What is your particular airgun-related OCD habit?

[jetpopt]

You guys have listed a bunch of the other things I was thinking could become fixations.

I, too, wipe down my guns after every session. And both of them have plastic/resin/composite noncorroding grips or stocks. Main concern is dust sticking to oils from palms and fingers. It only takes a few moments to do this. This habit does provide a check on other things; one time I noticed excess oil had seeped onto the rifle’s forearm. Made a mental note to always follow any lubing with swabbing narrow channels and nooks with a Q-tip.

Screws are checked at every lubing. (The ones in the guns, I mean. The ones in my head, well, they don’t rattle.)

Keeping tabs on pellet stashes and ordering well ahead of depletion, oh, yeaaaaah.

I don’t use a scope but already know that will be a point of much study and, maybe, anguish.

The chronograph and associated data, very obvious from some threads!

Recording exactly how many pests culled per year or whatever—but that does show effectiveness of continued effort on it.

There are so many possibilities to get wrapped around the axle over. Can’t possibly get bored.

 

[jetpopt]

My PAST OCD was that I absolutely, positively, had to have the pellet hit right where the crosshairs were no matter what the conditions. So every time out, a click here, a click there, to get it perfect despite which ever way the wind was blowing.
The problem was that the next day was a click here, a click there, because the wind was blowing a different direction.
Now I use the hash marks and life is much simpler.

Border collie chasing its own tail for hours.

 

[Vana2]

I have this thing about routine maintenance - possibly/probably because of the all time I spent around airplanes.

There is always the before use "walk-around" inspection checking hardware and zero; then the after usage inspection and wipe down before storing.

Each airgun has its own tin of pellets assigned and the appropriate maintenance (airgun dependent) is done when the tin is empty... Barrel cleaning, lubrication, chrony check to baseline etc, etc. Airguns that require additional maintenance are issued a lesser amount of pellets.

All airguns are used equally per the "jar lottery system" - each gun has a tag in the "to be shot" jar. When its tag is drawn it's put in the "had a turn" jar, the airgun and its tin of pellets are moved to the rack by the basement door to be shot (almost) every time I walk by. That saves disgruntlement in the gun safe and keeps us all familiar

The pesting airguns are on duty all the time.

The 10 meter specialists who don't see as much love during the outdoor shooting season get spoiled with a lot of the attention over the winter months.

I'm not OCD... I just like things to be in order

 

[HeyU]

No OCD but I do start to get antsy during the winter months when the sun comes out and it warms a bit. It's called cabin fever to most BUT to us airgunners ? Have you ever seen a cat looking thru the glass at a bird just a few feet away ? Yea,,kind of like that. My hands want to reach into the gun cabinet and pull out I don't care which one and grab a tin of I don't care what pellets and be out-side cocking, loading, and aiming. OhhhhYea....

 

[Rawroots]

When usps, fedex, or ups says a package is out for delivery i go overboard checking the front porch, guessing 10 to 20 times depending what time of day it shows or doesn’t show.

 

[JungleShooter]

EVERY time I go out to shoot, whether hunting or just to plink for an hour or two, I load my car with EVERYTHING I could possibly need. Even when I'm positive I WON'T need it that day! Toolbox, cleaning kits, all 3 of my guns, 15, 30, 45 & 60 minute tanks, every type of pellet I own, 3 bipods, tripod & Caldwell dead shot, camo hunting gear, Tactacam, extra batteries & charging cords, and the list goes on! Even if my intent is to work on 1 gun, EVERYTHING goes with me! I was never a Boy Scout but "Be Prepared" seems to be my motto. When meeting with friends to hunt I try to think of what THEY might need & load it up.
Maybe it's time for a belated New Year resolution to SIMPLIFY!!!

Oh, Gerry — I feel your pain.
My back is still hurting from last week's outing — carrying guns, a pile of gear crates, and furniture to be loaded into an SUV that always seems too small....

It looked like a move — but I was just going to the range and saying hi to some pigeons....

Matthias

 

[Bigragu]

Geez, I thought I was bad, ha ha.

Actually, after reading some of the replies, I feel more at ease. I actually thought I had a problem(maybe I still do), but my quirk stemmed from work and running construction hvac projects. The whole mental lists created in the head, of how I wanted certain things done. That has spilled into my retired life. I’m still not the best in organization like clothes, laundry, groceries, bills, to those things I say F that, but to my pcp stuff? Yes, I’m very meticulous, especially in prepping a gun up to start using it. I won’t grab a gun out of the box, and “just throw a set of mounts and a scope” on there like I’ve read some do. I won’t shoot the gun till everything is proper and in place.

Fasteners? Oh my. Not only torqued properly, but Phillips type screws all need to face the same direction, hex flats on nuts or bolt heads need to all be level on top, and there can be no excess threads of a screw sticking out past the nut when tightened, it must flush out.

Labeling- I’ve invested in paint pens of all colors, to put my name on mags, tools, anything pretty much loose from the gun that is popular and others may have. If I don’t write my name a certain way with the letters going in a certain style, out comes the acetone for a wipe off and do over.

