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Just Wondering !

shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2001 in General Discussion
I was reading over the post for today and was wondering what some of you are like in person. I kind of got some of you figured out. What are some of your intrest besides guns and hunting if you have any? No, I'm not a weirdOOOOO. It's just my nature to wanna know who I'm talking to and I can't sleep and this sounded like a good topic.
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  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I fitted several MG-13 mags to work in my Egyptian Hakim rifle, now my wondering mind is thinking of getting a German MG-43 bi-pod that I can pick up from a buddy of mine and get it on the cheap side. A little machining and it will fit with no problem, I have already looked at it and know what I need to do. My number one reason for doing this is the rifle went from a 10 round factory mag to a 25 round mag and you would not believe the increase in weight and the ability to fire in a prone or seated position is about gone. I want to keep it a functional combat rifle and this is one way I know I can.

    Any positive thoughts or input on this ?
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Geez i guess you cant sleep,it's 12.00 pm EST.Im a farmer/rancher. I Love working for myself. I see you like boating,so do I. Motorcycles + 4 wheelers, in the works of bulding a hot rod, 46 chevy puckup. I like photography,and have won best of show at the county fair a couple times with pic's of combines and farming in general. also really into sports,I go to all the local collage games,and my son's high school baseball games, and i play city league softballP.S GO MARINERS
    Ruger-Remington-RULE THE ROOST
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'm into American 4x4 trucks made before the 90s, Great Danes (got two), camping and hiking, firefighting is my favorite part of my job (soon to end, but will continue firefighting wherever I go), I've recently been studying creative real estate investing techniques, hope to start a part-time business for now until it grows enough that I can quit working at a J.ust O.ver B.roke.Whatta you do besides hunt/guns?
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  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes I love boats and I like to water ski.I have a 18 foot pontoon. I spend most of my time with my family. We all enjoy being on the water in the summer.We also camp alot. I think when my boys get a little older I will never hunt alone again. They love to get out doors!
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ysacres, must be that Left Coast thing . . . always doing things backward . . . didn't you mean 12:00 AM? [grin] Sorry, had to take a cheap shot, it's 0darkHundred & I can't sleep either. Shane, as you already know, I'm deepwoods Yankee from NH. I attended college in NC for three years (Chapel Hill). Went to law school but didn't go into practice (lots of long stories here I'm not sharing), worked in manufacturing, got downsized and am doing a variety of things to stay afloat at the moment. Hunt & fish as much as I can. Applaud your involvement w/ your kids. They grow too bloody fast - my youngest is 16 now - and about the time we catch our breath they are out on their own. But my boys do join me outside and my daughter occasionally. Enough of this maudlin stuff - I raise my glass to the Tarheels.
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yankee origionally (Pennsylvania/New York) moved to Left Coast for warmer weather, seashore, + good times (OK, bodacious babes didn't hurt). Like photograpy (Nikon FM2), amature gunsmithing, and beer, not neccesarily(sp?) in that order. Studying to be CNC machinist + stage/moviemaking (machinist to pay bills, stage/movie because everybody's gotta have a dream). If career as famous movie director doesn't work out, hope one day to manufacture my own line of guns--Bill Ruger, look out!(Just jokin', Bill-UDAMAN!).
    I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.--Voltare
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Fishin with my Boy (when I can get out of work). He is 11 now and the good times will be gone if I don't make them happen. My Girl is 16 and is still my baby - She can shoot better'n me if she tries. I keep buying her cameras cause she loves taking pictures and sells her own cards. I've been discribed as a Red Neck and Beaver Cleaver's Dad combined. My wife (18 years) changed my life and keeps me sane - and throws in suprises every now and then. Not much about me, but my FAMILY is who I am.
    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • gunboobgunboob Member Posts: 203 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Aside from antique and old and disc. and,...er,...well, all guns...?Kids are out and gone, so lots has changed over the years. I like small motorcycle riding, bass and bluegill fishin', nickle and dime slot machines, nickle and dime poker in my basement, small gunshows, sitting outside in the early morning with a big crossword puzzle and my dog, and, oh yeah,...shootin'.That's 'nough.Bob
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Obviously I'm a retired police officer here in NJ. I re-married last September after my first wife died of cancer in 1991. I have no children. My hobbies are guns (collecting and shooting)andworking as an activist for the 2AMPD and the Keep and Bear Arms organizations to make NJ a "shall issue" state someday and promote national CCW. I travel to gun shows in the Northeast USA frequently. I am on the list to go to the Glock factory in GA soon to take the armorers course. I enjoy this bulletin board when I'm home.CHARLIE
    Guns don't kill people, it's the bullets, stupidI am the NRA, the KABA, NJ Area Rep for the 2ampd, and the AARP :(njretcop@copmail.com
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  • Andrew AdamsAndrew Adams Member Posts: 227 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a yankee hillbilly from Western PA, who got transplanted to the big city two years ago to attend medical school at Temple. I also graduated from West Virginia University a couple of years back.I love to hunt fish and camp, although I don't have as much time to do any of these things as I'd like. This year it is looking like I'll only have 1 day to hunt deer in PA (I never thought I'd have to say that) Those of you who mention doing things with your kids, bravo. My Dad started taking me to the deer woods with him when I was seven years old; over the stringent objections of my Mother. I'm 23 now and have survived the liberal brainwashing of college and will be in the woods with him again in a couple of months. If he hadn't started me so young, I don't if that would be true or not?Now that I'm mostly grown up, memories like taking the canoe out fishing avery Sunday night all summer with Dad can almost bring a tear to my eye. I only get to see him once a month or so now, but let me tell you that I wouldn't trade those memories for five million in the bank.
