I guess it would be this.



And photography

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Put it in a Pinto and take it to Bonneville.

Firearms, wine, grandkids (just expensive), baseball (travel to every major league park), coins (accumulator, not collector).

Really pretty mild when I think about it.

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Bad habit, spending too much time at this machine!
Expensive hobbies, boating and fishing
Steve W

My only other hobby is airplanes, but I can argue that that's a vocation instead of a hobby. I just bought a place with a hangar and 2700' grass strip, and I'm an A&P, so hopefully I can get this flying addiction down to mostly just the cost of fuel and insurance. I'm into homebuilts, and a Pietenpol is on my short list of wants, and they can be had for under $10K these days. Hope it works out like I think it should!

Patrick

Cars, cars, cars....mostly British. I often quip that if I had a 20 bay garage, I'd have 21 cars. The only thing keeping me out of the poor house is the size of our garage

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"You're messin' up my Zen"

1. Cars - 1971 Ferrari, 1954 Jaguar sports car, 1953 Jaguar racing car
2. Guns, of course
3. Motorcycles - 1999 Triumph, 1979 Honda, 1985 Suzuki
4. Photography - Mamiya RB67 plus a lot of accessories and darkroom equipment
5. Paintings - I collect paintings by certain Western artists
6. Attractive young ladies, preferably with blond hair and blue eyes

We all know which is the most expensive.

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I spent most of my fortune on wine, wimmin and song.....the rest I jest wasted....

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Dum vivimus Vivamas

Cars...from old BMW's to 1960's muscle cars and Corvettes. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on dozens of cars these past sixty years. So happy to have finally kicked THAT addiction.

The car hobby led to the desire to own a good array of Snap-On and MAC tools. Still have the tools. I REALLY enjoy having the right tool for the job.

Motorcycles. Have had several from the HD Cruisers, to dirt bikes , BMW's and a Ducatti Monster. Still have one Duc and two BMW's. Also toss in the myriad of clothing, bike luggage, GPS, etc involved.

Watches. Rolex, Omega, Fortis , etc. Down to three or four good ones.

Accurate rifles and truly well done hunting rifles. A whole other addiction as well as the optics that go on them.

Trap and skeet shooting. I've had three or four bad trapshooting addictions and a single SC/skeet issue in my life. Resulting in multiple shotgun purchases, loaders, ammo etc. Still have a single Ljutic, and a skeet set K-80. As well as a Spolar loader on my bench.

Quality optics. Own a few Leica, Swarovski and Zeiss bino's and spotting scopes. All of my rifles have Leupold optics.

Cameras. Been a photography nut for years. Untalented but I can appreciate the gear. Have a few old Nikon F's including my original from 1971. Will probably own a Hasselbad sometime soon.

Quality 1911's. Wilson, Ed Brown, etc.

Quality leather. El Paso Saddlery, Milt Sparks, etc. Have multiples for any and all of my pistols/revolvers. Toss in my custom set of Langlitz bike leathers too.

Bullet casting moulds. I have dozens. In my defense I DO use all of them. Simply can NOT sell them. STAR sizer and dies.

AR's/AK's and all the related Tacticool gear; supressors, Aimpoints, cases, dozens of mags, lots of ammo, etc.

Good Cigars. Have a nice collection residing in a 25-30 box capacity Staebell humidor in the gun room.

FN in MT

I thought they told me these are bad times!

I don't feel nearly as bad about my vices as I did before. I love to pick up something new and learn all I can about it. I reach some level of proficiency and move on. Consequently I have become a Jack of a few trades and master of none. One summer I got into making wine. I made strawberry, blackberry, elderberry, dandelion, and backyard grape. Anything I could pick myself. Made 95 bottles that summer. There were a lot of headaches in those bottles. Another that has come and gone were bird dogs. I miss them so. I raised and trained English setters for 15 years. Had all the books and equipment needed. I even got into horses so I could chase them in field trials. That resulted in tack, feed, truck and trailer. The ex got in the game by attending horse shows. $$$$$ I did learn to shoe a horse. Lately my vices seem to be seasonal. I'll spend my money on fishing equipment, my Harley (which may be the next to be shelved), a minimal amount on golf, reloading, and guns. Through it all there has been hunting and all the trappings that go with it. Side by side shotguns for bird hunting, pumps for ducks, along with the decoys, boat and other gear. The dogs passed on and big game hunting filled the void. The guns turned to rifles with scopes, cold weather gear for the mountains, warm weather gear for Africa, taxidermy, travel. I at one time was Cabela's "Foremost Customer". Hunting is still my passion and I hope to continue as long as my body and money can stand it.

