EE craziness… now I’ve seen it all.

jethunter said:
Some of those older boomers with dementia only need one gun, and for them it's like a new one every day. :)
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let me start by saying I am NOT a boomer (my parents were) - but I'm always curious what age someone is when they use "boomer" as a derogatory term, similar to "Fudd".

The real boomers I know had more disposable income than most of us do today and lots of them have/had great collections spanning all sorts of interests. Just saying.
 
Claven2 said:
let me start by saying I am NOT a boomer (my parents were) - but I'm always curious what age someone is when they use "boomer" as a derogatory term, similar to "Fudd".

The real boomers I know had more disposable income than most of us do today and lots of them have/had great collections spanning all sorts of interests. Just saying.
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Why did you assume it was derogatory? I'm a boomer. A younger one maybe, but still a boomer. Our generation can laugh at ourselves.
 
jethunter said:
Why did you assume it was derogatory? I'm a boomer. A younger one maybe, but still a boomer. Our generation can laugh at ourselves.
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I got the joke, the dementia part may touch some nerves, but it wasn't direct or derogatory, was in jest for sure.
Gen X (Claven, myself, lots of others) may be dealing with boomer parents hitting that dementia stage is probably all he meant by that.
Mine kicked the bucket well before that stuff, and I ain't complaining, that's wicked care required.
I forget some of the pieces in my collection, like you said, sometimes you got too many lol.
Turned 50 last year, been in the downsizing selling phase, no reason other then I actually use to shoot everything in the safes at least once a year. Winter is for loading, spring and summer for shooting, it's a lot of work lol.
I don't need multiples of same rifle, I don't need multiples of same cartridge even, and if I can get down to 1 of each....still going to be alot lol.
I just need to find a better spot to sell stuff then on here lol. It use to be fun, now its a pain in the ass lol.
 
ATRS Shaun said:
Telescope with tripod. :) Astrophotography can get hella expensive.




1990's... single shot 50 bmg... 10k price tag...
You might as well just call Rick from ATRS out by name. ;)

Anyone who knows him and reads this will laugh, and agree.
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My favorite stories from Rick back in early CGN days were the Vietnam War ones...that he was in, as a "special ghost operative from Canada", hired by the CIA or whatever bull####, no records or evidence or anything at all, just nonsense about how a "45acp would near cut those little lads in half"....and a "50 Browning would explode them, nothing left" lol.
It was a long time ago, and it was ridiculous, I'm sure I'm not the only one that remembers that stuff lol. Like he forgot his meds for a couple weeks or something, went way off the rails.
 
tiriaq said:
With respect to M-1 rifles...
Unless you know otherwise, assume that a M-1 in Canada is a bitser, assembled from miscellaneous parts on a receiver from one of the 20,000 odd Danish rifles stripped to make parts kits sent into the US.
There are legitimate ex-service surplus M-1s out there, but there are an awful lot of bitsers put together by heaven only knows whom using parts from heaven only knows where, with heaven only knows what knowledge or skill. Nicely refinished, they might look good.
Bruce Canfield, the US arms authority, said years ago that if you see a M-1 rifle that has all matching correct parts, assume that it is a put-together, parts being swapped to make them correct and matching. The overwhelming majority of US arms got refurbished, and the arsenals just didn't care about matching parts.
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Those Dane M1's were a steal back Districorp days if a guy wanted a shooter. $250-$350....I was poor as hell back then but still scrounged up enough for a pair. Should have taken a big loan and bought them all, better investment then my RRSP's have been performing lol.
One was a Breda with matching receiver, barrel, and SILE walnut stock, other was very refurbished Beretta with VAR barrel and the grossest Danish beech wood stock, stock fit was great, but they were like a green/brown half moon.mess of low grade beech.
 
Snider shooter said:
Put a cheap plastic stock on it and a cheap red dot and they instantly worth a $1000 or more. How many ads have we all seen of over priced SKS?
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At the risk of sounding like a boomer in a negative way, the more you change an sks from its factory trim, the less reliable it becomes.

The sks is great the way it was designed and built.
 

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Claven2 said:
let me start by saying I am NOT a boomer (my parents were) - but I'm always curious what age someone is when they use "boomer" as a derogatory term, similar to "Fudd".

The real boomers I know had more disposable income than most of us do today and lots of them have/had great collections spanning all sorts of interests. Just saying.
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Boomer is a derogatory term used by jealous people that don't own a home and don't have big fat company funded pensions.
 
