What does a rifle say about its owner?

I dunno about this topic. I know guys who kill bears and the odd moose with remington 770's every year. I've owned one of them and wouldn't be caught dead owning another. I don't own high end rifles but i'll spend a little more on a Brno or nice old winchester/savage/marlin lever guns than lots of those type of guys are willing to spend. To each their own. These are the same guys who drool whenever i open a gun case though and say "Man, i wish i could afford that!" when my rifles cost maybe 100$ more than their 770's. Thank god for the internet.
 
Sask_Hunter said:
i hate all sks's in any form, i hate stepping on the steel cases, i hate the bamg bang bang and i hate the spray and pray mentality. if your an sks shooter i will look down on you when im at the range.

other than sks shooters i dont really look up or down as long as the shooter can operate them.
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Sometime i just go to the range with a couple of SKS and my SVT ,and take the grandsons and i am just having a ball, very pricy rifles is a satisfaction(some), but SKS are fun to, shooting is fun... JP.:ar15:
 
Dogleg said:
I'm guilty of stereotypeing others, but I can't help it.

The chances of a random Weatherby shooter at the range being a prick seem to be higher than average. Put a Swarovski on the weatherby and you can bet your last box of primers on it.
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Unless it was a marked down Vanguard...guy got a good deal and should be noted as quite Savvy :D
 
Pathfinder said:
Unless it was a marked down Vanguard...guy got a good deal and should be noted as quite Savvy :D
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Agreed 100 percent, if the Vanguard owner is saavy enough to have learned to stone his own triggers. The Mark V flauntin' "real Weatherby" ownin' crowd doesn't like that much.(And probably thinks sear engagement is the time he got burnt on that shiney rock)

I'll admit to being a little more than humbled and conflicted when my 5 for the price of 1 Vanguards outshoot my "Real Weatherbys. When they start giveing the Cooper a run for its money it gets a little hard to take.

Its a good thing there's more to life than little groups; at least thats what I keep telling myself.;)
 
Sask_Hunter said:
i hate all sks's in any form, i hate stepping on the steel cases, i hate the bamg bang bang and i hate the spray and pray mentality. if your an sks shooter i will look down on you when im at the range.

other than sks shooters i dont really look up or down as long as the shooter can operate them.
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Ha ha! Take a pill dude! Who lit the fuse on your tampon? SKS serves its purpose. Some people just like to go "bang bang" and shred some paper. It's not all about precision shooting. And it is one of the cheapest ways to get into shooting, so I support it all the way. If you ever swing through O-town, I'll take you to the range, my treat, and maybe you'll stop looking down on us.

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Weatherby: proof that money doesn't buy good taste; the Cadillac Escalade of rifles.
 
Dogleg said:
A rusty rifle says he doesn't give a damn. A simons says he doesn't know better. A bushnell says he's a slow learner, but might get there yet.
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:D:D

Some of us are, well do I dare say the "F" word?

Okay, some of us are just frugal and like to be in the Elite crowd.....:p
 
kamlooky said:
Not a Remington to be found in my stash.......hmmmmm.
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The only Remmy in my stash is an 870 Tactical, and it's a good'un.:D

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hard to tell where I'd fit in with all the opinins on this expresed thus far.
My rifles run the gamut from a Win 54, a couple Pre'64 Model 70's in good original condition all the way to a Micky stocked, stainless Shilen barreled 280AI....and, I even own a Weatherby Mark V, and a Sako in 17 Rem, and I hunt with a factory Rem 700 in 7 Mag,...now, who does that when they can build all the 280AI's one could ever want?.....maybe my wife is correct,...I'm just complicated.
 
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I'm a plinker & hunter ... the only "stereotype" I have found within myself is that towards the "tacti-cool" crowd ... I have nothing against an all black semi 22 with every gadget available lock-tited onto it, but it seems that in my experience those owners tend to be in the "wanna be ___ (cop/military/zombie control/etc..)" group ... once you get past that, a gun owner is a gun owner.

I guess if I was really honest I have another stereotype I am guilty of ... the guys that INSIST they need a semi for faster follow up shots when hunting (shotguns for birds & bunnies & semi 22's in the dog patch excepted) ... to me that screams "Un-Ethical Hunter" ... If you can't make the kill with one shot, you shouldn't take it. I'd rather share the story of "the one that walked away" than "the one I chased 6 miles and emptied two magazines into".

As for my own gun tastes ... I am guilty of choosing a Lever over a bolt because I prefer the looks of them, and find the lines of a Browning rifle to be boring at the best of times, coma inducing would be a better term.
 
skypilot said:
He finaly bought a single shot 270 breach loader and is happy and I've not had to Flintstone a wounded deer since. Oh yeah, he keeps the fancy Weatherby in his hand-made oak gun cabinet for show, you know, mans gotta keep his image.
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That looks like an incriminating Freudian slip!:D
 
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