"My hobbies are Firearms and _________"
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Antiques (well, my username says it all), music, and, well, everything else could be summed up in the phrase "self sufficiency"--guns, anything to do with the woods/outdoors, gardening (for food not for looks), woodworking, etc., all with the focus of being self-sufficient.
pinstripe
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hobbies
I like shooting, guitars, riding 4-wheelers, cooking, woodworking, and working to provide money for my hobbies. I also like history, especially military history of the 20th century.
I like shooting, guitars, riding 4-wheelers, cooking, woodworking, and working to provide money for my hobbies. I also like history, especially military history of the 20th century.
My critters: two Irish terriers, one cat, five parakeets, two bearded dragons, a tank of cichlids, and as of today, my middle son's Columbian red-tailed boa.
Readingreadingreadingreading....and did I mention "reading"?
Gardening
Music
Cross-stitch
Used to crochet and knit but it hurts my hands too badly anymore
Fishing
Hunting
Walking the woods
Springmom
Readingreadingreadingreading....and did I mention "reading"?
Gardening
Music
Cross-stitch
Used to crochet and knit but it hurts my hands too badly anymore
Fishing
Hunting
Walking the woods
Springmom
Chris Rhines
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Martial arts, on and off. Brewing beer. Reading. Prog and jazz music. Outdoors stuff. Heavy drinking.
I don't collect anything. I don't much like collecting.
Honestly, shooting is what I do the most of. The rest of it is just dabbling.
- Chris
I don't collect anything. I don't much like collecting.
Honestly, shooting is what I do the most of. The rest of it is just dabbling.
- Chris
gbran
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4 wheeling in the mountains and guns go hand in hand as well as hunting.
Cooking (game) and guns is a good marriage.
Cooking (game) and guns is a good marriage.
sharkhunter2018
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Pretty much anything outdoors. Fishing is the only thing that comes close to guns. To give you an idea, I have 10 guns. The number of fishing rod/reels i have exceeds that . Other than conventional fishing, I enjoy fly fishing as well. Ive lost my touch on making my own flies. Those are the two main hobbies i have. Model planes, trains and rockets are mixed in there somewhere, although I seem to have outgrown them I still enjoy them.
. Other than conventional fishing, I enjoy fly fishing as well. Ive lost my touch on making my own flies. Those are the two main hobbies i have. Model planes, trains and rockets are mixed in there somewhere, although I seem to have outgrown them I still enjoy them.- Traveling/Backpacking. 29 countries, 4 continents so far. I was a military brat in Europe and graduated from Heidelberg American High School. I worked for the University of Maryland European Division after I graduated. I traveled quite a bit in Europe and continued it once I returned stateside and got my degree from the University of Texas - Austin.
- Audiophile - my two-channel hi-fi system is quite nice. I have over $10,000 invested in it. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vevol&1173569421&view
- Video Games - I was a GM of my guild in World of Warcraft and I cleared Molten Core, AQ20, ZG, Black Wing Lair and most of AQ40. I've been a video game nut since I was 9 years old and saw my first Robotron and Defender upright game.
- Photography
- IT - I'm a programmer at a multinational electronics corporation so I have my own website and many different IT projects going at once.
- Landscaping, home repair and various "hands on" mechanical projects
- BBQing - BBQ is an art, and I work on perfecting it all the time. We do beef, sausage, some pork ribs, maybe some cabrito and fowl down here.
- Art - I also collect art. I have art from all over the world. I'm especially fond of paintings, textiles, and wood carvings. My mother is an artist here in Texas and she makes fused glass works. She sells them in galleries in Houston and Dallas. I can only buy something when the budget and space on my walls permit, so I don't have as much as I would like. There are far more Finn M39 Mosins and M1 Garands out there that I want than paintings, I guess.
- College Sports - I'm a huge Texas Longhorns fan, especially in college football. The word 'huge' does not actually adequately express how huge of a fan I am. Hook 'em Horns!
- Audiophile - my two-channel hi-fi system is quite nice. I have over $10,000 invested in it. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vevol&1173569421&view
- Video Games - I was a GM of my guild in World of Warcraft and I cleared Molten Core, AQ20, ZG, Black Wing Lair and most of AQ40. I've been a video game nut since I was 9 years old and saw my first Robotron and Defender upright game.
- Photography
- IT - I'm a programmer at a multinational electronics corporation so I have my own website and many different IT projects going at once.
- Landscaping, home repair and various "hands on" mechanical projects
- BBQing - BBQ is an art, and I work on perfecting it all the time. We do beef, sausage, some pork ribs, maybe some cabrito and fowl down here.
