Titan6
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I went shooting this past week with a friend who is an avid trap and skeet shooter. He knows quite a bit about shotguns is a member of a nice higher end trap and skeet club and reloads. He is also a very good shot and me in several rounds (I am more of a rifle shooter). He is also a bird hunter as well.
Unfortunately he doesn't know anything about pistols or rfiles. Anyway he is thinking about buying a pistol and it all came pouring out like a tidal wave. Honestly based on his knowledge of shotguns I was shocked to find that he believed the following:
- .38 caliber is usless for HD/SD because the bullets bounce off of human heads
- .45 bullets tumble in flight causing bigger wounds
- Hollow points are illegal
- Glocks are unsafe because they don't have a safety (and they are made in Alabama apparently)
This was just for starters. I spent at least three hours explaining ballisitics, gun laws, ammo types and effects. Frankly I was exhausted after a couple of hours but he kept pulling more myths and simply bad information out and I felt compelled to keep going and presenting evidence.
I felt bad for the guy because I knew he knew a lot about shotguns (certainly more than me) and is also very pro-gun but had grown up without any knowledge of rifles or pistols and so had filled in the blanks with hollywood and gun shop commando talk.
It got me to wondering about how hard we work in our community to dispell these types myths.
So hard do you work at it? Or do you just let it go?
Unfortunately he doesn't know anything about pistols or rfiles. Anyway he is thinking about buying a pistol and it all came pouring out like a tidal wave. Honestly based on his knowledge of shotguns I was shocked to find that he believed the following:
- .38 caliber is usless for HD/SD because the bullets bounce off of human heads
- .45 bullets tumble in flight causing bigger wounds
- Hollow points are illegal
- Glocks are unsafe because they don't have a safety (and they are made in Alabama apparently)
This was just for starters. I spent at least three hours explaining ballisitics, gun laws, ammo types and effects. Frankly I was exhausted after a couple of hours but he kept pulling more myths and simply bad information out and I felt compelled to keep going and presenting evidence.
I felt bad for the guy because I knew he knew a lot about shotguns (certainly more than me) and is also very pro-gun but had grown up without any knowledge of rifles or pistols and so had filled in the blanks with hollywood and gun shop commando talk.
It got me to wondering about how hard we work in our community to dispell these types myths.
So hard do you work at it? Or do you just let it go?