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

[JohnBT]

"and gold filled game engraving"

HA! I have more gold than that in my mouth.

Don't have a pic of my teeth to share, so this little birdie will have to do. It might not be real gold for all I know.

 

[Froggy]

You see very little of this in the high power shooting community. It seems to be much more prevalent with shotgunners and pistol shooters. Not sure why.

Fascinating. I've noticed the same thing. It is probably along the lines of the reasons we see politicians posing with shotguns rather than rifles when they try to punch the pro-sportsman / hunter ticket during campaign season. I'm guessing historical roots -- "gentlemen" hunted birds (and foxes, and rabbits, etc) for sport, while the prols hunted to put meat on their table, or to sell hide in the market.

Most of the guys around here are the good ol' boy sort, even the shotgunners. But I've seen one or two who look down their nose at the "little people." Nothing irritates them more than being ignored.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I don't really look down on people who hold pistols in two hands and aim them at targets less than ten yards away.

That said™, I've no idea why so many of them are such poor shots.

 

[Manedwolf]

ou'd rather throw rocks at your assailant than shoot Wolf ammo in your $2000 AR15

I won't put the Wolf crap in ANY of my guns, no matter how cheap. To me, it's like putting kerosene in a car. Yeah, it'll burn, but...

 

[JohnBT]

"You see very little of this in the high power shooting community."

See what, spiffy looking guns? Obsessing over attention to detail? Now this is a rifle...

And spiffy jackets. This one is just $650. Dang, but that's a fine looking coat. I only paid $328 for my Rem 1100 at Wal-Mart.

 

[hornadylnl]

I posted this as a response to the "you know you are a mall ninja if" thread. There are people on here who live to complain about others who don't have the exact same gun interests as they do. I love all guns. I'd love to have a Krieghoff or a Weatherby or whatever. I just get tired of those who always recommend something at least 50% higher when a poster asks for an opinion to decide between two guns. If a weatherby was in the posters price range, they wouldn't ask about a savage or a ruger. 95% of all rifles made today are more accurate than the person behind it. One can't outshoot a savage with a weatherby if he can't outshoot the savage.

 

[Wesson Smith]

It's all relative. I gather that most of you guys have the knowledge and background to have researched what you are purchasing beforehand. I still get the "Glock sucks" kickback every now and then in other venues, but the plain truth is that I can handle both my 17 and 30 with the utmost of confidence in their reliability. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?

 

[MBane666]

You insist that all your 1911 triggers be done by Cylinder & Slide or Wayne Novak...

Michael B

 

[Mr White]

See what, spiffy looking guns? Obsessing over attention to detail?

Apparently you missed my point. I meant snobby attitude. High power shooters seem to be friendlier and less likely to look down their noses at the newbies and the guys with lesser equipment.

 

[stiletto raggio]

I am in the enviable position of having a good income and no dependents. I have a lot of toys. I don't respect shooters who think that equipment is more important that either dedication or good sportsmasnhip. I also hate it when people give me guff because I own a good number of guns in the four figure category. I drive a nine-year-old car and share my house with a roommate to help cover the mortgage.

I will spend my money how I damn well please. I will take pride in my possessions but never think that they make me more of a shooter or more of person. I will continue to introduce people to shooting at every possibility and will let fellow enthusiasts try me weaponry at the range. I will be greedy with my rights and generous with my ammo. If I can do that, I defy anyone to call me a gun snob.

 

[Sharps-shooter]

a couple years ago, a certain individual of my acquaintance went skeet shooting with some co-workers. He had his first shotgun, a mossberg-500 from Wal-mart. The other guys, who owned the restaurant where he was a prep cook, all had Fancy Shotguns. They called his a "columbine special", and said it was a kid's gun, and so on. But he outshot all of them, even though he was pretty new to shotgunning.

I've heard the word "man jewelry" tossed around to describe guns people get for show. I think it's kind of like wearing Armani clothes, or the expensive designer bags rich women carry that sometimes cost thousands. They're good quality, but they're not that good. People carry them to show off their wealth.

ps. Today I wore Armani pants and a home-made buckskin shirt. The buckskin is a more comfortable and durable garment, by far.

 

[Logan5]

And in 200 years, the Armani will be a pile of dust, and your buckskin shirt will be worth $30,000. Museum placards will describe you as a "colorful native craftsman, with ideas that frequently disturbed the other villagers."
Where I live is, oddly enough, sort of in the heart of Double Gun Journal territory, and there are lots of people who don't care how or what it shoots if it wasn't hand made by a (preferably) blind master craftsman in a country that spoke a different language and no longer exists, like Prussia or 19th century Britain.

 

[iiibdsiil]

Your gun costs more USED then most people's costs NEW.

 

[JohnBT]

"High power shooters seem to be friendlier and less likely to look down their noses at the newbies and the guys with lesser equipment."

Could be, but I've never run into any really snobby shooters. Some of the friendliest and most willing to share their knowledge that I've ever run across were rimfire benchrest competitors. And this one 1000-yard shooter with handmade rilfes. I've run into some idiots over the years, but no snobs.

