I Admit I am a "gear head";wondering if other gear heads also are air gun nuts.

I'm an auto mechanic so naturally I hate cars. I get my fix for tinkering on guns when I'm not at work (sometimes even at work if the boss isn't looking). I'll be darned if I'm spending my free time under the hood of some POS though unless its paying top dollar. Paid for a few toys with side work.

I used to really be into to cars and racing but me and my partner had a falling out and I lost most of my investment in the car. I started to build another car but got into airguns and the car has sat for years. I'm wanting to get back to the car next fall after the gardening season is over. I guess we will see what happens.

Yes and no for me. I definitely enjoy good gear and tools and having divorced and started some things over I’m backfilling with fewer but better things.

As for a tearing into a brand new airgun, I just got my first new one in some years and although Im tinkering with its factory adjustments I haven’t truly torn into it yet. Im a realist in that while I think im improving things like this I usually don’t make things significantly “better” so I try to stretch the enjoyment of the factory original as long as I can until I have clear reasons to begin customizing.

My wife is the finder and I am the fixer. I'll work on almost anything especially my truck if it needs it or my spring guns if they need it, but I don't go looking for work. If it ain't broke it don't need fixin'.

Been ripping things apart to see what makes them tick since kindergarten. Finally got one of them back together last year

Started working in an automatic transmission shop when I was 15. Then onto industrial maintenance. Painted cars and motorcycles in my shop on the side. Now retired I work on my vehicles and families. I enjoy working and maintaning vehicles and have enough background to repair practically anything. Received my first bb gun at the age of 4. So fixing and improving airguns was just something I've always done.

Grew up on a farm

I spent the past thirty years either in full time maintenance or as the guy they tapped his shoulder to fix anything that broke. I loved any kind of tool, especially ones I had to fabricate.
I was in scuba diving for 12 years and repaired all my own regulators. I custom built something in the scuba business called a “flow bench”. Once a regulator was rebuilt it was tuned on the flow bench. It had a number of gauges, vacuum generators, regulators, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed all the gear scuba entailed.
Shooting has its fair share of gear too which is a big plus to me. Between the guns, air refilling equipment and compressor it’s a plus for me.

HA! Of course. I took the Notos apart before I did so much as put air in it the first time.. Wanted to see if I could make the moderator easily removable.
No dice. Glued TF in.

Yup. Used to build and race motorcycles. Spent time as an auto mechanic, a welder, and worked a few other technical trades. I still do all the home/truck/car maintenance around here. Dad grew up on a farm and I spent a lot of time there. Learn to make do, because you have to.

Most of what's been manufactured airgun-wise (particularly in China) can be improved. More accurate is always more accurate.

J~

I grew up poor so I learned to fix what I broke or my ass got broken for breaking it!
That also taught me to be creative if I wanted "new" toys. I hot glued so many things together to have something cool to smash over and over.

Been a mechanic for 20+ years, auto body in there too. Done some carpentry and plumbing, but I'm now learning the electrical trade. Figure I'll have plenty of trades under my belt so I can retire decently and have plenty of side jobs if I want them. Tradesmen are getting fewer and far between.

Oh. I also have been welding for years. Used to make custom turbo headers back when all the tuner car scene was going on. I build motorized bikes too, 2 stroke and 4 stroke. Haven't jumped on the electric bike train just yet. I enjoy riding around on a chain saw spewing blue smoke everywhere!

Ever since I was a tike I always wanted to know what made things work the way they did. 60+years later I'm still just as curious. Life is good.

Patrick

Taken my guns apart...na, not unless it's needed.

Gearhead... I've had my own race car (Pro Gas), plus driven various of my street cars on the track, helped others with cars at Bonneville, the Drag Races (Division 7), Motorcycle road races, Pikes Peak, Road Racing (two teams) at Riverside Raceway (SoCal, gone).
Engine building, cylinder head porting.

Modified most of my motorcycles (a lot of'em !) to some extent or another. Some minor, some drastic.
A single sided swing arm on my Yamaha R1 was fun to do.

Yeah, I guess I'm a Gearhead.

Mike

I think that gearheads are more likely to fix their own guns, and probably to tinker when there's no real need. I've always been a car guy. For about 12 years before retiring, I spent a lot of time and money on sports cars and track events. I still love the cars, but the Porsche sits in the garage and never sees the track. Tinkering with air rifles is more compatible with the retirement budget, but I believe the gearhead mentality crosses over to most things mechanical.

I am a "Go Fast" mechanic and I love working on and building high performance/high speed automobiles. Have a '73 Roadrunner with a blown 440 Magnum poked under the hood. So yeah, i enjoy working on things. However i am still a little new to the PCP world (5 guns in at this point) but i am a little ntimidated by a lot of the inner workings of my guns.....

I've always worked on my cars/trucks because I had to and didn't want to pay someone else to. Mess with motorcycles because I want to, and don't want to pay someone else to. Just got into the air gun thing a few months ago and am starting to do some modding and such. Also do FPV drones, RC cars/trucks, so yeah, I like to tinker with fun things..

Gear heads, engineers, adrenaline junkies; they all go hand in hand don't they? We all have made the world as advanced as it is over the past half century, incorporating one learned technology into another. And for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, adrenaline season is almost here!

And I'm ready for it too. Winter started a month early here in S.W. Missouri, and isn't looking to be over for some time yet. Seldom able to get out and shoot, let alone ride the bike. Any warm up is accompanied by howling wind and/or rain..

I would consider myself a "gear head" too, depending upon the gear. I believe that many new things/products, especially well engineered ones rarely require reengineering and often can yield more poor results than what the manufacturer designed. Customization, yes, tinkering, not always. However, I have done lots of tinkering and reengineering of things in the past. The closest things now, are my custom build Mtn. Bikes. But now that I have them tricked out, not much to do but ride them. Kinda like my airguns and motorcycles. However, routine maintenance, keeps the tools warm. :~)