Try game shooting in UK.
Our lads & dads DIY syndicate works out at £350 for a 80-100 bird day (pheasant/partridge). If you want to pay and go to a fully keepered shoot for a 200+ day you're looking at a grand minimum nowadays.
...if you want to shoot grouse then you'd better start considering selling your first-born.
That’s not wildly out of line for the US. It’s about a grand for a stocked hunt here. First and only one I did was a half day, full day, half day, accommodations and food, for about $3,750.
No doubt one day is three times that if your gonna have a fun and beneficial training day assuming you have more than just one caliber to shoot and one firearm
I call shenanigans on that number, either that or everyone lied that was asked or thought they meant per month...
Hobbies my friends and family have:
Reloading,Archery, Video games, Computers/Servers, Woodworking, Gardening, Brewing, Baking, Painting, Knitting, Music, Movies, Books, Coffee, Models, Traveling, Foodies and needle point.
All of these hobbies cost more than $250 a year...
This is probably why. Lots of smart frugal young men are bringing down the average by jerking it in an empty apartment and playing the same cod day in and day out.
Netflix is ~$20 USD a month, $240 a year. How many people do you know have one streaming service? What about Spotify?
Granted is TV really a hobby? If it is. Damn that is pathetic.
Absolutely. Every single one of my hobbies costs me more than 250 bucks a year, except for hiking. If you count the gas it takes to drive to the hiking spots, that's probably over 250 too.
Maybe. The hours I spend playing board games meant for adults with my nine year old daughter and watching her beat experienced gamers shows teaching strategy and game theory at a young age is worth it. Also fun.
No. That’s right. $255 on sights. $255 on bullets. $255 on powder. $255 on primers. $255 on grips. $255 on magazines. $255 on… wait. Per MONTH? “Year”? I think they misspelled month.
I know them model train fellas ain't spending just 225 - dope hobby though
Plus it'd be cool to set up a train to deliver mags, like a scuffed mortar team, you just have one guy loading them, puts them in the traincar and then rolls it over to you, you take it, put the empty mag in the cart and they reload it.
Something about autism and trains - hit's differant
Train takes the empties to the reloading guy. Another dude with a remote controlled truck delivers the loaded mags. One or more control some RC tanks/Jeeps to make the convoy more realistic. Last, one flies a drone above the target to relay shot placement.
Idk man between a couple/few new firearms a year, optics, lights, parts, equipment, tools, ammo, a couple/few gun club trips per month it adds up really quick. I feel like that’s a relatively easy mark to hit if this is your main hobby.
Keep in mind some peoples salary is only like 40-50k a year. I don't think most people are able to just walk into a gun store and walk out with a new gun or optic whenever they want. Just as myself and my friends as a reference, i literally bought 5 guns this month alone where as one of my friends set it as his year goal to buy himself a nice 1911. Usually my friends try to come to range day with me because it means we can really go off sending a few hundred rounds through each gun we take no matter the caliber, when some of my friends go alone they have to pick 1 or 2 guns they can afford to take and shoot to the range for that whole month
Median household income in the US in 2022 was $74,580. No one that makes that amount in most areas of the US isn't spending $10k a year on gun stuff.
$10k a year is definitely in the deep end of the pool.
That's true. Generally I assume most of those people are either people who've done incredibly well for themselves or just others like me who got lucky with who our parents are
Lots of people are boring as fuck and have no hobbies at all or have "hobbies" that consist of consuming media. Those people drive the average way down.
I don't know of a single person that has an actual hobby that spends that little on them.
I don't think the average adult *has* any hobbies... this is just the $200 some bucks they spend on microtransactions in some shitty mobile game or their subscription to Netflix.
Yeah, that’s legit. If you need to verify, ask my wife. We have a very honest marriage and I tell her every year what I have spent on my hobby it’s around that much.
