Just makes you shake your head

[xtarheel]

I wonder how many of you have had experiences like this? Here is two that I witnessed. Real jaw droppers.

1. I was going squirrel HUNTING with a friend. His brother-in-law came along. He was showing me his new .22 that he just picked up the night before. I asked him if he had sighted in the scope yet. He said "I don't have to. This scope was on my old rifle, it's already sighted in" !!!

2. Elk hunting in Colorado. A couple guys that just arrived walked by our tent on the way to setting up their camp. We started talking and had them in for a cup of coffee. We started talking about guns. One said he he had a 7mm Remington Magnum but it was going to shoot a lot further this year because he bought a box of 7mm STW cartridges. The guy at the gun shop told him it was a faster cartridge.!! :banghead:

I'm sure there are plent of other "experts" like those two out there.

 

[Ringer]

I was at a gun show about 3 weeks ago (I know, anything that starts that way) looking at various pistols. While looking at one, I think it was an M&P .45, the representative behind the table told me it was discounted because it was missing a clip. I thought I misunderstood and asked her what it was missing. She said "it's missing one of the clips". And I was honestly not beeing a smart elic when I said "huh, what clip?". She repeats "one of the clips" and holds up a magazine. I'm like oh, it's missing one of the magazines, got it. She gives me a puzzled look like I'm some kind of an idiot.....maybe I was. It just didn't register when she was pointing to the gun saying it's missing a clip. This was not someone with a table of stuff, this was a one of the largest displays at the show from a large shop.

 

[macFarlaine]

Reminds me of the guy who shot himself in the arse,or the one who shot himself in the hand and foot..oh, and the one who shot the cow...

 

[uzimon]

my mom bought a 38 special charter arms double action 5 shot.
the guy at carters country in houston told her to keep the hammer down on an empty chamber, for safeties sake. smh
carters also didn't use to sell glocks, because they had no safeties.
they had plenty of revolvers though

 

[BobbyQuickdraw]

Ringer,

The clip vs magazine thing is a valid issue at times, but common usage dictates that "clip" is often understood to mean magazine. You knew what she was talking about and instead of politely informing her, you questioned her 3 times.

In the middle of a firefight, if someone mistakingly yells out "I need another clip" are you going to deny tossing him a magazine?

The clip vs magazine thing is right up there in terms of annoyance with me as the people who will crucify you for a picture where 1 of the 4 rules is violated - even if a competent gun owner made the weapon completely safe for the purpose of that picture.

 

[MarshallDodge]

I'm at the indoor shooting range shooting my Kimber with a friend. A guy next to us is shooting a Beretta 92 and his shots are all over the paper at 21 feet. He sees that most of our shots are in the 9 and 10 rings.

He asked about my Kimber and I let him shoot it with the similar results as the Beretta. A little bit later one of his friends shows up in a police uniform, it turns out both of them are police officers. His friend could shoot pretty well.

Then I hear the poor shooter say "I guess I need new glasses." :banghead:
I was wondering how the PD let him on their force.

 

[MachIVshooter]

1. I was going squirrel with a friend. His brother-in-law came along. He was showing me his new .22 that he just picked up the night before. I asked him if he had sighted in the scope yet. He said "I don't have to. This scope was on my old rifle, it's already sighted in" !!!

Either he'll figure it out, or never hit what he's aiming at.

2. Elk hunting in Colorado. A couple guys that just arrived walked by our tent on the way to setting up their camp. We started talking and had them in for a cup of coffee. We started talking about guns. One said he he had a 7mm Remington Magnum but it was going to shoot a lot further this year because he bought a box of 7mm STW cartridges. The guy at the gun shop told him it was a faster cartridge.!!

I can just see some guy making a concerted effort to close the bolt on a cartridge that is a full centimeter too long.

People like this I will make one polite effort to inform them of their mistake. If they listen, I'll elaborate. If they don't, I just go with the "can't fix stupid" approach and leave them to their own devices.

 

[Cougfan2]

I was at an indoor range one day and a guy walks into one of the booths with a brand new 6" Colt Python. On the first shot the top strap blows off and the walls of the two adjoining cylinders. Turns our he wanted to get some hotter loads than factory stuff so he made some handloads. Only problem is he didn't see the wisdom in purchasing a loading manual. He just dipped some .357 mag cases full to the brim with Unique and seated 158 gr JHP on top of it. Damn near took his hand off. The range master sounded like a Paris Iland DI chewing this guy out! :banghead:

 

[VirgilCaine]

Only problem is he didn't see the wisdom in purchasing a loading manual. He just dipped some .357 mag cases full to the brim with Unique and seated 158 gr JHP on top of it. Damn near took his hand off.

