What do you enjoy most - The Firearms Forum

358 winchester · 07-19-2009, 07:09 AM

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST

Shooting
Hunting
Fishing
Playing with your G.I. Joe's

Knife making
Sewing
Needle point
Eating ( that one is right close to the top for me)
Cooking
Just what is it that you enjoy? When you feel a little blue what helps you get over it?
Walking in the woods or on a beach?
Chasing the opposite sex?
Movies or TV?
I like to retire to my shop / gun/ reloading building out back and build something might just be reloading a few rounds or prepping some brass. I build my own ammo crates, caulk them and fill them, then seal them for hard times ( have built a couple that may be just a tad bit to big ) I enjoy a good educational show on TV history or nature, even a old western or action film is OK , ( I hate the girlie love story movies that Carla likes I sit through ten minutes of them with her and then I think of a reason I need to head to the gun room or get on the computer / gun forums and pretend to watch the movie over my shoulder
Come on tells us what you enjoy.
Never for get the potted meat & hot sauce dip with chips I am going to make me some so I can nibble while I read the forums today.

Suwannee Tim · 07-19-2009, 07:17 AM

Paddling my canoe with my wife on a multi-day trip.

topper · 07-19-2009, 07:25 AM

shooting, gardening/farming, eating, chasing the opposite sex(and occasionally catching one of them), watching romance/girlie movies with the wife(yeah, right!), cooking and working in my wood/metal shop making useful things(well, sometimes not very useful) above all, working the heck outta my big JD tractor(mowing,disking,moving dirt, etc. i believe that about covers it.

Keep both barrels loaded!

carver · 07-19-2009, 07:30 AM

Like most, I enjoy a lot of things, but if I had to choose just one, it would probably be traveling. I don't mean by plane, or ship, but by automobile. Camping, and hikeing in places I have never been before. Standing on a mountain looking off into the distance, wondering what is over the next mountain. Then heading out one morning to find out! Sometimes I wish it was like it was once upon a time long ago. Traveling, camping, shooting, and gathering my own food. That's just a dream anymore, the hunting part, but the travel bug is getting stronger! I can feel it!

pinecone70 · 07-19-2009, 07:43 AM

In no particular order:

Driving/traveling/exploring new places.
Looking for abandoned houses and farms.
Target shooting and competitive shooting (obviously...)
Gun shopping.
Fishing, either from shore or boat, for bass or northern pike, walleye, or sunfish.
Hiking.
I'm very crafty, I like drawing and painting, knitting, fishnet knotting, sewing, whatever new craft I can figure out that interests me.
Writing, anything from business letters to poetry.
Photography. I have all the old family photographs from my mom's side of the family.
Dogs, cats, and cattle are my favorite animals.
Hanging out with my shooting buddies.
Watching my buddies in tractor pulls, I have a small Allis.
I enjoy cutting down trees and cutting them up.
Remodeling things, refinishing furniture, painting walls.
Movies, mostly action, western or suspense themed.
I enjoy the County and State Fairs.
Electronics, including computers, cell phones and digital cameras, even though they tick me off some of the time.
Music.
Researching nearly anything, especially online.

Whew! Not a bad list!

carver · 07-19-2009, 07:47 AM

I didn't make a list, I just tried to keep mine short!

TranterUK · 07-19-2009, 07:54 AM

Gun tinkering. Especially problem solving, but also refinishing.

I get a lot of enjoyment out of spending time in gunshops chatting with owners I have known for years. Looking at the old, and the new. You just cant handle and look at too many guns. Always something interesting, something new to learn.

Reading.

FTK87 · 07-19-2009, 08:13 AM

For me it is shooting. I find it as great way to vent and blow some steam. Just somthing about destroying an old TV that always makes me feel better. If Im not able to go to the range, I like to head out to my little reloading shack and make me some more "anger management instructors"

Crpdeth · 07-19-2009, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by 358 winchester

Just what is it that you enjoy? When you feel a little blue what helps you get over it?