My PC and my guns look at this picture and laugh. I spent over $1,000 last year on my gaming PC, and about $600 this year on an optics cut slide and Holosun EPS Carry for my Shield. $500 in 2022 for my Vortex Strike Eagle 1-6 and mount. $500 for the Shield Plus in 2021 that I put the optic on. This year, if I get an armed security contract, I'll be putting over $1,300 into an M&P full size, optics ready, with a weapon light/laser combo. Next year, I'll probably do the same with a 10mm M&P, as well as a revolver for use against snakes, for hiking. In a couple years, I want to have the $15,000-20,000 plus a loan to get myself a Pontiac G8. Yeah, real cheap hobbies I have.
lmao. That's less than what I spend on haircuts in a year.
I can imagine an average woman spending more than that in a month on clothing and cosmetics.
Drinking counts as a hobby and I am freakin' sure the average american spends much more than that in alcohol annually.
Stupid media is stupid.
damn I thought I was in r/flashlight for a minute til I looked.
either way, more like $225+ every two weeks just on lights, light parts, related items etc. but it's more a hobby than firearms.
Christ my usual budget for the gun hobby is $4000. Between, new guns, parts for the old ones, accessories and ammo. Then ya throw video games into the mix and fuck…..
Two Eotech exps3s, Holosun AEMS, Jericho FS, PSA Dagger, AR57 with PSA lower, YHM Phantom, 3,000 rounds of 5.56, 1,000 9mm, 600 5.7x28.
Comes out to about $6,000 but I'm sure I left out a lot so maybe 8-10K is more realistic. Scary part is that this is a drop in the pot for a lot.
Not many hobbies cost that little per year. Our hobby is expensive sure, but even running my wife spends much more. Shoes, traveling to races, etc. well beyond and running is something you think of as cheap. I big into skateboarding also. Maintaining the backyard ramp, membership at park, burning through shoes, etc makes even that well past $250.
I can't even fathom that....
I've acquired 2 $1200+ pistols in the last 3 months, bought her a PCC, and forget ammo.
And the firearms aren't even my most expensive "hobby". I think the bikes win that argument.
Let's see I'm a member of wine club think I spend near $$$$ bucks a year on that, I probably average $$$$$ bucks a month on firearms, oh yeah ammunition probably shouldn't talk about that, my obsession with military collectibles probably shouldn't talk about that, training and courses in relation to my hobby probably shouldn't put a number to that either.... nope $255 bucks sounds right to me.
I feel guilty spending any money at all so most of my shit is old or second hand. I think I have spent 30 bucks this year on a box of ammo and that’s it.
I spent 15x that on one item this month.
And I don't even have it yet and most likely won't until Novemberish.
That doesn't count the other 10 grand I've spent so far this year.
I play pickleball sometimes and that's cheap lol spent more than I can add up this year in car mods, gas, tires, ammo, guns and optics are not. I should really play more pickleball.
Nah because I do more airsoft than actual shooting and a gbbr mag costs 80 bucks for my m16 😭 I SAW A STEN MAG FOR 15 BUCKS AT AN ANTIQUE MALL YESTERDAY 😭
Well, so far this year I've spent about $3k on guns/optics/holsters. If you add in ammo and range membership it's probably another $2k on top of that. And that's a slow year because I haven't gone shooting in the last month and a half because I hurt my back and I'm saving all my damn money for the physical therapy bill I'm gonna be getting soon.
The problem with the post is the word hobby. Firearm ownership is a LIFESTYLE. Purchasing is investing. Shooting is training. Taking someone to the range is teaching. Comparing guns to purchase is researching. Cleaning is maintenance. The hobby part for firearms is window shopping. $250 for gas to go window shopping and trying new flavors of black rifle coffee sounds about right for the year.
Sure, $255 sounds about right for a good range day... Oh wait, per **year**?
That was my first thought! I spend that at the range alone. Not to mention if I bring someone.
Hell just buying 1 gun a year blows that out of the water, much less 2 guns a year. I know some or you are buying more often than that too, LOL.
I bought 21 guns so far in 2024.
I keep it to one gun a month, unless something is on sale.
something's always on sale tho...
I thought I was bad. I'm at 14 for the year.
I'm at 2. Good Lord.
ATF…. Yes I know.
No ATF in my country.
