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Moly. Yes some still use it but it was touted as the thing for all. Now not so much.
Any other fads? Lets hear of them.
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Short Magnums ( except the .300)
SAUMs
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Remington Accelerators...  .. Although some of you whipper snappers probably never got to shoot any..
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Remington's Model 700 EtronX Buck Roger's specials.
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Some came and went, and then came back again. I have an old 2.5x Noske scope that from what I've been able to figure out was made in the 1940's. The elevation dial supposedly goes out to 800 yards with 150-grain .270 Winchester loads. Bushnell brought out a similar deal, but with different dials you could use for various cartridges, in the late 1970's. Both of those disappeared, but guess what....
I shot a bunch of .30-06 Remington Accelerators back in the day, a lot on running jackrabbits from a Remington 760. Also shot quite a few prairie dogs with a .220 Swift ETronix 700, and after a few shots you COULD tell it had a quicker lock time. Think I still have a box of the ammo in my collection, but the rifle was a loaner.
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Guess I didn't get the memo, as I'm not planning to give up my SAUM-chambered Model 7 anytime soon. I also run moly in it...... (grin)
One fad I don't quite get is putting all these expensive weather-resistant coatings on factory guns, when their bores are still made of CM steel.
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I don't get fast twist 22's either and I really don't get fluted barrels.
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I only buy things in camo with the Bone Collector emblem.
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The blue Barnes XLC.......
The 30 TC although it never really got started so might not qualify.
The 308 Marlin Express.
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A "fad" that has come but has not gone yet. Is the Berger hunting bullet fad. It is yet to be seen as to if it fades down to a dull roar (or whisper) or not. My prediction is that in a few years the popularity will fade.
No need to tell me how wrong I am time will tell the story. And I have been wrong before.
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I sent a few Accelerators down a barrel back in the day... One fad that never quite arrived: caseless ammo. There was quite a bit of hype at one time, IIRC.
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Mullets and the 7 em-em mag are still the rage here in Kentucky. Time marches on, but everything remains the same. Fads don't exist....
Just last week I saw a gun rack in the back window of a truck...with a 700 BDL....see thru's....and a Simms barrel thingy. Honest to God....fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view. The truck had been camo painted as well.
It makes me smile to call this place home.
I enjoy handguns and I really like shotguns,...but I love rifles!
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Fads hhhmm lets see... 30-378, 300rum, 7stw, 376 steyr, 458 lott, 416ruger
Rifles hawkeye alaskan (ugly ass rifle)
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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I've never understood why trounds didn't change the world as we know it...
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30-378s Rock 
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Short Magnums ( except the .300)
SAUMs
" Compact" magnums�. RUM...Too
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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A "fad" that has come but has not gone yet. Is the Berger hunting bullet fad. It is yet to be seen as to if it fades down to a dull roar (or whisper) or not. My prediction is that in a few years the popularity will fade.
No need to tell me how wrong I am time will tell the story. And I have been wrong before.
8mmwapiti Yeah, but most fads are harmless...like superlights in belted magnums w/short tubes...just hurt egos. Frangible hunting boolits are stupid AND harmful, IMO. WSSMs in all the wrong calibers.
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To be a fad requires something actually be popular for awhile. That eliminates Rem's Etonix and 5mm RF. And Winchester's .307, .225, .284 and "Big Bore".375. And Marlin's .444.
Fads include Rems dog-leg bolt handles on short 600 rifles and .17 calibers. And "stainless" scopes. And the rash of camo finished hunting scopes. And thumb-hole rifle stocks and the grotesq exagerations of Weatherby's very functional rifle stocks; Winslow's rifles come to mind.
Something that once blossomed and faded but still won't quite go away (but should) are those god-awful "see through" scope mounts.
Some of the things that died out but shouldn't have were the excellant William's and Lyman receiver mounted hunting type peep sights and flat top post front sights.
