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more power to ya Padidler....

show all the spendy stuff ya wanna...

but I don't think you'll impress many folks here...

maybe except a few other troll wannabes...

money and possessions isn't the mark that makes a good person or one happy...nor impress anyone but the poorest and stupidest...

I've had the opportunity to meet folks, be in their homes, meet their families, who could easily buy you 10 times over...

and ya know what... they weren't out to impress the masses nor did they act like they were the smartest person in the room by trying to make everyone else feel inferior...

so congrats about all your wealth, your toys, your education whatever that may be.. hope it makes you happy....

but your demeanor doesn't impress me on Iota...

his 45,000 Dollar Shotguns....trying to impress us all that he must be smarter than everyone here because he has a lot of expensive stuff....

Somebody started a thread about me because I support rational gun control, support Planned Parenthood, told the truth about Chainsaw Carly and called out Shrapnel for ground swatting grouse. You know, I brought a bit of reality, opinions shared by the majority of Americans to the campfire. My bad.

uhhhhh,,

you shared opinions shared by the majority of people YOU know...not what the majority of Americans share....

Quit being a pompous ass, and you'd be welcome like any other decent guy would here...

its not the difference of opinions so much, its how you act like you are superior and smarter than everyone else here...
when in reality you're showing what a dumbass you can be...

you're not real good as a people person are ya?

Thanks, Paul. The BIF photos were taken with a Nikon D300, which is now fairly old. Still waiting for the replacement with better high ISO performance and resolution. I could use two more stops and a 24MP sensor.

The landscapes were taken with a Zone VI camera, which is a 4x5 mahogany view camera, and a Rodenstock 210mm lens. Really a cool setup, and still the most economical way to get high quality large size prints. I have the sheet film developed, then scan them on my Epson scanner. This produces jpeg files of 120MB to as much as 190MB or so. These prints on the screen wall of my home theater are 20x24, grain free and tack sharp:



The one over the mantel is from the view camera, but the one to the left is out of the g15, while the one on the right was shot on a grouse hunt with my old Canon S90. On the back wall there are a couple of oldies shot with my old Olympus OM-1 and K64.

And a nice Beretta, 28/410 combo from Ron Shirk. Got a bunch of Berettas:



And a 12:



And a 20 gauge Gr VI:



And a nice little M2 in 20 gauge. This is a triple last year with 2 3/4" #4s:





Oh, this is an interesting little BL-4 in 20 gauge:

Very nice shotguns........ Bourgeoisie.


Politically,never trust an avid shotgunner (nor a fly fisherman).

While generalizations are hard to justify, I have noticed that both seem too reflective and convinced of their moral and intellectual superiority They tend to over-think;their supposedly superior intellect causing them to over-analyze issues (like gun control),and fall into the "trap" of creeping incrementalism which is the hallmark of Progressives. These enlightened individuals will bargain or vote away your rights in the name of perceived "solutions", which they clearly can't prove.

But they will lecture you about how "right" they are until you are sick of them.

Give them an inch and after they have seduced you into that, they will take a proverbial mile,like "lumping" guns into categories and denying access to same by certain people in society;and then another "category",and another class of people. Those with emotional "problems" today,post war vets tomorrow...the constant drip,drip,drip until nothing is left.


Incrementalism. I have grown cynical of listening to these people,and do not trust them as far as I could flip their $40,000 shotguns.


(Just like the pro abortion forces after Roe v Wade,where (IIRC) they justified first trimester abortions,.....and the "drip,drip,drip" began, until today,we are unceremoniously murdering new born infants with their heads stuck in the birth canal. Or tossing them into SS tubs and handling them with forceps because they can't be handled by hand....too humanizing.)

But those shotgunners...and fly fishermen....figure none of this will ever affect them. After all, they are "reasonable", enlightened people,their expensive shotguns are works of art,and of no interest to the state. After the "drip,drip,drip", they still get to keep and use them,atop a mountain of red tape and ammunition quotas.

Besides, who needs anything other than a $40,000 shotgun? Those "other guns",whether black, or semi-auto,or bolt action,are infernal machines of the masses. We'll take those away, restrict access.

No one commits mayhem with a H&H or Purdey, right? The working scrubs can't afford them,right?

OTOH, the riflemen tend to be barbarians, think in black and white,and are straight up in your face. I trust them....a lot more.....having been exposed a great deal, to both.

I don't know who they think they are fooling.

Except, sometimes a fly will catch more fish than hardware or bait.