Everyone knows a guy like this!

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I have a friend that is convinced you have to have a .45 because anything smaller isn't going to stop anyone over 175lbs. He's the same guy that owns a TON of guns, and can only tell you about those. He's also the same guy that doesn't have a clue on how to disassemble them to clean them, so he just blows them down with an air compressor and doesn't relube.

I've detail stripped almost every gun I've owned. I always worked on cars for a living and am very hands on. He didn't trust me to field strip his Glock (before I owned one and have ever field stripped one) that he was trying to get apart. I had it apart in about 45 seconds having never done it before. Pulling the trigger got me. The reason he wanted it apart was because it was "broken." The slide wouldn't stay back without a magazine in it. Duh.

I did start a thread on why my new Sig 220 wouldn't feed correctly. I didn't have the mag inserted fully but the mag well was tight enough to keep the mag up. Felt like an idiot for sure. Don't think I'm "that guy" though. ;)
 
Im that guy except I actually know how to work a pistol, and even though i shoot, im not that good
 
I don't know anyone really like that. But I know plenty of guys that think they know a helluva lot more about guns than they do. I usually just smile and nod along with what they're saying. My actually friends that I shoot with, are that, shooters.
 
Lol. Lucky for me, I pretty much always have witnesses with me when I go shoot, and/or take pictures of my targets. All of my friends trust me enough that the picture is proof.

I am not 'the best' but I am good enough that I can pick up a gun that I have never seen and puzzle my through it in a few minutes. I can take about anything that shoots accurately and put it on a target. (I have shot a few guns that are simply not accurate as well.)

But, I'm also well read and have shot enough in the past that when I go out with a friend that isn't as experienced, I can normally give them some pointers and get them to improve a little.

As for my friend sweeping me, I would simply call the bluff on skills and simply challenge them. Get them to man up to going, and then on the way there (I pretty much always drive) I would talk about it. We would shoot, and call it a day.

Unfortunately for me, I know a lot more about guns than most of the people that I work with. I have been labeled as 'the gun guy' and I get all kinds of questions about things that I have no idea at all about. Lol, the upshot to that is that I am an E7, and I have to be damn sure that I am telling some E3 or E4 the whole truth, all the truth, and nothing but the truth because so help me God he is going to take it as the truth.

And for the record, best shot 'evar' was 1" off bullseye at 100 yards with a Glock 21SF. (Had a good friend of mine spotting for me on his deer rifle.) Of course, it took me three shots to get on the full size silhouette at that distance. I got that shot (which I couldn't believe), and then got the next nine in about a 1 foot circle with no more spotting.

Lol, and no, for the record I don't know anyone like that about shooting. Golf, yes. Cars, yes. I know, I shouldn't be trying to write on here while I am watching my wife's football team.
 
I know some guys like that. Do YOU know guys like that?
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Honestly, I don't.
A bunch of guys at work talk more about shooting than they actually shoot, but I've seen most of them shoot and they are at the very least competent and safe.
None of them talk about how good they are, or talk about how tacticool they are. Most of us are former military, and none of us claim to be SEALs, Delta, Green Berets, etc.

Maybe I'm just lucky. The fact that most of us are 50+ doesn't hurt; I guess we burned up a lot of our testosterone already and don't need to impress everyone.
We are still competitive and will try hard to outshoot one another, but we don't crow about it or talk smack afterwards.
 
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I agree with the 50+ comment above. You reach a point where posturing is no longer worth the effort and most have learned that can even get you into trouble, either socially or physically.

I guess there IS an advantage to growing older ... most finally learn who and what they are and how to live comfortably with that. Make acquiring and keeping friends that much easier too. Well, at least as long as we don't start talking politics.
 
I don't know, I recond I have seen all kinds, and some do scare the heck out of me, but for the most part, the people I shoot with, and work with, are resonably safe in their gun handling, but many do not really know how to strip down every gun they own, but they do know how to load and shoot it. And most are pretty fair shots, and many are darn good hunters, but I do live in an area, where it's very common to be a hunter, most every one owns a few guns, and some own quite a few.
 
I don't know about you guys, but if

I broke even one of the basic rules,

My Dad would leave me the equivalent of

Standing naked in the driveway.

And this would be starting in 1954.

FWIW.


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Or the guy that would always come in the office on Monday morning during hunting season bragging about the deer brains he splattered all over the tree.


Only to have died by heart attack out in the woods while deer hunting.

Ironic.
 
I must admit I am curious what prompted this thread, along with the What would it take? thread. Did the OP run into some know it all at the range or gunstore or something?

I don't own any guns that'll "cut a man in half", shotguns haven't caught my interest yet and other things have taken the budget lately. I do have a bolo knife from the southern Philippines next to my bed though, it's capable of opening up a coconut.
 
This kinda goes with both threads, but every hobby has a group within a group, if you will. There's different levels of hobbyists. For example, there's geeks and there's gamers. Gamers might know hardware, build their own desktops, and get Windows up and running from scratch. However, they don't know much, if at all, about networking, *nix, programming, etc. as a hardcore geek would. To the average joe who doesn't know much at all computers, a gamer would appear very knowledgeable. To a hardcore geek, a gamer seems entry level in their chosen hobby.