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Nosler etip, partition gold, remington extended range ammo,
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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Hopefully the new ugly assed Rugers will be a non-fad and a flop. So far, sales are pointing that way.
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I agree that thing is horrible looking
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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The Butt Out tool and camo undapants.
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The .30-06? Maybe not. Maybe the .223 AI and McSwirleys? 
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Cryo'ed barrels. (Blatantly plagiarized from the latest Handloader)
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I've never understood why trounds didn't change the world as we know it... too hard to reload!
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Well, I guess I am dating myself a bit here, but I have shot a few Jackrabbits and ground squirrels with Rem Accelerators, Owned two versions of the Foul Out gizmo, Tried the Simms barrel thingy, shot hundreds of Barnes Blue bullets, Still Moly all of my bullets that are destined to achieve 3500fps or more, and my few remaining hunting rifles look like Walnut and shiny blue Bean Field rifles except for my 416 Rigby which looks like something John Rigby himself would have put together in his shop 90 or so years ago.
I hope ALL the WSM's annd SAUM's go away as fads.
Looks like John Lazzeroni's Rifles have lost thier luster. For a while, every gun rag had one on the cover or in a special article. Too bad on those, I liked the calibers though not so much the rifles.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
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Fads hhhmm lets see... 30-378, 300rum, 7stw, 376 steyr, 458 lott, 416ruger
Rifles hawkeye alaskan (ugly ass rifle) I remember the 30-378...I wanted one so bad, glad I couldn't afford it. This is my favorite thread in a while... I guess I should contribute...German style post reticles maybe?
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Fads hhhmm lets see... 30-378, 300rum, 7stw, 376 steyr, 458 lott, 416ruger
Rifles hawkeye alaskan (ugly ass rifle) I remember the 30-378...I wanted one so bad, glad I couldn't afford it. This is my favorite thread in a while... I guess I should contribute...German style post reticles maybe? OK, now I really KNOW I am a relic! I have that reticle in my Burris Posi Lock Scope atop my 416 Rigby. The Posi Lock Scopes have fallen from favor of late, and yet I remember one gunwriter touting that feature as "the next great advancement in hunting rifle scopes since lens coatings" I still love 'em (Except when I have to sight them in) and have them on all three of my remaining hunting rifles.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
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What y'all talking about. The 300 RUM still Rules!
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
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Kinda like the .264 Win Mag. Stilll the best Antelope & Mulie Caliber on the planet.
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Remington Accelerators... .. Although some of you whipper snappers probably never got to shoot any.. I think I've still got a box of '06 Accelerators floating around here somewhere. They weren't very accurate in my rifle back then but on a good day they'd really ruin a ground hog's day.
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I still use mine and like it!
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I know a 'fad' that just never seems to want to stop.
Win 94 in 30-30. I swear there are more of those rifles out hunting and given to sons and daughters as their first hunting rifle then any other single combo in rifle / cartridge history (at least for Center fire)
Was in full swing when I came into this world and it seems it will still be going strong when I leave.
Compared to that even the ol' M98 mauser seems like a passing fad !!!
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I don't care if the saum's are just a fad, I love mine! I am slowly amassing enough brass to keep it fed for the rest of my days.
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Buffalo plaid hunting jacket and matching hat with ear flaps.
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Percussion ignition system. It came, it went, and came back again. I still don't think it's an idea that will ever catch on...
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I guess I should contribute...German style post reticles maybe?
I just had one put in my 2-7X Leupold with CDS... Travis
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I guess I should contribute...German style post reticles maybe?
I just had one put in my 2-7X Leupold with CDS... Travis Well that is just great. I finally come up with a great fad that died out and you go and make it popular again. Some peoples kids...
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It's pretty freakin' awesome too. FYI.
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What platform are you using it on? It seems like it would really be home on an AR or a slug gun, but not so great for a bolt gun.
I could be wrong, but it seems like it would make correcting misses a bit difficult at there is very little to reference off of in your sight picture.
