COVID-19. Finally An Excuse to Spend WEEKS in Your Gun Room!

Well, folks, we wish all of you the best of health during this current state of affairs.  We believe it is very important that those of us at low risk of any serious COVID-19 effects do everything we can to insure that we do not spread the disease to those who are at high risk.   But, with looming shut ins and quarantines eminent, it occurred to me that I needed to be thinking about what I was going to be doing for a few weeks to keep my mind occupied so that I don’t get cabin fever.  Then it hit me that it’s the same thing I always do!  And probably the same thing that most gun collectors/shooters wish they could do if they were forced to do “nothing” for a few weeks.

So, it occurred to me that not everyone is as lucky as I and my fellow gun collectors/shooters.  Like Brer Rabbit being tossed into the briar patch, gun collectors/shooters around the country are about to be tossed into their gun rooms and man caves for a few weeks.  Oh my gosh.  This is going to be horrible!  LOL!

Anyway, we have to be vigilant about the well being of our fellow Americans, but we also should have a plan to make the most of the next few weeks.  For anyone out there that needs some ideas on what to do and not to do during a shut in, here are some ideas:

1)   Do NOT go on spring break!

2)   Wash your hands.

3)   Clean and wax all of your guns

4)   Clean and wax your blued or gloss finish scopes

5)   Organize that ammo

6)   Put gun socks on all of your safe queens to protect them from “safe rash”

7)   Research vintage scopes to match up with any of your naked or mis-matched rifles

8)   Get that vintage build done and ready to shoot

9)   Catch up on your hand loading

10)  Dust off that Monopoly board

11)   Call (not text) some people you haven’t talked to in a while

12)   Write someone a letter, on paper, with a pen

13)  Date your guns.  Use our date your gun page to find out the year of manufacture of all of those guns you’ve inherited or collected over the years.

14)   Pull your vintage scopes off of guns or out of the closet.  Send in those that need serviced, sell the ones you don’t need for cash for more guns.

I hope this helps you all get started with your own list.  And of course, this is not by any stretch an exhaustive list.  If any of my fellow gun folks have additional ideas, please share them with us by email or on our Instagram page.  Maybe we can all help to keep each other safe and occupied over the coming weeks.