Guns and alchohol consumption - Poll

Your level of tolerance Firearms and alchohol use

  • Never a drop, it's disgusting behavior I don't condone.

    Votes: 388 67.4%

  • My partner has a couple beers, no problem.

    Votes: 27 4.7%

  • My partner and I shoot after a few beers, no big deal.

    Votes: 65 11.3%

  • I'll have a few beers alone sometimes before shooting.

    Votes: 17 3.0%

  • I don't drink, none of my friends do, never have, never will, period.

    Votes: 56 9.7%

  • The guys get together after several beers and sometimes shoot.

    Votes: 22 3.8%

  • I've been legally "drunk" and fired a gun.

    Votes: 36 6.3%

  • I've fired a gun on a mixture of alchohol and some drugs.

    Votes: 25 4.3%
  • Total voters
    576
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I never drink when I know I'm going to the range later. I know I'm not drunk after a couple of beers, but I still wouldn't drive or shoot.

I've fired a gun on a mixture of alchohol and some drugs.
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Nine votes already:eek:

with no inbetween?
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I guess that would be :Never a drop, it's disgusting behavior I don't condone. (even though it sounds rather harsh)

Because, there is also : I don't drink, none of my friends do, never have, never will, period.

THAT is no drinking at all.

At least that's how I see the poll...
 
Damn...I mis-voted! Chalk it up to dyslexia.

Dyslexics of the world untie!

move one from the last choice to the first...
 
"Your level of tolerance Firearms and alchoholl use

"Never a drop, it's disgusting behavior I don't condone."

To the several complainers in the thread, what don't you understand about this above statement, this poll is not about whether or not you drink or your habits involving drinking, this poll is about Firearms and alchohol use.

Your answers like "I drink but not while I shoot, cry, cry," are not applicaple in this thread.
 
I don't mind people who have a few drinks every now and then, I drink now and then, done responsibly it is a good time but drinking and doing any other activity that is likely to be deadly is an unacceptable choice.

Speaking of which a friend of mine was at a public range last weekend and saw a group of people drive up, unload some guns and slam a case of beer on the hood of the car, decided it was time to leave.
 
bear71 - chill out... sheesh.

I didn't realize that there was a distinction between those two... they seemed the same to me.

Like I stated, I drink (well... I used to), but never have before shooting.... and so far it has had nothing to do with moral conviction - but rather the fact that I don't shoot at night, specifically Friday and Saturday night. Also, by "drink" I literally mean, I have a drink.... not that I binge drink.

If I were for some reason to be faced one day with drinking before shooting, I would probably try to wait at least 6 hours between.

However, this issue will never come up because I can't drink at all as of a few months ago. Apparently my pancreas has an issue that gives me pancreatitis if I drink any alcohol. Who woulda thunk? So in reality, if I were faced with drinking before shooting, by the time I would be shooting, I'd already be in the ER in serious pain.... so it's impossible. - I don't suppose there's a voting option for that huh? ;)
 
The 1st and 5th choices seem pretty similar to me. Combining their percentages gives about 3/4 of the voters.
I have 80 acres of prime hunting land and lots of my friends love to come up here and hunt. My hard and fast rule : If you have a drink, you won't hunt 'til tomorrow. No ifs, ands or buts. They abide because they know I mean it and they won't hunt here anymore if they break the drink rule.
 
How I learned,

The first guy who invited me to go hunting, was a vendor who often wined and dined me with an emphasis on the wine. He was fond of "brown loud-mouths", I knew them as Manhattans. I brought a portable bar on our first hunting trip together and it was never opened. We rose before light and were out in the freezing dark to find a place in the woods and when we returned after dark it was all we could do to clean up and fix food and prepare for the morning, repeat,repeat,repeat, pack up and leave.
I realized on the drive home that he took all his pursuits seriously and was the most accomplished hunter I've ever known. It hasn't been the same since he passed and I thank you for bringing up this thought.
Alcohol and gunpowder mix as well as electricity and water.
 
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I won't even drink a beer with dinner if I'm planning on going to the range that night after dinner - and I have a beer meister :D
I might have a beer afterwards when my guns are tucked safely away :rolleyes:
 
Guns + alcohol = bad, bad idea. I don't mind drinking and I certainly like shooting, but doing them at the same time is asking for trouble. A couple friends of mine just had a hole blown through their apartment floor and 9 bullet-holes in the ceiling because the guy living below them fired off a 12-gauge while drunk, stoned, and "cleaning his gun" (how you can properly clean a shotgun and not notice the shell inside is beyond me - at least when sober). Alcohol doesn't mix with a lot of activities, really.
 
hundreds and hundreds of people

Who actually knows someone that has had a bad incident with booze and guns?
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Of course, it may just be because I am a criminal trial lawyer, but I know hundreds of folks that fit the bill! :rolleyes:

Seriously, from murder to illegal carry cases, I have seen plenty of examples of why alcohol and firearms do not mix.
 
Who actually knows someone that has had a bad incident with booze and guns?
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Well, one time we were up shooting (after a golf tournament where we all got heavily intoxicated) and ran into some guys with all sorts of fun wepons. One of these was an AR15 chambered in .308 that was handed off to me to give a try. I was so hammered that once I took aim (even on a knee) I would begin to loose my balance and have to correct back up straight multiple times before I could get a shot off. I think after severe effort I got a couple shots off and handed it back due to complete inability to shoot straight any more.

So not really an incident - but a waste of ammo and I didn't really get to try the AR15 out like I wanted to...

Like I said earlier, I don't drink much any more...
 
I admit to having violated the rule of 'no booze or no guns' many, many years ago. I would never do it today. It just hain't the smart thing to do!
 
Interesting results. Curious if anyone else would like to add their comments or make a vote. The poll ended up almost exactly as I expected. The majority being no drink while shooting however each other option has received plenty of votes too.

It takes all kinds to make the world go around so said Confucious.
 
I'm an occasional beer drinker with a preference for dark beers and bitters. But never in conjunction with shooting. Even after a successful hunting trip, I'll tip one only after the guns are cleaned and put away.
 
Not to sound like a "prude" but I wouldn't drink and shoot for several reasons. Legal, living with guilt if something went wrong, etc.

That's not to say many a Shiner Bock hasn't been downed After the shooting is over! :O)
 
Of course when anyone drinks they give up their second amendment right to keep and bear arms and must defend themselves with their extreme martial art kempo grav maga hai karate or a stick. Maybe they can call the cops who will be there immediately when yhey need them.

Every night when the wife and I share a bottle of cab we both unload all of the weapons in the house so we do not start to play with our guns and shoot each other. I will call the cops so they will park in front of my house to protect me while I drink since I give up my 2A rights when the cork comes out.

I really don't understand how those folks in Pennsylvania can drink a beer in a bar and still pack. Some states allow it but I think we need tougher laws to eliminate this foolishness because no one needs to have the right to drink and pack.

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I'll throw back a few toddys after the guns are put up for the day, but never mix alcohol and shooting. Had to stop hunting with a guy because I saw him standing on the front porch of our hunting cabin pass shooting geese while drinking a Bloody Mary. Wouldn't even hunt in the same vicinity after that. :mad:
 
There wasn't an appropriate category for "never shoot after drinking" but a friend and I will routinely admire, handle, work the actions (over and over, repeatedly proving they are not loaded) of our milsurp collection after a cocktail or two.
 
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