Tryhard logos

[Wapiti]

Was sighting in a scope a mate asked if I'd see if I could wreck like I'd done with earlier Meoptas and their internal lubricants melting back in early 2010's models, and I thought I'd sort this out on the old night dog rifle.
I'd always thought it really lame that rifle makers (some) put stupid logos and stickers on guns. Worse are the ones that you can't get off.
A gentleman never wears big logos on his clothes either, the focus is on him and how it fits, not giant brand logos.
See below.

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Almost as lame are the wannabe's who do this:

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Or pretend they are cowboys and wear lame stuff like this:

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So off the floorplate came, and to my horror the quality of the casting was awful, rough hacking grind marks, yeech. I guess you get what you pay for.

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So off comes the floorplate, and down to the sandblaster to get a hit with garnet.
The cheap silver paint came off with a whip, but the logo, man it was hard and needed a few extra hits to remove. A lifetime of use wouldn't have budged this ugly logo. Then, a nice coat of ceramic "metallic medium silver" and a bake and who'd ever know.

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I'm off to refine my tig welding on some titanium I'm messing with this arvo.

[bigrich]

those RM cow horns are on every second four-by in the city mate .

only sticker i got on my toyota is the Eureka stockade rebel flag , and the one that tells me when my wheel alignment is due

[Wapiti]

Yeah I'd figured you knew what that Eureka flag stood for mate but kept it to meself!

[bigrich]

Yeah I'd figured you knew what that Eureka flag stood for mate but kept it to meself!

Yeah, I don’t subscribe to the union movement using the eureka flag. It symbolises rebellion against tyranny to me. Not the communist attitude of some unions

[Blackened]

It amazes me the number of 'The Punisher' skull logos you still see around.

After plinking for a bit at the range with your .22lr, you're popping off to the western suburbs for some vigilante justice on Sydney's underworld, are you?

Right then

[Blackened]

Saw my first Lone Wolf and 1% patch combo in a while recently, too.

That's another good one. Like you need to specifically advertise you're not part of something

[Bugman]

Me thinks I will stick with my Yosemite Sam decal on my vehicle

[bigrich]

Me thinks I will stick with my Yosemite Sam decal on my vehicle

So long as you don’t yell and drive like Yosemite Sam…. lol

[bigrich]

It amazes me the number of 'The Punisher' skull logos you still see around.

After plinking for a bit at the range with your .22lr, you're popping off to the western suburbs for some vigilante justice on Sydney's underworld, are you?

Right then

It’s funny how things like stickers on a car can become a “fad” like the punisher skull.

I’m thinking I might put a “red ensign “ Australian flag on the back of my for to go with my eureka flag sticker. “Up Australia!”

[Wapiti]

I used to run about with an Owen Guns made sticker- had an Aussie flag with the words "if you don't love it, LEAVE"
But it fell off and that was a few vehicles ago.
Only got compliments from it, never any grief from the weakies.

[bigrich]

I used to run about with an Owen Guns made sticker- had an Aussie flag with the words "if you don't love it, LEAVE"
But it fell off and that was a few vehicles ago.
Only got compliments from it, never any grief from the weakies.

now that's a sticker i can agree with

loyalty , and pride for this nation has been eroded by leftism , and a underlying shift to be a "global citizen" rather than being a australian citizen. comments on a sticker with those words would vary depending on where you are in this country these days . inner city melbourne would likely draw comments of racist or fascist, where i live would probably get you a "good on ya mate "

i've had a idea for my own sticker with a bit of sarcasm , "support communism , buy a chinese made car and vote labour"

[CJRBOLTGUN1]

bit like when people name s**t and put signage on it to let others know ,i just see it as the d**khead factor, was watching crap toob this morning and saw a begara with a custom sticker down the side that said Boogeyman ,like really ........HELLO d**khead

