WheelGunMan
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That had to be an awful embarrassment for the gun snobs at H&K!There's a story about it online - they say the brochures were quickly composed and rushed for what I think was SHOT Show (?).
That had to be an awful embarrassment for the gun snobs at H&K!There's a story about it online - they say the brochures were quickly composed and rushed for what I think was SHOT Show (?).
That's sorta like shooting a squirrel or rabbit with a 30-30... you better be a damn good shot or you're gonna have mess! Ask me how I know.
RTFM has always been excellent advice - in today's world, you need to get past the first 12-15 pages of legal mumbo jumbo to get to the important stuff, but it is all in there.For a bit of fun,
So, I recently bought a Maverick 88 as my first shotgun. I took her home, read the manual, racked her a couple times and went to bed. Over the next week I looked at the manual a few times over and then took her to the range. To my horror I found she only accepted two round instead of five. I searched the internet for how to fix what and what to replace parts with. I posted on this very forum and got an answer. A wooden dowel is used to plug the magazine tube for bird hunting. Removed the dowel.
Today I was trying to figure out if the tang safety on the Mossberg 500 makes it harder to disassemble then the Maverick 88 which has a cross bolt safety. I went to Mossberg's site and downloaded a 500 manual for the schematics and then I reread my 88 manual. I found this line on the fourth page of the 88 manual:
Note: to comply with U.S. migratory birds, six shot models are shipped with a wooden dowel inserted into the magazine tube which limits magazine capacity to two (2) shells.
Either I didn't read the manual as thoroughly as I should have or I think I am a better reader then I really am. It was at that moment that I realized I might be an idiot. Either way, next time I get a new firearm, I'm not only going to read the manual, I'm going to copy it word for word so I don't miss anything.
Thanks to all the people who refrained from telling me to just read the manual.
Remember, there are no dumb questions, but there are dumb answers.
.,.Remember experience is that thing you get, just moments after you needed it...
I shot 3 with a .17HMR and 2 were head shot. He shot 2 with a 30-30, both through the ribs. We ended up with the same amount of meat.
Oh, they were both messy. The 17 kept everything internal though instead of passing through.Really? My experience has been more... bloody, if you will. The last rabbit I shot with a 30-30 made a wicked smear in the mud and it was then I decided that rabbit hunting was more a 22lr proposition.
Mac
A friend once told me " I've only been wrong once in my life and that was when I thought I was wrong but it turned out I was right." I never make mistrakes either.I have never made a mistake in my life. Well, I’ve been divorced twice and may have forgotten some thing that have happened in the past.
Itemized bill:The repair guy synced the clock and delayed timer (a pushbutton)....charged me $50 service call
The internet, it's out there forever!I replied to a thread yesterday, I didnt take long to realize I was an idiot for even posting.
Yikes...
Haha, my buddy at work just spent $1700 on a new Tikka precision rifle- his first bolt action.Heresy!
You should begin by completely disassembling it, rolls pins to detents, then RTFM.
No way, man- thats a feature, not a problem. Their guns are so well engineered they will feed backwards!That had to be an awful embarrassment for the gun snobs at H&K!
Heresy!
You should begin by completely disassembling it, rolls pins to detents, then RTFM.
Many auto manufacturers no longer provide a printed owners manual. Its usually on a flash drive or you have to download it now. Guess how many people bother? Lol.I used to sell auto parts, we'd get folks in who didn't understand why their car started acting up. Bells, lights, etc going off when or not as needed. We'd open up the owners manual after they came back and got it out of the kitchen drawer !!!!!!!! and usually found it was an optional menu item on their in dash car screen. They had swiped instead of pushed.
I made it my life's mission to ask for the owner's manual from then on, and passive aggressively was kind of pointed about it. "They are all so different now we'd have to read it to see why it's doing that. Oh I'm sure the dealer could tell you but they do the same and the Service Department will charge for the visit, if you can get me the manual it will tell us exactly what to do." A motor vehicle manual should be mandatory for sale with a used car. But, that's just me looking out for the consumer. I hope the ATF isn't scanning this thread.
I'm happy to read that the OP can read and did so, the downside is that the later generations are the reason the term "illiterati" was coined. Those under 40 have demonstrated no idea what an index or table of contents does, and looking things up? Then you get into "but the salesman told me it would!" yet I've never met one who even knew if it was OHC or not. Gun store clerks are better informed. Really.
Yes, please, read the manual, FROM COVER TO COVER, look for the ten pages or so that tell you the different stuff. And no, don't abuse the firearm in any of the 87 ways listed in the first pages. Who does that? Apparently someone did. As for the P365, no, it won't tell you how to reinstall the slide lock or slide lever strut, because it told you not to remove the FCU in the first place, so, yeah, been there done that just this week. And, the internet is your friend. There's a video about how to take down the FCU to it's bare components.
With that in mind: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+remove+the+plug+from+my+maverick&ia=web&iai=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juf50U3j-Og&pn=1
In a ploy to sell more OnStar subscriptions...The most important thing they miss out on by not reading it is that their new car no longer comes with a spare tire.
I shot a squirrel from the side through the chest with a .308 Win.. 180 gr. Silvertip once. All it did was drill a neat .30 cal. hole clean through. Said squirrel ran straight up to the top of the tree then died and fell.Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt and still didn't RTFM! I recall taking apart my 1897 at the kitchen table one night to change a couple springs. Three hours and a lot of cursing later, I had it back together. And don't even get me started on replacing the mag spring in my Model 12! Probably shoulda read a schematic or some instructions... "we don't need no stinking manual"... but I did!
That's sorta like shooting a squirrel or rabbit with a 30-30... you better be a damn good shot or you're gonna have mess! Ask me how I know....
Mac
Them's not mistakes, they's edjumacaytins.Well, I’ve been divorced twice