to last the year. And lastly, when your young children know more about Jeff Cooper than Britney Spears.
 
The town police chief comes to your house and is asking if there is ever a problem in the future, would you be willing to help with ammo or firearms. The town budget won't/can't afford extra ammo or AR's for the whole force.
 
When you're at work and you choose an object that is numbered so that it happens to correspond with a caliber you love.
 
The first websites you visit in the morning and before bedtime and after lunch and on a break ..... are The High Road & Rimfire Central. .... And, you understand most of the questions.
 
When you remember social security, credit card, locker combination, birthadys...anything to do with numbers, by relating it to clibers and gun models.

When you have to try and remember where your stashes of powder/primers are so you can tell the firemen to avoid them.
 
Checking out at 7-11 reach in pocket for change, drop live 7.62x54R round on counter.. Employ give me a weird look, "Opps cleaning my guns today and forgot that was there"....

Check out at random store change is:
4.54 (.454 Casull)
3.38 (.338 Win Mag or Lapua)
.22 (Oh yea!)
etc, etc


EDIT: Every time I put a new battery in my drill I act like I am loading a pistol lol
 
You know you are a gun nut when--
You find a smoken good deal on powder/brass/dies even though you don't have a gun that goes with those components.

... You take a job that has a HAZMAT placard at the loading dock just so you can order powder and primers by the pallet.:neener:

...The FBI/DEA/BATF/State Police/County/City Police has your number on speed dial in case they come across some guns or ammo that they know you know about.:what:

...Every time your friends go on vacation they call you and say they found and old model(insert model, make, style here) and ask if they should buy it for you.
 
:D:banghead::uhoh:

You buy a new gun and on the way home start taling about the next one you "need"

ATF sends your FFL app back with a birthday card, and tells you you wrote the wrong day on your app.

Way too many of these apply to me. Or maybe not enough do.:banghead:
 
When it takes you two hours to find last years tax return,
but in a few seconds you can find how much IMR 4350 you used in your brother in laws .243 back in 1989. :J
 
When your idea of gopher control is not the store brand gopher bait but rather a comfortable lawn chair and a weapon :D
 
When people ask what guns you have and go into a half an hour tangent on who made it, what caliber, why it's so good, what ammo you load for it, how you got it, and why you need it.

And the next gun I have is......another half hour later.
 
And a classic: You're asked where you put "insert object here" and can't for the life of you recall BUT you can remember how many boxes of what caliber ammo you have, when the last time you cleaned what weapon was and the exact location of anything gun related in the house. :what:
 
This is my kind of group therapy lol

I'm "that guy" too. The resident gun expert at work. I'll admit I don't have as many answers committed to memory as I wish I did, but I can find the answer lickity split. Been a few times coworkers have even brought their firearms into work to have me look at them and help with a problem.
 
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