If you come across something that makes you a “gun guy”, post it up! Posts must start with “You know you are a gun guy when…” and then have your input. Here is my submission.
You know you are a gun guy when you look at this picture and wonder if that is an MP5 or something else…
You know you’re a gun guy when you look at the picture and think of 7th grade jokes (“HK, is that a mag in your well or are you just happy to see her?”)
You know you’re a gun guy when this forum goes down temporarily and you realize that life is just not complete without being able to visit the site dozens of times throughout the day.
You know you are a gun guy when you race to your computer to Google “Ballistol” because you swear you remember someone telling you that you could fry your eggs with it.
You know you are a gun guy when you pour all your ammo out on your bed and roll in it.
(Okay…believe it or not, twenty years ago I had a buddy who claimed he did just that when he was a child. He said he poured all his 22 long rifle out on the bed and rolled in it).
You know you are a gun guy when you name your son “Remington.”
(Once again, this really happened. The owners of New Deal Shooting Sports in Deming, New Mexico, named one of their sons Remington.)
(Too bad those people are out of business now. You can Google them for the sad story about how they were sacrificed to help cover up the Fast & Furious debacle…IMHO.)
You know you’re a gun guy when you move into a house that has a cinder block wall around the backyard and wonder how well it would serve as cover.
You know you’re a gun guy when you won’t tell anyone how many firearms you own or what they all are… not because of OPSEC, but because you can’t remember.
You know you’re a gun guy when you mentally “slice the pie” around corners at work.
You know you’re a gun guy when you are constantly reminding people that it’s not a silencer, it’s a suppressor.
And my favorite…
You know you’re a gun guy if you get the shakes thinking about what your wife would do to you if she found out what your collection was really worth.
Not going to touch your last one with a ten foot pole.
But…I just had a beautiful IHC Garand fall into my lap at a price that couldn’t be beat. This is why my wife is kind of a gun gal, but not totally: ‘Honey, I can get this IHC Garand for only 800.00.’ Her, ‘that sounds like a good price you should do it.’
The next day, me after a trip to the gun store: ‘wow that 30.06 is about 2-3 times as expensive as the .223 I’ve been shooting, I just bought a 100 rounds, and 8 clips, you know this is the rifle that when it goes empty, it makes a noise when it ejects the clip, like on saving Pvt. Ryan’
God bless her little heart, she said ‘you mean magazine don’t you?’