Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Never seen a 30-30 semi auto.? GREG LORENZO wrote: >Philippe Orlent writes: > > > >>Send me a copy and I'll promote it in Europe. Vast market for this >>subject: we hardly can imagine having the need for a gun imbedded in >>one's culture. So for us, this is pretty exotic. >> >> >> > >Location, location, location. > >You live in the part of the world where you can't spit without hitting >someone. Even in the countryside. > >In parts of the US and certainly western Canada people own land tracts >outside of cities and towns that can run to 10's, 100's and in extreme >cases 1,000's of square miles (the old King Ranch in British Columbia for >example). My Aunt and Uncle owned, farmed and ran cattle on a modest 13 >Sections (256 ha or 640 acres/Section) of land in south central Alberta. My >Uncle served in the RCAF during the war and owned and used all kinds of >firearms. Using them as a tool when necessary, coyotes chasing cattle >during calfing season, gophers overrunning pasture land, foxes/coyotes in >the chicken coupe and to hunt for food during hunting season. He also >practised, a lot, to keep up his skill level. > >To people living in New York, London, Berlin, etc. a 10 guage shotgun or a >semi-auto 30-30 makes no sense, unless they hunt, target shoot, etc. People >that find that 'odd' or 'unacceptable' are generally pretty uninformed on >how other people live. > >If I lived in Iraq right now, I'd not only own, but I would carry at all >times more than one gun. Not much call for a gun in Calgary though. > >Regards, > >Greg > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >