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I hate to think how many guns have been boogered up due to that video . . .

blade: jack rowe's method of tightening guns seems pretty straight forward...interesting that you express disapproval here without details to support your objection...

and stan, with regard to gunsmithing skills, some of us here are players and some are fans...

i am an enthusiastic fan...which are you?

Sorry, my skepticism comes from having spent a few years behind a retail firearms counter. I know all too well the level of judgment and discretion of many gun owners. There's little that can't be screwed up beyond recognition by a gun guy with a few tools.

I'm sure some guys are capable of following Mr. Rowe's example without ill effect but for others the best advice is probably "Put down the hammer and move away from the shotgun." (I'm sure present company is excepted from this negative characterization, however.)

Besides, beating on the gun seems like a temporary solution at best.

blade: agreed...

Ed, why don't you tell the truth. Real gun guys and enthusiastic fans of guns do not post things like this:






I see that your one man fan club thinks comments such as this amount to "snarkiness". I see it differently. This is what's called not permitting a Troll to continue disingenuous and dishonest behavior unabated. What you are attempting to do is certainly not civil or polite. Did you figure out the difference between a receiver and an action yet? Don't bother preaching about getting off-topic after you posted an off-topic link to a fake case color process in order to veer away from your history of actions grotesquely burned with an acetylene torch in order to maximize profits from naive buyers.

yawn...

snark�y
ˈsn�rkē/
adjective North American informal
adjective: snarky; comparative adjective: snarkier; superlative adjective: snarkiest

(of a person, words, or a mood) sharply critical; cutting; snide.

Keith, while not being critical of your holding Ed to account at all, sounds like Argo picked a perfect word to describe some of the posts.

"Sharply critical" - Yup!
"Cutting" - Yup!
"Snide" - Yup!

So what's the problem? Would you really disagree?

None of your business. I don't dance to your pitiful tune, ed.

SRH

Hey Keith, Mr. Lowndes (just ran across the name in a book on the origin of geological mapping in England in the early 19th Century), let me clarify who I�m a �fan� of on this board.

First, I�ve spent a lifetime abroad trying to figure out who is in front of me, whether they are who they claim to be, and whether they�re telling the truth about what they claim to know. And I�ve dealt with a lot of carpet merchants (I collected carpets in central Asia), used car salesmen, information peddlers, dilettantes and mad-men so I�m not so easily fooled. Most of us by our 70�s don�t need to be �protected� by the strumfhurer comrade red-agitprop information police.

So here is my assessment of the types posting on this fantastic board that I was lucky enough to discover almost two years ago:

� the engineers - they know chamber pressures, metallurgy,
� the collectors - they know values, models, quirks, dents, condition
� the niche-ers - they are the true experts on a corner of intellectualism.
� the shooters - they know loads, patterns, balance, swing
� the dilettantes - they know engravings, names, fashions, phrases, mustaches
� the dealers - they will be of two types, the sharpsters and the �honest.�
� the salesmen - ah, but look at this case color
� the fraudsters - but since nobody is actually selling anything on this particular board, hard to quantify.
� the BS artists - let me tell you about�
� the egoists - well, I just bought another $$$$
� the craftsmen - I just tried fitting barrels to a�..and it worked after 40 hrs of labor
-- the observers - by the millions?
-- the inquirers - is my rusted studebaker...
-- the students - me

Each has a lot to add to this board. The ones you pay attention to are the ones with expertise.

� Then there are the ranters and insulters - They are the drunks in the bar who have an opinion about everything or nothing.

As for Ed, my assessment: well, he is a salesman. He sold me a gun and I didn�t know it was him when I first contacted him about it The gun was as advertised�better even�and Ed is intelligent, probably sitting in a NH village and needing some intellectual company. He could sell the Brooklyn Bridge to the right guy or try to, and he�d be a good dinner companion. I think he knows �guns� as a dealer�he doesn�t know gunsmithing, engineering or craftsmanship and thus his opinions are just that, opinions. As for his politics, he trolls and the stuff he trolls is as stupid as trolls are but apparently satisfies a need of some sort for some reason. Nuff said. If Ed trolls politics�give him Hell as Truman said�. If he flogs a local gun he�s been asked to front for and is sketchy�hold him accountable. Zingers are enjoyable and there are egos here easily bruised. But dull repetitive ranting is a regressive intellectual killer and not even fun.

And by the way, in case you didn't notice...... there are a couple of amazing posts above from some "craftsmen" who have actually fitted orphan barrels. God I'd love to have been a fly on the wall.

Gene H. Williams...RT Delaware.