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Potshots at the gun shop
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Comments | Commentaires

floridasuzie | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
In: Florida
11/23 2007
02:30 PM

DF said: >without sending half the neighborhood in a surrender frenzy<

ROFL!!!!

DF said: >Life is too short, I’ve spent a far greater share of it here rather than where I always really wanted to live, and I’ve had enough.<

Why don’t you come over here to America with us Froggy, you know we adore you!? Pack up your parents and bring them too! Only don’t listen to the Texans on this blog who keep trying to entice you to their state, rather come here to north Florida, ours is the best state and we need you here worse. Just kidding Texans, don’t shoot :) If I wasn’t born here and if I didn’t love Florida so much, Texas would be one of my other best choices.

 


Arch | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
11/23 2007
04:05 PM

DF: 

I like the Marlin 336.  I had one in Oklahoma in 1965 and it was a great brush gun.  Personally, I prefer it to the Winchester model 94 because it has right side, rather than top ejection.  The 336 will take a wide FOV scope if you want. (I prefer iron sights.)  I found the Model 94 upward ejection distracting when I was trying to keep a sight picture.  30/30 is a good cartridge if you hunt on wooded land and take shots under 200 yards.  You can hit a twig and not deflect the projectile as badly as with lighter higher speed rounds such as a 243.  Even though it is slow, use 180 g bullets and buy youself a good leather sling.  Before you buy, look at the Model 94.  Lots of my friends swear by it.

Arch


Grimmy | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
In: Where I'm at.
11/23 2007
04:36 PM

Actually, we could use an extra gun hand here in central California.

We’re surrounded and expecting an invasion of brain eating zombies any day now.

 

PS. Someone once said that if just one good man could be found then the civilization was worth saving. Due to you, the good folk at No Pasaran! and Enough, I’ve been working real hard at knocking off the French bashing (see? I even capitolize French like they’re real people now).

This is a hard habit to break. I hope you’re happy.

PPS. I would be really extra-double-mega miserable without my usual outlet for bile and foriegn devil type disgust, but the germans are stepping up just fine to fill the gap. God Bless their empty heads.


bonmotdot | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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11/23 2007
05:38 PM

Awww, French-Froggie, you know you’re always welcome on this side of the pond where we can all hug you to our collective American-size bosom (so to speak). 

(Plenty of hunting here in Texas, where about 97 percent of the land is in private hands because that’s who takes the best care of it.)

Everything is bigger in Texas, by the way… including those afore-mentioned bosoms.   Warning, though.  Some of the women here might be able to outshoot you.

 

 

 

 


Iwo Gina | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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In: Columbia, Maryland
11/23 2007
07:00 PM

I could always adopt you, you know.


2hotel9 | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
11/23 2007
09:20 PM

Hell, Froggy, the worst I got to deal with is my hardrice dealer disparaging me because I’m only spending $200 on ammo. I mean come on, he has 2 ex-wives and a herd of crumbcrunchers to support. As for the schmendrick you had to deal with, if he is shooting deer and wild pigs in France with a .444 what the hell is left?!?!? He dressing this game out with a sponge?


Grimmy | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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In: Where I'm at.
11/23 2007
09:48 PM

2hotel9:

 

It’s probably frag splash produced from the trees and dirt he hits around the deer and boar that does the actual killing.


tinga-tinga | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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11/23 2007
10:41 PM

Oh, nuts!  So close and yet so far.  Them Marlins are sweet.


Proof | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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In: Twinsburg, Ohio, USA
11/23 2007
11:09 PM

Monsieur Frogman: I know you don’t suffer fools lightly! It’s obvious that this gun seller is not a man of your caliber!


2hotel9 | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
11/24 2007
07:30 AM

Yea, he is probably running HEDPs in a bore diameter that big! Nothing says good eating like picking frags out of your venison.


G.W.C. | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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In: Colorado
11/24 2007
09:11 AM

I appreciate you not refering to that jackass as a gunsmith. As I am a gunsmith, I would have been a bit insulted. That idiot broke either rule 3 or 4 of being a gunsmith.

1. Never alter a gun in an illegal manner, unless it’s the end of the world. (i.e. converting semi-auto to full-auto)

2. Never alter a gun in a way that would decrease the value, unless the owner specifically requests otherwise. (The closer to factory condition, the more it is worth, even if damaged.)

