Am I a Fudd?

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Welcome to the Fudd Club

I'm a bit older than you (54) and prefer my leverguns, revolvers, and double-barrel shotguns. I do have one semi-auto pistol, but it's only a .22, so it probably qualifies as a Fudd firearm as well.

Being a Fudd isn't so bad so long as you dont have "just one buwwet weft." ;)
 
skeeter1, you're not a Fudd (or a zumbo) unless you approve of attempts to ban my AR, based simply on your preference for older designs.

Almost all of my guns are blue steel and wood, too.
 
The anti's would like nothing better than to divide us from within. Sometimes we divide ourselves without prompt from the outside such as Fudd, Mall Ninja, Gunshow Commando, ect.. We need to drop the handles before we all end up in the same pot.
I love guns I get as much pleasure building and shooting a flat top AR with all the bells and whistles as I do a flintlock muzzleloader.
 
A Fu-er Zumbo is a person who in one mind keeps two contradictory lines of thought running in parallel. My dad is a good example: I bought an SKS carbine to plink with and also because at the time it was a "forbidden fruit". Boy was it forbidden! :) My dad made me take it back to the store because he didn't think I should own a rifle "made only for street fighting and killing people." Also, he was afraid I would mount a hi-cap magazine to it and break the city's assault weapons ban. I looked up the law on the Internet and proved that it was legal, nevertheless, it went back.:mad:
During the discussion with Mom, Dad said he'd like to get an M1 rifle like he had in the ROK Army. Mom wanted to know why, and, get this, the M1 was his favorite rifle because it was very powerful and he could pump rounds downrange in a hurry. (I've never seen it, but a good M1 operator can throw out a storm of lead-all of it aimed). The SKS could also dump rounds out in a hurry. He also had a Ruger 10/22 and a 50 rd mag for it-a clear violation of the city AW ban. When he and Mom retired and moved, I found his evil black folding stock for it! :what:
During a hunting trip, we and our hosts were talking about gun control. AFter he mentioned forcing me to return my valuable property (his house, his rules, now it's MY house, MY rules :evil: ) he said, "a gun can't kill anybody, somebody has to pick it up and pull the trigger." After the DC snipers were caught, he said "That's the problem with those rifles, you want to use them to kill people." :barf: He knew nothing about AR-15 rifles, at the time I was busy building one of my own.
Talking with a person like this feels like this: :banghead: You get :mad: , go :what: and wind up like :barf: Then you think about how this person's views make it likely that they will lose their precious 30-06 Springfield to the gun banners, a rifle they used for a hunting career that spanned more than 30 years, all because of their ignorant, shortsighted, and contradictory position on gun issues, and you want to :cuss: to them, and all your friends in the EBR fraternity/sorority about what an idiot they are. That's my Fud, I mean, Zumbo experience. On another note, Dad told me that in Korean schools the teacher could beat students with a 3 ft bamboo cane for the slightest infraction, even doing an assignment wrong. I bet Zumbo would take that over what's happened any day.
 
What I can't wrap my head around is the disdain for other types of firearms. By golly, if it goes bang, then I like it. If I don't like a particular type, it's because it fell apart while firing or some such thing. Maybe I'm a gun whore, but I honestly can't understand the snobbery.

Guns = good.

No guns = bad.
 
Am I a Fudd?

I don't own a "black rifle", but I don't care what guns you might own. I don't care what you hunt with, as long as you're not poaching in any manner. All of my long guns fall under the "traditional" sporting gun, whatever that means. Does that automatically classify me as a Fudd? I have shot ARs at the range a few times, and have considered getting one, but living in California really limits me as to what I can own, and it doesn't seem worth the hassle to me. To the purists out there, exactly what is the definition of a Fudd? I suppose you could call me an old fuddydud, being 50 years old, but a Fudd? Just curious. Peace and God bless, Wolfsong.
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Well, I haven't read the thread so my opinion may differ some from other posts. I grew up with hunting and I grew up laughing at Elmer Fudd going around and around with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. My Daddy introduced me to hunting and guns and cartoons both when I was very young and I wouldn't consider him a Fudd either. And Daddy didn't have a black rifle then. I grew up knowing the difference and knowing I didn't know anybody as dumb as the cartoon character. I don't own a black rifle either... never had any use for one... but I do own a Garand. Personally, I grew up thinking the Fudds were gun-illerate slobs who just think they're hunters. I don't think lack of a black rifle makes a Fudd, but lack of a working brain does.
 
