Time to be Honest!

[The_Pretender]

You know the feeling. You're holding a rifle in your hands. You can smell the oil. You feel the stock against your cheek. It's pressed snugly into your shoulder the way it has thousands of times before.

You set the safety to fire, ease your breath, and send a round down range. A beautiful moment between a man and his rifle, culminating in a roar of fire and gunsmoke.

We all know why we love shooting/owning/collecting/browsing rifles etc. etc.

But there's always something/someone that annoys the hell out of you and more or less commits blasphemy against your favorite interest.

What irks you the most?

 

[762]

Nobody at work...

 

[Isher]

"Mistah Kurz, he dead."

Joseph Conrad/Heart of Darkness

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[Daizee]

some unaware idiot tossing brass at my head takes a backseat to a jerk giving BAD advice like he knows what he's talking about while handling his gun in a questionable manner. All this while I'm trying to get my sights to settle offhand, just behind me out of view, but well within earshot. *irk*

-Daizee

 

[Welding Rod]

Easy - other shooters who are either in denial, or are too apathetic to put pressure on their legislaters to stand firmly on gun rights and shooting issues.

 

[MarineOne]

For me it's two things .... the lesser of the two is poor maintenance, but the big one is safety.

I cannot put into "High Road" words how seething mad I get when I see someone not be safe with a weapon. When I was at MCRD there was a phrase that was burned into my brain ..... "Safety is paramout, safety is first priority.", and I'm doing the same with both my children and my wife. Even my oldest has gotten into the habit of making sure those around us at the rifle range are being safe.

Now I just need to teach him about using an "verbal filter" due to him constantly letting me know about who isn't safe and why it's unsafe.


-K

 

[C-grunt]

MY biggest complaint is I live about 40 miles from the nearest rifle range! I chose ammo cost though.

 

[Bufford t. Justice]

I can't find ammo at a decent price for my 458 Socom. $60 a box per 20rnds and availabilty sucks!! Not gonna sell it though.

 

[happygeek]

Ammo cost. Thank God I also have a fun little tacticool 22LR!

You left out the VPC/Brady Campaign and their infinite wisdom on "assault rifles"

 

[Arkel23]

Shooting a Wby caliber, you can guess which one i picked.

 

[Art Eatman]

Ire? Bad habits about safety. All the rest of it is just life itsownself.

 

[highorder]

As safety wasn't a choice, people that don't maintain their weapons grinds my gears.

A friend owns a beautiful 1873 Trapdoor. The last time I saw it, it was covered with surface rust, and the bore looked like it had been shot with black powder and left to sit for a few years.

You want to do that to your Savage wallyworld special, thats one thing.

But a 90% original Trapdoor? Why don't you just kick my dog while you're at it?

 

[Visionz45]

I haven't cleaned my AR in like four monthes. I don't like people that get Po'ed about others business. Unsafe behavior should be on top.

 

[Avenger29]

I haven't cleaned my AR in like four monthes. I don't like people that get Po'ed about others business. Unsafe behavior should be on top.

There is a difference between "cleaning" and "maintenance". Cleaning is usually considered part of maintenance. I'm assuming your AR-15 is not corroding away, so it's fine and you are not abusing it.


Mainly, outside of safety, what annoys me is people who repeat Old Wives Tales, myths, and such about firearms, self defense, ammunition, shooting techniques, criminal habits, and so on. Holler if you recognize some of the following:

"If you shoot somebody outside your house, drag them inside and you'll be legal"
"Shotguns don't need to be aimed"
"Racking the slide of a shotgun will scare anybody away- it doesn't even need to be loaded"
"It is dangerous to carry <insert modern pistol design here> with a round in the chamber- carry it without a round in the chamber, because that's how the Israelis do it"
"AKs don't jam"
"The US military is adopting such and such because the M-16/Beretta M9 is a POS"
"9mm and .223 are worthless against humans"
"The AR-15/M-16 was made by Mattel"
"The AR-15 shouldn't be lubed more than a drop or it'll jam"
"Women are too stupid to use anything more than a .38 snub revolver"

 

[Visionz45]

Maybe after 1000+ rds I should give it a once over, +1 on the dumb comments, you here a guy pop one of them out and everyone kinda looks at the floor and in unison.

 

[ganymede]

for me it's someone saying "blah bah blah" is useless/pointless. i don't care what they are talking about. It's an arrogant attidude that helps no one. If something was completly useless or pointless, we wouldn't be having a conversation about it in the first because no one would buy it. people who talk like that are completly useless, and pointless as well!

One thing you ddint put in the poll that makes me mad is gun owners who are for an AWB, or won't join the NRA.

 

[ArmedBear]

What irks you the most?

Shooting at paper targets, at fixed distances at a formal range. A necessary evil for load development and sighting in, but otherwise somewhere between annoying and boring.

About the only fun thing to do at a regular range is skeet and sporting clays.

Now, give me some shooting sticks, some balloons, and some open terrain where it's legal to shoot a rifle a few hundred yards, and rifle shooting can be just about as fun.

I'd love to find a place with running boar targets set up regularly.

 

[rangerruck]

except for 762.39 ammo, everything else is still rediculously priced... and the gunshow widgets, who bought high, have not lowered their prices at all, even though the stores are all starting to come down , on all of their ammo, just a little bit. They are still trying to make a profit, over what they bought it for, even though their bought for price, is 20% higher than what the stores are selling it for now.

 

[svaz]

My #1 complaint: No reactive targets on the rifle range. Sure would be nice to be able to tape some balloons to the target; immediate feedback is very rewarding. The local range has a few metal targets but only on two or three lanes out of a dozen. Guess which ones are taken first thing in the morning.

 

[tommysempra]

Not on the list is someone who tells me that guns and hunting are bad and that they should be outlawed because they are scared of them.

 

[wgaynor]

My complaint, I work in a facility where my coworkers and employees are mainly of the female and gun hating persuasion. Be nice if I had someone get as excited as I do or who at least has held a rifle...

 

[CoRoMo]

I bought a fine hunting rifle for a family member once. I spent a lot of time narrowing down options, and footwork searching local shops' racks. Eventually found a wonderful rifle and gave it to him.

Well, he didn't care to properly sight in the scope, and he just doesn't believe that one bullet could possibly shoot any better or worse than another. To him, if the bullet lands within a foot of his point of aim, that's perfect.

Irks the living snot out of me.:banghead:

 

[Brimic]

My only complaint besides lack of time is the 'shortness' of the ranges available within a 100 miles of where I live. Most are 100 yards or less, with a few 200 yard ranges, anything more is an hour+ drive and a private club.. I have to drive 3 hours to our cabin in the UP to shooot longer distances.

 

[Col. Plink]

Mine wasn't there: d---head range officers. Joined a rifle club instead (one that just happens to be 5 mins from the best barbeque in the world!).

Safety is first: safety is not served by corpulent, blustering mall ninjas using military jargon to berate people carring cased weapons 30ft behind the firing line...

 

[dagger dog]

Having had a great revelation in a particular handload, or rifle repair over the weekend, and trying to relate it to my boss, to have him give you rabbit caught in the headlght stare!