Reloading seems like an interesting rabbit hole to go down.

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Originally posted by sigalert:
Reloading seems like an interesting rabbit hole to go down.

Especially if you combine it with benchrest, F class, or similar precision shooting discipline. Same applies to bullet casting, which is a hole I've recently jumped into feet first.

No, I don't. Not by a country mile. I'd like to live forever just to have more time to pursue the variety of things I already like and don't have time for.

In a world of billions of people, roughly 200 countries, countless cultures, hordes upon hordes upon metric fuctons of hordes of topics and interests, finding nothing that suits you seems exceptionally narrowminded and intellectually lazy, even literally lazy. You've/we've probably barely experienced 5% of this world as it is.

You sound like someone who has given up on food altogether because you don't like hotdogs, Doritos, RC Cola, and anchovies, despite those being 0.0001% of all food.

There are more things to think about and do than all of us will ever even try.

Try harder. Look deeper. Learn new things. Quit being lazy. Go and LIVE this life.

(It does sound like Depression, frankly, or a lack of imagination or drive.)

My situation is that I'm in my mid 70's with debilitating health issues that have pretty much kept me sedentary and keeping me from doing all the things that interests me. I've been an active outdoorsy type all of my life. I can't walk or stand for more than 15 minutes at a time. I've been an avid shooter, golfer, hiker, motorcyclist, fisherman, hunter, etc, etc all of my adult life and I can't do any of those activities any longer. Very frustrating but I'm also an avid reader that loves history and taking day trips in the car. So the answer to the OP's question is no, I still have interests, just not ones I once had. I guess that is just moving on in life's journey. You don't have to like it but since this is a gun forum, I'll say that my interest in guns has pretty much waned by 80-90%. I'm sure I'll never buy another one in my life.

Jim

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Try harder. Look deeper. Learn new things. Quit being lazy. Go and LIVE this life.

Stop lecturing the members here. You sound like a Goddamned laxative commercial.

Yeah... I have a bad habit of starting hobbies and then losing interest.

My main hobbies for the last 30 years have been cycling and shooting. Haven't thrown a leg over my bikes in 5 years and I am slowly losing the desire to go shooting anymore .

I would like to travel and see the world but I don't know if I will be able to do that in retirement. time will tell.

It's part of the human condition.

I love to learn. However once I’ve learned to the degree that meets my needs I have to go find a new complexity to overcome.

I’ve done this in a lot of hobbies, including bicycles, competitive shooting, tracking exotic cars, growing bonsai trees, building and competing in Battlebots, wildly complex differential heat treatment in knife making (hamons), Locksporting, etc.

But the sad reality for me is once a “master” a certain high-level of proficiency, my brain says: “Next!” It was my oldest son that pointed this behavior out to me. It hurt deeply knowing the truth, but knowing helps me.

Sometime in the next couple years I’ll start my novel. Got to stock up on a lot of cigars before I write that sucker.

I did trade a Steyr SSG69 for a Remington 40x in 22lr a few weeks ago. I find recoil annoying anymore and prefer shooting 22's more. I didn't need it, just something s little different. I have a 54 Anschutz, Walther KKU and a Martini International target. Not that I needed it, but I wanted to get rid of the SSG more.
I really want to travel again, we were supposed to go to Germany and Italy this summer. That isn't gonna happen now. That really bummed me out. Was gonna rent a car and drive the autobahn again.

Maybe just a function of growing older?

There's nothing that holds my interest much, these days. It's not a matter of owning everything; I don't. It just doesn't pique my interest. Work, toys, whatever. Just motions to go through, no sense of motivation.

When I did my last type rating, which is a fairly intensive schooling for a couple of months on one type of aircraft, someone made a statement that i thought funny at the time, but realized I felt the same way. A guy said, "I think I've maybe got one type rating left in me." I got it. I used to study around the clock, constantly, couldn't get enough, do enough, didn't want to waste a second. Now, it's hard to find the interest. I'm not sure I can do that again.

I stopped looking at firearms, with an eye to purchase. Maybe later, but with Covid and work (driven by Covid), I've hardly shot. With primer shortages, haven't reloaded hardly at all this last year. Just bought a house. Someone asked if I was happy about that. Not really. Unmotivated at Christmas, glad to get through it, depressing time of year.

Back on the road in a few hours. I used to look forward to work. It's mostly just something to get through.

I try to self-motivate, but just can't seem to care much, and no interest in much of anything. Zsmichael said clinical depression, but I'd say just apathetic in general toward everything. Kids are gone. The only motivation to go to work is that it's less time I have to spend with the wife.

