A video tour of my collection

Thanks for the comments guys. Well, most of them.

I'm a little disappointed in all the paranoid posts, but I guess I'm not surprised. Lots of gun owners seem to be just ITCHING for something to go wrong all the time. Planning for apocalypse scenarios and whatnot.

The worst thing is that your paranoid posts are more likely to give a burglar funny ideas than to help me out. I would be grateful if a moderate would delete these posts or at least parts of posts for that reason.

Breaking into the house of an avid gun owner who practices run 'n gun regularly is a very bad idea. Especially one with a yappy dog and who is apt to be home or awake at odd hours. I would pick easier quarry, if I were a crook. :cool:
 
@ GM1967: Nice Auto-5. I bet the nicks on the bottom of the stock have an interesting story behind them. One of the elegant touches of these old Brownings, in my opinion, are the rounded bottom of the pistol grip.

@ Mello2u: My camera doesn't geotag. I don't know how many times I touched triggers, but I do know that the guns were all clear, as I checked them right before the video. Since you were no in my presence during the making of it, I'm not obliged to show you, nor to keep my finger off my triggers. Thanks anyway for your concern.

@ Mudinyeri: See above.

@ Master Blaster: You were right. But I won't let it get to me and ruin the entertainment for everyone else.
 
Not really...

A lot of gun owners don't 'itch' for something to go wrong all the time. An old and apt saying is the "He who longs for peace must first prepare for war".
I don't mean to be rude or offensive but I find your willingness to post a video of your collection to be naive and dangerous. Hopefully no nefarious individuals will see it and if they do they may not know where you store your collection. If you are ever placed in the position of having to defend yourself in a shooting situation you may find, to your dismay, that such videos may be used to label you in court as a 'gun nut' or worse. Having photo records of your collection is a very good idea. Posting it on an open forum is just dumb.
 
Nice collection

Thanks for sharing. I agree, the paranoids are just helping the zombies. The reason I wouldn't worry if I posted something like that, is it is a deterent. Someone you know personally would be a more likely suspect, who wouldn't even necessarily have seen the video.
I am like you with trigger clicking. I guess it's not disciplined, huh? I just know we did it in the Army with a washer balanced on our barrel to train in steady trigger contol, and that's why I do it, and to form muscle memory. (being a saxaphonist has showed me a lot about muscle memory too, so I know it is a factor)

I didn't know about Charles Daly making a Hi-Power before, interesting.
 
Smaug, you're right. I wasn't in your presence while you were fingering those triggers. Nevertheless, I'm tired of reading and hearing about gun owners "accidentally" shooting themselves and others and making the rest of us look bad.

I really don't care one way or the other if you bleach yourself from the gene pool ... just make sure it doesn't reflect poorly on responsible gun owners when you do it.

Here's a little more food for thought from the blog of Mike Vandenboegh:

I have a question: How long will your safe protect valuables when a home-invasion gang is holding a pistol to your two-year-old daughter's head? There's a lot of guys who have some gold or silver tucked away on the top shelf of their gun safes. That's fine. But what I am questioning here is the belief that a safe -- and a safe alone, absent firearms and the will to use them -- can protect your valuables from predators. Even if it is a break-in while you are not there, they will discover the safe, conclude it has valuables, and come back later with a better plan and a bigger crew when you are home to open it for them and available for a little friendly persuasion.

There is a man up in Winston County I know who once had a meth addict try to rob his house about ten years ago. The meth addict did not survive the experience. He regretted having to kill the man, but observed that the predator's death had netted some benefits. "Bought me a heap of peace and quiet," he told me. I pointed out that he still carried, even when he was on his own property. "Well," he explained, "there's always some dumb sonofabitch that don't know me and ain't smart enough to take the time to ask around."

Safes are fine, I suppose. Vigilance, ability and a neighborhood defense plan are better. Building a reputation for those things doesn't hurt either.
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aryfrosty said:
Having photo records of your collection is a very good idea. Posting it on an open forum is just dumb.
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A lot of us post photos of our collections here, both gun-by-gun (LOTS of us) and collection pictures as a whole. (fewer of us)

Does the fact that mine is a video make me dumb, while the others are not dumb? Does the video footage of the inside of my home and gun cabinet somehow make my home easier to find in a search?