Wow, just wow. Lucky guy!

 

[xsquidgator]

I was at an indoor range one day and a guy walks into one of the booths with a brand new 6" Colt Python. On the first shot the top strap blows off and the walls of the two adjoining cylinders. Turns our he wanted to get some hotter loads than factory stuff so he made some handloads. Only problem is he didn't see the wisdom in purchasing a loading manual. He just dipped some .357 mag cases full to the brim with Unique and seated 158 gr JHP on top of it. Damn near took his hand off. The range master sounded like a Paris Iland DI chewing this guy out!

THAT has to be today's winner for best story! How anyone who knows enough to deprime a case and then seat/crimp a bullet, but not enough to bother with minor details like how much powder, could do that...

 

[Crashola]

I was at an indoor range one day and a guy walks into one of the booths with a brand new 6" Colt Python. On the first shot the top strap blows off and the walls of the two adjoining cylinders. Turns our he wanted to get some hotter loads than factory stuff so he made some handloads. Only problem is he didn't see the wisdom in purchasing a loading manual. He just dipped some .357 mag cases full to the brim with Unique and seated 158 gr JHP on top of it. Damn near took his hand off.

Voted most likely to do something later in life that gets him a Darwin Award.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I had a young man who worked for me once who wanted a new deer rifle scope combo and asked me about some of the gunshops around town. I mentioned a few around where we worked that I had done some business with.

So he went shopping one night and came in the next morning and told me that he was ready to go deer hunting. I asked him what he had bought and he told me that he had a new Marlin 30/30 and scope. Since it was fairly late when we left work I was courious as to where he had sighted it in at night so I asked him about it.

His commit was, "Oh, the gunshop guy bore sighted it and said it was ready to go." Needless to say I explain to him that bore sighting did nothing much more than get him on paper at 25 yards and quit doing business with that gunshop.

 

[Cougfan2]

I saw one almost as good at the same range about a year later. Guy walks in with a new Colt .45 Govt. 1911. Steps into the booth and runs a target down range. Inserts a mag and locks it into battery. First shot in the target and the next 6 in the ceiling. Turns out he decided to do his own "trigger job" and filed away on the sear. Same range master, similar discussion as with "Python boy". :banghead:

 

[Gillster]

I was going squirrel with a friend

I assume hunting was left out but makes for a funny quote. I was at a range when a gentleman with a new S&W642 asked for assistance removing spent brass from the cylinder. I popped the first one out with a range rod and when I picked it up I noticed he was shooting .38 SUPER in his shiny new .38spcl.

 

[Scorpiusdeus]

I was going squirrel with a friend.

Is that like going crazy, going nuts?

 

[bluestarlizzard]

i'll either have to wait till dad gets home or find bubba ("Ohhhh..... Fearless Leader..... Where are you?) to tell some pyscho charlie stories.

 

[Ringer]

BobbyQuickdraw

Ringer,

The clip vs magazine thing is a valid issue at times, but common usage dictates that "clip" is often understood to mean magazine. You knew what she was talking about and instead of politely informing her, you questioned her 3 times.

Actually I didn't know what she was talking about. That is what I meant when I said I wasn't being a smart elic. When she pointed to the gun and said it was missing a clip it didn't register at first that she meant magazine. I guess you would have to be there. I wasn't being a jerk as you describe. Anyway someone selling handguns for a living should know the difference.

 

[Walkalong]

Sometimes I call em clips, sometimes I call em mags, who gives a ..... We know what we mean.

Sometimes I call stuff that thingamabob dohicky dealy thing there (that I am having a mental block on and can't for the life of me remember what it's called)

 

[Mainsail]

That reminds me of Smoe. Do you know what smoe is? Smoe, which is the reciprocal of the square root of Sigma, is used in aircraft performance computations to compensate for the differences in temperature and pressure altitude between reported conditions and ICAO standard day. Would I shake my head or ridicule you if you didn’t know this? No, of course not.

If someone doesn’t know something and you do, teach them!

 

[TallPine]

His commit was, "Oh, the gunshop guy bore sighted it and said it was ready to go." Needless to say I explain to him that bore sighting did nothing much more than get him on paper at 25 yards and quit doing business with that gunshop.

I used to work at a hardware store that sold guns too. Quite a few times I boresighted rifles and scopes.

I had one guy buy a rifle/scope that I boresighted, then he hurt his hand and his wife ended up shooting a deer with that new rifle without sighting it in. I was sorta shocked when he told me about it later, but I guess the deer didn't know the difference - one shot, one deer.