As much as I hate to admit it, as I’m getting older it’s spilling into other things, stupid things like when I put my wife’s coffee cup out next to the coffee pot the handle of the cup is parallel with the pots handle. Vacuuming, I need to have the lines on the carpet all run parallel.

All of this annoys my family members, as I’ve caused us to be late for events as I’m checking all the door locks, stove knobs are shut, etc all thru out the house. But this is what I tell them- if they ask me to do something like fix or build, I can guarantee them the best job ever, no hack work, no short cuts, only quality. So rest assured people, and Gerry, lol, there’s pluses with this quirk(not gonna call it a disease, ha, ha!)

 

[maxtrouble]

I have to wipe down the weapon after the shooting session or I flip out. I even wipe down my bow after shooting.

I OCD on ammo and pellets. What ever I shoot that weekend I have to "RESTOCK ASAP".

I have soup three or four times a week. I go to the Asian store and buy mango juice and Japanese coffee each week. Gotta keep the can reserves topped off.

I have to go to the gym five days a week or I feel horrible.

 

[JungleShooter]

OK some of you guys are seriously OCD.
Go, get some help!!


Besides the always-be-prepared-take-every-piece-of-gear-you-own I have NO OCD problems whatsoever.
Really.
I don't.

I just make Specs Tables:


● High BC Pellet Specs Table .22cal:
40 pellet models — each with an average of 11 specs — for a total of 440 pieces of data


● Hollow Point Pellet Specs and Performance Table .22cal:
27 pellet models — with an average of 22 specs — for total of 594 data pieces


● Silencer Specs Table:
with 56 silencer models — each with c. 15 specs — for a total of 840 data points


● 3 Scope Specs Tables:
with a total of 235 scope models — with c. 29 specs per scope model — for a total of 6,815 pieces of data


OCD? — Me?!? — What would give you that idea?!?

Now leave me alone. I need to get back to my Specs Tables and add a new pellet that I just discovered.

Matthias

 

[Treefrog]

Mine?

Squeezing as much accuracy as possible out of every airgun I have. I also prefer to recover all the pellets possible. I'd rather that the back yard doesn't end up becoming a "SuperFund Site".

Cheers,

J~

 

[Bandito]

N+1=? I always see another that tickles my fancy. N is the current number of guns, targets, ... You can figure it out from here. Bandito.

 

[r1lover]

1. Never walking away from the gun safe without closing the door and spinning the dial.

2. Spinning the dial at random times during the day to make sure I spun the dial.

3. Unlocking the front door and coming back in to spin the dial one more time before leaving the house.......... to make sure I spun the dial, lol.

I get into my safe twice a day, sometimes more. It's a no-brainer to keep the safe door closed when I am in there tinkering because I don't want one of the cats to get in the safe but it's harder to make myself spin the dial every time I close the door. I have to remind myself in the past I've walked away with the intention of coming right back only to be distracted by something and ended up leaving the safe unlocked.

 

[Bigragu]

1. Never walking away from the gun safe without closing the door and spinning the dial.

2. Spinning the dial at random times during the day to make sure I spun the dial.

3. Unlocking the front door and coming back in to spin the dial one more time before leaving the house.......... to make sure I spun the dial, lol.

I get into my safe twice a day, sometimes more. It's a no-brainer to keep the safe door closed when I am in there tinkering because I don't want one of the cats to get in the safe but it's harder to make myself spin the dial every time I close the door. I have to remind myself I've walked away with the intention of coming right back only to be distracted by something and end up leaving the safe unlocked.

I do that with front doors and my garage door whenever I leave. When we painted our house we painted the role up garage doors black, so in the early morning or evening when it’s dark it’s hard to tell if I shut it so to keep me from wondering if I closed it or not I’ll do something out of the ordinary like point to the door and tap my left leg 3x.

So if I’m driving away and if I wonder if I closed the garage door or not I’ll remember that yes I did cause I remember tapping on my leg, ha ha

 

[jetpopt]

Geez, I thought I was bad, ha ha.

Actually, after reading some of the replies, I feel more at ease. I actually thought I had a problem(maybe I still do), but my quirk stemmed from work and running construction hvac projects. The whole mental lists created in the head, of how I wanted certain things done. That has spilled into my retired life. I’m still not the best in organization like clothes, laundry, groceries, bills, to those things I say F that, but to my pcp stuff? Yes, I’m very meticulous, especially in prepping a gun up to start using it. I won’t grab a gun out of the box, and “just throw a set of mounts and a scope” on there like I’ve read some do. I won’t shoot the gun till everything is proper and in place.

Fasteners? Oh my. Not only torqued properly, but Phillips type screws all need to face the same direction, hex flats on nuts or bolt heads need to all be level on top, and there can be no excess threads of a screw sticking out past the nut when tightened, it must flush out.

Labeling- I’ve invested in paint pens of all colors, to put my name on mags, tools, anything pretty much loose from the gun that is popular and others may have. If I don’t write my name a certain way with the letters going in a certain style, out comes the acetone for a wipe off and do over.

