Off topic a bit but interesting excerpt from a vintage gun book

[Rumpelhardt]

“Slowly but surely the male citizenry is becoming emasculated to the point of utter helplessness. Sliding along, content in their weakness, glorying in their inability to do things. Proud of the fact that they’ve never been taught to use their hands.-and blind also to the fact that they know mighty little about using their heads.
Work-honest, decent labor, skill of fingers, accuracy of eye-somehow it seems beneath the present generation.”

“Modern Gunsmithing” by Clyde Baker written in 1933

When I read this I almost chocked on my coffee.
I guess the problem has been around a while.

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[Patrick Chadwick]

Work-honest, decent labor, skill of fingers, accuracy of eye-somehow it seems beneath the present generation.

If you had been there, you would probably have heard this sentiment expressed thousands of years ago! Along with other comments in the same vein, like "In my day we really had mammoths, not the miserable specimens you see nowadays. And nobody learns how to make a decent flint any more..." And so on and so on, all through history.

[Vincent]

Here's some some really modern gunsmithing.



Something tells me they have been using their heads and their hands.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Better stay out of the way of that!