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If a genie granted me three wishes, I'm quite certain I'd use one of them to send an electrical surge to your IP address.

Maybe you could get some of Travis's GFY bumper stickers to mash on there...

My cap for when I go shooting.

Savage 99,

Anybody beyond the most basic definitions (which of course, YOU are not likely to do) of "loony" would find dozens of other meanings, including eccentric and foolish. Which apply perfectly, at certain moments, to the people who consider themselves rifle loonies.

While some writers used "aficionado" decades ago, it's far too tame for who we are, not mention pretentious, and far too long to fit across the front of a baseball cap. And even if it did, it's not the right word for who and what we are.

In fact, your objection reminds me of a guy who wrote to Wolfe Publishing years ago, objecting to a sentence I wrote containing the phrase "the subspecies of humanity sometimes referred to as a rifle loony."

Not only did he object to "loony" for the same reason as you (a very literal lack of understanding of the complexity and flexbility of American English), but the word "subspecies." Apparently he thought it meant subhuman.

Hey, come to think of it, was that you?

Elk hunter, you've gotta pass me the Intel on where to get that hat!!

Ole Savage99 is always good for a laugh. Whether he knows it or not.

There's a hat store in the local mall that does embroidering.

Ordered and received 2 hats. One is a Christmas gift for my hunting buddy. Excellent quality and ultra fast shipping. It's all good here.
Thanks Eileen!










and John.

Got it... Going on the hunt... Thank you

You're welcome.

I'm thinking that it shouldn't take an IQ level much above my size 12 boot to figure out the difference betwixt a cap and a hat!!

That's an interesting observation, but if you researched the meanings of hat and cap the "difference" might not be so obvious as you make it. Along with access to the Internet, our house contains copies of the most recent printed versions of Webster's unabridged dictionary, the most accepted reference for American English, and the Oxford English Dictionary, which is considered even more of an overall English resource because it contains far more of the etymology of words.

You can research these for a long time and find a lot of interesting stuff, but what it basically comes down to is a "cap" is a type of hat, just like bonnets are a type of hat. Some definitions suggest hats have brims, that caps are just a tight covering for the head, but the Rifle Loony hats/caps have brims, though they're not as large as the brims on some other types of hats.

The inclusion of words that drag our rifles into rude speak do not make us look even good let alone better.

"Rude speak"?

You are indeed kinda slow. "Rifle loony" has been commonly used as a synonym for rifle aficionado and enthusiast for at least 15 years now. Did you just realize that? Or were you so busy surfing the Internet for one-sentence answers to everything that you didn't notice? Or explaining, yet again, that .22 caliber rifles can't kill deer?

Decades ago many shooters terms like rifle crank, gun bug, etc. Were those considered "rude speak" back when you were young?

The selective use of the ignore feature has greatly enhanced my campfire experience. I have only used a couple of times: once for some guy with Savage in his name and once for stick something or other, dumb stick or little stick, slow or something like that.

JB, get ready for his copy/paste of the meanings of "crank" and "bug" from dictionary.com.

What's the old saying,

Been there,

done that,

got the hat (or cap in this instance)




Still have the original,


Prolly ought to update it though


JAPPFT,

GWB

geedubya,

Hey, that's the hat RIFLE magazine offered for a while! Those haven't been available for a while. Ours has a different logo: "Grade A, Certified Rifle Loony."

Have worn mine to a bunch of gun shows and so far most people who see it smile--or even laugh, especially the wives of rifle loonies.

Once in a while, however, some guy doesn't get it. He'll say, "What's a rifle loony?" Whereupon his wife says, "You are!"