OK...it's Kinda Gear Orientated

You Might Be A Gun Nut If"


-If You've ever dabbed a little Hoppe's on your neck before going on a date...
-If you bought checkering tools, checkered all your gunstocks and are now starting on the bedposts...
-If you cannot really recall just how many guns you own...
-Surplus ammunition suppliers call you to see if there was anything you were looking for...
-If you bought a gun from a gunshop, only to realize you used to own it years ago...
-If you've ever shot out a 1911 barrel.........
-If you save brass and have a case tumbler, but don't reload...
-If you ever stripped the paint off of your car and then blued it
-If you've ever bought ammo for a caliber you didn,t shoot, thinking that someday you might own a gun in that caliber...
-If your computer passwords are gun related...
-If your five-year-old can detail strip and fully reassemble an M-1 Garand............
-If you take your guns out of the safe and handle them, just so you can wipe them down before going to bed...
-If your local gunsmith calls you for obsolete parts...
-If you home-school and use ballistic tables for math lessons...
-If your gun safe is bigger than your refrigerator...
-If the speedometer on your car is in both m.p.h. and fps...
-If you call Brownells and they recognize your voice...
-If you own reloading dies for calibers that you do not shoot...
-If you understand Smith and Wesson's model numbers...
-If you ever bought two different brands of the same bullet just to see which one "shot better"...
-If you've ever had to explain "that it's not the same gun it's a variant!"...
-If watching the Lion King gives you the itch for a .470 Nitro...
-If you cut out your best groups and carry them in your wallet like photos...
-If you've ever gone to a gun show three times in one month, and were excited every time...
-If you feel that a golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range...
-If you ever accidentally seasoned a steak with FFFFg black powder...
-If your brass tumbler used to be a small cement mixers.
-If you identify the gun on the cover of Dillon's Blue Press before you notice the girl...
-If you make $30/hr at work and spent 35 min- on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of .40 brass...
-If you have guns in your safes that you can't for the life of you remember how you came by...
-If the FBI asks you to identify firearms they can't...
-If ammo manufacturers had to layoff workers when you went to Europe for a month's vacation...
-If you know the range of every tree in the neighborhood...
-if you can tell the caliber of any spent casing just by feel...
-If you plead with the gun shop to hold a rifle/shotgun until you have space for it...
-If you can't figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say "Bushmaster"...
-If you didn't get that last one because you don't have any "non-shooting" friends...
-If you driver's license says "must wear night vision goggles."
-If your shoulder is callused...
-If manufactures ask you how their rifles hold up.
-If you get misty eyed evey time you sell a gun..
-If you alternate Silvertips, Hydra-Shoks and Black Talons in your magazines because they look prettier that way..........
-If you guess windage and range every time you look at a road sign...
-If you went out to the range this weekend to shoot up ammo, just so you'd have some brass to reload...
-RCBS answers your phone calls, "What have YOU dreamed up this time?"..............

An Emergency Radio

Ok, so whether it's a freak snow storm in Las Vegas, seasonal ice storm like in MO or Kentucky, earthquake in Kaliforniastan or flood in one of the Dakotas or Iowa,; you should have an emergency radio with the following features:

6v adapter, battery capable & hand crank capable
NOAA radio capable
Built in light
USB adapters for your cell phones on the internal USB port

Here's the one I got from Radio Shack with all the features:

What about a truck?

V-6. 4 wheel drive. Mini-truck. Rain, snow, mud, off-road, ruff-road.

Any questions?

Tactical Weapons Light

Maybe you will need it, maybe you won't. But at least you know what's available, how much it costs, how to work it, what it will do or not do:



A Surefire X200 on a Smith and Wesson and an Insight UTL M2 on a USPc 45

These are CR/SF 123A Lithium batteries. They are expensive at $2.50-4.95 EA. Buy them in bulk and they are less.

I need them for my Surefire Z2 Combatlight as well as my Surefire X200 weapons light. I bought a box of 50 last year for a really good price and still have about 45 left. They have a very long shelf life.

Lock It Up!

I think if you own ANY firearms, you need a gun safe. One can be bought from Sportsman's Guide or Cabelas for under the cost of a good pistol; $400.00.

Here is mine. I customized the outside of it with things that are important to me.



Here's a SAMPLE of what you may want to put in your's:

Solio Solar Powered PDA Charger

So even if the power goes out for a couple of days, you can recharge your cell phone or whatever. You can even do it on the go as you just put it in an outer pocket.

The Solio holds a stored charge so I can just connect the phone and it will charge up the phone once a day. It doesn't have to be sunny outside to work. You can transfer the charge from the Solio to your phone anytime 24/7.

A Good Flashlight

I think these pictures speak for themselves.

I had a Surefire 6P that I took to Iraq with me in 2004. I gave it to my daughter who still has it without knowing it's sentimental value.

I bought this as the replacement. You can get extra bulbs, LED conversion lamps & batteries from all over the web.

Strong beam, bright, tough, dependable.......what else can you say?

Multi-Tool

Most people call them "Leathermans" or "Gerbers". They are Multi-tools.

Remember in the original SPEED movie where Reeves' character stuck a multi-tool in the doors of the elevator to keep them open?

I have two; a SOG and a Leatherman. I prefer the SOG as it is more like a set of Duckbill pliers. Whereas, the Leatherman is more like a set of needle nose pliers.

The SOG went to theatre with me where I broke off the file, but other than that piece of neglect on my part, it has been perfect.



Here are a few other knives to have just in case.

Gotta Have a Decent Phone

Here's mine.

A 2 gen iPhone. 16 GB. I paid $100.00 more and got DOUBLE the memory back when it was new. It still does almost everything I want: E-mail, photos, text messages, map, phone, You Tube, movies, a few games & a few kewl utilities.

Things it won't do: Play mpegs & no real GPS. The exernal speaker is a POS! And the headphone port is smaller than most plug shrouds on headsets so you have to find a set that will fit in it.

Do You Have a BOB?

It's just a "Bug Out Bag". A few things that would be very handy if you broke down on the side of the road or if there was an "emergency" of some kind. Here's mine. It's a Maxpedition.

Daily Carry Items

Here are just a few things you may want to carry around with you. Of course you have to live in "Free America" to get a CCW to carry legally. Of course you can't do this legally if you live in Kaliforniastan or the Democratic People's Republick of IL or NY.

Gotta Have a Good Watch

If you have nothing else a good watch is always needed.

Here's mine. It went to Kuwait/Iraq for OIF II in MAR 04 till MAR 05.

Solar powered is a basic requirement.

Casio G-Shock 2300B