You might be a gun nut, if ...............

[Buckshot]

If You've ever dabbed a little Hoppe's on your neck before going on a date...

If you bought checkering tools, checkered all your gunstocks and are now starting on the bedposts...

If you cannot really recall just how many guns you own...
Surplus ammunition suppliers call you to see if there was anything you were looking for...
If you bought a gun from a gunshop, only to realize you used to own it years ago...

If you've ever shot out a 1911 barrel.........
If you save brass and have a case tumbler, but don't reload...
If you ever stripped the paint off of your car and then blued it
If you've ever bought ammo for a caliber you didn't shoot, thinking that someday you might own a gun in that caliber...
If your computer passwords are gun related...
If your five-year-old can detail strip and fully reassemble an M-1 Garand............
If you take your guns out of the safe and handle them, just so you can wipe them down before going to bed...
If your local gunsmith calls you for obsolete parts...

If you home-school and use ballistic tables for math lessons...

If your gun safe is bigger than your refrigerator...

If the speedometer on your car is in both m.p.h. and fps...

If you call Brownells and they recognize your voice...

If you own reloading dies for calibers that you do not shoot...

If you understand Smith and Wesson's model numbers...

If you ever bought two different brands of the same bullet just to see which one "shot better"...

If you've ever had to explain "that it's not the same gun it's a variant!"...

If watching the Lion King gives you the itch for a .470 Nitro...

If you cut out your best groups and carry them in your wallet like photos...

If you've ever gone to a gun show three times in one month, and were excited every time...
If you feel that a golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range...
If you ever accidentally seasoned a steak with FFFFg black powder...
If your brass tumbler used to be a small cement mixer...

If you identify the gun on the cover of Dillon's Blue Press before you notice the girl...
If you make $30/hr at work and spent 35 min- on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of .40 brass...
If you have guns in your safes that you can't for the life of you remember how you came by...

If the FBI asks you to identify firearms they can't...
If ammo manufacturers had to layoff workers when you went to Europe for a month's vacation...
If you know the range of every tree in the neighborhood...
If you can tell the caliber of any spent casing just by feel...
If you plead with the gun shop to hold a rifle/shotgun until you have space for it...
If you can't figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say "Bushmaster"...
If you didn't get that last one because you don't have any "non-shooting" friends...
If your driver's license says "must wear night vision goggles."
If your shoulder is callused...
If manufacturers ask you how their rifles hold up.
If you get misty eyed evey time you sell a gun..
If you alternate Silvertips, Hydra-Shoks and Black Talons in your magazines because they look prettier that way..........
If you guess windage and range every time you look at a road sign...
If you went out to the range this weekend to shoot up ammo, just so you'd have some brass to reload...
RCBS answers your phone calls, "What have YOU dreamed up this time?"..............
If you can name the parts of your post-ban rifle you had to (or want to) swap out to make a legal semi auto AW
If someone asks about the president and you think they're talking about Charlton Heston...
If you know the model numbers of your Glocks, how many and what size mags you have, and which are loaded, but have no idea when your anniversary is....
If you've ever had to explain why you need armor piercing rounds to someone...
If you don't know that there is a difference between "the Internet" and "Glock Talk"
If you have ever run out of gas in your car, but have never run out of ammo before
If you know the serial numbers of your guns, but still get your kids' names mixed up.

If you hold a firearms related record in Guiness book of world records.
If you go to gun shows with a grocery buggy (painted camo of course)
If you had to explain to someone what a "SHTF scenerio" is
If the National Guard calls you when things get a little too hot

If you had a gun rack on your bike when you were a kid
If you know why 30-06 is pronounced "thirty alt six"
If you buy all of your clothes at wal-mart but own some of the most expensive holsters known to man

If your name is on California's AW ban

If you walk up on a conversation about horses and as soon as you hear "colt", you are immediately interested...

If your favorite saint is John Moses Browning.

If your favorite paint color is "gun metal grey".

If you break off on a dissertation on how badly congress screwed Bill Ruger.
If you anticipate another shooting session AS you are putting your guns away at the range.

If you look at Shotgun News the way teenagers look at playboy

If every street sign within 5 miles of your house looks like it came from chechnya

If you went to college, but owned more gun manuals than text books
If the national guard armory has your phone number on "call block" because you keep making bids on their WWII artillery piece sitting out front

If you carry a backup gun in case the backup for your backup fails.

If you carry concealed at the beach

If third world arms dealers consider you to be the largest gun runner in the world (but you keep all the stuff for yourself)
If you were arrested/questioned about the sniper shootings

If you've filled out more "yellow forms" than income tax forms

If you have your own VIP parking spot at gun shows.

If you hear someone say "it's about 9:45" and you think to yourself "good grief, the 9mm/.45 debate will never end!"

If you sit through a violent movie and aren't bothered by gory violence, but flinch when someone drops a firearm (might scratch it)

If the above has ever brought tears to your eyes



......................Buckshot

[Buckshot]

If you have been banned from a movie theater because you always stand up in the middle of the movie and tell everyone you can't fire 30 rounds from a revolver without reloading.

