chuckusaret
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Hey, you can meet this type individual at any local gun shop or gun show, he will be the guy behind the counter/table trying to sell you a gun he knows nothing about.
Everyone knows a guy like this!
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Jonah71
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I'm sure the day will come (if I live long enough) when my skill level will deteriorate to the point where I'll burn my CCW permit and quit carrying entirely. I don't ever want to be a danger to innocent people due to not being able to shoot straight. It sucks getting old, and I really enjoy shooting, even if I'm only a fraction as accurate as I once was. I'm not looking forward to giving it up, but I had to quit golfing for physical reasons too. Somehow that hasn't seemed to bother me as much. (STUPID game) And it also just keeps getting more expensive as my income remains the same. I've been able to use the money spent on golf for guns and ammo, so that helps. Being retired (med. tech.) and preaching part time is great and I would be at the range several times a week for hours at a time if I could afford it. Except for all the people in SERIOUS need of gun safety classes and a lot more common sense. There's a lot of idiots with more guns and less brains these days it seems.
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The gun hobby is very large and it attracts a lot of different interests and skill levels. It's all OK with me, it doesn't matter if you have one gun that you shoot every weekend or hundreds of guns that never get shot.
When I go to the range it's obvious that many people have only a casual interest or skill level. That's OK because I don't expect everybody to be the master of everything they do. I have no trouble shooting next to the average guy and if he is having trouble or asks for some help, I'm happy to lend a hand. If someone looks like they need some assistance, I'm careful not to butt in but I might ask how they are doing and if they could use some help. Even an expert can use some help from time to time.
Thanx, Russ
When I go to the range it's obvious that many people have only a casual interest or skill level. That's OK because I don't expect everybody to be the master of everything they do. I have no trouble shooting next to the average guy and if he is having trouble or asks for some help, I'm happy to lend a hand. If someone looks like they need some assistance, I'm careful not to butt in but I might ask how they are doing and if they could use some help. Even an expert can use some help from time to time.
Thanx, Russ
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I'm kinda like that, except I don't know much fanciness about the firearms industry and its standards (unlike my knowledge of ANSI standards with respect to equipment and programming.. I know atleast a LITTLE about that..)
OTOH, I have made some particularly amazing shots (to me), such as pointshooting a rabbit in the dark with a remington model 8 in < 3 seconds @ roughly 56 yards -- from start to finish.
and pegging a buck in the brush 189 yards away, in the lungs, with a .270.
I go to the range every now and then trying to reconstruct these and similar events, but it just doesn't work out..
I can't look at a piece of paper and visualize the internal organs of a mammal, nor can I shoot at a specific point on a piece of paper, no matter how close or far away it is. Thus, my training style involves treating a piece of paper as THE point, therefore, hitting the paper(anywhere) is a certifiable winner of a shot.
TBH, I'm more of an innovator type of individual. I don't much care for existing designs past the point of feasible reverse engineering the design(if necessary), but I do love to dream of the future in a logical, mathematical sort of way.
OTOH, I have made some particularly amazing shots (to me), such as pointshooting a rabbit in the dark with a remington model 8 in < 3 seconds @ roughly 56 yards -- from start to finish.
and pegging a buck in the brush 189 yards away, in the lungs, with a .270.
I go to the range every now and then trying to reconstruct these and similar events, but it just doesn't work out..
I can't look at a piece of paper and visualize the internal organs of a mammal, nor can I shoot at a specific point on a piece of paper, no matter how close or far away it is. Thus, my training style involves treating a piece of paper as THE point, therefore, hitting the paper(anywhere) is a certifiable winner of a shot.
TBH, I'm more of an innovator type of individual. I don't much care for existing designs past the point of feasible reverse engineering the design(if necessary), but I do love to dream of the future in a logical, mathematical sort of way.
I have about 4 guns that I shoot alot with but I know all of them well. There are more that sit in my safe (except when I take them out and clean them... it is like a date night : ) ) The ones in my safe I couldnt part with...I love them too much. They arent anything special, just special to me. Is it weird to both be a shooter and a collector?
AKElroy
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I own a lot of guns, CCW everyday, shoot a good bit & do my fair share of hunting. I thought I knew a lot when I joined this forum.
Not even close. I learn something nearly every time I log into this site. For some in my non THR circles, I know a lot & am viewed as a Gun, hunting &
RKBA resource. Compared with some of the experts on this site, I am not on the same planet of knowledge.
I guess whether or not we are "that guy" is determined in part by what peers are making the judgment.
Not even close. I learn something nearly every time I log into this site. For some in my non THR circles, I know a lot & am viewed as a Gun, hunting &
RKBA resource. Compared with some of the experts on this site, I am not on the same planet of knowledge.
I guess whether or not we are "that guy" is determined in part by what peers are making the judgment.
Dude, that's me! How did you know?!
Dave? Is that you? Why are you picking on me in front of the world? I thought we were friends?
No, but actually I think that's pretty common with any hobby or interest. Some folks seem to want to mask their insecurities by pretending to know more than they do. I used to do that, when I was 15 (a long time ago). Then I grew up.
Dave? Is that you? Why are you picking on me in front of the world? I thought we were friends?
No, but actually I think that's pretty common with any hobby or interest. Some folks seem to want to mask their insecurities by pretending to know more than they do. I used to do that, when I was 15 (a long time ago). Then I grew up.
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Well, dont you know when you shoot someone with a 22 the bullet bounces around inside of them, grinding up their inner organs and destroying tissue in amounts unfathomable causing irreparable damage and subsequent death? It must be the ultimate.