When I'm upset, I don't want to do anything and have to force myself not to resort to the whole turning off the lights and sitting in the dark thing... Meditating is good to a point, but too much of it isn't.

Photography... I love it and have finally purchased a nice DSLR and find myself roaming around in my ol' truck taking shots of everything from old barns to macro shots of bugs. I cant wait until it cools off here in TX so I can get out and do more.

Cleaning a gun or two. I can pull up a seat in the middle of the living room floor and clean on one piece for an hour or more, intricately scrubbing down and practically polishing each part, oiling, etc.

Knife sharpening... Not real good at it, but I haven't scratched a blade yet, just need a different stone I think.

Running... I love to run and need to get back to that soon!

Those sappy movies... Ahhh, okay I have a couple favorites including Message in a Bottle and The Notebook, Bridges of Madison Co.... Watching Wolverine (again) atm which a friend of a friend burned off the Internet somehow...

I miss my reloading shop! I could sit in there just prepping/separating brass and packaging it all up, all day. I "could" handload here in my new place, but everything takes up sooo much room that I haven't. Maybe I should say "too heck with how it looks" and do it anyway. Still looking for a small house to buy though where I can dedicate a room to that sort of stuff.

Cooking takes my mind off of everything, I really enjoy it and just finished a small batch of salsa. Today I'll spend some time fixing up my lunches/breaks for next week.

When all else fails and good cold beer and TFF comes to the rescue.

Crpdeth

fmacsin1 · 07-19-2009, 08:37 AM

paddling my kayak, fishing, hiking with my dog, cooking, hunting partridge in the fall, sitting in front of an outdoor fire with good friends, food and a drink or two or three, enjoying a good movie with friends and good ol' camping out in a tent with a canoe along to go fishing in.

ponycar17 · 07-19-2009, 08:41 AM

Since having the son, what I enjoy most is being left alone. Now, don't take that the wrong way. I love him but occasionally a break is an awesome thing.

So, walking through the woods around the house, bike riding, taking the Mustang out for a spin, just sitting on the porch or taking care of the yard and plants I raise rank high on my list of enjoyable things right now.

Shooting doesn't rank on that list because I don't get to shoot much. By the time the boy settles down enough to go to bed I can't shoot since my normal shooting spot is outside his window...

Powderhorn · 07-19-2009, 08:46 AM

Guns, hunting, and fishing are right up there, because... well because I am a man after all. I mean, its what God intended us to do, right?

Hey 358, how about sharing that dip recipe, brother?

Pistolenschutze · 07-19-2009, 08:50 AM

I enjoy lots of things.

Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK

Target shooting
Reading
Teaching
Gardening
Writing
Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK some more.

TranterUK · 07-19-2009, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pistolenschutze

I enjoy lots of things.

Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK

That can work both ways..

Pistolenschutze · 07-19-2009, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by TranterUK

That can work both ways..

Of course it can! It wouldn't be much fun if it didn't, Tranter!

cycloneman · 07-19-2009, 09:33 AM

making money, everytime a sale come in it feels like i just hooked a trout. Having said that, fishing, hunting, gardening, reloading.

kutaho · 07-19-2009, 09:46 AM

Gardening, tracking, playing woodsy, plinking, cooking, wood carving
and the sciences. Love tackling tech./mech. problems.
And learning.

flannelman · 07-19-2009, 11:39 AM

When I'm in the blues I usually just sleep it off. Otherwise my favorite thing that doesn't involve the wife is deer hunting. I think about deer hunting almost as much as the other thing that men often think about!! I like to sit out by the fire ring in the fall and winter with a good campfire burning and the stars overhead. I like camping when the weather is cooler. I like to fish some and I love watching the kids haul in a big fish! I like hiking and geocaching with the kids. I like to think about things too. I'll roll mechanical problems around in my head and think about how to solve them or about how to make a machine to do some simple task just because. I like to shoot and make my own loads. I just like to look at old guns. I like the way they smell. I like just hanging out with my wife. We don't even have to do anything, just be in the same room. I'll go sleep on the couch if she is up late doing things in the living room so I can be close by. Just wierd I guess.

