Dave McCracken
Moderator In Memoriam
Some things have been irking me, and maybe it's time to get these off my massive and manly chest.
No, not the usual things like PGO shotguns,ChiCom clone guns or folks taking pics of new looking shotguns and posting them on what Oleg says is my turf.
Well, no more than usual....
Here's a couple things that have been yanking my chain of late. Maybe you can identify.
First, and least, is folks who refer to their shotguns as "Shotties".
I doubt Myashi called his swords the Medieval Japanese equivalent of Washi instead of Washikazi,Katie instead of Katana,etc.
And while I've many friends with high dollar shotguns, I don't hear them referred to as Kreiggies, Parkies, ad nauseam.
Not to get all mystical and spiritual on this, but I think respecting the tools is a step towards using them better.
Of course, this doesn't mean we can't call our best shotgun a messed up piece of trash next time it misses, but you can get my meaning.
Next, a couple secondhand stories have reached me about two incidents where a lout was teaching a loved one how to shoot, and handed them a magnum load. This, of course, knocked in one case a woman and in another a teen aged son silly. Both louts regarded this as great fun.
If the perpetrators didn't want their loved ones to shoot, they could just have refused to take them.
Idiots like this deserve flaying or impalement. Or made to labor eternally in Hades shooting trap with 5 lb 10 gauges with wood chisel butts.
And finally, the latest thing that causeth my gorge to rise is folks who aren't going to vote this election, or who aren't going to make the Second Amendment the fulcrum on which their vote swings.
We won Heller by one Justice. The next Prez will get to pick three Justices at least.
The wrong vote or no vote can leave us bitterly clinging to our religions, because we sure as heck may not get to cling to our guns.
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No, not the usual things like PGO shotguns,ChiCom clone guns or folks taking pics of new looking shotguns and posting them on what Oleg says is my turf.
Well, no more than usual....
Here's a couple things that have been yanking my chain of late. Maybe you can identify.
First, and least, is folks who refer to their shotguns as "Shotties".
I doubt Myashi called his swords the Medieval Japanese equivalent of Washi instead of Washikazi,Katie instead of Katana,etc.
And while I've many friends with high dollar shotguns, I don't hear them referred to as Kreiggies, Parkies, ad nauseam.
Not to get all mystical and spiritual on this, but I think respecting the tools is a step towards using them better.
Of course, this doesn't mean we can't call our best shotgun a messed up piece of trash next time it misses, but you can get my meaning.
Next, a couple secondhand stories have reached me about two incidents where a lout was teaching a loved one how to shoot, and handed them a magnum load. This, of course, knocked in one case a woman and in another a teen aged son silly. Both louts regarded this as great fun.
If the perpetrators didn't want their loved ones to shoot, they could just have refused to take them.
Idiots like this deserve flaying or impalement. Or made to labor eternally in Hades shooting trap with 5 lb 10 gauges with wood chisel butts.
And finally, the latest thing that causeth my gorge to rise is folks who aren't going to vote this election, or who aren't going to make the Second Amendment the fulcrum on which their vote swings.
We won Heller by one Justice. The next Prez will get to pick three Justices at least.
The wrong vote or no vote can leave us bitterly clinging to our religions, because we sure as heck may not get to cling to our guns.
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This is also the first shotgun I've ever owned. WOW. I've heard stories about how much the 12ga kicks and I thought I was prepared for it, but it still caught me off guard. 
Nothing I couldn't handle though. Of course, it will be more manageable once I replace the Factory forend and buttstock with an ATI forend pistol grip and pistol grip/buttstock combo. 
