Funny Questions from NOOBs

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Sam1911 said:
...saying that the M9 is a better fit for more people than a Glock? Nearly everyone can get their hands around a Glock. The M9/94F is a hoss' leg!
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Lol, true, but I do think a lot more people would have an easier time with it. Then again, that could be because I have hands like Shaq lol
 
Lol, true, but I do think a lot more people would have an easier time with it. Then again, that could be because I have hands like Shaq lol
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I think that may be the first time I've ever heard someone say so!

I've heard lots of military types report that they don't fit smaller statured guys and female soldiers well at all.

I don't recall hearing anyone say their problems with a 9mm Glock were due to girth or overall size.
 
I think we are pretty much alone in this.

In my experience, we gun nuts exist in our own special level of anal retention. There is NOBODY over on soccer forums having bitter disputes about which brand of ball holds the most air, or what color of patches make targeting it easier. We are the only hobby that gets that detailed, and then genuinely fights amongst ourselves over it.
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Car people. Ford vs. Chevy vs. Dodge, and other arguments.

I think the rifle maximum was reduced to 16" to accomodate the numbers of Swedish Mauser carbines and other imports with 450mm = 17.7" barrels.
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It was 18 till the government realized that M1 Carbines had a 16" barrel in which they then reduced it to 16. Imports didn't have much to do with it.
 
It was 18 till the government realized that M1 Carbines had a 16" barrel in which they then reduced it to 16.
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This would be news to the Army:


Following Data
extracted from
TM 9-1276 Cal. .30 Carbines M1, M1A1, M2, M3, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953
(paragraph 6, pages 8 & 9)

Barrel Length 18"
 
Noobs? Well I guess I qualified for that "term" many many years ago.
We had a lumber/hardware/gun store in our little Texas town. Center of the universe.
They got a couple of "auto loading" pistols. I do not remember what brand nor model. Probably around 1962 or so. Now back then kids were seen and not heard. So us boys gathered around to see this "wonder of modern firearms". Many of the old guys had fought in WWII and Korea and this was far from their first auto loader. I listened to every word these old guys said. I had never even heard of anything like this pistol.

I ask my dad on the ride home why a guy would have a gun like that. Why not a Colt or S&W revolver like normal guys? He told me those were city boy guns. Nothing else was said.

Don't get me started on the first "battle rifle" I ever saw and shot. Full auto. I was probably 10 or 11. Back then most vets had them and they were common as hubcaps.

I guess I was a "noob"....
 
A guy had just purchased a black foldy Mossberg 500.

He asked the guy behind the counter if it came with a spare clip.
 
I think we are pretty much alone in this.
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Not even close...Car guys argue or "debate" things all the time....So do video game players(xbox vs. PS3 anyone?), computer geeks (mac vs PC, anyone?) etc etc etc. AS long as people have opinions, chances are there's going to be a segment of those people who will fanatically argue that THEIR choice is the "best". It is NOT limited to shooters in the slightest.
 
This past week my boss told me that he finally decided he wanted a Glock 40. I explained the differences between the 22, 23 & 27. Three times he told me that he didn't want those models, he wanted the glock 40.

I guess I need to brush up on my explaining skills.
 
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i have had that happened to me many times.

This past week my boss told me that he finally decided he wanted a flock 40 mi explained the differences between the 22, 23 & 27. Three times he told me that he didn't want those models, he wanted the glock 40.

I guess I need to brush up on my explaining skills.
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You know ive never had anybody ask me a dumb question....ive heard some "dumb"/incorrect/ poorly explained answers to questions tho, Hell ive given a couple then had to run the person down and correct/re-explain myself.

Close ive come, is a kid i let shoot my buckmark kept racking the slide after each shoot (i thought the gun was sticking as it had seem a couple thousand rounds that day). After he finished at the line he came back with the rest of the box id given him, a perplexed look, and 4 unfired rounds. He asked why, when he cycled the gun for his next shot, they kept falling out....After i explained that it was a semi-auto, and what that was, he happily went back out and ran the rest of the box thru the gun.

