bmcgilvray
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How about a thread about firearms, firearms features, customization, shooting games, or attitudes about firearms/shooting that you just don't like. It would be interesting to know what particularly doesn't "float one's boat" amongst the Forum readership if it can be done in a proper spirit, recognizing that there are no right or wrong responses and everything offered is only a matter of opinion and personal tastes. You can even dislike this topic thread and its original poster if you choose.
Here are a few for starters.
"Fitzed" triggerguards: Completely pointless and a loathsome, ugly mutilation of revolvers and some 1911s, this daft idea should have never been popularized.
Bobbed hammers: I'm no fan of DAO revolvers and sure don't like the notion of bobbing hammers of perfectly good revolver models with a single action feature.
Trigger guards with finger rests on their fronts as found on many automatic pistols: Just an ugly, distasteful offense to the eye and something I wouldn't use. Was looking at a SIG-Sauer P 220 the other day and thinking how much better it would look with the finger rest ground off and the trigger guard redressed.
Modern roll markings: Way, way overdone, these billboard sized markings seem to be shouting at us, as if the manufacturer wants to impart more to a product than the product really has. It's all about image these days.
Super-tricked-out and expensive 1911s. OK if recognized to be a hobby unto itself, but is it really all necessary? I really appreciate plain and serviceable 1911s. Ditto for the AR 15, the dress-up doll of the firearms world.
Some "action pistol" games: where one can almost miss fast enough to win. Parameters designed into the competition are cramped and occasionally unrealistic. The handguns used are so specialized. Fun shooting but verging on irrelevance.
Glocks: It must be recognized that the Glock has had a tremendous impact on handgun shooting, bringing countless shooters into the fold. More shooters is good for our side in the political football game of gun control. Glock would go out of business though, waiting on me to purchase the first one. Except for the novelty of plastic it is mostly a compilation of designs and ideas that can be traced to before World War II. Hugely overrated. A case of "The Emperor's New Clothes" with so many seeing way more than is really there.
Here are a few for starters.
"Fitzed" triggerguards: Completely pointless and a loathsome, ugly mutilation of revolvers and some 1911s, this daft idea should have never been popularized.
Bobbed hammers: I'm no fan of DAO revolvers and sure don't like the notion of bobbing hammers of perfectly good revolver models with a single action feature.
Trigger guards with finger rests on their fronts as found on many automatic pistols: Just an ugly, distasteful offense to the eye and something I wouldn't use. Was looking at a SIG-Sauer P 220 the other day and thinking how much better it would look with the finger rest ground off and the trigger guard redressed.
Modern roll markings: Way, way overdone, these billboard sized markings seem to be shouting at us, as if the manufacturer wants to impart more to a product than the product really has. It's all about image these days.
Super-tricked-out and expensive 1911s. OK if recognized to be a hobby unto itself, but is it really all necessary? I really appreciate plain and serviceable 1911s. Ditto for the AR 15, the dress-up doll of the firearms world.
Some "action pistol" games: where one can almost miss fast enough to win. Parameters designed into the competition are cramped and occasionally unrealistic. The handguns used are so specialized. Fun shooting but verging on irrelevance.
Glocks: It must be recognized that the Glock has had a tremendous impact on handgun shooting, bringing countless shooters into the fold. More shooters is good for our side in the political football game of gun control. Glock would go out of business though, waiting on me to purchase the first one. Except for the novelty of plastic it is mostly a compilation of designs and ideas that can be traced to before World War II. Hugely overrated. A case of "The Emperor's New Clothes" with so many seeing way more than is really there.
