I Guess I'm Getting Old

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Shotgun693

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I'd rather carry my Colt's SAA than a plastic gun. I'd rather use my SXS than a auto-shucker. I feel much better with my Marlin .38-55 than with a plastic rifle that shoots a bullet the size of a bugger. Yeah, I guess I'm getting old.
And when a young good looking girl tells you that you remind her of her Grandfather, she's danged sure not flirting with ya!
 
You may be getting older but at least you're still a pretty smart guy in my book. I have much more respect for a man with a Colt SAA than some some "expert" with a Glock. These kids today will believe anything.
 
I'm no spring chicken either. I know this because it hurts to just get out of bed in the morning. And I need glasses to read what I am typing. But I actually appreciate and prefer those 'plastic' booger-shooting rifles and european bottom feeders. I also prefer bic lighters to zippos...
 
Colt s/a

Carrying a Colt s/a would not make me feel undergunned at all.My only concern would be if I needed a quick reload.
 
I feel very comfortable with stuff older than I am .Cartridges that have 100 years or more proving themselves . 45-70, 6.5x55, 30-06, 45 acp !
 
Over thirty years passes, and you still remember how to strip down and put back together an M1911. Then you leave the water running in the sink and the range top on.
 
Tried and true

I guess I'll have to agree with Shotgun693.I tend towards older tech.I'm no Ludite (else I wouldn't be here) but I like and am comfortable with the old school.And I think that is the point,what are you comfortable with.And I also think the 1911 will be around for another century.
 
Shotgun auto-loading technology has gotten better and will only get better.

People can make mistakes racking a pump and I think the probability of an auto not being able to fire due to mechanical failure is less than a pump not being able to fire due to human error.
 
I Guess I fit the category of an old man Just had my 73 rd Birthday:eek: I'm Still able to enjoy most of my hobbies i.e. Hunting, fishing, Shooting my guns and some traveling . I have things hurting that I didn't know I had, but try to stay active as much as possible. I like old Cars and old Revolvers. Have Children, Grand Children and a Great Grand Daughter. Yep I am Getting old.:(
 
I work better with a tool that I am comfortable with.

My nephews like the semi-auto's and will put ten rounds down range before hitting anything. I use a revolver and usually make each shot count.

My hunting rifle has seen several falls which resulted in scratches. If I wanted to, I could get some sand paper out and sand them out and refinish the gun. Them boys with their plastic, they get a scratch in it and they pout for a week.

I may be getting older, but I still enjoy the heft of a wooden stock and the feel of a revolver. Maybe next year I'll try something new.
 
Well not old by any means(23), even though I certainly feel it some days, plus hair already starting to gray and a half bum knee, I've often said that while I may carry a Glock daily, if I knew I was going into a fight and that I would need a handgun, I would carry either my Model 10 or my M-1991A1. Nothing beats them.

And while I may wade out in the swamp with a Benelli auto shucker, you can bet that an Ithaca 37 is what I grab when something goes "bump" in the night.
 
How does getting old correspond to preferring nineteenth century weaponry?

Certainly you are not old enough for it to be nostalgia.
 
I would say that it all goes back to you hardly ever see an old timer praising the virutes of the latest Gen Whatever Glock at the gun store to the guy, with his girlfriend looking at the old S&W Model 19.

It always seems to me that the mall ninja who so feverently believes that Glock is the best thing to take into combat since wet comms, are young bucks who look upon anything with wooden grips, exposed hammers, or steel as something less "tactical" and therefor less effective in a "tactical" enviroment.

My exposure to this type of shooter was mercifully limited to the young heavy set fellow at the gun shop who informed me that the Model 19 wasn't very "tactical" and that I would do better with a Glock or XD, too this day the Lady friend says he was trying to force me into buying something so as not to look scared in front of her. One of the first responses I had was to ask him, since he was an expert and everything, why I carried a Beretta if the Glock was perfection? Further followed by a burning desire to ask him if it was a tactical adventure for him to get out of bed in the morning, and lasty a strong desire to shove my CAB in his face.

Whew, rant over, but it always seems as if those who deride classic guns and technology or youngins.
 
young bucks who look upon anything with wooden grips, exposed hammers, or steel as something less "tactical" and therefor less effective in a "tactical" enviroment.
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Don't go lumpin' us "young bucks" all in together now, there old timer:)

I'll drive a plastic car, eat with a plastic spoon, wear plastic shoes, and type this on a plastic keyboard - but not a fan of the plastic guns.

Doesn't get much more "perfect" than wood and steel (does alloy count?).
 
Well, there is nothing wrong with liking old firearms, I have a whole collection of them. However, as nice as they are, I don't try to pretend they are superior weapons.

Most decent shooters can shoot circles around a double action revolver with a semi auto. Not to mention a SAA. I'm talking about any sort of combat/defensive type course of fire. That fact has been well known since the 1950s.

Fast Glock Shooting

I grabed the first Glock at speed video I could find. That makes a SAA look very slow. Please don't post videos of Bob Muden breaking balloons with just a powder charge, or some cowboy action shooter shooting from behind a cardboard cactus cutout. Neither of those have much bearing on reality.
 
Wisdom means being old enough to realize you don't know everything.

Theres an old saying my dad who is going on 90 years old still loves to say.

A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he seen the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard, why don't you imitate this wise old bird.
 
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