FatCatsDad said:
Boomer is a derogatory term used by jealous people that don't own a home and don't have big fat company funded pensions.
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Yeah, there's some truth to that. But the other side of it is that many Boomers bring it on themselves by being so cluelessly condescending. They came of age in a time where a guy could quit high school early and still easily get a job that lasts his whole life and pays him enough to buy a house and support his family. Now that same guy sitting there retired and living the high life on his fat pension, looks down at some young Gen whatever, and that young guy is working 18 jobs just to afford some takeout wonton soup, and that clueless Boomer lectures on that he could afford a host too if he would just stop buying coffee at Starbucks!

a lot of Boomers were born on the proverbial third base, and now congratulate themselves for hitting home runs while looking down on the Next Generation that doesn't have a glove or even shoes and wonders why they haven't caught the ball.
 
I do feel bad for new job market entrants in JT’s distopian socialist iteration of Canada.

My kids may never be able to afford a home or to raise their kids with the perks mine enjoy.

Heck, they will probably grow up never knowing what it is like to have your own family doctor or for their kids to be able to find a part time job not filled by a foreign temporary worker.
 
Callee said:
Yeah, there's some truth to that. But the other side of it is that many Boomers bring it on themselves by being so cluelessly condescending. They came of age in a time where a guy could quit high school early and still easily get a job that lasts his whole life and pays him enough to buy a house and support his family. Now that same guy sitting there retired and living the high life on his fat pension, looks down at some young Gen whatever, and that young guy is working 18 jobs just to afford some takeout wonton soup, and that clueless Boomer lectures on that he could afford a host too if he would just stop buying coffee at Starbucks!

a lot of Boomers were born on the proverbial third base, and now congratulate themselves for hitting home runs while looking down on the Next Generation that doesn't have a glove or even shoes and wonders why they haven't caught the ball.
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Without a doubt there are some that think that.
How they are that delusional I'll never figure out.
I have 3 kids that they and their partners absolutely grind sometimes all 7 days to make a life, and prepare for retirement.


I bought my house with $2500 down and paid off in 7 years.

Times are tougher now and doest help when government morons tell people to eat cereal for dinner and cancel tge Disney channel.
 
Callee said:
Yeah, there's some truth to that. But the other side of it is that many Boomers bring it on themselves by being so cluelessly condescending. They came of age in a time where a guy could quit high school early and still easily get a job that lasts his whole life and pays him enough to buy a house and support his family. Now that same guy sitting there retired and living the high life on his fat pension, looks down at some young Gen whatever, and that young guy is working 18 jobs just to afford some takeout wonton soup, and that clueless Boomer lectures on that he could afford a host too if he would just stop buying coffee at Starbucks!

a lot of Boomers were born on the proverbial third base, and now congratulate themselves for hitting home runs while looking down on the Next Generation that doesn't have a glove or even shoes and wonders why they haven't caught the ball.
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I'm far from being a boomer, or a boomer advocate but there's some philosophical merit in not buying that "Starbucks"...
 
FatCatsDad said:
Times are tougher now and doest help when government morons tell people to eat cereal for dinner and cancel tge Disney channel.
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Agreed.

Although… It could be said/argued that those that bought into the “Sunny Days & Sunny Ways” and “I’ll Legalize Weed” bs lines initially are partly to blame for allowing his ego to inflate to such a level and getting all of us into this current predicament. But, that’s what you get for hiring a drama teacher to run your country for a decade I suppose..

Shame, this generation and/or youth have to struggle at this level to survive. Maybe now those that voted for him and his cohorts will realise exactly the damage done at not only their but all of our expense.. 😝
 
robak1 said:
I'm far from being a boomer, or a boomer advocate but there's some philosophical merit in not buying that "Starbucks"...
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Oh I agree completely. Back when I worked on the framing crew, the boss's truck would pick us up at the butt crack of dawn and as I was the last guy picked up the truck would next go right away to Tim Hortons, where they would all file in to get their coffee and breakfast sandwich. I would sit there in the truck though with my travel mug of coffee and homemade breakfast sandwich wrapped in tin foil that I got up early to make myself. The guys would say, aren't you coming in to get tim's? And I would reply, if I'm going to haul my ass out of bed this early, it is going to be to make money, not spend money!
And a coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Tim Hortons maybe is only a few dollars, but multiply that by every workday, and it sure adds up real fast.

At the same time though, all that saved Tim Hortons money would easily be enough to buy a couple boxes of ammo, but let's not delude ourselves that it would be enough for a down payment!

Skipping the Starbucks is simply good Financial discipline, but it is not even in the same league as an answer for the s***** housing situation that has been left for the Next Generation.
 
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