What is the silliest thing you've heard in a gun discussion?

[Detritus]

Amegatek,

that's not the same incident. the one you're refering to is one of the shots(two are refferenced int eh book the longest, adn one against a kid with a bicycle laoded down with weapons adn ammo) made with a scoped M-2 machine gun, and is i believe still the longest recorded combat sniper kill. that kill was made on a man carrying what turned out to be a chinese copy of a Mosin-Nagant rifle, who came into veiw and stopped in place at one of the spots Hathcock had previously pre-registered the gun.


the "sunlight off the scope" shot was made at MUCH shorter distance. and was the closing shot of a "sniper duel" (ie hathcock and the Viet sniper were hunting each other)

 

[vanbeast]

“I like Taurus ‘cause they got that second trigger on the sideâ€

QuarterBoreGunner wins. Everyone else go home.

 

[Fed168]

Met a guy who claimed his enfield could shoot 1000 yards very accurately. Of course this is after he chopped it and such (we're not talking gunsmith here).

Methinks people get 100 and 1000 yards confused alot.

 

[Evil_Ed]

LostDog,

12) I want the swat team in polo shirts......BDU's look to much like the military.(my county police dept.)

Actually I don't think that is silly at all. I think part of the problem these days is that many officers run around all tactical all the time trying to look like an elite military unit. I don't really have a problem with BDU's for the SWAT team for the special reaction stuff but I would require them to be police blue and be clearly marked as Police uniforms just like the regular beat cops and I wouldn't allow the stupid ninja masks anymore (and before anyone says it, if they are an undercover agent and need their face hidden then they DON'T NEED TO BE A PART OF THE RAID).


My favorite funny is "We're from the government, we're here to help you."

Stupid gun related: "A 44 magnum will cut a man in half!"

:banghead:

 

[capnrik]

Silliest gun related comment I have ever heard? Hands down, the winner is.................."Don't worry, it isn't loaded."

 

[Patent Works]

Juneau Alaska cab driver:

"A 357 magnum is the ideal for bear, but a 45 is so powerful it will split your hand wide open when you shoot it."

 

[grnzbra]

Im going to have to 2nd, and 3rd and 4th the one about 357s in engine blocks...

What was the bullet made of. When I was told about .357s and engine blocks, it was in reference to a round with a tungsten-carbide bullet with a point that looked like an inverted ice cream cone. (The guy who was telling the story had a box of the bullets). Don't know if it would go through an engine block, but I do think it would go through 1/4 inch steel.

 

[arinvolvo]

ya, as a general rule, you SHOULDNT shoot at engine blocks...or brake drums...not to say i havent...just YOU shouldnt.

 

[fix]

It's right here on this thread...

one would imagine a Lt. would know better!

By far, the silliest I've heard!

 

[Flying V]

I was at a gun show, looking over a Bulgarian Makarov. The table jockey informed me that "if anything goes wrong with that gun, Makarov will take care of it."

 

[fslflint]

oh my gosh!!!!!, flying v. I just about fell off my chair from that one.

 

[Evil_Ed]

fix said:

It's right here on this thread...


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one would imagine a Lt. would know better!
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By far, the silliest I've heard!

Hehehe, I was gonna let that comment pass the first time but since you brought it up again...

You do know what is the most dangerous thing known to man??


------ A Lt. with a compass and a map.

 

[Carbon_15]

this was waaaaay before I was even into guns

I remember before I was into guns....but it was really dark, wet and cramped, and I had this tube coming out of my belly button.

 

[Red_SC]

When I was working for a contractor, my boss brought in a guy to help us paint a house. He had been in the Navy for three years, as a Seal sniper. He shot a 50 cal with a four mode scope. "Infrared, ultraviolet, all that stuff. You could look through a brick wall like it wasn't there."

At the end of the day, both me and my coworker threatened to quit if he was there the next day.

 

[ACORN]

Man am I glad my Makarov has a warranty! They must have left the card out of the box.

A guy that worked with me told me was a sniper in the Army.He took his M16 home with him, when got out of the service, but he had to
strip it down, and NOBODY can put it back together (not even him).
I told him to bring it around and I'd do it. But he said the "sniper version" was totally different than a regular M16.
I think the flaws in this story are numerous.

 

[iapetus]

Whenever someone in the UK threatens the police/public with replica firearm, and gets shot by police marksmen:

Someone will write to the papers / phone in to TV shows saying:

"The police are trained marksmen. They should have shot the gun out of his hand!" (Or shot him in the leg, etc)

(And usually followed up soon after with "We should ban replica firearms!")

 

[thefitzvh]

The most dangerous thing in the military is not an LT with a map...


it's an E6 that says "Hey, guys... watch this s**t"

 

[Detritus]

The most dangerous thing in the military is not an LT with a map...


it's an E6 that says "Hey, guys... watch this s**t"

you/re BOTH wrong it's a Col. in a helo with a map and AN IDEA (sort of a cross between the above two)