If you order an obsolete cartridge gun just to see what one really looks like, and at the same time looking for sources of the obsolete ammo.
If you've ever turned down sex with your wife (or anyone elses) just to go
shooting instead, you might be a gun nut.
If you've ever risked your life for that one piece of brass that landed
just a little too far beyond the firing line.
If you've ever carried your toiletries into a hotel in New York City
contained in a .50 cal ammo can!
If you've ever slept more than five minutes while lying strapped to your
rifle in prone position, waiting for the "commence fire" command.
If your alarm clock actually screams, "Ready on the RIGHT!...Ready on
the LEFT!...Ready on the FIRING LINE!...LOAD!...COMMENCE FIRE!"
If your legacy to the world will be the unbelievable ".17-50BMG-(insert
your name here)-Improved!"
If you've ever gotten naked from the waist down at the
reloading/cleaning bench because of a tipped bottle of #9!
If when you get ready for bed, you're still picking grains of H335 out
of your hair, toothbrush, underwear...
If you've ever bragged about the size of the groups your semi-auto
throws .......................with its empty brass.
In order to fully put your trust in the riot shotgun you bought to
lean behind the door you feel you have to put it through it's paces by
taking it duck hunting. AND, you destroyed your wife's favorite
mop-handle to make a plug for the magazine!
If after realizing that you DO own one gun of every caliber, you find that
you should have at least TWO of each so that they can "share ammo."
This explains how you consider your Anschutz 2013 and your Mitchell
AK-22 to be "Companion Guns." And your Churchill side-by-side .410 with
the fancy English walnut stock to be a companion to your "Thunder 5"
revolver! And your Barret .50 BMG to be the companion to your Desert
Eagle .50AE...
If you tell your wife that you happened to talk to your friend the gun dealer and she says "Oh Lord, what did you buy this time?"
If you own more than two loading presses.
If you buy a gun because you haven't bought one in a while.
If your non-handloading friends bring you their empty brass instead of throwing it away.
If you spend over $5000. building a shop for handloading and working on
guns.
If you have a library filled with back issues of American Rifleman,
Handloader, and Gun Report magazines, and you bought a computer to index
them on.
If you ever seriously thought about dabbing a little Hoppe's #9 on your
neck before going out on a date, you just might be a gun nut.
If you buy a gun that's just like that other gun you have except the
barrel is 1/2" shorter (longer), you just might be a gun nut.
If you ever clean a gun that hasn't been shot in the week since you
cleaned it last, you just might be a gun nut.
If you ever bought ammo in a caliber for which you have no gun, because
you thought some day you MIGHT get a gun in that caliber, you just be be
a gun nut.
If all your computer passwords are firearms related, you just might be a
gun nut.
If you gave your daughter a brick of .22s for Christmas, you just might be
a gun nut.
If you have three guns in the same model and caliber, you just might
be a gun nut.
How about buying reloading dies before you get the rifle and the ammo!
If you call your local store to tell them where they can get a hard-to-find item, and then they piggyback their small order onto your larger one.
If you go to a gun show and contemplate buying a particular gun for a
half an hour before you remember you already have that one....
If you buy a gun that is a duplicate of one you already have because
the original one might break someday....
If you have more .50 cal ammo cans than the U.S. government....
If you have to run out to the range this weekend to shoot up some ammo
because you need some brass to reload...
If you buy high cap mags for a gun you have not bought yet?
Your a gun nut if the smell of 30 year old Cosmoline attracts you like
perfume.
If there's so many gun cases under the bed that the springs no longer sag.
Every time you see a structure you wonder what kind of penetration your
favorite round will have on it.
You keep leaving home with the empty gun case, while telling your wife
that you are taking that one gun to be fixed, and returning with a full
gun case.
When someone talks about 12 gauge steel, you wonder if it has anything
in common with the term regarding shotguns.
When you keep bragging about enough guns to take over a small third
world country.
All your shirts say things like HK, Colt Mossberg, and all your hats
have names of ammunition manufacturers.
You'd trade in your car for a Beta C-Mag.
You keep quoting Jeff Cooper , while at work, especially if you are a
priest.
Your pistol permit reads like a shopping list.
You get blisters on your fingers from loading magazines.
If you buy a gun at a shop only to find out you used to own it a couple of
years ago.
Your reloading bench is made of better wood than your bedroom set.
If you make all combinations to locks into 223, 357, 380, 308, 243, etc.
If you consider the money you lose on your frequent trades as
"entertainment money".
If you purchase a second (___insert Make/model here___) pistol just
because it has night sights, then you might be a gun nut.
If you suggest your company picnic should be held at the local range
instead of the country club, then you might be a gun nut.
If you have dog named after a firearm or firearm company, then you might
be a gun nut.