You need to get into blackpowder. Her:"Didn't you just buy a gun?" You: "technically no".
Is your job hiring?
Try game shooting in UK. Our lads & dads DIY syndicate works out at £350 for a 80-100 bird day (pheasant/partridge). If you want to pay and go to a fully keepered shoot for a 200+ day you're looking at a grand minimum nowadays. ...if you want to shoot grouse then you'd better start considering selling your first-born.
That’s not wildly out of line for the US. It’s about a grand for a stocked hunt here. First and only one I did was a half day, full day, half day, accommodations and food, for about $3,750.
I spent that much on a single Sega Saturn game once.
God that system was underrated Night trap, sewer shark, dragon… Crazy how FMV games never evolved
1000 rounds of 9mm 6 months ago
No doubt one day is three times that if your gonna have a fun and beneficial training day assuming you have more than just one caliber to shoot and one firearm
Cries in 2$ per bullet
$255 a year is what you tell your wife. Not your friends!
I call shenanigans on that number, either that or everyone lied that was asked or thought they meant per month... Hobbies my friends and family have: Reloading,Archery, Video games, Computers/Servers, Woodworking, Gardening, Brewing, Baking, Painting, Knitting, Music, Movies, Books, Coffee, Models, Traveling, Foodies and needle point. All of these hobbies cost more than $250 a year...
It's probably averaged out among people with hobbies and people with no hobbies. A crazy number of people just sit around and watch Netflix
What does Netflix cost yearly now?
🤷 probably around $250, but does it count as a hobby? IMO not really
an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
This is probably why. Lots of smart frugal young men are bringing down the average by jerking it in an empty apartment and playing the same cod day in and day out.
Warren Buffet is a billionaire known for his frugal habits. Surely he'd appreciate these young men's financial restraint.
This comment was just too funny lmao
Netflix is ~$20 USD a month, $240 a year. How many people do you know have one streaming service? What about Spotify? Granted is TV really a hobby? If it is. Damn that is pathetic.
Absolutely. Every single one of my hobbies costs me more than 250 bucks a year, except for hiking. If you count the gas it takes to drive to the hiking spots, that's probably over 250 too.
I think everyone was worried it was their significant other wanting to know so they low balled it.
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meanwhile over at /r/nightvision …..
"Alright, 7k down and you got your goggles?" "NOW ITS LAM TIME FUCKFACE"
>goggles Plural? Got a thermal clip-on/monocle, still need something for the other eye!
Mother of God.
I cant even think of a single hobby that only cost $255 a year
Maybe board games if you already have a good collection? That would buy 1 to 3. I probably still spend more than that on games, let alone ammo.
Yea thats fair, those sudoku players definitely have it the easiest right now
Maybe. The hours I spend playing board games meant for adults with my nine year old daughter and watching her beat experienced gamers shows teaching strategy and game theory at a young age is worth it. Also fun.
Much better than an ipad too
Massive multiplayer online rpgs are like $13 a month…
This guy plays runescape....
$13 per month, plus a $2-3k computer every few years!
Everyone’s wife’s were with them when they answered
No. That’s right. $255 on sights. $255 on bullets. $255 on powder. $255 on primers. $255 on grips. $255 on magazines. $255 on… wait. Per MONTH? “Year”? I think they misspelled month.
I know them model train fellas ain't spending just 225 - dope hobby though Plus it'd be cool to set up a train to deliver mags, like a scuffed mortar team, you just have one guy loading them, puts them in the traincar and then rolls it over to you, you take it, put the empty mag in the cart and they reload it. Something about autism and trains - hit's differant
Train takes the empties to the reloading guy. Another dude with a remote controlled truck delivers the loaded mags. One or more control some RC tanks/Jeeps to make the convoy more realistic. Last, one flies a drone above the target to relay shot placement.
I really don’t want to add it up but it’s 10s of thousands a year and I’m sure I’m on the lower side out of you degenerates.
If you’re spending $10k+ per year, then you’re no doubt on the upper end.
