How old is the average C&R collector?

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WVchuck		#481	[-]
Posts: 11517 (12/07/08 08:00 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Dang Pitbull, you're getting old!!
ThePitbullofLove		#482	[-]
Posts: 6435 (12/10/08 12:42 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Don't remind me...
WVchuck		#483	[-]
Posts: 11524 (12/10/08 07:28 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	But you're nowhere near as old as Hoosierdaddy is gettin'.
ThePitbullofLove		#484	[-]
Posts: 6436 (12/10/08 07:15 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Methuselah was nowhere near as old as Neil is getting....
ParallaxBill		#485	[-]
Posts: 16027 (12/10/08 08:35 PM) Owner/operator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Not as old as HD. But will be 52 soon enough.
chcusnr1	How Old	#486	[-]
Posts: 66 (12/10/08 11:07 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	54 young Can still see fine at 100yrd (okay, I admit I had lasik a few years back - best thing I could have done for shooting). Still taking 200 mile bicycle trips, pass the Navy physical fitness test twice a year. Shooting/collecting still my favorite past time. 120 weapons currently - vast majority C&R. Feel better now than any point in my life. Jim
Goose52		#487	[-]
Posts: 1127 (12/11/08 12:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, in post # 11 of this thread, I reported I was 49 - now, I'm 56. In the meantime, my eyes have gotten worse, and I shoot more now at 50 than at 100. Since this thread started, my records show I've fired about 115,000 rounds - dang - I'm slowing down in my old age (and the price of reloading components hasn't helped either !). Moved from California to Tennessee since this thread started. The past 7 years have gone fast ... Goose
405boy		#488	[-]
Posts: 3 (12/12/08 03:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Im 37, does that make me a young strapper here?
m1 talker		#489	[-]
Posts: 6291 (12/12/08 07:15 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Gee guys! You all make me feel like an old geezer! I will be 60 then end of this coming June. But with age, it also brings along a lot of fond memories that some of the younger guys never got to experience. Such as the pre-1968 days when the local hardware stores would roll out a big barrel of greasy old milsurps and place them on the sidewalk in front of the store each morning. You would walk by the barrel of rifles, see one that interested you, dug it out with all the free grease and cosmoline on it and walked into the store with it and hopefully did not glue your wallet together with all the grease on your hands to dig out $20 to maybe $40 to pay the cashier, and walked out with your new found treasure. Of course $20 to $40 was a lot of money to a teenage kid back then who had to mow lawns in the summer and shovel snow in he winter to save up for our hobbies. But still, it was some mighty fond memories of those days that will never be repeated. I am just glad that I could share with the fun back then we had. Curt
WVchuck		#490	[-]
Posts: 11526 (12/12/08 08:27 AM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Curt, 44 here, I too mowed & shoveled, strung wire, painted houses and barns, off-loaded tractor trailers (two feed-sacks at a time, one over each shoulder) cut brush with a ditch axe & machete (pre-weed-eater days...) and when life was good, every now and then I got to be an electricians assistant when he needed help wiring houses, all to get $$ for the fun stuff (gas for the car when it was running, parts to make it run again when it wasn't, ammo to hunt with, guitar strings, an amplifier, etc... ). Not too many memories of that kind of work being fond to think back on, but I knew what busting your butt for a handful of dollars was all about. Some gigs were $5 per day, plus a sandwich and a bottle of soda pop, but like you said, $20-$40 was a lot. Probably the worst job aside from mucking out a barn full of laying hens (in August heat/humidity in southern WV) was stringing barbed wire from the top of a hill down to the riverbank that same August. The flies and mosquitos constantly swarming and biting, on top of the unceasing sweat/humidity was miserable.
usernamehasbeentaken		#491	[-]
Posts: 313 (12/12/08 10:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm double-nickels, but still have a little life left they'll have to drag me kicking and screaming to the nursing home Bob
zaxxons		#492	[-]
Posts: 60 (12/17/08 10:46 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	WOW I am old 67 and counting, but I was able to buy a few bargins quite a few years ago, Luger all matching $27.95, still have it and the recipt. US Army 1911A1 $80.00. A bunch of Nambu's with holsters for less than thirty bucks each. Still collecting and shooting.
BobM14		#493	[-]
Posts: 489 (12/17/08 06:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	chcusnr1 wrote: Can still see fine at 100 yds..... Oh, I can still see fine at 100 yds too.....I just can't see for crap at 1 foot.....
SCHMIDT SHOOTER		#494	[-]
Posts: 2 (12/27/08 04:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 48, I'm coming up on my 21st aniversary, and have a 7yr old daughter. I just (got into) milsurp a few months ago, but with a 7 yr old, there goes most of my play money for about 12 years!!!
recon14		#495	[-]
Posts: 7 (01/15/09 10:10 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm 43...soon to be 44. My glasses seem to get stronger every visit to the eye doctor..BUT...I can still outshoot my 16 year old son with open sights at 100 yards! Just got my first milsurp...a Swede mauser for christmas from my wife, but I have some of everything else in the house, from flintocks to modern centerfires.
11Bravo		#496	[-]
Posts: 5 (01/16/09 09:04 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	A harder 40 years than a body should. At least I quit smoking 2.5 yrs. ago, but I've put on 20 lbs. in the same time span!
MustangHowie.curioandrelicfi...		#497	[-]
Posts: 1 (01/16/09 09:37 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am 38. I have been collecting for 15 years. I have only had my C&R since 2007. Most of what I have is not C&R, but the collection is growing.
bamasurp		#498	[-]
Posts: 2047 (03/28/09 09:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Just turned 40 on St. Patrick's Day! Bamasurp Soviet who?
ParallaxBill		#499	[-]
Posts: 16185 (03/28/09 09:29 PM) Owner/operator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I turned 52 Feb 17th. I don't feel a day over 60. Parallax *Lee Enfield Collector's Society member #3* *Mauser Shooter's Association member #17* Forum administrator for the Carolina C&R Shooting & Collecting Club,
eb in oregon		#500	[-]
Posts: 855 (03/28/09 09:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I turned 57 yesterday. I myself feel like a spring chicken. You know, the one in the stew pot? "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776