cookhj
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the cost
the noise (suppressors need to be legal)
dumb laws
the noise (suppressors need to be legal)
dumb laws
What DON'T you like about shooting/guns?
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Monkeyleg
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The time required to go to and from the range and then clean the gun (which is more time than the shooting itself). If I were retired, I'd be at the range every day, but that ain't gonna happen until I'm too old to shoot.
5ptdeerhunter
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The only thing I don't like about shooting is that I don't get to do it enough.
MessedUpMike
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Lack of available indoor rifle ranges
Lack of feasible full auto (or even tri burst)
Airchair commandos
Caliber envy
Lack of feasible full auto (or even tri burst)
Airchair commandos
Caliber envy
I hate having to dig through the snow for 5 months of the year to find my brass (somewhat offset by the April-May brass harvest at the local club).
Also, that my new gunsafe that takes up most of our bedroom is already full- why do guns have to take up so much room! :banghead:
Also, that my new gunsafe that takes up most of our bedroom is already full- why do guns have to take up so much room! :banghead:
Stevie-Ray
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I can relate. My wife's the same way. She doesn't begrudge me my guns, the purchasing, the time spent at the range, etc., but the mere mention of guns to her brings a
It's really irritating.Cleaning, but only in the winter, because I have to be in the basement where it's cold, or it stinks up the house. In the good weather, I sit outside at the picnic table and actually enjoy the cleaning.
Skyrocketing costs of range time. Crap, when I started shooting, it was 2 bucks to shoot as long as you wanted. Now it's 14 bucks an hour!
No longer having the time to reload my own ammunition. Once upon a time I hadn't bought a .45 ACP round in 8 years. Now it's at least a box of Hydra-shoks every range session.
makdaddy03
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556A2
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Cleaning Revolvers, the money, and the anti hype.
My list is pretty common I think.
1. Cleaning them.
2. The expense
3. Not being able to shoot them very many places.
4. The fear of doing something illegal.
5. The fear of someone stealing them.
6. The clutter of all the gun stuff
7. How it takes over your life when you are not looking.
1. Cleaning them.
2. The expense
3. Not being able to shoot them very many places.
4. The fear of doing something illegal.
5. The fear of someone stealing them.
6. The clutter of all the gun stuff
7. How it takes over your life when you are not looking.
Diane
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Shell hickey's !
Diane
Diane
Wasted Time
In addition to the stuff covered here:
1) The dwindling number of available places to shoot, due to the suburban sprawl in the Denver-Boulder (and soon to be Ft. Collins-Denver-Colorado Springs) metro area.
2) Because of #1, one can spend more time driving to and from available shooting ranges than is actually spent shooting at them.
3) Gun clubs that require a "work bond" for membership. I hardly have enough time to actually use any gun range (partly because of #2 above), much less work at them. Weekends are scarce, and I've got enough projects around my house that need doing. I don't want to drive 50 to 100 miles each way to spend a day working at the gun range several times a year.
What the hell are the clubs doing with the mebership dues? If there is work that actually needs to be done, then raise dues, and offer a discount to anyone who does volunteer work.
It's certainly a good way to discourage people with busy lives from getting involved in the shooting sports. But then, I guess that's the way it's always been done.
4) Rifle matches where I ended up working in the target pit.
The first time I participated in a rifle match was frustrating enough, trying to learn the pace of events and how things were done. I certainly didn't pay an entry fee to spend 1/2 of my time doing something that felt like some assembly line jobs I've had. It didn't help that the little plastic markers would fall off every time I raised the target, and I had to worry about whether or not I was doing it fast enough.
It's another way to discourage new shooters, because that was certainly not an experience I would recommend to my friends.
In addition to the stuff covered here:
1) The dwindling number of available places to shoot, due to the suburban sprawl in the Denver-Boulder (and soon to be Ft. Collins-Denver-Colorado Springs) metro area.
2) Because of #1, one can spend more time driving to and from available shooting ranges than is actually spent shooting at them.