[mickb]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

[bigrich]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

i dunno , maybe i'm generalising here , put people with personalised plates seem to be insecure , shallow , attention seekers most of the time . at least that's the case with the ones i've met . only plates I've had "customised" were the original black and white plates on my last hot rod HQ premier . no particular meaning , OBD704 . number code fits with a febuary 1973 build HQ . one of my mates joked it stood for "old brown dunger, number 704" . it got repainted a light mercedes metallic gold , kept the white roof

haven't seen too much of a sticker trend lately , cost of living impact i suppose

[Wapiti]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

Has anyone seen those new bolt action rifles and lever shotguns from the loony mob that were bringing in the Chimeras?
The "Carnage R700" - an extremely roughly finished Turkeyie version of the great Remington
The "Carnage Stinger" - the machine-mark covered wierd copy of the CZ452
The "Carnage Sweeper" - a very "Adler-like" lever shotgun to replace the banned button release

What takes the cake is the font of this laser-engraved naming on the sides of these firearms, in an "Adams Family" Creepshow-type huge lettering.
THAT takes the cake. Are all gun buyers 17-year-old bogans now?

[straightshooter]

Are all gun buyers 17-year-old bogans now?

The realistic short answer is NO......BUT nonetheless an awful lot of them do fall into the "monkey see monkey do" camp.
Stop and think for a while especially in the context of today's informal advertising opportunities via all forms of social media.
Once upon a time a certain amount of quid quo pro was needed to get a glowing review or conversely not get a complete drubbing by an "expert" writer.
Today anybody can brag about their 3 shot group in the 0's on social media and silently, in the frame, there's that big logo.
There is nothing new about this advertising strategy. Anybody remember Toranas with SL/R 5000 and Porsches with Carrera in huge lettering plastered across their sides or am I getting too old?

[Damo300]

Oh I remember the toranas because they're my favouritist car ever.
What was the add?
"Big 3 door with a fold down floor......Torana" or something like that....haha.
I sold mine, only a 6 banger, but still had the hatch hutch, which I didn't realise what it was, for $2500......DH!
My wife has promised me I can get another one if we ever fall into a big inheritance, which we won't, but dreams are free.

The old Holden sticker (white writing on red background) across the front window of the VN sedan, and the old police persuit rims.
I am definitely the bogan you all talk about....haha.

I just yesterday watched a beautiful torana build get run around the nurberg ring in Germany.
Absolutely gorgeous build.

https://youtu.be/NzjvvJQQIGc?si=5rcKGr1go4IZrtVw

https://youtu.be/If5Ic1mF850?si=iHo1UddggrAcC250

[Die Judicii]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

For starters, for what they cost, they must have more $$$ than sense.
And to top that off, the greater percentage of them are so cryptic, that many times I just can't be bothered trying to decipher their meaning.

What is the point of paying out the $$$ for custom plates, and then having some secret squirrel message emblazoned on them.

I appreciate the ones that are "funny" tho.

[bigrich]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

For starters, for what they cost, they must have more $$$ than sense.
And to top that off, the greater percentage of them are so cryptic, that many times I just can't be bothered trying to decipher their meaning.

What is the point of paying out the $$$ for custom plates, and then having some secret squirrel message emblazoned on them.

I appreciate the ones that are "funny" tho.

to me , custom number plates are in the same category as tattoo's , not something i'd spend money on as i've got higher priorities , diesel , beer and bullets

[Wapiti]

Are all gun buyers 17-year-old bogans now?

The realistic short answer is NO......BUT nonetheless an awful lot of them do fall into the "monkey see monkey do" camp.
Stop and think for a while especially in the context of today's informal advertising opportunities via all forms of social media.
Once upon a time a certain amount of quid quo pro was needed to get a glowing review or conversely not get a complete drubbing by an "expert" writer.
Today anybody can brag about their 3 shot group in the 0's on social media and silently, in the frame, there's that big logo.
There is nothing new about this advertising strategy. Anybody remember Toranas with SL/R 5000 and Porsches with Carrera in huge lettering plastered across their sides or am I getting too old?

