Author Topic: HANDI RIFLE: The single shot "platform" ? (Read 1160 times)

watkibe · « **on:** August 07, 2012, 05:29:43 PM »

I don't (and won't) have a "modern sporting rifle", but I am trying to get with the modern terminology.
If I hunt rabbits with my Handi, am I a small game "operator", using a single shot "platform" ?

wganz · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2012, 02:00:25 AM »

Quote from: watkibe on August 07, 2012, 05:29:43 PM

I don't (and won't) have a "modern sporting rifle", but I am trying to get with the modern terminology.
If I hunt rabbits with my Handi, am I a small game "operator", using a single shot "platform" ?

If you think that you can hide from the anti's by having a single shot that isn't on their active attack radar, you're wrong. They're after all of them. Including Handi's. If you chose not to have an AR15, this is still America and you can still make that choice. But attempting to split us into different groups and let the black rifle gang take the brunt of the attacks will only string out the inevitable of a defeat by detail.

Why not join the fight with the NRA for everyone's right so that should you change your mind in the future you can still choose to get an AR?

45-70.gov · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2012, 02:35:59 AM »

''target area saturation''

an example of this is shooting a rabbit with your H&R shot gun

Spanky · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:34:33 AM »

Quote from: wganz on August 08, 2012, 02:00:25 AM

Why not join the fight with the NRA for everyone's right so that should you change your mind in the future you can still choose to get an AR?

Hate to say it but the NRA is a bunch of puppets.

Spanky

petemi · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:39:19 AM »

Quote from: wganz on August 08, 2012, 02:00:25 AM

Quote from: watkibe on August 07, 2012, 05:29:43 PM
I don't (and won't) have a "modern sporting rifle", but I am trying to get with the modern terminology.
If I hunt rabbits with my Handi, am I a small game "operator", using a single shot "platform" ?

If you think that you can hide from the anti's by having a single shot that isn't on their active attack radar, you're wrong. They're after all of them. Including Handi's. If you chose not to have an AR15, this is still America and you can still make that choice. But attempting to split us into different groups and let the black rifle gang take the brunt of the attacks will only string out the inevitable of a defeat by detail.

Why not join the fight with the NRA for everyone's right so that should you change your mind in the future you can still choose to get an AR?

He's talking about jargon and preference.....not gun rights. Many of us prefer traditional rifles from flintlocks thru smokeless and black powder single shots to leverguns. It does not mean we're not active in protecting our rights to own our weapons of choice. The only "Black Rifles" I own are synthetic stocked Handis and a 10/22. I doesn't mean I wouldn't die to protect your right to own ARs.

Pete

RPRNY · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM »

The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

siamese4570 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:42:10 AM »

Everybody's got all "Tactical". Bunch of Seal want-a-be's. Don't have any thing against the black rifles, each to his own. Just never figured out what I'd do with it. I get a chuckle out the the three gun matches at our club. They shoot target with ar's at 10-15 yards. I believe that is pistol range. I've mentioned that they should back up to 75-100 yds and see who can really shoot (no rely as yet). I'd get a bigger chuckle out of the matches if they weren't clogging up the range.

Just my $0.02 worth

Siamese4570

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2012, 05:54:50 AM »

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am I a small game "operator"

Wildlife Population Control Specialist

8uck5nort · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2012, 06:02:36 AM »

Quote from: RPRNY on August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM

The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

RoFLOL!!!!!

I like it!

I had a DPMS AR15 and shot exactly 2 rounds through it before I decided to sell it off and buy a nice collection of Handi's and marlin bolt actions that I can actually equip and shoot for the same price as one really nice AR which you still need to shoot the same match grade ammo through to achieve match grade results. Sigh... In hindsight I did look exceptionally cool and somewhat dashing shooting my AR platform. All the chicks dug me, but now, I'm just back to my ugly self!

jjas · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2012, 06:49:59 AM »

Quote from: RPRNY on August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM

The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

That is hilarious!

jjas · « **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2012, 06:50:54 AM »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 08, 2012, 05:54:50 AM

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am I a small game "operator"

Wildlife Population Control Specialist

That's another really good one.....LOL

LaOtto222 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 08, 2012, 07:21:09 AM »

I am a little old fashioned. To me a single shot rifle is a matter of preference, not a platform. To me, thongs are something you wear on your feet, not some where else. An operator is someone you need to watch closely when making a deal with them. What happened to being a shooter or a hunter? Where I come from you hunt rabbits with a shotgun, if you were serious about putting meat on the table and a 22 rifle if you were after sport, so what is this question doing in the center fire rifle section? I am not sure what is meant by "modern sporting rifle" is it a rifle made after 1898 that is for sport? Like I said I am a little old fashioned, so I do not get the modern terms.

