Ever have someone make fun of your guns at the range?

[Evil Monkey]

Only pussies and faggots shoot 9mm.

I bet that guy owns nothing but 9mm's.

He probably yells at himself in the mirror, "You filthy bastard! You're somebody's daughter you filthy *****!"

 

[19-3Ben]

A few months ago I was at the range with...you guessed it, my 19-3. When I showed up there were some young, thug type kids my around my age, possibly a little younger (I'm 22 yrs. old). When I first came in and started setting up, they were curious about what I had in the pistol box. When I opened it up, they were like "Aw man, that's old school." and walked away. After I punched out the cirle between the eyes of a "blue man target" with the first three cylinders at 25 feet they started watching me more intently. At 15 feet they were shooting groups wider than a shotgun pattern would have been at that range. They were still there when I was packing up to leave, and one of them came over to me, and started admiring the gun. I was out of ammo, but I told him if he got some, I'd let him shoot it. He and his buddies didn't want to pay for the extra ammo, but needless to say, I changed their perception of what that "Old School" gun could do.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Ever have someone make fun of your guns at the range?

Words don't bother my guns, good or bad.

 

[Marko Kloos]

If you make fun of another person's choice of sidearm, you're all out of excuses when they outshoot you with it.

 

[progunner1957]

I was told specifically that "Only pussies and faggots shoot 9mm. It's got no stopping power. If you can't handle a .45 don't bother."

I hope that moron says something like that in the presence of a gangbanger who carries a 9mm some day... Crikey, what a walking bag of sewage!

Hang in there, Nitrogen - I'm glad you didn't go back to "the dark (anti) side."
Probably 98% or more of the people here - and in the shooting sports as a whole - don't care what gun and caliber you shoot. The thing is, just shoot something!

As for the 9mm, I must confess I prefer the .45acp but I have shot and carried my share of 9mm guns and ammo. The 9mm is not something I would want to be shot with, regardless of ammo choice. There's a whole lot of dead people who have fallen to the 9mm over the decades that would testify to what the 9 is capapble of!

The world of the shooting sports is like any other segment of the population: Sooner or later you will run into the occasional rectal orifice. That means you have met a rectal orifice, nothing more nothing less. Idiots like the guy who made the "pussies and faggots" comment are not representative of the shooting sportsmen and women that the rest of us are.

 

[wanderinwalker]

I was told specifically that "Only pussies and faggots shoot 9mm. It's got no stopping power. If you can't handle a .45 don't bother."

I had a police chief at the range say that one day. (His department uses .40s... ) He shut up and left my side of the range alone after I rapid fired a group from my G-17 into the head of a silhouette faster and more accurately than he was hitting COM. Sometimes you just have to show them how to shoot.

I use the term "yankee" in the good way - In other words, a dyed in the wool New Englander that keeps his mouth shut, is self sufficient, works hard, saves his money, and helps his neighbors.

We have a different name for the loud-mouthed, self-centered, lying, back-stabbing, metro-sexual miscreants that you Southerners mistakenly call Yankees - we call them "Yankee fans".

Ain't that the truth?

And around here we have that hunter-crowd too, who can't understand why anybody would want an AR-15, or a Glock 9mm, or a Marlin 1894 .44 Magnum, or (insert your favorite firearm here) unless it was to go hunting. They're usually nice enough guys, except the ones my age who pick on you if you're not shooting a .325 SuperWhomper Magnum rifle or .650 Megawhacker handgun.

And yes, I give fellow shooters friendly ribbing now and then, at least the ones I know. The unsure, insecure looking new shooters get friendly encouragement. Those who are unkind toward me get ignored and outshot.

