I just realize today, when I go to a gun shop, I have developed a habit of, very first thing, walking down the line of rifles and eyeball the size of the bore hole. Trolling for big-uns.

Looking for a barrel band and checking out the barrel contour ...



Chuck

when you only look at guns for their potential to be rebarreled into "something useful" which generally means .400 or bigger

When you find a rife that weighs 12 lbs, turn to your friend and say, "it's nice, but a little light."

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Originally posted by analog_peninsula:
When you find a rife that weighs 12 lbs, turn to your friend and say, "it's nice, but a little light."

nah .. its when your friend hands you a 12# .458 and you tell him "cute, but its 3# too heavy"

When you have at least 25 big bores in your cabinets...

When your hunting buddies claim their 30-06 'kicks like a mule', and they won't shoot your rifle no matter how many times you offer!

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Originally posted by akalinin:
When your hunting buddies claim their 30-06 'kicks like a mule', and they won't shoot your rifle no matter how many times you offer!

I was at the range with a buddy a few weeks ago with my Lott and my .470. My buddy refused to shoot either of them.

When your friends shy away at the range and will only return when you are done shooting your 'dinosaur gun'.

When the first thing you look for on a rifle is iron sights and when you dream of recoil at night with a smile on your face.

You know its bad when you take your wife shooting and you have the biggest rifle on the range, and she has the second biggest....

John

When you take your .500 Schuler Jumbo as your only rifle to South Dakota for a varmint safari

You look like Ali doing the "rope-a-dope" whenever you fire a rifle...

you read better with out your glasses after popping off a couple of rounds.

You did not notice your 470 doubled until you pull the rear trigger with out results.

JD

When you price a box of factory at $90 and say that's not bad!

When you reload and your measuring powder out in over 100grn lots--per shell!

Ed

When you pull a rifle out of the case at the range and people ask "Do those come with wheels?".

Rich
72 days and I land in Jo-Berg.

When you realize that "small" cartridge of your buddy's is a .375!

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Originally posted by Arctic:
When you realize that "small" cartridge of your buddy's is a .375!

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> Alot of these are perfectly spot on . But Arctic's and John's , with his " when you go to the range and realize you have the biggest rifle there , then realize your wife has the 2nd biggest .Are perfect . I got tired of the " got wheels for that " when I had my 500 A-Sq. ......Townsend Whelan may have said " only accurate rifles are interesting " but I think thats not really the case ... By and large only BIG rifles are interesting .....And they all tend to be PLENTY accurate ............

People come out of nowhere and ask, "What the hell was THAT?"

I do not look at big bore rifles because I own two. I do take them out of the safe on ocation
to play with them You know quick aiming and such
The ones I own are the Remington 416 and the American Safari CZ 550 458 Lott.

When you've shot a 2 Bore more than once and think building another one is still a good idea.

Colin

When you walk into an indoor range and the range officer puts you at least 3 cubicles away from everyone else.

It usually starts with a great deal on a 375H&H. Although I had previously owned a 458#1 Tropical and 45-70#1 Sporter. When you go to Big Bore shoots and walk over to the guy with the 4 Bore and say "I'm your huckleberry. Gimme one of them shells I wanna shoot that one!." Doing so while everyone else is poking each other saying "you shoot it.....no you shoot it...etc." Then you want to shoot all the other big guns at the shoot. Perhaps a few more months you find a steal on a 600 Over Kill and even though you really don't need it or know what to shoot with it besides dangerous 55gallon drums, you buy it anyway!

Andy

somebody's got to protect us from dangerous water jugs!!!!!!!!!

Jim we're in Texas. We have recently had dangerous 55 gallon drum sightings. They are starting to scare off the dangerous water jugs.

When you have shot allot of varmints with your favourite varmint gun 450 NE.

When you have passed the gene down the line and your daughter asks to shoot a 600 Overkill - twice!!

When you only get 203 loaded rounds from 8 pounds of powder!

When you have to walk out in front of the line to set up your chronograph after each shot ...

When instead of measuring the depth of tree penetration, you count the number of trees penetrated.

... When you laugh at the jokes about "penis envy" delivered by the "sensible" shooters, only you are not laughing with them, you are laughing at their "bore envy,"
and you shoot smaller groups with your 500 than they do with their 7mm rifles.

Letter Rip

When you grab 5 extra rounds and put them in your pocket when leaving the Toyota for a stalk, and their weight pulls your pants down!

When you look in the gun safe and the 'small gun' is a 375.

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Originally posted by eurocentric:
When you walk into an indoor range and the range officer puts you at least 3 cubicles away from everyone else.

Never fails - I get the same run around all the time. I'm a paying member of the club, too.

R.O.: What are you shootin', son?
Me: 458 Lott.
R.O.: Take that bench on the far side over there, son.

How about, after putting three rounds down range, you put the gun down, turn around, and there are 15 people staring at you with their jaws open.

Or someone asks if your wife is shooting a .270 or 7mm-08 and you say no, that is a 450/400 nitro express, and they walk away with their tail between their legs.

John

When you're shooting your 30-06 you instinctively check for a squib load.

Michelle

One of the ranges i go to has a bunch of young ROs .. and it never fails, the runt of the litter is the one that will take whatever i am shooting (500 jeff, 550 express, 500 AR, whatever) and then then pop one off... and ask for another round ... and generally, i have enough ammo so i can let him shoot till he's punchie ... then ALL his friend wanna shoot it...

When you ask for a standing bench ... and you politely warn the JERK with a brass chukcing autoloader "sir, this is going to be a big loud" .. and he chuckles at you ... then looks up as if he just missed being hit by lightening, but his feet are tingling.

when your 11# of ammo limit is REALLY a limit. thats only 60 rounds of 577 ne, and bout 63 rounds of 550 express or 500 Ar...

When you cast bullets and find you get less than a dozen from a pound of lead.

Aahhaaahaaaahaaaa! You all are KILLIN' me! ROFLMAO!

When your targets rarely last more than two sets of three. Mostly because the trees they are on keep falling over.