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

[jjfitch]

When visiting my son we stopped into a large gun store with cases and cases of semi automatic pistols and one lone case way in the back with some snub nose revolvers and a few Taurus Judges.
Young employee pulls out a nice 637, opens the cylinder and proceeds to flick it closed.
Drives me nuts when people do that.

Recently stopped in a local shop that had a nice 10-5 with some aftermarket grips. The serial number listed on the price tag was actually the assembly number - I mentioned that they should take off the grips to the see the actual serial number as the grips are covering the serial number.

Yup! Got a call from an investigator asking if I ha a 40 flat bed trailer! Yup, the ffl registered my gun after selling it, using an assembly number matching that trailer.! I was amused!

 

[Taj]

Talking about smells. I was reminded of something from those halcyon days of the past when I was hunting pheasants and a fellow that was with me discussed the "aroma" of burnt gunpowder long ago compared to the newer made gunpowder that has lost that "sent". I had not thought about this in decades so I dug out some old 1950's paper shotshells and shot a few to see if it was just my imagination, it was not, they did have "that aroma" and it brought back memories of many friends that have "left the range or hunting fields forever".

Brother that is the truth. I love shooting rimfires and part of that is the smell. It brings back the days of my youth when all I had was a .22 and it was enough. I used to walk the ditch banks near my Grandpa's place and shoot water moccasins, snapping turtles and feral cats, for which there was a bounty from Fish & Game. Usually made enough to buy another box of .22's.

 

[Terry G]

Got a new pistol? how are you going to customize it? Good Friend, but really! He bought an expensive Kimber .45. He replaced the barrel, sights, trigger, grips and magazines. I just stared at him, then said what did you buy the gun for? He said well, Kimber's are the best!???? Stock guns, I buy them for what they are, S&W, CZ's, and SIg's.

 

[LVSteve]

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)

In a similar vein, gun writers who cannot test a non-1911 without telling us that they have a preference for the 1911 trigger. How about testing and commenting on the gun you were given, it's what you're being paid for.

 

[eku82]

("Once again, that is my opinion. You have yours, and I have mine.")

dude, you missed his point.

if you desire to insult others, that's fine. but to inadvertently insult others because your level of awareness is too low to allow for consideration of such things is a shame.

One thing I have learned, never express an opinion.

 

[Warren Sear]

..."price point" -- this is found on a business graph with a long downward-sloping line: if we put the price at this point, we'll sell more product than if we put it somewhere else on the graph line. every moron alive today says 'price point' when s/he means PRICE, apparently because more syllables indicates higher intelligence (as in, 'had done, had said, had went, etc)....

That right iffin' THERE!!! It's called "price"!!!

 

[Terry G]

In a similar vein, gun writers who cannot test a non-1911 without telling us that they have a preference for the 1911 trigger. How about testing and commenting on the gun you were given, it's what you're being paid for.

Gun Test is the only one that gives a real opinion on guns. They have no problem saying a firearm is trash.

 

[Lemming51]

Here's one that might make your head explode (but then, maybe not.) "Wheelguns" are NOT revolvers. The cylinder in a handgun does NOT REVOLVE. It ROTATES. The earth REVOLVES around the sun, and the earth ROTATES on its axis. I've pointed this out for years, but it would sound kinda awkward to call one's K-frame S&W a "Rotator."

Capt. Pedantic responds:
Yes, the cylinder rotates on its axis, but the cartridges revolve around the cylinder's axis, so...

 

[ladder13]

One thing I have learned, never express an opinion.

You are entitled to it and also posting anything within the rules posted in The Lounge. I get it though, who needs all the grief.

Thread 'The Rules'

Aug 20, 2009

This board exists for communication about shooting, owning, collecting, studying, understanding, and enhancing all things pertaining to Smith & Wesson.
We have a 2nd Amendment forum for the discussion of gun right's issues, protection of such rights, and publication of news and data pertaining to gun rights.

UNDERSTAND this-
We WON'T change the World here, nor will we be able to fix all the ills afflicting our society.
This forum is not here for the purpose of converting other posters to your ideals, beliefs, and opinions.

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[Bobby Fett]

Can we add "gifted" to that. I.E. "I was gifted my granddads pocketknife"
I'm no English Major but that just twists my tail.

This times 100.