I think that you and a few others have made up your minds that this is somehow more risky because it is a video and not a photo.

Also, to the person who said he was able to get my name and address from this video, I think it is BS. Please PM me with my full name and address, and I will readily admit it. I can see how an admin. of this forum might come across that information, because they have my IP address, but I don't think this information is public.
 
Nice collection bud :)

Aww hell folks, give him some slack. I didn't see anything that was unsafe. So he dry fired a few pistols that he showed was unloaded. Perhaps im just around that kind of stuff to often and eat supper while tinkering with gun parts.

I thought the video was neat. If someone doesn't want to do it then they don't have to, no need to start name calling and such.
 
Hey Smaug, I enjoyed your "tour". You have a nice "starter" collection. One little nitpick: your Ruger .22 pistol does have adjustable sights but the tapered barrel is not a bull barrel.
 
I like it

I always enjoy having the oppertunity to see folks stuff. It's one of the best parts of visiting friends and family. You are what I would call “a typical gunny”, and you would certainly fit right in with the people I like and those I compete with.

As for people who are afraid to let others know that they are really into firearms, I don't understand them. All people I know who compete have thousands of rounds of bullets delivered to their door or mail box, wear their team shirts, jackets, hats and so on when coming or going. I have some young neighbors that keep a shotgun target by their garage door next to the driveway, just to give miscreants a fair warning. And, “Warrior Knitter” (my wife) has a You-Tube channel with about a thousand videos of classes, competitions, and practices we and our friends have done.
 
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dgludwig said:
One little nitpick: your Ruger .22 pistol does have adjustable sights but the tapered barrel is not a bull barrel.
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Believe it or not, that's what Ruger called it. It is a lot thicker than their usual tapered barrel, but still tapered. Hence, "tapered bull barrel."

I'm with you though, either it is straight and thick and a bull barrel, or it is tapered. Ruger Marketing had their way. They probably figured that was the best way to let folks know it is thicker than usual.

Also, if you're going to call mine a starter collection, you are pretty much bound to show yours! :D I agree though, it is not worth much, as collections go, but I like the stories as well as I like the guns. None of those family guns are worth much to anyone but me, for instance.


shortwave said:
WHAT!

...and not even a 'thanks' on the pedicure tip.
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Well, since you're pressing it, I'll give you TMI, hehehe. I have to let my big toenails grow longer, then cut them flat across, as they tend to get ingrown on me. I'll put up with the talons, instead of *****, infected toes. :)
 
Smaug,

Don't let the criticism get to you. No matter what you post on here you are bound to have the contrarians criticize you. Read the lower part of my signature.

Btw, you are more likely to be trailed home from a gun store and robbed than some thief online coming to your house for your collection.

Personally, I would love someone to try my house. If the dogs and alarm don't get them, my wife or I will get them. :D
 
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Also, if you're going to call mine a starter collection, you are pretty much bound to show yours! I agree though, it is not worth much, as collections go, but I like the stories as well as I like the guns. None of those family guns are worth much to anyone but me, for instance.
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I hope you realize that by the term "starter collection", I wasn't denigrating family/heirloom guns-I think that genre is the most valuable of all. What I meant was that when you get to be my age (68) and you look back at your current fine collection, I think you'll agree that you were just starting...:)

Believe it or not, that's what Ruger called it. It is a lot thicker than their usual tapered barrel, but still tapered. Hence, "tapered bull barrel."
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That's interesting to know.
 
Also, to the person who said he was able to get my name and address from this video, I think it is BS.
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That might have been me. I said I found your home town with only a couple minute's Google work - not your address. I suggested that might take a couple hours.
 
I didn't watch it all. It's almost 18 minutes long! I would condense all the good stuff (guns) down to about 3 minutes tops. Maybe my attention span just isn't that good.:D
 
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