You Might Be a Gun Nut if.......
 

You might be a "Gun Nut" if:


-----you have ever loaded a drawer up with so much ammo that you can't open it


-----when someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute


-----you have ever bought ammo in a caliber that none of your guns fire


-----the guns you took to the range cost more then your car


-----you carry a different gun every day of the week


-----whenever you can't decide which gun to get, you get both


-----you get your wife/girlfriend to wear Hoppes 9 instead of her usual perfume.


-----you take so many guns to the range and don't shoot half of them.


-----you have an extra room in your house just for ammo and guns.


-----your home page is set to a firearms related webpage.


-----you count the number of bullets that people shoot in a movie and then scream a top of your lungs BULLSH**!!! when a guy using a revover mows down a battalion of criminals without reloading.


--- you know more about the Constitution than your lawyer.


--- your wife leaves you and you don't mind. Your dog gets run over by a truck and you barely flinch. But you accidentally drop your favorite gun, gets scratched and you cry a river.


---- if you ever thought to do your own "Gun Buy-Back" program. Let's face it, even a Saturday Night Special for a $20 Blockbuster Gift Card is a good deal.


---- if you have more holster than Imelda Marcos had shoes.


---- if you never stop looking for pre-ban hi-cap magazines... even in a supermarket.


-----if you can field strip any firearm you own hanging upside down and blindfolded


-----if you have ever bought a gun to fill an old holster someone gave you. (So many times I can no longer count 'em.)


---- if you have ever bought a gun to shoot up a half-filled 20-round box of ammo someone gave you, because you didn't have a rifle in that caliber yet. Ditto for when someone gives you an old set of reloading dies in some obscure caliber.


-----if you have ever accidentally run a pocket pistol through the wash and spin cycles, still in your pants pocket.


----- if you do not own a single fabric-based item (clothing, bags or suitcases) that does NOT set off the explosives trace detector at the airport.


-----if you have ever bought a gun that is identical to TWO you already own, because the first two are out-of-production NIB examples and you can't bring yourself to shoot them.


-----When buying something with pocket change, you have to pick the dimes and quarters out of a handful of loose ammo.


-----if you regularly find guns around the house and in far corners of the safe that you have no memory of buying ... and such discoveries no longer surprise you.


-----if you have ever busted a spring on your car from piling too much ammo in the trunk on the way to a shoot.


-----For you NFA junkies: You know the birthday of your BATF examiner, even though you can't remember your wife's.


-----if you have ever researched a firearm you own to find out the date it was manufactured ... and then thrown a birthday party for it.


-----if you go to WalMart for back-to-school supplies, then must explain to your wife why that includes 1k of 9mm Win white box.


-----if your dog is "Dog" and your cat is "Cat," but each of your guns has a name. (Well, at least the guns you're closest to -- ya know, the ones you've bonded with.)


-----when you say "Damn ! That is a sexy looking piece!", your wife knows you are not looking at another woman.


----- whenever you see a story on TV about a gator spotted in a neighborhood, you think "Crap, there goes another target of opportunity."


----- if your AR, after installing all the new gadgets, now weighs more than a FAL.


----- if any time a wheather person on TV gives the latest update on the hurricane du jour, you wonder if you have enough ammo.


---- if your hurricane panels have shooting ports.


-----if you have to have additional homeowner's insurance specifically for firearms.


-----if the cops have ever called Homeland Security after pulling you over


-----if you have ever carried more then two guns at once


-----when the local gunshop needs an obscure magazine, they call you


-----when you call your local rep's office, the guy who answers groans and says "I'll tell him again not to vote for AWB" as soon as he hears your name


-----if you have more holsters then pants


-----if the movers all groan when they see your gunsafe


-----if you spend half an hour bitching about how the good guy in the movie killed 20 badguys firing full-auto from the hip


-----if your spend another half an hour explaining how the movie would have been over in 10 minutes if any of the bad guys victims had a gun


-----if you regularly just sit and stare at your guns for a while, and the rest of your family doesn't find this strange


-----if you reach into your pocket for change at the local 7-11 and pull out loose ammo along with your change.


-----if the guy working at the 7-11 knows you and isn't surprised.


-----if you have a poster of Burt Gummer holding an 8 bore rifle. ("Guess you broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya!")


-----if you can actually take a nap in a gun range.


-----if you felt a knot in your stomach when they showed US Soldiers destroying a cache of brand spanking new AK-74 on the news.


-----if you considered that the cheaply goldplated HK MP-5 was reason enough to oust Hussein.


