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

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Guys at the trap range give me crap for bringing my saiga 12, even tho i out shoot them. I know its all in good fun

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I've had some tacti-**** black rifle guys laugh at me when I had a 1903 springfield and a M1D and M1C Garand at the range. It was pretty much "dude those things still shoot, wow. That takes balls to shoot an antique POS like that it's gonna blow up in your face." I then proceeded to explain to them that they are extremely accurate, reliable and safe. Then they were questioning the accuracy of old guns because according to them only new guns are accurate. I then clover leafed with the 1903, and shot about a inch and a half grooup with the the Garands. They were schooled that the old stuff is accurate and fun and has history. I guess some people dont appreciate classics.

I had one time a guy laughing at me shooting an M39 Mosin. He was in the club that only expensive guns are accurate. After shooting a Sub MOA group he quickly shut up.
 
At a local reduced range High Power Rifle matches, I usually shot a bolt action match rifle, or my DCM M1. One match I decided to try out the wife's SKS instead.

A friend and Vietnam veteran wandered over to check it out. Someone asked what he thought of SKS's. He said, "Well, everyone I ever saw carrying one was dead." We had a good laugh at that.

BTW, It shot well for an SKS, and was in my opinion a decent carbine.
 
I have debated about posting about my ridiculed pistol. As my wife bought this pistol for me on my return from my last deployment. It is from a brand that I personally have never had nor witnessed an issue such has been aired in many of the topics on this forum arena. I have used it twice to dispatch injured animals,( I live on a family farm.) with the desired results. I have shot it with various loads and found downrange performance satisfactorily within the expected parameters. I just wish all the "Judge" detractractors would stop pickin on my pistol.
 
Hrm, my Mosins can't hit anything! Or so they tell me until I start hitting clay pigeons at 200 yards. That shuts them up kinda quick.

Or the guys told me down at the Volusia county skeet and trap that I can't get a good score with my 200 dollar mossberg and that I need to invest at least 600 into an entry level Remmy 1100. Whoops, shot a 23 on my first round, my bad.

I apparantly am not allowed to hit targets with my PA-63, only name brand stuff like Berettas and Glocks have permission. Saints preserve us! Some diabolical force allowed me to shoot out the center at 15yds!

Actually the Mosin one was kinda a funny incident. What ended up happening was that I was out shooting in the grasslands where a lot of people tend to head to to shoot. Set out about half a box of clays along the berm and was popping them with a little work. Up comes a guy with an all tacticoolhunterdanned 7mm Mag with a scope probably the size of a small child who proceeds to ask if he can shoot with me. With a little bit of an attitude mind you.
Well, I felt a challenge coming on and was looking to pack up soon anyways so I told him sure. For me the next few shots went along the lines of: hit, hit, hit, so and so forth.
For the other guy: Boom, miss, boom, miss, !@#@@!ing rifle!

I got a bit of a laugh out of that one.
 
Bashing

You want to experience a good round of bashing. Jump over to one of the AR15 forums and tell them you like your Bushmaster, Les B. Stag, or M&P15. They will tell you how you face certain death when the zombies attack for owning one of the above. Oh yeah for kicks tell them you use steel cased ammo. I love USNMARS response. A lot of these younger shooters need to go read Hatcher's Note Book and then read some history about some of the famous riflemen and snipers during WWI and WWII, even Vietnam when they were using off the shelf scopes and making GOOD 1000 yard hits. The young crowd is a product of their environment and it's all point & click now a days. They are lost without their BORS or GPS and hand held weather stations.
 
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It's not all of us....When I'm out hunting I actually use the mil-dots in the scope and math in my head to calculate range, no rangefinder. (And by young I mean that I am under 21)
 
I took a defensive carbine class once. It was a great class, and I brought my M1 carbine. Everyone else was shooting ARs. On the way to the range for the live fire part of the class, one of the other students derided my M1 with a homemade three point sling. I was foolish enough to respond, "we'll have to see on the range." I thanked God that I shot much better than the other student that day.
 
It's not all of us....When I'm out hunting I actually use the mil-dots in the scope and math in my head to calculate range, no rangefinder. (And by young I mean that I am under 21)
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Thanks for posting that. You give me hope for the future. :)
 
I sometimes carry a .22 short Beretta 950BS semi auto on the ankle as a backup. I have related to those who scoff: Ever know someone who got shot with that who said, "Whew! I thought you shot me with a .22 LR!". Pffft. They're just as shot.
 
