flaco Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 And as long as I'm in the mood... Remember when we--okay, a few of us--had a big bone to pick with that other site, where they didn't have anything better to do than call us Bubba? I still go back there. Most recently to the Czech forum. I like Vz24s. Anyway, some poor who wanted to know about his Romanian refurb was foolhardy enough to make a post. Wanted to know the year of the rifle, etc., etc. He got some info, then admitted that he'd use it as a shooter for a while, then turn it into a custom rifle. You guessed it! Some know-nothing jumped down his throat. About devaluing his $150 "investment" in a Romanian refurb mis-matched parts rifle. Don't guess he'll be back. All on a forum that has about 6 new threads in the last month. It must be lonely at the top. flaco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Whadayaknow? Some things never change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdog Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Whadayaknow? Some things never change. LMAO I went to a site like that. The top in BOLD letters, STICKY, DO NOT POST ANY QUESTIONS OR MATERIAL IN REGARDS TO SPORTERIZING! I was like, dang. Ill move on now. And this was on a Mosin-Nagant site. Hmmm, lets see. You get offended when I cut up a $35 rifle that companies are all but giving away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roscoedoh Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 LMAO I went to a site like that. The top in BOLD letters, STICKY, DO NOT POST ANY QUESTIONS OR MATERIAL IN REGARDS TO SPORTERIZING! I was like, dang. Ill move on now. And this was on a Mosin-Nagant site. Hmmm, lets see. You get offended when I cut up a $35 rifle that companies are all but giving away. "You're damaging a historical artifact from a by-gone era! Don't you know that some poor conscript toted that rifle around with him? Maybe even shot a German or American or two with it?? How could you screw that up you heartless dog you??? Afterall, all history is worth preserving. Even if it means I buy up every last arsenal refinished, soaked in cosmoline, cracked stock $35 Ruskie rifle out there! Do it in memory of the Communists that made this world what it is!!" Me personally...its my rifle...if the barrel is worn out and it won't shoot, I don't have any use for it. A rifle is a tool, not a historical artifact. Or look at it another way...lunatics like these are just preserving the current crop of C&R guns to ensure that our grandchildren will have Mausers, Enfields, and Mosins to sporterize long after we're gone!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 where's that post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Post a link to that site. I got some great photos I'd like to post there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 These aren't it, but some things haven't changed. Heck, I haven't been there for a LONG time. first post second post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Tony, I have not been there for a long time either, but I can see that things are still the same. I am curious as to why so many of them use the same avatar. I always knew they thought alike, now I see they all look alike too! Quite boring, as each one has to second, third, etc., what the previous "poster" said. That makes whatshisname's traffic go way up. I remember a time when I was there that he complained about the expense of all the traffic. Well, you get what you pay for! fritz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 (an appeal to the historical waste would be utterly wasted on them. ) OOOOOh that hurts These are the same people who got mad at me for pointing out that the Koran advocates holy war...the day after 9/ 11!!!!! That is why I moved here. karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roscoedoh Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Well shucks, I guess we can't all be as well educated or stubbornly persistent as the historians on gentleman Bill's board. But at least, however heathen we may be, at least we here are a group of individuals who have our own minds, our own ideas, and a willingness to share or if necessary, defend our own positions. I was once an active member on Bill's site, but after being chastised for A. being a new, ignorant member and B. suggesting that my $90 made-after-the-war Yugoslavian Mauser needed a scope and better trigger, I said the hell with 'em and left. I shall continue on doing as I wish with my property and if that hairlips the purists on Bill's board, they can get bent. And...for everything else...there's Sporterizing.com!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 His guidelines say we can't antagonize him, talk politics or religion. Shoot! Well, keeps the focus on drawing the advertisers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothmog Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Well, I did enjoy 'that other site' at one time, but noticed recently how sharply the number of viewers had dropped of late. What on earth happened? Did the milsurp crowd all go to Gunboard.com? