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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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#29 ·
Originally posted by Manjo
-if you know why 30-06 is pronounced "thirty alt six"


Can you please explain why?
I read several of the related posts...but I think the problem is the pronuciation...
I think what we say is "thirty ought six"...
"Ought" is a different way of saying zero.
walterb
 
#30 ·
-if you know how to spell 30-06 ;g

P.S. i think you're right , it's "thirty ought six"
 
#31 ·
Now, if you want to get reeeeeal technical, it is: .30-'06 Spgfld.
As in caliber .30 of '06 (1906), Springfield (armory...the government one, not the present, private one).

So, if your wife coordinates her carry gun with her outfit-de-jour...have you helped to create a Fancier of Firearms?
 
#32 ·
- 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 your already thinking about your next gun while your filling out the paperwork on the one you're buying.
- if the guys at the local gun shop send you a christmas card
- if you own a 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 comprehend how that would be possible.
- if the sound of full auto gun fire makes you feel all warm and fuzzy
 
#34 ·
Yes you might be a serious GUN NUT if all you think about is different ways to pronounce 30 06..............

;N
 
#35 ·
-if you can convert a thread about how to determine if you're a gun nut into a thread about how 30-06 is pronounced, and where it's name came from, etc. ;f

guilty!
 
#36 ·
-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 have had a friend who thought knives were soooo cool and dangerous, then you showed him your AK-47 collection
-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.
 
#38 ·
Just to clear up one small point from some of the above posts, see the following:


aught(2)

aught also ought (ôt) noun
1.A cipher; zero.
2.Archaic. Nothing.

[From an aught, alteration of a naught. See naught.]

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

If you've ever watched the Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro used aught or naught quite often. And at the beginning of the 20th century, I believe it was very common to refer to the years as aught one, aught two, aught three, etc. Anyway, you get the idea.
 
#41 ·
Originally posted by mpol777
- if your girlfriend/wife is jealous of the time you spend with your guns
-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 :)
 
#42 ·
-If you find out the girl you are dating/marrying whose FATHER has a huge collection of guns you hope to inherit......SOON

;N
 
#43 ·
Originally posted by Rob61
- if you find yourself doing trigger and muzzle control on the bottle of your wife's glass cleaner
-if you mount a red laser sight on it.
-if you have range data sheets for it.
-if she uses it in weaver stance just so you'll be quiet.
-if you had to buy her another bottle after your failed attempt at converting one to full-auto.

-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.
 
#45 ·
Originally posted by TEAK
-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. ;Q ;Q ;Q
And I thought Nobody knew!!!!!

;N
 
#46 ·
You might be a Fancier of Firearms if you know exactly what the following ad refers to:

"SHOTGUNS: Beretta pin tail 12 ga, lnib $425. Zabota 20 ga. SxS, 26" M and F, $225. Call xxx-xxxx"

(actual ad in Albuquerque Journal, 13 Dec 2002)
 
#47 ·
...real Fanciers of Firearms don't shop WW's gun counter

;g
 
#50 ·
-if your favorites in the computer only have one folder, "guns."
-when your wife have .357 sig brass as earings
-at the tupperware party you show them your Glock
-your gold tooth is made of melted brass
-you get arrested for possesion of a gram of black powder
-your kids have Glock as middle names
-your kids bike is on a bipod
-you go out with bird watchers with a 3-9 scope
-your walkman is made by Peltor
-your kids vocabulary consists; ballistics, trajectory, clusters, magnums, parallax
 
#51 ·
Originally posted by Squadman
-your kid's vocabulary consists: ballistics, trajectory, clusters, magnums, parallax
long before they learn words like "mama" and "daddy" ;)
 
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