That doesn't have anything do with some of the very childish and suggestive names on firearms that, in a political anti-firearm time like this, gives the squealers the chance to use this in their favour.
People discussing their gear between like minded people and what they can or can't get out of it for others information is not the same thing by miles. In fact it's not even close - that's just a shot at others who do so innocently, or to back their words. Words are cheap.
It's also completely different from an agenda-driven journalist working for a supposed neutral publication representing a sport, pushing the same brands or things thing for personal reward, month after month. Reviews for freebies.

Yes I see the small link between the big stripes on old Hard-tops or the big logos back then, could the same be said for todays vehicles if you look around? Sure can.

Certainly not naming a hunting tool as something capable of "carnage" in this personally politically driven time of banning anything that offends. Personally as a marketing decision, it's childish, rather than in your face.

[fussy]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

to me , custom number plates are in the same category as tattoo's , not something i'd spend money on as i've got higher priorities , diesel , beer and bullets

Tattooed women are like grafitti'd buildings:
They look ugly.
They are easy to enter.
They are full of things you don't want to take home.

[bigrich]

I find it funny all the custom number plates these days. In the nearest city it seems half the cars have one.

to me , custom number plates are in the same category as tattoo's , not something i'd spend money on as i've got higher priorities , diesel , beer and bullets

Tattooed women are like grafitti'd buildings:
They look ugly.
They are easy to enter.
They are full of things you don't want to take home.

i know what you mean ,but we're generalising a bit , i do know some good people with ink . back in the day outlaw bikers and the type of women you describe were the only people that used to get ink (bon scott too the lovable ratbag ) , before it became "fashionable" as i stated above , i've got more important things to spend money on . if your into nefarious criminal behaviour why would you advertise anyway . stupid

[bigrich]

Are all gun buyers 17-year-old bogans now?

The realistic short answer is NO......BUT nonetheless an awful lot of them do fall into the "monkey see monkey do" camp.
Stop and think for a while especially in the context of today's informal advertising opportunities via all forms of social media.
Once upon a time a certain amount of quid quo pro was needed to get a glowing review or conversely not get a complete drubbing by an "expert" writer.
Today anybody can brag about their 3 shot group in the 0's on social media and silently, in the frame, there's that big logo.
There is nothing new about this advertising strategy. Anybody remember Toranas with SL/R 5000 and Porsches with Carrera in huge lettering plastered across their sides or am I getting too old?

That doesn't have anything do with some of the very childish and suggestive names on firearms that, in a political anti-firearm time like this, gives the squealers the chance to use this in their favour.
People discussing their gear between like minded people and what they can or can't get out of it for others information is not the same thing by miles. In fact it's not even close - that's just a shot at others who do so innocently, or to back their words. Words are cheap.
It's also completely different from an agenda-driven journalist working for a supposed neutral publication representing a sport, pushing the same brands or things thing for personal reward, month after month. Reviews for freebies.

Yes I see the small link between the big stripes on old Hard-tops or the big logos back then, could the same be said for todays vehicles if you look around? Sure can.

Certainly not naming a hunting tool as something capable of "carnage" in this personally politically driven time of banning anything that offends. Personally as a marketing decision, it's childish, rather than in your face.

your right there the number of tattooed tradies driving ford rangers with big lift kits and tyres, and big raptor stickers on them is proof of this . i guess some people like to give out the "tough guy" persona as their really insecure basic male psyche to a certain degree . i'm too old to care what people think of me , i'm content to be judged on my actions, words and the morales that influence them .i try to be open minded ,respectful, fair and just, if i'm in the wrong on some level i'll take responsibility for it . not really concerned about how the car i drive, my stickers on it, or lack of tattoo's is viewed . i have just one sticker on my fourby , the eureka flag rebel flag of freedom against unjust government , not in support of unionism