Pretty simple, come one come all feel free to share and get excited about your non-shooting related hobbies here!

Remember, everyone's hobby looks stupid to someone so don't be afraid to open up. Maybe you'll find some new friends!

For me, I am an avid billiards player, especially in the winter. Being in the frozen north dictates the necessity for some indoor hobbies. I shoot with a McDermott cue. I generally play at least one rack of 9 ball a day on my home 8 foot table and generally play with a buddy of mine once a week for a few hours until all this COVID stuff hit.

Along the cold weather stuff. I play video games a bit in the down time. Mostly Nintendo hand held stuff in my bits of down time here and there. Not as much time for the hobby as I used to. I have a small collection of original box art of my favorite series on my shelf. Not an investment or anything, just something nice to look at and a nice nostalgia artifact from when I was a kid.

In the warmer months I like to fish after work when I can. The summers here are nice so I try and spend as much time enjoying them as I can. I'm lucky to have all the shore fishing I want within an hour drive of me or so. Mainly a pan fisherman, but Ive been known to chase bass as well.

Also a gardener. I always try and grow a variety of flowers in the spring. After the first frost I dedicate a few weekends to getting the garden raked, weeded, and straightened up for all the new blooms.

Golf in the summer, hunting in the fall and winter.

Springtime is walleye fishing.
Summertime is backyard campfires.
Autumn is deer hunting.
Wintertime, I volunteer at my gun club’s Sunday pancake breakfast.
Reloading during ****** weather (usually mostly wintertime).
I tinker around with woodworking a little bit.

I collect old telegraph equipment such as Keys, sounders and wire insulators. Also WWII field equipment and I have some WWII EE8 Field Telephones.

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RudyN
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I used to autocross, drag race and do a bit of road track messing around in Mustangs... neuropothy after cancer has made the pedal feel required in your feet a challenge... I watch mostly now... but I have hopes to road race again someday.

I bass fish year round and I’ve recently taken an interest in restoring old axes.

Oh! Fun topic!

Salmon, trout, and steelhead fishing
Fly tying salmon, trout, and steelhead patterns (hence, the moniker)
Model railroading
Hiking
Woodworking
Museums and (locally) ghost towns
Logging railroad history

The salmon and steelhead fishing was when I lived in WA. These days it's trout only. I prefer fly fishing, but using spinners is a lot of fun too.

Car shows, Spring, Summer and Fall
Hunting in Winter
Gym workouts 5-6 days a week
Hanging with neighbors and friends
Traveling

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Sure you did

I restore old gas pumps. I also have a growing collection of old oil cans and other gas station stuff.

I love to view the night skies with my telescopes, and during the day ride my mountain bike.

Wow, what a beautiful job you've done there. That pump looks incredible.

I've considered dabbling in some restoration projects but I don't have the time right now.

I forgot to mention, being a metallurgist I also pursue casting as a hobby. I have a small aluminum foundry in my garage and I am involved with some cast iron operations as well. Here is a cast iron skillet that I poured, fresh out of the mold that I made. Its sitting on the stove right now! Its not a Lodge, but I didn't hand make a lodge

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I've become a writer of sorts. I became the official recording Secretary of our Borough Planning Commission back in 2012. I prepare for the meetings, attend the meetings, take minutes, write up the meeting minutes and submit them to the Borough Secretary. There is a lot of detail needed in order to create an accurate record of the meeting, but I am glad to take the time to do it because I consider myself a historian who is leaving a record for the future. The Borough Manager told me he reads my meeting minutes every month and the Borough Secretary is happy with me because my taking the meeting minutes means she doesn't have to do it except on the rare occasions I can't make a meeting (only twice since 2012).

My creative writing gets put to work for the Veterans Appreciation Day sponsored by District 22 of the Sons of the American Legion. Our squadron routinely buys ad space for the program, and I write the ad copy to honor our veterans.

This is a good situation all the way around. I give something back to my community and I have activity to keep my mind active in retirement.