 

[highlander 5]

I've had my share of snobs. I sometimes carry a Walther PP 32 auto and I always get a snicker or its useless for defense and my reply "Why don't you come by and let me put three into your chest and tell me how you feel afterwards"
I am a lover of single shot rifles be it Sharps,Ruger etc and get the "you only have one shot" remark then I take my SS in 45/70 and vaporize a small rock or bounce a 20 lb propane tank 5 or 6 feet straight up in the air then smile. Understand I'm not a hunter but I do like to shoot and have tried most rifles or handgun and found them interesting to one degree or another. if you ask my opinion on a particular weapon i'll give my thoughts but with my
predjideces and we all have them. What is important is how the particulr weapon fits you your needs etc. In all things in this world it's to each his own

 

[ranger53]

I usually have the same problems when I take my handi rifles to the range. But after we start shooting, I raise a few eyebrows when my 200 dollar rifles start getting better groups than their 7 or 8 hundred rifles.
tommy

 

[Norm357]

Most of my shooting buddies are cops and hard core auto shooters. They like to poke fun at my wheelguns. They dont mean anything by it though.

 

[Smith & Wesson Man]

I have had someone put their nose in the air with my shotgun choice. About ten years ago (wow can't believe it has been that long) Browning, Marlin, and Mossberg were making 12ga bolt-action shotguns. At the time I couldn't afford the Browning, so for $220 new I picked up a Mossberg 695. Rifled barrel, ported, and it was tapped. I have taken four bucks and five does with it (all but one with one shot). I was talking to a guy about how no one is making the bolt-action shotguns anymore and I mentioned my good luck with my mossberg. I swear I could feel the rush of air with his nose going into the air. He pretty much said I have a browning A-bolt, which is the best. I mentioned to him that I have had two slugs touching on a 100 yard target. "my gun can do that all day, you must have been lucky." I thought whatever. That gun has paid for itself many times over! A friend of mine has a browning a-bolt, nice shotguns, but at the time I couldn't afford it. Never be ashmend of what you have. The world has to have jerks, and they think they know everything. If you hit the target everytime it doesn't matter

 

[flieger]

Years ago I worked with an idiot who simply lived to argue. He would try to get me to argue about anything. At the time I carried a 5" heavy barreled S&W model 41 around with me. Upon seeing it for the first time, he produced a Ruger Mark I, tapered barrel, fixed sights and proclaimed "This is a better gun!". I didn't take the bait.

I love shooting my Ruger Mk II, 5" bull, in case you think I'm Ruger-bashing here...

 

[Axman]

I'm waiting for someone to rib me about my Daisy Model 2202 .22LR! I'll just tell them to run down range so I can "put their eye out'!

 

[torpid]

I went to a local outdoor range that was having a bowling pin shoot... The owner invited me to shoot with them last sunday.
By the time I left I felt humiliated because of the rude remarks that were made about my Ruger Gp100 and my friends Taurus. We probably will never go back.

Visit the owner's gunshop to thank him for the invite.

With a bottle of Ipecac in your pocket.
After hitting an all you can eat buffet.

 

[hurrakane212]

why oh why

why would ANYONE make fun of a man with a gun?
Besides, I am going to get a GP100 over a S&W for a .357 mag.
I just like the feel and looks of the ruger better, different strokes for different folks. Not all of us like glocks, or 1911's, or sigs, or cz, or S&W, or HK, or whatever.~Nathan

 

[ChiefThunderstick]

I go to the range at the club I'm a member of. No one has made fun of the Yankee in Southland so far. It seems like the word has gotten around about me, as one of the ladies at the club has told my wife. I remember on one occassion, while at the pistol range, There was a guy there shooting a .40 S&W and he was slow firing his gun at about 15 feet. I was rapid firing my Taurus P145 Mil Pro at a target I printed from ammoman.com on 8.5 x 11 paper, at about 25 feet. He was putting his shots a bit scattered on the paper and I was concentrating them into about a 5 inch circle as fast as I could pull the trigger, nothing left the paper, on the occassional flier. He came over to look at what I was shooting and I showed him my gun. The next time I saw him at the range, I went over to him to say hello, he said hi and told me he told his wife about my shooting and that he was going to buy a .45 cal. I guess I impressed him.

 

[gandog56]

Laugh? Not if they look at my targets first!