I see the world, a lot, don't really care to. No interest in being a tourist. Tired of writing...I used to like to write just to see what comes next. I did national novel writing month again this year...just do to it, but the interest wasn't there.

Maybe take up basket weaving.

Before the basket weaving… At least go watch Itchy Boots on YouTube.

Or, get a good dawg/GSD

Wrt to guns only, I’m not interested in anything new that I can get in the People’s Republic of Kommiefornia. I am a little afraid that when I escape to Free America the floodgates of interest will blast open and the toy fund will take a whale of a beating.

I’d like to do a lot more training and a lot more practice. Work and family obligations raise heck with time for practice and training opportunities seem to be a lot more sparse than pre-Covid and pre-ammunition drought. Having an a-hole boss with no sense of balance doesn’t help, and it is even worse when one is self employed in that situation.

Gotta reorganize my life with more time for fun stuff and less time wasted on “gotta” stuff. Oh well, life is a journey…

Only area I can relate to is food. We went to two countries. And we went to different cities / locations. After a week in each, we got bored with the food. Everything, even if we hadn't tasted it before, tasted the same. And if you're dependent on somebody else to fulfill your need, as in, I don't cook, or, in your case, it's not like you'll up and manufacture your own gun, then you're SOL.

I think the vast majority of people are just going through the motions. It is obvious even with "professionals". Apathy would be accurate

For me, it comes in waves.

I'm always interested in shooting, and rare is the time I'll say "no". Yes, I've unfortunately said "no" more often in the past 2 years with the ammo shortage.

Before that; waves...
Shotgun- I couldn't get enough shotgun. Trap, skeet, steel/fixed targets, then it would die off for a while.

Carbine time!!!! I couldn't shoot quick enough, accurate enough. Id try to get my follow-up shots faster, all close quarters stuff (100yds or less), faster, faster, faster...

Wait a second, I need to slow down... Head shots, let me make that target a little smaller, and put it out a little further. Next thing you know, I need to have a small, ragged little hole in this big-assed target. Eehh, let me push that target out a little further, a little more, a little more... Time to drop the carbine.

Ohh look, .308! Let's see what this does.
Then I realize how much my eyes suck over 40yo...

Back to the basics with a pistol. Then faster. Not quick enough... Quicker, quicker... Let me try transition drills- Carbine to the pistol in the holster... Ohhh! I'm getting getting sloppy with the Carbine, need to do a little more time on that platform...


Hey, what's this in the back of the safe? Man, I forgot about that one. Let's see if it still shoots good!

And there's part of my vicious circle.
Call it ADD/ADHD of guns, a brief look into the coconut of CPD SIG, whatever...

For me shooting has become more of a social event, meaning that the people that I go with and shoot with are more important than what's being shot.

That keeps it interesting.

Mental deficiency runs in my family, eventually I'll have dimentia, Alzheimers or something else that diminishes my brain function. The day will come when evetytime I open my safe it will all be new. Of course, by then I probably wont be shooting anymore. So far in my 50's and not bored yet though. Just got into long range shooting, there's always something new you haven't done. I doubt you've participated in every firearm related sport yet.

I've hit patches where I haven't been able to get excited about much, and I'm not THAT old yet.
I owned a suppressor for over a year before even firing it, just couldn't be bothered. So to at least a degree, I can relate.

Avoid fly fishing at all costs. I did not, and have now actually (gasp) SOLD some firearms to support my fishing habit.

If you do fail to avoid it, you should try fly fishing for fish other than just trout. Like Redfish in Louisiana, Bass at home, etc. It's addictive....

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Originally posted by sigalert:
Reloading seems like an interesting rabbit hole to go down.

It can be. Most people I know who reload don't get very deep into it. They learn what they need to know to make safe, accurate loads for a few guns and leave it at that.

A few, but not many, want to know a lot about it and go very deep which can take years.

There was a time when humans didn't have the luxury of boredom. From the time they awoke until the time they went to sleep, it was a struggle- food, clean water, adequate medical care, protection against invading marauders, etc.

Gotta get the fields plowed. Gotta plant the crops. Gotta hunt. Gotta fish. No public schools to act as daycare for children, so that, too, is all on you. And on and on.

But now, we have leisure time. Your mind runs 24 hours a day, and that includes of course the 16 or so hours each day you are awake. Day in, day out, year after year. I suppose if you're easily amused, you might come close to never being bored, but the rest of us experience it from time to time. It's only a matter of degree.