Tuesday, March 07, 2006

You Might Be A Gun Nut If

I found this in my email box this morning. I put a star by the ones that apply to me.

- If You've ever dabbed a little Hoppe´s on your neck before going on a date...
- If you bought checkering tools, checkered all your gunstocks and are now starting on the bedposts...
- If you cannot really recall just how many guns you own... *
- Surplus ammunition suppliers call you to see if there was anything you were looking for...
- If you bought a gun from a gunshop, only to realize you used to own it years ago... *
- If you've ever shot out a 1911 barrel...
- If you save brass and have a case tumbler, but don´t reload...
- If you ever stripped the paint off of your car and then blued it...
- If you've ever bought ammo for a caliber you didn´t shoot, thinking that someday you might own a gun in that caliber... *
- If your computer passwords are gun related...
- If your five-year-old can detail strip and fully reassemble an M-1 Garand...
- If you take your guns out of the safe and handle them, just so you can wipe them down before going to bed...
- If your local gunsmith calls you for obsolete parts...
- If you home-school and use ballistic tables for math lessons...
- If your gun safe is bigger than your refrigerator...
- If the speedometer on your car is in both m.p.h. and fps...
- If you call Brownells and they recognize your voice...
- If you own reloading dies for calibers that you do not shoot... *
- If you understand Smith and Wesson´s model numbers... *
- If you ever bought two different brands of the same bullet just to see which one "shot better"...*
- If you've ever had to explain "that it´s not the same gun it's a variant!"... *
- If watching the Lion King gives you the itch for a .470 Nitro... *
- If you cut out your best groups and carry them in your wallet like photos...
- If you've ever gone to a gun show three times in one month, and were excited every time... *
- If you feel that a golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range... *
- If you ever accidentally seasoned a steak with FFFFg black powder...
- If your brass tumbler used to be a small cement mixer... *
- If you identify the gun on the cover of Dillon´s Blue Press before you notice the girl... *
- If you make $30/hr at work and spent 35 minutes on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of .40 brass...
- If you have guns in your safes that you can´t for the life of you remember how you came by... *
- If the FBI asks you to identify firearms they can´t...
- If ammo manufacturers had to layoff workers when you went to Europe for a month´s vacation...
- If you know the range of every tree in the neighborhood...
- if you can tell the caliber of any spent casing just by feel... *
- If you plead with the gun shop to hold a rifle/shotgun until you have space for it...
- If you can´t figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say "Bushmaster"...
- If you didn´t get that last one because you don´t have any "non-shooting" friends...
- If you drive´'s license says "must wear night vision goggles."...
- If your shoulder is callused...
- If manufactures ask you how their rifles hold up...
- If you get misty eyed every time you sell a gun... *
- If you alternate Silvertips, Hydra-Shoks and Black Talons in your magazines because they look prettier that way...
- If you guess windage and range every time you look at a road sign...
- If you went out to the range this weekend to shoot up ammo, just so you´d have some brass to reload...
- RCBS answers your phone calls, "What have YOU dreamed up this time?"...