3) Gun clubs that require a "work bond" for membership. I hardly have enough time to actually use any gun range (partly because of #2 above), much less work at them. Weekends are scarce, and I've got enough projects around my house that need doing. I don't want to drive 50 to 100 miles each way to spend a day working at the gun range several times a year.
What the hell are the clubs doing with the mebership dues? If there is work that actually needs to be done, then raise dues, and offer a discount to anyone who does volunteer work.
It's certainly a good way to discourage people with busy lives from getting involved in the shooting sports. But then, I guess that's the way it's always been done.
4) Rifle matches where I ended up working in the target pit.
The first time I participated in a rifle match was frustrating enough, trying to learn the pace of events and how things were done. I certainly didn't pay an entry fee to spend 1/2 of my time doing something that felt like some assembly line jobs I've had. It didn't help that the little plastic markers would fall off every time I raised the target, and I had to worry about whether or not I was doing it fast enough.
It's another way to discourage new shooters, because that was certainly not an experience I would recommend to my friends.
Owen
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If you don't like picking up brass, bring a kid!
What, no kid to bring? They aren't hard to find! You probably have dozens of them in your neighborhood.
What! You don't know anyone in your neighborhood!! Shame on you! What about coworkers? Neices and Nephews?
When I was little (Junior High) I got to shoot dozens of nifty guns just for picking up brass.
Mebbe you are just to cheap to help foster gun nuttiness in a young enthusiast.
What, no kid to bring? They aren't hard to find! You probably have dozens of them in your neighborhood.
What! You don't know anyone in your neighborhood!! Shame on you! What about coworkers? Neices and Nephews?
When I was little (Junior High) I got to shoot dozens of nifty guns just for picking up brass.
Mebbe you are just to cheap to help foster gun nuttiness in a young enthusiast.
All the legal BS and rules you get hassled with.
Should I really have to go all the way into columbus to register myself with the gun grabbers, and pay their fees for a license, when THEY moved their corporation limit out so that the store I was going to is inside it?
I'm outside of columbus, the store is about 500 yards inside the corporation limit (since it moved out the last time), so to buy anything there I'd have to go clear downtown, and put myself on their "list" :banghead: An all I wanted to get from em was a romanian trainer :banghead:
Time to start hittin gun shows, and lookin for other stores.
Should I really have to go all the way into columbus to register myself with the gun grabbers, and pay their fees for a license, when THEY moved their corporation limit out so that the store I was going to is inside it?
I'm outside of columbus, the store is about 500 yards inside the corporation limit (since it moved out the last time), so to buy anything there I'd have to go clear downtown, and put myself on their "list" :banghead: An all I wanted to get from em was a romanian trainer :banghead: Time to start hittin gun shows, and lookin for other stores.
yucapote
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I dislike driving to the range and picking up the shells
Peetmoss
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Things I don't like about shooting
1) I am not a very good shot
2) The big pain in the butt it is to buy a gun
3) Cleaning the darn things
4) It gets to be expensive
But it is all worth it. I love my guns. Some more then other but don't tell them, ok
1) I am not a very good shot
2) The big pain in the butt it is to buy a gun
3) Cleaning the darn things
4) It gets to be expensive
But it is all worth it. I love my guns. Some more then other but don't tell them, ok
well first off we live in town - and yes even in a town of 400 people they get upset if you set up target practice in your backyard with anything fancier than what the bow hunters use. So not getting enough practice. I actually got more practice in the DC metro area because my church was 4 miles from the NRA HQs range...and I did a lot of volunteer work at church.
wingding anti's bother me. the senior nurse at the clinic I go to is openly hostile to me ever since she figured out what the letters "EVC" meant on the NRA hat I was wearing when I went in there the day after the election. The Dr. is a conservative Baptist who has been waiting for CCW to get here since he got out of the Army, so the nurse can't do much, but I just hate dealing with that sort of unreasoned bigotry.
the cost. I must see five guns a month - shoot sometimes five guns a week - that look like they'd be a lot of fun, but right now I'm stuck buying about one gun a year...and never mind the ammo.
that's what I can think of off the top of my head.
