What aspects of shooting do NOT interest you?

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Dislikes:
  • Tactical anything
  • Semi-Automatics
  • Tiny concealed carry guns
  • Indoor ranges

Likes:
  • Revolvers
  • Break Actions
  • Clays
  • Reloading
  • Hunting
 
well on my way to being an old curmudgeon!
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That just means you are wise beyond your years :D

I go primarily for historical and technical.

I won't pass up an opportunity to gawk at (or fondle if I can) blued steel wearing hardwood.

I don't disdain poly striker fired pistols (cary one myself). I just find them rather ho-hum.

I like ARs, but that genre is a bit over played.

Reloading, cartridge and firearm development, accuracy and gunsmithing are all on my priority interest list.
 
Bench rest guns. I love accurate rifles and shooting for accuracy and small groups, but I think it should be done by practical "real-world" rifles.

Also not a fan of single shot breakopen guns. Just don't have any use for me. I shoot to many rounds at the range to have to reload after every shot.

I hate it when people hang 22 pounds of gear off the rails of their AR's. What do you need all that for?
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I'm with you on the bench rest stuff. I have guns that are varmint rifles and very close to being a dedicated target rifle but I don't actually own a target rifle of any kind. I bought the rifle I have for shooting varmints and just for plinking. I have shot it from a bench a lot but I was not in any competition or training for one.

As far as the stuff hanging on the AR's there are certainly people who need that stuff. The military uses a lot of add on equipment for their AR type rifles. If you have seen the movie "Lone Survivor" you'll know what gets used by the military. One thing is sure, you have to be in good physical condition to fire a rifle like that without some kind of rest. I haven't been able to do that in too many years. Back injuries and a lack of conditioning have been a problem. I used to be in very good condition but not for that. It takes a lot of weight lifting to be able to control a heavy rifle well. I wonder how many civilians actually train to fire their AR's with a lot of equipment. Some things are just obvious like a good sight but other things can be overkill for most people IMO.
 
Cee Zee said:
I'm with you on the bench rest stuff. I have guns that are varmint rifles and very close to being a dedicated target rifle but I don't actually own a target rifle of any kind. I bought the rifle I have for shooting varmints and just for plinking. I have shot it from a bench a lot but I was not in any competition or training for one.



As far as the stuff hanging on the AR's there are certainly people who need that stuff. The military uses a lot of add on equipment for their AR type rifles. If you have seen the movie "Lone Survivor" you'll know what gets used by the military. One thing is sure, you have to be in good physical condition to fire a rifle like that without some kind of rest. I haven't been able to do that in too many years. Back injuries and a lack of conditioning have been a problem. I used to be in very good condition but not for that. It takes a lot of weight lifting to be able to control a heavy rifle well. I wonder how many civilians actually train to fire their AR's with a lot of equipment. Some things are just obvious like a good sight but other things can be overkill for most people IMO.
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I also own a dedicated varmint rifle for long range shooting (.223 Wylde with 20 inch SS Bull Barrel), with optic probably weight about 10 pounds. But I still lug out to the field for shooting prairie dogs and what not.

And I understand needing some stuff hanging off the ARs. I'm NOT saying all of it is pointless, especially for LE/military. But other than a good optic and a light/laser/combo what else is really necessary?
I saw a guy at the range one time with a laser on one rail, and light on another, an IR laser on the top rail, a foregrip, a bipod, a scope, a reflex sight on top of the scope, and BUIS. It's just overkill and weighs down the rifle.


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I always skip over stuff that has to do with any firearm that was made before the early 1900s. They may be historically significant, but they just don't interest me. That includes modern replicas of these guns.

Other things in the firearms world that don't interest me:

• Bolt-action rifles
• Wildcat/curio rifle cartridges
• Any type of bench rest shooting
• Anything that uses black powder rather than smokeless
• Just about anything chambered in .22LR or other rimfire cartridges :eek:
• Russian military or surplus firearms

I'm much more of a modern handgun kind of guy. With the occasional AR or pump shotgun thrown in.
 
.22s, auto pistols that can do single action, revolvers that only do single action, hunting, any rifle that isn't ambidextrous.

These are things I am not interested in.
 
Banging steel, unless it's shaped like a buffalo,
a firearm that has more attachments than my vacuum cleaner,
a rifle that has the word sniper in it's description,
any firearm that that uses the word tactical in it's description,
most firearms that were designed to shoot smokeless powder only,
any firearm that is more than 10% plastic
most firearms that were designed to be carried in ballistic nylon
 
I hate watching guys spend all day trying to shoot a quarter inch 5 shot group.
and I guess I'm the odd man out as I love taking one of my shotguns to the range.( and I got another shotgun on the way :p )
 
Guns that pretend to be something they are not: service pistol lookalikes in 22LR, semiauto rimfire rifles with fake gas piston tubes etc.

Modern muzzleloaders.

High power air guns.

ISSF-style rifle shooting with all the stiff jackets, pants, boots and gloves. Allowing this artificial support has lead to a jungle of rules and made an already expensive sport even more so. They should simply ban all supportive accessories. But hey, I'm a pistol guy, what do I know :rolleyes:
 
I ignored reloading articles, until I started reloading.

I ignored AR15 articles, until I started building one.

I ignored wheel gun articles, until I inherited one.

I ignored milsurp articles until I started lusting after an M14.

I think the takeaways for me are:

1. Stuff isn't interesting, until it is.
2. Whatever I'm ignoring now is probably going to cost me a lot of money in the future.
3. I wish I hadn't thrown out all those magazines.
 
It's all good, as the jugend say.
A bad at the range, or in the field, beats a good day workin' is the other saying. :D
 
Over-priced, over-glorified cleaning and/or lubricating systems that are "claimed" to be the solve-it-all for all gun cleaning and lubricating needs.

I'll stick to Hoppes and Mobil1, thanks.
 
I guess I'm the only person here who will read an article even if I'm not going to purchase the gun/accessory discussed in the article.

For example, I'm not an AR guy and will likely never buy one. Still, if someone invents a new AR round (even if it's doomed from the get go) I'm still interested in reading about the development process. Drillings are another another topic I'll read about even though owning one is out of the question for me. Short of a lottery win, I'll never own a fine double or triple, but such guns are amazing works of craftsmanship and I would enjoy reading about the process of making and shooting one.
 
Any accessories for AR's beyond sights,mags, and slings. Any of the myriad minor modifications of AR's that dominate gun mags (I own 3 AR's but enough is enough).

I have no interest in muzzle loaders that look like modern guns.

I have no interest in any handgun larger than a T/C Contender (12" max barrel), or more powerful than .480 Ruger.

We don't need any more manufacturers of 1911's.

The so-called entry level bolt guns (Savage Axis, Remington 770, etc) have little appeal to me.

Scopes costing in excess of $1000 leave me behind. I have never paid more than $500 for a scope, and the Leupold, Zeiss, and Bushnell Elite scope I have meet my most demanding needs.

I own tactical and self defense weapons, but there is too much emphasis on these areas for my taste.

I have no problem with those who love the above categories. Just my opinions.

gary
 
I detest the constant cost and battle I have to fight to keep my natural rights to own firearms.

The polititians who get sworn in with the words to protect our constitution, and then when in office ,work to distroy it . That has done more to distroy my enjoyment of the shooting sports than anything else I can think of.

Best I stop with that.
 
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1. I don't care for Airsoft
2. Reloading articles...Cost too much to get started,don't shoot enough in a year to justify it,I like to have a cocktail when I'm at home and there's way too many variables in reloading to be drinking
3. Knives, If I want to look at knives, I'd buy a book about knives.
4. Training articles, again, if I want to read about training....

Other than these, I pretty much like all guns. Not real big on black powder but..
I wish someone would put out a magazine without all the above.
 
Over/under or side by side shotguns. Highly engraved guns. Customized 1911's, generally speaking; here or there one will pique my interest, but not in a "I'd save up money to own this" way. Snub-nosed revolvers.
 
Although I own a couple, I have little interest in assault style weapons. I don't enjoy shooting them really, though I do own a couple for SD, should the need for high cap magazines be necessary. But if someone made one that would spit out 44 mag., or one of the other big bore magnum rounds, ya, that might renew my interest in them.

One aspect of shooting that has never done a single thing for me, is shooting standard target ammunition, or cowboy loads. I get absolutely no fulfillment from shooting a cartridge that simply goes bang, but that doesn't represent the typical boom and blast for a given cartridge. In other words, it's full house or nothing.

I don't do competitive shooting, though it has interested me for many years, I just never got around to figuring it out.

GS
 
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Competition, gun games.
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l can handle the games but outright competition turns into a race to see who can spend the most on equipement and push the envelope on the rules. It starts out as fun. Take IPSC for example. It started out as fun. The next thing you know you have to spend more on a gun than you have in your old beater truck. This pertains to all competitions be guns, racing, archery, you name it. When it ceases to be fun you can count me out.
 
mnrivrat said:
I detest the constant cost and battle I have to fight to keep my natural rights to own firearms.



The polititians who get sworn in with the words to protect our constitution, and then when in office ,work to distroy it . That has done more to distroy my enjoyment of the shooting sports than anything else I can think of.



Best I stop with that.
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I think you speak for all of us
 
Having to become a political activist just to continue shooting.
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I detest the constant cost and battle I have to fight to keep my natural rights to own firearms.
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I think the anti civil rights side is depending on this as part of their strategy. They know a certain (large) hunk of shooters don't even vote anymore and combined with people who are just tired of carrying the battle, they will just overwhelm us in the effort to outlaw all firearms.

It does suck. But it's no reason to quit.
 
l can handle the games but outright competition turns into a race to see who can spend the most on equipement and push the envelope on the rules. It starts out as fun. Take IPSC for example. It started out as fun. The next thing you know you have to spend more on a gun than you have in your old beater truck. This pertains to all competitions be guns, racing, archery, you name it. When it ceases to be fun you can count me out.
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I agree with you to a point but in the gun games that I play (USPSA, 3-Gun), skill still trumps gear. And you can show up with a bone stock AR-15, glock 17 and Remington 870 with a tube and compete.

There are divisions that do truly create a distinction.

Take Limited or Tactical Irons for example in 3-gun. No magazines over 140mm. No scopes or dots on handguns. No scopes or dots on shotguns. Max starting or max total capacity on shotgun (depending on what match rules you are shooting) of 9 shotgun shells in the gun. Iron sights or non magnified red dot on your rifle.

That's pretty simple and most people can grab their Glock, XD, M&P, CZ, Sig... etc, an 870 or Benelli Nova with a $50 tube extension, and their stock AR and go play.


Not trying to hijack the thread. Everybody has their own likes and dislikes!
 
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