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

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You have actually purchased the novelty soap and/or chocolate that looks like a gun.

You save empty soda cans and beer bottles, not for recycling but for plinking.
 
When you tell your wife that you couldn't drive up to Canada with my truck because it would take too long just to empty the compartments of ammo and the bed of spent cartridges.
 
Your spouse has said any (or all) of the following to you:

- Honey, please move your gun cleaning stuff so I can make dinner.
- Honey, the cat is playing with your bore snake.
- Honey, please open a window that gun cleaner smell is making me dizzy.
- Honey, please stop playing with the guns so we can go to bed.
- Honey, please get your guns off the bed, you'll get gun oil on the duvet.

and my favorite:

- Honey, please just pick a carry gun so we can go to dinner.
 
I was eating lunch at one of my favorite places in a little strip center a few years back and noticed that a new shop had moved into a formerly vacant space. The sign on the marquee said "Cartridge World", for a moment I thought to myself how cool is that! I realized walking by the front window that it was printer cartridges.:(
 
I was eating lunch at one of my favorite places in a little strip center a few years back and noticed that a new shop had moved into a formerly vacant space. The sign on the marquee said "Cartridge World", for a moment I thought to myself how cool is that! I realized walking by the front window that it was printer cartridges.
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I was ready to type the same exact story and saw your post and was like "DARN!"
But yes i was really disappointed also, Imagine a whole store just wall too wall ammo! Oh the hours i could waste there.
Talk about false advertisement!
 
I was eating lunch at one of my favorite places in a little strip center a few years back and noticed that a new shop had moved into a formerly vacant space. The sign on the marquee said "Cartridge World", for a moment I thought to myself how cool is that! I realized walking by the front window that it was printer cartridges.
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I had one of those come to my hometown and was driving around for ammo and got excited. Then I saw from the road they were for printers as well. Good thing Academy was across the street.
 
Dasfriek, gathert, reality was a real letdown wasn't it. I wish somebody would open something called the Powder Shop that wasn't smelly particulates for the ladies.
 
When you go to your local "toy store" and a guy is trying to sell a gun, the shop owner looks at you and asks "what do you know about this gun?"

Happened yesterday with an AR180.
Guy wanted $800, but only had two mags.
 
When your girlfriend asks if she can use your (my) arsenal to destroy her organic chemistry textbook instead of selling it back to the school. (She's my wife now and I love her deeply):)
 
2. Your ear muffs are on the dash of your pickup.
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I keep an extra set of plugs and safety glasses in the glove box. You never know when you might have the urge.

You save empty soda cans and beer bottles, not for recycling but for plinking.
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I have a kid so we go through a lot of milk. I love when I pour the last of the jug. I head straight to the sink to rinse it out and refill with water. I always have at least two gallons of water on the porch for when the urge hits.

I might start saving those little 16.9oz water bottles and refilling them for practice use.

I have also been wondering where I could get one of those little oval black and white stickers for my back window. Instead of OBX or anything like that I want one with +P in the middle.

Luckily I work with several cops that are real hard core gunnies. So, my wife thinks my level of interest is much more normal now.
 
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I keep an extra set of plugs and safety glasses in the glove box. You never know when you might have the urge.
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Yeah, mine are in my purse.

Does it make you a gun enthusiast when your mom says she needs a new computer and you tell her to get an SP 101? :rolleyes:
Mom: Does it do power point?
Me: Oh, it excels at power point :neener:
 
In regards to the Euro style country of origin stickers (black and white oval with 2 or 3 letters), I haven't seen one with +P. However, I have seen them with FAL and "yes" it was for the rifle.
 
BTW.....

I created a thread called "You might be a gun-nut if......" several months ago on The Firing Line forum that received ALOT of funny responses. (Although, I know many of us are already members there.)

Moderators: If I am not allowed to mentioned the name of the aforementioned forum, please "x" it out. If so, I can give the name of it to anyone interested via pm.
 
I got EXCITED when our 'Extra" fridge in our garage that we use to hold everything the inside fridge wont,decided to finally fail after 30-years,,, books,magazines,milk-jugs all seem to have a bullseye on them when discarded (I recycle afterwards of course).
Ear-plugs and empty brass litter my vehicles
I technically have more sq-footage of gun-storage than my wife has clothes AND shoes combined,,(thats ALOT )
 
Your 9 year old daughter has a class at school that includes an ad on gun control. Next day she takes down a target to show her teacher gun control. Down to school you go to see the teacher when she sends a note home. Teacher turns out to be a retired air force vet and wants you to know a couple of things. First she thinks daughter should go Air Force ROTC when she gets to high school. Second she has an Explorer Post that needs help in shooting. Third She remembers you from 30 years before when she was shooting "Combat in Cities " for the Air Force team and you were an armorer. Last she talks you into going assistant range master so her Explorers can get free range time.

blindhari
 
When they find 3 empty brass cases at work and they block off the "danger" until you are back at work and can dispose of them safely.

When you buy camera bags to see if they fit take-down 22's. :D

When your friends move and they give you back the gun you loaned them years ago and forgot about.
 
1) If you're code at work to use the cash register is gun related
2) If when asked if you have a gun neerby, you say "Only the AK."
3) When coworker 1 asks if you have a knife on you, and everyone else looks at coworker 1 as if to say "Du'h."
4) When someone turns the lights on, then says "nevermind, I should have known you had a flashlight."
5) When you mention that you're thinking of selling one of your guns, and your coworker tells you that can't sell one of your children.

Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson
 
...if you purchase violin/guitar/upright-bass cases but are musically challenged/inept and haven't a musical instrument other than an old harmonica. :uhoh:
 
When you go to the local Sporting Goods store, and as you approach the gun counter the clerk points at you and tells his customer "Go ask HIM!"

When at that same store the clerk asks you "So what do you think about (gun related product) and the other clerks (and their manager) huddle up to hear your response!

When you don't consider many of your LEO friends to be serious about firearms.
 
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