 

[Standing Wolf]

How anyone who knows enough to deprime a case and then seat/crimp a bullet, but not enough to bother with minor details like how much powder, could do that...

I work in a combination gun shop and range. I've met several rugged individuals who find loads on the internet, but are too cheap to spring for reloading manuals, still less trouble themselves actually to read them.

 

[Nolo]

This is rather sad.
I wasn't on the range at the time, but here's the story anyway.
I was in Boy Scouts around when I was about 11 or 12. We had just started rifle shooting, and I had found out how great they were. Well, one day (like I said, I wasn't actually there) this kid in our troop (whom I might add was a big weirdo, on of those guys who you know is just messed up) is shooting, and some other kid is making fun of him on the range (which is something I cannot stand). Well, when shooting's going on, these sort of shenanigans are very hard to keep track of, especially when you're trying to teach kids to shoot. We had a very good rangemistress, but these things sort of happen. Anyway, so the one kid is making fun of our friend there and I guess the kid just snaps. From what I understand, he stands up with the rifle, points it at the kid and shoots him in the dead, killing him instantly.
I think the kid is in juvie, but I remember seeing him at camp recently, which was rather odd.

 

[bluestarlizzard]

psycho charlie

dad came home. these are just two examples of psycho charlie misadventures.

1. "one saterday, bubba and I were shooting our 1911's when psycho charlie pulled up, jumped out of his truck, waving a rifle in one hand and a can of PBR in the other. in half drunken enthusiem, he shows us his wwII jap surpluse rifle and 500 rds. of jap ammo which he purchesed for a paltry sum at local gunshow. bubba and i quickly became wary because of charlies dangourous shooting habits on the range. after begging bubba and me to shot the jap rifle, which was a rusted piece of junk, bubba and i convinced charlie to shoot away after standing back about thirty feet. charlie got about 3 or 4 rounds off before a round blew in the chamber. black smoked poured out of the rifle. charlies eyebrows were smoking and his face was black with powder. bubba and i never really knew what happen, wiether it was a peirced primer or the corroded WWII ammo, but we then told charlie "wow that was a really great deal, shoot it some more!" God watches out for fools and drunks. Charlie was lucky not to end up with the bolt in his forehead."

2. "Psycho charlies genarel range ettiquette was lacking to say the least. Bubba and i are very safe and follow all range saftey procedejures, taking turns to shoot, but charlie was a diffrent story. after charlie shot what he thought was a great group, he would turn to one of us, with his .45 cocked and unlocked, pointed twoards us and exsitedly proclaim 'wow, look at that group!'. Bubba and i became very adapt at ducking and batting charlies .45 out of our faces. this example of charlies range skills, leads to the next advanture. Again we were out shooting our 1911's when once again charlie pulls up in his truck, PBR in one hand and 1911 holstered on his hip. laughing hystarically he points to his right boot and shows us the small creasent in the outer sole. "What happened charlie?" we asked. charlie had been shooting his Gold Cup on his property and went to check his groups on the target while carring his gun muzzle down, cocked and not locked with his finger still on the trigger and a round still in the chamber. In his haste to to check his target, the firearm discharged, shooting his boot. charlie ended the story of his misadventure with 'wow, i could have blown my foot off.' that was the last day charlie was allowed at our range. thank god he moved away soon after."

ask fearless leader (aka Bubba) and he may tell you more.....

 

[littlegator]

That reminds me of Smoe. Do you know what smoe is?

Smoes are great with hot chocolate. Yumm.

 

[cobrian45]

Two incidents I've seen, both frightening:

1. As a hunting guide, we were on an Eland bull. I had a father and son hunting together. The son was shooting a 7mm Mag and the dad was shooting a standard caliber which I think was a .280. That part I can't remember. The son fired twice at the Eland within 75 yards and missed completely. This is a huge animal, so I was confused. When I watched him clear the gun later, he had loaded the smaller caliber ammo in the 7mm Mag rifle. Frightening after the fact.

2. I inherited an old Japanese rifle from my Grandfather when he died. My family knows that I not only shoot, but collect and it had a nice little story behind it relating to my Grandfather and his brother. I got a box of ammo with half of the casings empty and very oddly shaped. The caliber of the rounds was in 7.7 Jap, but they had fire-formed almost to point that the shoulder was now about 1/8" from the neck of the casing. I decided that the gun wasn't worth shooting until I figured out the problem, but it is a curio/relic in my collection that I don't intend to try out ever.