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You Might Be A Gun Nut IF...

(Part II)

you approach total strangers and ask if they're going to keep their brass, you just might be a gun nut.
friends and family ask what you want for Christmas "Other than gun stuff." You just might be a gun nut.
you've ever run out of film photographing your guns for insurance purposes , you just might be a gun nut.
you've ever photographed your entire gun collection, but "insurance purposes" never entered your mind, you just might be a gun nut.
you try taking one big 'family photo' of your gun collection, but just can't fit them all in one frame, you just might be a gun nut.
you just buy a type of gun (say a Win Mod. 70) you love the rifle and go out and buy every Mod 70 but in different calbers which can lead to:

You fall in love with a caliber (say 243) and go a buy every different manufactured rifle in that caliber. which can lead to the above.
you buy a Thompson Contender (or new equivalent) and then the barrels come in the mail once a week for ........................................years.

you tell your wife that you happened to talk to your friend the gun dealer and she says "Oh Lord, what did you buy this time?"
you own more than two loading presses.
you buy a gun because you haven't bought one in a while.
your non-handloading friends bring you their empty brass instead of throwing it away.
you spend over $5000. building a shop for handloading and working on guns.
you have a library filled with back issues of American Rifleman, Handloader, and Gun Report magazines, and you bought a computer to index them on.
all your computer passwords are firearms related, you just might be a gun nut.
you gave your daughter a brick of .22s for Christmas, you just might be a gun nut.
you have three guns in the same model and caliber, your ust might be a gun nut.
your answer to the recent thread, "How many guns do you need?" is, "How many do you have room for in your house?" -- especially if your personal weakness happens to be pocket pistols....
you do all metric-to-english unit conversions starting with the phrase, "Well...thirty calibre is .308 inches and 7.62mm, so..." (especially if you are trying to work around to gallons-to-litres!)
you've ever risked your life for that one piece of brass that landed just a little too far beyond the firing line.
you've ever carried your toiletries into a hotel in New York City contained in a .50 cal ammo can! (Don't laugh...BT, DT!)
you've ever slept more than five minutes while lying strapped to your rifle in prone position, waiting for the "commence fire" command.
your alarm clock actually screams, "Ready on the RIGHT!...Ready on the LEFT!...Ready on the FIRING LINE!...LOAD!...COMMENCE FIRE!"
you've ever tried to quote the ingredients list off a bottle of Action Scrubber to your eye doctor while explaining why your contact lens melted!
you have written your Congressman demanding John M. Browning's (Sam Colt, Oliver Winchester) birthday be made a national holiday.
you do not have to give your name when calling the order desk at GUN PARTS(Brownells, Dillon, etc) and the person on the other end of the line asks about your family.
your personalized license plates read COLT AUTO, FNFAL, M1911A1, M2HB, 762 51, or GLOCK.
your reloading bench is made of better wood than your bedroom set.
you make all combinations to locks into things like 223, 357, 380, 308, 243, etc.
you practice your draw when walking along a path at work and scare someone (unarmed - like air guitar).
you take out your ammo and arrange different rounds in a pretty little row.
you are really nuts when you ask your teenage daughter to look at it, so you can explain stopping power to her. (She said - I love you my nusto daddy - but no thanks).
you bought a Russian SKS so you could shoot DCM matches and qualify for an M1 Garand, you just might be ...
you qualified as an NRA instructor so you could claim any new gun you bought was "for my teaching set," you just might be ...
you have a drawer full of holsters that weren't quite right (don't we all?), you just might be ...
you start feeling uneasy if you have fewer than 500 rounds on hand for your favorite shooter.
there are odd rifle parts on your night stand, right next to the alarm clock and lens case!
the post office calls you when your latest issue of Shotgun News arrives!
you look at a beautiful sun-set, and all you can think about is how much sight adjustment you'd have to make in the fluky light!
your idea of the perfect vacation is two bug-filled weeks at Camp Perry!
the ground cover your kids use on over-night backyard camp outs, is your old shooting mat!
the 3 year-old's favorite toys are scrap brass from the reloading bench.
your littlest son cheers and yells "DEER MEAT" when Bambi's mother gets shot!
your kids know which fast food joints are closest to which range/gunshop!
you give travel directions to people, using gunshops/ranges as reference points.
you load the kids in the van, you hollar "Does everyone have earmuffs!", rather than "Put your seatbelts on!"!
you measure the passage of seasons by which rifle you're loading for! (target rifle in spring, hunting rifle in fall, etc.)
you always get dirty looks from the UPS man, because every package that he brings to your house is either overly long or very heavy!
you can't remember the plot of the last movie you saw, but you can name the model, caliber and finish of every firearm in the movie.
you reflexively count the number of shots fired by every weapon in the film, then gripe to your friends when the actors exceed the magazine capacities.
your friends refuse to see ANY films containing firearms with you.
you use a .32-20 casing for a pen cap.