Burned out on firearms post-SHOT?

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I certainly seem to be. I keep going to my usual websurfing haunts on firearms and related stuff... and none of it can hold my interest. I keep going from page to page... and to my dismay finding that my bookmarks are all gun sites that I don't seem to have any interest in.

Heck, I've even had the same thing happen right here on THR. Browse a few posts, then go 'I'm gonna do something else.'

Anyone else experiencing this strange phenomenon?
 
Spring time is coming. Take up fishing or golf or gardening or whetever and don't look at a firearm website or go shooting for six months. Along around next fall you will get the bug again.
 
Oh, I'll still go shooting and enjoy the heck out of it. I went shooting yesterday as a matter of fact.

It's just normally I like reading up on all the new gun gadgetry and stuff, and work on my wish list of new toys. Haven't been doing that at all lately.
 
Yeah, it happens to me too. The conversations seem to get redundant and the banter routine. Still shoot and live it but the forums get a little dull.
 
Wintertime blahs.
My range is a frozen mud hellhole right now and $3.20 a gallon gas means I have no desire to drive 40 miles to my membership range to freeze my buns off while shooting like a half frozen man for an hour or so.

Spring Turkey season is right around the corner!
 
After I went to shot, I was completely amped about all the new firearms, nicknacks and gadgets. But they can be really pricey and really really late in actually coming out for public sale.
 
70 here in Ft Worth today, I'm going to the range. I'm sick of reading about firearms too, I'm gonna go use a few :)

It's the cold weather that gets me.
 
Yep, It's the winter doldrums, I have procrastinated several rifle jobs, I need to bed a rifle , have two that I have rescoped but haven't sighted in and another to do a trigger job on. Just can't seem to get my a** in gear. I'm hoping to get out and do some turkey hunting this spring and that usually gets the juices flowing again.
 
I would not consider it a strange phenomenon. It is a given that an excess of self-indulgence will ultimately fail to produce satisfaction. Balance is often realized in some degree of self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.
 
Oh, I'll still go shooting and enjoy the heck out of it. I went shooting yesterday as a matter of fact.

It's just normally I like reading up on all the new gun gadgetry and stuff, and work on my wish list of new toys. Haven't been doing that at all lately.
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OP, not sure if others missed your second post but I didn't.

I get it. There are two online forums I read and post on and neither has held my interest the past several weeks like they did before. The upside is I'm spending more time at the range, more time with my horse, getting more done at work, and my house is cleaner. The downside is I really like researching things and learning all about something new that has caught my interest.
 
We all go through it. You'll find yourself bouncing back and forth. A lot of other gun related websites I go on have "off-topic" forums, so it's nice to break away from the firearm portion and read about other stuff. THR is strictly gun related, so it can be somewhat tough to stick around when firearms aren't peaking your interest.
 
Quote from TS:
"Oh, I'll still go shooting and enjoy the heck out of it. I went shooting yesterday as a matter of fact.

It's just normally I like reading up on all the new gun gadgetry and stuff, and work on my wish list of new toys. Haven't been doing that at all lately. "

This is what it's about...enjoyng your guns on your own, or with friends.

Reading endless posts gets old after a while, the same ideas and questions get re-cycled and it is somewhat disheartening. I have to step away from the forums every now and then just because it is wasting too much of my time I feel because I am not gaining much from it. This is when I pick up books and read read read about exactly what I am interested in.

Nothing that cool was announced to get anyone excited this year. So there is no rush to get the new coolest item (S&W Govenor...NOT).
 
Many folks go through the same thing. It isn't unusual. You'll even find threads on it.

The best advice is not worry about it and enjoy the other aspects to your life. Just don't loose track of the culture and political struggle that continues to go on and continue to contribute in that area even if your hobby interests shift. Unlike RC aircraft hobbies there are real people with a real intent to prevent you from having a hobby and a right to exercise.
 
I went through the same thing last month. Nothing seemed particularly interesting in any forum. I just quickly browsed a few threads and moved on.

I spent the time doing some much needed detail cleaning on a few guns that have been a little neglected over the past year. Everything is shiny and pretty now.
 
OP
True for me also...There are some that interest you and then they go weird :D

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Good idea about cleaning up stuff and things...Need to get ready for working around the house and shooting, as the weather gets better...
 
I get like that untill I see some new gun want. Been that wy since I started carrying, 35 plus years ago. I just have to remind myself that If I can't carry it, i don't need it, unless it's a long gun. But a new large capacity, or another bug, pistol. once you have been through a hundred or so, they are all going to be serving the same purpose, unless it's outstanding in some way. like one that is very light or a smaller large caliber pistol with less recoil. Like an lcp in 45, that isn't much bigger with some kind of new recoil system. Maybe hydraulic.Dream on.Or a laser that locks on to the target, lol
 
You can get burned out in any hobby. Maybe you just need a time away?
 
Getting burned out on the internet & websites or even other shooters happens. It is not the same as getting burnt out on guns. Sometimes I get a little fed up with 1 or 2 aspects of a certain gun. If I step back and think about the problem and solution I can get past the issues. Same with the internet or people. Often it is what it is. Sometimes with people you have to look at their good points and forgive their bad.

With gun stuff usually try to pick 1 item to learn about, improve upon or troubleshoot, etc. It gives a purpose and direction to my work or internet browsing. If I am not up to gun stuff. I pick another task and do that. Sometimes it could be just talking to a friend that you need to catch up with.
 
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