On "Knowing everything about guns"..................

[Bob Wright]

I made a rather facetious comment about the time before I "knew everything about guns."

When I was a little kid, I thought I was pretty gun savvy, knew it all, you know. What I knew was:

There was a "Cowboy gun." (A Colt Single Action.)

There was a .30-30. (Yep, a Winchester)

There was an Army gun. (At that time more likely a Springfield M1903, or the M-1 Garand)

A double barreled shotgun.

A police gun. (Most likely a Colt Official Police .38)

A snub nosed revolver. (Any kind with a short barrel.)

A German Luger. (What else?)

The Army pistol. (M1911)

And of course, there were machine guns.

And the Tommy Gun.

I mean, knowing all of this, what more was there to know about guns.

A session of firing my brother's bring back from WW II taught me just how ignorant I was about guns, and started me on my quest of learning. Still in school!

Bob Wright

 

[blackhawknj]

I treasure my battered 1966 edition of Small Arms of the World-I learned to field strip the M1911 from that book.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I'm amazed at how much you can learn AFTER you know "everything" about any subject.

IMO, once you know everything, you begin to learn all of the things (many? most?)
that you didn't even know existed. 8)

I found that out after spending three months in programmer training for a rather large
blue computer company. Got out of there and thought I knew a whole bunch. That
lasted almost two days. Then I began found out how much more there actually was.

Matters not what the subject (and unlike what the Snowflakes think), you really
begin to learn about a subject AFTER you know "everything". :wink:
(Subtitled . . . try teaching it)

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Bob, anyone with half a brain would have read that statement knowing you were being facetious. It's amazing how many people really think that until they are asked a question they don't have the answer.

 

[powder smoke]

Bob, anyone with half a brain would have read that statement knowing you were being facetious. It's amazing how many people really think that until they are asked a question they don't have the answer.

I have half a brain and believe I'm the subject here! Yes I made mention of his outrageous statement. and I do have half a brain BPJ last I checked anyway. I never did agree much with what he has to say, this time it was just over the top. Sometimes
I just should keep my mouth shut!

 

[smoke-eater]

The local gun shops are full of employees who "know everything about guns". LOL!!!
Like the one big blowhard who insisted that the Ruger M77 debuted in 1978. Really ticked me off!

 

[eveled]

I remember a time when knowledge was hard to come by. I used to ride my bike to the dump in the next town to dig through their recycle dumpster looking for gun and knife magazines. Then I’d fill a newspaper boys bag and ride home. Then read the magazines cover to cover over and over again.

I knew not to harass adults with stupid questions so I chose my questions and the adult with great care. If they were receptive and wanted to talk guns I was in my glory. I’m sure I impressed a few with my knowledge.

Now everything I knew after years of effort you can learn in ten minutes on a smart phone. The worst part? People have the accumulated knowledge of 1000 years of human existence in the palm of their hand and they are dumber than ever.

I was always smart enough to know I didn’t know everything even though I probably acted like it.

 

[bobski]

I know so much about guns, I don't want to know anymore about them....if you can grasp that.
:>
I learned with time, there is a season for everything.
interests change.
and I am I walking living example of the famous quote many say......

"he's forgotten more than youll ever know!"

I still know how to open a clam shell canopy on an F14.....problem is, no one cares.

im going thru my attic looking at all the memories of the 64 new York worlds fair I saved. and then it dawned on me. no need in keeping it. one cares about my memories.

so it is with me and guns. I don't get excited about any of them, unless someone shows an interest in my interests. then, the flood gates open.

in the meantime, gunauction and webstore are my new friends.

 

[LDM]

It seems the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

The thing is to keep learning to find out how much more you need to learn.

 

[Paul B]

"It's amazing how many people really think that until they are asked a question they don't have the answer."

hat's true. They'r afraid to say, "I don't know." for fear of appearing stupid, dumb or ignorant. I can say, "I don't know," and sometimes do but I also have an extensive library of firearms related books and manuals and am not so lazy that I wouldn't take the trouble to look up an answer. I also believe there is no such thing as a dumb question even when one is such that I :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Seriously though, if I have the time I will see if i can look up an answer for someone's question and hope I explain it so they can understand what I said.
Paul B.

 

[Fox Mike]

The longer I am around guns the more I realize how much I don't know. The one thing I can be sure of is if it is a Ruger that one can almost never put aside anything as not possible.

 

[mishtub]

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

 

[Mobuck]

When I was a kid, I read "Gun Digest" so much that I wore the print off the paper. When I started shooting a rifle for the Army, the rangemaster didn't care how much I knew as long as I learned what HE wanted me to know. Being a knowledgeable, accomplished shooter meant nothing to him which I'm pretty sure cost "his team" points during matches.

 

[GunnyGene]

In my experience, people who claim to know everything about something (guns or otherwise), usually know just enough to be dangerous.

 

[Bob Wright]

Yes, much of my learning came from books. My first was The Daisy Red Ryder Handbook followed by Lucien Cary on Guns. Lucien Cary was the guns/shooting editor of True, the Man's Magazine. After these came The Official gun Book and a copy of The Shooter's Bible and finally, The Gun Digest. Another book was the The Junior ROTC Manuel which I came across in some forgotten way. This ROTC manual was of WW I vintage, with pictures of soldiers in wrapped leggins and Brogans. Rifles were the M1903 Springfield and the Browning Automatic Rifle. The M-1 was still on the horizon. Also depicted were saber drills.

Einstein once remarked that it was a waste of brain cells to remember anything which was printed. I don't agree with him there, but keep a loose leaf binder filled with scraps of good information from various sources. I index that for future reference.

Bob Wright

 

[eveled]

Maybe for him it was a waste. He was using his brain cells to learn new things nobody else knew.

Most of us aren’t in that league.

 

[Rick Courtright]

I'm amazed at how much you can learn AFTER you know "everything" about any subject.

Hi,

You'd have enjoyed a professor in a class I took some years after I got out of college. He taught night classes, and during the day he ran several consulting businesses.

He liked to tell us after you've read three books on a subject, you know more about it than 90% of the population! And, if you're lucky, about 10% of what there actually is to know about it...

Rick C

 

[toysoldier]

I used to think I was pretty knowledgeable about firearms, then I found Forgotten Weapons on youtube.

 

[daveg.inkc]

I know so much about guns, I don't want to know anymore about them....if you can grasp that.
:>
I learned with time, there is a season for everything.
interests change.
and I am I walking living example of the famous quote many say......

"he's forgotten more than youll ever know!"

I still know how to open a clam shell canopy on an F14.....problem is, no one cares.

im going thru my attic looking at all the memories of the 64 new York worlds fair I saved. and then it dawned on me. no need in keeping it. one cares about my memories.

so it is with me and guns. I don't get excited about any of them, unless someone shows an interest in my interests. then, the flood gates open.

in the meantime, gunauction and webstore are my new friends.

. Any info on the Ford Mustang from 1964 Fair? Any other cars? Pontiac GTO? Dave