Am I the only one

Odinson said:
I agree with everything that you list but I have a question for Harley drivers...... why do they find it necessary to crank on the throttle when they see you on the sidewalk? You can be in the middle of a block yet ...... blaaaaaat noise for nothing other than?????
I have a couple of theories, one revolves around lack of attention as a child and the other is compensating for being poorly endowed.
There are probably more theories out there but it is a start.
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... and you can continue... why are harley riders always fat old, out of shape guys with a man bun?
 
FatCatsDad said:
Anyone that likes fancy wood and blued steel is a boomer apparently.

Not sure why its an insult, jealousy maybe ? due to most boomers being retired, owning property, good pensions and disposable income .
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Hmmm .... Sounds like a good place to be.

I see a lot of boomers around here diving aimlessly around in expensive convertibles sporting a Tilley hat to keep the sun off their bald fat heads. The closest thing to a convertible for me is my ride-on mower. :)
 
FatCatsDad said:
Anyone that likes fancy wood and blued steel is a boomer apparently.

Not sure why its an insult, jealousy maybe ? due to most boomers being retired, owning property, good pensions and disposable income .
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Nothing wrong with that at all. Boomer=/= fudd. People often use the term boomer to imply "intolerant crusty old guy".

If you like fancy walnut and glossy blued steel, but don't mind that other people like anodized aluminum and MLOK and polymer, good for you. Different strokes and whatnot. I prefer more modern (call it "tactical" if you want) style firearms, but I'm not gonna judge a guy because he doesn't. It's the people that like the "classic" stuff, but talk down on the people that don't that annoy me. And everyone.
 
Joel said:
No probs with "boomers" here. Gatekeepers of any age, yep. But boomers are cool with me
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Scotty454 said:
Nothing wrong with that at all. Boomer=/= fudd. People often use the term boomer to imply "intolerant crusty old guy".
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Personally I feel like Boomer - particularly when used as a pejorative - DOES mean something along the lines of intolerant crusty old guy, but they typically need to be ageist as well, that is a key component of being a Boomer IMO... Just like you can be a gun owner without being a fudd, you can be of the baby boomer generation without being a Boomer... And it works both ways, people who are not gun owners can be fudds, and people who are not of the baby boomer generation can be Boomers.
 
Claven2 said:
No, guns are being made the way they are because we now live in a disposable society where fit, finish, aesthetics, repairability have all taken a back seat to people buying quality items meant to last a lifetime of service.

Even if you look at things thought of as "nice" like a Miroku-made Winchester, and compare that to an original 73, 92, 94, etc. in nice condition, you'll notice:

-lower grade walnut with a sprayed finish vs a hand-rubbed oil finish
-lower quality of polish, less crisp edges because the receivers, etc. were machine polished, not polished by hand.
-Less good fit of wood, because it was all machine inlet, zero hand fitting.
-roll pins, where there used to be precisely fit machined pins
-un-polished screw heads
-button rifling that used the be precision cut rifling
-hot dip blue or cyanide cosmetic faux-case hardening, where there used to be either rust blue, carbonia blue or real color case hardening.
-MIM parts, vs forged and machined

This has nothing to do with young vs. old, it has to do with what used to be family companies who traded on reputation, now being corporations beholden to share holders who want to squeeze out the last penny by finding way to make things cheap that appear to be expensive.

The same would hold true even of tactical black rifles. Go look at the workmanship on an old Colt HBAR, then look at almost anything made now. Even non-Fudd guns are victim of this decline.

For what it's worth, I have, own, use modern sport and tactical rifles, and old classics. I sue them for different purposes. I'm still not personally sold on a tactical lever gun, but as I said above, to each his own and I am glad it's making some people happy to maybe be able to buy these.
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Much of it comes down to the death of necessity, and the rise of purchasing for dopamine. Guns in my grandfather’s era, like his .30-30 and Cooey I have, were a necessity and valuable tools. They were two of his three guns he kept, he had Belgian a shotgun and I heard of one other .22 that was lost to time. None of them brought excitement, they were literally just tools.

Now, we buy guns for dopamine, chase and configure configurations that are difficult to arrive at, as a hobby in our far increased free time compared to his generation. It’s not that this didn’t exist a hundred years ago, but it was confined to the very wealthy, comparatively for the time. Now we the masses can purchase for dopamine, and the grades of guns configured for that have slid to the mean.

This applies to everything from swollen pickup trucks with words like Raptor or Warlock on the side, to breakfast cereals with cartoon characters and neon colours. We live in a carnival land these days, compared to a hundred years ago. And the guns in our hobby, reflect it to. The older I get, the more I appreciate the old stuff. In guns, bikes, aircraft. Call it what you like, I’m at peace with it.
 
Ardent said:
Much of it comes down to the death of necessity, and the rise of purchasing for dopamine. Guns in my grandfather’s era, like his .30-30 and Cooey I have, were a necessity and valuable tools. They were two of his three guns he kept, he had Belgian a shotgun and I heard of one other .22 that was lost to time. None of them brought excitement, they were literally just tools.

Now, we buy guns for dopamine, chase and configure configurations that are difficult to arrive at, as a hobby in our far increased free time compared to his generation. It’s not that this didn’t exist a hundred years ago, but it was confined to the very wealthy, comparatively for the time. Now we the masses can purchase for dopamine, and the grades of guns configured for that have slid to the mean.

This applies to everything from swollen pickup trucks with words like Raptor or Warlock on the side, to breakfast cereals with cartoon characters and neon colours. We live in a carnival land these days, compared to a hundred years ago. And the guns in our hobby, reflect it to. The older I get, the more I appreciate the old stuff. In guns, bikes, aircraft. Call it what you like, I’m at peace with it.
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But can not an argument be made that these newer "dopamine" guns, besides just being drugs, can be more effective as well? Objectively so.

I'd like to see what would happen if you offered a cowboy in the past, something like this, with the option of suppressor (yeah I know we can't) red dot and white light etc.

If we're looking at this as purely a tool, which tool does he keep?

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