My Dad threatened to do just that,Except for the Bonneville part.

Funny thing is,he used to drag race with it in the early fifties.It was in of all things a belly tank.Rear engine.In Florida.After that it was in a '30 roadster on '32 rails.My Grandpa was a fabricator and made the fenders fit.

I want to put it in a roadster pickup.

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Dum vivo cano

I like guns, good liquor and Leica cameras. Wish I could afford really good, fast cars, but all I have now is a low end Chrysler. I'd like a racing sailboat, too, but as I live some 600 miles from the ocean, i guess I won't be in the market for one.

Wife
Kids
Guitars
Guns
Harley Davidson
'66 Chevy pickup

in that order

My most expensive hobby is work, the harder I work and the more money I make the more ways my wife finds to spend it. I swear I can goto the store with 143.45 in my pocket and my wife not knowing how much I have will spend 143.44! I give up a long time ago trying to figure anything out.

Harleys and Handguns. The bad habits just seem to follow both of those items.

customizing vehicles
photography
guns
computers

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Gerry

Hand guns-M&P 45, BG 380, Ruger MkIII. Watches-Breitling, old Seiko, Pocket-Audio gear, Photography- Canon slr & G class. The wife isn't a hobby or bad habit but she has stuck with me for 41 years so far. I think she has more than earned her jeweler.
Best, Frank.

Just the guns, mostly older S&W and Colt revolvers. I am trying to build a small collection of Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbines as well -- the prewar models in all those obsolete calibers.

There may be a Gretsch guitar in my future and a small amp for home use. I don't want to die without some Rockabilly skills in my increasingly stiff fingers. Got to keep them moving, or they'll die before the rest of me does.

That's all. No money for anything else.

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David Wilson

Faster horses, younger women and older whiskey. And bass boats. Ah but thats when I was younger.

my new interest in single stack pistols is sucking me dry... Otherwise...grandkids and our lake cabin. Oh, and when the world economy when south a few years ago....I started buying up cut jemstones from asia dirt cheap in hope of helping out when I retire.....looks good so far....plus the gals in the family love the new jewelry now that I hooked up with a good silversmith...

For me, lately, it's been electric guitars. I've managed to accumulate a couple of nice Gibson Les Pauls (one 1980, one 2005) and a couple of nice Fender Stratocasters...one Standard, one Classic 60's Reissue. Plus I've been accumulating parts (bodies, necks, electrics, tuners, etc.) in order to put together a custom "parts-o-caster". I'm planning on restoring/painting it myself. It will be "Daphne Blue" which, in the old days, was an optional Fender "Custom Color".

Here's an example of a Daphne Blue Fender Strat....

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'Merica!

Over the years I have wandered from Photography, to Fly Fishing, to competitive shooting (bullseye, PPC, small bore rifle, high power rifle) to club level trap and skeet shooting, to "accumulating" S&W's. (I'm not a real collector, I buy what I like and can afford).

I do enjoy sampling every variety of Single Malt Scotch I locate, and a few times a year still imbibe in a good cigar.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

Most expensive was youth and bad judgement.Homer and Jethro sang it all in "Cigareets and Whuskey and Wild,Wild Women"An awakening and the passage of time took care of those but planes,guns,cars scuba and hunting took their toll.
I look back-what a time,what a time.

We all have good and bad habits. Cheap and expensive habits, according to what we want.
Today, I observed how people love sports wherein the Cost of sporting events makes being a fan an expensive habit. Sports, and sports, are a favorite pastime of every human society. Every civilization in heritage has had some kind of sport that was popular. Modern sporting events, though, are so expensive that it can make being a sports fan a costly routine. And we can't deny the fact that it is hard to control oneself of wanting something even if it cost a lot. Because what matter is the satisfaction.

Pipes and pipe tobacco (older the better), cigars, and now handguns. Good thing we're empty nesters!