I rebuild carburetors. I sniffed a lot of gas. I quit counting about 40 thousand.

Nothing like rebuilding an old carburetor.... I've done quite a few, used to buy and sell alot of car parts. Also used to build drag cars with my uncle, not nearly the cash flow to do that anymore. I hunt just about anything that's legal... bow hunting whitetail is my favorite. Also love archery in general.

I've been collecting militaria and insignia since I was 10 years old. I don't specialize in any particular area, I'm an accumulator. That being said, I do tend to have a lot of Vietnam Era patches.

I have been focusing on Iraq, Afghanistan, and GWT patches/insignia. They're available, cheap and haven't disappeared into collections, yet. As things wind down it won't be long.

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Thread Killer.

Maybe not a hobby but I work out 6 days a week at the gym or at home like now. Hunt in the fall, play golf, ride and restore vintage bikes, avid reader, model trains, shooting, (have my own range) reloading, casting bullets and cooking.

My only other hobby is finding money to fund my shooting hobby lol

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the rules? there are no rules

Taking my 64 1/2 Mustang to cruise nights and shows. When I had a house with a basement I had built a HO train layout,miss that.

Motorcycles. I have accumulated a lot of them and ridden a lot over the years. Seen a lot of sights, had some good times and msde a lot of good friends. I ride less these days, but just had a knee replacement which I hope will get me out more.

Bicycles. Mostly English 3-speeds. My only modern bike is a Surly Pugsley. I’m hoping the new knee will let me get out and pedal more, too.

Knives. Once more, I have accumulated quite a few. Traditional knives, including slipjoints: GEC, Case, Buck, Rough Rider, etc.
Working knives from all over: Opinel, Mora, Victorinox, Mercator, Marttiini, MAM, Antonini, Svord, old Hickory, Green River, etc.
Camping and outdoor knive from Ka-Bar, Becker, Condor, Buck, Varusteleka, Anza, Schrade.
There are a few modern one-hand openers: Benchmade, Kershaw, Laconico, some pretty nice knives, but nothing real expensive.
Machetes: choppers from Condor, Varusteleka, Martindale, Coliins, Cold Steel; brush cutters from Tramontina, Imacasa and Cold Steel. Way more than I need. My yard isn’t that big but I still find a way to use most of them.

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Not in jail.

I used to 3 season backpack. Fall, winter, and spring. Mostly in Virginia and North Carolina.
That ended when I started on boats.
Then I got into watches. Not really expensive ones, just some affordables.
I manage to maintain about 24 pieces at a time, give or take.
Swiss, German, French, Polish, and of course Japanese. Probably have more Seikos than anything else.

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Diddums

I enjoy metal detecting shallow water looking for jewelry. beach combing and looking for old bottles

Mark, I lived at Duck Key for 3 winter's back in the 90s.
We docked in the yacht basin, not in the main marina. We had to give up our slip when they decided to build houses along the water.

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Diddums

For many years I shot Archery, Field and Target. I like to fly fish and tie my own flies and have made my own rods. I both shoot and collect S&W's.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

One of my other passions is ham radio. I recently made and hung up a 40 meter inverted V antenna that I made myself. Last weekend during a worldwide contest I was able to speak to another ham in Australia about 9,752 miles away.

I am still mind boggled by the ability to speak to someone close to 10,000 miles away using the power of a 100 watt light bulb and 60' of bell wire.

I should have added my call sign: W1JSR

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James Redfield
LM #497

Fishing
Hunting
Gardening

My ongoing project I hope to have done sometime this week, considering I'm getting older I decided to give up inground gardening and go to raised beds. I'm getting the rest of my lumber tomorrow now that the landscaper has the walkways set and ready to pave.

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SWHF #595

My main hobby for most of my adult life has been powerlifting. I was unhappy with some things at the commercial gym I belonged to so I built my own well equipped (at least for powerlifting) gym in my basement 40 years ago and I still use it 3 days a week every week.

