There are a few basic routines I have when I'm finished with other "adult" obligations like work or chores ETC. I will sit and look up a few things online, a few sites I enjoy and find useful for information or pleasure like poker or fishing videos and of course AGN. One thing AGN does for me is keep me motivated to shoot my air guns. After a session of paging through the forums I get the desire to pull out one or more of my air guns out of the safe and send some lead down range. Thanks to all members for this inspiration.
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Weird as this may sound, I withhold my airgun lust as much as possible until I have enough tension to go & shoot.
Hear me out. I'm BD into the winter doldrums yet could shoot every day if I really wanted to. It's cold enough here that the altenatives are to shoot in my basement or SOA & watch YT while yearning for summer. I dole out my trigger time down in the dungeon conservatively since I easily get bored & don't want the buzz to die.
This forum a great place to keep stoke alive without burning out.
Hear me out. I'm BD into the winter doldrums yet could shoot every day if I really wanted to. It's cold enough here that the altenatives are to shoot in my basement or SOA & watch YT while yearning for summer. I dole out my trigger time down in the dungeon conservatively since I easily get bored & don't want the buzz to die.
This forum a great place to keep stoke alive without burning out.
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Lately my projects and shooting interests are off-line. I drop in regularly and I might share info but it seems like the conversations are either irrelevant to me or punchy, stir-crazy airgunners who are just looking to waste time an energy, which I need to be economical about.
Although I can't shoot at home (at all!) I'm lucky that my favorite shooting club is close to my work and I can slide over there before, lunch, or after work plus most weekends. And there are tinkerers among the airgunners there so I'm often also collaborating on side projects related to airgunning. So sometimes I'm focused on shooting, practicing, tuning/testing, constructing things, or something else. Easier to stay interested with all of that going on.
Although I can't shoot at home (at all!) I'm lucky that my favorite shooting club is close to my work and I can slide over there before, lunch, or after work plus most weekends. And there are tinkerers among the airgunners there so I'm often also collaborating on side projects related to airgunning. So sometimes I'm focused on shooting, practicing, tuning/testing, constructing things, or something else. Easier to stay interested with all of that going on.
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I’m a very obsessive person and when I become interested in something I’m all in…until I find my next hobby. I don’t have time for two obsessions at once. My hobbies typically last a few years at a time and repeat themselves. This is the third time I’ve been obsessed with airguns now. I’ve also been obsessed with biking, hunting, fishing, scuba diving and unicycling.
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Motivation for me comes from a one-man war with a mob of ill-mannered crows. Constantly verifying accuracy and readiness of PCPs, via 50-yard home range, testing several per session, addressing problems, as noted. Example, yesterday, famously accurate Wildcat MK3 Sniper .30 started throwing one shot of the group high, right one inch. Last evening, good barrel cleaning, checked fasteners, today, all good. Just completed Yong Heng fill session for four, will test another group tomorrow. Seems never-ending but I enjoy all parts, especially when battle commences. WM
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I feel for you
Mountain/ fat bikes, before that skis& before that kayaks...etc. Also probably like everyone else on here I tended to go all in to the best of my abilities and it weren't cheap in treasure or time
I still rotate through those activities, but am probably more reasonable the 2nd time and beyond. No more new bikes, skis, kayaks I have that under control. I may need to say no to airguns for a while someday to recalibrate my neurons
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For me, I find that the biggest problem with certain hobbies is the space involved. Airguns aren’t that bad as you can store a couple dozen in a small space. The pumps, tanks and hard cases take up significantly more room than the guns themselves. Once you start getting into hobbies like boats or bikes on the other hand, then you really start to run out of space quickly.
I’ve never done the fat bike thing, but I’m considering getting a fat tire e-bike. I’ve gotten a little bit old and brittle for downhill type biking these days, so I’m thinking more along the lines of a monster truck that can roll over obstacles at 4 mph.
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Yeah, it is pretty easy to hide my quasi-hoarder level of airgun related stuff.
It's pretty easy to conceal airguns under piles of laundry or propped up in the broom closet......they'll nevvvver know.
The bikes/ boats / skis on the otherhand usually bring on shock and awe to those who don't already know how I roll. Most of that is older stuff. Not that a tweaker won't carry it off, but I worry less about securing it.
There are way worse passions than anything you or I have mentioned. Trust me on this as my dad was over the top on hus big hobby & I grew up w it.
We're both good bro
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The thing I console myself with is knowing I’ll never be one of those guys who doesn’t have any purpose in their life after retirement. I work with a guy like that he’s right around 70 and he came back to work because he didn’t know what else to do with his time and hated sitting idle.
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I have been at this since my youth.
What I found here, by reason of the internet, are others who share the same interests, an almost zero occurrence in the general public.
With this forum via the internet, we're able to converse with folks all over the globe.
Salute!
What I found here, by reason of the internet, are others who share the same interests, an almost zero occurrence in the general public.
With this forum via the internet, we're able to converse with folks all over the globe.
Salute!
