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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Back Room => : RedFeather May 22, 2009, 08:54:45 AM
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To show or, especially puzzling, for sale? If I laid my guns down like this, I know for sure they would come up scratched to death:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/RedFeather2/418.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/RedFeather2/?action=view¤t=418.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/RedFeather2/InnovalokalL.jpg) (http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/RedFeather2/?action=view¤t=InnovalokalL.jpg)
Not being anal but, man, only one little nudge.......
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No offense to anyone, - but a blue gun??? ... No thanks - not in a million years, never gonna happen. Next thing you know - there' ll be pink guns!!!
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John,that blue gun is one of the best under-lever spring guns you can get!!!! :) That HW97 is an incredible shooter & that stock is a hit! :)
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Yeah I love that blue stock also, They do that just to show off... You just gona be gentle when setting down, kinda like a newborn, you cant be rough with it, gota set it down very gently then pick it up very gently
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I agree with your observations 100%. Guns are not for laying on ground. If I can't find a place to properly stack a rifle, I keep it in my hands. You and I must be kinda 'old school' on this subject. Scratched and with Grit in the action.
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Yeah.......I gotta think the rifle in that bottom picture picked up some scratches from that stone walk !!!! Very artistic shot, though !!!! :D
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I have NO doubt it's a good gun, - but a blue gun just doesn't do anything for me. ;)
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As for target shooters and "looker" :o shooter's you should handle em like a baby. Now as for a hunting shooter's I personally handle them the same way and take care when laying them next to a harvest. I always carry a wipe down cloth with me but I know that hunting shooters will get a scuff or blemish now and then, that's just what happens when your in the sticks. :) It is nice to have the ability to refinish stock's and camo em if the mood hit's me. :) Ed
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I am amazed when I see rifles costing well over $500 (not including the glass riding atop them), perched on fence posts, flimsy cardboard boxes, leaning against car doors, all posed over what looks like a veritable bed of spikes. No such balancing acts for me. I'm the guy who puts his Levi's rivet dimples into a previously pristine 54 stock after cocking it once or twice the first time I get my ham fists on it.
And no thread hijacking! A blue stock on a blued gun ain't so darn awful. Go to any rimfire forum and check out the spacey 10/22's if you want to see some color combinations. Yes, there's something for everyone.
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I almost bought that blue laminate HW97, I think blue guns are cool!!! Do have the same gun with a plain wood stock on the way from Brown Santa though:)
Oh yea, on the subject....I've set my guns down on hard surfaces without any problem, but would probably avoid setting them onto pavestone like in your second picture. When I was younger and still played guitar I wouldn't let anyone wearing a belt hold my guitars because the belt buckles tend to scratch up the backs. I shudder when I see people lean against nice cars, unless they're wearing bikinis......with no buttons:)
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Dano,,let me find out that your a rock star,, :) Dano Page! :p
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Nude women can lean against my car all day long. Unless it's a hot one......then they're welcome to come on in and enjoy the A/C. And I don't care if they scratch my back. Ooops! Here comes the old lady. Just checking the bills online, dear!
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airgun/cuz - 5/22/2009 7:02 PM
Dano,,let me find out that your a rock star,, :) Dano Page! :p
Well for about a year after I left the military in 94' I worked part time and played full time. After a year of that I sobered up and went back to school, got my A&P and have been a mechanic of some sort ever since. I am infinitly more talented with a wrench than I ever was with a guitar and I've impressed more people by simply saying "it's fixed" than I ever did while screaming into a microphone. Now in my current position as a prototyping supervisor I get to create new parts/machines from scratch, and that my friend feels just as good as writing a song! Oh yea, almost forgot, turning a wrench feeds my family too which is something can't say for playing guitar.
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RedFeather - 5/22/2009 7:29 PM
Nude women can lean against my car all day long. Unless it's a hot one......then they're welcome to come on in and enjoy the A/C. And I don't care if they scratch my back. Ooops! Here comes the old lady. Just checking the bills online, dear!
Sir, you and I think alot alike me thinks:)
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Reckon I'm old school. I don't have a weapon without some blemish or sorts. Be it from a blue jeans pocket rivot, belt buckle,..or stumbling into some old,...or new barbed wire!!! LOL's I use my rifles for sport hunting small game. Comes with the territory I suppose. But you know what?!?!,...they're my rifles,.. they fit me,...and as long as I know where they're going to hit and their power range,...they may as well be garbage to someone else. Performance far out-weighs looks when it comes to my shooters. But then again,...if I had a fancy $600 'BB-Gun",...I would be afraid to take it off the rack,.....call me a nervous wreck!!!!! LOL's. I kinda like the blue rifle,...but wonder if they make an Alpine Green and Gold version of it,....for a South-Paw Shooter?!?!?!?!To fit perhaps,.... my 34 Diana?!?!?!?! Blemishes add character!!!!! JMT's, tjk
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Dano,,this says it all:(Oh yea, almost forgot, turning a wrench feeds my family too which is something can't say for playing guitar.)
:)
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Blemishes add character if they bear memories of a hunt or especially nice day afield. I once read a very good book on shotgunning by a man who was a former head of the British NRA. The last chapter, about best guns, stuck with me. He said there was nothing worse than going on a shoot accompanied by a fellow with a best quality double, always taking out his handkerchief to wipe it down every time they took a break. It's a rare gun that doesn't come down through the years with some "character". Unfortunately, for every nice one there are a hundred with just plain hard knocks.
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It seems that the nicer the stock on my gun there is an inverse proportion to the amount of time and pleasure I have in carrying it. In other words, I keep the really nice ones put up and very infrequently do anything with them. Now on the other hand, my absolute favorite airgun is the B40 I asked Mike Melick to put together for me. Created in his hands from two defective guns and with a basic banged up stock, I now have the gun that I just naturally gravitate toward. About the only thing that I may do to it is fill in the dings and spray it with bedliner. It is (at least right now) my number one "go to" hunter.
I like to look at pretty guns, but i absolutely love to shoot good ones! And, most good ones have some dings from being used.
Remember, "Chicks dig scars!" :D :D :D
Of course, I don't lay my gun on the rocks either!!!!
blessings, joe
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I guess I am the odd ball out..:) I prefer natural wood stocks over painted laminants and if I did hunt I would not be afraid to lay my $1000.00 shooter next to my kill..:) So call me crazy but that is just me...:)
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Last week went hunting with my Cyclone. Had the gun slinged over my shoulder and slipped going down steep cliff. Gun landed on my Hawke scope and bent it. Cussed for ten minutes afterwards. Was so mad I shot a Jack. Now the gun and scope have character.
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I pose my guns like that all the time.. I would give anyone a magnifying glass to look for scratches.. Ya don't throw it down there,,, YA carefully lay it down take the cool pic with your kill and pick it back up... It ain't rocket science... Its just artistic expression.. I have all the cool toys and they all have been layed down like that... there is no issue here.....
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Sure beats posing a nice air rifle on an unmade bed with her dirty laundry laying all over the floor!
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Some of the critters drip blood on my $1000.00 shooters.....but I try to be very careful not to scratch the airguns placing or picking them back up.