~you consider it a point of honor to only buy factory ammo if you need the brass.

~when you hear or see the numbers 221 you automatically think "fireball", 257 you think "Roberts", 218 "Bee", 4570 "government" etc., etc. and can't stop.

~your pickup is subject to search at any given time because, in your state, empty cartridge cases rolling around the floor are considered probable cause.

~years in history are inextricably linked to firearms development in your head. 1860... 1903... 1911... 1921... 1941... 1957... etc.

~your telephone number is: 223-2250 or 308-3006 or 303-3040 or some other combination of three + four digit calibers.

~you think there is some special significance when you glance at a clock and it shows 3:08, 3:57, 2:23, etc., no matter how many times you see it.

~when you hear "Winchester Catherdral", you think of the "church of shooting".

~you use a spot on the windshield as a targeting sight on that idiotic driver in front of you.

~you start wondering if you should spread out your ammo boxes to more evenly distribute the weight on the floor.

~you start eyeing the floor space around your gun vault wondering if you could fit another one there along side it.

~you even had the thought " I wonder what scale that little kids Animal Crackers are, compared to Regulation shilouttes?"

~you buy a Remington 700 BDL Varmint in .308 just to get a supply of 308 cases to make brass for your .44 Auto Mag.

~you carry pictures of all your guns with you at all times in order to show off your "babies".

~you spend more on ammo each month than on food.

~your guns are worth twice as much as your car.

~even one of your guns is worth more than your car.

~you list your local FFL dealer as a dependent on your tax return.

~a topless joint with free admission is half a mile away, and instead you drive 40 miles to the shooting range on a Saturday night.

~you alternate silvertips and hydra-shocks in your magazines because they look prettier that way.

~you guess range and windage whenever you look at road signs.

~your driver's license says "must wear night-vision goggles"

~"Miller Time" means plinking at beer cans.

~the highlight of your week is discovering that 6 .40SW hollowpoints fit perfectly in a plastic 35mm film canister. (5 up/1 down in the middle).

~you retrofit a laser sight to your TV remote control.

~your favorite NBA team is the Boston KelTecs.

~your mailbox has a Weaver Rail on top.

~you can't figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say "Bushmaster".

~you drive 300 miles just to ogle (and fire) HK-MP5s (and Stens, Uzis, BMGs and whatever else shows up at Knob Creek)

~you go to three different gun shows within a month and your excited every single time.

~you're guns are cleaner than your house/apartment.

~you have 5 different guns being DROS'd at 3 different FFL dealers.

~4 local gun shops know you by name.

~you're friends with 90%-100% of the employee's at every one of those shops.

~when you stop in, the ask you questions like "how was work?", "how's the wife and kids", "we're gonna order some food, ya want in?", etc.

~you can wallpaper your house with old issues of Shotgun News, Gun List, Guns & Ammo, etc...

~you're a computer specialist and you have more issues of Shotgun News and Gun List than MacWeek and PCWeek.

~you bought 7 or more AK-47's just so you could have different ones from different countries (Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Yugoslavian, Egyptian, Chinese, etc.)

~you're phone number, license plate, extension at work, etc. relates to some kind of bullet caliber...ON PURPOSE.

~you have framed targets hanging in your bathroom, hallway, etc. with tight groups that you have shot.

~you can read the same issue of SGN/GL/etc. everyday until a new issues comes out.

~you own enough guns to arm everyone on your block.

~you own 4 AR-15's configured EXACTLY the same but by different manufactures (Colt, Bushmaster, Olympic Arms, Armalite, etc.) just because you can.

~the last 5 guns you bought are never to be fired.

~you'd rather have a $10,000 PSG-1 and drive a $600 car rather than drive a $10,000 car and have a $600 gun.

~you preach how stupid gun laws/bans are at work when you work in a predominatly ANTI-gun company.

~you rather ban alcohol than hi-cap clips/mags.

~you actually consider buying the camo sexy underwear advertised for your sweetie in some gun catalogs.

~you learn that in the house your buying someone committed suicide using a firearm and all your interested in is the make, model, caliber and condition of the firearm that was used.

~your kids, once in said house, determine that the broken window was a result of that firearms slug after it left the skull cavity of the victim, and they understand why you bought the house.

~your brothers-in-law only come to visit so they can shoot your guns.

~your gun dealer owes you $500 bucks rather than the other way around.

~you consider concealed carry every time you shop for clothes.

~you take a dolly or hand truck with you to gun shows.

~you buy a gun safe much larger than you think you'll ever need and still fill it up.

~you need yet another safe for all of the ammunition.

~you have to structurally reinforce your house due to this hobby.

