Trends You Simply Can't Stand...Feel Free To Vent Here

[65-2x2]

My second biggest complaint is when people use y'all. Y’all isn’t a word. Stop it.

* This thread was meant to be somewhat whimsical. Don’t take it seriously.

I beg to difffer. In the S.E. part of the country is is accepted as standard English. The one that I find fault with is, "youse guys."

 

[65-2x2]

There is one other firearm I just really can't stand looking at; a Chiappa Rhino revolver. They are uglier than my M1895 Nagant.

Indeed they are in the same catagory as the Dryese 1907.

 

[roundels]

My complaint is that companies no longer install iron sights on most of the rifles they sell. Yes, most folks may want to install an optical sight of some kind. I don't care, I may be an old geezer, but when I buy a rifle, I want it to arrive with at least a rudimentary set of sights. I notice prices don't seem to have dropped any to pass the savings the company is getting on labor and materials for sights on to the customer. I guess next time I buy a car, I'll have to bring my own steering wheel.

With some cars you already have to buy your own spare. Ask the dealer about that and they say you have an inflater kit. And?

 

[65-2x2]

Hollywood is a special kind of stupid when it comes to firearms. We've all heard the standard complaints, but here's a gripe you don't hear too often: the term "shell casings" as in "We found shell casings at the crime scene." I don't know what they call such things in the big cities, but out here in the world we call them spent brass.

If that bothers you, never, ever watch British crime dramas. They will show a scene with a Webley and then talk about it using the rare 9MM caliber. There are some great crime dramas on Brit Box, but the writers, directors and producers know nothing about firearms.

 

[65-2x2]

I'm not as amused with it. I hate the use of the word "y'all". I don't care where you are from or who you are, it's my opinion that it's use is lazy and uneducated.

My second gripe is those that are chasing what I call "trigger nirvana", where no pistol that they pick up has the perfect trigger, ever.

Third (and I'll stop), are those that as soon as they get a new gun, they start changing things and adding "bling" to them to the point where the gun no longer functions. Then they ask why their gun doesn't work. Simply put, people that think that they are smarter than the engineers that designed them.

So, what part of the North are you from?

 

[65-2x2]

What irritates me is when you go to a gun counter, and espically one at a mass marketer, and there is a 20 someithing kid behind the counter, (who's previous job was, "Do you want fries with that?") trying to tell a 70 year old veteran shooter some kind of bologna about a firearm or ammunition. I had one of the, at a Bass Pro, tell me, with a very smug attitude, that .38 Smith and Wesson ammo did not exist at that I was talking about .38 spl. I could have taken him over my knee and worn his butt out.

 

[VaTom]

Totally off the subject of firearms but sitting on the porch of a vacation house along a golf course reminded me of a pet peeve. Have been playing golf for years. I am 71. Call me an old crudmugin but playing music from your golf cart while playing is over the top. Seems to be the younger crowd with blue tooth speakers and cell phone with music library. I leave my cell in the car while on the course. If you want to listen while playing wear ear buds. Don’t interfere with my and others enjoyment with your tunes.

 

[65-2x2]

Another, non gun, whizzer is, while sitting in a cafe trying to enjoy a meal, some butthead is on his cell phone, talking loud enough for everyone in the place to follow the coversation, to show us how important he is. I use the term "He" because it is always a man.

 

[H Richard]

I'm glad I don't participate with any on line forums other than this one. Facebook I have anything to do with, so whatever they speak about I an unaware, (and gald of it).

 

[65-2x2]

Gun writers that have never discussed a new firearm that was not the greatest thing since sliced bread. (no matter what a dog it is)

 

[65-2x2]

That's actually not a trend, but something made famous by John Wayne many, many decades ago.

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Was John Wayne the problem originally or was it Chuck Conners?

 

[65-2x2]

My second biggest complaint is when people use y'all. Y’all isn’t a word. Stop it.

* This thread was meant to be somewhat whimsical. Don’t take it seriously.

Well, Bless your heart. It really is a word. Y'all fills a gap in American English; it is the only second-person plural word in common use. About 85% of the people in the South use the term. That includes a vast number of Southerners who are transplants from the North. Try using it, is as gentle on your tongue as Tupelo honey.

 

[.38SuperMan]

When I buy a new to me firearm that I’m not familiar with the mechanics, I like to research the takedown and reassembly of that gun. If I’m going to strip it and clean it I want to make certain all the parts go in right.