Good Shooting And Good Luck

Jimbow4570 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 08, 2012, 07:35:32 AM »

I always thought a "platform" was something you stood on....

murphdog · « **Reply #13 on:** August 08, 2012, 10:02:07 AM »

Quote from: RPRNY on August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM

The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

Excellent use of the language! H&R really needs to add this to their marketing literature.

kynardsj · « **Reply #14 on:** August 08, 2012, 10:13:55 AM »

I could own and hunt with most any rifle I wanted but I choose to hunt with a single shot rifle. I do like all those big fancy words that RPRNY wrote though.

cwlongshot · « **Reply #15 on:** August 08, 2012, 10:22:14 AM »

Guys just to interject something here. I think we all know it but may not immediately come to mind..

IT'S A GUN... They do not like guns... To them THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. They reinforce a single persons thoughts and opinions.

Single shot or multi shot, Single shot or full automatic. Black powder or smokeless, Short barrel hand guns or long barrel target rifles, Olympic training rifles to the latest greatest "AR" black rifle. They are all GUNS.

THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!!

Even thinking differently is allowing them a foot hold of "OUR" sport/hobby/lifestyle.. Try to train yourself to this mind set, you will do us ALL a great benefit.

CW

quickdtoo · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2012, 10:27:20 AM »

Please refrain from 2nd Amendment discussions, we have a forum for that, this isn't it, I can always move it if that's the intent of the OP.

Tim

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php#c14

Emilio · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2012, 10:59:41 AM »

I like and own them all and understand the reason for them all.

If I need to protect myself and family ,,I use single the shot right before going to the Rock.

Rabbits easy to fight so you good to go.

bikerbeans · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2012, 11:23:29 AM »

Quote from: RPRNY on August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM

The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

If you are not making your living in sales and marketing you missed your callin'.

BB

watkibe · « **Reply #19 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:29:14 PM »

GOOD ONE, RPRNY !

RPRNY · « **Reply #20 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:39:01 PM »

Quote from: bikerbeans on August 08, 2012, 11:23:29 AM

Quote from: RPRNY on August 08, 2012, 04:34:11 AM
The Handi-Rifle is a highly matrixed, vintage tactical shooting platform allowing operators high interchangeability, extended caliber diversity, and a wide choice of range related optical solutions suited to the demands of their tactical operating environments.

If you are not making your living in sales and marketing you missed your callin'.

BB

It's sooooo much worse than that. I'm a lobbyist

wganz · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2012, 02:29:11 PM »

Quote from: watkibe on August 07, 2012, 05:29:43 PM

I don't (and won't) have a "modern sporting rifle", but I am trying to get with the modern terminology.
If I hunt rabbits with my Handi, am I a small game "operator", using a single shot "platform" ?

Actually, the news media would write you up as training to be a hit man by slaughtering innocent creatures out of season in a nature reserve without a license with an assassin's weapon that could be easily taken apart to be hidden with a coat or brief case with a replaceable disposable barrel. The barrel has a large diameter so that it can be threaded to attach an oil filter as an illegal silencer to hide your position when you murder your victim. The only purpose of these extra barrels are the intent to be dupe the police ballistics in catching the true killer and to make it easier to dispose of the weapon after the commission of a crime.
That would be the new modern terminology that the main stream media would use to describe you.

My personal terminology would be that you're a country boy just using whatever you want to use and going to heck with the rest of them.

SEK_22Hornet · « **Reply #22 on:** August 09, 2012, 05:43:21 PM »

I have to say that my real passion is older calibers, so I thought I would never want an AR15 type rifle - That changed a couple years ago, about the same time I decided I'd like to have a 9mm and 40 S&W handgun (which I also never thought I'd want). People and their tastes can change. I still prefer a nice solid bolt action to anything else, but love playing with the handis and even have fell in love with the AR "platform". It truly is an extremely versatile firearm that is loads of fun to tinker with, a lot like the Handi's. Especially since the price came down to where they are affordable. But then again, one of my goals is to have a 30 carbine ar15 to go with my M1 carbine - what can I say? To each his own - who cares about the latest jargon - I refuse to refer to my firearms as Weapons or other tactical names such as Assault Rifles, since that plays right in the demonization of all firearms. I'll call them what they are, Rifles, Shotguns, Handguns, Revolvers , etc.