3. Know your products! This way you can always give accurate information!

4. Never intentionally mislead a customer. Guns are specialized, make sure they get what they need, not what costs the most.

5. If you don’t know how, don’t agree to do the work!

 

.444 as a cowboy cartridge my ass!!


Arch | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
11/24 2007
09:31 AM

Another gun you may want to consider is the Browning BLR Lightweight 81.  It has a box magazine capable of holding pointed cartridges as opposed to the blunt nosed rounds in tubular mags.  You can get everything from 22-250 to 450 Marlin.  The  price is very reasonable $761 to $834 (€516 to €565).  The finish is so nice you might not want to take them into the woods.

Arch.


Zombie Boy | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
In: Waterloo, Iowa.
11/24 2007
08:39 PM

Dude, you have supressors in France, yet here in Iowa, in the great US of A, I cant? There is no justice.


Zombie Boy | 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
In: Waterloo, Iowa.
11/24 2007
08:43 PM

Also, a question: Over there, are you allowed to own millitary surplus rifles? i.e., stuff like Lee -Enfields, Mosin Nagants, Mausers, etc?


TooTall | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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United States
In: Utah
11/26 2007
11:18 AM

I believe the proper response to the gundealer would have been to mention that the French wiped out all of the Neanderthal’s in the region so they could take over. No scientific basis for this claim but what the heck, look at some of the claims about global warming. Let’s not let facts confuse us.


Folly | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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11/27 2007
04:06 PM

Next time tell him that the US would never let a bunch of uneducated immigrant schoolchildren take our capital hostage while our police sat by and watched.


Words Twice | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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11/28 2007
12:37 AM

Marlins are nice. I am very pleased with my 336C.


2hotel9 | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
11/28 2007
11:09 AM

From what I am reading in news articles it appears to be time for La Resistance to rise up and start killing this pieces of shit. The police do not seem capable of handling the task at hand.


Jay Stranahan | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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11/28 2007
03:08 PM

I owned a .444 a number of years ago. Marvelous gun, but I just couldn’t take the recoil—it’s basically a stretched-out .44 magnum, and loaded super-hot with the same frangible 240-grain bullet the .44 uses. Knew a fellow who went deer hunting with one, hit the animal in the shoulder, and blew the entire opposite front leg off at the shoulder. Made him sick and he swore off the gun after that. It’s too frangible a bullet going too fast.

Now. If you want a big-bore Marlin that’ll slap a deer/pig/bear/mastadon flat down on its ass *and* spoil zero amounts of meat, get the identical weapon in 45-70 Government. Both it and the .45 Long Colt cartridges have been in continuous production since 1873, so it’s an authentic Old West load. The standard 300-grain bullet holds together well, generates black-powder levels of recoil, and—in the immortal words of Elmer Keith—you can ‘eat right up to the bullet hole’. Bought one for my dad and he loves it. Also bought him a scout-scope mount that lets him park a pistol scope forward of the receiver and that is good for his old eyes. Get yours TODAY!


Bob | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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In: Stranger from out there
11/28 2007
05:04 PM

You rightfully have your undies in a bundle because of this incident, but Remington does not produce the BAR; Browning does. And the better ones are 100% made in (wait for it) Belgium, of all places. I have one, and it shoots like a bitch.


the dissident frogman | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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11/28 2007
05:27 PM
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Bob you’re absolutely right of course - corrected. I did have "my undies in a bundle" no matter how embarrassing the image and the thought.

Anyway, it would have been RAR, not BAR I guess.

I still stand by the claim that these are the result of US engineering however, no matter the actual place of production. I gather that some Winchester models are produced in Japan, but I imagine no one would deny the true paternity of these guns.

Lots of interesting answers and heartwarming marks of sympathy in this thread, thanks to all of you. As for those who suggest that I come and kill zombies in California or boars in Texas: trust me, I have more than enough incentives and I’m rather looking out for opportunities  when it comes to immigration on the other side of the pond. It seems to be easier to cross the Rio Grande illegally than make it through Ellis Island - or whatever office replaces it - legally these days…


2hotel9 | 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
11/28 2007
05:43 PM

OK, I did not want to be the one to have to just spell it out. Vacation package to Cancun. Then a mad dash, tempered with several stops to sample the local fauna and flora, to the Border. We can set up a rendevous to extricate you from the locals. Savvy?


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Date: 23rd November, 2007