BigJim brings a good point.... If you pick off a clay bird at 60 yards with a 30 dollar rusty NEF and humbly accept the accolades of your shooting buddies then you are a gentleman thus your firearm is a gentleman's gun... But if you hit said clay bird then turn and say "BOO-YAAAA.... GIT 'ER DONE BOYZ..." While "air punching" with a $60,000 dollar O/U than it is just a gun in a feller's hands...
Brent