Has your gun ever been ridiculed? let's hear it

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Sure! I've had people laugh at my C9 HiPoint... until I out shot them with it and they were shooting a scoped .22 rifle. We were "chasing cans" and I'd kick it away before he could get a bead on it every time! Same with my $99 Norinco Tokarev. I scored 95 out of 100 on the Sheriff's qualification test when I was applying for my CHP back when they weren't "Shall Issue" here in Louisiana. Not bad considering I didn't practice one handed off hand shooting or had ever done close quarters combat shooting before then!
 
One of my frequent shooting buddies is a Glock guy, I am a 1911 guy. We each spend most of our time at the range between shooting bashing each others guns.

Strange thing is, he shoots my 1911s better than me, while I shoot his Glocks better than him.
 
Ridiculed? No. Maybe subjected to some good natured ribbing by friends who know to expect the same when it's warranted. But just as I won't ridicule a stranger, I won't tolerate it from them either. They will quickly find themselves being invited to participate in an activity that most of them would find anatomically impossible.

The type of rude, boorish behavior that would lead someone to make fun of the possessions of a person unknown to them just gets my dander up. I guess I'm just old school Southern that way :D
 
Yup, but I generally shut 'em up promptly when I out shoot them

I really like the fudds who are shooting Magnums to kill a deer at 25yds and have a zillion power scope on their rig and are shooting 8" groups at 25 yards start trash talking my 'a-salt weopuns' that 'aint no good fer deer and innacurate' so i challenge them at the range of their choice and beat them handily as I can shoot 4-5" at 100 all day w/ irons unsupported w/o really trying and that trumps their hug as grouping always LOL
 
Lots of shooters used to bash my old Savage 110B until they came shooting with me. I out-shot a lot of Rugers and Remingtons and a Weatherby or two. Frequent practice was making me a better shooter. Sometimes it's not about the gear.
 
i wont post my story because i and retarted and my village dident raise me.
sorry to ruffle the grammer gods feathers.
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i felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of English teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

but, to answer your question: yes, i have been ridiculed for what i carried. i've gone to the range and shot a S&W Sigma, which was my EDC gun for many years, and had my balls busted by Glock Jocks. i've shot Hi Points, Keltecs, and Tauruses (Taurii?), and guys with Kimbers, Colts, Springfields, and Rugers have made fun of me.

i generally shoot better than them.
 
Wow, really? When I'm at the range, I mind my own darn business and so do most others. Sometimes people ask me friendly questions (especially newbies), and I'm happy to answer that. I've never had someone come up to ridicule my XD or MKIII. If they did, I'd probably give them a fake smile and tell them to go away.

Also, for those of you shooting with friends... are we talking friendly jabs or serious insults? The former isn't a big deal... just how guys do things. Be less sensitive!
 
wow sleep for a few hours and this tread go's nuts! i just though of something, i trash glocks,not to someones face, unless they piss me off. but i own two glocks myself. maybe im a turncoat!!!!!!
 
The resident Glock afficinado called me out at the water cooler because I carry a Taurus 99 in lieu of spending a few more coin and buying a Beretta.

I rag on him because he's the only person I know that claims to have had an AD as a result of a dropped 'safe-action' glock.
 
Only here.

Then again, I admit to owning and liking the outcasts and derelicts of the firearm community. R-Gs, Tokarevs, Hi-Points, found guns, beaters, Bubba-guns, whatever. I think that it's more challenging to shoot these clunkers than it is to shoot the shiny stuff.

Pretty and popular guns can be fun, too.
 
Headlines: Savage beats Sako!

It was ridiculed until it outshot his Sako. TWICE!!

I had pulled my little Savage 10 Sierra out of the case when one of the know it all pros at the range declared that it was a cheap POS. According to him, if it didn't cost an arm and a leg it couldn't be trusted to even fire. I must admit that he had a nice peice of equipement. It was a Sako L61 in 7m.m. Rem Mag topped of with a Leupold 2.5X10 VariXlll. I almost bet him money but since I had not seen him shoot I thought better of it. Long story short. I shot two 3 shot groups measuring .73" and .89". He didn't have a group less than 1.25". He left before I got warmed up.;)

If I have learned anything in 50 years of shooting, it is you can't judge a gun by its pricetag or the ability of a shooter by his equipement.
 
steveno said:
go shoot trap....with a Remington 870...most of the things said aren't very nice
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I'm at a very nice trap club. I walk out to my squad and an Irish fellow says; "Lad, you need a proper trap gun". So we shoot our round. I haven't shot trap in a while so I post a 22. He shoots somewhere in the teens. As we walk off the field, I say; "Yeah it's not much of a gun but it seems to shoot OK". He just sulked and walked off the field.