I still compete, usually just one contest a year these days, and last December completed my 50th meet.

I've also always been a car guy going back to my youth at the height of the muscle car era. I was bracket racing on a weekly basis for 7 years till I retired and the expense got to be too much. I still have the car, an '85 Mustang that I now take to cruise-ins and putt-putt around town in it.

Like the OP I really like to shoot pool and have a table at home that I play on pretty often. I wouldn't say I'm real good at it, but I do enjoy it even when I'm simply shooting by myself. Kind of like with guns, I can shoot alone and still have fun.

I also have a reloading bench I like to spend time at but that's just another part of shooting so I guess it's not really another hobby, just part of the same one.

For me, Hunting in the fall,mostly waterfowl..Car shows and cruises in warm weather...I also collect some coins and my hometown National Bank notes

My real passion - I built this in my basement and have been flying it since 1986.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

I make walking sticks

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Me and my old 4wd F-150 exploring all around the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming mountains and prairies. Being born and raised in the Baltimore Washington corridor and now living out here, I am still AMAZED. As I take my drives, I can't help but think..."Oh WOW ! ... look where I LIVE !!!"

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I spend more money on my collection of Western art than on guns. I just bought a painting that once hung in The New Louvre Saloon in San Jose.

I have a painting of the Williams & Krauss Blacksmith Shop in San Jose. The painting measures 6 X 8 FEET. The artist painted himself into the painting. That's him standing next to the horse's head. That's his dog also. He loved his dog, and it went with him wherever he went.

The artist called the next painting The Buffalo Inquest. Possibly something he saw when he lived with Red Cloud's group of Oglala Sioux. The next painting is The Buffalo Hunt. Is there anyone here who would not love the excitement and danger of riding a horse chasing a buffalo?

I have a pair of painings called The Angel and The Devil. They once hung in a Texas house of prostitution. The first three paintings are by Astley David Middleton (A.D.M.) Cooper. The next painting is by Cooper's nephew Benjamin Raborg. I haven't confirmed it, but I was told that Benjamin's father, Frank Raborg, was once the mayor of Deadwood.

Bill Ruger also collected Western paintings and also owned paintings by A.D.M. Cooper.

When I'm not looking at my collection of paintings, I have my fruit trees. I just bought 8 more trees. Three apples, four cherries, and one nectarine. I ordered four more grapes; two Somerset and two Neptune. I planted watermelons, blackberries, strawberries, potatoes, garlic, and two fig trees.

My son gets mad at me because I sometimes leave hamburger meat outside for the coyotes. He says that I'm attracting coyotes around the house. That's the idea. I want the coyotes to chase the rabbits away. The rabbits think that I'm planting food for them.

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Besides my range-time hobby; I enjoy photography (animals and landscapes), bowfishing and fishing, walking car shows and strolling in the outdoors. Any downtime, esp in winter as I hibernate lol, is spent reading.
Oops forgot to add, I like working on my Ancestry tree. Last year I “found” my birth father’s family after 50 years and it’s been interesting as i dig in on my background.

Motorcycles - riding and working on them (ok, only one)
Vintage hifi/vinyl - collecting and listening
Traveling - so far have cancelled three trips due to the current predicament, waiting to see what happens with the fourth
Reading - helps right now

My retirement hobby is knife making.

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Patriots Forever!!

Past- astronomy & telescopes- now it's just pulling out the 7x50s' for the night sky.
Past- motorcycling- at 73 my last bike was 4 years ago ( being 73 had nothing to do with it). Started out with a 71 Honda CL350, then a 75 Honda CB 550, then a 80 Suzuki 750E and the last was a 09 Yamaha FZ6.
Cars- graduated from high school into the 'muscle car' era. Got a 65 Buick Skylark Gran Sport for street fun. Horsepower went away in the 70s' and moved to motorcycles. Car horsepower came back and currently have a 98 Camaro Z28 for street fun, travelling, cruise-ins, and car shows.
Amusement parks and rollercoasters- Cedar Point being my main park (46 visits in 2016) and also go to Kings Island, Kennywood, Dorney, Six Flags NJ, Carowinds, Six Flags Ga, Busch Gardens Tampa, and Universal Islands of Adventure.