I had noticed him shooting a single shot .22 with his dad and the way he handled the rifle and shot it made me assume that he was pretty experienced with guns. My buckmark was actually the second firearm he'd ever shot, and this was his first day shooting. Needless to say i was impressed with his ability to learn the rules, and his fathers ability to teach them.
 
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Those of you saying that firearm enthusiasts are the only ones who argue over minutia, you've obviously never met guitar collectors or automotive junkies. Some guitar forums and car boards are like a room full of drunken monkeys with dysentery playing on baseball pitching machines.
 
CrashStitches said:
Those of you saying that firearm enthusiasts are the only ones who argue over minutia, you've obviously never met guitar collectors or automotive junkies. Some guitar forums and car boards are like a room full of drunken monkeys with dysentery playing on baseball pitching machines.
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+1 to drunken monkeys
 
Maple_City_Woodsman said:
I think we are pretty much alone in this.

In my experience, we gun nuts exist in our own special level of anal retention. There is NOBODY over on soccer forums having bitter disputes about which brand of ball holds the most air, or what color of patches make targeting it easier. We are the only hobby that gets that detailed, and then genuinely fights amongst ourselves over it.
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I ended up in a Beanie Baby forum once and they almost made me cry.
 
This thread isn't about us picking on each other.

It started out being about how we poke fun at those who aren't as goofy about guns as we are. :)
 
As the OP, I disagree that this tread is about poking fun. It is about NOT. poking fun when we find the question amusing. To those that have been around there are certain truths that seem self-evident that are not to someone new to firearms. Some of the questions may seem a bit funny to the old timer, but are still very real to the learner. As some of the posts have pointed out, there are some self evident things that are not universally true. For example, there are clip fed pump shotguns. But a spare clip for a Mossberg 500 is a bit funny to someone that has used one.
 
I agree with Dr T, when I met my fiancee, she wasn't exactly pro-gun, just not anti. As time went on and she was exposed more to shooting, she really came out of her shell concerning it. She originally didn't mind I owned guns and wouldn't mind shooting a bit, but never EVER wanted to carry, and was iffy about carrying herself. Now she want's to get her permit, and has...taken over...some of my other guns and declared them hers haha.

On the way to that point though, she asked tons of questions that, to me and most of you, seem obvious. To her though, not being experienced, they weren't obvious though, some of those also seemed almost funny to me, being someone that's been shooting since he was 8 and picked up tons of stuff along the way. I didn't poke fun at her, nor insult her, or tease her, but that doesn't change that some of the questions did seem funny.
 
The funniest question my wife has asked: I had gone to a gun show in Dallas and ordered a safe (about 5 ft tall and 2.5 ft wide). I went home to Rockwall and expounded on its virtues. After letting me go on for a bit, she asked "Where are you going to put your stuff in it?"

From my beloved sister-in-law (an experienced shooter and hunter: My brother had just bought a pretty little Ruger M77 Lightweight in 257 Roberts. He brought it over (his wife had not seen the gun), brought out of the case and displayed it proudly. She took the gun gently from his hands and said "For ME?!?!?! And it isn't even my birthday!" He has not be able to pry her fingers of of "her gun" (execpt to work up handloads) for the last 15 years.
 
" I'm using a 300 win mag, if it hits anywhere on the deer, it is going down"

what's the difference between 45 acp and 45 auto

those are legal right?

are those full auto?
 
"Is that a 9mm?" Pointing toward the .44 Magnum dummy hanging on my neck.

"What's the difference between .45 ACP and .44 Magnum?"
 
Dr T said:
As the OP, I disagree that this tread is about poking fun. It is about NOT. poking fun when we find the question amusing.
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I stand corrected. But the jist seems to have turned to laughing at the nongun-savvy people behind their backs. ;)
 
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