You know you're a gun snob if...

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I agree with what you said aobut fishing and shooting... some guys are backwoods food-getters, other guys do it purely as a hobby and are interested in the "finer" aspects of sporting. I'd be that most people are somewhere in between.

Also, I am sure there are plenty of good shooters who use Benellis (besides Tom Knapp). I, for one, used my M1 Field to wail on some college kids in trap, one of whom said "Benelli isn't in my vocabulary."

At the same, time, I have had the privilege of being taught by and shooting with some extremely talented individuals, and I can tell you that, especially with shotguns, the oft-intangible qualities of a gun can make a huge difference. Mechanically, how much of a difference is there bewtween a Stoeger double and a Holland and Holland? Not really that much. But quality matters. Anyone who insists otherwise is most likely just speaking of sour grapes. Some overriding emotional attachment aside, who wouldn't gladly trade a Remington for a Perazzi?
 
I must be a snob because I let my kid shoot grouse and pheasant with a $2600 Beretta....but i HATE safe queens and the kid hits with it...I hunt with a old model 37 or an equally old superposed.


You can also be gun snob when you think your mossberg is as well made as a Purdey, and you trash someone for owning one.
 
I don't have a problem with owning expensive guns and certainly not in using them. Over the years as my ability to afford better things has increased I have raised the quality level of some purchases. For me personally I strive for reliability and function over shiny bling but if you can get both so much the better. I'm shure that some great hand made rifles and shotguns from europe are in collections today that have seen plenty of duty in Africa and other wild places over the last 100 yrs. and can do it as well today as when new. That said in my neighbor hood I'll have a much easier time getting a replacement or repair for a Ruger,Rem,or Winchester than even a Browning of Weatherby let alone a H&H or Perrazi.

Basicly to each his own and spend it like you stole it when it comes to guns and you probably won't go to wrong.
 
Some overriding emotional attachment aside, who wouldn't gladly trade a Remington for a Perazzi?
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No, or I would have when I had the chance. Nothing against Perazzi's; I've shot them, including the one I was offered. I like them, but such a gun would serve only one purpose, (well maybe two, I'd use it for upland birds as well as clays games) whereas my SpeedFeed III 870 will do anything I ask of it. It took 4 pheasants and 24/50 sporting clays in my son's hands Saturday. I need to get him a twelve, I had to use his 20ga. 870 Sat.! :eek:

I work with a gun snob; he's pre-med. Loves the high-end shotguns, rolls his eyes when he sees my 870. :p
 
Reverse snobbery

There's such a thing as reverse snobbery. I ran into a guy who bad mouthed my double rifle on grounds that I couldn't expect to put 20 rounds through a dime at 100 yards with it. So he hunts deer with a bench rest rifle? If and when I want to take up bench rest I'll get a bench rest rifle.
 
5. You respond to a post solely to bash another posters grammar, spelling, etc. without adding a single thing to the thread topic.

6. Making it a sport of bashing "mall ninjas, wannabes, etc" is your favorite past time on THR.

While responding only to grammar, etc. is a touch silly - I do think that we maintain the standards of general civilization by chastizing those who can't take the time to write coherently and correctly.

Also, as members of the more civilized gun using community, being a counterpoint to 'bloodlust' serves us well in the debate about the RKBA. One of the arguments against gun rights is that gun owners are nutballs who want blood in the streets. THR seems not to want to be an enabler of that type of poster.

I do think that shotgun snobs who shoot skeet are a fundamental evil. :D - oh, wait - I think I've done that.
 
Could be, but I've never run into any really snobby shooters.
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Never been to a national trap shoot, have ya? If you don't own something A) custom made and B) costing well into five figures, then you don't count. Went to the Grand once. It's the only time I ever felt like I was in a group of people who truly thought they were a better class of folks than you and I.

:rolleyes:

Brad
 
No I haven't, but I'll let the ATA raffle prizes speak for themselves:

ATA RAFFLE PRIZES

Grand Prize- 2008 GMC Sierra (MSRP $37,000)*

2nd Place- Beretta 391Urika semi-automatic trap shotgun

3rd Place- Remington 870 Trap Shotgun




I guess they couldn't get any 'good' shotguns, or trucks. ;)
 
You have to admit that it goes both ways, Justin. There are the serious shooters who are at the top of their game and have expensive equipment because they are at a point where they can outperform lesser quality equipment. Then there are the guys with more dollars than sense who believe that a $2000 gun will completely compensate for poor shooting. I know several of both types. The real shooters who shoot good guns tend to be down to earth and helpful of those at a lower level of the sport. The 'equipment snobs' tend to be scornful of anyone who doesn't shoot the best guns or use the best ammo and gadgets.
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No disagreement.

