Thread: Recent trends in firearm fashion

Some of the discussion on the tops rifle thread made me reflect on recent trends in firearms fashion. If we were all honest with ourselves we would admit that we are as avid followers of fashion as our wifes.

This is all I can think of, add what you can:
*Stainless barrels and synthetic stocks
*Suppressors
*Exciting calibres like 270SSWM and 7mm08 that are somehow better than older calibres
*Impressively large magnums with muzzle breaks
*Bolt and barrel fluting
*Tacticool scopes with huge turrets cos we are all going to shoot at 1000m
*Super amazing polymer tipped projectiles that will allow us to shoot at 1000m
*Bipods cos you need one to shoot 1000m
*AR15s as a hunting rifle
*Carbon fibre stocks and wrapped barrels

I am sure I have forgotten some so reply to the thread and add what you can think of.

Tikka T3s

Originally Posted by dirtyhabit

Tikka T3s

Tikka T3 in 7mm/08 there must be thousands of them in nz now

You can probley, add in 30mm scopes, large objectives and over 15 power scopes on hunting rifles, due to resent long range trends, and also ultra lightweight rifles.
I have sum of the above, but cant quite embrace plastic and stainless, like the I can wood and blued steel, with my Ruger #1 in 300H&H, Model 70 featherweight, in wood blued 7x57, M700 in 6mm Remington, Husky 1600 in 9.3x62, and sako vixen .222, they seam to have a warmth, fit and History, that appeals to me.
I have a couple finnlights, and a Kimber Montana, M70 EW, and while in many ways more practicable, They are much more of a tool.

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Most , if not all of the things mentioned were developed by " Shooters" not "Hunters "
But just like the automotive industry where F1 technology filters down to your everyday mums and dads cars those technological advances in the shooting world have filtered down and become mainstream in the hunting world .
I have found myself going back to my simple days of youth and after flirting with most of the mentioned advances now just carry a simple rifle of a common calibre with nothing but a sling and a fixed power scope attached to it , and a good pair of binoculars .
I decided it was time to become a hunter again .
I couldn't be happier

Ken

Camo paint on your piece so that when you put it down, you can't find it.

I dont know if they are trends, more whats practical for the user. You buy a new 4x4 and put mud tyres on it, fashion? No just practical, well for normal people anyway no doubt some do it for glamour

Originally Posted by Gibo

I dont know if they are trends, more whats practical for the user. You buy a new 4x4 and put mud tyres on it, fashion? No just practical, well for normal people anyway no doubt some do it for glamour

I have gone for the stainless/synthetic because it is practical along with a suppressor. The suppressor is so nice on my sensitive ears.

Could add stock packs to the list though.

Mud tyres are probably as old as 4x4.so not a trend and neither a fashion.
Driving a 4x4 or SUV in town with big flash rims and low tyres is definitely a trend or fashion.

For the guns:
Bigger and heavier scopes, with fat tubes and fat objectives mounted higher and higher.
The big IOR with the 40 mm tubes are the apotheosis of that trend !
Tactical and picatinny rails everywhere!

Rifles shooting faster calibers to reach further.

All that when the average deer in nz might be shot below 100m!

But lucky enough, you can still buy an about normal rifle( ruger American, Remington or sako depending budget) , put a little leupold vx2-3 with a CDS on normal non sloppy base and rings and shoot a deer below a 350m while resting on a backpack.

No need to be trendy there.

Originally Posted by Friwi

put a little leupold vx2-3 with a CDS on normal non sloppy base and rings and shoot a deer below a 350m while resting on a backpack.

No need to be trendy there.

Ah yes but a CDS is trendy as is dialing

Originally Posted by gadgetman

I have gone for the stainless/synthetic because it is practical along with a suppressor. The suppressor is so nice on my sensitive ears.

Could add stock packs to the list though.

Then you have to get a carbon fiber stock to offset the weight of the suppressor. This is how fashion trends form.

I am proud to announce that I own a suppressed AR15 with a carbon fiber fore end and a scope with a tacticool turret.

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

Then you have to get a carbon fiber stock to offset the weight of the suppressor. This is how fashion trends form.

I am proud to announce that I own a suppressed AR15 with a carbon fiber fore end and a scope with a tacticool turret.

No, I like to carry a little extra weight. Helps push the cleats of my boots into the ground and stops me blowing away in the wind quite so much. Just need some weight around my middle to strap my trousers to.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

No, I like to carry a little extra weight. Helps push the cleats of my boots into the ground and stops me blowing away in the wind quite so much. Just need some weight around my middle to strap my trousers to.

After you get that carbon stock buy a huge scope and bold on a bipod to get the weight back into the rifle.

I'm in the process of developing a leg rope that you attach to your t3 bolt