Other Lifetime Hobbies are Fly Fishing and Reloading.

Other Past Times are keeping the Farm running and
Equipment running.

The Best to you, and be Safe out there. Wear a Mask,
Wash Hands often, and have Situational Awareness to
what is going on around you.

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SD social distanc'n since 1889

Reading, outdoors and now certified homeschool teacher

Today was the first day of distance learning, I'm tired already...

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Jorge

Hunting, fishing. bird watching.


Military aircraft, esp. WW II types.

Astronomy, paleoanthropology, paleontology, cryptid animals.

Tea. Wine.

Knives.

Reading, esp.mysteries. I have some autographed books.

Optics, esp. binoculars.

Being a surrogate father to three grandchildren. I have the absolute joy of being a dad again.

Couple that with home schooling and I feel needed and useful and that pleases me no end.

My other hobbies are going around turning lights off and collecting empty juice and milk containers out of the fridge.

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Music/Sports/Beer fan

Earlier in life I ate, slept and drank camping and fishing. Now I collect pocket knives and old post cards with a fishing theme. Have hundreds of both. I also spend lots of time listening to a wide variety of music.

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This one was born in 1965.

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Hobbies - woodworking and bicycling, and several times per week workouts at the Y. Working on a display case for firearms that I feel sad leaving in the safe. My doc has put the kibosh(?) on workouts and bicycling for a few weeks. Driving me crazy with the wonderful weather we have been having and empty roads.

But most of my time is spent as a Red Cross volunteer. We are struggling how we will deal with a large disaster that requires a shelter without putting the clients and volunteers in harms way during Covid-19.

I do some lap racing and time trials on this:



and randonneuring on this:

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SWCA #3356, SWHF#611

Birdwatching and animal rescue, primarily feral cats.

Child rearing, football, hunting and fishing are not hobbies, but our life!

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Possum—The other white meat!

Being everything my wife could ever hope for...and then some.

Fishing and making fishing lures and fishing collectibles.

Besides guns my other big hobby is cars. Fixing, cleaning and driving them occupies a good deal of my free time. I also enjoy going to car shows to look at other peoples cars, and swap meets to look for parts.

I’ve got several other interests. I’ve had my pilots license since I was in high school, I collect watches, and I enjoy old tractors and hit n miss steam engines. History, especially military history, is another interest.

As annoying as this virus mess is, it has provided more time for my hobbies. I’ve had the cars out for some nice drives, been to the range, and had time to catch up on my reading. I’m starting to regret selling my Ford 800 tractor right before all the hysteria, I ‘d have had more time to tinker with it now.

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Wheel guns are real guns.

When I lived in Maryland, I acquired a variety of decorative plates and some of them I hung on the wall. Part of the plate collection was a stack of plates from the early 1950s that had pen & ink line drawings of local churches on the front and some history of the church fired into the back. They were really well done. The plan was to hang them on the wall in my house and then have my estate give them to the churches that were pictured on the plates.

Somehow, in ten years, those plates never made it from the dresser drawer to the walls. I figured that if it didn't happen after ten years it wasn't going to happen. So I decided that it was time to give the plates back to the churches while there still might be people there who would remember what they were for.

I learned that these plates were made as a fundraisers for the respective churches, and with one exception, the churches never kept one for their archives. The churches were amazed and happy that I came around to return their plates to them. I got to present a number of them during services, and for receipts I received (and still have) wonderful letters of thanks.

So I didn't end up with my own private art museum, but I think I closed a big hole in the history of a lot of churches in the Frederick, MD area.

1/16th scale toy farm tractors. Mostly from the 50's to mid-70's.

And Patrician Spoke pattern depression glass, in green.