~you buy a .25 Beretta to keep inside your Bible cover. Everybody needs a "hideout church gun".

~your drive to work is filled with reverie about why Ed's Red actually works.

~when you talk about the best piece you ever had, if you mean a pistol.

~you get real good at drywalling your gun room once a year.

~you spend more on the gun accessories than the gun.

~you know the cyclic rate of a 1928 over-stamp Thompson.

~you spent hours trying to design a device that hands you bullets the right side up.

~you identify the gun on the cover of Dillon's "Blue Press" before you ever notice the girl.

~the first thing you notice is that she is actually holding the gun correctly.

~your license plate reads: "DBL TAP"

~your license plate reads: "GUN NUT" and the wife's car had "GUN NUT2".

~you have these plates and the Sheriff stops you to ask about finding a part or to sell you a used gun.

~you are Canadian and have the audacity to own a gun.

~you spend more than the cost of a new Glock to travel to the GSSF/Glock matches on the chance that you might win one as well as to shoot at someplace new and different.

~you never miss Monday Night Football because it is reloading night. That's because you went through a whole week's ammo the day before, while everyone else was home watching the regular Sunday games.

~you bought a barrel of Garand clips for the Garand your going to buy.

~you bought a mauser 98 barrel and are now looking for an action to which it can be fitted.

~you find a set of 8x57 dies and 3 boxes of brass for a good price and then spend $200 on a Persian Mauser and $99 on a Hakim to shoot the 8x57 reloads with.

~you carry a brush gun like a .35 Remington for close range shots and a .25/06 slung across your back for those long range shots when you have plenty of time.

~you have a Ruger M-77 in 7mm-08 because you had an excess 3X9 by 40 scope.

~you buy a used holster at a show for $5.00, and then spend a few hundred on a gun that fits it.

~you look in your dealer's used gun case and most of them once belonged to you.

~and you start buying them back.

~take your gun parts to work to do your customizing even though it may get you in trouble.

~you've ever conducted dry-fire practice while riding the porcelain ponny.

~if your local dealer comes to your house to shoot rather than the local range.

~if you collect empty cartridges that you can't use on the off hand chance that you might some day be able to trade them for something that you can use.

~you buy a set of grips for a pistol that you hope to get in the future.

~the dealer knows what you collect and calls you whenever he gets something new in (a Mk IV .455 Webley or anything Brittish).

~you call a friend long-distance just to discuss if a 3 gr. varience in cast bullets will effect accuracy.

~you were the only kid in the 8th grade who know how to field strip an MP40.

~you spend more time at the range on your knees in the bushes looking for corroded .25 ACP cases than shooting?

~you pick up even such useless items as .22 rimfire and steel Berdan primed military cases.

~you know they used those spent .22 cases for guilding material in swaged bullets during WWII.

~you stand next to shooters with semi-automatic firearms with a cardboard box, hoping to catch a few ejected empties.

~you concentrate more on where your .45 ACP cases are landing than on the target.

~you can concentrate on the target because your wife and/or kids chase the brass for you.

~you wander about in front of the firing line in search of that elusive 30/06 case even when others are firing.

~you make trips to the local range on cold, wet days just to search for a few old semi-crushed .38 Specials.

~you worry if you lose just ONE empty when shooting?

~you have cases in your pockets, car, bedroom, kitchen, office and garage at all times.

~your basement looks like an ammo dump.

~you scrounged brass before you ever owned a gun.

~your favorite euphemism for sex is "concealing the weapon,"

DAMN! I'm guilty of most of those. Ain't life grand?
Paul B.

(1)if you ever set your handgun at your feet on the bathroom floor while you take a dump, looked down and thought "damn, that"s a nice pistol"
(2)my dad poisons rats in his pigeon shed and i think it"s a terrible waste of fun targets.
(3)it"s saturday evening and i can"t go out cos i just filled the hopper on my lee pro 1000 with bullseye and i can"t stop till i"ve used it all.
good shooting

Oh No! Is there a cure?

Brass....must.......have......more.......brass!

I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of those things.

should you be more annoyed when all your brass is loaded or when it"s all fired?

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Originally posted by Sambar 9.3:


Oh No! Is there a cure?

I didn't see a problem!

How about when heating things in the Microwave, you use calibres or bullet diameters as heat settings! derf

I feel the need to conceal my weapon.

How about when all your passwords on your computer are like 416rigby and 93x62 and 375hh?

Only four shops know you by name? Is that just in one state, or does the whole country count?

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Originally posted by derf:
How about when heating things in the Microwave, you use calibres or bullet diameters as heat settings! derf

Wow, someone else does this too??