You know you're a gun nut if...

- Your favorite color is RCBS green.

- You think freshly tumbled brass is even prettier than gold.

- You've actually convinced your wife she wants a new gun for Christmas.

- All your bank PIN numbers are actually caliber designations.

- You thought "The Sound of Music" would have been filmed at the rifle range.


Add your own...let's keep it going...

If your lawn mower has a rifle rack.

If u buy boxes of ammo for guns u dont even own yet.

If your custom rifle costs more than your truck.

When you have dreams about what your next cartidge is going to be.

When you pay 8 and 9 bucks to get into the gun show "just to look".

I'm guilty

When you buy bullets or dies because they're such a great deal, then buy a gun to shoot them with.

(Been there, done that!)

When your gun rides in the passenger seat more than anyone else does, including your wife.

Fjold

Of course that could ride with me anyday, might just have to kick the gun out for a little while.

when you feel a little angina coming along, and stick a pinch of unque under your tongue rather than take a nitro tab...

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If u buy boxes of ammo for guns u dont even own yet.

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If you buy brass, loading dies, and bullets for cartridges for which you don't yet have guns, and load ammunition in that cartridge.

You hear about some cult that has been raided and "X" amount of ammunition has been confiscated and you think "Heck, I have more than that just rolling around loose in my trunk!"

Of course if you are really hard core your have that much rattling in your defroster ducts.

When you've already outgrown the brand new gun safe that you bought..... last month.

Elmo

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Originally posted by John TN.:
When you gun rides in the passenger seat more than anyone else does, including your wife.

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Guilty as charged.

If you know the phone numbers of a dozen gunshops in your area and twice as many mail order houses but can`t recall your own.

If you can recite the ballistic tables of 15 different cartridges but need your wifes help with your kids ages.

You remember when you were 12 years old, reading and studying your dads 1972 shooters bible ballistic section, and you still remember that info.

When a friend gives you a set of dies for a rifle you don't own. So, you go buy it.

Your mother in law says..." OH NO NOT ANOTHER GUN!!!" Then your wife tells her to shut up.

When you make sure that everyone in the family has a deer rifle. Even 4 year old Emily.

You tell your 13 year old son on his 2nd deer hunting opener he will be using a different rifle this time. It is the 7th different rifle he has used for deer hunting. Not using the same one twice.

When you see an '03a3 action on gun broker and just have to get it. Even though you don't have a stock or barrel or even any idea what you will make it into but "I'll think of something."

When you realize that the 03a3 really can't be made into a standard cartridge you don't already have a rifle chambered for.

When you suggest a new wildcat cartridge on a forum discussion board and a bunch of people tell you that it's the same as some standard cartridge. Then you realize that those people just don't get it and they probably never will.

That is not a slam. Just an epiphany. That being: A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization.

Just to let you know. I am NOT a gun nut! I am a rifle loonie!!

You have the same caliber in every make and model

Every closet in your house is a gun safe

The last gun you NEEDED was, was......

You got 5 gun projects in the works while your previous 5 aint done yet.

You own 20 different guns to hunt the same animal

1) When your neighbor tells you "go to the gun show and bring me back something pretty" and it makes perfect sense to you. (it really happened)

2) When your favorite deer caliber is anything under 300 Win mag.

3) The first thing you do when buying a new gun, is take it's picture.

4) You think Hoppe's is a subsidary of Chanel.

5) A gun show is a perfect example of the space/time continum.

6) The difference between a rifle and a piece of nostalgia is $400.

7) When you wife gripes about another rifle, you reply, "it's not fair, everyone has one".

8) Your favorite color is rust blue.

8) You have a permanent squint from looking through a scope.

9) You carry gun has grips that read "don't tread on me".

1) Your wardrobe is mostly Carhartt products, military surplus and Advantage camo...

2) You usually smell like Hoppes No 9 at any given moment...

3) If the house is on fire the only thing you're worried about is getting ur guns out of the safe in time...

4) You'll eat Top Ramen noodles so you can keep your shooting hobby well funded...

5) Your truck is an old beater but your safe has at least 20k worth of gear n guns in it...

6) You find yourself thinking about shooting, hunting and related things more than any other subject...

