personal preferance-old vs new

whats your preferance

  • black-semi automatic rifles

    Votes: 106 42.1%

  • old stuff-bolt actions, single shot

    Votes: 146 57.9%
  • Total voters
    252
I like most everything old better than new. I like old guns. I like wool, leather, and rubber. I like carbs and coils.

I'm antiquated, I guess. It seems the majority are happy to buy cheap, throw away, and buy again. I drive myself crazy trying to find value whenever I have a significant purchase to make.
 
What I would prefer, and actually love is to have the freedom to make my own choice as to what I would like to use for hunting.
I would dearly love to take my AR15 out for yotes or whitetails, and yes AR15's are available in more than 5.56 cal with simple swap of uppers ;) even though I could confidently use it in 5.56 with proper projectiles.
Or mabye I'd choose my lovely old style remington 700Ti in .308 for deer, oh, no wait, mabye I'd choose one of my handguns in the right situation. Or mabye I'd carry both, my 700Ti and a holstered handgun should I find myself in a situation that presented a shot with it.
Or, mabye I'd like to carry my original armoury refurbed Lee Enfield No4 Mk1 on a nice day and shoot the old irons. Or mabye someday I'd get into black powder (which I've always had a hankering to get one day) hey better yet, a black powder handgun:D. Hmm... I've always wanted to try bowhunting too...
ok, I'm back from dreamland now...
Seriously, I hate the fact that so many people in this wonderful country think it's their prerogative to make my decisions for me, for my own good and for the good of others. :bangHead:
 
I wanted BOTH but the poll only offered two choices[I thought it offered 4]I'd be interested in the demographics-too-age etc.I was in the guns store a couple of weeks back and an old guy[like me] said he was gravitating towards just shooting his .22's .The beauty of it is we have a wide variety of guns to choose from-there is no ''right'' or''wrong''-all that counts is that the gun be used safely and legitimately,but at the same time we clearly have preferences.Got to admit a prejudice for a nicely finished walnut stock and blued barrel-even if synthetic and stainless make more sense,just as I like a ghost ring peep sight[carries nicer too] instead of a scope-but my eyes dictate the scope
 
Biased pole....


if it were:

Black Guns (tacticool)
Stainless/Sythetic Bolt gun
Wood/Blued Bolt
Semi/pump wood/blued
Lever
Single


The Stainless/Synthetic option would be top dog :cool:
 
I would have voted: All of the above, if given the option, as it was I chose the "old school" option as that is most of what I have..... Every long gun I have bought in the last 2 yrs (other than a 30-30) has been a black on synthetic config. tho, but no semi's in center fire in my safe (excluding pistols)..... yet.....

Cheers!
 
I'm not a gas gun fan, so for me its bolts, levers and falling blocks. The best rifles are those that blend the old and the new. A lever action with a laminated stock, and ghost ring sights is a pleasure to carry and shoot. A bolt action with a fiberglass stock can be depended on regardless of weather. A falling block with modern glass can be a real tack driver, with drop dead good looks.
 
its kind of interesting to see how peoples thinking is evolving-40 years ago you could buy a Lee Enfield out of the catalogue for about $10 and the first thing most people [me included] was take a saw to it and turn it it into a ''sporter''[no apologies-it was all I could afford ,and I shot my first deer with it]-today milsurps are far more expensive and most people wouldn't dream of ''altering '' one.

Historically people couldn't wait to ''upgrade'' from muzzle loading black powder to single shot breech loading black powder cartridges,to smokeless, then on to rifles with magazines for multiple rounds ,and so on to semi automatics and full automatics-and today technology allows someone half a world away to fire a gun from a drone .

Today firearms owners seem to be going in split directions-still looking for a modern design-but at the same time going back and acquiring the older designs which were ionce discarded but now highly prized-even manufactured again as replicas.

The best thing is -there's a gun for every -or all, preferances,and hopefully the government will allow us the freedom to continue to choose-or collect.We already have enough restrictions-in some countries you can't own a semi automatic,and can only have 6 rifles and if the city living Liberals had their way[or saw it as away of getting votes] NONE of us would have ANY ,old or new.
 
as many have noted the older guns have more class style . being somewhat ampidextrus i love levers particulary pre 60s allthose designs came from 1800s savage 99s my favs collector allways looking for more
 
The longer I'm in this game the more I'm moving towards the older European sporting rifles with adjustable apature sights and double set triggers.

Rock solid get er done practical platforms.

In 6.5x55 Swede of course. :D

And yes I have seen the one on the EE, but the seller is asking way too much for it IMHO. :D

Not to knock the newer stuff, but I feel no need for an Über magnum these days.

Mind you a break action single shot synthetic stainless rifle in .308 with a red dot sight would do the trick as well. :D

Or a 99 savage in .308...Doh oh man so many fun rifles. :p
 
Personally, my order of preference on centerfire rifles is:

1. Bolt
2. Lever
3. Single Shot
4. Semi-auto
5. Pump

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NAA.
 
Old or New or Whatever?

As I gradually get rid of my stuff, and still see the new bolt guns, Rem, Savage etc. I realize how much I will miss the old stuff.

I just sold a M70 Winchester in .338, bought about 1975 for less than 1/2 of what a friend paid for a new Savage 116 in .270 and I would not have traded rifles. I have enjoyed single shot cap locks, still have a Win High-Wall. There is no argument that most of the newer rifles are very accurate out-of-the-box. But the plastic stocks, rainbow laminates etc. really turn me off. Yesterday, I shot a friend's new Remington, 7mm Rem Ultra short Magum, thumb hole stock and all, off hand. Hit the end of a pop can about 50-60yds. But the oufit must weigh in at 9#. :(

Winchester levers, love them. Doubles O&U, SxS great.
 
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