358 winchester · 07-19-2009, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pistolenschutze

I enjoy lots of things.

Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK

Target shooting
Reading
Teaching
Gardening
Writing
Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK some more.

Just wait till I get to Colorado and share a booth with you in the cafe

Pistolenschutze · 07-19-2009, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 358 winchester

Just wait till I get to Colorado and share a booth with you in the cafe

Horror of horrors!!!!!

It will be full MOPP gear time!

bcj1755 · 07-19-2009, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Playing with your G.I. Joe's

Are you talking to me? You kust be talking to me

Besides occasionally rolling my Cobra HISS tanks on the floor?

Shooting my guns
Cleaning my guns
Fondling my guns
Playing Star Fleet Battles
Watching movies
Reading
Thinking up new names for Obama

kingchip · 07-19-2009, 05:50 PM

I spent the last three days at the ranch......alone. Peaceful. No TV, noone to bother me. At dusk I went out and caught fawns to tag. During the day, I would work in the mornings, watch for Cara Cara in the deer pens and run them off with a 243. Read most of" the ABC's of Reloading" during the heat of the day(109 yesterday). Overall, my kind of break from society.

glocknut · 07-19-2009, 06:00 PM

Favorite Activities:
Sleeping comfordably
TFF
Plinking/Target Practice.
Movies

Favorite Moments:
Just having bought a new gun.
Payday on a Friday and being off for the weekend.
Cool windy evenings when the rain is lightly spitting and its near dark.

and other things i will not mention....

mike
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berto64 · 07-24-2009, 06:27 AM

I don't remember.?

Lori Mick · 07-24-2009, 06:35 AM

road trips
traveling and escaping all the madness
atlantic city
a good cup of coffee
laughter
reading
writing
renfaires
peace
photography
castles
music
good movies
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
video games
shooting
a good sword fight too!

in no particular order

07-19-2009, 07:09 AM	#1
358 winchester TFF Admin Staff Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pensacola Fl. area Posts: 7,335	What do you enjoy most WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST Shooting Hunting Fishing Playing with your G.I. Joe's Knife making Sewing Needle point Eating ( that one is right close to the top for me) Cooking Just what is it that you enjoy? When you feel a little blue what helps you get over it? Walking in the woods or on a beach? Chasing the opposite sex? Movies or TV? I like to retire to my shop / gun/ reloading building out back and build something might just be reloading a few rounds or prepping some brass. I build my own ammo crates, caulk them and fill them, then seal them for hard times ( have built a couple that may be just a tad bit to big ) I enjoy a good educational show on TV history or nature, even a old western or action film is OK , ( I hate the girlie love story movies that Carla likes I sit through ten minutes of them with her and then I think of a reason I need to head to the gun room or get on the computer / gun forums and pretend to watch the movie over my shoulder Come on tells us what you enjoy. Never for get the potted meat & hot sauce dip with chips I am going to make me some so I can nibble while I read the forums today. __________________ Administrator & Owner RangeDay.com Proud, White, Heterosexual, Gun Owning, Southern American, Christian. Any question about where I stand? -->

07-19-2009, 07:17 AM	#2
Suwannee Tim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,227	Re: What do you enjoy most Paddling my canoe with my wife on a multi-day trip.

07-19-2009, 07:25 AM	#3
topper Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: deep in the woods Posts: 748	Re: What do you enjoy most shooting, gardening/farming, eating, chasing the opposite sex(and occasionally catching one of them), watching romance/girlie movies with the wife(yeah, right!), cooking and working in my wood/metal shop making useful things(well, sometimes not very useful) above all, working the heck outta my big JD tractor(mowing,disking,moving dirt, etc. i believe that about covers it. Keep both barrels loaded!