7) In your pants pocket along with the usual change, Swiss Army knife, etc you usually have a couple rounds of .45 ACP

-when your wife hears a clanging in the dryer and finds 4 empty cases for 3 different rounds that were in you pocket

-when you pick up other peoples brass at the range even though you don't have that caliber gun

-your on a hunt 900 miles from home, have just droped a deer your first day and all you can think about is finding the empty case

-you build a rifle that will be the perfect bear hunting gun on a wildcat named after your oldest son hoping to have it done by his birthday... he'll be 6 in July (my wife is still shaking her head)

-when you see a british falling block at the gun show chambered in 450 BP express and you start thinking of things in your house you could sell to buy it

- You drive by a golf course and shake your head thinking what a waste of a good rifle range.

- You name your children Remington, Kimber, and Ithaca and your dog is named Savage.

If you just can't wait for your 3 year old nephew to get a lil' older so you can buy rubber band guns, Nerf guns,suctioncup dart guns,peashooters,slingshots even water ballons that look like a grenade.

...when you tell everyone that you bought it for an investment. Ya right!

.....When the guys at the local gunshop have your wifes phone number in their rolodex and call your wife in July and say "Howard's christmas present just came in"
It really happened.She went and bought it too.

How 'bout you buy a rifle 'cause "I need it for a load development platform".

The one I'm REALLY ashamed of is buying a rifle for no reason other than I GOT THE MONEY.

HELLO THE CAMPFIRE!!

Your wife puts Hoppe's #9, just a drop behind each ear before she ......

Who needs pron if ou have a bottle of Hoppe's?

Judge Sharpe, a poor widows son.

If you've ever told your wife you just need one more rifle, you might be a gun nut. That'll cover almost everyone. If you have so many guns your wife can't even tell you bought another one, you might be a gun nut. This is my best one, at a Christmas $25 grab bag gift, someone asked me what I needed, the only thing I could think of was a box of unprimed brass in .257 Weatherby Mag. That's what I got.

took you 5 years getting a particular rifle shoot accuretly.

when you never have the money to buy a gun but you do anyways.

You name your first kid "Gunson Ammo peterson"

When you look through the brass bucket at the range for wildcat possibilities.

When you prove to your father-in-law that the wildcat he built in the fifties couldn't possibly achieve their advertised velocities.

You have three rifles currently under load development.

When you wake up in the middle of the night and look at the clock and can't go back to sleep because the display on the clock reminds you of a cartridge. 2:22, 2:23, 2:43, 3:03,.....7:08 now I'm late for work.

Nashcat

when you start a thread like this
or maybe worse
when you respond to it

Or read a reply and think "I don't get the joke, that sounds normal to me!"

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Originally posted by vapodog:
when you start a thread like this
or maybe worse
when you respond to it

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What??? Whataya mean???

When you get a Christmas card from a gunshop.

Happened to me this year and my brother-in-law is completely jealous.


Okie John

When you take the fifth-wheel and JUST go camping, then when your there you just keep wondering is it my time to shoot, is it my time to shoot?

You go shopping at Wal-Mart (with the wife) and everything you buy pretains somehow to shooting.

Hoppes #9, GladWare containers for bullet storage, and matches for smoking your moulds.

Did it just this morning

Rick

Your phone numbers are 300 3006 and 338 3006.

When you gotta make two runs with the pickup to get all your iron...when you're evacuating for a hurricane.

When you have the Brownells Tech Support phone number in your cellphone directory.

I don't consider myself a gun nut, but it is very scarey on how many of these apply!

Cheers
seafire

...you take your kids to the range and they outshoot the other men.
...the kids then proceed to clean up the brass, occassionally exclaiming "Dad, I found a whole box of 30-06 shells and a good box!"
...you take a different rifle for every day of the hunt for bullet experimentation.
...your wife prefers a .357 Magnum to a 9mm.
...you have to keep a logbook of needed gunsmithing chores.
...your other logbook details not only your handloads, but where you left off in the fireforming process.

Still thinking here...

"3) If the house is on fire the only thing you're worried about is getting ur guns out of the safe in time..."

or if the house catches fire and the first thing you think of is how much powder you have, and where is it?
Jim