I'm sure there's plenty of people who own guns but guns aren't one of their hobbies. I know a few such people and I know people who only own guns because they like hunting. Personally, I don't know jack about hunting, so to such people I'd seem ignorant. Heck, to a diehard C++ programmer or Unix sysadmin I seem pretty ignorant.
 
I know people like that with trucks. They spend all kinds of money fixing them up, but could probably get stuck in their front yard.

Like previously stated..... "All hat and no cattle."
 
Sounds like a convincing amount of detail. Surely no introspection here; but I must ask. Are YOU like that? <-:

No, I do not know anyone like that. There is no way for sure to know who in this forum is a poser, and who actually walks the road they describe.

I am thrilled to have found this site. Frankly, I do not have anyone outside of my immediate family aware of what I have & what I do with it.

This forum gives me the ability to have conversations that I cannot have with those that do not understand or appreciate the hobby.

I get nothing out of it without being honest, I would hope and I assume everyone else is the same until proven otherwise.
 
I know people like that with trucks. They spend all kinds of money fixing them up, but could probably get stuck in their front yard.
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I have a friend who HAD to have a 4X4 Tundra after driving mine. Not a scratch on it, never been offroad, never been dirty that I can tell. Has Lucchesi head rests, though. Very manly.

I'm used to gasps at the car wash--Where have you BEEN with this thing?? Not for the mud, but the Texas pinstripes.

I baby my guns. I destroy my truck. I am comfortable that this is the proper way of things.
 
Don't know anyone like that.

I have to say though, that if anyone did point a gun at me I wouldn't associate with that person anymore. Ignorance is one thing, but I can't be around dangerous ignorance. My family expects me home alive.
 
The opening story was fictional, but some of the story elements were inspired by real people.

One guy told me he didn't need to practice with his BHP, as he could "cut a man in half." Years later, I was saddened to confirm my suspicions about his severe lack of gun prowess.

Another guy seems to "know a lot," but is fairly clueless. He's a big fish in a small puddle, so he has a higher opinion of his guns and skills than is warranted. He loads the worst looking ammo I've ever seen generated by a Dillon. His multiple misfires and failures to feed are the fault of the gun, never the ammo. He thinks his SKS can keep up with an AR "until the reload." At a match, he did point a loaded and cocked gun at me (another BHP) due to his total stupidity. He swept 2 others and he was immediately dq'd. I was his 50 minute ride home, tho, most of which was in silence. I stopped associating with him after that.

There is a guy who comes to the Gun Chat forum on AOL who seems to know everything there is about some arcane gun topic. Like, what did the Swiss use in 1932 and what was their rifle qualification course? It's become clear he does all kinds of online research so he can demonstrate this "knowledge" hoping to impress the rest of us. He brags about how good of a shot he is, but another Gun Chatter lives within 20 minutes of him and has invited him countless times to shoot or at least watch a match. He never can, of course. Turns out he's 40+ living at home in Mom's basement.

This thread was sparked by these experiences which I was reminded of by some of the responses in the other thread.
 
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Bah, I know what I know...which isn't much, but possibly enough.

I'm not a bad shot, but I can be better. I could practice more, but am glad I don't practice less.

My firearms are few, but I know them as well as I can at this period in time. Not enough things have gone wrong with them for me to truly know them insaide out....this probably means they're good guns.

My ammo supply is thin and I've tried few others...perhaps that's a flaw, perhaps it just means I'm happy with what I have.

All in all, I'd love to know more, but really don't give a hoot about buying more.

Well, unless it's a Derringer or one of those Cimmaron revolvers, I want one :)
 
Don't know anyone like that, but I can't even begin to explain my irritation with the gamer kids who come into the gunshop I help out at and start spouting off about all the latest military weaponry. Yes, the video game programmers are fairly accurate these days. No, playing call of duty doesn't make you a weapons expert or a good shot, and no one behind the counter is impressed by a chubby 20 year old kid who can parrot information obtained from a friggin' GAME.

Nothing wrong with video gaming, if that's your thing. But remember to separate it from life, and only talk about the games with other gamers. People who don't play couldn't care less. Kinda like us gun nuts keep it within our circle.
 
Yep, there's this marine that is a friend of a friend, that brags about his lugers, KRISS SUPER V.

He told us once "Yeah, I shot a pigeon with my Kriss"

We asked "but why?"


He responded " they aggravated me"
 
My neighbor is a classic example.

I was home on vacation from my overseas job and he stopped by while I was in the process of cleaning my small armory. He finger faddled my SKS while he was talking about how he's shot this gun and that gun, and his dad has some land they all go shooting on .... until he flips the rear sight up 90 degrees so it's perpendicular to the barrel.

That's when I took it from it, put it back in it's bag, and told him to leave.

I still catch hell from the wife about how I "handled" that situation, but after all, it's my rifle.



Kris
 
Every range I have ever worked at or used (in several states) has busloads of these guys show up every year about 2 days before deer season opens to "sight in" their guns. :what:
 
Your "buddy's" comments and actions would only impress non-gun people.

I guess there are worse hobbies for him to wanabe.

He could waste all of his time and money donating to the Bradys.

Don't be bashful about reminding anyone about the Four Rules.

Live and let Bull$#!t.
 
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