Thanx, Russ
 
I've never been out right mocked or ridiculed, but I have been "jested" at.

My gf's brother is my usual shooting partner (lets me use his M1a and other toys :D ) and he likes to call my 9mm rounds "cute" and my SR9c a "wanna be XD". However, whenever he shoots it he makes good comments about it. He just likes to mess around. He didn't make any jokes when I was shooting quarters and pennies at 9 feet better than he was.

On here however, my choice of an XCR and Ruger handgun have been "questioned" and "put in their place" by that particular person's "superior" weapon.
 
I have caught a lot of flack on the various gun forums for admitting ownership of a Llama .45 and a Charter Arms Undercover .38.

I've owned the Llama for thirteen years and have put three or four thousand rounds through it and it has NEVER had a malfunction. It shoots any hardball I feed it without a hitch.

I've had the Charter for about eight years and it goes with me to hotels and motels when I'm staying out of town. I have absolute faith in it.

I also have three store-brand long guns, two Revelations (one is a Marlin and the other is a Savage) and a J.C. Higins 30-30 (another Marlin). Good, solid guns.

Laugh if you feel the need--by the way, I also own, among other things, several Rugers, not all my guns are junkers--but my stuff all works. If it doesn't, I get rid of it.

I would rather spend a grand and get two or three guns that work than spend three grand on ONE gun. I'm just that way.

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I am the proud owner of a .25acp Davis Derringer (chrome with fake pearl grips) a $70 single shot shotgun and a former owner of a Hi-Point Carbine. Yes, I have taken some crap for those guns. I used to go to a nice trap club with that crappy shotgun when I was in high school, so only my buddies made fun of it. But I bought it without ever firing a 12 gauge and didn't think I would like shotguns all that much. My Ruger LCP has been called tiny and even a girl has laughed at it. But I love guns and have lots and not all of them need to be wonderful, some are just fun.
 
Ah yes the mocking of the Tauruses (Taurii?). I have 2 and I like them. My 85 is great, it has a little looser cylinder than my S&W or Colt, but has never ftf. My Tracker in .17 is fantastically accurate and has a crisp SA trigger. I know they started off pretty crappy in the '70s, but how fancy of a snub nosed .38 do you really need?
 
i use to catch a lot of heat on the ar15.com forum for owning a kimber. also cault some for ruger m77 mk2. dont know why both guns are accurate,reliable,and built solid.
 
I shot savage before they were cool lol.
I dont care what it is if it goes bang ill probobly shoot it. A number of my shooting buddies just dont understand that i DONT CARE if there guns are mechanically superior for a given task...or just in general. My currant "the hell you doin?" gun is my buckmark, not because of what it is but because i use it for 200yd bowling pins at our local range....should see how many wierd looks i got for pulling that thing out, when every one else is shooting long guns.
 
After I stopped living out of a duffel bag and bought a house, I decided I needed a home defense weapon. I was living on beans and rice at the time and all my budget allowed was a shiny new Lorcin .380.

I must have gotten the only one they built right, as it never failed to function during the 2 years I had it. I replaced it with a Keltec P11, which also gets the evil eye from others, but, again, mine runs like a top.
 
Bubbaturbo- One thing to TALK about someone and their property, another to ridicule, belittle and insult. Anyone with half a brain should figure this out (you on board?).

As for scaring them through the Internet, apparently I did. So roll your eyes all you want, commando.
 
My guns have been ridiculed, one quite mercilessly. However, my guns have the maturity to not let such scorn affect them mentally.

As the the owner, I don't feel bad when somebody maligns my guns. I am not my gun. Insulting my guns does not have a direct effect on me.
 
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