H&K advertising oops....

[Rezin]

LOL, so. what's wrong with this picture.

 

[dakotasin]

i think that's pretty old.

probably isn't as reliable or as accurate as they want, though.

 

[Chipperman]

Old catalog. This was hashed out a lot, and provided much amusement, when the catalog first came out.

 

[f4t9r]

took me a second but I figured it out
thats funny

 

[V4Vendetta]

I don't get it.

 

[Chipperman]

Look at the magazine

 

[torpid]

Remind me to keep V4Vendetta away from my guns!

 

[torpid]

Look at the magazine

Argh- it's not a magazine, it's a catalog!

 

[Highland Ranger]

the rounds are in backwards in the mag

 

[newfalguy101]

I don't get it.

dont feel like the lone stranger, I missed it also

 

[KriegHund]

Thats not gonne feed so great...

 

[trickyasafox]

old, but always funny.

 

[Chipperman]

I was trying to give a hint without giving the whole thing away.

 

[WT]

It's a classic ..... like that US postage stamp of the airplane flying upside down.

 

[LJWebster1]

During the proficiency portion of my CHL class, the instructor said that in every class, somebody loads their magazine backwards.

 

[Thain]

This is why we need congress to pass an act mandating that only Oleg Volk be allowed to photograph weapons... its for the children!

 

[pax]

During the proficiency portion of my CHL class, the instructor said that in every class, somebody loads their magazine backwards.

Yeah, it's more common than you would believe.

An instructor I know had a student do that awhile back, and after being corrected, the student asked, "If I'd put it in the gun that way, could I have shot myself?"

Hard for an instructor to keep a straight face under such severe testing!

pax

 

[V4Vendetta]

Oh, I get it now. I've never used handguns of any sort . I don't have many friends that have them & I suspect even fewer who would let fire them at the range.

 

[torpid]

My bad V4Vendetta- I tend to assume that most posters here are grizzled veteran shooters standing knee deep in spent brass.

Somebody in NC please organize a range trip for V4V!

 

[usp9]

I used to think this was a funny blooper...until my dad, who's getting up there in age, did the same thing during our last range visit. Still love him though.

 

[V4Vendetta]

Don't worry about it Torped.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

I used to think this was a funny blooper...until my dad, who's getting up there in age, did the same thing during our last range visit. Still love him though.

Good for you. I'd give any amount of money to be able to take my Dad to the range.

 

[telomerase]

An instructor I know had a student do that awhile back, and after being corrected, the student asked, "If I'd put it in the gun that way, could I have shot myself?"

Pax, that's hilarious. On the other hand, at least they asked.

 

[zealot]

I've seen someone @ the range do that once. The bad part was that no one could figure out why the guy's new Glock 22 wouldn't chamber a round. I asked everyone in attendance why they couldn't figure it out right away? "Because the ammo is in backwards, perhaps?" I said.

It was good for a laugh though, and the guy turned out to be one of the better shooters I have known. He now owns more guns than anyone I know, and he's safe.

 

[pax]

When a newbie does it at the range, it's ignorance, not stupidity. It might be amusing, but it's jerky to laugh (... where they can hear you, anyway). It's minor and quite fixable, and doesn't mean anything except that no one has shown them the right way to load a magazine.

On the other hand, when a major gun company hires an advertising company and the advertising company then hires a photographer, and the images the photographer produces of the product are then seen by dozens of executives in both companies before the images are published and not one of the employees in either company notices that the company's product is being used in such an outrageously ignorant manner -- that's stupidity. It means no one has done their homework. And it's hysterical.

pax