I know it's off-topic, but being a gun owner myself, my rifles are insured. Also, being a Canadian gun-owner, I'm not from a small little city in Alberta I'm from Toronto.
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think Canada, they think hunting.
The stigma, actually that's probably the wrong word. The, world view of who owns guns is very inaccurate of how it actually is...in my opinion of course.
I'm 19, a kid if you will, and I have guns, not just rifles, handguns as well. When I was 13 I had a gun.
Ya never know.
This should be a seperate thread though if we really wanted to discuss this, cause I can go for days. But I'll leave with this a photo of me when I was 14, braces and all...with a .303
Receipts, printed out eBay auctions. It may be wise to print out some of Sawtooth's auctions to "prove" the value of some items. Documented sales of other items would suffice as proof. This would prove the value of a NWC gold. Unfortunately the offer you sent me for my SE wouldn't count as proof.
It would be a major pain in the ass should something go wrong. Just because I have it insured for $75,000 doesn't mean they'll fork over that money if something goes wrong. In the event that something goes wrong, you would have to prove the value of your collection to actually get paid that amount. I could have it insured for $1,000,000 but they'd only actually pay me as much as I can "prove" my collection is worth.
What i intend to do is take photographs of every single game I own and store them on a flash drive and store that along with other documentation I have in my safety deposit box. I am also going to store those photos on photobucket just to have an extra backup. Taking photographs of every game is overkill but i want to do it anyway just for my own personal purposes. I plan to do this after I finish mintying up every game I own. I also keep my most expensive games in my safety deposit box which lowers the price I would pay for insurance. Plus I have an alarmed home which also lowers the price I would have to pay for insurance.
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think Canada, they think hunting.
Ironic, because 95% of gun owners I know are hunters and the other 5% are collectors/sportsmen.
Too much of the world just believes what they see on TV or in movies
I didn't realize Canadians were allowed to own handguns, though. That's kind of a surprise. In the US you have to be 21, for that, and 18 for long arms.
What if you go by the receipt method and say I have a receipt for CIB Flintstones 2 and I only paid $100 for it. Im not going to be satisfied with only getting $100 back for it.
Well I guess this would be where showing proof of how much it is worth comes in.
This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun!!!
I didn't know that Canada had an army, or that they drafted 14 year olds....
I think they have something like it in the states, but in Canada it's called "Cadets" essentially, it's military training without service. There's air cadets, sea cadets and army cadets. I was an army cadet - but I was "special". I qualified for a special marksman course, so I got to train with the regular forces for three years and do all the marksmanship programs, compete in their competitions, etc. Regular cadets would go to training facilities of close to 5000 cadets for 6 weeks at a time. I went to a facility where there were 300 cadets, all marksman, and regular forces for 8 weeks. It was really intense and looking back at it...really fucking scary. I was trained to do nothing but shoot. First year I shot .22's at about 50-100 yards, second year .223's at 300-800 yards and my 3rd year, .308's at 300-1000 yards. In the third year, I was shooting every single day, rain or shine, and about 100-150 rounds a day. I'm by definition loosing my hearing already, and I'm not even 20 haha. When I turned 18 I just went into civilian shooting and now shoot a 6.5mm x .284 at 300-1200 yards.
Hey freedman, nice to see another cadet on here, I was in air cadets for 6 years and ended up with both my glider's license and my private pilot's license, both paid for by our wonderful Canadian tax payers (and the off-topic posting continues...)
Hey freedman, nice to see another cadet on here, I was in air cadets for 6 years and ended up with both my glider's license and my private pilot's license, both paid for by our wonderful Canadian tax payers (and the off-topic posting continues...)
