New Girl! Looking for friends that actually want too shoot!

[User 1234]

I want to know the details on the snacks before I reply. Dry store bought cookies or home made banana bread?



Just kidding, welcome to the site.

 

[The Heretic]

If someone wants to try out something I have, they just shoot it.
We don't squabble about ammo.
And sometimes I get a free lunch on the way home.

Confucius Say :
Be nice and sometime free lunch hoppen

That's fine when the ammo is 10-20 cents per round, but have you looked at the price of .460 magnum or .50 BMG or 5.7x28 lately?

I am unemployed now - maybe retired - either way on a fixed income, and therefore on a budget. I already have the guns so I don't mind someone trying them out to see if they would like to have a gun like that themselves, but ammo is a consumable, it is mostly self-defense ammo (therefore expensive) not cheap FMJ blasting ammo, and stored by me for SHTF times, not going out and burning it up having fun times.

 

[DirectDrive]

That's fine when the ammo is 10-20 cents per round, but have you looked at the price of .460 magnum or .50 BMG or 5.7x28 lately?

I am unemployed now - maybe retired - either way on a fixed income, and therefore on a budget. I already have the guns so I don't mind someone trying them out to see if they would like to have a gun like that themselves, but ammo is a consumable, it is mostly self-defense ammo (therefore expensive) not cheap FMJ blasting ammo, and stored by me for SHTF times, not going out and burning it up having fun times.

Recreational shooting is not a cheap hobby.

 

[SHOOTZMEDLER]

I'm with the guy on the snacks.

 

[edzz]

How come when I joined back in 2013 I didn't get the same welcome wagon?

Dudes. Come on now.

Simpin ain't easy on NFWA.. OK.. apparently it is!

Did you offer SNACKS?

 

[The Heretic]

Recreational shooting is not a cheap hobby.

Agreed. I have plenty of cheap .22 RF ammo I would gladly share for some fun shooting. But shooting my 460 magnum is going to cost someone at least a $1 a round, and up to $4 per round, depending on what they want to try. The .50 BMG starts at about $3-4 per round and goes up to $150 per round (if they can find Raufoss/Mk211).

That is, if they can find the ammo - that is the other thing; right now, some of that ammo isn't on the shelves and may not be available online.

It is just simpler if the shooter brings their own ammo.

 

[User 1234]

I expect we'll see a lot more 22 being burned during the next few years.

 

[ron]

PM sent

 

[Unicykle]

Come on guys a GIRL posted here and were only at 4 pages? Where the hell is everybody?

 

[nammac]

Come on guys a GIRL posted here and were only at 4 pages? Where the hell is everybody?

Self isolating.

 

[Kruel J]

Come on guys a GIRL posted here and were only at 4 pages? Where the hell is everybody?

And that's the problem right there. No wonder we have such a hard time keeping female members.

 

[Capn Jack]

Come on guys a GIRL posted here and were only at 4 pages? Where the hell is everybody?

Married.....

 

[OldTengu]

Welcome.
You're going to get a lot of good info, some bad, and more entertainment than you probably expected. If you're lucky, as I have been, you'll meet some folks that you know have your back if needed, which is a security far too many of us go without.

 

[Kruel J]

I assure you... I'm quite functional!

The miracles of modern chemistry.

 

[Burninpowder]

Normally I just let people try some stuff that I have if they want to try it. Some cartridges I have are wildcats and can not be found at the store and are hand load only. It's a different story if we're going out shooting all the time and they want to keep shooting my stuff then they can supply the ammo or components.

 

[sagia308]

Hello! I am new here and I am looking for friends who want too shoot, in the Washington and Oregon areas. I am in Oregon and apparently all my friends are afraid to exercise their freedoms:/ lol if you want to meet up for platonic friendship and shooting buddies, Id really like to train and become a great shot and eventually move onto LR rifles and maybe hunting. I have 4 guns of different calibers. I have time and I have snacks Please be sober and not intoxicated or dangerous. Gun safety is very important to me.

dont take any of my advise i am not that great of a shotmy videos prove it

 

[DirectDrive]

The snacks are cool.
Joke telling would be a plus.

 

[tac]

Hey, New Girl - I'D share my ammunition with you, never fear. EVERYONE who comes to our guest days here in yUK is a guest, so paying for ammunition is not even mentioned, no matter what the cost. However, this being yUK, there are no .388 Whizzbang Cosmic Super Blunderthasters here, I sad to say. But even if there were, you are a guest, and pay a big fat $00.00 for anything you might shoot.

I've never figured out what a guest day costs me, and that's not because I'm really not worried about money, it's because when you have folks round to your house for a party, you don't tot up the amount they are drinking and give 'em the bill.

If I take, say, a .45-70 Govt and a couple of 7.5x55 Swiss, the day might end up costing me $50-60, but we use the paying forward system. When they join, as many do after shooting a real live gun for the first time, they do the same for THEIR guests.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club

 

[DirectDrive]

Hey, New Girl - I'D share my ammunition with you, never fear. EVERYONE who comes to our guest days here in yUK is a guest, so paying for ammunition is not even mentioned, no matter what the cost. However, this being yUK, there are no .388 Whizzbang Cosmic Super Blunderthasters here, I sad to say. But even if there were, you are a guest, and pay a big fat $00.00 for anything you might shoot.

I've never figured out what a guest day costs me, and that's not because I'm really not worried about money, it's because when you have folks round to your house for a party, you don't tot up the amount they are drinking and give 'em the bill.

If I take, say, a .45-70 Govt and a couple of 7.5x55 Swiss, the day might end up costing me $50-60, but we use the paying forward system. When they join, as many do after shooting a real live gun for the first time, they do the same for THEIR guests.

That's how it's done.
Maybe if @The Heretic could get himself a good rowboat....
It is a long boat ride across the pond.