wingding anti's bother me. the senior nurse at the clinic I go to is openly hostile to me ever since she figured out what the letters "EVC" meant on the NRA hat I was wearing when I went in there the day after the election. The Dr. is a conservative Baptist who has been waiting for CCW to get here since he got out of the Army, so the nurse can't do much, but I just hate dealing with that sort of unreasoned bigotry.
the cost. I must see five guns a month - shoot sometimes five guns a week - that look like they'd be a lot of fun, but right now I'm stuck buying about one gun a year...and never mind the ammo.
that's what I can think of off the top of my head.
dustind
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the noise from unsupressed guns (firearm laws)
many interesting guns are illegal (damn laws again)
many interesting guns are illegal (damn laws again)
Silver Bullet
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Lots of folks here (including me) mentioned cleaning as a dislike. An option to avoid cleaning is to rent a gun at the range and let somebody else do the cleaning.
Some advantages of this are
1. You don’t have to clean the gun;
2. You can try out different kinds of guns;
3. You avoid wear and tear on your own guns;
4. Extra practice in tap-rack-roll when the range guns jam from not being cleaned often enough.
Disadvantages are
1. You don’t get the experience and familiarity with your own guns. You can cancel this by renting guns identical to your own, but then that nullifies advantage #2.
2. The small cost of renting a range gun.
Caveats:
1. Advantage #3 is probably insignificant given the durability of a weapon over the lifetime you own it.
2. The location you shoot at may not have guns for rent, expecially if you don’t shoot at an indoor range.
Some folks here also mentioned having to pick up brass. I avoid picking up brass by shooting a lot of CCI Blazer. Or, at least I used to when I was buying ammo from Big 5. Now I buy from Wal-Mart, and that means Winchester.
Some advantages of this are
1. You don’t have to clean the gun;
2. You can try out different kinds of guns;
3. You avoid wear and tear on your own guns;
4. Extra practice in tap-rack-roll when the range guns jam from not being cleaned often enough.
Disadvantages are
1. You don’t get the experience and familiarity with your own guns. You can cancel this by renting guns identical to your own, but then that nullifies advantage #2.
2. The small cost of renting a range gun.
Caveats:
1. Advantage #3 is probably insignificant given the durability of a weapon over the lifetime you own it.
2. The location you shoot at may not have guns for rent, expecially if you don’t shoot at an indoor range.
Some folks here also mentioned having to pick up brass. I avoid picking up brass by shooting a lot of CCI Blazer.
Or, at least I used to when I was buying ammo from Big 5. Now I buy from Wal-Mart, and that means Winchester.publius
Member
I don't like all that stuff that comes between trigger pulls.
For those bothered by picking up brass, go to MegaLoMart and get a tarp. Put it where your brass is landing. When you're done, just grab the corners and you've got a neat pile.
As for me, I'm inspired by the native tribes which used to inhabit this part of the world. They made giant shell mounds. So will I. Call it elevation enhancement...
For those bothered by picking up brass, go to MegaLoMart and get a tarp. Put it where your brass is landing. When you're done, just grab the corners and you've got a neat pile.
As for me, I'm inspired by the native tribes which used to inhabit this part of the world. They made giant shell mounds. So will I. Call it elevation enhancement...
Marshall
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The fact that I can't open the french doors to the back yard and shoot from my reclyner while watching hunting and fishing shows. Next, just sure as I am sittin here, someone is going to tell me it's illegal to put the wifes jewelry box in the window for bait!
What's this world comming to?
What's this world comming to?
Nando Aqui
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The range is 1/2-hour drive from my house, so it is an hour on the road.
It takes me 45 minutes to an hour to clean any two guns I may take to the range.
It usually takes an extra 15 to 30 minutes of waiting, registering, etc. per shooting session. I usually shoot for one hour.
<<< I hate the three or so hours I have to spend to shoot just one hour. >>>
It takes me 45 minutes to an hour to clean any two guns I may take to the range.
It usually takes an extra 15 to 30 minutes of waiting, registering, etc. per shooting session. I usually shoot for one hour.
<<< I hate the three or so hours I have to spend to shoot just one hour. >>>
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