Cadets is actually an incredible program. It taught me so many things that I would never have gotten elsewhere. Living on military bases so young, and just being in a strict disciplined environment. And the training haha, well, ya my training cost thousands of dollars. I don't even want to do the math, but if it costs me now about $0.70 a round, well 100 a day for 8 weeks...good ol' Canadian government. In the past two years the numbers have drastically dropped, and funding has been cut nearly in half. It's a shame. When I joined my corps was 150 on paper and then I went back last year to coach a new rifle team...22 kids.
Originally posted by: HIGHTOWER26
Damn freedman that .50 cal is bad ass!!! is it a Barrett or BMG or????
I hold myself responsible for the off topic posting started in this thread
.50 BMG 655 grain, here it is compared to a .308 155 grain
as for the rifle, it was custom made and cost close to $12,000. The weird pistol grip was from an old AR-15. Which by the way...
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think Canada, they think hunting.
Ironic, because 95% of gun owners I know are hunters and the other 5% are collectors/sportsmen.
Too much of the world just believes what they see on TV or in movies
I didn't realize Canadians were allowed to own handguns, though. That's kind of a surprise. In the US you have to be 21, for that, and 18 for long arms.
I also forgot to address this. In Ontario you can get a restricted and non-restricted license. A non-restricted allows for rifles, shotguns, etc. and restricted is for handguns. You can get these at any age, it takes a course, a background check and two tests. I have both of these.
There's also a prohibited license however you cannot get it, it has to be grandfathered to you (i.e. your father had to have had one when it was legal). This covers fully-automatic weapons and explosives like rocket launchers. But no one says you can't build one
CFB Borden, it's a military base in Barrie, Ontario. As for the pic's I'm a photographer/cameraman so I've tried to document everything I've ever fired.
Back on topic. Couldn't you get an experienced collector, maybe one who runs a very large Nintendo relating collecting site, to "vouch" for the value of your collection-if you had pictures of everything you owned?
^^ Wouldn't that qualify as an independen aprasial? You would have to do something like that because the whole point of collecting (get ready for the lectures!) is to have your investment gain value with time. I mean, like the man said about F2, the $15 for the CIB Deluxe Sets from 5 years ago wouldn't exactly cover the replacement costs for today. I think that I will have to look into this deeper either with that site that Nick reccomended or my homeowner's insurance. At the very least, I will have to collect the photo documentation of my collection and make PDFs of the paypal receipts. It would not be pleasant to replace all this stuff. This topic is depressing...
Let's see you blow some shit up with that Rocket Launcher!!!!!
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^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think
Canada, they think hunting.
The stigma, actually that's probably the wrong word. The, world view of who owns guns is very inaccurate of how it actually is...in my opinion of course.
I'm 19, a kid if you will, and I have guns, not just rifles, handguns as well. When I was 13 I had a gun.
Ya never know.
This should be a seperate thread though if we really wanted to discuss this, cause I can go for days. But I'll leave with this a photo of me when I was 14, braces and all...with a .303
well said arch. Most of my guns are not automatic or handguns. I was wondering if there were any other shooters/reloaders here on the forums?
I've been a TR/F-Class shooter since I was 12. I'm religious about the bullet.
^^ What do they define as "proof"?
Receipts, printed out eBay auctions. It may be wise to print out some of Sawtooth's auctions to "prove" the value of some items. Documented sales of other items would suffice as proof. This would prove the value of a NWC gold. Unfortunately the offer you sent me for my SE wouldn't count as proof.
It would be a major pain in the ass should something go wrong. Just because I have it insured for $75,000 doesn't mean they'll fork over that money if something goes wrong. In the event that something goes wrong, you would have to prove the value of your collection to actually get paid that amount. I could have it insured for $1,000,000 but they'd only actually pay me as much as I can "prove" my collection is worth.
What i intend to do is take photographs of every single game I own and store them on a flash drive and store that along with other documentation I have in my safety deposit box. I am also going to store those photos on photobucket just to have an extra backup. Taking photographs of every game is overkill but i want to do it anyway just for my own personal purposes. I plan to do this after I finish mintying up every game I own. I also keep my most expensive games in my safety deposit box which lowers the price I would pay for insurance. Plus I have an alarmed home which also lowers the price I would have to pay for insurance.
is that an enfield freedman? damn has the international style stock.