They have been around for a long time. If you're old enough you'll remember. They were around in 1968 saying, "What does anybody need a saturday night special for? You can't hunt with them."
 
The Dad Connection

I talked to my dad by phone on his birthday right after Xmas.

Told him I finally had a hobby that wasn't the same as what I do for a living.

When he asked, I told him I'd taken up shooting. Told him I had an M1 Carbine.

He lit right up. Allowed as how he had trained with the 1911, the Carbine, the Garand, and the Johnson, and how he preferred the Johnson over the others.

I was blown away.

You see, he and I had never discussed guns or shooting or hunting. He never hunted, never owned a gun after he came home from Europe/UK, and never talked about it.

He never discouraged me from owing them, never blinked when I bought my first Sheridan. He just never seemed to be interested.

My parents were a little "Bohemian" for their day, but were never pacifists.

Didn't mind if hunted or fished, as long as I cleaned my own harvest.

The whole time, I figured he had no affinity for guns. Turns out we could have been shooting pals.

I just never asked.

Don't assume that a Fudd is committed to Fuddness.

Sometimes you only need to ask.
 
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I like the way you think! I like it even more if there is a big white cloud of smoke, a big flame or muzzle flash or even a really loud bang!
 
So if Fudd is the term for people who dig wood stocks, bolt action, and revolvers, but don't like semi-autos, polys, black rifles, and gadgets, what is the term for the opposite view; people who are into black rifles and autoloaders but don't like wood stocks and designs of old?
 
No specific requirement to own certain guns just the requirement that you don't advocate someone else losing their right to own those guns.
 
When I was in the army I carried the military arms. Now all I wont is firearms with fine grade wood and deep blued metal parts . I,ll not have any thing that looks military. I have no problem with people using U.S. made semi auto rifles but no commie arm please.
 
If you are able to access this thread without using equipment made in a communist country (the People's Republic of China), you may criticize my surplus Eastern Bloc firearms.

To the original poster, you are definitely not a Fudd, and welcome to THR.
 
No specific requirement to own certain guns just the requirement that you don't advocate someone else losing their right to own those guns.
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Bingo.

There are a lot of subcultures among shooters. Some hold my interest, some don't. I'm sure some people would be totally uninterested in my preferred styles of guns and shooting.

No biggie. That's what makes the shooting community so fundamentally interesting.

What I have a problem with is someone who, either through ignorance or elitism, believes that subcultures he does not participate in should be regulated out of existence.
 
You'd be surprised what people use for hunting in Poland, and for that matter, other former Warsaw pact nations. In some ways it's like some alternate universe issue of Double Gun Journal. Some very elegant and expensive sporting arms, but in the Polish Army museum in Warsaw, all the firearms were deactivated (apparently with a hand drill, under Communist rule.) No joke... I thought about this at the recent Colt exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, which featured a fair ammount of early Colt rarities. People with this attitude will not blink an eye at torch cutting the Metropolitan Museum of Art's arms and armor exhibit, and what the laws under that kind of regime will let you keep are really irrelevant. They'd crack a clovis point in a pre-history museum exhibit with the idea that they're preventing a 7-11 robbery.
 
"Fudd = hunter who doesn't believe in live and let live". Well, I believe in live an let live to a certain extent - once it's in my "sniper" scope though, it's die, sucker! :D I love all types of guns, I especially enjoy shooting large caliber, big booming shoulder breakers and hand manglers. Semi auto handguns are too much fun, but revolvers are my field gun of choice. I don't own any semi auto long guns, as I like the consistent accuracy of a bolt gun over the semi auto rifles that I have shot. But all guns are cool with me, except in the hands of criminals and idiot Rambo types. Tactical attitudes are for law enforcement, but if tactical gear is your bag, go for it. Tactical firearms, though, are for any that can own them. Like I said originally, here in California it just seems like too much work and expense to keep ahead of the ever changing regulations. Are Keltecs in the "black rifle" category? Almost bought one, but didn't like the seemingly crappy manufacturing and fit. Anyway, glad that while I'm a "traditionalist" preferring a beautiful wood stock sitting under a blued barrel and action of a bolt or lever gun over synthetics, I do own a few tupperware handguns. No Glocks, though. They don't fit me well. Thanks for the reassurances and the welcome. Peace and God bless, Wolfsong.
 
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