I hate that 22 myth garbage so much!!!! :banghead:
They make good practice and varmint guns.
And also the Taurus Judge will absolutely mince an attacker from any angle out to 100 yards.
(forgetting to remember that its only a .410 like your 5 year old shoots at dove, and rarely kills)
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Im gonna need a copyright.
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i had a retired neighbor friend years ago named Jerry who had all kinds of hunting photos posted on the wall of his garage. He owned an old .380 colt, a Glock 19, and a pistol-gripped mossberg 12 gauge. He wasn't really a big talker like the OP's acquaintance but seemed to have a lot of opinions about guns.
I never saw or heard of him shoot but one day he asked to go to the range with me. At the range, I heard the Colt bark once and then nothing. I looked in his lane and he was struggling to clear a jam, the muzzle pointing at the wall that separated us. After helping him clear the jam, I next heard the roar of a 12-gauge. Again, only one time. I looked in his lane and he was not there. I turned around and there he was leaning against the back wall, his face in his hands. I walked over to check on him and he looked up with blood dripping from his mouth and a tooth in his hand. "Are you okay? What happened?" I asked. He gruffly replied, "Aww, those d*** Hollywood movies are phony! I was holding the gun out in front of me with one hand like in the movies and it flew back and hit me!"
I told him we would go but he wanted me to finish my shooting and he would wait for me in the gunshop. When I went into the gunshop, the first thing I saw were the faces of the two employees at the counter...they had expressions of incredulous disgust. "Where did you find this guy???" they asked me. I looked over and there was Jerry with cigarette in hand (this was years ago when it was still legal to smoke indoors) spitting blood into the water fountain.
I thought that would be the end of Jerry's shooting or at least he would learn a lesson from the experience. However, what he took away from the incident was not about proper gun handling or the limitations of a pistol gripped 12-gauge. Instead, he blamed the gun and the next thing I knew he traded the Mossberg for a SxS Rossi coach gun which he was intent on modifying. But that's another story...
I never saw or heard of him shoot but one day he asked to go to the range with me. At the range, I heard the Colt bark once and then nothing. I looked in his lane and he was struggling to clear a jam, the muzzle pointing at the wall that separated us. After helping him clear the jam, I next heard the roar of a 12-gauge. Again, only one time. I looked in his lane and he was not there. I turned around and there he was leaning against the back wall, his face in his hands. I walked over to check on him and he looked up with blood dripping from his mouth and a tooth in his hand. "Are you okay? What happened?" I asked. He gruffly replied, "Aww, those d*** Hollywood movies are phony! I was holding the gun out in front of me with one hand like in the movies and it flew back and hit me!"
I told him we would go but he wanted me to finish my shooting and he would wait for me in the gunshop. When I went into the gunshop, the first thing I saw were the faces of the two employees at the counter...they had expressions of incredulous disgust. "Where did you find this guy???" they asked me. I looked over and there was Jerry with cigarette in hand (this was years ago when it was still legal to smoke indoors) spitting blood into the water fountain.
I thought that would be the end of Jerry's shooting or at least he would learn a lesson from the experience. However, what he took away from the incident was not about proper gun handling or the limitations of a pistol gripped 12-gauge. Instead, he blamed the gun and the next thing I knew he traded the Mossberg for a SxS Rossi coach gun which he was intent on modifying. But that's another story...
Bah! He just did it wrong!
I used to have a PGO Mossberg 500 w 18" barrel (PG was a Pachmayr (sp?) decelerator) that I could hold out and shoot with one hand. I still have all my teeth. Heck, If I used 3" slugs it would even halfway cycle the action for me!
I got the idea from the movies too...
CooperThunder
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You must somewhat be talking about my son...he is in military school and collect rifles...he comes home (like now for his Christmas holidays) and tell me I am wrong about putting my gun on top of my beside table, on top of the table near me by my computer, beside the table near me when I am watching tv and eating tv dinner, ad infinitum...
My gun is a Glock...he cautioned me about dropping my gun??? He goes blah..blah...blah...because he and his friends...blah...blah...blah...and ..."I grew up with guns...you didn't, Mom..."
I usually turn my back and make an excuse that I am going upstairs to reply to my email or I am going to the kitchen to do some cooking, etc...
God! I love this boy...but he can be too "knowledgeable..."
My gun is a Glock...he cautioned me about dropping my gun??? He goes blah..blah...blah...because he and his friends...blah...blah...blah...and ..."I grew up with guns...you didn't, Mom..."
I usually turn my back and make an excuse that I am going upstairs to reply to my email or I am going to the kitchen to do some cooking, etc...
God! I love this boy...but he can be too "knowledgeable..."
Darkninja
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You need to beat some sense into that boy...
Officers'Wife
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When my uncle was still alive he had a neighbor that 'instructed' him on the proper powder charge for his BP revolvers. Keep in mind my uncle was in his fifties and the neighbor in his early twenties. After one particularly intense diatribe, my uncle looked at him and said very simply... 'shut up boy, I got this old by living this long.' Needless to say, said uncle tended not to be popular with the self proclaimed experts.
I am more of a hunter that shooter, but you find them in hunting as well. They generally tell you about the measure 385 yard shot they made on a Bull Elk; when you ask what rifle/caliber and what kind of hold over adjustment they used they tell you they used a Thompson Contender in 30/30 and that no hold over was required because of how flat his special hand load shoots.
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