On The Vernacular
The terminology used by the so-called 'gun culture' has always been colorful, but it is true that we are sometimes led astray by our own missteps.
Take, for example, the term Scout Rifle.
IMO, there is only one of them, and it isn't a Ruger, it isn't a Savage, and it sure as shinola isn't a Marlin, even if it does have a forward-mounted scope on it.
The originator of the term, the late Jeff Cooper, would have agreed with me: Those are pseudo-scouts (at best).
But I don't lose much sleep over it; it's just a fact of life that language evolves, and nowadays it's changing more rapidly than ever, thanks of course to the Internet.
This makes it somewhat harder to keep up, but one does the best he can.
(SPG Edit)
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- On The Vernacular -
FOG,
2013-03-17, 08:51
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- go put a clip of bullets in an automatic... -
Rob Leahy,
2013-03-17, 11:10
- A true 'Scout Rifle' is a bolt-action - FOG, 2013-03-17, 11:35
- On a related note, I usually left the spare mag alone - FOG, 2013-03-17, 11:45
- Umm...that is possible... -
rob,
2013-03-18, 18:51
- Indeed it is, Grasshopper -
FOG,
2013-03-19, 02:35
- Not quite . . . -
Kentucky,
2013-03-19, 09:45
- Ah, so sorry... -
FOG,
2013-03-19, 09:59
- Now THAT... - rob, 2013-03-19, 21:33
- Ah, so sorry... -
FOG,
2013-03-19, 09:59
- Not quite . . . -
Kentucky,
2013-03-19, 09:45
- Indeed it is, Grasshopper -
FOG,
2013-03-19, 02:35
- On The Vernacular -
Slow Hand,
2013-03-17, 12:44
- Those two look fine to me -
FOG,
2013-03-17, 13:54
- Do you still have it? -
rob,
2013-03-18, 19:09
- It's handguns only now - FOG, 2013-03-19, 01:28
- If I had it to do over - FOG, 2013-03-19, 01:46
- Do you still have it? -
rob,
2013-03-18, 19:09
- Those two look fine to me -
FOG,
2013-03-17, 13:54
- go put a clip of bullets in an automatic... -
Rob Leahy,
2013-03-17, 11:10