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  • cpilericpileri Member Posts: 447 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a physician specializing in anesthesiology, and an active duty Army captain. That takes most of my time.Other than that i am a family man, I do some readings at church on Sundays, and take way too many pics of my boy.I am interested in ancient religions, andrology, wasting syndromes, singing, ballroom dancing, fantasy games and fiction, constitutional law, and (relatively recently) curio and elic firearms- although i do own some modern ones of course.
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I, too, am an active duty Army Captain in the Field Artillery. I will be transitioning out of the Army next spring to become a stock broker (yeah, I know....). I am an avid outdoorsman who lives to go broke buying new toys. I am a whitewater kayaking instructor, mountaineer, fly fisherman, hunter, scuba diver, sky diver. But above all, I love beer (after my wife, that is...)
    Crush your enemies, drive their horses before you, hear the lamentation of their women.--Genghis Khan
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  • REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Internationally certified arboristfancy name for tree trimmer able to pass a testhack (trim) trees back from powerlines all day in cincinnatilive about 2 hours east though in rural s.central ohio where I can shoot all the lead mines I want.love fishin from my new boat, shootin, huntin,riding my motorcycle and squeezing a few extra horses from my 5.0 mustangspend all time I can with my 2 boys ( 9+5)had young one able to tear down and reassemble my mini-30 at 4 yrs.oh yeah, keepin the missus happy so I can be too.-Ralph
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have many interests, while I dabble in international banking and consulting with world leaders on peace initatives, my days off I try to wash and wax the Bentley and Ferrari....then it's off to the polo club for a quick round of tennis and a swim, later my evenings are kept busy with charity functions. Saturday's are always a treat when we go shooting with our fine English doubles, then later retiring to the study with my good friends for a sip of cognac and a game of chess by the fireside.....Shane, you'll just have to keep "wondering" about that fictitious character Rembrandt, (I'm trying to upgrade my image.)
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I'm a handsome devil with a flashing smile and a golden personality.But seriously...I live just about as far up in the northwest corner of the lower 48 as you can get.When I'm not working I'm riding my Harley, or shooting my guns, or playing the guitar, or maybe even drinking some beer.I'm opinionated as hell, don't take crap from anyone and would gladly give you the shirt off of my back.
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  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sure glad to see that there are some normal people left out there. I work in a factory that makes graphite electrodes as my regular job and run a remodling business on the side. Let me tell ya that I get to talk to some real weardOOO's sometimes. I'm greatful for the good conversation that I get here on this board!!!
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  • Mark IIMark II Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here is the story on Mark II:He works in the private security field (administration, not too much field work)in the Washington D.C. area, and hopes to get back to college next semester to finish his degree so he can teach history. He likes to tinker and put add-ons on his firearms. His hobbies include hiking, camping, shooting just about anything (pistols, rifles, shotguns, archery, etc.), geocaching, and reading. He married his high-school girlfriend last spring, and he sometimes likes to write in third person.
    "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy."
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  • Mom MomMom Mom Member Posts: 169 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I'm not playing on the computer, I work in a hospital intensive psychiatric ward. I talk to WAY more weirdos than you! (And then there's the patients).In my spare time for fun, I have 2 kids, one husband, one dog who thinks she's a third child, and volunteer with the juvenile court. And take a few college classes on the side.
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  • DaRoostaDaRoosta Member Posts: 270 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good topic, Shane. I'm the type of guy who can't really be put into a certain demographic profile. I'm a 29-year old single guy who likes to play golf, do a little fishing, do a little gambling and vacation to places nobody usually thinks of vacationing as a semi-reunion for all the other single guys I went to college with. I run a couple fantasy sports leagues and participate in a bunch of others. I'm a huge sports fan in the fanatic sense of the word. I occasionally have a glass of wine with dinner instead of beer, but more often kick back with a Jack on the rocks. Although I don't have a smoking jacket, I've been known to pick up a few stogies on the way back from work. I've been a sales rep for a Fortune 500 tobacco company for almost 3 years. I drive about 1000 miles a week in my company vehicle, so I listen to quite a bit of music and talk radio. I still rent an apartment because I keep thinking I'm going to get promoted, but it hasn't quite worked out that way yet, mainly due to the locations they're offering (that's what I tell myself).One last thing...I'm an expert on every subject imaginable (self-pronounced, of course).Jeremy
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