07-19-2009, 07:30 AM	#4
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,251	Re: What do you enjoy most Like most, I enjoy a lot of things, but if I had to choose just one, it would probably be traveling. I don't mean by plane, or ship, but by automobile. Camping, and hikeing in places I have never been before. Standing on a mountain looking off into the distance, wondering what is over the next mountain. Then heading out one morning to find out! Sometimes I wish it was like it was once upon a time long ago. Traveling, camping, shooting, and gathering my own food. That's just a dream anymore, the hunting part, but the travel bug is getting stronger! I can feel it! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

07-19-2009, 07:43 AM	#5
pinecone70 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Minnesota Gal! Posts: 4,730	Re: What do you enjoy most In no particular order: Driving/traveling/exploring new places. Looking for abandoned houses and farms. Target shooting and competitive shooting (obviously...) Gun shopping. Fishing, either from shore or boat, for bass or northern pike, walleye, or sunfish. Hiking. I'm very crafty, I like drawing and painting, knitting, fishnet knotting, sewing, whatever new craft I can figure out that interests me. Writing, anything from business letters to poetry. Photography. I have all the old family photographs from my mom's side of the family. Dogs, cats, and cattle are my favorite animals. Hanging out with my shooting buddies. Watching my buddies in tractor pulls, I have a small Allis. I enjoy cutting down trees and cutting them up. Remodeling things, refinishing furniture, painting walls. Movies, mostly action, western or suspense themed. I enjoy the County and State Fairs. Electronics, including computers, cell phones and digital cameras, even though they tick me off some of the time. Music. Researching nearly anything, especially online. Whew! Not a bad list! __________________ _____________________________________________ "Miss Scarlet, in the library...with a revolver...." Last edited by pinecone70; 07-19-2009 at 07:44 AM..

07-19-2009, 07:47 AM	#6
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,251	Re: What do you enjoy most I didn't make a list, I just tried to keep mine short! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

07-19-2009, 07:54 AM	#7
TranterUK Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 5,103	Re: What do you enjoy most Gun tinkering. Especially problem solving, but also refinishing. I get a lot of enjoyment out of spending time in gunshops chatting with owners I have known for years. Looking at the old, and the new. You just cant handle and look at too many guns. Always something interesting, something new to learn. Reading. __________________ DVC - Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas - Accuracy, Power, Speed. The light at the end of the recession tunnel IS a train coming the other way!

07-19-2009, 08:13 AM	#8
FTK87 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chouteau, Oklahoma Posts: 481	Re: What do you enjoy most For me it is shooting. I find it as great way to vent and blow some steam. Just somthing about destroying an old TV that always makes me feel better. If Im not able to go to the range, I like to head out to my little reloading shack and make me some more "anger management instructors" __________________ I NEED .22-250 BRASS!!! http://www.OklahomaSportsmen.com

07-19-2009, 08:37 AM	#10
fmacsin1 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Moosehead Lake, Maine Posts: 433	Re: What do you enjoy most paddling my kayak, fishing, hiking with my dog, cooking, hunting partridge in the fall, sitting in front of an outdoor fire with good friends, food and a drink or two or three, enjoying a good movie with friends and good ol' camping out in a tent with a canoe along to go fishing in.

07-19-2009, 08:41 AM	#11
ponycar17 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: South Carolina Contributor Posts: 4,884	Re: What do you enjoy most Since having the son, what I enjoy most is being left alone. Now, don't take that the wrong way. I love him but occasionally a break is an awesome thing. So, walking through the woods around the house, bike riding, taking the Mustang out for a spin, just sitting on the porch or taking care of the yard and plants I raise rank high on my list of enjoyable things right now. Shooting doesn't rank on that list because I don't get to shoot much. By the time the boy settles down enough to go to bed I can't shoot since my normal shooting spot is outside his window... __________________ Arm yourself with intellectual Ammunition! Gunfacts 5.1 Myth-Busting Facts JustFacts.com on Gun Control Stopping Power, the Downloadable Book Last edited by ponycar17; 07-19-2009 at 08:42 AM..