 

[Gerald A. Keller]

The stupidest thing ever has to be, far and away, the large loop on lever guns. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid!
And don’t even try the excuse that the lever has to be mutilated for gloves. If your gloves are that big you, how are you going to shoot?

You must not have watched “The Rifleman”!

 

[Cartwright Jones]

When I walk into a gun shop now and it's all tactical polymer.

And there's nothing but 9 mm and 223-556 ammo on the shelves.

No revolver ammo or 30-30 on the shelf? I do an about face. I would rather browse steel and wood.

It seems our local pawn shops have better selections than the actual gun shops in town now.

Just three days ago I went to Sportsman's Warehouse in Fresno, and as you just stated, they had almost half of the entire locked up glass display AISLE packed with 9mm! There were about 4 boxes of 5.7 (okay, I get that), and tiny little sections for everything else except of course, the old reliable, 45 ACP! I never thought I'd see the day when .38 Special cost more than .45 Auto!

 

[SASFixer]

Not to be critical of Chiappa, but I have always been skeptical about their engineering staff. Once upon a time they made a 1911 look a lilke 22 LR handgun. I had several brought to me to improve the trigger. Those Itallian Engineers used the same coiled spring that powers the hammer to be the trigger return spring. The spring had an extension with a hook on either end. No hope for improving the trigger pull there.

 

[Cartwright Jones]

You must not have watched “The Rifleman”!

I have a beautiful little Henry .22 Mag "Mare's Leg" that came with that idiotic loop lever that makes it impossible to quickly work the action while holding the weapon normally. I searched and searched the web trying to find a standard lever that didn't cost Henry aftermarket prices, to no avail.
I like the entire concept of the Mare's Leg in a .22 caliber because you can establish just enough cheek weld to make stabilized shots with adequate accuracy for such a platform. A .22 magnum from a rifle-length barrel, even a short one is quite effective on two, and four-legged critters.

 

[Cartwright Jones]

Slapping so many doo dads on carry pistols they're no longer easy to conceal.

100% agree! The dumbest thing EVER is starting with a compact, 20 ounce pistol, then adding a gargantuan light, a magwell flare of all the most ridiculous ideas ever dreamed up, a fragile, red dot sight, and a supersized magazine! Worse is doing that to a 38 ounce 1911 and then shoving it all into an extremely bulky, "concealment" holster that only works when worn by the thinnest people on Earth! And then try to swear up and down it all improves their performance!

 

[scout789]

The idea that we need more plastic fantastic striker-fired 9mm handguns. Good lord, how many are there? And they all look the same!

 

[rockquarry]

Gun Test is the only one that gives a real opinion on guns. They have no problem saying a firearm is trash.

The idea that we need more plastic fantastic striker-fired 9mm handguns. Good lord, how many are there? And they all look the same!

Apparently like hot sauces in Texas - always room for one more. People must be buying these new pistols. Maybe each new model introduced is an "upgrade" and many like that word these days even if it's not always a step forward.

 

[crasig]

NOTE: The following are Firearms Related Trends that annoy ME personally - NO Insults intended. I'm 78 & particular.
>Hi Point arms: ugly design & cheap materials > All the plastic Glock copy cats - of guns I don't want either.
>KEL TECs goofy, unnecessarily complicated Designs (carbine can't fire folded, double barrel pump gun, rotating pistol)
>All the offerings of HENRY - re-inventing obsolete, outmoded firearms. I sold my Winchester 30/30 for something better. HENRY doesn't make anything I admire. How about that awkward, ugly, Henry Revolver ?
>BOND ARMS: Silly, Single or Double shot Derringers costing twice what a sensible handgun with decent capacity does.
>Deliberate neglect of the Firearm Media, to demonstrate or mention current Com-Bloc firearms available for purchase.
Keeping valuable information from the shooting public - such as USA made AKs, & quality + excellent results obtainable.
High Quality of Surplus steel Handguns available today -Doing a serious disservice to the shooting public, just because the Fat Cats pay more. I understand the recent AR trend, but many aren't aware that a stamped steel AK made for primitive soldiers & conditions - will function in conditions a weapon with tighter tolerances wont, & given the same care will function just as well- INDEFINITELY with less problems.

Thanks for asking, C .

 

[MP-5]

 

[JIMYJAC]

The cheap 5 dollar sights many manufacturers install on high dollar firearms today that are useless. I call them bean counter sights.