STORM2K

I like to fish when Iam not busy. I also like to collect knives and airifles. I was just wondering what some of you like to do???

Chase storms, check the weather, especially the tropics during hurricane season.

Work out, cross stitch, bake, hang out with my sisters, play with the babies

I do track storms during hurricane season.

Collect combat knives, firearms, restore/sharpen them for friends, and am presently in process of collecting specific WW II German militaria.

Too many probably Reading, weather, volcanoes, MMORPG gaming, quilting/crafts, gardening, and enjoying my family and all life's blessings. Most think it's funny to like gaming/extreme weather and quilting/gardening LOL about as opposite as it gets.

Some of the knives I collect are ones from, Ruger, Columbia River, Boker, and my favorite ones are from Benchmade. The rifles I collect are expensive!!! My wife even has a rifle!!!

This maybe one that may surprise most, if not, all of the folks here.......

I love tracking severe weather! I know, I know
, it is a shock!

Ruling the world.

BUD wrote:Some of the knives I collect are ones from, Ruger, Columbia River, Boker, and my favorite ones are from Benchmade. The rifles I collect are expensive!!! My wife even has a rifle!!!

Most of mine are military-issue knives from all countries...I have one Czech knife that is particularly utilitarian, w/o being "overheavy", and am looking at a Russian 1940 combat knife (the Moisin-Nagant bayonet was little more than a long spike, so "Uncle Joe" had these made up).

My rifles are also mil-spec, mostly from the WW II era. However, I did restore an 1842 de Chatellerault .75 smoothbore musket years ago; cut down for Confederate cavalry use, and one of 940 that made it through the Union blockade.

To StreetSoldier, How long have you been collecting? As I said my rifles are airfiles they shoot with pellets.

BUD wrote:To StreetSoldier, How long have you been collecting? As I said my rifles are airfiles they shoot with pellets.

This is my seventh collection (for one reason or another, I had to sell the previous ones in turn)...I've been at it for about 36 years.

I used to be a member of the Antique Arms Appraisers Association and the Knifemaker's Guild, years back; and, lately, I'm advising some of my son's Tae Kwon Do fellow practitioners in the selection, care and storage of suitable Oriental edged weapons (katana, wakizashi, naginata, etc.).

My first rifle was a Czech pre-war VZ-24, soon followed with a Gewehr 88 "commission rifle" (black powder cartridge) and a 7.35 Carcano carbine. It's all downhill from there, but the ONE rifle I have never had the pleasure of owning is the one I wanted first of all...a DWM pre-1935 Karabiner 98K, Weimar proofed.

Racing and tracking hurricanes.

Hiking, reading, hearing live music (supporting local, not national acts), gardening (used to really be into this but I still enjoy it), sewing, baking (winter!), etc.

Mary

Aside from weather-related activities, motorcycling, fishing, gardening - pretty much anything outside.

birding, wildflowers, needle arts, reading, movies, weather, gardening, travelling, started collecting coins

Weather, reading, clipping coupons, QVC, some gardening, cooking and baking.

Hurricane tracking when they have one. Fishing, swimming, the beach, boat riding, shopping. I also collect any hurricane related material. Books, magazines, newspaper articles, etc.. And anything on the Titanic (another fascination of mine)

My favorite hobbies are swimming, bowling, weather watching, drawing/painting, reading, watching TV, chatting with friends, etc.

Fishing (saltwater and freshwater), gardening, gaming, listening to music (have no music talent), geology (hobby and career), weather, watching movies

I know I am forgetting something, but these are the current hobbies...