Long time no talk to. I've been away from Guru for a while. Got into a handguns and vintage stereo equipment.Been buying and trading some guns and stereo equipment. Have a real kicka** system setup at home now. Still got my 88 C4 though. I hope everyone has been doing good and I'll try to drop in more often.

That's an interesting pair of hobbies!!!

Talk to me about both, actually! I am curious what your home audio is.

Same with your gun collection.

And WELCOME BACK!!!!

Welcome back around! There are quite a few guys here (myself included) who are into those hobbies. Post up some info!

Matthew

Yep music, guns, chicks and pizza and couple of others that are slipping my mind right now.

Yup... I love both of those past times. Specially the gun stuff. Several years back I was very immersed into the gun culture in South Carolina. I belonged to several gun clubs and went to every Grass Roots gun event, NRA fundraiser, FONRA Dinners, Sat at a table for the South Carolina Gun Owners Association at the various gun shows... it was a blast! Punn Intended.

But then I moved back north to liberal land and my gun rights are very limited. Its not very PC to even talk about guns around a lot of people up here. They seem to be skeared of them.

Thank God I work in the Law Enforcement field and the people I work with don't have gun phobias.

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Yep you are up there where all the "Sheeple" are scared of guns and get upset quite easy for not being PC.

Well where do we start? I guess with the stereos. After buying, trading and selling, I currently am running a McIntosh MC-2205 (200 RMS wpc) and Pioneer SPEC (250 RMS wpc). Both are conservative ratings. They are combined with a McIntosh C-28 preamp. The 2205 is running 2 Klipsch Forte II speakers and the SPEC is running 2 Bose 901's. I know it is an odd combination of speakers, but they do complement each other quite well.

I was running 2 Hafler 9505 amps mono'd out to 700 watts RMS each. They are still here, just wanted to run the SPEC for a while.

I'm using a Bang & Olufsen TX-2 turntable with a new cartridge, an Akai GX-635D reel to rell, Mac MR-74 tuner and a couple of toys in between, such as a range expander and reverb amp for fun. This is the main system for now.

I just got a steal of a deal on some Paradigm 9seMK3 speakers that look brand new. Picked them up for $150. Man are these some awesome speakers. Great for some jazz and anything you really want hear with great staging. It is hooked to a Yamaha amp I picked up the other day.

I recently sold a McIntosh MC-2300 (300 RMS per channel), Marantz 2270 and like new Technics RS-1700 reel to reel. The Mac and Technics brought some nice bucks and pretty much reimbursed me for most of what I had spent. I still have some more items to sell and more to repair then sell. It is a fun (but heavy) hobby. Some of this equipment is quite heavy.

I had a heart condition last year and had to just quit messing with it for a while, as I did not feel up to it. Now I am back to my old ornery self.

Now onto guns. The wife and I went to class together get are concealed carry permits. It was a lot of fun and we enjoy going to the range together. I have since gotten on a 1911 kick.

Currently I own a Dan Wesson CBOB, Kimber Crimson Ultra Carry II, Kimber Pro Carry II, Metro Arms American Classic II, Dan Wesson PM-9, S&W 5906, Bersa Thunder .380, Bersa UC-9, Beretta Tomcat .32,and my old wheel guns - S&W Model 58 .41 magnum, S&W .38 special, S&W .455 Webley. I've probably left something out, but that is most of it. I've also got my Kimber .22lr conversion kit which is a blast to use on my 1911's. Also much cheaper to use.

Nothing is more relaxing than going to the range firing a couple hundred rounds.

Work has been extremely slow for the last 2 1/2 years like everyone else. This past week things have really started picking up and things are looking better.

My son will be 5 next month and it is really enjoyable watching him change and grow. I'm really glad I didn't have a child until later in my life. I have more time to spend with him at 53 than I did when I was in my 20's working 12-14 hours a day.

That kind of sums up my new hobbies. I look forward to hearing back from some of you on your stereo equipment and guns. I'm getting ready to refinish my basement and can't wait to get what equipment I have and more in place.

Cheers,
Oaklands

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Ha, like tryin' to lift a bare engine block.
I was running my 901's with this citation, it started blowing the fuse in one side. You can hurt yourself just pulling one of these off the shelf.

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Yep. Got one of those we have to finish repairing. They are heavy boogers.

Howdy neighbor!