When you're having an affair with your spring piston, gas ram, break barrel or under lever, do you remove your wedding ring? I mean in order to protect the finish of the barrel/cocking lever of course.
A very serious question about springers
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Get a support glove. Has many benefits.
Protects the ring/gun in this case. But also helps separate the heartbeat from the gun, easier cocking, and makes for a very fine support-hand stabilizer, etc.
(you can kinda see it in my avatar <----------)
http://www.champchoice.com/store/main.aspx?p=categoryBody&c=SAGLSU
Single glove, both sides.
Protects the ring/gun in this case. But also helps separate the heartbeat from the gun, easier cocking, and makes for a very fine support-hand stabilizer, etc.
(you can kinda see it in my avatar <----------)
http://www.champchoice.com/store/main.aspx?p=categoryBody&c=SAGLSU
Single glove, both sides.
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For all of my fine wood guns- I remove my ring.
Shotgun, rifles, pistol- why mar the wood with those pesky pressure dents?
I've been at trap or skeet events with shooters that have many thousands of dollars in their firearms, and they all take their rings off and ask you to do the same, before handling the firestick.
You don't have to love your springer to treat it with respect...
Shotgun, rifles, pistol- why mar the wood with those pesky pressure dents?
I've been at trap or skeet events with shooters that have many thousands of dollars in their firearms, and they all take their rings off and ask you to do the same, before handling the firestick.
You don't have to love your springer to treat it with respect...
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Nah, my narrow band has been on since '73. The skin has grown around it much like a tree grows around barbed wire.
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I keep my ring on. I don’t care about keeping it perfect because I go hunting with it. It gets dropped, hit, wet, and etc. I try to not make an idol out of my toys, though I definitely get pissed when I do get damage. Kind of feels like a mint car getting damage to the exterior. But I just go through a grieving process and let it go haha.
If I was rich AND a collector, I would buy two of every model I wanted to collect: one to shoot and one to idolize. Thankfully, I am neither a collector or wealthy. Well, maybe wealthy in spirit
If I was rich AND a collector, I would buy two of every model I wanted to collect: one to shoot and one to idolize. Thankfully, I am neither a collector or wealthy. Well, maybe wealthy in spirit
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I keep my ring on. I don’t care about keeping it perfect because I go hunting with it. It gets dropped, hit, wet, and etc. I try to not make an idol out of my toys, though I definitely get pissed when I do get damage. Kind of feels like a mint car getting damage to the exterior. But I just go through a grieving process and let it go haha.
If I was rich AND a collector, I would buy two of every model I wanted to collect: one to shoot and one to idolize. Thankfully, I am neither a collector or wealthy. Well, maybe wealthy in spirit
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30 years married. Never have wore one. Or any jewelry for that matter. And I Design make and repair jewelry every day.
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Yes, and my wife is okay with it because she knows nobody is going to want to steal me, lol!
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Wow, how VASTLY DIFFERENT VARIETIES of airgunners exist in our universe...!!
When reading some of these posts I first thought, "Oh, they're joking along with everybody else!"
Then I realized they were serious, and I thought, "Wow, I must have been born on a different continent!" (Come to think of it, I actually have....)
Then I accepted it. There are people that think like that for real. (They probably think I'm a brute beast the way I handle my guns!)
Thanks for opening my mind to new perspectives on airgunning!
Matthias
When reading some of these posts I first thought, "Oh, they're joking along with everybody else!"
Then I realized they were serious, and I thought, "Wow, I must have been born on a different continent!"
(Come to think of it, I actually have....)Then I accepted it. There are people that think like that for real. (They probably think I'm a brute beast the way I handle my guns!)
Thanks for opening my mind to new perspectives on airgunning!
Matthias
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Jungleshooter,
I'll muddy your impression of us further. All of my air guns receive special care and treatment but then, I don't hunt with them and most are long-out-of-production HW and Feinwerkbau guns in FINE condition. Conversely, my waterfowl guns get rained on, scratched, thrown in the dirt/bushes, fall over in the blind, dropped in the pond.......you name it. As long as they keep going bang that's all that matters. If they break/wear out I'll buy new ones.
If you appreciate the classics and pay up for nice ones, you keep them that way. I think of myself as a temporary caretaker of these guns. One day they will belong to someone else and I want to pass them on in the same condition they were passed to me in.
I'll muddy your impression of us further. All of my air guns receive special care and treatment but then, I don't hunt with them and most are long-out-of-production HW and Feinwerkbau guns in FINE condition. Conversely, my waterfowl guns get rained on, scratched, thrown in the dirt/bushes, fall over in the blind, dropped in the pond.......you name it. As long as they keep going bang that's all that matters. If they break/wear out I'll buy new ones.
If you appreciate the classics and pay up for nice ones, you keep them that way. I think of myself as a temporary caretaker of these guns. One day they will belong to someone else and I want to pass them on in the same condition they were passed to me in.
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Will someone please post a picture of wedding ring caused airgun damage. 
Might as well show us the ring, too.
Might as well show us the ring, too.Upvote 0