As much as I hate to admit it, as I’m getting older it’s spilling into other things, stupid things like when I put my wife’s coffee cup out next to the coffee pot the handle of the cup is parallel with the pots handle. Vacuuming, I need to have the lines on the carpet all run parallel.

All of this annoys my family members, as I’ve caused us to be late for events as I’m checking all the door locks, stove knobs are shut, etc all thru out the house. But this is what I tell them- if they ask me to do something like fix or build, I can guarantee them the best job ever, no hack work, no short cuts, only quality. So rest assured people, and Gerry, lol, there’s pluses with this quirk(not gonna call it a disease, ha, ha!)

Wow, some of that stuff is really nitpicky. OTOH, I would definitely prefer someone like you when hiring a contractor of any kind. One of the guys who did some work here was described as so perfectionistic that he and his wife both would keep backing their trucks out of a spot to make sure they were exactly parallel to the boundaries AND exactly spaced in the middles. I told the describer, “Wish all the workers were that meticulous.”

Making the cup handle parallel with the coffeepot handle isn’t what I consider important but it’s harmless and takes only a second to do. I think my husband needs a page from your book—he repeatedly, habitually, puts things like Lava Lamps, drinking glasses, eyeglasses, steak knives, and basically any potentially dangerous or messy object right at the edge of a table, dresser, or bench.

I don’t let him near my guns.

 

[jetpopt]

1. Never walking away from the gun safe without closing the door and spinning the dial.

2. Spinning the dial at random times during the day to make sure I spun the dial.

3. Unlocking the front door and coming back in to spin the dial one more time before leaving the house.......... to make sure I spun the dial, lol.

I get into my safe twice a day, sometimes more. It's a no-brainer to keep the safe door closed when I am in there tinkering because I don't want one of the cats to get in the safe but it's harder to make myself spin the dial every time I close the door. I have to remind myself in the past I've walked away with the intention of coming right back only to be distracted by something and ended up leaving the safe unlocked.

Distraction is my #1 threat to safety, whether it’s about guns, home security, putting keys or other vital items somewhere unusual “just for a moment”, or cooking.

BE MINDFUL truly is a good mantra for those prone to distraction, like me.

 

[jetpopt]

I do that with front doors and my garage door whenever I leave. When we painted our house we painted the role up garage doors black, so in the early morning or evening when it’s dark it’s hard to tell if I shut it so to keep me from wondering if I closed it or not I’ll do something out of the ordinary like point to the door and tap my left leg 3x.

So if I’m driving away and if I wonder if I closed the garage door or not I’ll remember that yes I did cause I remember tapping on my leg, ha ha

Paint a bright colored line a foot or two from the garage door’s bottom. You’d be able to see if it’s open from a distance.

When I turn the key outside to unlock the garage door, I rotate the key in the lock so that upon closing the door, it locks. Otherwise, it’s too easy to just close it and forget to lock it.

Auto (powered) GD openers automatically lock IF YOU CLICK THE REMOTE AGAIN , but I remember coming home one day to find that my husband was in such a hurry to leave that he didn’t do it.

Next house’s garage doors: Manual operation only.

 

[crowski]

Try to shoot 1-2 hrs. daily. Already got 2 in today. Crow

 

[davelarson]

Geez, I thought I was bad, ha ha.

Actually, after reading some of the replies, I feel more at ease. I actually thought I had a problem(maybe I still do), but my quirk stemmed from work and running construction hvac projects. The whole mental lists created in the head, of how I wanted certain things done. That has spilled into my retired life. I’m still not the best in organization like clothes, laundry, groceries, bills, to those things I say F that, but to my pcp stuff? Yes, I’m very meticulous, especially in prepping a gun up to start using it. I won’t grab a gun out of the box, and “just throw a set of mounts and a scope” on there like I’ve read some do. I won’t shoot the gun till everything is proper and in place.

Fasteners? Oh my. Not only torqued properly, but Phillips type screws all need to face the same direction, hex flats on nuts or bolt heads need to all be level on top, and there can be no excess threads of a screw sticking out past the nut when tightened, it must flush out.

Labeling- I’ve invested in paint pens of all colors, to put my name on mags, tools, anything pretty much loose from the gun that is popular and others may have. If I don’t write my name a certain way with the letters going in a certain style, out comes the acetone for a wipe off and do over.

As much as I hate to admit it, as I’m getting older it’s spilling into other things, stupid things like when I put my wife’s coffee cup out next to the coffee pot the handle of the cup is parallel with the pots handle. Vacuuming, I need to have the lines on the carpet all run parallel.

All of this annoys my family members, as I’ve caused us to be late for events as I’m checking all the door locks, stove knobs are shut, etc all thru out the house. But this is what I tell them- if they ask me to do something like fix or build, I can guarantee them the best job ever, no hack work, no short cuts, only quality. So rest assured people, and Gerry, lol, there’s pluses with this quirk(not gonna call it a disease, ha, ha!)

Come on folks let’s start a go fund me page for Augie. He doesn’t even realize that he’s crying out for help !
Just kidding, he resealed my HW44 and it came back so clean I thought it was a different pistol lol!