What's the oddest thing you've heard someone say in regards to firearms, ammunition, etc.?

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Actually read this. Not verbatim but captures the general vein of thinking...

If a first time buyer purchases anything other than AR/AK "assault rifle" and lives in anything other than a Red State, they are automatically 'snowflakes" and anti 2a.

That stuff just cracks me up. Sad.

Be well folks
 
"Don't worry about it we shot them that way all the time."

When I was a kid we used to do critter control on my grandparents farm when we visited for the summer. We had a small selection of 22 Lr, one old pump 12 guage, and an old double 410. We went out to clear an old pickle shed and I drew the 410. My cousin handed me some high base hand loads that were not crimped flush.I asked the problem with the shells I found out our great uncle muzzi loaded these "special." Even at 12 I knew better. No one got hurt but I refused to fire any. And yeah they would make a mess of a possum.
 
P5 Guy said:
At my gun club the RO chastised me for having my cased rifle pointed at the parking lot. Only one firearm on the bench at a time so the other rifle was placed under the table. TheRO had me turn the bagged rifle around so the muzzle pointed down range. Now this meant the muzzle was pointing at the folks shooting at the firing line. How was that safer than having a bagged rifle pointing out toward the parking lot?
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Were you at the bench on the line at the time (the description sounds like you were)? If so, the RO was probably following standard safety practice to ensure the gun is already pointed down range when a case is opened. Not unusual for a newbie or someone not paying attention to uncase with the muzzle pointed to the rear and then have to rotate the gun to downrange, sweeping half the facility unless rotating vertically.
 
Good friend of mine who owns a couple of firearms asked me if he could shoot .30-30 in a .303 Enfield. I believe I talked him out of it.
 
"I carry a cheap gun in case I am in a gun fight and the cops confiscate my gun."

This was told to me by a person that made LOTS of money and had a lot of really nice guns, plenty of normal guns, had several nice cars, and would not carry anything more expensive than a KelTec P32. However, he practiced with a customized Colt National Match 1911 at the range. He didn't practice with the Kel-Tec, because they were made to be "carried a lot and shot a little," he said.
 
Forgot this one.
Years ago at the local club range a couple guys were sighting in a muzzleloader. One guy is filing away at the front sight and I said something about it shooting low. When they said it was shooting high I told them filing the front sight down was just going to make it shoot even higher. The response was, “but we already have the rear sight as low as it will go”.
 
The one that stands out in my personal experience comes from a co-worker way back in the day when I was a kid flipping burgers for McDonald's.

Co-worker at McD's claimed he was a Marine all finished with his service (18 years old). And claimed he was allowed to keep his full auto issued M4.

I told him I'd give him my paycheck if he could show me the M4. His reply "It's top secret and the government is watching me".

False Valor coward.
 
".22 Long Rifle is the deadliest round ever made.
It has enough power to penetrate the skin, but not enough to get out, so it just bounces around and scrambles the bad guys insides."
 
If you pull the trigger fast enough, you can get 2 shots off before you come off the target
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Actually, that's basically the definition of a double tap.When I was younger, stronger and faster I routinely kept two rounds within 2" of each other at 10 yds. It's not hard, just takes some practice. Don't know if anyone teaches double taps anymore, I've been out of that game a long time.
 
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burrhead said:
Actually, that's basically the definition of a double tap.When I was younger, stronger and faster I routinely kept two rounds within 2" of each other at 10 yds. It's not hard, just takes some practice. Don't know if anyone teaches double taps anymore, I've been out of that game a long time.
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ummm no. When the slide comes back to chamber another round, you’re not keeping your sights on target. You may track your sights back to the target after recoil and double tap, but it’s physically impossible to fire two times before recoil impulse and slide reciprocation takes place.
 
beenbag,you're technically correct. It's two quick shots with one flash sight picture. I donno, how do you think double taps are accomplished?

 
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Double Naught Spy said:
He didn't practice with the Kel-Tec, because they were made to be "carried a lot and shot a little," he said.
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He's not wrong, in the same way that a space saver spare is meant to be carried in the trunk for years but only utilized for short periods at slow speeds. Subcompact/pocket guns are built to be convenient to carry and useful in an emergency, not to have hundreds of rounds fired through them twice a week for years.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't at least put a couple mags through it once in awhile to maintain proficiency though.
 
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Jeff Cooper's four basic rules of gun safety:
  1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
  2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
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If these rules must be applied literally and without common sense, then it would be impossible to clean guns as they are always loaded and you would have to put your hand in front of the muzzle at some point, and you can’t go down range after a cease fire even if all guns are cleared. To transport them I guess you could hold them out the car window muzzle up so they are never pointing at anyone along your travels.

Safety should be a top priority, but a properly cleared and cased firearm is not a danger to anyone.
 
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If these rules must be applied literally and without common sense, then it would be impossible to clean guns as they are always loaded and you would have to put your hand in front of the muzzle at some point, and you can’t go down range after a cease fire even if all guns are cleared. To transport them I guess you could hold them out the car window muzzle up so they are never pointing at anyone along your travels.
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What a gross way to reiterate the simple "loaded gun" rule. We all know what he meant.
 
JN01 said:
If these rules must be applied literally and without common sense, then it would be impossible to clean guns as they are always loaded and you would have to put your hand in front of the muzzle at some point, and you can’t go down range after a cease fire even if all guns are cleared. To transport them I guess you could hold them out the car window muzzle up so they are never pointing at anyone along your travels.

Safety should be a top priority, but a properly cleared and cased firearm is not a danger to anyone.
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Apparently the guy walking in front of KNO3 didn't agree, and his opinion matters a hell of a lot more than yours in that particular situation.

I know that I'm very uncomfortable having any handheld firearm pointing at me, cased or otherwise. During my career I responded to numerous gunshot wounds, almost half were from "unloaded" guns.

I'm assuming from your post that you'd be totally OK with someone tracking your head with a cased rifle as you walked downrange, so long as you "knew" it was unloaded?

There's such a thing as "etiquette" in any social interaction, including those involving firearms. If you're doing something with a weapon that makes others near you feel unsafe or uneasy, and they make you aware of it, then STOP!

Just because you think of your cased gun as luggage doesn't mean everyone else does.
 
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