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Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?
longwalker please send me one of the same awards---
HAWK
MICHAEL PIERCE
1-813-771-1815
E-MAIL ADDRESS==hawknest4@juno.com
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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