Pseudo-Gun Buffs are annoying

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WOW!! I never knew the gas regulator nut on an M14 will do all that!!
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Twoblink, I thought that you said that. I understand the jist of this thread perfectly and I agree with you. Several firearms have
"gas regulators" the M14/M1A types do not.

Keep to the High Road.
 
"The ones who annoy me are the "Everything I Need to Know About Firearms I Learned from Video Games" crowd. "

Hahaha, yes I know exactly what you mean. There was this one guys who preaches about weapons, acts like he is a great military commander with masterful tactics, yadda yadda yadda...
Then when a good friend of mine took him to see the new James Bond film, he was making all these noises, covering his eyes, and squirming, because, at it happens, had never been to a cinema before!

This guy really new *nothing* about the outside world whatsoever...

All he ever did was play video games and stick his head in books.

Talk about a severely closeted lifestyle. (He is this 17 year old Chinese guy, in final year of school now... apparently, his parents control his every move).
 
I had a friend's brother tell me that the 10mm round was more powerful than a .44 magnum. I politely showed him a ballistic chart and showed how the 10mm was closer to the .41 Magnum in power, but was far from the hot .44 loads.

He still believe that there was some 10mm cartridge that was more powerful. :rolleyes:

He has come up with some other bluffs, but I don't waste my time.

-Tommy
 
guns & gamers

I just introduced a longtime gamer to guns recently. After the pre range safety briefing, I had to remind him:

1)Don't snap the cylinder closed on my revolvers:fire:

2)No, holding the gun sideways gangsta style doesn't work:D

3)If you forget the safety rules, There are no health packs or reset on this game

He did OK the first time, I just had to unlearn him of his gun knowledge from too many movies & video games:) We were shooting some light reloads I put together for his first time. He was saying "Its just like the movies". I let him try a cylinder of my special"house brand" .357 handloads. After a shot, He wanted the plinkers again:D I asked him,"A little more recoil than your PS2 rumble controllers Huh?":D Anyway my first convert for the year. Many more to enlighten:)
 
HankL,

That's his saying, not mine.. Oh..
wait, I see what you are saying..

No, the hex nut in front is to keep the piston from shooting out the front end; it's not a gas regulator (I guess it is technically as gas will leak out if it's not screwed on)

But you get what I'm saying, yada yada yada..

Vulcan; but didn't you see all those Chow Young Fat movies??? You HAVE TO hold the gun sideways; how else do they know you are a wannabe-gansta!??:rolleyes:
 
Actually, the folks can be helpful. As soon as you hear their rap, you can immediately disregard and disengage. You have to feel a little sad for them and their self-delusion, a bunch of Cliff Clavens.
 
Knew one of those types who began every story with "Back when I was in the Gha-Dang valley in the Weeshlong Delta..." (Apparently he was having someone else's VietNam flashbacks.) Anyhow, he'd go on and on about how "I raised hell when they tried to take my M-14 away and give me one of those M-16s. I lay awake at night thinking of all the poor dead kids that I rolled over to find that they were laying on a jammed M-16. I'd like to show Eugene Stoner what I learned at sniper school, 'cause he was working for the Vietnamese!"

All the while, I'm thinking "Dude, you were like twelve years old when they switched from the 14 to the 16...". :rolleyes:
 
I CAN hit an oreo cookie almost every time from 1,000 yards with my Walther TPH .22. And, come on over, I'll prove it...
:scrutiny:








But, I have to walk forward about 999 yards and a half, first.
:banghead:





Now, may I please go back and advise those who NEED me? :neener:


I was living in LA during the Rodney King stuff. Many of the folks in my office knew me as the country boy with guns and knives and stuff. Several of them were going out and buying "major caliber guns" for protection and got to arguing. Finally they came to me as the arbiter to see who was right and asked me what the most effective major caliber weapon was for a one shot kill.

I told them the 58 Buick or Caddy at full speed would do the best. Then I had to explain a few minutes later that those were old heavy cars! :what:
 
If you work with kids, say at summer camp or school, you hear a lot of this. Coming from them it's not so bad; they don't know any better. They just have dads who have "Cougar Magnums" (007 Goldeneye) and such.

I could hit that quarter from 1000 yards if I were allowed to walk the first 995. If I had to run, I'd probably still miss. :D
 
"Back when I was in the Gha-Dang valley in the Weeshlong Delta..."
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<Sigmund Freud> Perhaps his use of the term "Weeshlong" can provide us a clue as to which inadequacy he is trying to compensate for with his fabrications </Sigmund Freud> :eek: ;)
 
This is why I turned to TFL when I started shooting. Even now I will not really talk tech about guns because I have way to much to still learn. There is no way I would want to be one of the people you are talking about. :evil:
 
<Sigmund Freud> Perhaps his use of the term "Weeshlong" can provide us a clue as to which inadequacy he is trying to compensate for with his fabrications </Sigmund Freud>
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ROFLMAO!
 
We had to arrest a man last year, he threatened his girlfriend and half the area with an SKS.

While at the hospital awaiting the "mental health" folks, he started crying and sobbing. Seems that every time he came near any "jungle gun" he had flashbacks to 'Nam. Said he couldn't help himself and that the nightmares just wouldn't leave him alone. At one point he slid down behind the exam table and started yelling "Charlie's comming!, Charlie's comming!". He told the nurses some sad stories about being lost in the "bush" for days on end and how he had to ID many friends by taking off their boots to look at their feet, as that was all there was left of them after being shot "into a million little bits" by the .55 cal and AK-107 (nope, no typo). He continued to yell "Nam! The damn Nam!".

A couple of the nurses got a little upset at us because we were trying hard not to laugh and not doing a very good job of it. Now, I want to make it very clear, we would NEVER laugh at a fellow vet with problems. It's just that we knew two things the nurses didn't. Well, I guess you could really say that we knew one thing they didn't and that we were able to understand the meaning of one other thing. The first being, about a year prior to then he had been found "not responsible" for the shooting and wounding of someone, due to his "mental state" and that he had never be in any military service. We figured he was trying to ride that horse again.

Well, the nurses didn't agree. They, with tears in their eyes, let us know what "heartless, non-careing bad men" we were for not showing more concern for someone soooo traumatized by the war. **sigh** Some days are like that. Go figure.







Oh, the thing they knew, buy didn't seem to understand? He was born in 1980.
 
Oreo Cookies, HAH!

I can find any Oreo Cookies within a thousand yards of me, even if they`re wrapped in plastic! :p And, I can eat them all! So there! :neener:
 
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