I am SO embarassed!

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Yoda

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I took my office's newest employee to the range yesterday, and while there, some guys in the adjacent stall invited me to shoot their rifle. Of course, I did just that. AND I KNEW IT WAS A MOUSIN NAGAT when I picked it up, but I sorta forgot when I shouldered it.

I fired one round, then slowly pulled the trigger for a second shot, but the gun just wouldn't go BANG! One of the guys finally tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Sir, it’s a bolt action. You have to work the bolt."

Uh, I knew that. I am SO embarassed!

- - - Yoda
 
You are not the first nor will you be the last to do that. I do it all the time at the range when switching from a semi-auto to a bolt action. Every one else I know has the same thing happen from time to time.
 
I find it much funnier when I try to pump one of my double barrels... That splinter forend just won't slide.
 
I actually just shot mine for the first time last weekend, and for about 3 or 4 seconds I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the second round wouldn't fire...
 
lol, i cant say ive done any of these yet. i have a mosin nagant, fun rifle. my neighobors hate the boom it makes. though they havnt heard me light up my 10 round rem 740 in 30/06 :)
 
done it before actuallty i think ive done it 2 or 3 times ill be concentrating on the target and not think about it

its no big deal

i did it on a deer once that made me mad but it just went click i opened it up and found a full mag and empty chamber oops
 
I remember taking a brand new (to me) Mosin out to the range, and intending to check and adjust the sights. I set it up on a benchrest, work the bolt to chamber the first round, and pull the stock back into my shoulder. My sights are on the target... and at that moment I try to remember whether I'd remembered to load the rifle before going out to the range.

I don't want to have to set up my shooting position from scratch again, so I use my left hand to hold the stock to my shoulder, keeping my eye on the target. I work the bolt halfway, and feel for the cartridge... I feel it there. I push the bolt back forward and lock it. Pull the trigger. It goes *click*

Okay. I figure I have a dud round. I count off the seconds, then work the bolt, get my sights on the target again, then pull the trigger. *click*

I actually go through this whole routine until the magazine is empty without picking up on what my problem was. I go to where one of the ejected cartridges is, and pick it up.



I was trying to shoot a group with the snap-caps that I had loaded to function test, then forgot about.
 
I'd been shooting semi autos for three years and one day got the wild hair to take my 44 special out to the range. Fired six rounds, then started looking for the brass.
 
Habits can be a hard thing to break.

I had a freind who was a commited flintlock shooter for years. His procedure was to shoot the gun, reverse it and blow down the barrel to clear the vent and then reload.

Then one day at the range I handed him my M1.

Nothing happened, but it could very easily been more than a little embarrasing.
 
Muscle memory - doesn't much involve the brain. Like when you switch between a stick shift and an automatic and you reach for a clutch pedal that isn't there.

I always reach for the stick...........

The oppisite is even funnier: A bolt guy that dumps a shell on the ground by "cocking" his semi auto every trigger pull.
 
my dad did this with a R700, he was shooting a ar15 beforehand and then he wanted to try the .308 and fired a round then tried to pull the trigger a second time. it hasn't happened to me yet.
 
Muscle memory - doesn't much involve the brain. Like when you switch between a stick shift and an automatic and you reach for a clutch pedal that isn't there.

Years ago, I was used to driving my Crown Victoria (steering column shifter). One night during a storm, my boss gave me her keys and asked me to bring her car around so she wouldn't get drenched (I worked outside and had rain gear). Her car had a console shifter. I got in, started the car, grabbed the right-hand steering column stalk and simultaneously switched on the high beams, windshield wipers, and interior lights. Oops :D


I'll also admit that I'm guilty of failing to operate the bolt on a bolt action a few times, after extensive autoloader shooting.
 
I've done it during military 3 position matches. Most of my problems come from shooting Enfields then switching to something else in a different match.

Reloads? Who needs those, mausers hold 10 right?

Forgetting to take the safety off of an Enfield before trying to shoot. That happened mostly in the prone slow fire.

I've done it a few times when I shut the gas off on my Yugo SKS and forgot to manually cycle. (It prevents me from shooting too quickly during slow fire rounds).

I can't be the only one that does stuff like that too.

I was once at a Dunham's and a guy was looking at a Styer M95. He could not open the bolt and was convinced that it was broken. I tried several times to tell him to pull the bolt, and every time he tried to turn it. Finally, I got it off of him to show him how to PULL the bolt. He was a little red, but I told him that its probably happened to more than just him.
 
''The oppisite is even funnier: A bolt guy that dumps a shell on the ground by "cocking" his semi auto every trigger pull...''
Ben's right,that's just hilarious.We took one of my son's buddies to the range,and let him shoot one of my Ballester Molinas in .45.After each shot he would eject a live round.At first I couldn't figure out why it was happening,then my son cleared it up for me.To get ready to shoot handguns the kid had practised with a spring powered Airsoft replica of a .45,that had to be racked back to reset the spring after each shot.And so....
 
About half of the people who shoot my Ruger Blackhawk do the same thing.

I do the same darn thing about every third time I take my Dad and his Blackhawk to the range. He keeps asking me if I think he bought the gun in Hollywood.....

Her car had a console shifter. I got in, started the car, grabbed the right-hand steering column stalk and simultaneously switched on the high beams, windshield wipers, and interior lights. Oops

I drive a forklift. Every day I when I leave work, I end up sitting in the parking lot with the left turn signal on wondering why the car isn't backing up.....:cuss:
 
When I replaced my stick-shift car with an automatic (87 Camry), it was a while before I stopped stomping the carpet with my left foot and waving at my passenger's knees whenever I would slow down for a stop light...
 
Talking about hitting the imaginary clutch pedal...I drive a manual and my wife's car is an auto. A couple times after going a week or so without driving her car we'll be out together in her car and I'll hit the imaginary clutch and just catch the edge of the larger auto trans brake pedal...unintentional panic brake! It freaks me out just as much as it does her haha.
 
you think that is bad? I drive Semi Truck. After two or three weeks on the road, I come home and jump in the ole pickup (also a stick) forget the shift pattern, reaching for the key on the lower left dash corner, reaching for the air brake buttons when i park lol. If i get in my car, it feels different enough that i adjust quicker (modified 89 Mustang 5.0)
 
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