- Art - I also collect art. I have art from all over the world. I'm especially fond of paintings, textiles, and wood carvings. My mother is an artist here in Texas and she makes fused glass works. She sells them in galleries in Houston and Dallas. I can only buy something when the budget and space on my walls permit, so I don't have as much as I would like. There are far more Finn M39 Mosins and M1 Garands out there that I want than paintings, I guess.
- College Sports - I'm a huge Texas Longhorns fan, especially in college football. The word 'huge' does not actually adequately express how huge of a fan I am. Hook 'em Horns!
Bones11b
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Cars 86' Chevy Monte Carlo (modified)
Motorcycles 05' Honda RC51
Edged weapons
Reading
Movies
Theses are my hobbies
Motorcycles 05' Honda RC51
Edged weapons
Reading
Movies
Theses are my hobbies
cpttango30
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Cars Racing and restoring old cars.
Fishing
Computers
Motorcycles
wood working (Although I am not very good at it)
Home Repair and renovation.
Fishing
Computers
Motorcycles
wood working (Although I am not very good at it)
Home Repair and renovation.
Nolo
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Well, there's design. Design of anything. Redesign of anything. I was in the hospital recently, and I had to use a bedpan. I found myself redesigning the bedpan. Ha!
I like reading and writing literature. Not always gun-related literature, either. I also want to be a filmmaker. Any kind of creative design.
I like reading and writing literature. Not always gun-related literature, either. I also want to be a filmmaker. Any kind of creative design.
gunsmithgirl
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martial arts
muscle cars
offroading
camping & hiking
solar power
muscle cars
offroading
camping & hiking
solar power
PRE 64 JOE
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Photography,girls,beer,dirt bikes,girls,beer,archery,beer and girls,guns and reloading and beer when i'm not reloading,early Broncos,camping with girls and beer. Semper Fi.
Beer (brewing and learning, and yes I do treat this like a science. Truly, it should be called "Fermented BioChemistry").
Beer is my favorite edible substance, and the science behind it fascinates me. Beer as a hobby != drunk as a hobby. If you're doing it right, you don't have time to get drunk (assuming you're a neophyte like myself, I suppose).
Beer is my favorite edible substance, and the science behind it fascinates me. Beer as a hobby != drunk as a hobby. If you're doing it right, you don't have time to get drunk (assuming you're a neophyte like myself, I suppose).
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ARE THERE NO PAINTBALLERS HERE?!
Seriously, does no-one here play paintball? It's like shooting excpt the targets move and there are no background checks. It's great fun, really. Anyone who posts here should play.
Besides paintball, I like knives, swords, maces, history, museams, reading, airsoft, air rifle shooting, camping, boating, fishing, woodworking, working on computers, learning (kinda, just as an experiment, as I've never ben that good at playing an instrument) to play bass, car stuff, video games ( HALO 3 is out soon, ), canoeing, backpacking, day hiking, vacationing, zoology, and writing crime fiction. i'm sure I've missed some.
Oh yeah, and researching aortic valve replacement surgery, because I might need it.
Yep, I'm a perfectly average fourteen-year old kid.
Seriously, does no-one here play paintball? It's like shooting excpt the targets move and there are no background checks. It's great fun, really. Anyone who posts here should play.
Besides paintball, I like knives, swords, maces, history, museams, reading, airsoft, air rifle shooting, camping, boating, fishing, woodworking, working on computers, learning (kinda, just as an experiment, as I've never ben that good at playing an instrument) to play bass, car stuff, video games ( HALO 3 is out soon,
), canoeing, backpacking, day hiking, vacationing, zoology, and writing crime fiction. i'm sure I've missed some.Oh yeah, and researching aortic valve replacement surgery, because I might need it.
Yep, I'm a perfectly average fourteen-year old kid.
esmith
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golf, lifting weights, football, music
scurtis_34471
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-- Home Theater / Audio
-- Reading
-- Photography
-- Wine
-- Cigars
-- Computer
I've been a huge home theater / audio nut since I was about 12 years-old and have acquired a pretty ridiculous assortment of gear over the years. Some people sell stuff as they upgrade. I tend to shift it down to other rooms, which explains why I have a surround system in my bedroom. Its every bit as much an illness/obsession as firearms. My main system currently consists of Paradigm Studio/40 mains, Studio/CC center channel and ADP-370 surrounds and an SVS PB12-Plus/2 Subwoofer. I have a Sherbourne Pre/Pro paired with a Marantz 5-channel amp. My display is an older 43" Hitachi HDTV and am using a Sony PS3, a Toshiba DVD Recorder/VCR, a Slim Devices Squeezebox and a Scientific Atlanta HD8300 DVR as source components.
