Is it a tool or a toy for you?

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What is a tool, what is a toy? Sounds silly right. But I have a 50' shop full of tools. They are my toy's. I find it most relaxing and satisfying going out to the barn and fabricating. I have a great time chipping branches after pruning all the trees. Some look at me and ask why do you enjoy work? I can't answer that. So I guess my tools are my toy'sSome find it relaxing going on vacation and sitting. I can't for the life of me understand that. One of my work Buddys ask me to go to Hawaii with them. I ask what do you do? They go set on the beach. Huh, pay money to go set. I guess we all have different ideas of work and play.
 
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I know we’re talking about air guns here but when I was young I used to go hunting with my grandfather and he had a browning semi automatic sweet 16 shotgun. He had three beagles That ran the rabbits and when he would cross a barbedwire fence , He would hold the fence down with the shotgun. Well years later he had a stroke and couldn’t hunt no more and he gave me the shotgun. When I got home with it I took it out of the case and looked it over and the bluing was wore off of the bottom of the receiver and the stock had deep gouges in it , So I decided to take it to a gunsmith and have him reblue it and also redo the stock and put a new recoil pad on it. When I went to go pick it up after it was done he brought it out and I couldn’t believe how beautiful that gun was. So what I’m getting at is my grandfather used that gun as a tool .And my grandparents freezer was always packed with rabbit and deer meat.
 
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I know we’re talking about air guns here but when I was young I used to go hunting with my grandfather and he had a browning semi automatic sweet 16 shotgun.
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My dad had one of those. The gold plating was worn off the trigger, and 16 gauge shells were getting way too expensive because everyone was opting for either 20 or 12 gauge at that time. So I traded it for a 12 gauge shotgun and a Winchester 243 bolt action.

As for the OP question, I love playing with them, but I also use them for exposure therapy with PTSD patients so I'm steadfast in my position with the IRS that they're tools. :)
 
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It’s interesting to see everyone’s different perspective on what their airgun means to them. Depending on why we got in to airguns or the meaning we attach to the word tool or toy determines how each of us view our machines. One thing is for certain, we all enjoy shooting (unless you got a lemon!). 


I don’t think the right word is hobby, although I get where you’re coming from. Tool or toy are describing what the machine is to you. Hobby is used to describe the depth at which you’re involved with the machine (or its secondary accessories [ex: compressor, scope, etc]). Hobby can turn into profession(master airgun Smith). A casual shooter plinking his r7 in the backyard may never turn into a hobbyist. That would be a good thread though: Are you a hobbyist, casual shooter, or airgun guru? 
 
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I dunno, I think a five-year-old can break your nose if they try even reasonably hard. :D Life is surprisingly dangerous, and that's if nobody's against us. I'm surprised all of us here have lived long enough to talk about it, and try not to think long enough to bother me about all of us who didn't, through no fault of their own or otherwise.
 
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Not many toys I know of can easily kill or cause great bodily harm to others if misused.
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Just about any toy can cause bodily harm, choking on small objects, falling off swing set, bike, trike, skate board, wagon, scooter, go cart, mini bike, roller skates, hockey stick, base ball bat, poking any eye out with a play sword, arrow, even just a stick they are playing with can be deadly. Foot in the wheel of a bike, rubber band gun to the eye. Truly just about any “ toy” can has and will hurt,kill, somebody. It’s just you have kids toys and adult toys, the respect needed for each is just different 
 
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