 

[foghornl]

Not mine, but guy in the next lane was shooting a Hi-Point .45ACP. Guys nearby were giving him a hard time about a "Pig-Butt Ugly Gun". Did notice that his groups were significantly tighter than theirs.

He liked my Springfield Champion 1911, but said that it was a bit too pricey for him. {retired guy, small fixed income}

 

[Jkwas]

Only once.

 

[kmrcstintn]

2 incidents that I remember...

1) local gun club 'trap' shoot...usual high-priced competition guns and 'dedicated' trap shooters (trap shoots open to public)...snobs; the club president (a bit backwoodsish, down-to-earth, makes due with what he has kinda guy);

the club pres is out there with a beat-up, short-barreled, Mossberg pump turkey gun and used rope for a sling and I overheard some snobs bustin his chops while waiting their turns...

he shoots 49 out of 50 for 2 rounds while they do worse and I silently chuckled when he showed them up (even with their more expensive guns, 'proper' trap shooting stance, and snobbish attitudes)

2) I'm at a public range on game lands with a 'lowly' revolver (either a Ruger or Smitty)...you know only 6 shots; an older gentleman arrives later with another Smitty k-frame in .38 spl; a group of 'kids' with girlfriends in tow with Glocks and an ?H&K?...you know lots of shots...

the kids made some comments about old timers and asked me why a revolver...I simply stated that I was more consistent and more accurate with a revolver than a semiauto...the other guy didn't reallly say much since he had a child and it was a training session for the lad;

we kept an eye on each other's targets throughout the shoot...they had bigger groups and more off shots and the revo guys had tighter and more consistent groups...silently chuckling

***I am not a 'great' shooter and attest some of the better consistency to the adjustable sights and a lot more trigger time on revos than semiautos; I also have bigger groups and more offshots with semiautos, but I recognize my limits and keep snard comments to myself***

 

[Poohgyrr]

OK, here is a Ruger that's older than yours. Bought this Speed Six when it was new and on sale for $220 OTD if I remember right.

If they want to make fun of me that's OK. It shoots pretty well.

A great little.357.

 

[Broom Rider]

I sometimes sort of get made fun of by the guys at the range...........they don't take a female shooter seriously.
I hear comments about the handgun or rifle not being the right gun for a woman...........and maybe what I really need is a single shot rifle or 22 pistol to learn on.
Of course then I usually shoot as good or better than those idiots.

 

[Arcticfox]

In a perfect world, you would outshoot them with your Ruger and then, beat the two guns together until parts fell off the Smith and then outshoot whoever is left with your Ruger.

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ditchtiger]

Was out shooting a few months ago and talking to a fellow shooter. After showing off each others guns he started talking up his Kimber he was shooting. I told him Kimbers slides get sloppy-loose and then they start to jam a lot, and that they are not a good company. The distress on his face was more than I could bare and I lifted my jacket and showed him my own Kimber. The biggest smile came across his face when he found I was just jerking him around a little.

 

[Banshee]

you get that all of the time when you mess with Short Barreled shotguns and Machineguns. Kinda like the comment "what good is it? you can't hunt with it."

 

[Moonclip]

I've shot some real POS guns others have asked me to try just to be polite but I never look down on someone about guns. I have politely suggested sometimes that in the case of defensive guns to get something better, example being someone with a RG that self destructed!

Also I have been embarassed for myself! I have some pretty nice guns in a pretty extensive collection but I do admit to owning 2 Ravens as well as some not so fancy milsurp stuff and stuff like Bersa and FEG.

The one I'm really embarassed of currently is a Chinese O/U shotgun that I haven't had the courage to show anyone yet! Always wanted an o/u and the price was right!

Acually there is a cetain satisfaction to having a "second tier" gun that works well and outshooting someone with a better gun. I actually find Makarovs to be the accuracy equals of Sig Sauer P230's and my dad said he was quite proud of me at the range once seeing me shoot better groups with a beat up Taurus 38spl Model 82 than the shooter next to me with a new Glock!