I've also been into computers since I was around 15, but working in IT has kind of killed it for me as a hobby. Every couple years, I will emerse myself in all the latest technology for a few weeks and build a new machine. Then I tend to forget all about it until one of my machines gets long in the tooth. I am a casual gamer who got tired of buying $300 video cards for the sake of playing 3 games a year, so I finally crossed over to the dark side and bought a PS3 (which is also an excellent upconverting DVD player, a good BluRay player and a half-decent media extender).
I've been into wine and cigars for a few years and I do maintain a humidor. I only smoke about 10 to 12 cigars a year, but I enjoy them a lot when I indulge. I'm a little less temperate with the wine and consume 1 to 2 bottles a week. My wife likes sweet whites, but I'm more of a red guy.
I used to be huge into photography and did quite a bit of work in college. I've slacked off a lot over the years and only recently got a truly decent little camera to start getting back into it. My old Nikon SLR is simply worn out from being dragged all over the country and the world for ten years and thousands of exposures.
My undergrad degree was in English Lit. What do you do with an English major? I taught English abroad for three years before coming back to the States and realizing that didn't want to teach and didn't like most of my options. I leveraged my long-standing computer hobby to land my first tech job and eventually got a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. Now I'm a data warehouse architect with a large medical company. That said, I wouldn't be much of an English major if I didn't enjoy reading and I still manage to read at least a book or two a month.
-- Reading
-- Photography
-- Wine
-- Cigars
-- Computer
I've been a huge home theater / audio nut since I was about 12 years-old and have acquired a pretty ridiculous assortment of gear over the years. Some people sell stuff as they upgrade. I tend to shift it down to other rooms, which explains why I have a surround system in my bedroom. Its every bit as much an illness/obsession as firearms. My main system currently consists of Paradigm Studio/40 mains, Studio/CC center channel and ADP-370 surrounds and an SVS PB12-Plus/2 Subwoofer. I have a Sherbourne Pre/Pro paired with a Marantz 5-channel amp. My display is an older 43" Hitachi HDTV and am using a Sony PS3, a Toshiba DVD Recorder/VCR, a Slim Devices Squeezebox and a Scientific Atlanta HD8300 DVR as source components.
I've also been into computers since I was around 15, but working in IT has kind of killed it for me as a hobby. Every couple years, I will emerse myself in all the latest technology for a few weeks and build a new machine. Then I tend to forget all about it until one of my machines gets long in the tooth. I am a casual gamer who got tired of buying $300 video cards for the sake of playing 3 games a year, so I finally crossed over to the dark side and bought a PS3 (which is also an excellent upconverting DVD player, a good BluRay player and a half-decent media extender).
I've been into wine and cigars for a few years and I do maintain a humidor. I only smoke about 10 to 12 cigars a year, but I enjoy them a lot when I indulge. I'm a little less temperate with the wine and consume 1 to 2 bottles a week. My wife likes sweet whites, but I'm more of a red guy.
I used to be huge into photography and did quite a bit of work in college. I've slacked off a lot over the years and only recently got a truly decent little camera to start getting back into it. My old Nikon SLR is simply worn out from being dragged all over the country and the world for ten years and thousands of exposures.
My undergrad degree was in English Lit. What do you do with an English major? I taught English abroad for three years before coming back to the States and realizing that didn't want to teach and didn't like most of my options. I leveraged my long-standing computer hobby to land my first tech job and eventually got a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. Now I'm a data warehouse architect with a large medical company. That said, I wouldn't be much of an English major if I didn't enjoy reading and I still manage to read at least a book or two a month.
RonC
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motorcycles - dual sports and sport tourers; amateur astronomy; 5-string Bluegrass banjo; weight training for fitness (at 60 years old, no more power lifting).
Ron
Ron
Let see.....
reading, electronics...(my job in the army) i will take apart basically anything, lol
aikido...even though I haven't done it in so long, baseball, volleyball, movies, video games, I can't get out of this one, lol and collecting, i haven't been able to do this one in a while either but i still enjoy it..
and CZ 22 i had my mitral valve replaced in may and is not easy but with the right attitude you will be fine and of course follow your therapy, you'll be fine believe me
reading, electronics...(my job in the army) i will take apart basically anything, lol
aikido...even though I haven't done it in so long, baseball, volleyball, movies, video games, I can't get out of this one, lol and collecting, i haven't been able to do this one in a while either but i still enjoy it..
and CZ 22 i had my mitral valve replaced in may and is not easy but with the right attitude you will be fine and of course follow your therapy, you'll be fine believe me
Floppy_D
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Cooking, Brewing, Fishkeeping, Childrearing, Fishing, Hammock weaving, Traveling, Sleeping.
fun stuff
Lets see. . . .
