What area of IL. are you living in?

Nah, too many interests/passions/hobbies. I don't have enough time or money for them all. Just happy to be alive and thank God every day for that.

As it pertains to firearms..... I still need lots of glass, and a few more that I want but this will take time.

Do you have a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun? If not then you are missing out on a lot of fun.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Stop lecturing the members here.

I'll work on it.

This is an interesting thread. I am 44 years old and have felt like nothing interests me at various times. I certainly don't get nearly excited about anything such as I used to when I was younger.

I think Para's statement above makes an awful lot of sense. I think our expectations for life have gotten out of hand. We have collectively forgotten what it is like to just scrape out a living and take far too much for granted. All of this idle time and we run out of ways to keep our minds occupied.

Back in college, there was a guy from Ireland who was part of a pilot training program for Aer Lingus. The conversation got around to what we all wanted in life. This guy's response has always stuck with me..."I just want a small home and a motor bike." That was it. That was the pinnacle. He would be satisfied and happy with that.

In a way I was kind of jealous of him, and I still am to a degree. I have a small, but nice home and a Ducati, plus a lot of other things and it is never enough. I think a big part of the problem for me is I just need to be more thankful for what I have and learn to get more out of the simple pleasures and freedoms that I so readily take for granted. It is kind of a mindset thing for me.

I thought I was done till I saw the P365 XL without the safety. So I bought one.
Then when I thought I was real done when I saw the P320 X Five. So I bought one.
This is of course not having bough a gun in several years.
Now I think I am done.

Never, at 82 still have interest in new things, like Astronomy and watching the James Webb space telescope set up and can’t wait to see what it discovers. If you get to the point nothing interests you any more, you might consider living in a cave.

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Originally posted by p08:
I played golf 2 times a week for a summer thinking I'd get decent. Nope got worse!

Lol, yeah, I can relate to that. Fair enough.

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Originally posted by p08:
I did bow hunt, but after 2 rotator cuff surgeries that ended that. I think I'll have to buy me a toy car to drive in the summer.

Ouch! Also have shoulder problems and can relate there, too. Got my son his first "real" bow for Christmas and when the weather clears up, I need to get the three of us out to a range somewhere. I haven't shot my bow in years and it was tuned for a 65lb draw weight. Shoulder and serious health problems have me thinking I'll be able to pull maybe half that. Ugh.

Maybe chess? Play guitar? I find I have to rotate through hobbies. I go at them obsessively to burnout, then move to another, then another, then eventually come back around.

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Originally posted by p08:
I am officially there. I have or have had damn near every gun I have ever wanted. There is nothing new besides the same plastic fantastic by another maker. Last gun I picked up was a Steyr L9. It is meh and nothing more. I still love my little mouse guns when I can pick them up for a decent price. Other than those nothing! Maybe I'll take up knitting?

I should add this is in relation to firearms.

It sounds like Forum members are taking this deeper than you intended. All you posts in the thread “nothing interests me” are about the fact that you’ve owned every firearm you ever wanted and nothing new excites you. Can you agree that otherwise you’re alright?

Although I don’t shoot very often, I still find interest in different guns I’d like to own. Maybe they were made famous in a movie or have some historical significance. So there is always that temptation.

I’ve done photography for the majority of my life and that ebbs and flows. I decided, at 53, to really dive back in and challenge myself to try new photo tasks, styles, etc. I’m going to try my hand at landscape, architectural and astrophotography.

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Originally posted by TMats:
It sounds like Forum members are taking this deeper than you intended.

Well, when you love someone, sometimes the passion overtakes you.

I'd say let that sink in, but that's probably a bit much...

In four pages of posts someone has mentioned pretty much everything I was going to say.

Like several here, I tend to be cyclic, both from fading and resurging interest and from seasonal aspects.

I literally can't recall the last time I went shooting just to shoot. Couple of factors in play here: I can't abide clubs with all their rules and fees and self-appointed sheriffs, so I shoot on private land. My favorite spot to shoot is no longer available because somebody even more anti-social than I am built a friggin' house in the middle of it (an old gravel pit).

The other thing is shooting alone is boring and there are DAMN few people I care to shoot with. The ones there are have moved away or are busy with their own lives and have no time.

Finally, there's my tendency to be a dilettante. I dip my toe in any number of things but when it comes time to get serious about it, I can't be bothered. As long as it's fun, I'm in. When it starts feeling like work, I'm off on another tangent.

I'm bored with guns, haven't shot any of mine probable close to a year haven't touched my reloader either. I have a nice boat go crabbing, deep sea and salmon fishing. when that bores me, I will switch to something else.

As soon as I get bored, my cows find or make a new hole in the fence so I gotta go herd them back in and fix the fence where they got out. I think they do it on purpose just so I don't get bored.

Staying in firearms, I've hit that point quite a bit in the pandemic. None of the regular stuff I can afford interests me, very little of the old stuff that use to be affordable (ie: used S&W TSW guns) I can't find, and the ones I really want (2011, high end AR pistol, AUG or Tavor) I can't afford. That's before looking at ammo prices to keep the wee beasties fed.

On the plus side, I'm paying off more of my bills with the gun money I'm not using. There's good and bad.

I've been in firearms since I was around 5 years old and reloading since I was 9.

I've never been bored with either. I go different ways and learn about a new aspect of both on a fairly regular basis.

I understand what you're saying. I have felt that way at times.

I find that simple pleasures are now the best:

A good warm bed to sleep in...

Mrs. Angus lying next to me...

a good cup of coffee...

a great bottle of wine...

cool weather and light winds...

a great live band in some hole in the wall...

a fine meal...

I think sometime we grow bored because we aim too high for pleasure.

So I guess I have grown interested in small pleasures.

99% of the new stuff that is being introduced now I have no interest in. Nothing new interests me anymore.

What I have found an interest in are guns from the 1970's. I have no idea why, but a semi-auto or a revolver from that era is much more interesting to me than anything new.

Oddly enough it's the same with me and motorcycles. The technology is the best it's ever been right now, but I'm more excited about a Honda from the 1970's.

Finally, movies are the same way. I seek out 70's movies that I have not seen (there are not many) and I have zero interest in the new movies.

I guess I was just born in the wrong decade. I need to be back in the 70's

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Originally posted by radioman:
99% of the new stuff that is being introduced now I have no interest in. Nothing new interests me anymore.

What I have found an interest in are guns from the 1970's. I have no idea why, but a semi-auto or a revolver from that era is much more interesting to me than anything new.

Oddly enough it's the same with me and motorcycles. The technology is the best it's ever been right now, but I'm more excited about a Honda from the 1970's.

Finally, movies are the same way. I seek out 70's movies that I have not seen (there are not many) and I have zero interest in the new movies.

I guess I was just born in the wrong decade. I need to be back in the 70's

For you my friend: “On any Sunday“ Narrated by Steve McQueen … go watch it (again).


(I think I saw it on YouTube not too long ago)