If you have a separate safe for your pre-ban magazines, then you might be
a gun nut.
If you decline a date because you plan on reloading next Friday night,
you might be a gun nut.
If you go to the range just to hang out, you might be a gun nut.
If you have a stockpile of rifle cases and gun rugs "because you never
can have too many of these", you might be a gun nut.
If you can spot spent fired brass at 50 paces....
If you pick up brass in calibers you don't shoot, just in case, ...
If your e-mail address ends in @KaBoom.org ....
If you had to have a ammo depot built in your back yard just to hold
your extras ....
You just might be a gun nut if you start feeling uneasy if you have
fewer than 500 rounds on hand for your favorite shooter.
You just might be a gun nut if there are odd rifle parts on your night
stand, right next to the alarm clock and lens case!
You just might be a gun nut, when you look at a beautiful sun-set, and
all you can think about is how much sight adjustment you'd have to make
in the fluky light!
You just might be a gun nut, when your idea of the perfect vacation is
two bug-filled weeks at Camp Perry!
You just might be a gun nut, when the ground cover your kids use on
over-night backyard camp outs, is your old shooting mat!
You just might be a gun nut if the 3 year-old's favorite toys are scrap
brass from the reloading bench.
You just might be a gun nut when your kids know which fast food joints
are closest to which range/gunshop!
You just might be a gun nut when you give travel directions to people,
using gunshops/ranges as reference points.
You just might be a gun nut, if, when you load the kids in the van, you
holler "Does everyone have earmuffs!", rather than "Put your seatbelts
on!"!
You just might be a gun nut when you measure the passage of seasons by
which rifle you're loading for! (target rifle in spring, hunting rifle
in fall, etc.)
You just might be a gun nut, when you always get dirty looks from the
UPS delivery man, because every package that he brings to your house is either overly long or very heavy!
If you replaced your wife's walk in closet w/a walk in gun safe ...
If your Laz-E-Boy doubles as your handgun safe ...
If you take your guns out of the safe each night and handle
them, just so you can wipe them off before putting them away.
If you keep a loaded gun hidden in every room in the house,
including the bathroom and kitchen, "just in case", and then keep
one on you at all times just in case someone breaks in while you're
in the hallway.
If you named your pocket pistol "Little Guy" and your 12 gauge "Big Jake."
It takes you several minutes leafing through Small Arms of the World
to find a gun you have never fired.
You have a callus on your shoulder.
You've ever sent a scope (that was never dropped) back to Leupold for
repair.
Factories ask *you* how well their guns hold up.
Hornady's largest Midwestern distributor informs you that you've bought over half of all the Vector ammo they've ever had in stock.
Your standard Sunday-afternoon question to guys selling surplus ammo
at gun shows is "How much for all of it, so you don't have to lug it home?"
You shoot enough Berdan-primed ammo that you are on a first-name basis
with your local scrap metal dealer.
You are on a first-name basis with every major tire shop owner within
a 25-mile radius.
Upon seeing your 1978 wildcatting project (a .375 on a .50 Sharps 3 1/4" case, 3340 FPS with a 300 Sierra boattail), Elmer Keith says "You're nuts!"
Keith Francis (at JGS, the chambering reamer company), answers your
phone calls "What have you dreamed up *this* time?"
You own a firearm listed in the Guinness book.
You go to a marriage counselor, he asks you which you like better,
shooting or sex, and you think it's the stupidest question you've ever
heard.
You're in the Army Reserves, and they can't figure out why every time
they send you out to shoot the M60 with 100 rounds, you return with a
shot-out barrel. It never dawns on them you're bringing your own
ammo...
If you spend more on ammo each month than on food.
If your guns are worth twice as much as your car.
If you list your local FFL dealer as a dependent on your tax return.
If a topless joint with free admission is half a mile away, and instead you
drive 40 miles to the shooting range on a Saturday night.
If you alternate Silvertips and hydra-shocks in your magazines because they
look prettier that way.
If your kid's huggies come in camo battlepacks.
If it bothers you more when 007 runs out of ammo than when the BOND girl
dies.
If your key-ring fob is a converted .50BMG cartridge.
If you watch La Femme Nikita just to see the HK MP5s.
If "Miller Time" means plinking at beer cans.
If the highlight of your week is discovering that 6 .40SW hollowpoints fit
perfectly in a plastic 35mm film canister. (5 up/1 down in the middle).
If you put a Hogue Grip on your car's parking brake
If you retrofit a laser sight to your TV remote control.
If your favorite NBA team is the Boston KelTecs.
If your wife wants to wear black leather so you buy her a carry holster.
You have Trijicon Night-lights in your bedroom.
Your mailbox has a Weaver Rail on top.
You can't figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say
"Bushmaster".
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