07-19-2009, 08:46 AM	#12
Powderhorn V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NH Posts: 165	Re: What do you enjoy most Guns, hunting, and fishing are right up there, because... well because I am a man after all. I mean, its what God intended us to do, right? Hey 358, how about sharing that dip recipe, brother? __________________ 'Tis sad irony that the very people who work against our gun ownership are the ones that we will be called upon to defend should the need arise. -Me

07-19-2009, 08:50 AM	#13
Pistolenschutze Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 13,094	Re: What do you enjoy most I enjoy lots of things. Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK Target shooting Reading Teaching Gardening Writing Kidding 358 Winchester and TranterUK some more. __________________ --Pistolenschutze (Pistol Shooter)

07-19-2009, 09:33 AM	#16
cycloneman Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Louisiana Posts: 7,401	Re: What do you enjoy most making money, everytime a sale come in it feels like i just hooked a trout. Having said that, fishing, hunting, gardening, reloading. __________________ Who are you going to serve today?

07-19-2009, 09:46 AM	#17
kutaho Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Peoples Republic of the Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,852	Re: What do you enjoy most Gardening, tracking, playing woodsy, plinking, cooking, wood carving and the sciences. Love tackling tech./mech. problems. And learning. __________________ No man stands in the same river twice If all else fails grab a rock Mi Taku oyasin

07-19-2009, 11:39 AM	#18
flannelman Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rural Arkansas. But isn't all of Arkansas rural? Posts: 1,176	Re: What do you enjoy most When I'm in the blues I usually just sleep it off. Otherwise my favorite thing that doesn't involve the wife is deer hunting. I think about deer hunting almost as much as the other thing that men often think about!! I like to sit out by the fire ring in the fall and winter with a good campfire burning and the stars overhead. I like camping when the weather is cooler. I like to fish some and I love watching the kids haul in a big fish! I like hiking and geocaching with the kids. I like to think about things too. I'll roll mechanical problems around in my head and think about how to solve them or about how to make a machine to do some simple task just because. I like to shoot and make my own loads. I just like to look at old guns. I like the way they smell. I like just hanging out with my wife. We don't even have to do anything, just be in the same room. I'll go sleep on the couch if she is up late doing things in the living room so I can be close by. Just wierd I guess. __________________ What we do in life echoes in eternity! **** Liberals, they make about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine. If you want to be a looser the best way to get there is to hang around with other loosers.

07-19-2009, 05:50 PM	#22
kingchip Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Marble Falls, Texas Posts: 541	Re: What do you enjoy most I spent the last three days at the ranch......alone. Peaceful. No TV, noone to bother me. At dusk I went out and caught fawns to tag. During the day, I would work in the mornings, watch for Cara Cara in the deer pens and run them off with a 243. Read most of" the ABC's of Reloading" during the heat of the day(109 yesterday). Overall, my kind of break from society.

07-19-2009, 06:00 PM	#23
glocknut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: THE FORUM MASCOTT... Posts: 12,482	Re: What do you enjoy most Favorite Activities: Sleeping comfordably TFF Plinking/Target Practice. Movies Favorite Moments: Just having bought a new gun. Payday on a Friday and being off for the weekend. Cool windy evenings when the rain is lightly spitting and its near dark. and other things i will not mention.... mike gn __________________ Where O where are you tonight? Why have you gone and left me alone? I searched to world over and a thought i found true love... You met another and PTThhh you were gone....

07-24-2009, 06:27 AM	#24
berto64 VMBB Admin Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Owyhee County, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,388	Re: What do you enjoy most I don't remember.? __________________ Be who you are & say what you will, Those that matter won't mind and those that mind don't matter. I'm a bitter clinger, One Nation Under God.

07-24-2009, 06:35 AM	#25
Lori Mick Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Stuck in Upstate NY for a while Posts: 2,374	Re: What do you enjoy most road trips traveling and escaping all the madness atlantic city a good cup of coffee laughter reading writing renfaires peace photography castles music good movies life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness video games shooting a good sword fight too! in no particular order __________________ It's a Brand New Day! Make it an awesome one! "No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free."