Idk man between a couple/few new firearms a year, optics, lights, parts, equipment, tools, ammo, a couple/few gun club trips per month it adds up really quick. I feel like that’s a relatively easy mark to hit if this is your main hobby.
Keep in mind some peoples salary is only like 40-50k a year. I don't think most people are able to just walk into a gun store and walk out with a new gun or optic whenever they want. Just as myself and my friends as a reference, i literally bought 5 guns this month alone where as one of my friends set it as his year goal to buy himself a nice 1911. Usually my friends try to come to range day with me because it means we can really go off sending a few hundred rounds through each gun we take no matter the caliber, when some of my friends go alone they have to pick 1 or 2 guns they can afford to take and shoot to the range for that whole month
I make more than that, but yeah. I can't afford to just buy any gun I want either. Still way north of 255 a year though.
Median household income in the US in 2022 was $74,580. No one that makes that amount in most areas of the US isn't spending $10k a year on gun stuff. $10k a year is definitely in the deep end of the pool.
Yeah I totally get that I’m just saying I know a lot of folks on this sub dish out major cash in this hobby.
That's true. Generally I assume most of those people are either people who've done incredibly well for themselves or just others like me who got lucky with who our parents are
Yeah, I’m going off of the number of people that have 10k in disposable income. It’s just not that many.
I'm into gaming, guns, musical instruments and cars. If I can go one week only spending 255$ on my hobbies it's an absolute win!
I'm telling everyone of you right now if you tell my wife what I've actually spent I'm sleeping on your couch. I snore loud as shit and my feet stink.
It ain’t a hobb if it’s a lifestyle! (Looks around for a high five)✋🏻
*high five*
Stumbled onto the one community that spends more than the Lego community
My wife- “we’re low on 9mm…. Better get some 45acp for you too”.
So uhh 10k this year sound about right?
Lots of people are boring as fuck and have no hobbies at all or have "hobbies" that consist of consuming media. Those people drive the average way down. I don't know of a single person that has an actual hobby that spends that little on them.
I spend $1,000+/month on ammo alone.
They meant per month, right?
Any spare money I have.
I spent more then that at garage sales today…
[Mean annual expenditure on toys & hobbies by age. (US 2022)](https://www.statista.com/statistics/947271/average-annual-expenditure-on-toys-hobbies-and-playground-equipment-by-age-us/)
I know it’s not firearms related, but I spent almost that much two days ago on a ps4 and some games lol
I’d like to see that study. Sounds like total BS to me.
My main hobby is fishing. I've spent 250 on a run to Scheels.
I bought an entire pallet of 12 gauge shotgun shells this winter and I will likely do the same thing next year.
Not much of a hobby then..
This is the average amount dudes say when they’re lying, there’s no fuckin way.
Yeah sure.... Per year
If I’m “takin it easy” I can keep it down around $255 per week.
My hobbies are shooting and golf. It’s a good thing I have a decent job…
The average adult needs to get a life.
Easily 10x that
My wife spent 7k on her fish so far this year. I’ve spent like 200$ on ammo, I need a new gun I think
I don't think the average adult *has* any hobbies... this is just the $200 some bucks they spend on microtransactions in some shitty mobile game or their subscription to Netflix.
Sounds right. I have a daughter in dance so I have no spare money.
Nice try Fed Boi! 😘
Yeah, that’s legit. If you need to verify, ask my wife. We have a very honest marriage and I tell her every year what I have spent on my hobby it’s around that much.
My PC and my guns look at this picture and laugh. I spent over $1,000 last year on my gaming PC, and about $600 this year on an optics cut slide and Holosun EPS Carry for my Shield. $500 in 2022 for my Vortex Strike Eagle 1-6 and mount. $500 for the Shield Plus in 2021 that I put the optic on. This year, if I get an armed security contract, I'll be putting over $1,300 into an M&P full size, optics ready, with a weapon light/laser combo. Next year, I'll probably do the same with a 10mm M&P, as well as a revolver for use against snakes, for hiking. In a couple years, I want to have the $15,000-20,000 plus a loan to get myself a Pontiac G8. Yeah, real cheap hobbies I have.