You see very little of this in the high power shooting community. It seems to be much more prevalent with shotgunners and pistol shooters. Not sure why.
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My limited experience with High Power matches yours. I would expand this to include the Bullseye and IPSC/IDPA as well as Multigun shooting communities as well. I don't have much experience with shotgunners, but I've found pistol competitors to be some of the most down-to-earth and helpful people I've ever encountered. I suspect that the vast majority of the shooting culture is this way.
 
If you take the fishing analogy one step further,try going to a trout stream with a spinning rig or worse yet a Zebco and worms and see if you get any help or pointers from the bug chuckers in their Orvis wear. Thats the difference all the way down the line. Shure you will find some that can cross the line but amongst Range Rover driving trap shooting fly fisherman you will find few black rifles and highcap pistols at least those who will admit to it.
 
"If you take the fishing analogy one step further,try going to a trout stream with a spinning rig or worse yet a Zebco and worms and see if you get any help or pointers from the bug chuckers in their Orvis wear. Thats the difference all the way down the line. Shure you will find some that can cross the line but amongst Range Rover driving trap shooting fly fisherman you will find few black rifles and highcap pistols at least those who will admit to it."

Was stationed in Colorado for a year and went fishing near Deckers on the Platte river. I was using a cheap ultra light spinning combo(I think under $30 at walmart) and caught a nice 20" and a 17" brown trout on Rapalas. I didn't know what kind the 20"er was so I asked some of the Eddie Bauer (I had jeep cherokee sport so I was a pauper) $500 dollar fly rod types what kind of fish it was and you should have seen the looks on their faces when they saw that I was a poor guy and they hadn't caught anything.

I've always thought it would be fun to find a really good barreled rifle that didn't look to hot and give it some duck tape and patina to the exterior and show up to a shoot. See the looks I get and gloat when I outshoot them. Trust me, I have absolutely no problem with 4 or 5 figure guns. I hope to own many of them. I just have a problem with the attitude of most of their owners.
 
"You know you're a gun snob if you insist that your Hornady Lock 'n' Load is better than all the other presses...

(see orignal poster...)"

Nowhere have I ever said that the hornady lock n load is better than all other presses. I have stated that I think it is a better value than a dillon 650 but I have absolutely no experience with a dillon so I won't say it is better. I do know that my hornady press is better than both Lee's I have.

So, nice try. Want to try again?
 
I guess I come under the category of "Reverse Snob"-- my favorite field gun is a 12 ga H&R Topper with a 24" cylinder bore "hacksawed" barrel that has won me a couple of steak dinners over the years at impromptu skeet shoots. If I have to shoot doubles, out comes the old 870 (with "slug" barrel") that has been a faithful companion for over 55 years. A "kitchen table" modified M98 8x57 does well as a suitable deer rifle and still punches respectable inch and quarter pattens @ 100 yds when I do my part and feed it decent handloads from an 46 year old single station Pacific press. For fun there is a Chinese SKS and Wolf ammo! Life is GOOD!!! I do have a nice 20 ga OU and a halfway decent Rem 7mm-08 for diversion but, they don't have the longevity of the old guns or the old tools. Things don't have to be high $$$ item to have value. Just my $.02 worth.;)
 
I've always thought it would be fun to find a really good barreled rifle that didn't look to hot and give it some duck tape and patina to the exterior and show up to a shoot. See the looks I get and gloat when I outshoot them.
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easier way is to just show up with a out-of-the box looking synth stocked savage that you're in practice with and do the same thing. but don't gloat, it can be unseemly and you're more likely to get them to buy you lunch for whooping their #$% if you're nice to them. :D

"beware the man who has but one rifle, for he likely knows how to USE it" (esp. if the rifle looks kinda dumpy, well used, but cared for and he just carried 500rds or more of handloads, and a cooler full of water to the line)
 
Reverse snob

EH Ninky, you don't qualify as a reverse snob, you didn't bad mouth any of the more expensiver guns.

Couple of the other comments here call to mind the time I won a case of beer going up against a guy with a scoped 30-06 while I had a S&W M29 with iron sights. Proves knowing which end of the gun goes bang helps. (I don't claim to be any better with a 44 than the next guy.)
 
A gun snob is anyone that feels the need to tell someone else what they should be shooting, how they should be shooting or what they should be shooting at.
 
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