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I guess I should contribute...German style post reticles maybe?
OK, now I really KNOW I am a relic! I have that reticle in my Burris Posi Lock Scope atop my 416 Rigby. The Posi Lock Scopes have fallen from favor of late, and yet I remember one gunwriter touting that feature as "the next great advancement in hunting rifle scopes since lens coatings" I still love 'em (Except when I have to sight them in) and have them on all three of my remaining hunting rifles. Dad had a Bushnell Scope Cheif IV 3-9 with command post put on his Rem 760 30-06 back about 1965. He still claims it is the best reticule system ever invented. The scope is now mounted on my inexpensive Savage HMR. I had it out the other day messing around. The post will subtend a deer at anything over three hundred yards, and with the post retracted the cross hairs are so thin as to be invisible in any but the best light. With a decent duplex, it would be a hell of a nice scope.
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I guess my house is the Land of Misfit Toys. I like German post hairs on my lower magnification scopes, I love Remington 600s, And my newest dust collector is chambered in .375 Winchester. I guess I'll have to wait till folks are throwing away their WSMs and RSUMs before I can pick them up for chump change. The 5MM Rem Mag I picked up several years ago was gotten at a steal and shoots now as good as it did 40 years ago when it was new. Yes I love when fads go out of style. Means bargain time. I keep my Z Cavaricci pants in moth balls because the early 90s will return!
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Trebark is still the best actual hiding camo to use in hardwood forests. Makes a guy disappear pretty easily.
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Well, 8mmwapiti, my vote would be 8mm cartridges... 
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i remember those. when i was 15, i thought than any decent bow worth its salt had to have one. I was also obsessed with High Country bows at the time. interesting how things change
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Well, 8mmwapiti, my vote would be 8mm cartridges... To be a "fad" they would have had to be popular at one time. In the US of A There has only been two dozen 8mms ever sold 12 8 mags and 12 325s. Well that was the last count that I heard. 8mmwapiti
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thats funny my son bought one of the lastest greatest bowtechs like $1000 bucks and my old POS woreout High country shoots just as accurate and 20fps faster , but my arrows were 20 grains lighter. guess the modern deer can't be killed with an old bow LOMAO
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Oneida Strike Eagle design i remember that one too. they were ... not quiet
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thats funny my son bought one of the lastest greatest bowtechs like $1000 bucks and my old POS woreout High country shoots just as accurate and 20fps faster , but my arrows were 20 grains lighter. guess the modern deer can't be killed with an old bow LOMAO I had 2 different high countrys. at the end of the day, they were too heavy due to the cast aluminum riser. the 2nd one had "hatchet cams". I spent a lot of time shooting it ... harsh draw, loud, and carried like a boat anchor. of course, i didnt realize any of that until better stuff came along.
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Well, 8mmwapiti, my vote would be 8mm cartridges... To be a "fad" they would have had to be popular at one time. In the US of A There has only been two dozen 8mms ever sold 12 8 mags and 12 325s. Well that was the last count that I heard. 8mmwapiti Well HOT DAM!!! I am in an ELITE GROUP!! I own 2 of the 325's! LOL My vote would be those battery opperated hunting socks that were around in the 80's and 90's
Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money but we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money. What's interesting is the first group WORKED for their money but the other group didn't.
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thats funny my son bought one of the lastest greatest bowtechs like $1000 bucks and my old POS woreout High country shoots just as accurate and 20fps faster , but my arrows were 20 grains lighter. guess the modern deer can't be killed with an old bow LOMAO I had 2 different high countrys. at the end of the day, they were too heavy due to the cast aluminum riser. the 2nd one had "hatchet cams". I spent a lot of time shooting it ... harsh draw, loud, and carried like a boat anchor. of course, i didnt realize any of that until better stuff came along. y old h country is a split limb single cam (its the orginal Mattews cam ) its light enough, none if any heavier than the boys new one. I can't remember the model right now , and the sticker wore off , it is not one of the 4-runners though. The old magnisum risers with hatchet cams were a bit heavy and rough shooting.