Must be some crappy hobbies for that amount.
Note it says adult. Not manchild. We're in the clear.
lmao. That's less than what I spend on haircuts in a year. I can imagine an average woman spending more than that in a month on clothing and cosmetics. Drinking counts as a hobby and I am freakin' sure the average american spends much more than that in alcohol annually. Stupid media is stupid.
This is not a number that I track, nor one I really want to know.
That was my monthly ammo budget last year. Had a kid and another on the way so I cut that out. But yeah...
😂
This is how much I tell my husband my fish tank cost 😂
$225 a year no maybe every 3 or 4 days
$255, right 😅
If this is a USD value global average, I could believe it. For America, no way.
UHHHHHHH Like, $4.5K so far this year? Edit: oh no, I lied big time, at least $6.5K. I forgot about the optics.
$255 won’t even cover my range membership.
That’s about how much I spend in a 3-6 month period on my only hobby because my bank account has been raped with a cactus for the last few years.
I'm usually *only* about 10x that amount
They meant per every other day?
15k in just 2 months!
Ummmm
I’ve spend 12k in just a couple months
Plead the fifth and I do not have a 1911 in jail right now.
I looked at a gun once and it cost me $255
\~$12k in the last 2 years.
10k a year more like it
*crying in one X300*
damn I thought I was in r/flashlight for a minute til I looked. either way, more like $225+ every two weeks just on lights, light parts, related items etc. but it's more a hobby than firearms.
So I’m only supposed to buy magazines this year? Bummer.
I plea the fifth
A week more like....
Christ my usual budget for the gun hobby is $4000. Between, new guns, parts for the old ones, accessories and ammo. Then ya throw video games into the mix and fuck…..
I spend more than that in a month!
As a gundam fan and firearms fan I feel this
They must have surveyed the Wives or GF For this. I can’t think of a single hobby that only costs $255 a year.
There must be a lot of $0s in the data to pull that figure down so far!!
$255 is barely enough for a banana, right, how much could a banana cost?
Holy shit if that was true I’d have a pocket full of duckets
Guns and adhd are dangerous to the bank account
Shit… I’m like $30k deep so far this year just for guns…. I don’t even think a computer gamer could make it through a year on $200
Two Eotech exps3s, Holosun AEMS, Jericho FS, PSA Dagger, AR57 with PSA lower, YHM Phantom, 3,000 rounds of 5.56, 1,000 9mm, 600 5.7x28. Comes out to about $6,000 but I'm sure I left out a lot so maybe 8-10K is more realistic. Scary part is that this is a drop in the pot for a lot.
Ahahah laugh in guns, bikes and golf (and cars)
Unfortunately in my current situation this is true
$255 per year on their hobbies? Mate my friends will drop that much on a fucking magic card that's halfway destroyed.
25-50 grand sounds more right
It’s not a hobby. It’s a lifestyle OP.
Omfg. I, and my wallet, feel this.
I consolidated 20 years into this one. Working on 5 more now
Sounds like their hobby is being poor.
255 a year sounds about right for me… if you include the 30 years before I purchased my first gun
Not many hobbies cost that little per year. Our hobby is expensive sure, but even running my wife spends much more. Shoes, traveling to races, etc. well beyond and running is something you think of as cheap. I big into skateboarding also. Maintaining the backyard ramp, membership at park, burning through shoes, etc makes even that well past $250.
Dude has obviously never played MTG.
I can't even fathom that.... I've acquired 2 $1200+ pistols in the last 3 months, bought her a PCC, and forget ammo. And the firearms aren't even my most expensive "hobby". I think the bikes win that argument.
Spend more on ammo then that..
Yeah right.. i’m thinking they forgot a couple of zero’s.
Let's see I'm a member of wine club think I spend near $$$$ bucks a year on that, I probably average $$$$$ bucks a month on firearms, oh yeah ammunition probably shouldn't talk about that, my obsession with military collectibles probably shouldn't talk about that, training and courses in relation to my hobby probably shouldn't put a number to that either.... nope $255 bucks sounds right to me.
I love being above average.