Since I am on this forum, guns goes without saying. I have a garage littered with 1979-1981 Suzuki GS1000-1100 motorcycles and parts. Bracket racing motorcycles is one of my loves, although these days my weekends are for looking after my Mother rather than racing. Some day, hopefully, traveling will be my hobby. I also have a mild interest in art pottery, art glass, and arts & crafts furniture. But, if I got into that I couldn't afford guns and racing. I sure miss my 1969 Boss 302 Mustang.

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Wayne
Torn & Frayed

If you painted that TR-4 sky blue, it would be the one I learned to drive (and drift, before they called it that) in. My dream car is probably a nice TR-6 though.

My expensive habits are guns. Second would be guns. And then there are my guns. Oh yeah, the daughter's Mustang GT, cigars (I don't really smoke them, just kind of wave them around and blow smoke), liquor, just started with a Digital SLR, the fifth-wheel. Oh yeah, cruises. And then there are more guns.

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Katanas, Wakizashi's and Tantos. Period Jpanese clothing pre dating the Edo period. All..ALL..Japanese award winning Movies--TV series directed by the likes of Kurosawa Akira.

It's a years long disease...I hope there's no cure found.

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Firearms and Saltwater Fishing

Suzuki S40 converted to a Cafe Racer. Dropped about 80-lbs. from stock and made some engines performance modifications. Now very fast and fun.

Next MC project will be to get the 1974 trail bike running.

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-Bob

Sold my Jeep in the spring, lost my airplane to a windstorm in July, bought a Ural sidecar rig as a replacement toy. Still have too many Mosins, Vibroplexes, and LPs.

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Rick, W0FG
CTR2 68-72

...in the same stew some others are:

An accumulator of five M1 Garands - Hey, nobody can have just one. 2 in .30-06, 2 in .308, and a .308 custom high power with a custom receiver.

Getting ready for F class next summer. Shooting .308. Remington 700 custom built high power; Remington XR100, and building another Remington 700.

Fountain pens - 150+ in the collection. Love those Parker Duofolds, Sheaffers, and Watermans.

Photography - Finally down to just Nikons. Sold off my medium format Mamiyas (5), and my 4x5's (3). Used to do professional work. Then sold off all the studio equipment - Lights (didn't realize how many I had amassed), backgrounds, scrims, grip equipment. Also got tired of the 23 hour days shooting weddings.

Now just accumulating revolvers (Mostly S&W and Colt, and a few Rugers).

Wheelers, sleds, guns, etc

My most expensive habit is collecting and shooting firearms. But there's not a bad thing about it. In fact, I think it's a wise move right now to own a few modern firearms, and know how to use them....well!

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Ralph J.

At work I have my name on my shirt so other people know who to blame for stuff...in other words; I don't have any exspensive hobbies cause I'm poor. I've had plenty of bad habits though, cause I'm poor.

My other 'moneyhole' is offshore fishing off the beautiful coast of my native state, NC.
Guns were my first love, but boats and saltwater fishing gear have almost caught up.
Also fish inshore, kayak fish and duck hunt. All need different vessels for the different pursuits.

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Ret'd LEO
SWCA #2275

The 'ustas'
drinking (good move Jim!)
women ( I told folks I've only been on three dates in my life, and my mother was with me on two of them-but people seem to think that's funny)
skiing, after upgrading my equipment my knee went out the following year
Sailing from racing scows to a nice 23 O'Day
Motorcycles Yamahas, a Duc or two, a BSA thumper, and almost a Vincent Black Shadow (see knee, above)
Now (other than S&W's)
Had to have one M1 from every maker. Glad I didn't get into all the variations!
Skeet, another usta coming back
Fly fishing

Women who shoot guns while riding motorcycles.

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Endeavor to persevere. <><

Guns and DSLR photography are bad news for my bank account. I have cut down on car stuff, my 70's Toyota corolla will have to wait for a better job. I do need to give some love to my Ducati, I would like new exhaust and a monoposto seat.

And I haven't even started reloading...

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I get so wrapped up in what I'm doing while reloading that hours pass before I notice that my back hurts, or my hand is getting a little sore, or the sun is going down (or coming up). I really, really enjoy reloading. It gives you freedom from the artificially inflated ammunition prices. Of course, getting started requires an initial investment into some basic equipment, but you don't have to break the bank to get started.

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Ralph J.

Yeah I am talking more about the initial investments. I have been spoiled by friends with Dillons. I will be getting a Square Deal B.

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