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thats funny my son bought one of the lastest greatest bowtechs like $1000 bucks and my old POS woreout High country shoots just as accurate and 20fps faster , but my arrows were 20 grains lighter. guess the modern deer can't be killed with an old bow LOMAO I had 2 different high countrys. at the end of the day, they were too heavy due to the cast aluminum riser. the 2nd one had "hatchet cams". I spent a lot of time shooting it ... harsh draw, loud, and carried like a boat anchor. of course, i didnt realize any of that until better stuff came along. y old h country is a split limb single cam (its the orginal Mattews cam ) its light enough, none if any heavier than the boys new one. I can't remember the model right now , and the sticker wore off , it is not one of the 4-runners though. The old magnisum risers with hatchet cams were a bit heavy and rough shooting. the 1st one i had was a "phantom", it had milder cams. 2nd one was the "supreme" with hatchet cams. this was before all of the fancy-schmancy single cam bows came out. which brings up another issue, they shot out of tune in short order.
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Ammo bands that attached to the rifle stock and on a hunters forearm, I have hunters with a box of shells hanging on them. Bipods,,, while they certainly help and have their place in shooting a person almost always ends up going through some alders or thick brush in Alaska,, I have about 6 or 7 that were taken off in field and "gifted to me". Neopreme bogbuster hipboots by Cabela's,, every camp has a big pile that was left behind!
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Not in a Contender. One of the most popular barrels for T/C shooters. Shockingly high velocities with 180's and crazy accurate. Guys that are into the H&R Handys love the round.
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Not in a Contender. One of the most popular barrels for T/C shooters. Shockingly high velocities with 180's and crazy accurate. Guys that are into the H&R Handys love the round. Forgot about those! Yep, the Max is far from being a fad.
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Yep. They are just down the road from me. A friend of mine has become a dealer. They have even brought back some of their older bows that were really popular at very low prices- under $150 for some of them.
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maybe the 7mm SAUM but like fish and a few other my SS model 7 is going nowhere. neither is my 300 SAUM
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Yeah, that's a shame. Putting most of their eggs in the WSM basket didn't do them any favours. You have to wonder why they produced fewer std chamberings. I guess they figured that WSMs would be the cartridges of the future...and were willing to push.
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I guess that is why some things are considered boring here. They simply work without fuss and drama.
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thats funny my son bought one of the lastest greatest bowtechs like $1000 bucks and my old POS woreout High country shoots just as accurate and 20fps faster , but my arrows were 20 grains lighter. guess the modern deer can't be killed with an old bow LOMAO I had 2 different high countrys. at the end of the day, they were too heavy due to the cast aluminum riser. the 2nd one had "hatchet cams". I spent a lot of time shooting it ... harsh draw, loud, and carried like a boat anchor. of course, i didnt realize any of that until better stuff came along. ultra force is the model of the bow I was refering to.
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Yeah, that's a shame. Putting most of their eggs in the WSM basket didn't do them any favours. You have to wonder why they produced fewer std chamberings. I guess they figured that WSMs would be the cartridges of the future...and were willing to push. I disagree. I do not think the WSM line is a bad idea, nor do I think it is a fad that is over. Face it, all makers have to introduce "new" products and features regularly because a large portion of consumers � certainly this includes gun buyers � consists of repeat customers. Fad or not, we do get sucked in; otherwise no gunmaker could survive. Fortunately, recent interest in shooting has also created many first-time buyers, and I expect that to continue for quite a while. The WSMs were sort of unneeded, but maybe they meet a desire for shorter actions. The 404 Jeffrey case is a sound one. Again, maybe unneeded, but marketers depend on stories. In fact, I just bought a 300 WSM LH Custom Shop Model 70 one with several nice features. I would just as soon have a 300 Win Mag, but I am sure I can get brass and reload indefinitely. If not, I'll still have a very nice rifle. As for 70s, they are not going away ever. I saw .264s and 7mm Rem Mags decline in price within the past two years, especially Classics, but they seem to be going back up again.