If you ever took apart your Nintendo zapper and installed custom trigger,laser sight, scope, etc. for Duck Hunt
If you have more firearms than friends
If you have insurance covering your guns, but not you

If Hillary Clinton makes your skin crawl.

If you slide your paddle holster on to check your mail.

If you slide your paddle holster on to take out the garbage.

If you find yourself rapidly disassembling/re-assembling your handgun....in the dark.....on the toilet.

If you drive to work with a $1500 Kimber in a $500 pick-up.



If your guns are named names usually reserved for people

If you designed your own caliber and built a firearm to fire it

If you grew up with loaded guns all around you, but it never crossed your mind to shoot up your school.

If you've read the Constitution

If you know the second amendment by heart

If you know the second amendment translated into more than 3 laguages

If you used to have a hill as a backstop, but now it has become a 30 foot high mound of pure lead.

If you make your own reloading tools



If you don't label your reloading powder, because you can hear the difference when shaking the can

If you have ever read an article in the crime section of the newspaper and read "the suspect had over 200 rounds of ammunition", then assumed it was a misprint. who in his right mind would get down to only 200 rounds???
If your CCW is a shotgun

If your CCW is a .50

If your CCW is a LAW

If you find yourself doing trigger and muzzle control on the bottle of your wife's glass cleaner

If your girlfriend/wife is jealous of the time you spend with your guns

If your wishlist on midwayusa totals up to the price of a new car

If that new car would be a Bentley

If you own guns you haven't shot yet

If you have a room in your house dedicated to guns

If when someone says "but what if you don't have a gun with you?" and after 15 minutes you still can't comprehend how that would be possible.

If the sound of full auto gun fire makes you feel all warm and fuzzy

If you shook the presents under your tree, and one fired a round out of it.

If you've spent more money at Midway USA, Brownell's, and Cabela's than the companies are worth.

If your will specifies your favorite firearm(s) to be buried with you.

If the glock talk logo is burned into your monitor.

If you wonder why you must renew your CCW license every year, but your marriage license won't expire.

If someone asks how many guns you have, and the answer begins with "about" (i.e. "about 50 or so").

If you took an ink blot test, and your answers were things like "an AR-15 sear", "bolt release from ruger 10-22", "firing pin from M1911", etc.
If you know you carry 45 caliber 230 grain full metal jacketed hydra-shock hollow points from Federal, but don't know the color of your wife's eyes.
If you have ever shot a hole in something on accident
If that something was your TV during a Bush/Gore debate

If you buy Hoppe's solvent in 50 gallon drums because your howitzer "likes" it

If the gun show owners let you in free.

If you named a dog after a gun.

If you name your kids after your guns.

If you time yourself each time you fill out one of those yellow forms, and you're down to a minute flat.

If NICS put your favorite gun dealer on call block.

If you're only dating/marrying a girl so you can shoot her gun collection.

If the wallpaper on your desktop is firearm related

If the wallpaper in a room of your house is firearm related

If you have no wallpaper or house, but live in a dug-out underground bunker to keep your guns safe

If CNN does a report on gun control and shows a table of guns from a gun show, and one of them has your name engraved on the side.

If you carry pictures of your guns in your wallet

If you ever heard gun shots outside your house late at night, but fell into a state of sheer panic because you couldn't decide which gun to grab.

If your favorites in the computer only have one folder, "guns."

If when your wife haves .357 sig brass as earings at the tupperware party you show them your Glock

If your gold tooth is made of melted brass

If you get arrested for possesion of a gram of black powder

If your kids have Glock as middle names

If your kid's bike is on a bipod

If you go out with bird watchers with a 3-9 scope

If your walkman is made by Peltor

If your kid's vocabulary consists of ballistics, trajectory, clusters, magnums, parallax

If your wife loves to shop at Glockstore, Glockmeister, Topglock etc.

If you shower the bride and groom with brass

If you double tap when knocking on doors

If you get excited when you see the Target store logo

If you buy your kids a book each and buy yourself five gun magazines

If your tennis attire has Glock logos

If your Golf bag has a gun compartment

If you lubricate your kid's bikes with Hoppe's

If your banana holds 40 rounds

If your car is coated with tennifer

If you light your charcoal with gun powder

If your kids would rather go to a gun show than Kings Dominion or Disney World

If you are the only one with a vest without a camera

If your apartment complex cites -you- as the reason they don't need on-site security.

If someone you've never met comes to your door and says, "I was given your name. Can you help me while I get my stuff out of my boyfriend's/husband's apartment?"

If the person who gave your name is a local Police Officer.

If your local Police Department makes a point of calling you at home to tell you about the sex-offender/felon who just moved into your area.

If you've been in a local gun shop and had a sales clerk ask you a question about a firearm, because no one else in the shop knows the answer.

If the above occurs so they can make a sale.

If one of your local gun shops asks you to come work for them, because you've shown more knowledge than their employees.

If the above occurs at a shop you don't normally frequent.

