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Chooch

Chooch

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Change of pace from BB discussion, which quite honestly after 30 or so years is quite boring (even though it constantly evolves and I’m still stuck in the 90s lol). What are some of you guys other hobbies? My top 3 would be travel, cars, and luxury watches. So what are you guys into? No matter how weird or whatever, let’s hear it.
 
I have quit a few knives, ammo & guns. I mean how many do you really need?

I’ve been getting more into hunting recently, mainly predator & raccoons.
 
I had quite a few weapons, pretty interesting stuff. I choose not to be more specific than that lol. When we moved permanently to our place in Mx though they all were lost in a boating accident 😂
 
I totally understand. My knives made it plus grandpas old double barrel 20 gauge. That was a sad day.
 
i have no one to blame for this but myself, i have spent the last 15 years working stupid hours.. it wasnt till recently i got back to the gym on a regular basis once upon a time i had dirt bikes, quads, guns and time to play with them.

i have motorcycles and plan on getting a old car to keep me busy when the right on shows up or ill sell everything and disappear to another country to retire and grow a garden..

i do travel a lot for work so thats a blessing and a curse. getting older i respect it more and enjoy the process but hate getting there, love being there tho.

i wish the US had a more European work culture, the US spends way to much time money focused and as you get older the time is just gone..

hobbies are important and i need to remind myself of that more often
 
I sat trying to come up with an answer.

I'm still new, I'm still obsessed with bb'ing.
 
Music baby... writing, playing, or listening. I own 20 guitars I guess. I collect weapons lol...guns, knives, swords, bows, axes, spears. Power tools. Love hiking...I could hike for days. I read a lot and collect Conan the Barbarian stuff. Sports fan...used to hunt a lot but not so much anymore. Still fish once in a while...
 
Guage said:
i have no one to blame for this but myself, i have spent the last 15 years working stupid hours…..
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Guage said:
i have motorcycles and plan on getting a old car to keep me busy when the right on shows up or ill sell everything and disappear to another country to retire and grow a garden..
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Boy does some of this sound familiar lol. I’ve worked my share of 100hr work weeks. There’s nothing wrong with it if you do it to get where you want. I killed myself so that we could retire before I hit 50 and before the wife hit 40. Sold all the cool cars off and moved to the Caribbean. As long as there’s an end game it’s not completely bad working your ass off.
 
wallyd said:
I have quit a few knives, ammo & guns. I mean how many do you really need?

I’ve been getting more into hunting recently, mainly predator & raccoons.
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I guess I am kind of a strange guy. I have maybe 40 weapons here, my homeowner' policy is ridiculous because I have to cover all of them including one Barrett sniper rifle that is worth over $5K. My wife and I carry every where we go but I have no desire to hunt and kill anything, strange huh? I lost the desire to ever kill again after my Vietnam experience, unless I feel my life or my wife's life is in danger. Weight training has always been a part of my life and my wife's life so we just have lost interest in hobbies. My wife makes and designs jewelry but the economic conditions over the past few years has killed business. We are both completely happy with taking care of animals and our home. We have been involved with our state TNR program for over 15 years. We also take care of the possums, raccoons, squirrels and birds that visit our property. I use to water ski, sold my boat, was a scuba instructor and have not been in years. I guess I like having a simple stay at home life now. Hell, we even quit traveling all together. Our only trips out of the house are to the grocery store and to the gym. Even my job is 3 miles from the house. and I spend about 90 minutes a day working.
 
Sounds like you have a nice collection. I’m just getting back into hunting a little. Going deer hunting this year too. It’s just nice & peaceful to get out in the woods. Now that I’m getting older I appreciate that so much more.
 
Not odd at all. Speaking of weapons collections….not me, but the guy we bought our house from in the US had a million dollar weapons collection and a safe room built into the house. Really cool stuff, WW2 folding paratrooper rifles and cool stuff like that. Another weird thing, even more off topic about our house lol…..the neighbors house is the house from Creep Show and our house is I it also. Weird but interesting.
 
wallyd said:
Sounds like you have a nice collection. I’m just getting back into hunting a little. Going deer hunting this year too. It’s just nice & peaceful to get out in the woods. Now that I’m getting older I appreciate that so much more.
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My Dad left me most of these weapons when he died. One of them is a US Springfield Armory model 1898 krag 30-40. He never even shot it and it still has the price tag on it. I grew in the woods when I was a kid and have become a city rat since then. But I do understand. I use to get that same feeling being in a boat. Peace! But it quickly because a hole to flush money down. A safe room must be nice. We our in a big wood gun case and in closets. We are very careful allowing anyone to come into our house.
 
Last 10 years my wife and I spent alot of weekends at upside down pineapple takeover parties...made some lifelong friends ...now we're taking a stepback to focus on other areas...my stepson's football and powerlifting careers as he's getting college offers for both...hopefully Friday night lights turns into Saturday night lights! 3x all American so far high school powerlifting (last year 585 squat, 365 bench, and 585 deadlift - conventional stance all in 242 raw division at high school nationals as a junior at 16) and in football 2nd team All conference last year in the toughest conference in the state he's double and triple teamed every play by D1 signees and recruits and still making plays...that's our other interests
 
irish_2003 said:
Last 10 years my wife and I spent alot of weekends at upside down pineapple takeover parties...made some lifelong friends ...now we're taking a stepback to focus on other areas...my stepson's football and powerlifting careers as he's getting college offers for both...hopefully Friday night lights turns into Saturday night lights! 3x all American so far high school powerlifting (last year 585 squat, 365 bench, and 585 deadlift - conventional stance all in 242 raw division at high school nationals as a junior at 16) and in football 2nd team All conference last year in the toughest conference in the state he's double and triple teamed every play by D1 signees and recruits and still making plays...that's our other interests
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 
I'm really into swords , I have katanas that been folded over 1200 times ,Damascus and a fire katana infused with copper dust so the folding pattern resembles flames in the steel folded 1500 times . I also like others have a bunch of guns but not a collector of those.
 
II've dabbled in many things over the years. Art, music, drugs. Women, motorcycles, cars. But the ones that have stuck through the years are motorcycles, music, been playing guitar for 56 years, reading, usually informative materials, and women. My wife has alzheimers and I have 3 very large dogs, so we dont get out and do too much any more. She's like a 3 year old, can't feed herself can barely walk any more. So I go to work, hit the gym, come home and become the house keeper lol. So much guitars have become my at home source of pleasure. And women and the gym outside of home. I've been to prison twice so if I have any weapons I dont really talk about that too much any more. For me a third conviction would be life especially given my history. I've settled way down from my glory days, if that's what they were. I should say I also derive a great deal of enjoyment hanging with the grandkids
 
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