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I hunt with about ten other guys, and there's still a couple-three rifles with those wretched things on them. The good thing about that is that no one puts a decent scope in them. That means that when the POS scope they put in the see throughs dies and they bring it to me for help mounting a better scope and sighting in the rifle they get replaced because their new scope "won't fit" in the see-throughs. When they're not looking Mr. three pound hammer gets introduced to them.
I'd happily kick in some money to a "gun writer" who'd write and article about how he tested dozens of scopes in a bunch of different see-throughs and found that it caused premature death for the scopes mounted in them. There wouldn't have to be an iota of truth in the piece, and it wouldn't need to be published anywhere on paper. This forum would be fine as long as we could have a link to "something published". He could even put in a disclaimer stating he never tested anything and made the whole thing up just to do his part in ridding the world of one of it's sorriest inventions. People who put see-throughs on a decent rifle aren't real particular when it comes to reading everything and understanding it all. Maybe we ought to have Frieda Zice commission a study to demonstrate how superior their scopes are and use the see-throughs as a worst case test.
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The Weatherbys get a pass, because they're still going strong. Like 'em or not, they work and they sell. They are a little more subdued than before, but the basic style is the same. You used to be able to get a really nice classic-style stock from the custom shop (David E. Petzal had one), but I think it's long gone because a Weatherby guy wants a WEATHERBY.
A better example might be some of those way-out Brownings they're trying to sell. The DEA ought to raid their design department and find out what they're smoking.
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See through scope mounts-unless you live in Minnesota. They are very much alive in Virginia, too. Fashionable get-up is a Marlin .30-30, butt-cuff, see-throughs with a 4-12X50.
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See through scope mounts-unless you live in Minnesota. They are very much alive in Virginia, too. Fashionable get-up is a Marlin .30-30, butt-cuff, see-throughs with a 4-12X50. Add on a rail for your light and a bipod and you've got yourself a great timber rig.
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See through scope mounts-unless you live in Minnesota. They are very much alive in Virginia, too. Fashionable get-up is a Marlin .30-30, butt-cuff, see-throughs with a 4-12X50. Add on a rail for your light and a bipod and you've got yourself a great timber rig. Yep, that's why just the 4-12, otherwise, in more open woods, go 6.5-20....
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8mmwapiti: I don't consider "Moly" to be a fad!
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Mullets and the 7 em-em mag are still the rage here in Kentucky. Time marches on, but everything remains the same. Fads don't exist....
Just last week I saw a gun rack in the back window of a truck...with a 700 BDL....see thru's....and a Simms barrel thingy. Honest to God....fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view. The truck had been camo painted as well.
It makes me smile to call this place home.
That is FUNNY! John
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Ruger Boat paddle stocks.... Thank GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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45 Win mag
9mm win mag
445 magnum and the list goes on and on.....
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I only buy things in camo with the Bone Collector emblem. Oh yeah we're in the brotherhood (fist bump).
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30-30 accelerators... That might date me Rugers boat paddle rifle stock.... That was a happy passing Marlin firearms mostly Marlins lever action, That was a heart breaker. Curly copper pipe elk bugles. Oh, the memories  My Youth. 
happiness is elbow deep in elk guts.
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I contributed early to this thread and thought I was done, but now must make a new comment: Many posters apparently don't know what a "fad" is. It's something that becomes very popular quickly, then just as quickly fades away.
Some people did provide examples of true fads:
Pointy bras
Hula hoops
RUM's
Some people disagreed with these, because they still own/use them--a classic "example of one," which means jack-squat. Just because YOU still own something (say an Edsel) doesn't mean it was ever really popular.
