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When referencing a rifle, calling it a "gun" gets to me. Just call it a rifle.
Roads This is my rifle....this is my gun.....this one's for shooting....this one's for fun. Calling your hunting rifle a "weapon" is just as bad. And calling your action a "sucks"..kinda sucks too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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�Shoots like a house afire.� Huh?
"I shot my rifle," as opposed to "I fired my rifle."
"Shooting" all my rifles would get expensive. I suppose a guy would have to club the last one to death <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Robert Frost
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Ken, I like the 'candle snuffer/match lighter' idea. How long before they become cliches? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> How about "Shoots tighter than the backside of a match holder when I'm testing a new load for my match lighter?" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Ken, I like the 'candle snuffer/match lighter' idea. How long before they become cliches? Not long if they "catch on" and get used too much � IOW, as too-frequent substitutes for independent word-smithing.
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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I've seen a couple of posts by people or a person that has used the word "bonked" to infer killing an animal. For some reason this just bothered me, sounding kind of disrespectful and demeaning.
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"...and don't look back."
I think it means, "The advantages of my choice are obvious to the veriest clod, and therefore I need not explain my reasoning. All right-thinking people will move this direction immediately." Maybe it's wrong to saddle gunwriters with this one, but WTH, we're on a roll.
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"This rifle/pistol will shoot better than I able."
Well, exactly how does one know that?
"The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt" Bertrand Russell
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For Ken Howell
I think someone some start a thread for the most original cliche-
TIC
Royce
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Slightly off topic, but I hate it when "This gun wasn't really meant for long range shots" so the gunwriter "shoots it off his hind legs like a man as fast as he can pull the trigger and all of them grouped into a pieplate at 15 yards and that's good enough for me". That really tells me a lot about the gun's accuracy.
When the gunwriter hates "magnums", you know: too much weight, recoil, powder, & muzzle blast. So he uses proceeds to use a "non-magnum" with his "special loads" that equals the magnum's velocity, but burns less powder, has less muzzle blast, in a gun that weighs less than the dreaded magnum all while providing less recoil. I guess Newton's law has been repealed!
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'The recoil from this rifle is more like a slow push'- Really! Wish Newton was still around to try and explain this one.
'This gun shoots flat out to (xxx) yards'- great for hunting in anti-gravity forests.
'The .(270, 30-06) is an adequate caliber for (pick an animal)'
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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"I've got this new range finding scope" "I can shoot up to 600 yards"
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"Harvested" makes me want to climb up the nearest water tower with a "tactical" rifle that's "accurate right out of the box" . jorge
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Besides "a real tackdriver right out of the box" I can't stand reading that such and such caliber is a "proven manstopper". That's mostly the pistol press, but man you read it a lot...
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Some of mine have already been mentioned. To the list I would add the use of the word "pill" when referring to a bullet. Geez, I hate that one!
Use of the "pre" qualifiers such as "pre-64 model 70", "pre-garcia sako" or "tang-safety ruger" are irritating. I'm waiting for someone to write, "My pre-2004 A-Bolt with the tang safety...." or "pre-accutrigger model 110". Perhaps a more universal description could be, "pre-POS model [number here].
Seen more in bowhunting is "whacked". Not cool. "I sent my [arrow/bullet] downrange...."
"The peasants may be conned by every pitchman that introduces a new super magnum, but the members of the cognoscenti stick with classic calibers." Jack O'Conner
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Yeah, "Pill" and "No Brainer" are mind numbingly stupid...
James
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men. Mt 15:9
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Is there any room in there for a "gnat castrater"?
If three or more people think you're a dimwit, chances are at least one of them is right.
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This topic got me thinking about how often I see these same cliches online, including here and on other forums. I did a quick search on these forums for the last 6 months and of all the cliches that were listed here, the king (in terms of # search results returned, not counting mentions in this thread) is "if you do your part". Funny thing is, I feel like I've heard it more than once or twice at the range too, and at gun shops, shows... they say language is like a virus, maybe this particular line is much more "catching" than the others;-)
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