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New verses old with our rifles.
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<blockquote data-quote="ntsqd" data-source="post: 1631344" data-attributes="member: 93138"><p>I see this as kind of an Art vs. Science thing. To the guy who sees his hunting rifle(s) as mere tools; new, because they are tools and they should be built in the manner to does the job the most economically. To the guy who sees his hunting rifle(s) as useful Art; old because new stuff just doesn't look much like Art. Pretty hard to appreciate that there is any Art in something that has 300,000 identical brothers.</p><p></p><p>Not to say that there can't be Art in new rifles, even mass produced new rifles, or that old rifles aren't useful tools. I see value in products with identical brothers. Who wants to have to make or modify a part just to change the oil filter on your truck? I also see value in one of a kind articles, be they a rifle, a truck, or anything else for that matter.</p><p></p><p>What was mentioned above about Design Envelope is important. Push anything near the edge of it's design envelope or past it and you now have a finicky and likely unreliable item. If a printing press is designed for a max production rate of 500 pages a minute, asking it to produce 1,000 pages a minute is foolish and destructive. Yet this sort of thing is all too frequent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ntsqd, post: 1631344, member: 93138"] I see this as kind of an Art vs. Science thing. To the guy who sees his hunting rifle(s) as mere tools; new, because they are tools and they should be built in the manner to does the job the most economically. To the guy who sees his hunting rifle(s) as useful Art; old because new stuff just doesn't look much like Art. Pretty hard to appreciate that there is any Art in something that has 300,000 identical brothers. Not to say that there can't be Art in new rifles, even mass produced new rifles, or that old rifles aren't useful tools. I see value in products with identical brothers. Who wants to have to make or modify a part just to change the oil filter on your truck? I also see value in one of a kind articles, be they a rifle, a truck, or anything else for that matter. What was mentioned above about Design Envelope is important. Push anything near the edge of it's design envelope or past it and you now have a finicky and likely unreliable item. If a printing press is designed for a max production rate of 500 pages a minute, asking it to produce 1,000 pages a minute is foolish and destructive. Yet this sort of thing is all too frequent. [/QUOTE]
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