I’ll often look for a YouTube video from a knowledgeable person. Quite often the video starts out good but over the course of the video the person moves the gun to where it’s just out of frame so you only see the butt of the gun or their wrist. What’s so frustrating is they’re too lazy to reshoot that segment and edit it in.

Another thing about YouTube, I put on gun videos while I ride my exercise bike. I don’t necessarily do it to learn but more to pass the time. Recently it seems as many of these content creators are trying to see who can act the dumbest, which is the biggest retard. They’re trying to be cute and funny but the way they act is so stupid I can’t watch it.

Another YouTube gripe, content creators that intentionally destroy a nice gun. One in particular was a guy who wanted to see how many rapid fire rounds he could put through his AK47 before it ceased up or burst into flames. It burst into flames before it ceased up. He did a similar one with a polymer pistol. That’s sick!

It’s getting harder and harder to find good content so I’m probably going to watch more aviation videos.

 

[ladder13]

 

[Model29-26.5]

I like the old stuff. Pre 1982.
I’m not actually much of a “gun guy”’in general. I don’t care for AR’s, if I never saw an Uzi or an AK-47, I would never care. There is an aesthetic to the old S&W that just appeals to me. The simplicity of the revolver mechanism, the high polish blue. As much nostalgia as the appreciation for the craftsmanship.
I don’t care for anything new at all..
The newest I see myself getting will be a 586 and 686 for the collection.
Oh… a Chiappa Mare’s Leg. Terminator gun. I don’t think I need to splash out on a Real Winchester.
Couple of Cimarron SAA on the horizon.
Still, they are old designs.
I’ll probably get a 22 mag rifle of some sort.., but that is it for me.
I am not into Gun “culture”.
I just happen to love old S&W and I’m thoroughly enjoying the educational rabbit hole about manufacture, caliber etc.

 

[Rustywrench]

"Clips". People call a Magazine a clip ... I understand that My Garand uses a clip, my 625 uses a moon clip. Everything else I own uses a magazine... I like it most when it is a " High Capacity Magazine Clip". And there is also the 9 mil... mil what? oh, 9 Millimeter. I sometimes ask, " 9 millimeter? , is it 9mm KURZ, Makarov, Luger, or Largo?" followed by blank stare.

 

[djohns6]

"Clips". People call a Magazine a clip ... I understand that My Garand uses a clip, my 625 uses a moon clip. Everything else I own uses a magazine... I like it most when it is a " High Capacity Magazine Clip". And there is also the 9 mil... mil what? oh, 9 Millimeter. I sometimes ask, " 9 millimeter? , is it 9mm KURZ, Makarov, Luger, or Largo?" followed by blank stare.

I don't feel the need to prove a point . " Clip " , who cares ? I know what they mean . Same with "
9 mil " . I try to use the correct terminology and other folks can do whatever they want .

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Clips". People call a Magazine a clip ... I understand that My Garand uses a clip, my 625 uses a moon clip. Everything else I own uses a magazine... I like it most when it is a " High Capacity Magazine Clip". And there is also the 9 mil... mil what? oh, 9 Millimeter. I sometimes ask, " 9 millimeter? , is it 9mm KURZ, Makarov, Luger, or Largo?" followed by blank stare.

My dad carried a Garand with the Third Herd in the ETO.

To his dying day he referred to all magazines as clips.

I knew what he meant and he certainly earned the right to use the term.

 

[Fiddler1537]

I'm not as amused with it. I hate the use of the word "y'all". I don't care where you are from or who you are, it's my opinion that it's use is lazy and uneducated.

My second gripe is those that are chasing what I call "trigger nirvana", where no pistol that they pick up has the perfect trigger, ever.

Third (and I'll stop), are those that as soon as they get a new gun, they start changing things and adding "bling" to them to the point where the gun no longer functions. Then they ask why their gun doesn't work. Simply put, people that think that they are smarter than the engineers that designed them.

All y'all seem seem pretty sensitive about this.

 

[Fiddler1537]

Not from Texas......Like Lyle Lovett's "That's Right"... you're not from Texas.. He had a couple of concerts here about two years ago. Delbert used to come to Cotati pretty frequently..them Texas boys like Sonoma County, we got hills, lots of hills and it ain't hot. My 2nd ex wife and I are both from here. I've watched Calif turn from the tip of the arrow into a third world dumpster fire. Don't let those people wreck Texas like they did Oregon and WA. We are already too far gone to save..

Back in the '70s we we had bumper stickers that said don't californicate Colorado. That ship has sailed.