There were justifications, at the time, for some of the products mentioned. That's why people who never learned about better. later solutions use:
Moly
See-Through Mounts
Foul-Out
Many things posted were NEVER popular, but were promoted heavily, so a lot of people heard about them. That doesn't mean enough people actually spent money on 'em to qualify as a fad:
Butt-Out
Cryo treatment
WSSM's
Now carry on.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I only buy things in camo with the Bone Collector emblem. Oh yeah we're in the brotherhood (fist bump). Should really have a #9 on them as well.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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A ha! But now out for your enjoyment is the new and improved Butt Out 2!!!The new stopper tells you when you're deep enough! ![[Linked Image]](http://www.skinnymoose.com/stabley/files/2009/08/The-Butt-Out-2-From-Hunters-Specialties.jpg)
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Wow!
The first and only time I've seen a Butt-Out used, it was demonstrated by a guy involved in its promotion. And it didn't work. Wonder how the new and improved model would have done?
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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The Browning BOSS. Including a muzzle break in the design doomed it.
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Did you find yourself involuntarily tightening up your rear muscles as you watched? I think that I would have done so.
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The Leupold Alaskan scopes. Nice scopes... 2.5x, 4x, and 6x. But they lasted as a catalogued item for one year. I got mine!
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5sdad,
Come to think of it, there was a little sphincter shrinkage!
But more than that, I wanted to get out the Swiss Army knife I've used to field-dress a bunch of deer-sized animals, and do the job cleaner and quicker.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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idahoguy,
The Leupold Alaskans didn't qualify as a fad, since they never sold enough to qualify.
I have a 2-1/2x and a 4x, and they're tough scopes, but they're also:
1)Heavy for their size, due to the steel tubes.
2)Not very bright, due to single-coating.
3)Very limited in adjustment range. Combined with not many 7/8" rings, this caused problems on some rifles. I mounted one on 99 Savage and could actually watch the reticle wander in big half-circle when trying to center it. This is caused by the "pillar" of the adjustment turret being off-center on the erector tube.
4) Friction adjustments.
And none were variables! They were also competing against the original Alaskans still out there.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Old New England fad- The Hot Seat!
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Unlocked pickum up trucks with the winders down parked along a country back road with hunten' gear inside and on the back while the owner is out ahunten. We don't allow no thieves here y'know.
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Winslow rifles(worked for them awhile working with development of their classic stock), Savage Lazzeroni rifles, Jarret beanfield rifles( still in bus.but just barely from what I hear),WSSM's, RCM's.
CO School of Trades, Gunsmithing, '76
Clemson University '74
Go Tigers
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idahoguy,
The Leupold Alaskans didn't qualify as a fad, since they never sold enough to qualify.
I have a 2-1/2x and a 4x, and they're tough scopes, but they're also:
1)Heavy for their size, due to the steel tubes.
2)Not very bright, due to single-coating.
3)Very limited in adjustment range. Combined with not many 7/8" rings, this caused problems on some rifles. I mounted one on 99 Savage and could actually watch the reticle wander in big half-circle when trying to center it. This is caused by the "pillar" of the adjustment turret being off-center on the erector tube.
4) Friction adjustments.
And none were variables! They were also competing against the original Alaskans still out there. I'm using the term "fad" very loosely in nominating the Leupold Alaskan scopes. I'm a huge fan of them and own six. So I am not impartial. Just my thing, John :-) Plus my personal preference for 1909 Argentine actions. I have two of them
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Unfortunately, the Model 7 stainless
Location: Bartlett, suburb of Memphis. Texas native, and can't wait to be a resident again!
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That and almost any good rifle or cartridge Remington came up with...
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Speer Deep Shocks...
Speer Deep Curls...
Is Speer next??
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Speer Deep Shocks...
Speer Deep Curls...
Is Speer next?? At the rate they are going .......
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Remington's quality control program
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See through scope mounts-unless you live in Minnesota. or Lousiana
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Na, speer bullets are a fad to me now....
happiness is elbow deep in elk guts.
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