Once you get home with a new gun this has been my experience:

1.  Sit and look at your gun like it is your first born child.  A special kind of love.

2.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Rinse and repeat

3.  Aim at stuff around your house, people on TV, pictures on the wall, the cat.

4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2.

5.  Load it, Unload it.  Load it, Unload it, Load it, Unload it.  Rinse and repeat

6.  If a handgun, spin it on your finger like you are Robocop or Doc Holiday.

7.  Scratch it, somewhere.  Cry

8.  Every new person that comes over to your house for the next month.  Show it to them.  "Didja see my new gun?"

9.  If a Rifle, Clear the house, sight in from your couch to something outside.

10.  Look it up on gunbroker or the EE and make sure that you got a good deal.. Read all the reviews about it, confirming that you did.

Or....am I alone on this?

Everything but number 10

1 through 4 rang especially true

Quoted: Everything but number 10 1 through 4 rang especially true

Yup! I keep the band-aids handy

Quoted: 4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2.

Why do you have it in the bathroom with you?

Quoted: Quoted: 4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2. Why do you have it in the bathroom with you?

You don't really want to know, do ya?

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2. Why do you have it in the bathroom with you? You don't really want to know, do ya?

Ummmmmm . . . no.

Quoted: Once you get home with a new gun this has been my experience: 1.  Sit and look at your gun like it is your first born child.  A special kind of love. 2.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Take it apart, put it back together.  Rinse and repeat 3.  Aim at stuff around your house, people on TV, pictures on the wall, the cat. 4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2. 5.  Load it, Unload it.  Load it, Unload it, Load it, Unload it.  Rinse and repeat 6.  If a handgun, spin it on your finger like you are Robocop or Doc Holiday. 7.  Scratch it, somewhere.  Cry 8.  Every new person that comes over to your house for the next month.  Show it to them.  "Didja see my new gun?" 9.  If a Rifle, Clear the house, sight in from your couch to something outside. 10.  Look it up on gunbroker or the EE and make sure that you got a good deal.. Read all the reviews about it, confirming that you did. Or....am I alone on this?

You diudn't follow me around after I got my FAL and 1911 did you? Cause this is exactly what I did

You forgot Rule No. 11: Hide the new gun from your wife!

"nuther one: Go back and get another gun, you can never, ever have too many guns!

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 4.  Hurt yourself with the new gun.  Usually while performing number 2. Why do you have it in the bathroom with you? You don't really want to know, do ya? Ummmmmm . . . no.

just make sure you don't hit the slide catch and get anything caught in the ejection port

Quoted: You forgot Rule No. 11: Hide the new gun from your wife!

 No sweat there, I'm divorced!

11.)  Take multiple pictures of it from all angles under different lighting.


I slept with my first HK 91 clone first night I got it.  I walked into the bathroom, kitchen, and living room with it.  I installed a LASER beam on it and dry fired at milk jugs from across the house.  

My first pistol, an HK USP was just as fun; although I decided it wasn't the right sidearm for me. I ended up selling it to a cop up in Everson. Had tru-dot and a hogue grip....

-Rob

(11)   have a beautiful Photograph, taken by your Hippy, all framed, and ready to go, ahead of time,  for quick deployment, if you punch a hole in her freshly painted wall while practice clearing the room.

I'm still in the middle of number 8 and I have to start all over with annother one!

This is a tough hobby

Quoted: 9.  If a Rifle, Clear the house, sight in from your couch to something outside.

I use the top of the chimney on my neighbor's house.  I can see it perfectly from my chair.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one that does these things. I will add: purchase 20 spare magazines and every accessory you can afford.

What about breaking it in?  I *know* I did that list by instinct on my XD... then I went out, put 100rounds through it and brought it home only to clean it and baby it for about an hour...

sunday I put over 300 rds into my new para, it did not eaven burp, after feeding it all my .45 left overs that was mixed up begging for a F.T.F.
so now its on the "carry" list
I'm very happy

I've never hurt myself (yet), and I don't have a cat. #10 depends on if it was an impulse buy or not.  If it wasn't, that means I did my obsessive price and review searches ahead of time.  If it was an impulse, like 2 of the last 3 were, then the price comparisons, and lots of looking up reviews to make sure I bought a good one.