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Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?
if you got a ten dollar head put a ten dollar hat on it. not me ill make a
wooden beak and peck with the chicken first quality not quantity. iron
tongue
michael pierce wrote:
> longwalker please send me one of the same awards---
> HAWK
> MICHAEL PIERCE
> 1-813-771-1815
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>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:58:18 -0600 Jim Colburn <jc60714@navix.net>
> writes:
> >Washtahay-
> >some time back I wrote:
> >> >Whoopee. If the potential owner would pick up a part-time job
> >and
> >> >wait til he had worked 40 hours at minimum wage, he could have
> >> >gotten a decent gun.
> >> >LongWalker c. du B.
> >
> >And at 11:17 AM 11/10/98 -0600, someone wrote:
> >>WELL NOW ARE WE TO BECOME THE ELITIST BASTARDS THAT DO NOT WANT NEW
> >COMMERS
> >>TO JOIN?
> > Hmmm...if being an elitist bastard means not wanting to shoot
> >next to
> >folks with guns with hammers that creep and fire from half- or
> >full-cock
> >(seen at Cabelas) or guns with gas leaks at the breech (a CVA
> >"Squirrel
> >Rifle" I bought for my then new bride) or nipples that blow out in to
> >space
> >when fired (Lyman GPR, summer of '95, a couple T/Cs I have seen over
> >the
> >years) then yes, I want to be considered an "elitist bastard". Having
> >been
> >born a bastard, I had a head start-some might consider it an unfair
> >advantage.
> > So come on all, be an elitist bastard with me! You will be
> >expected to
> >throw your shop open to folks who bought those less-than-satisfactory
> >guns,
> >to help repair them, and to teach their new owners the rules of
> >firearms
> >safety. Your shop may well become the place new folks turn when they
> >realize the only way they can afford a good gun (by their standards)
> >is to
> >build one, buying parts as they can afford them-this may mean your
> >dining
> >room, like mine, will have 6 rifles in various stages of cunstruction
> >standing against the bookshelves. It will mean teaching folks skills
> >from
> >tracking that deer they hit but didn't put down to tanning the hide to
> >how
> >to cook over an open fire. It means being the same thing to the new
> >guys
> >today as it meant to the folks who got me started were to me.
> >Frankly, I
> >figure its a debt I owe.
> >
> >>its time a few wake up and realize that as you said,"pick up a
> >>parttime job at minimum wage..." In my real life I commute 2 hours
> >each
> >>way,for a hell of a lot more than min.wage.
> > That's nice. I have one full time job an hour east of here
> >and another
> >full time job an hour west of here. So what? If it meant the
> >difference
> >between compromising or getting what I want, I will find a way. If
> >that
> >means I spend my day off every week working in a gas station for a
> >couple
> >months, I do it. I guess some folks value their TV time more than
> >others.
> >
> >>Nothing but an original is
> >>truely authenic,but give the new commers a chance.
> > Back when I was getting started, I saw a guy wrap a CVA
> >Kentucky around a
> >tree. Turns out he had spent the whole summer trying to get the thing
> >to
> >work. I don't want the new guys of today to have to deal with that.
> >I'm
> >trying to give the new comers a chance to get started without the
> >added
> >handicap of a defective rifle. Sorry that seems unreasonable to you.
> >
> >
> >> My first muzzleloader was a CVA(still have
> >>it,still shoots straight,and I killed 9 deer with it)
> > My last CVA is the "Squirrel Rifle" that turned my ex-wife off
> >shooting.
> >Something about the way smoke came out from under the lockplate...
> >According to CVA, all I had to do was buy a new barrel-at a cost equal
> >to
> >the cost of the gun-to fix a manufacturer's defect. Seems easier to
> >just
> >avoid the crap in the first place.
> >
> >> So lets not give a
> >>newcommer a hard time because he cannot afford a custom gun(in time
> >he will
> >>find a way to get one any way!)lets welcome him and help educate.
> > You seem to have the mistaken notion that my dislike of poor
> >quality guns
> >extends to their owners. This is not the case. But I am not going to
> >lie
> >and tell someone their gun is authentic in appearance when it isn't,
> >or say
> >it is safe when its not. If someone is going to buy a sub-$300
> >production
> >rifle, at least let him buy one that won't injure him or someone else.
> >
> >
> >LongWalker c. du B. and elitist bastard
> >(I'd like to thank the Academy...I've always aspired to this
> >award...I'll
> >do my best to live up to my understanding of what this means to me...I
> >never thought I'd receive this title so early in life...)
> >
> >
>
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