-----When you mount a tripod, bayonet and flash suppressor to your N.A.A. 22 MINI MAG


------If you do a complete breakdown of all your weapons just to stay in practice - "especially if you haven't made it to the range lately"


------if you find more .22LR than loose change when you clean out your car.


------if your nightstand is stacked with gun rags and firearm technical and reloading manuals.


------if you build a portable reloading system so you can reload in the family room and not miss your favorite tv-show.


----if the local SWAT teams stop by your house for guns and ammo before heading out to the big bust

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awesome post, lol, the great thing is i understood all of those all to well:D

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Hey RET, have you been pokng around my house?;)

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I am guilty of almost all of the above.:D

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I can understand most of those really all too well...just ask my wife..lol

but you did forget one...

When you spend 6 grand for steel renforcing beams to be put in the floor of your house to support the weight of your gun room cause you have so many gun safes and stuff in there that the floor started to sag! (guilty of that I am...lol) I am not kidding!

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That's hilarious! Can't wait to pass this along to my range buddies.

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I have been called a gun nut for a long time(as well as other things)
NOW I have proof!!!!!!!!:D

Great post.

PS I just built a new room because I was affraid the floor in my gun room was going to give way.

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Guilty as charged! Great post.

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I resemble those staments. lol

I did this one just today.

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I did that at the local library a year ago while paying a fine and scared the clerk half to death. Didn't help that I was checking out Jeff Cooper's "Art of the Rifle". ;)

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You guys own guns?

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RET3006 You better go over your list.I think you might have forgotten a couple small points.

F4YG, Not me. I use to own one or two but decided it wasn't Politically Correct so I got rid of them.There is no need for a firearm when you have the Government protecting you.Plus 911 is right at your finger tips. I feel safer knowing those evil things are gone.
Ruger Redhawk

RE: You Might Be a Gun Nut if.......
 

A few more:

You know the difference between a clip and a magazine.

The local gun and knife show is held in your basement.

You keep Brownell's on speed dial.

The local gun dealer calls you when he can't find an obscure part.

You watch a battle on the news and wish you were there so you can scrounge all that brass.

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How about....

If when you take your girlfriend out for dinner and you look in your wallet you have more "laway or deposit" slips on guns than greenbacks.( True)

You get rid of a sofa and bookcase to make room for your gunsafe.(True)

You get rid of a couch to add on to the reloading bench.(True)

Around the Holidays your local gun shop owner sends you something from Swiss Coloney. (No but my outfitter did)

You buy ammo for guns you don't own because they look cool. (True)


Hey Ret3006,
You have an extra poster of Burt Gummer? Serioulsy now.

NBH

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How about if you HANDLOAD ammunition for a caliber you don't own! (That's me.)

Been saving for a Ruger Super Redhawk .454 Casull for awhile (which I just picked up TODAY!!!:D:D:)), but a few months back I got a heck of a deal on a set of .454 dies at a gunshow (that I couldn't pass up), then a week later Midway had a sale on their Starline .454Casull brass (that I couldn't pass up), and before I knew it I had 50 rounds of .454 Casull loaded and patiently sitting on my bench wait for a gun to be shot through! I also have a box of .243Win ammo that I bought before I changed my mine and bought a .22-250. Only 19 rounds though, 'cause I couldn't resist the urge to pull one bullet and see what kind and how much powder the factory ammo used.

And I have a half box of .44Mag from a Rossi lever gun I USED to own.

Right now I have more ammo for guns I DON'T own, than for guns I do! Do I qualify as a "gun nut"?[8D];):D

Mike

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How about when friends drop bring over a gun that has been reduced to a bag full of parts for you to put back together to save them the embarassment of having to go to a gunsmith?

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Guilty Great Post!

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How's this one -

You can't balance your checkbook but you can calculate a holdover in your head to an 1/8th of an inch

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I should have read this post before I went to the airport. I was standing in line to go through the metal detectors. Reaching in my pocket to put my keys and change in the little bowl I felt at least 3, 357 mag cartridges......OOOOPS. Step out of line act like I forgot something.......nowdays that could have got me at least strip searched.

What did I do with the ammo.........let's just say pulling cast bullets are better done with pliers than teeth, before trashing the ammo.

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Well I guess I`m a NUT!!! Funny Post....

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Great post
Plan my holidays around any big shoots that are coming up.I have anual leave booked to 2008 and then I retire

Derek

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Great post! How about if you've ever considered a makeshift reloading bench in the back of your pickup for use at the range.

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Excellent post! How 'bout this one. I found out on Mother's Day that I'm gonna be a daddy (for the first time). When folks ask when the child is due all I can say is "Hopefully he'll hold on until after deer season"

The only really sympathetic ear I get is from my brother, who had to pass on a hunt two years ago for just that reason.