creepiE
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LOL...years back Wolf ammo was giving away T-shirts with large ammo orders. Mine was white w/black wolf's head. The looks it got!
Co-worker confounded today
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chieftain
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I have found in my 56 years of shooting, that the most effective way of “converting” someone to shooting is to take them shooting.
Most folks, their “for or against” bias has a lot of emotion involved for what ever their reasons are. That includes each of us too. Actually shooting a gun safely is most often a very positive experience.
I have always believed that trying to figure out what someone thinks or why they do certain things is a fools game. Show them some of the fun they can have. Don’t try to “out think” them. Show them. Some will not go shooting. Believe me, you weren’t going to win that argument either.
My most recent convert (with a lot of help from others) is an ER Doctor. He is now shooting Steel every Thursday night at my Club.
Many small victory’s is what we need. One shooter at a time.
Go figure.
Fred
PS RE: truck mounted gun racks. Funny you should bring that up. I sure miss mine. Used to keep a 30-30, 12ga and a 22. And at least the 22.
Yup, used to be a lot more freedom around than today. But relax, the government will take care of you better today.
In no generation, in no nation state, in no tribe, has "government" equaled more freedom. Ever.
Go figure.
Fred
Most folks, their “for or against” bias has a lot of emotion involved for what ever their reasons are. That includes each of us too. Actually shooting a gun safely is most often a very positive experience.
I have always believed that trying to figure out what someone thinks or why they do certain things is a fools game. Show them some of the fun they can have. Don’t try to “out think” them. Show them. Some will not go shooting. Believe me, you weren’t going to win that argument either.
My most recent convert (with a lot of help from others) is an ER Doctor. He is now shooting Steel every Thursday night at my Club.
Many small victory’s is what we need. One shooter at a time.
Go figure.
Fred
PS RE: truck mounted gun racks. Funny you should bring that up. I sure miss mine. Used to keep a 30-30, 12ga and a 22. And at least the 22.
Yup, used to be a lot more freedom around than today. But relax, the government will take care of you better today.
In no generation, in no nation state, in no tribe, has "government" equaled more freedom. Ever.
Go figure.
Fred
Be very very careful!
Be careful having that flyer out on your desk. There have been several well documented instances (they can be found on the Brady bunch website) where ammo in the flyer has, by itself, jumped off the page and into it's corrosponding gun! At least two people were given severe paper cuts, directly attributable to the "loaded gun" now on the page.
Be careful having that flyer out on your desk. There have been several well documented instances (they can be found on the Brady bunch website) where ammo in the flyer has, by itself, jumped off the page and into it's corrosponding gun! At least two people were given severe paper cuts, directly attributable to the "loaded gun" now on the page.
Gouranga
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LOL. Had a similar type discussion with an anti at my job. A younger guy, he has been totally blown away that I would be "paranoid" enough to pick up a gun and get my CCW permit. He is going on about how I am the paranoid one in the office and then 3 other folks who he works with daily walk up and show him their CCW cards. He just zips it up and walks back to his cube. LOL.
I've come to quit caring what my co-workers think of my guin ownership, or anything else, for that matter. My employer comes from a rural family with a long history of gun ownership and hunting. My work "mailbox" is accessed by several individuals on a daily basis, and right now, the reading material stored there includes the G&A "The Book of the ak-47" several American Hunter magazines, a Cabelas catalog, and autobiographies from both Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels, and Nikki Sixx of Motely Crue. I can only imagine what the people seeing such a combination think, but the only time I've ever been talked to about its contents were during an time we also employed a minister, and he took issue with the issue of Maxim magazine in my mailbox. Again, a non-issue to my manager, aside from giving me a manila evelope to keep such magazines in....which lasted until he quit. In the 5 years since, not one comment regarding my mailbox contents, as varied or dark as they may be....
SleazyRider
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Tom who?
I stopped at the post office a while back on the way to a doctor's appointment, picking up my latest issue of Guns and Ammo. I was dying to read it, so I brought it into the waiting room with me. On the way into the waiting room I grabbed a copy of Time Magazine from the rack on the wall, and used it to conceal my issue of Guns and Ammo (you might say I was carrying a conceal magazine). As I sat there reading my Guns and Ammo, a chatty woman across the way began making conversation with me about Tom Hanks, about whom I know nothing. I responded in the way in which I normally respond in a conversation that does not interest me, that is, politely nodding and shaking my head in agreement. She went on and on, and smiled and nodded accordingly. Finally, she was called in to see the doctor, much to my relief.
It wasn't till I put down the magazine that I realized why she struck up such an odd topic of conversation: on the cover of Time was a picture of Tom Hanks, "history maker." She obviously thought that I was engrossed in reading about Tom, and not the Smith and Wesson 442 Snubbie that really caught my eye.
Nonetheless, perhaps you should conceal that Cabela's catalog in a more "politically centered" publication---Sports Illustrated? Weekly Reader?
I stopped at the post office a while back on the way to a doctor's appointment, picking up my latest issue of Guns and Ammo. I was dying to read it, so I brought it into the waiting room with me. On the way into the waiting room I grabbed a copy of Time Magazine from the rack on the wall, and used it to conceal my issue of Guns and Ammo (you might say I was carrying a conceal magazine). As I sat there reading my Guns and Ammo, a chatty woman across the way began making conversation with me about Tom Hanks, about whom I know nothing. I responded in the way in which I normally respond in a conversation that does not interest me, that is, politely nodding and shaking my head in agreement. She went on and on, and smiled and nodded accordingly. Finally, she was called in to see the doctor, much to my relief.
It wasn't till I put down the magazine that I realized why she struck up such an odd topic of conversation: on the cover of Time was a picture of Tom Hanks, "history maker." She obviously thought that I was engrossed in reading about Tom, and not the Smith and Wesson 442 Snubbie that really caught my eye.
Nonetheless, perhaps you should conceal that Cabela's catalog in a more "politically centered" publication---Sports Illustrated? Weekly Reader?
Meh, I use my office as my shipping address for all my purchases, whether they be Jeep parts or crates of milsurp rifle ammo. The mail carrier for our building cringes when he sees me, as the memory of Flat Rate boxes full of cast lead bullets returns to haunt him.
Gouranga
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Man that is nice.I work in consulting and with all the clients coming into the office we need to appeal to so many groups that we do not allow any weapons in the office. (makes our insurance company happy too).
svaz
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I love where I work for all the gun talk. We even have an organizational shooting day once or twice a year. A couple of weeks ago we got the "What to do in the event of an active shooter" brief. All day long you could hears guys (and ladies) saying, "why not just shoot the bastard?"
I love living in AZ.
I love living in AZ.
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