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Firefly
You know we love you mang.
Honestly $290 for an AR to just do whatever with isn’t bad.
Fudd isn’t a gun. It’s a state of mind. I knew a guy (sadly passed on) who wasn’t really at all a “gun guy”. But he had two identical Colt SP1s and two 1911s. He had other guns like bolt actions and lever actions and loved his single action Ruger revolvers.
But he kept them Colts sighted in and oiled. He did four tours in Vietnam and said he only had those guns because he knew “damn well how to use them and what they will do”.
It took a LOT of cajoling to get him to buy a Glock and he did. A Glock 34. And his eyes lit up. “Say this is mighty nice”. And he considered it a “killing gun” and sold a Colt 1911 to offset it. I mean something he bought in the early 70s. He offered it to me for like nothing and I stupidly turned it down because I had a Kimber and didn’t think I needed another 1911.
When he died his son got his stuff. But he was a really nice, well mannered guy. Really positive.
Ostensibly you could say he was a “fudd” of you judged him solely for the guns his like but that being said there are probably some Vietnamese orphans and widows still out there somewhere who would argue that point.
ETA Barfcom is easily trolled and fun and I swear they bleed soy.
I've been a member over there since 2002, but only around 200 or more posts. It's too busy there for my taste. The threads are flying in and out, and if you leave for 5 minutes and return - you have a hard time finding where you were.
I should have said "Fudd's gun" than Fudd gun. No matter, it had never been shot and still in the bag in the box. It was covered in so much oil/preservative that it reminds me of combloc stuff and their cosmoline. I thought it was a good buy. It was an estate sale/auction and the big items were all the antiques and coin collection stuff. This Ruger seemed to fall between the cracks because I was the only bidder. The wife left with a Tiffany style lamp.
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