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think
Canada, they think hunting.
Ironic, because 95% of gun owners I know are hunters and the other 5% are collectors/sportsmen.
Too much of the world just believes what they see on TV or in movies
I didn't realize Canadians were allowed to own handguns, though. That's kind of a surprise. In the US you have to be 21, for that, and 18 for long arms.
Well I guess this would be where showing proof of how much it is worth comes in.
This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun!!!
I didn't know that Canada had an army, or that they drafted 14 year olds....
This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun!!!
I didn't know that Canada had an army, or that they drafted 14 year olds....
I think they have something like it in the states, but in Canada it's called "Cadets" essentially, it's military training without service. There's air cadets, sea cadets and army cadets. I was an army cadet - but I was "special". I qualified for a special marksman course, so I got to train with the regular forces for three years and do all the marksmanship programs, compete in their competitions, etc. Regular cadets would go to training facilities of close to 5000 cadets for 6 weeks at a time. I went to a facility where there were 300 cadets, all marksman, and regular forces for 8 weeks. It was really intense and looking back at it...really fucking scary.
I was trained to do nothing but shoot. First year I shot .22's at about 50-100 yards, second year .223's at 300-800 yards and my 3rd year, .308's at 300-1000 yards. In the third year, I was shooting every single day, rain or shine, and about 100-150 rounds a day. I'm by definition loosing my hearing already, and I'm not even 20 haha.
When I turned 18 I just went into civilian shooting and now shoot a 6.5mm x .284 at 300-1200 yards.
Here's me with my 6.5mm x .284
and here's me with a .50
I hold myself responsible for the off topic posting started in this thread
Hey freedman, nice to see another cadet on here, I was in air cadets for 6 years and ended up with both my glider's license and my private pilot's license, both paid for by our wonderful Canadian tax payers
Cadets is actually an incredible program. It taught me so many things that I would never have gotten elsewhere. Living on military bases so young, and just being in a strict disciplined environment. And the training haha, well, ya my training cost thousands of dollars. I don't even want to do the math, but if it costs me now about $0.70 a round, well 100 a day for 8 weeks...good ol' Canadian government.
In the past two years the numbers have drastically dropped, and funding has been cut nearly in half. It's a shame. When I joined my corps was 150 on paper and then I went back last year to coach a new rifle team...22 kids.
Damn freedman that .50 cal is bad ass!!! is it a Barrett or BMG or????
I hold myself responsible for the off topic posting started in this thread
.50 BMG 655 grain, here it is compared to a .308 155 grain
as for the rifle, it was custom made and cost close to $12,000. The weird pistol grip was from an old AR-15. Which by the way...
^^^ Well, when the rest of the world talks about US gun owners they think about hand guns and automatic weapons. But the reality is that most people just have shot guns and rifles.
I think when the world talks about US gun owners they are thinking illegal guns. And when they think
Canada, they think hunting.
Ironic, because 95% of gun owners I know are hunters and the other 5% are collectors/sportsmen.
Too much of the world just believes what they see on TV or in movies
I didn't realize Canadians were allowed to own handguns, though. That's kind of a surprise. In the US you have to be 21, for that, and 18 for long arms.
I also forgot to address this. In Ontario you can get a restricted and non-restricted license. A non-restricted allows for rifles, shotguns, etc. and restricted is for handguns. You can get these at any age, it takes a course, a background check and two tests. I have both of these.
There's also a prohibited license however you cannot get it, it has to be grandfathered to you (i.e. your father had to have had one when it was legal). This covers fully-automatic weapons and explosives like rocket launchers. But no one says you can't build one
There she is from the 1000 yard line
Let's see you blow some shit up with that Rocket Launcher!!!!!