You know you're a gun snob if...

[boomstik45]

I don't what somebody else's stuff costs. I have been to the range with guys who have their AR all tricked out and sitting on a tripod. All they do is talk about it and talk about what everyone else has. They spend hours like this. Get the hell out of the way and let somebody who wants to shoot take up that space. Idiots. Snobs are anyone who looks down on PEOPLE for what they have. It's okay to like or not like a product. That's why there are so many different products available.

 

[Glockfan.45]

Reverse gun snobbery, When I take a custom 1911 to the range thats over the $1K mark and the guy in the lane next to me mutters something along the lines of "guys that buy high dollar guns are trying to make up for a lack of skill" to his buddy. He happens to be shooting an old Norinco knock off that looks like he stores it in a bucket of salt water, and cleans it with 80 grit sand paper. I have guns that some folks wouldnt be caught dead with as well. Like my 20+ year old 870 that has spent too many nights in the woods (forgetful me ) with a little piting and a cracked stock, or my WASR 10 that looks like it was drug down a gravel road behind a truck doing 55mph. I like guns that work and work well regardless of the price. People havent lived till they shoot a custom gun at least once, and yeah I baby it when you have that much invested why wouldnt you? But it is also nice to have a few you dont mind tossing around as well. Oh and the guy with the Norinco.....well a few minutes after his assumption of my abilities he shot a light fixture, and then a few minutes later his target hanger before packing up and walking out never saying another word .

 

[Brad Johnson]

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I've always thought it would be fun to find a really good barreled rifle that didn't look to hot and give it some duck tape and patina to the exterior and show up to a shoot. See the looks I get and gloat when I outshoot them.

easier way is to just show up with a out-of-the box looking synth stocked savage that you're in practice with and do the same thing. but don't gloat, it can be unseemly and you're more likely to get them to buy you lunch for whooping their #$% if you're nice to them.

An H&R/NEF Handi-Rifle in .223, .22-250, or .243 would do the trick. With some basic barrel lapping and careful ammo selection, an Handi-Rifle with a cheapy $30 Wal-Mart scope scope can actually be quite accurate (much to the scorn of the custom-only crowd). My nephew has one in .243 with a Tasco scope and it shoots 1.25" groups pretty consistantly. I'm sure with a few tweaks you could get it under an inch.



Brad

 

[EH NinKY]

Unspellable: I didn't intend to step on anyones toes (and thankfully, I didn't) but I just like to shoot the older, less expensive items, as I think that they are for the most part just as accurate and effective for my purposes as the more "high ticket" items would be. Yes, I do dearly love to look at and fondle the higher grade firearms as I view them as works of art,(must be my machinists background) but if I had such an item, I'm afraid that it would become a "safe queen". I just couldn't bring my self to subject a really hi-grade item to the elements. I do dearly love to take a "clunker", tweak and tune it to the best of my meager abilities, feed it the best handloads that I can work up, and then see what it can do at the range. I may not be the best shot in existance, but I do have fun. Life is good!!!

 

[USSR]

An H&R/NEF Handi-Rifle in .223, .22-250, or .243 would do the trick. With some basic barrel lapping and careful ammo selection, an Handi-Rifle with a cheapy $30 Wal-Mart scope scope can actually be quite accurate (much to the scorn of the custom-only crowd). My nephew has one in .243 with a Tasco scope and it shoots 1.25" groups pretty consistantly. I'm sure with a few tweaks you could get it under an inch.

Have been following this thread for awhile. And while I'll grant you, there are gun "snobs", from what I've seen, they are far and away outnumbered by the delusional reverse gun snobs who think they are somehow better because they shoot inexpensive guns. Personally, when I see someone who has a well crafted firearm that I cannot afford, I admire it and tell it's owner that he's a very lucky man.

Don

 

[Brad Johnson]

And while I'll grant you, there are gun "snobs", from what I've seen, they are far and away outnumbered by the delusional reverse gun snobs who think they are somehow better because they shoot inexpensive guns. Personally, when I see someone who has a well crafted firearm that I cannot afford, I admire it and tell it's owner that he's a very lucky man. (emphasis added by me -Brad)

Great! You can congratulate me on the Ed Brown .270 I had made a few years back to celebrate my 35th birthday.

Then you can go back, reread my post that you quoted, and see that it's a specific (and decidedly tongue-in-cheeck) response to a specific question. Now get off your soap box - it's teetering under the weight of your righteous indignation.

Brad

 

[USSR]

Now get off your soap box - it's teetering under the weight of your righteous indignation.

Sorry, Brad, but no soap box, and you're the only one being indignant.

Don

 

[tinygnat219]

USSR, Brad Johnson:

Let's keep it civil. Your posts are starting to cross the line.

 

[tinygnat219]

I get amazed when people actually SHOOT their 2600 dollar shotgun / revolver. I'd be too afraid to ding it up.

 

[Brad Johnson]

USSR, Brad Johnson:

Let's keep it civil. Your posts are starting to cross the line.

There's a line?

Brad

 

[USSR]

Brad,

In the spirit of reconciliation, I will congratulate you on the Ed Brown .270. Sounds like a fine rifle.

Don

 

[Eleven Mike]

Neither of you guys are anywhere near the line.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Brad,

In the spirit of reconciliation, I will congratulate you on the Ed Brown .270. Sounds like a fine rifle.

Don

And in the same spirit, Your Welcome, and have a Merry Christmas (hope you get something that goes "Bang" under the tree!)

Neither of you guys are anywhere near the line.

awwww...dang. And I was SO trying, really I was!

Brad