My hobby is hoarding 22lr. :gunsmilie:
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My hobby is hoarding 22lr. :gunsmilie:
So......how much do you have? Just trying to determine your idea of hoarding.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete lynch
my hobbies include blacksmithing, tinsmithing, trapping, tanning hides and skins, gathering wild edibles, gathering wild medicinals, carving, fooling with old belt driven machinery, making things from bark, wood roots etc. gardening, stump shooting, tramping through the woods and monkeying with firearms, mostly older weird firearms.
Was only half-serious, but it's still not as easy to get as it once was so when I see a nice price on some bulk I buy it.
For a few years there I would pay up to 10 cents a round for some 22lr because that was all there was. The price has gone down considerably since those days.
I only have a few thousand rounds and I don't shoot a big amount in one day. But it's nice to know I wont have to budget it when I do want to shoot.
my other hobbies:
Playing guitar
Horse riding
watching series/movies
playing chess.
recurve archery
Gym.
Making things
Fixing odd things around the house.
things I used to do but do not, maybe i will pick them up again:
Ballroom and latin dancing
martial arts
parkour. (doubt i pick that one up ever again, getting old and the joints aint what they where for that.)
Ballroom and Latin dancing
come to think of it, hahah I am getting old, hobbies and interests have changed..
I prefer spending whatever free time I have being outdoors now more than anything.
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Originally Posted by Antonyraison
Hummm, seems you really like Ballroom and Latin dancing....LOL....
Good on you....
Back when, guys that would at least try to dance....got girls....
I have to tell you that some of those parkour guys and gals define belief. They can do some amazing stunts that seems to defy gravity and all logic.
I still kill things. :innocent:
LOL...I would careful with that....fall out spreads wide.....Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
in the past divorces have been my hobby, we need to talkQuote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
Yes, I used to miss my x-wife a lot...Quote:
Originally Posted by randyt
But I have not had her in the crosshairs since I got my eyes fixed
hahahh thats what got me there meeting girls :) what made me stay, I ended up enjoying it, eventually taught for a while also.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter63
Indeed some of those people are insanely good, hahah.. but sure can have some bad injuries if you not careful...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Maybe one day I will share those videos from many moons ago.
Yeah, I should have included good sense in the list. :innocent:
Gave it up.....takes too long and need a Rescue squad waiting....
Mosey to the first obstacle..check it out...Hummm...mosey back, get ladder, drag it over...climb up....try to figure out how to get back down.....Take a break...
Yeah takes too long.
Riding my 200 mph motorcycle and getting along with 2 girls. I also collect Case knives mostly Cheetahs.
You do know that 200 mph is illegal in any state, right? You do know that 200 mph is a bug's butt on the teeth no mater which direction it goes in. You do know that 200 mph means just because the bike stops you still make the next state. You do know that 200 mph gets a toe tag that reads Organ Donor. You do know that 200 mph means it takes four counties to stop. You do know that 200 mph means hitting a deer will give someone the job of figuring out what's you and what's the deer.
I used to work the drag races with the CMA and 200 mph hurt my brains just watching.
I've never gotten to 200 mph on a motorcycle. Many, many years ago I was clocked on radar at 143. When the police officer said that I was going 143 on radar I said "no way". He said he didn't believe it either so he wrote the ticket for failure to use due care and caution. I paid the ticket the next day........could have sworn I was going faster......speedometer was pegged at 160. :innocent:
Probably calibration error.
I would have asked for a copy of it..... to frame and hang up....when I got out of jail......
After a bad wreck I promised the family no more motorcycles. I have kept that promise for decades. But I do catch myself fondly caressing friends' Harleys (Yes it makes them uncomfortable) and gaping in fear and trepidation at crotch rockets. I keep letting the thought that a street legal dirt bike wouldn't be breaking my promise. Typical addict rationalization.
Last one was an Enduro....just a little play bike.
Jumps are higher, landing are harder yet if you don't hit it right....and recovery time is longer.
Done with bikes.
Anything over 60 will probably kill you, so why not go out with a bang............LOL You guys sound like the girls, that things going to kill you!!
Over 60 I'm just more specific. I want to do the things I really want to do. I still do plenty that might kill me.
I had a motorcycle for about two months until I figured out that I couldn't afford both a motorcycle and a van, and I needed something I could sleep in, so I let go of the motorcycle. While I was getting my coordination adjusted, I ran down an embankment into a blackberry patch. I didn't lay her down. It was a blast!