@supersappersix: Wecome home. No one laughs at my 6.5" 45/410 Judge after a few silhouette showings from any distance. It's gonna leave a mark. .45 LC's are a hoot!
 
I used to shoot a Ruger P95DC in IPSC minor. Got lots of snide remarks about shooting a crap gun in competitions, by guys with tricked out quick draw rigs. I used to place on top a lot too. :)

You get a few tens-of-thousands of rounds out of a gun, you learn to use it very, very well.

I don't care what gun it is -- when you've shot a weapon enough that it feels like a part of you when you pick it up, it's a good weapon. :)
 
After reading quite a bit of this thread, I know not to mess with people with cheap shotguns when my Beretta AL 391 Teknys comes in.

On the other hand, I hope to smoke some Perazzi shooters in competitions.
 
A man with a cheap tool that has spent the time to use it, learn about it, and become proficient with it will normally outperform someone that bought a very expensive tool. While the cost of the tool doesn't directly equal performance, those that have the money and the time to gain proficiency with the very best tools tend to see a bit of a performance edge over those with experience and less precise tools.

Many of us never get close enough to the end of the proficiency curve to actually benefit on a regular basis from that .1% precision increase. Well, all of that has been spoken as if I push that curve. I've worked up on it several times, then injury set me back. I can also normally just watch a shooter and how they handle the firearm to determine how well they will shoot. Someone that is smooth through loading, handling, acquisition, firing, and rest... probably nailed it. I have rarely been wrong on that prediction, and if you don't keep half an eye on another shooter the first time they shoot you are a braver man than I.
 
It's not all of us....When I'm out hunting I actually use the mil-dots in the scope and math in my head to calculate range, no rangefinder. (And by young I mean that I am under 21)
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Your not the only one. I'm 32, and though I don't hunt currently, if I take it up I plan to just shoot irons. In fact I don't own a single scope, except the one that came with my Gamo break barrel air rifle, which I don't use. Looking through a scope tends to make me nauseous for some reason.

I've never understood the gun bashing thing. Will I post here on THR that one should be more careful when buying a particular brand, due to a higher percentage of defects than other competing makes? Sure. But it is never intended to be derisive or insulting.

I love guns in general. I've got an M-1 Carbine and a pair of ARs sitting right next to each other in my safe. They've not started a war with each other, and I love them all the same for differing reasons. Same for my S&W 6 shooters and my hi cap CZ-75.

Though I wouldn't call it ridicule per se, I have gotten ribbed twich for carrying an "old man", "out dated" low cap revolver. They weren't being rude, more dumbfounded I suppose. One of these times I was at a range, and any ribbing stopped once I produced a ragged one hole group at 7 yards with my 2" S&W Model 15.
 
I used to own a Hi-Point C9, 'nuff said. :what:

Contrary to popular belief, it was surprisingly accurate, and very sturdy.
The gun never malfunctioned on me.
 
I carry a .25.
Nobody has said a thing about it (except the armchair commandos of course), even my NRA instructor when I qualified for basic pistol with it. He told me to get some hollow points for it, I'll stick with ball. Point a .25 at someone and they won't tease you about how small it is.
 
someone somewhere always has something bad to say about any gun. bought a kimber and was told it was junk, bought a rock island it was junk too.
Go with what you know and don't worry about everyone else
 
I never understood this. I have never fired a gun that I didn't enjoy, I just enjoyed some more than others. For me I'm, not going to cheap out on my EDC, mine are not cheap guns but I know they will work. I have guns that are just shooters that I don't carry, some aren't reliable but they are still fun to mess with. Of course my buddies and I like to give each other all kinds of crap about any gun but we're just playing. If you don't like a gun you don't have to own it, but no sense in downing those that like it.
 
There was some initial disparagement about my wife's Phoenix .22, until I used it to drop the 7 yard target by shooting (offhand) the thumbtacks through the backboard...
 
Got a couple of odd looks at the range when I drew and fired my sigma, until they saw the nice tight groups on the paper at 7 yards, then the clover leafs during slow fire. :)
 
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