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You Might Be A Gun Nut IF...

(Part I)

you consider the money you lose on your frequent trades as "entertainment money", then you might be a gun nut. (know someone like this)
you purchase a second (___insert Make/model here___) pistol just because it has night sights, then you might be a gun nut. (know someone like this)
you suggest your company picnic should be held at the local range instead of the country club, then you might be a gun nut. (don't know anyone who has done this...yet..)
you have dog named after a firearm or firearm company, then you might be a gun nut. (know people like this)
you have a separate safe for your pre-ban magazines, then you might be a gun nut. (know someone like this)
you decline a date because you plan on reloading next Friday night, you might be a gun nut.
you go to the range just to hang out, you might be a gun nut.
you have a stockpile of rifle cases and gun rugs "because you never can have too many of these", you might be a gun nut.
you keep a framed picture of John Garand on the mantelpiece.
you forget birthdays and anniversaries but remember the production figures for the pre-64 Model 70 Winchester
30.06 or 8X57 to you is just as appealing as 36-32-34.
you spend three nights up till 2AM in a row trying to get the finish on that stock just right.
you drive over fifty miles to buy anything gun related.
you experience the signs of loss and grief whenever you trade a gun away.
you buy a gun at a shop only to find out you used to own it a couple of years ago.
you buy a gun you know is cheaply made and won't work well out of the box because all the guns you have work too well and you don't have anything to play with....
you might be a gun nut if you: Bought 10 pallets of ammo cans to sell at gun shows and kept 9 of them to store your ammo.
it takes you several minutes leafing through Small Arms of the World to find a gun you have never fired.
you have a callus on your shoulder.
you've ever sent a scope (that was never dropped) back to Leupold for repair.
factories ask *you* how well their guns hold up.
Hornady's largest midwestern distributor informs you that you've bought over half of all the Vector ammo they've ever had in stock.
your standard Sunday-afternoon question to guys selling surplus ammo at gun shows is "How much for all of it, so you don't have to lug it home?"
you shoot enough Berdan-primed ammo that you are on a first-name basis with your local scrap metal dealer.
you are on a first-name basis with every major tire shop owner within a 25-mile radius.
upon seeing your 1978 wildcatting project (a .375 on a .50 Sharps 3 1/4" case, 3340 FPS with a 300 Sierra boattail), Elmer Keith says "You're nuts!"
Keith Francis (at JGS, the chambering reamer company), answers your phone calls "What have you dreamed up *this* time?"
you make $30 per hour at work, but spend 30 minutes on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of 40 S&W brass. :)
you could identify on sight all rifle bolt-faces as in - "that's a Ruger, that's a Savage, that's a WInchester .."
the largest gun store in your area *calls* you if they need something they can't get elsewhere.
when buying a new gun, you plead with your gun shop to keep it until you have space for it.
you build a gun rack in your bedroom and it's closer to you than your wife.
you can identify gunshots from faraway as to caliber, whether from a rifle or pistol, brand of gun, grains of powder used, *what* powder and at what speed !
you get a flat and realize that you've got 400 pounds of shot, a Hefty bag each of wads and empty hulls, and enough primers to re-open the main shaft of the Lost Dutchman on top of your spare tire.
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 a second gun safe.
you need yet another safe for all of the ammunition ...
you have to structurally reinforce your house due to this hobby.
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...
you use a spot on the windshield as a targeting sight on that asshole driver in front of you.....
you start wondering if you should spread out your ammo boxes a bit, 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...
your telephone number is: 223-2250 or 308-3006 or 303-3040 or some other combination of three + four digit calibers.
you buy some checkering tools, checker all your gunstocks, and then start in on the bedposts....I practiced on the bedposts first, before I did the guns, would this count? ;-)
you've ever turned down sex with your wife (or anyone elses) just to go shooting instead, you might be a gun nut.
when you hear "Winchester Catherdral", you think of the "church of shooting".
you have a magazine loader on your key ring, you just might be a gun nut.
you visit a friends private range 150 miles away more often then 3/4 the local members, you just might be a gun nut.