Cars - I have always been "into" cars, muscle and sport - currently have a 74 Mercedes convert as a toy
Motorcycles - got my 1st one at 14; currently have 2 - a little Yamaha and and extensively performance modified Harley
Cigar - yes! Last night my neighbor and his brother stopped by, we sat on the porch and had Cohiba (w/no red dot!) churchills
Martial arts - started boxing in the late 60s, karate in 1970. Started Japanese ****o-ryu in 1973, still in same style/same instructor. Instructor, dojo owner. Also teach Japanese sword arts, practice ju jitsu, escrima, etc.
critters - 2 dogs, 2 cats
fitness training - lifelong wight training, trail running, road and mtn bike, etc.
Scuba diving, camping and hiking, sailing and boating, etc.
Oh yeah, and shooting - most of my practice and competitive background is with handguns.
So, today, I taught kobudo and karate for several hours at the dojo, then took my dogs to a Humane Society fundraiser, after which I took the dogs with me for an hour of mountain biking. Then I came home, got my Harley and road about 25 miles downriver to a cigar store one of my buddies suggested.
Lets see. . . .
Cars - I have always been "into" cars, muscle and sport - currently have a 74 Mercedes convert as a toy
Motorcycles - got my 1st one at 14; currently have 2 - a little Yamaha and and extensively performance modified Harley
Cigar - yes! Last night my neighbor and his brother stopped by, we sat on the porch and had Cohiba (w/no red dot!) churchills
Martial arts - started boxing in the late 60s, karate in 1970. Started Japanese ****o-ryu in 1973, still in same style/same instructor. Instructor, dojo owner. Also teach Japanese sword arts, practice ju jitsu, escrima, etc.
critters - 2 dogs, 2 cats
fitness training - lifelong wight training, trail running, road and mtn bike, etc.
Scuba diving, camping and hiking, sailing and boating, etc.
Oh yeah, and shooting - most of my practice and competitive background is with handguns.
So, today, I taught kobudo and karate for several hours at the dojo, then took my dogs to a Humane Society fundraiser, after which I took the dogs with me for an hour of mountain biking. Then I came home, got my Harley and road about 25 miles downriver to a cigar store one of my buddies suggested.
Too many at times
The main (other than firearms,shooting,reloading) is singing barbershop quartet. If you think it's 4 drunks swinging on a lamp post, you haven' heard modern barbershop.
After that I dabble with quite a few from time to time.
Amateur (ham) radio
Photography
Web design/maintenance
Woodworking (not too good at it though)
Video editing (high end system)
Fly tying
"junk"tiques
Geneology
(...and the list goes on)
The main (other than firearms,shooting,reloading) is singing barbershop quartet. If you think it's 4 drunks swinging on a lamp post, you haven' heard modern barbershop.
After that I dabble with quite a few from time to time.
Amateur (ham) radio
Photography
Web design/maintenance
Woodworking (not too good at it though)
Video editing (high end system)
Fly tying
"junk"tiques
Geneology
(...and the list goes on)
Firearms and
Photography ( 35 and 120mm)
Alcohol. of all kinds, when not CCW obviously.
BMW's
Classic cars of all sorts
Deli work! ( not a hobby but a job i cant escape)
Cigars
Camping
Music, country, rock, "alternative" "pop" almost anythin but rap.
and of course. ZOMBIES!!! books, movies, anything with zombies!
i played paintball for 12 years, and fell out of it cause i decided the money could be bette spent on real guns. i still play woods ball with friends from tiem to to time. but no more organized games since the field i worked at and practicaly ran shut down. i started with a pump gun. and still play stock class. i run a PGP or Splatmaster in stock and a Automag lvl 10 w/ HPA in open play. i havnt been taged in a long time
Photography ( 35 and 120mm)
Alcohol. of all kinds, when not CCW obviously.
BMW's
Classic cars of all sorts
Deli work! ( not a hobby but a job i cant escape)
Cigars
Camping
Music, country, rock, "alternative" "pop" almost anythin but rap.
and of course. ZOMBIES!!! books, movies, anything with zombies!
i played paintball for 12 years, and fell out of it cause i decided the money could be bette spent on real guns. i still play woods ball with friends from tiem to to time. but no more organized games since the field i worked at and practicaly ran shut down. i started with a pump gun. and still play stock class. i run a PGP or Splatmaster in stock and a Automag lvl 10 w/ HPA in open play. i havnt been taged in a long time
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