codling99 Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 No, if they were happy with it, they'd just get on with it and shoot, instead of slagging off everybody with a decent gun. Oh and making up tedious stories about how they thrash them at the clay ground every time. :blink: never done clays,so wouldnt know ,only do shooting in the field,allways have a good chat with other shooters and eye each up each others guns and talk about them,never come across snobbery,glad i dont clay shoot lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 never done clays,so wouldnt know ,only do shooting in the field,allways have a good chat with other shooters and eye each up each others guns and talk about them,never come across snobbery,glad i dont clay shoot lol. :blink: It's not clay shooters that are the problem. It's the ratters and verminators who go to a clay ground once a year and try and make out they beat the world champion with their Hatstand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Logic Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 At the end of the day everyone should shoot the gun they like. What annoys the hell out of me is people who look down their noses at you simply because you like a different gun. My-way-or-the-highway types annoy the **** out of me whatever walk of life we're talking about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groach1234 Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 I wouldn't say im a gun snob but would not be seen dead with anyone with a gun not from the houses of Mr Purdey or Mr Holland George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 I learned my lesson very early when I turned up to a clay shoot with my Beretta and got completely stuffed by a guy who was shooting a really tired looking Baikal O/U non ejector with double triggers. A posh gun doesn't do anything for your scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog546 Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 The answer is simple as in all walks of life, It aint what you've got it's how you use it!!!!!! Just think of the unfortunate people of Haiti who would like a roof over their heads and surely they would not worry about how many bedrooms or garages and the size of the garden. Be grateful for what you have and enjoy it with one and all or rub everyones nose in it an enjoy it on your own!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC45 Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Hatstand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trxnav Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 generally if its pionted in the right direction and goes bang it does not matter what it looks like whats on the other end does not care what it looks like!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Medalist is a nicely built gun that should last at least 80 years if well looked after. Strikes me you met a grade A ****. I have shot all manner of guns in company from a Holland Royal and Beretta S06EELL to a £25 single barrel hammer gun, I have never experianced any snobbery at all BUT would it not be sweet to outshoot some **** with "all the gear and no idea" as my kids say with the Medalist or a similar gun. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Jesus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 (edited) A nice gun normally handles better, My F3 certainly does. I am glad this thread has revived from nearly a year since it started. To clarify the situation, if you own a B gun you do shoot better. I don't see many A class shooters using a lanber. So to sum up the pw membership and from reading a few posts there are indeed many on here who can afford a mainline gun but choose not to-This clearly means from my deductions that that they are tight. Just remember if you buy a 'B' gun you get invited to my exclusive coffee mornings Get it done fellas, buy a B gun-Sell your wife if you have to. Edited January 25, 2010 by starlight32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattslaptop247 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 I'm from Yorkshire, so I can only afford a cheap 'un, I wish I could say I thrashed the southerners with their Range rovers and Purdeys, but sadly not true :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 (edited) I do quite a bit of shooting both game and clays and I have still yet to see: 1. someone with a nice gun shoot really poorly 2. someone with a nice gun be nasty / look down on someone with a lesser gun. Indeed, on the whole I have found the Range Rover brigade have very good manners Edited January 25, 2010 by Mungler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 (edited) I do quite a bit of shooting both game and clays and I have still yet to see: 1. someone with a nice gun shoot really poorly 2. someone with a nice gun be nasty / look down on someone with a lesser gun. Indeed, on the whole I have found the Range Rover brigade have very good manners My thoughts exactly. I've never seen either either, if you know what I mean. Actually not quite true. There's a chap goes to Worsley occasionally, who's obviously got a few bob. He's got a Krieghoff and he doesn't shoot it terribly well. He's a nice guy though, nothing snobbish about him. Unfortunately, his performance brings forth a load of schoolboy sniggering and cloff cap green-eyed Baikal Hatstand socialist BS "my old man's a dustman" envy Edited January 25, 2010 by Chard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 I do quite a bit of shooting both game and clays and I have still yet to see: 1. someone with a nice gun shoot really poorly 2. someone with a nice gun be nasty / look down on someone with a lesser gun. Indeed, on the whole I have found the Range Rover brigade have very good manners I agree totally. In fact, last week a Range Rover owning gun asked me to take his motor to the next drive....It was the 4 litre supercharged jobby, and once out of sight I could not help feeding it a bit......I also went around the long way (twice) It also had all the custom walnut gunbox in the back, well tidy when you pull up and draw your matched pair out of it. Nice motors, they really are a bit of me if I had 60k going gash. Anyway when you are only 5ft 6 and you are in one you can't really help but look down on everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clutey Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Are you a gun snob if you list your collection in your signature?? Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 I do quite a bit of shooting both game and clays and I have still yet to see: 1. someone with a nice gun shoot really poorly 2. someone with a nice gun be nasty / look down on someone with a lesser gun. Indeed, on the whole I have found the Range Rover brigade have very good manners I've seen many examples of 1. over the years, (I'm sure I've met the Krieghoff wielding guy that Chard refers to ), but I can't recall ever seeing an example of 2. Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted January 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Are you a gun snob if you list your collection in your signature?? Just a thought. Not at all, and nor does owning one or many very expensive guns, make you a "gun snob"...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmiller Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Yeah its going on a bit now. Someone has cash, they buy a nice house, a nice car......nice clothes, nice gun?! Expensive things in general, arent really any better than less expensive things. Expensive 3 bed House, cheap 3 bed house. Can still live in it. My view on expensive guns is the same system as buying a house, buy cheap and therefore remain at the bottom of the ladder and have a limited choice. Buy a touch higher up the chain and you lose a little but still have a good amount to add to to go a step higher. Maybe i am talking **** but i shoot with guys with 5k+ brownings and farmers with Baikals and Lauronas. Does it really matter? Snobs tend to be ******* either way, down as they have had a snobbish up bringing and up because they are jealous of what other people have. Does it really matter? As already echoed, it what you do with it that matters. And if you enjoy peoples company what does it matter what they shoot or what they can afford. My guns a nice gun......and i am still a ******** shot. But hey ho, i still like to have it and hopefully can be something i give my son (if i am lucky enough to have one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEFTY478 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 My first gun was a FN FAL (SLR) L1A1 - around 34 years old at the time and was still going strong. No one on the ranges ever commented on its age, mostly 'cos they either had the same weapon, or the even older L2 or L4 (Sterling/Bren) SMG/LMG. Unfortuniately, the FA (amendments) Act 1987 made it unobtainable in the Uk after its retirement. Probably still in use in India or Pakistan or wherever we flogged them to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 i think there is a difference between owning a nice gun and been a gun snob, a gun snob is them who start threads abusing hatsan owners because they've got baretta's benellis or brownings, i personally think people should buy what they can afford and what they are willing spend if your fortunate to have loads of spare cash to afford a nice gun good luck too you you've worked for it but don't frown on others if they've not been as fortunate as you as they've probably worked equally hard for a hatsan/baikal or any other gun that gets tagged as cheap or entry level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 i think there is a difference between owning a nice gun and been a gun snob, a gun snob is them who start threads abusing hatsan owners because they've got baretta's benellis or brownings, i personally think people should buy what they can afford and what they are willing spend if your fortunate to have loads of spare cash to afford a nice gun good luck too you you've worked for it but don't frown on others if they've not been as fortunate as you as they've probably worked equally hard for a hatsan/baikal or any other gun that gets tagged as cheap or entry level Let me guess, You are often seen at your local clay ground beating all the baseball cap wearing toffs who have far too much money with your rusty old hatstand aren't you? I think you will find that the threads abusing hatstand owners are usually started by PW members who have a sense of humour and not by the ones with a chip on their shoulder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 i was shooting on a small shoot earlier this season with probably one of the biggest and richest farmers in the east midlands.he was shooting with a larouna!!.he still shot **** .but one of the friendliest and down to earth guys i've met. as a few have said already,it's not what you shoot with it's where you point it. a good friend of mine has a very nice matching pair of bosis sxs that were kept in the turkish embassy untouched for nearly 100 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 You are often seen at your local clay ground beating all the baseball cap wearing toffs who have far too much money with your rusty old hatstand aren't you? the point i was trying to make was as long as you don't make comments like the one you've made towards me your not a gun snob, but when it becomes a form of ridicule then you probably are a gun snob or just an **** hole either way i don't care what gun people use expensive or otherwise, as i said if you've got a dear gun you've probably worked hard for it so fair play, just don't ridicule less fortunate people who may also have worked equally hard for there gun i never claimed i was a good shot i'm probably average or below if the truth be know so i shoot to within my abilities, and yes i have owned a hatsan in the past and i'm on my third baikal and you won't find me down the clay club as i mainly shoot rabbits so have no real need to shoot clays that often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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