What else do you do?

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P95Carry

The biggest RC I've got is a 1/3 scale Laser and 1/4 scale Cub, on down to 40 and 60 size.
I've got several helicopters and boats.
I have enough ground to fly RC and a PPC (powered parachute) and have a 100 yard shooting range.

The weather here is such that we can fly RC all year long.
But sometimes it gets a little too hot or cold;)

I retired from flying helicopters a couple years ago.
I wanted something to fly out of my place and this is the only bird that I've found that can operate off my few hundred feet of runways.
Fun laid back flying.
It would be fun to put some RC servos on this bird. :D

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shooting/restoring C&R guns/reloading

hunting, fishing (warm weather only)

I also tinker around with an asian mini-lathe

spending time with the grandkids

I'm thinking seriously about trying my hand at a kydex holster or two
 
Besides guns....

working on restoring/updating our new home
bicycling
playing my instruments
reading-mostly history books, but also the "classics" of American literature
 
Besides shooting sports:

Boating - Boat (n) A round hole in the water into which one pours money.
Photogaphy & puttering in the darkroom
Bicycling - about 16 miles/daily in decent weather
Reading
Motorcycling - although I am currently between bikes, which is a nice way of saying I sold my last one but hope/plan to have another one sometime.
 
Well...

flyfishing, fly tying, rod building, guitar, brewing beer, maple syrup (starts any day now), writing political commentary. Little time for any of 'em these days, what with 5 kids.
 
Saltwater fishing

Shooting is something I do when the stripers aren't running. I spend as much
time as I can on the water from May to September. Started getting into
bluefin tuna fishing off Cape Ann with a buddy a couple years back - nothing
brought to the boat yet.... Caught this tarpon in Islamorada several years
back on a 9wt flyrod - what a trip that was!!

<sigh>
 
Let's see there is reading and there is a pile of unassembled model's (military armor). Of course there is the other "hobby" that takes more time, money and effort than all of the above. The rescue squad, my latest purchase was a $575 dry suit. Of course after the last flood call when I found out two days afterwards that the sewage treatment plant up stream from us had had a 5,000 gallon spill/leak in the water I was in up to my chest I decided that I wanted a dry suit as opposed to my wet suit.
 
My profile states, "Wife 'n kids 'n guns 'n cars 'n 'puters 'n music"

Other than the wife factor being unwantingly removed, that still pretty much applies. I like cars and most of my male lifetime friends/family are into cars including one that has build 1/4 and 1/8 mile cars, but cars are much more expensive to play with than guns. Matter of fact, 3rd Gen RX-7s are pretty high on my list of favorite cars. Most people don't realize quite how fast they are. Handling and balance is just short out outstanding. But I'm a bit more into older BMWs and fast sleeper 4 doors. I had a BMW 535is until last year. Currently drive a SVT Contour. Cars like that... basically anything with four doors that will catch a GT or Z28 driver if he isn't paying attention. ;)

I like driving. Last year, I made it as far west as Utah and as far east as... well, all the way east... to Florida and Mass.

I like movies and music. We have a very decent dollar movie theater here and I pretty much try to take in every movie that comes to it.

Tennis, and to a much lesser extent soccer, are the only sports I ever really got into though I always told myself when I turned 30 I'd buy a set of clubs. I've played exactly 36 holes of golf in my life and all were when I was 16-17. That hasn't gone exactly as planned.

I've played guitar since I was about six, acoustic and electric. Haven't done much in the last several years though. I can play most string and wind instruments as at one time, I planned on a music education major but went in a more technical direction. When the kids are old enough, I'm going to expose them to several instruments... see what they like and what they want to play.
 
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If you like 4 door sleepers, drop a 2.2T2 into a Dodge Omni. :)

Personal life goal: get rich so I can put two automatic turbo engines in a Dodge Omni, one in front, one in back.

-Colin
 
Other than guns I have a few hobbies:
-I reload for .38spl and .357mag and soon .41mag and .45LC
-I collect pipes and blend my own pipe tobacco (I guess the smoking equivelent to reloading)
-I fish
-I camp (occasionally)
-I love reading (history, politics and Jewish studies, Chassidic and other Torah giant biographies)
-I'm getting into golf
-after over a decade break I'm getting back (slowly) into weight lifting

As an Orthodox Jew I don't think listing Torah study as a hobby is accurate since it goes far beyond a hobby- it is the very reason for existance. I learn Torah (Chumash, Tanach, Chassidus, Mishnah and soon I'll be learning Gemora again) many hours a week. Oh, Chumash is the Five Books of Moses, Tanach includes the Writings and Prophets, Chassidus is Chassidic (Hassidic) writings (largely mystical teachings) and Mishnah and Gemora are two parts of the Talmud (Oral Law).
 
Muscle cars! The only thing better than turning money into noise via firearm is pulling up next to a little ricegrinder car, then handing him his ???! Kids these days :rolleyes: , no apreciation for old v8's :p
 
Other than shooting, hunting and reloading...

Working on our 70 year old farmhouse.
Gardening and preserving our own food.
Playing with my old John Deeres.
Playing with my kids and grandkids.

sometimes I combine two activities:
Playing with my Old John Deeres AND my grandsons. :D
 
Guitar - used to play a lot (bluegrass/folk/western) but have sort of laid it aside because a few years ago some health problems came up that ruined my voice. Gets discouraging because I used to sound sort of like Glenn Yarborough but now sound like Kermit the frog:(

Camping & hiking & hunting - like to go out and camp in the mountains by myself, especially under a full moon. The outdoors is my "church." Up here, I can find places where I won't see anybody for days at a time. Just like to walk and wander and explore, and see how close I can get to wild game. I've stalked up to within rock-throwing distance of bears, not even hunting or taking a picture, just seeing how close I could get. I have to back off sometimes because I don't want to provoke one and have to shoot it.

I'm not getting out as much like that since we bought a place out in the hills. It's hard to drive somewhere when you have woods to walk in right outside your door. Then there is all the stuff that has to be done around here: Cutting firewood for the winter, cleaning up windfall and diseased trees, clearing out the juniper for fuel reduction, maintaining the buildings, controlling weeds, mowing about an acre of lawn, grading the drive in summer and plowing snow in the winter ... and so on and on and on.

Then there are those pesky coffee cans that accumulate around here. Only way to be safe is to shoot them full of holes before taking them to the dump:D
 
- barbecueing (Southern style) - if we ever have a THR barbeque I volunteer to bring my smoker.

- greyhounds (naturally). The best dog in my opinion.

- growing tomatoes.

- reading everything about history I can get my hands on.

SMLE-
My girlfriend used to be into Society for Creative Anachronism (Texas chapter?). Some interesting stories came out of that, I must say!
 
What else?

Hey Larry,that's only two of them! ( I don't mean tractors,I mean Grandsons). And how come the cute ones are looking the other way! Anyway, I like to eat, fish,horse pack and camp,play with the Grandkids,and the Grandmother. S.R.
 
varied interests.

#1. Golf, i also delve into building my own clubs.. ie Drivers & fairway woods.

#2. Bird watching & weather observations, severe storm chasing in spring & summer months.

#3. Fishing - Cat, bass, panfish.

#4. Working out.

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