My favorite: You know you're a gun snob if you spend more time at the range looking at what other people are shooting than shooting your own gun.

John

 

[hornadylnl]

By and large, most people on here aren't snobbish but you can't hardly ever get a this vs' that thread on here without someone coming on here and bashing one of the choices. When someone asks should I get the savage or the ruger, it would be nice if posters would give their experience more so than opinion. If your savage couldn't hit the broad side of the barn, elaborate by saying that you tried several different types of ammo, etc. Just saying "the savage I had was junk and I'd never buy another one".

I could post on here that I'm going to buy a dillon 650 with every single option on it and someone would come on to tell me don't waste my time and get the 1050. Someone who is looking to buy a savage already knows that it isn't the best gun out there and they don't need to hear comparisons to weatherbys or whatever. What they want to know is if it is a good value. Example. The savage is $400. Is the Ruger worth $100 more? Will they see the $100 difference in quality and accuracy?

I'm 30 years old and I currently have 19 guns and only 3 of them would be worth more than $300. I have a Lorcin 380 Yes, it is Junk but it can serve a purpose. With my budget, I can't afford to buy 4 figure guns but I sure hope to be able to in the future. When I get tired of dragging home the cheap guns, I'll start saving up for the high dollar ones. Right now, there are still too many cheap guns that I want to add to my collection.

 

[Jeff Timm]

Truly it is written, by Cooper of course:

Shotgunners are rich,
Pistol shooters are poor,
Rifle shooters do their best work laying down.

Geoff
Who is a poor pistol shooter, of course I haven't checked my Lotto ticket yet.

 

[Gonefission]

8. You'd rather throw rocks at your assailant than shoot Wolf ammo in your $2000 AR15.

You believe that gun control is a good idea because, "No one needs an AK47 to shoot skeet"
...
You can't imagine why anyone would want to own one of those 'commie pieces of crap".

So true

 

[ribbonstone]

Know you are a gun snob...

When you look at the guns being shot, and not the targets shot.

 

[Brian Dale]

Essex County, you've given us a choice morsel for the related thread,
"You know you're a gun nut (or THR member) if:"

...your truck gun is worth more than your truck.

 

[tuckerdog1]

I'm more impressed

by the target than the gun. I do appreciate high end firearms. But seeing a target with the center blown completely out, with no flyers, impresses the **** out of me.

Tuckerdog1

 

[migoi]

I'm kinda the obverse...

I'd rather look at and talk about the guns folks bring to the range. How well or badly a person is shooting is really none of my business. They aren't there to impress me, I'm not there to impress them.

However, strolling down the firing line. Opening a conversation with "Whatcha shootin' today?" during a lull in the procedings, being polite, asking questions has proved to quite an enjoyable experience.

Some rules of course apply... never interrupt someone, wait until they are loading mags or have otherwise paused.... never make disparaging remarks about another fellows shootin' iron, even if you think it's the biggest piece of junk be polite... if in turn someone wanders down to your position, offer to let him/her run a mag through whatever you brought. I've been offered to run a mag through a whole lot of different guns, some I liked enough to seek out one to buy, some I'm made a mental note to never buy. I'm made some acquaintances in this way and generally established myself as an "okay kinda guy" at the places where I shoot.

You might be a gun snob if... you believe that all other aspects of the shooting sports are inferiour to the ones you've personally selected as your favorite.

migoi

 

[harvester of sorrow]

Migoi, good post. I'd go a little further. If you care (as opposed to are interested in) what anyone else is shooting, or what anyone else thinks about what you are shooting, you've missed the point on many levels. Shooting is solitary and is about focus. If someone else's equipment causes envy or contempt, re-focus.

 

[Eleven Mike]

You respond to a post solely to bash another posters grammar, spelling, etc. without adding a single thing to the thread topic.

No, no, no. We're grammar snobs. You may kiss the ring.

 

[JohnRov]

I shoot trap and haven't experienced any shotgun snobbery. I've had plenty of advice and offers to shoot others' K-guns and Perazzi's. Lots of people shoot field guns in our league and nobody says a word.

I imagine that if someone acts like a jerk about their guns they act like that in all facets of their lives.

 

[X-Rap]

Shooting like fishing has different styles and outcomes. I'll bet that a high percentage of catch and release fly fisherman that are involved with shooting are trap shooters and that they tend toward high end doubles. I'll also bet that the guy who bait fishes and eats most of what he catches shoots a pump or auto and looks at a trap or clays range as practice for hunting season. The same can be said of rifle and handgun shooters in that I'd bet if polled the bulk of shooters at the range are hunters of some kind. A friend in Iowa went to a clays range to keep his hand in the game during the summer using a well worn Super Black Eagle (eliteist gun itself) and was promptly informed that it was not going to be effective on the range as a double would be. This apparently due to the superior handling charactoristics of the fine double. That and the fact that much of the already dull finish was gone and it had the ugly black plastic wood. Well he out shot mister double and I think even took away some of his hard earned trust fund money. My friend owns doubles and even shoots them on occasion as do I but we look at guns as things of beauty and function even if ugly black.