If your local Police Department asks you what you think about the new handgun they're thinking about issuing.

.....................Buckshot

[MT Gianni]

"ever spent 35 min looking for the last 40 S&W brass" I'm guilty [of 45 and 9mm] and still laughing. gianni.

[waksupi]

Buckshot, a very astute assessment of the affliction! Thank you!

[SharpsShooter]

I lost track of how many applied to me personally, but there were a bunch. Amazing how true most of it is... :smile:

Good Stuff Buckshot :coffee:

[Murphy]

Isn't it wonderful to find out that many of the above statements apply to you?

And now you no longer feel 'alone' in the world?

Yes...I am GUILTY of several of the above statement's.

Amen!!!

Murphy

[Frank46]

Yep, guilty as charged. Way to go Buckshot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Oh yeah, you forgot one. If you have a bad back, you bought one of those golf ball thingys that allows you to pick up other folk's spent brass. And when the pistol range is empty, you have a foot race to pickup the spent 40 & 45 brass. Even in the rain. Frank

[MGySgt]

If your Golf bag has a gun compartment??? Don't they all have one? What else are you suppose to put in the zippered pocket on the front?

Guilty of more of the above then I care to admit to.

Drew

[JSH]

Guilty ae charged.
I have to add one for CB's.
Waiting at the range until everyone leaves, so I can dig through the trash can for possible once fired brass. Also the foam and plastic tryas out of ammo boxes. Handiest way I have found to keep my boolits sorted by caliber,size and 50 lots.
Jeff

[waksupi]

I forwarded the text of Buckshot's message to some friends. This reply comes in from Algeria....

"I once used my metal detector to scan the gifts under the Christmas tree.......does that count? I also took gift box dimensions and went to the gun shop to compare sizes with wish list gun boxes

By the way, it was a 10.5 inch SA Ruger .44 mag.

I was not surprised................... and Deb was flabbergasted "

[NVcurmudgeon]

Rick, I recognized myself in a number of items on your list. MY WIFE makes sure I am packing when I go out to get the mail, take out the garbage, and especially if I am doing yard work.

[PatMarlin]

Howbout if you've been known to sneak in the side door of a gunshow and act like you are an exhibitor? :lol: ............. :mrgreen:

[StarMetal]

A true gun nut ran Chevy's in their younger days. [smilie=l:

Joe

[carpetman]

NVCurmudgeon---Your wife especially wants you to be packing when doing yard work. Out there in your shorts you need a gun to fight off all them women.

[Bullshop]

Waksupi
I must admire your determination, and your creativity for problem solving.
For me having kids helps. You cant hide anything from them, and they cant keep a secret.
BIC/BS
BTW- You might like this, BSM said that is sooooo rude!

[Frank46]

JSH, welome to the trash can inspector's club of america. Sometimes thats the best place to look for the ammo trays or whatever you call them. But here in loosiana you have to fight off the flies and bees to do so. I just chuck em in the dishwasher to clean em up. Especially the ones hogdon sells for them there compressed black powder pellets. Frank

[nighthunter]

One you guys missed ......... Being the first dumpster diver of the day after the sun sets on the range.
Another you missed .......... Being able to do the dumpster dive without an artificial light source.
Nighthunter

[NVcurmudgeon]

Another "You might be a gun nut if" from real life. I just got off the phone with Cobb Mt. Mac. We were planning a long-delayed get together and had agreed on Feb. 12-13, until Mac mentioned that he had a new rifle coming in and that it would become CA legal by Feb. 25. So it looks like I'll be headed west Feb. 26-27, don't want to miss a chance to see, and maybe shoot, Mac's new toy!

[Frank46]

nighthunter, dumpster diving's ok. For me getting in was no problem. Now at this time of my life getting OUT is the problem. Frank

[Buckshot]

................I must confess to also being quilty of several of the above. Some others half guilty. Rather embarassing, as a matter of fact.

I sure have no problem checking the trashcans behind the line. I'm after the plastic ammo boxes the various RF ammo comes in. The 22 and 17 mag boxes are great for storing lube-sized cast rifle slugs in, up to about 8mm diameter. The 100 round 22LR boxes are used for many things.

One is to sit at the reloading bench with a beer and decant the bulk 500 round boxes of Dynapoints into the 100 round plastic boxes. They're also great for storing small odds and ends. I'd thought that at some time I might build a cabinet and use the 100 round boxs as drawers for holding small machine screws, nuts and washer, etc.

I also like to get the plastic trays that (especially) Fiocchi 45ACP comes in. These are a white plastic with rounded corners. I've also found black ones of similar size but with sharp square corners. Don't know who makes these, but I assume they're for 45 ACP also.

.................Buckshot

[7br]

You might be a gun nut if you have described a person to one of your buddies by what firearm that shoot.

As far as passwords being gun related, I would use serial numbers, but my company has rules prohibiting firearms on company property. I can just see myself pulling a contender out of a paddle holster to check it. At this point, I use a combination of model number and caliber/gauge.