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Likewise. I think that at some point in my youth I just came to enjoy shooting airguns as much or more than firearms. I did a lot of shooting between the ages of 7 and 18 and 99.9% of it was with airguns. The firearms were less accessible and more respected so they were what I most wanted back then, (gunwise anyway), but once I was an adult and I had an opportunity to scratch that itch I found myself more drawn to the airguns instead.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have so many good memories of shooting from that time.
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I have to comment, very similar This winter the Airguns have taken over a hemisphere of my brain.
Everything self contained inside. Everything bought and received without more than a breath of cold air.
Going back through my history . Some have repeated through life or seasonal. So before air guns
vintage (70s mainly) motorcycles, Guitars (American) by the dozens along with trying to learn, solo backpacking and hunting ( Colorado, Alaska, Adirondacks , Catskills) , Shooting ( F class, 22lr benchrest, silhouette) , Motorcycle road racing and the building of my race bikes, Boating with a serious side of Striper fishing the Hudson River NY, Western and Alaska hunts and trips, Bow hunting this was very seriously taken and lasted over 20 years , before this was my original forays into boats , bikes ,guns, girls , booze while having little $$$
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I’m a classical roadie but this fall I did an afternoon bike tour near Portsmouth (UK) and we used fat tire e-bikes. I rode most of it without power in but there was one steep and gravelly hill where the power was huge fun. I may not have made it up that hill without power. So they are fun and if you turn the assist down or off you can still give yourself a solid workout.
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Motivation is never a problem for me. Lots of hobbies and activities so I don't get bored with any one thing.
As far as airguns go, I do schedule tuning and shooting sessions but typically I just keep a gun (and slingshot and bow) by the basement door and pause for (at least) a couple of shots whenever I pass by.
In the winter there's a dartboard on the wall, a fresh target on the rubber-multch box and a couple of airguns waiting on the table to keep me entertained.
Cheers!
As far as airguns go, I do schedule tuning and shooting sessions but typically I just keep a gun (and slingshot and bow) by the basement door and pause for (at least) a couple of shots whenever I pass by.
In the winter there's a dartboard on the wall, a fresh target on the rubber-multch box and a couple of airguns waiting on the table to keep me entertained.
Cheers!
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I got one of the low end but well reviewed fat tire E bikes, best decision I ever made. kicked off a much more physically active stage of my life in a totally relaxed and enjoyable way. At the lowest power settings it's no different than a regular bike because the things weigh about 70 pounds.
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You are one of (i think)the few that have this air gun opportunity close by . on the other hand i have indoor shooting and outdoor range about 10 feet apart and about 6 feet from this wonderful AGN site . But i lack others to shoot with . , want to trade ?
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i also enjoy shooting crows from many places on my farm. its insane especially during when the corn crop is mature and then , during harvest and drying times. Even when its the off season, decoys and calls are fun to use to get them critters.
i really like it when they do the frenzie flying routine when one of there comrades fall and they see it !!
then when it gets to peanut season.....its hog-wild time
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I haven't actually hunted crows in years, but I used to do it regularly and I'd eat them too. We used to use owl decoys and duck calls to bring them in. A duck call can sound almost exactly like a crow if you blow it harder than you would calling ducks. When calling them in we would usually use shotguns. When hunting with airguns we were all about stealth and shooting them from behind concealment. You can sometimes locate their roosts, where hundreds or thousands of them will sleep, by following their flight patterns in the evening.i also enjoy shooting crows from many places on my farm. its insane especially during when the corn crop is mature and then , during harvest and drying times. Even when its the off season, decoys and calls are fun to use to get them critters.
i really like it when they do the frenzie flying routine when one of there comrades fall and they see it !!
then when it gets to peanut season.....its hog-wild time
These days I don't really like to kill them just because they're so damn smart.
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I’ve killed a couple crows for sport in my life and didn’t feel good about it .
When about 15 years old 2 of us got dropped off at a heavily posted reservoir
for a couple days camping. Dude I was with brought his bow with the old Bear razorheads.
We come appon 2 baby crows on the ground. He immediately put that big broad head
through the crows back. F ck and I grabbed the other. Brought him home when we got
picked up and me and my mother raised him for a few weeks. Smart and sociable he was.
She turned him into NYS conservation which has a rehab facility about 5 miles from us.
Missed him but realized we couldn’t keep him grown.
When about 15 years old 2 of us got dropped off at a heavily posted reservoir
for a couple days camping. Dude I was with brought his bow with the old Bear razorheads.
We come appon 2 baby crows on the ground. He immediately put that big broad head
through the crows back. F ck and I grabbed the other. Brought him home when we got
picked up and me and my mother raised him for a few weeks. Smart and sociable he was.
She turned him into NYS conservation which has a rehab facility about 5 miles from us.
Missed him but realized we couldn’t keep him grown.
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well guys, if you have many hundreds of them causing crop damage in the figures of 10K to 25K+$ a year,
what would you do ??
there is a place and time to let them live, but not in my space........
what would you do ??
there is a place and time to let them live, but not in my space........
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