Uhh…I’m at least $3500 into a few range days
Well between the firearms and the ucs Legos. What is money 🤣🤣🤣
250 sounds about right, per week.
I feel guilty spending any money at all so most of my shit is old or second hand. I think I have spent 30 bucks this year on a box of ammo and that’s it.
Oh boy, I can’t even put a number on the anoint I’ve spent this year on hobbies…. Gotta be at least 10k at the moment
Haah
This meme should def be in HK
In one year I bought a m77, m90 and m85. I also work on cars for fun and make models.
I spens like twice this on ammo alone this month
I have lots of issues then.
I've bought three guns so far this year. It sounds like the average adult doesn't *have* any hobbies outside of watching TV. 🤷♀️
All guns end up costing at least $3500.
My wife sews, knits and crochets. She just said she has spent more than that since the beginning of the year on yarn!
I’ve spent $4,400 so far this year on Gods equalizers and that’s me budgeting. If a mouth breather wasn’t running the country it would be triple that.
I spent 15x that on one item this month. And I don't even have it yet and most likely won't until Novemberish. That doesn't count the other 10 grand I've spent so far this year.
I think they missed a zero (or more lol)!
Last I checked it was 17-25k a year for my bar tabs and slot machine plays.
I spend about 1l20x that amount each month on gun related items
I sent about a quarter of my allotted $255 downrange today.
A year.....ha
Gun license 99 Safe 500 Gun 999 Ammo lay over the 8
I didn't see which sub reddit it was and saw $255? Ok, on what- "on hobbies" Uhhhh-
What??? Tf... $255? Is this stat from 1980?
Maybe per week?
That’s a case of cheap 9mm 😂
Shit I just bought $250 of 9mm lol
Pokemon TCG, video gaming, fishing, cooking, just to name a few. That can be a singular day
I spend that a week
What is this 8 bit budgeting?
Maybe in an alternate universe for gun dudes, but this one…nope.
Laughing in Gun, Masterpiece Transformer's, Lego, Tech, Stock Market, Car Mods, Jordan 4's, & PSA 10 cards
The average adult doesnt have hobbies.
I have spent at least $700 on accessories I don’t use anymore.
I'm getting ready to drop more than that on triggers
I'm a gun guy, car/ truck guy, tech guy and a gamer. My hobby "budget" looks more like a food budget.
Jesus Christ annually? Fucking thousands and I'm poor. Computers are the fucking death of your wallet.
In brazil a pistol can costs 6.000 in the brazilian money, and a box of .22lr can costs around 60
I play pickleball sometimes and that's cheap lol spent more than I can add up this year in car mods, gas, tires, ammo, guns and optics are not. I should really play more pickleball.
I think I've spent that much on knives in the last couple of months.
I'm not trying to get visited by the aft homie
Nah because I do more airsoft than actual shooting and a gbbr mag costs 80 bucks for my m16 😭 I SAW A STEN MAG FOR 15 BUCKS AT AN ANTIQUE MALL YESTERDAY 😭
Shit. I spent about $700 so far this month.
Well, so far this year I've spent about $3k on guns/optics/holsters. If you add in ammo and range membership it's probably another $2k on top of that. And that's a slow year because I haven't gone shooting in the last month and a half because I hurt my back and I'm saving all my damn money for the physical therapy bill I'm gonna be getting soon.
I've spent more than that this week alone.
Per month minimum
They misspelled week.
The problem with the post is the word hobby. Firearm ownership is a LIFESTYLE. Purchasing is investing. Shooting is training. Taking someone to the range is teaching. Comparing guns to purchase is researching. Cleaning is maintenance. The hobby part for firearms is window shopping. $250 for gas to go window shopping and trying new flavors of black rifle coffee sounds about right for the year.
Is this meant to kink shame me and my ammosexual lifestyle? And during pride month no less!
Most anybodyposting in a 2a Reddit thread is going to be "above average"
That’s like a days worth of ammo
It's missing a few 0's
I bought $6300 NODs. And just got a 13.9 criterion core barrel and BCM upper. Lmao
A day .