doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com What is rationale behind skinny splinter forearms?

Those skimpy little forearms are for hunters who get enough shooting without making the gun too hot to hold playing games.

HA!! All that trouble- towels, gloves, leather around the barrels? Hey, here's an idea, just get a BTFE. Then you won't look like you are shooting a woman's gun, plus, you'll be able to control your gun better. And you won't have to wear the bluing off of your guns. And yes, people do sweat through leather gloves, Larry. If you spend a day at a shoot and shoot hundreds of rounds, you'll find that out some day. I saw one guy's gun I know who sweated so much, the dye from his red Bob Allan gloves left hand prints on the wood of his gun where he held his gun. And yes, I do put my guns in my safe upside down. And Tinker- masculinity?? That's great coming from a guy who lives in the prop eight part of the country. You really should have kept quit. Shop towels!! HA!!

Pretty simple here Jimmy W


You're bringing some kind of challenge to the guys here in the thread (and the rest of the world it seems) based on their choice of forend wood style.
Challenge to their masculinity and sexual orientation.

Where does that come from Jimmy?
I think you're spending a little too much time thinking about the sex lives of a bunch of other guys.
You think about sex with guys often Jimmy?
You like big wood Jimmy?
Those 'prop 8 people' you talk about would call you a size queen.
The vast majority of those 'prop 8 people' came to this state from places like wherever you're from.
At least they (whoever they are) have the balls to admit to their orientation.
Looks like the 'inner you' is trying to out himself.

Keep it up Jimmy.
Maybe you'll find the big wood you're really yearning for after all.
I'm sure there's someone out there for you somewhere.
Try a truck stop, perhaps the YMCA showers...




Cheers
Tinker

Oh, yes. The prop eight guy again. With the prissy little forarm gun. And yes, I do have a few guns with skimpy little forends and have always found them to be absolutely worthless. I have yet to hear anyone prove what they are good for. So, no, I won't be changing my mind. So, keep on shooting them, guys.

So, anyway, Bushmaster, this is pretty much the way this discussion usually goes when someone brings up the question. Buy a gun with a skimpy little forearm and then cover it up with a piece of stiff leather to protect your hand or the barrels. Don't use it when you duck hunt and have the water go through your gloves or better yet stick to the barrels. Or, go get a shop towel, cover it with oil when you put it in the safe. Now you see why people just get a BTFE instead of going through all that hassle? Plus you have that much more wood to checker, varnish and give your gun that really great look. This is the way this argument had gone for years.

They weigh less than the ones with the fat forends, Jimmy. For those of us who carry our guns a bit farther than from the trunk of the car to the trap line--as in hunting with them--that can be important. Course if you go back to when they had decent upland hunting in Ohio, that was probably before you were born, so I can understand why you wouldn't see the value of a lighter gun for hunting.

And sweating through a leather glove? I'm still wondering about that one. I've ended up with dye fading onto my hand, for the simple reason that the sweat stays on the inside. Guess folks sweat differently in Ohio . . . or maybe use gloves made of something besides leather.

As for the problem of putting them away, I use a rag with a little oil to handle mine. And that includes a Sweet 16, which has plenty of wood to hold onto. But just in case I get my fingers on the metal . . . Of course since they don't take showers or baths in Ohio, towels of any sort are not likely to be readily at hand.

Jimmys think'n with his dip stick....

Although I've never subscribed to the Freudian psycology notion that guns are phallic symbols, if there were a shred of truth in that, I imagine that wrapping ones' hand around a "big long fat one" would suggest some subconcious desire. I truthfully wouldn't know. Bikini girls and splinters as previously stated.

Wow! Sweaty gloves,girly guns, sexual orientation, big wood, dipsticks and propositions. There is alot more to think about when chosing a guns forearm than balance and aesthetics.

It is pretty good that we live in a society where we can argue about stuff like this!

I will agree that the barrels do get hot but I would not think they get that hot in Ohio.

The last gun that I ordered, a 28 ga, I contemplated a semi beavertail forearm to add some weight and the barrels being small etc. I backed out of it as it was a large purchase and I was afraid I would not like it.

I have had some problems with pistol grips being too small but wearing a glove on my rt hand can help. I have a SKB target gun that has a very tight grip. My K-80 is large and works great.

As for appearance I would look pretty manly shooting a gold plated 25 auto wearing a moo moo dress and size 14 red pumps..........or maybe orangutangly instead of manly!