Sport bikes don't intimidate me...except some who ride them do...can handle them fine, but I don't really like them. Speed, stunts, hotrodding, and the newest fastest thing isn't why I ride. Or did, that is - been a while since I had me a horse. But what I like is being more in touch with the environment through which I'm traveling - a convertible or rolling down a window doesn't do it. As well as how you're more part of your machine physically in order to operate it, instead of just sitting in a seat with a finger on a steering wheel and a foot on a pedal. And I have to have something with some momentum and weight. That usually comes with a big motor and power, but that's not the point with me. I want 80 to not be some struggle for my horse, and power there at any speed to move if I need to. But as a not-big guy with a low crotch who wants to have both heels on the ground when sitting still, but also not slouched forward to hold the handle bars, that all makes it a challenge to find what's right for me. A rebel 250 just won't do it is all. It's a spiritual thing...hehe...
I collect robots in all shapes and sizes. Like Radio Controlled ones, action figures, t-shirts, coffe mugs with robots and... You name it. Gonna get my fourth robot tattoo soon.
hajita, I'm pretty sure that is a unique hobby for the folks on this forum. Not tattoos, robots. lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by hajta
Interesting though.....Quote:
Originally Posted by madmax
I like "Minions".....so robots are not all that far out.
Just remember that R2D2 is the best robot ever. A robot's robot - not trying to be a humanoid, but what a robot would be if it were a robot. Speaks it's own language, a robot's language. And can communicate with computers, naturally. Various mechanical gadgets within it's body. Etc. Yet the character of R2D2 succeeded in having personality, emotion, and even understood by movie-goers despite it's robot-language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLmOteqmDYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHgh8VXzt0
And could probably win History Channel's Alone. Hehe.
But have you collected one of these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyctxH9Dslg
I have mk 1, 2 and 3 of the Jaegers. The Russian MK-1 is my favourite. It's like what it would be like if Ivan Drago had a baby with a T-34. R2D2 is awesome. Optimus Prime is what started it for me as a kid.
My other hobby is making paper crafts like origami.Quote:
Originally Posted by MatthewnOK
Blacksmithing, woodturning, machining, welding, rc airplanes, woodworking, hunting, camping (backpack), etc. too soon old..too late smart.
My hobby is posting on survival-type forums and acting like I know what I'm talking about.
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Originally Posted by JohnLeePettimore
LOL....I hear ya....
I just get a kick out of some posters that "parrot" other forums, make You Tubes, blogs,streaming sites, ...then try to make it sound they know what they are talking about.
"Experienced" posters/posts didn't have that advantage....they had books magazines, fathers, grandfathers, neighbor., jobs military...and friends that actually went "Out on adventures"
These posting are mostly past experiences, or first hand knowledge....and yeah, maybe 'enhanced" a bit over time....but mostly dead on.
Those the do...will get that right off.
The "reviews" back then were not a "You tube"....."I just bought this gonna review it, so....First we open the package"
THe experienced.... in the past reviewed their stuff but what they could find, borrow, get for Christmas, use Dad's....whatever.
All that is leading up to the hobby of "Let's sort the BS from reality" of these discussions.......even that gets boring as it doesn't take long to tell who been there and done that...and who in full of it.
I does not take long to tell the difference.
OH yea! You-tube reviews.
Don't you just love to pull up a review of some item you are contemplating for purchase and they send you to a You-tube link and you wade through the adds, then skip the intro add video and it is some moron "un-boxing" the item and talking like the teacher you always hated in school at that stupid monotone, and during the first boring sentence he speaks he states that he has not fired the gun yet, or used the knife, or fired up the stove and does not know when he will get to because he is real busy.
If he is that busy he needs to reallocate his time and, instead of posting You-tube videos, go to the range, or go out in the back yard and see if the stove works, or go into the kitchen and see if the zombie killer knife will slice a tomato.
Even though the internet has almost destroyed the hard copy gun magazine industry it has not replaced it. I do not remember ever reading a write up of a new product in Guns & Ammo, Shooting Times, or American Handguner where, Skeeter, Massad, Elmer Keith, Charles Askins or Townsed Wheland started the article with the worlds, "I have not fired this gun but it looks good so I think it would probably work!"
Living life like a country song
I will commend inexperienced posters of any age, for trying stuff,... we all did learning as we went and making mistakes.....You have to.
Some of the best lessons start with," Well I never do this again.....but......"
You have to keep swinging till you starting hitting the ball....I get that...does show interest and some ambition......but you really need to sift thru a lot to frogs before you find the princess.
So true. I’ve never heard it that way. Bunch of fakers. LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Graf
About 15 years ago I lived at an apartment complex in Fort Worth, TX. It amazed me at the guys who lived at the same complex and drove a dually and wore a big hat. Bunch of fakers.