Rembrandt asked:
Every week seems there are 3-4 threads that have a common theme....
"I want an accurate rifle......but can't spend any money", make a recommendation.
When someone suggests a gun that's more costly than the average, posters invariably respond that their $300 Blah Blah shoots just as well as those overpriced priced rifles.
The frustration with these posts is that my definition of accuracy and those asking the question are apples and oranges.....clarity of what the poster expects the rifle to do would be helpful.
How do you politely educate someone that their $200 plinker is NOT in the same class as a higher end more costly rifle?
Oh man. Another one of these threads. I always get so confused, ‘cuz I think I’m at THR, but look around and think I might be sitting smack-dab in the middle of a proctologist’s office based on some of the posts.
I don’t know why the Hades folks buy what they do. Butt it ain’t just shoe-ters and rye-fulls. Now, when I was still a high-priced edjamakaatur, and fixin’ to dew my Pee.ah Dee, I had myself 3 Rolex watches. I also had my old Casio plastic watch that I wore to instruct Taekwondo. Damnedest thing was, that old Casio kept better time than my Rolexes. I’s see’d folks buyin’ 750 HP Mustangs, and they’s never had race driving lessons. My wife of 25 years asked me to buy her a Viking gas range. I assured her that if she ever learns to cook, I promptly will make the purchase. Trust me, it’s painful obvious that woman ain’t never took no cookin’ classes. I see’d a fella what bought himself a nice Weatherby Mark V Deluxe in .378 Wea Mag. He shot 3 rounds and he didn’t want no more, as he literally rolled backwards off-a that bench! He walked over and asked that fire the rest of the rounds to sight-it in for him.
Now, as to how to edjamakate ‘em, I suspect they’s a lotta Walter Mitty in a whole lotta folks. They have delusional fantasies of grandeur that if they just buy a better rifle, a bigger, faster bullet that they’ll shoot better. Now, when I was still actively instructing Hunter Safety, I used to ask folks what they intend to shot? Where? At what distance? I can’t understand the fella who would tote an F-Class rifle with 42X scope into the woods for deer hunting. At a certain point, the intended equipment gots’ta to match the intended event. Now all o’ yall’s F-class rifles won’t do you much good on the family farm, ridin’ “shotgun” in the tractor cab, ‘cept for the 4 or 5 fives you’ll have to dispatch a critter or 3. And if you gotta fire that high-priced gadget 10 times to hit 3 targets, we ain’t gonna be too impressed regardless the cost, $200.00 or $2,000.00!
Sorry to wander into the wrong office fellas. Any o’ ya'll see’d my therapist?!
GeeKnow
Just imagine what the Marlin could do with reloads!!