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 These aren't it, but some things haven't changed. Heck, I haven't been there for a LONG time. first post second post I checked out those links. Boy, those guys are some real dipsticks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamprat Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 These are the same folks that raise hell over any new gun control law. Yet try to enforce thier ideas of what I can do with my gun. Makes no since does it? Swamprat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 SGN has been running a series on sporterizing a Mosin-Nagant. The author/gunsmith does some real nice work and there are lots of tips in his articles. His goal is to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or make a MN purdy. Next up he is going to chop the mag so it is flush with the bottom of the new stock. I'm a couple issues behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 It's getting to the point where the dealer supplies of milsurps is drying up. Now you have to buy from those who bought, so it will cost you more. Who cares? There's lots of guns of all types in circulation. I'd sure rather have a Browning A-Bolt than a Mauser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Going back to those two posts that FC listed----I believe the first one was on whatshisname's Mosin Nagant forum. I used to frequent both that one and ours, and it happened one time that I had just completed a scope job on one of his "historical" rifles. I was so proud of my work, that in my haste (and possibly too many schnapps) I posted on the wrong forum. Only by doing some quick crawfishing did I keep from being banned then and there. Oh, it happened later (my banning), but it was not for speaking about sporterizing. Instead I found out later from Emul8 that whatshisname banned me because I did not agree with him on something (the topic eludes me now). It was not nearly as pointedly as fritz has been here, but it was to whatshisname. Here's the pic of my work that I mistakenly posted on his site--- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/fritz/1676762a.jpg fritz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Since we're ornery cusses that like a fight- everybody post their favorite sporter over there and see what happens! I'm feeling like a jerk today, so I bless the activity. You might need a new screen name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldbikewrench Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Read the 2 post from that other place. Wow that is a lot of hate toward fellow gun owners. Too bad. But I am not an arrogant/foolish monkey. I am a gun owner and will do to it what I want to because it is mine. Same as my motorcycles etc... Again thank you for this site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Read the 2 post from that other place. Wow that is a lot of hate toward fellow gun owners. Too bad. But I am not an arrogant/foolish monkey. I am a gun owner and will do to it what I want to because it is mine. Same as my motorcycles etc... Again thank you for this site! Very well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold shot Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Holey Moley, an' I thought I was with a bad attitude. Sheeze, makes me look like a,a,a, ok never mind. I'm good with it.I ain't goin' back there.less I hear more fightin' words. If I wanna make um sweet or semi sweet ,that's my business. That's my story an' I'm a stickin' to it. AAAARRR!!!!. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorblade31 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hey I just thought of something. If surplus Nagants aren't cheap old rifles anymore as he said, why do the have dozens of them for $80 at every gunshow I go to? Really, altering an $80 rifle hardly counts as money down the drain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ah, you seem to forget the historical value! That gun may have blown the brains out of some kid, or maybe some old lady! How dare you turn commie instruments of a defunct nation into some distorted firearm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roscoedoh Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 How dare you turn commie instruments of a defunct nation into some distorted firearm! I would say I'm doing it because its fun, or because I need another hunting rifle. However, to tell you the truth, and because I can afford to, I do it because I know it aggravates you to no end. Na na - boo boo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I wonder why they worry about preserving M48s and arsenal refurbed rifles when the large majority of these rifles have never seen combat. I think I will sport a M48 or something like that so I can have a good deer rifle and something to do. What I wouldnt do is sport an all matching or vet bringback German mauser or an arisaka or something that was actually used in combat or something historical. The Yugo SKS rifles have never seen a day of combat and their only history is sitting in a bath of cosmoline. There is a world of difference between a sportable milsurp and a historical milsurp. These guys on that other site look like fools thinking that we must have all of these guns that havent even been issued to a soldier. Would I sport a post war mauser or a mauser that wasnt used in WWII, of course, would I sport a rifle used in WWII or WWI, no I wouldnt. There is also a difference between bubba and a true customizer. Here is a bubba job for sale on auction arms http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayi...itemnum=8447620 A bubba doesnt take pride in their work and just hacks at the stock to make the gun resemble a deer rifle, a customizer personalizes the rifle and takes care in making a hunting rifle. Bubbas are vandals, customizers are artists(there are a ton of artists here on this site). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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