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"You Might Be A Gun Nut If"

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#1 ·
"You Might Be A Gun Nut If"


-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 mixers.
-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 you driver's license says "must wear night vision goggles."
-If your shoulder is callused...
-If manufactures 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?"..............

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#352 ·
...You purchased over 100 firearms before you got married, just in case your new wife didn't like guns.
 
#353 ·
ahhh so i'm not the only one w/ the build the toys up before gettin chained idea...
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IF....you are trying to help a buddy buy a new rifle an while browsing lookin at some pistols, see a 'lady smith' and reveal/inform your bud:...."lady smith's would be a lot better if they didnt have that lady smith crap on the side, who wants to carry a gun that say's lady if your not a lady."..
(then yur bud goes awe man didnt realize that...that does suck)
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#354 ·
Originally posted by David_G17
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-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 [/B]
I was laughing while reading this thread, esp. the OP’s list until I saw the “Nintendo Duck Hunt” one. I just had to stop there.

I was stationed in Germany when my youngest son still had a Nintendo and the Duck Hunt game and zapper gun. Did I mention that even though they allowed us to take our personal weapons to Germany back then going to the Range was more painful and full of BS than getting a root-canal. One Saturday I was really bored and watching my youngest son pick off the ducks with the little zapper. A contest ensued. I was getting perfect scores and nearly at the topmost level when I missed one. On the next “set” I found the perfect “excuse” the trigger was “stacking” and was at least an 8 pounder with a really loooooong take-up.

I admit it. I did it. I went down to the storage room in the basement and retrieved my toolbox along with my range box. I spread newspapers on the dining room table and my son and I proceeded to do the best trigger job a Nintendo Zapper Gun has ever had. I had to fabricate some parts, and I believe I made a flat-spring out of a piece of broken hacksaw blade. I didn’t have a trigger-gauge but I got that Zapper down to about 1/8” of movement, a “glass-rod” break, with about a 2 LBS pull.

Then I beat the game. Then I beat it weak-handed. Then I fabricated a holster and my son and I both beat the thing from the “surrender” position. My wife was not in the least bit amused (we finished around 2:00 am). But my son has the best Zapper trigger extant. I think the Nintendo is in the garage somewhere and my youngest is up to the current X-box 360. If he ever brings home a “shooter” game with a zapper gun I’ll post instructions for the inevitable trigger-job.
 
#355 ·
Originally posted by USAret
If he ever brings home a “shooter” game with a zapper gun I’ll post instructions for the inevitable trigger-job.
.....You invented the .25 cent Nintendo trigger job!!! ;)

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#356 ·
If you look at a “Look what I found” thread on Glock Talk and immediately try to find one yourself-for the same low price.


…And are depressed that you can’t find one
 
#359 ·
If you've ever seen a good deal on a firearm and bought 2 just in case one of your buddies needs one.
 
#363 ·
Originally posted by Kevinr20
If you find yourself using trigger and muzzle control on arcade games with plastic guns. (guilty everytime)
.........You teach your kids B.R.A.S.S to get the high score on arcade game machines every time!!! ;)

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#367 ·
If you had to buy a gun from your favorite dealer just because some pansy demanded to reurn it because it didn't work. Then proceeded to shoot the dickens out of the gun that didn't work. (Got a good deal too.)
 
#370 ·
Taken from CarolsC and Let's see a picture of your arsenal/collection/whatever! Thread this was rebroadcasted with his expressed conent.

If you agree with the following scale:
1-5 guns: Starter
6-10: You like guns
11-15: You've got some guns
16-20: You've got quite a few guns
21-30: Gun nut
31-40: Obsessed
41-50: Arsenal
51-75: One to be taken seriously
76-99: Insane
100+: Small nation category

To qualify for Arsenal status you must also have at least three black rifles, minimum of an AR type, an AK, and a .308 like a FAL/M-1A/G-3.
 
#371 ·
Originally posted by Navy HMC
Taken from CarolsC and Let's see a picture of your arsenal/collection/whatever! Thread this was rebroadcasted with his expressed conent.

If you agree with the following scale:
1-5 guns: Starter
6-10: You like guns
11-15: You've got some guns
16-20: You've got quite a few guns
21-30: Gun nut
31-40: Obsessed
41-50: Arsenal
51-75: One to be taken seriously
76-99: Insane
100+: Small nation category

To qualify for Arsenal status you must also have at least three black rifles, minimum of an AR type, an AK, and a .308 like a FAL/M-1A/G-3.
I guess us out here in Kali won't be able to qualify as "arsenal" status! (no AR or AK):frown:
Is there a sliding scale for married folks?:)
 
#372 ·
Originally posted by SomeDay
I guess us out here in Kali won't be able to qualify as "arsenal" status! (no AR or AK):frown:
Is there a sliding scale for married folks?:)
We'll cut slack on the AR/AK rule, but I'm sorry, the spouse presence must be over looked. I will admit I am above the gun nut level, and most of these have been while I was married. I'm working on my Arsenal rating. :)

I mean think about it: how could the media put a spin on "The police entered SomeDay's home and found an arsenal of 2 guns when that would usually rate no special descriptive adverb to shock the masses.

'Course, who said that I get to make the rules. To quote a line from the original "Pirates of the Caribbean": "It's not so much a rule as a guideline". :supergrin:
 
#373 ·
Originally posted by Navy HMC
Taken from CarolsC and Let's see a picture of your arsenal/collection/whatever! Thread this was rebroadcasted with his expressed conent.

If you agree with the following scale:
1-5 guns: Starter
6-10: You like guns
11-15: You've got some guns
16-20: You've got quite a few guns
21-30: Gun nut
31-40: Obsessed
41-50: Arsenal
51-75: One to be taken seriously
76-99: Insane
100+: Small nation category

To qualify for Arsenal status you must also have at least three black rifles, minimum of an AR type, an AK, and a .308 like a FAL/M-1A/G-3.
"Small Nation Category", now that is what I am after!!!!

:cool:
 
#374 ·
Originally posted by Navy HMC
We'll cut slack on the AR/AK rule, but I'm sorry, the spouse presence must be over looked. I will admit I am above the gun nut level, and most of these have been while I was married. I'm working on my Arsenal rating. :)

I mean think about it: how could the media put a spin on "The police entered SomeDay's home and found an arsenal of 2 guns when that would usually rate no special descriptive adverb to shock the masses.

'Course, who said that I get to make the rules. To quote a line from the original "Pirates of the Caribbean": "It's not some much a rule as a guideline". :supergrin:
Remeber, this IS Kali. Two guns is considered over the top! I guess I've got a ways to go yet, but I AM trying.
I am a certified nut (just ask either my kids or my students), so in that sense I am half way there. I guess I hust need the other 20 guns to bridge the gap. Buying at the "legal limit" it would take almost two years to be up to par.
 
#375 ·
Originally posted by Glockdude1
"Small Nation Category", now that is what I am after!!!!

:cool:
That too is my ultimate goal, but remember, goals must be challenging yet attainable. :supergrin:
 
#376 ·
Originally posted by SomeDay
Remeber, this IS Kali. Two guns is considered over the top! I guess I've got a ways to go yet, but I AM trying.
I am a certified nut (just ask either my kids or my students), so in that sense I am half way there. I guess I hust need the other 20 guns to bridge the gap. Buying at the "legal limit" it would take almost two years to be up to par.
as my grandmother woud tell me: remember the little engine that could, he kept thinking "I think I can, I think I can"...:supergrin:

As the one entry says: If you think that one gun a month should be required.
 
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