So, what hobbies do you have?

Ham Radio, electronics in general, and obviously auto racing. Also do some wood and metal work.

Primarily long distance (10 or more miles/day and sometimes as much as 20), long term (week or more) and virtually all solo. Well... the distance does drop in winter on snowshoes.

Reading.

Electronics, carpentry, home maintenance, and Koi.
Otherwise, Formula 1 (F1) all motor racing, and NOTHING to do with Flying (EX-Raf).

I got qualified as a Sparkie at an early age, IEE 16th edition had just become the standard at that time, as a "fall beck" trade should it all go wrong in Transport.... I now do all my own electrical repairs and work around the house, then go get my friend and neighbour who is also a qualified sparkie to sign them off, as a "Double check" that I didnt cock things up....
Mostly you know when you cock it up in Electrician work, thats why they call us sparkies, the air turns blue as the magic smoke is released, and we all get very loud....
You can tell a good sparkie, he has straight hair?....

Carpentry?... I followed my Dad around his workshop when I was young, it seemed natural to know the right end of a chisel, and only natural I should own my own set of woodworking tools?... I now have routers, drills, and planes, most people say they are specialised tools, but to me they are "Old friends", I have been around them so long its hard for me to understand how some people cant work out one end of a router from the dangerous end?...

Koi Carp.
If you have ever stood there mesmerised by a pond of fish and realised how gently relaxing it can be, you will know why Koi Carp are so popular.
10 ft square and 6 foot deep, over 4,000 (UK) Gallons of water, about 30 fish, gin-clear water, its a full time hobby, and somewhere I can go and just watch fish relax and not have to think.

It also gives me something to do, as maintenance of the filters often turns into an invention spree as I work out how to do it better?....

My biggest hobby is my stamp collecting - I've ten albums full of my collection of German stamps.

I've an almost complete collection of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, I'm about fifteen short of the complete set.

Reading, especially anything science, science fiction, or fantasy related. Video games. Tinkering with things.

Well, this and I spend a lot of time in the Danish Air Home Guard (equivalent to the Air National Guard/Territorial Army for you Yanks and Brits) where I'm a squad leader for a 6 man Security Force squad. That takes up a lot of time since the Air Force uses us for pretty much anything they can get away with

Besides that, since I'm out of work at the moment, I spend a lot of (too much?) time watching TV shows, playing video games and playing with my son in between job seeking.

I like to play pool. I've been playing for over 50 years and competed twice in national tournaments in Las Vegas. Best finish was 16th out of about 500 competitors.
I also like target shooting and hand loading ammo.

Un, what all do your reload? I do .44-40, 10, 12, and 16 gauge for Cowboy Action. I load all of them with blackpowder. I also load .45-70 with blackpowder, but not for Cowboy Action.

For the modern stuff I load .243, .223 for my granddaughter, an occasional .30-30, .270 for my son-in-law, and .45ACP. I've even tried a BP load or two for .45ACP, just to see if I could.

The gun boards I haunt (another hobby) are atwitter with anticipation about their arrival, but I understand that the state department isn't about to clear them for import anytime soon. The best alternative at this time is to go through the CMP to buy one.

From the CMP you are going to get a solid rifle that has been gone over by their gunsmiths and is guaranteed to work,

I bought a Blue Sky (Korean Import) Garand import some 20 years ago or so that wouldn't funtion when I got it (worn out, out of spec ID gas cylinder), with a barrel so worn a .308 bullet would almost totally disappear when dropped into the muzzle, and it keyholed half or more of the rounds I fired out of it. The stock and handguards were also pretty much trash.

However, I DID get it cheap enough that I could STILL fix it for a bit less than I could get a good one at the time. The stock ended up being repair bits of Walnut for other projects.

I don't know the quality of the ones they plan to import, but I figure they PROBABLY sold all the worst ones to Blue Sky .

A CMP gun will also NOT be sporting an import mark, which the Koreans will definitely need to have.

From the CMP, you have to jump through a couple of hoops to buy one (US citizen, member of a member gun club or the Garand Collectors Club, and possibly a couple others) , but the hoops aren't all that bad.

If you can get to Camp Perry, Ohio, or Anniston, Alabama, you can pick one out in their showroom and leave with it that day. Otherwise they will mail it directly to your door.

For more info, here is the CMP website: www.odcmp.com/