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Originally posted by ramrod340:

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"Inherent accuracy".

+2

+3

And rack another up for Boolits.

Boolits, I don't care if it's cast lead, you cast it, or you made the mold yourself. It's a bullet, if you can't spell it don't say it.

the boolits aggreavete me.

also when people say "i'm going to SHOT my gun today" or use it in other similar situations it's SHOOT

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Originally posted by craigster:
"A casefull of ... under a 165... has always worked for me. If it doesn't, must be something wrong with your rifle"

Ah yes, the old Universal Load - most accurate, most Power and is the SAFEST in ALL rifles.

First and foremost peeve of mine -

People who actually think that until the internet came along no one safely handloaded their own ammo with absolutely no help from any source other than a bit of reading and a little common sense. Long before the ability to argue about silly mundane issues at a moments notice.

Second - The words "fur friendly". If you want fur friendly buy a Conibear. The idea that you can send a 50 gr. varmint bullet at 3900 fps to a target 50 yds. away and not occasionally damage the "fur" is rediculous. The one thing all of my bullets have in common.....they are anything but friendly.

"Tactical" anything

Flexible tupperware stocks

gun powder of the month

bullet of the month

only super pricey German & Scandan brass is usable

huge boat anchor scopes that cost more than a nice rifle

The inability to have fun with anything less than the ultimate in state of the art technology, highest velocity, biggest bore and gadgetry.

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The constant misuse of 'caliber' in the place of 'chambering'.

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Originally posted by skb2706:
The constant misuse of 'caliber' in the place of 'chambering'.

Duh???

If by "bullet of the month", you mean the folks that act like it was not possible to kill stuff until xxx bullet came along, I'll jump all over that band wagon.
'course a lot depends on what calibre ( ) the rifle is......

People who call any wildcat on the .458WM case "Taylor". "I need a load for a .375 Taylor".
"Whats the best boolit for a .375 Taylor?"
Hell if it wasn't claimed by Winchester as the .338 Win. Mag. they would call it the .338 Taylor.
"I'm working with a new wildcat the .458 Taylor."

Also, I shot different wildcats for a number of years but I get tired of reading posts about guys that want to get load help with a wildcat that necks down the 280 Rem. to .277 because the 270 Win. case has too long of neck or some other BS. Or maybe "improve" the 30-06. Or, the 260 isn't worth a damn unless you reload it using necked up 243 brass.
"The 7mm-08 is better than the 7mm Mauser because you can shoot it out of a short action. WTF??
I'll stop now.

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Originally posted by aktoklat:
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If I had the money to buy one, I'd have the money to go shoot my own "f"ing elephant!

McSwirly.

McYuckly!! is more like it.

"Whew! I'd hate get him peeved at my Pomposity, at this point in time!"

Rusty, you ain't even in the running!


He who was a bee man: I'm not a know it all myself, but am old enough and have tried enough stuff all by myself to have little patience with lazyness, foolishness and/or willful iggerance! Call me a nice 'crusty' old man with a gun or two and is glad to help those willing to make at least a little effort to help themselves.

hey, if you're over at the fire, you'd better have a $200 Savage with a $500 Mcswirly on it or you ain't nobody.

Jim C, is it okay if I start calling you Crusty??

Elephant hide wallet. Elephant forget where. Please help elephant look.

Thank you,

Elephant

Thanks, Jim! A great post!

Wow we need some REAL problems to worry about.

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Peeves?

People that have alot of peeves





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"Platform" when used as a descriptive of a firearm.
Of course the main subject of this silliness IS the AR15.......

I thought about writing a post using most of these but it was already posted. Then I realized that I have read posts that have most of these at once already.

efficient

People, er... members of any forum that include humongous pictures of absolutely ANYTHING in their posts.

The term COL which is a abbreviation for column anywhere else in the cosmos and should be AOL overall length.

Last but not least is the guys that don't read what thay'uns type.

Oh, I forgot to mention guys that have trouble getting better shot groups than 1 inch at any distance.

In cyberspace, EVERYBODY shoots sub MOA groups.

People who reassemble an AR rifle with a few new parts and call it a PROJECT.

People who screw a few barrels on Mauser actions and maybe blue them and call them selfs GUNSMITHS or even worse GUNMAKERS

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Originally posted by Ossi_Iceland:
People who screw a few barrels on Mauser actions and maybe blue them and call them selfs GUNSMITHS or even worse GUNMAKERS

This is an interesting subject as I'm not sure there is a definition of "gunsmith"

Here in the USA anyone that wants to hang up a shingle can write the word gunsmith on it....and as a consequence it actually means nothing at all.

I'd like to hear your definition of gunsmith.....and if you like we can start an entire new thread on it.

3 shot groups!!!

Well vapodog my definition of a gunsmith is the same as that of a gunmaker, ie one that actually makes guns.
But me being from Iceland I might be wrong in that understanding but unless you make the action stock and all you are absolutely NOT a gun MAKER.
There is a show on Discovery called (I think) American Hotrods.
There, a few tattooed guys assemble motorbikes, and yes, partly weld together some ridigilous frames and call them self bike builders.
They are in fact only partially building the bikes and skipping the hard parts (engine, wheels,brake system.)
They are bike mechanics.
A thread on that might be interrestin though.
By the way, I do it all, shotguns that is but I must admit to buying rifled barrels.

People that actually care what other people shoot.

"Boolits" and referring to a rifle as "She".

People overloading just to be "almost" as powerful as the next only slightly larger cartridge. Example: "I always load 3 grains over book so my .308 has just as much energy as a 30-06." Etc. Its insane to consciously choose to shoot a potential bomb rather than simply moving up to another cartridge and stay within safe parameters.

Just spotted this Classic on another thread: "It's ALL about Shot Placement!"

The implication being that having an "Adequate Cartridge" for the task at hand is a waste of time and effort.

P-17 annoys me.

I would think that a gun maker is what the name implies and I would think that a gun smith works on existing guns. Just my opinion.

It is a pet peeve of mine that somebody will screw a different barrel in a suckage action, drop it into a Mcswirly stock and act like he has "built" the rifle from the ground up.

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I would think that a gun maker is what the name implies

Does this mean the gun maker makes his own barrels and his own actions....chops down his own trees?

IMO a gun maker uses an existing action with some modifications and buys a barrel blank and affixes it on that action. He then attaches such components from NECG or Dakota or Blackburn etc and buys a stock blank that is dried and cured and "whittles" it into a stock.

He may then checker it himself or purchase that skill from others.

It's not so cut and dried!

Poor spelling - do you not have a spell checker or are you too lazy to bother?

My favorite is "If I do my part" Really? What IS "your part"?

Thank you for allowing me to vent.

Gary

I get your point vapodog, but I disagree with you that a guy using an existing action is making a gun.
He is assembling a gun.
Neither is a guy tuning a car making a car.

But...as you said its not cut and dried.

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Originally posted by Ossi_Iceland:
I get your point vapodog, but I disagree with you that a guy using an existing action is making a gun.
He is assembling a gun.
Neither is a guy tuning a car making a car.

But...as you said its not cut and dried.

Ossie,
please give us your definition of a gunmaker....