Your favorite bits of gunboard macho posturing?

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Gunboards are a hotbed of material for those who are amused by ????waving. I have several particular favorites:

1. The fellow over at AR15.com who tbraggingly told the story, a couple years ago, about being muzzle swept by a newbie at a commercial range. He "instinctively" threw himself to the floor, drew his 1911 and put the front sight COM on her. What made the story even better is that she was a young mother there with her husband and a couple toddlers. Hubby was trying to teach her to shoot. The best part is that the guy who posted the story couldn't understand why he was being widely hailed as the world's biggest jackass.

2. Another fellow, I forget the board, who claimed to have been jumped by two muggers in the proverbial dark alley. His response was to kick both of them in the nuts, draw his Steyr GB from its shoulder holster, and hold them at gunpoint while he spat in both their faces and called them ???????. A classic.

3. All the gun guys everywhere who blather at great length that they'll die fighting to preserve the 2A (this almost always involves a .308 rifle) , but who can't be bothered to write their legislators or join the NRA. As they used to say back in old country "An empty can rattles the loudest."

Egad, I love the internet. It has given countless people the opportunity to make fools of themselves publicly who might otherwise have been denied the chance.
 
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Any legal, medical or dating advice I read on the Internet makes me laugh. I often respond with:

Legal advice you get from the internet is worth exactly what you paid for it, NOTHING.

But I'd have to say some of the funniest I've read is about arming pilots.
 
That was dang funny Nightcrawler! :) Don't know how I missed that thread when you first posted it.

For "real" macho stories, I have to vote for Mall Ninja <TM>. I never drive directly anywhere.....
 
Mall Ninja, without a doubt. Especially the part about lying on top of his partner and taking hits from the BG's.:D
 
I know this is supposed to be a light hearted thread but realistically...

It's rather amazing to see people whop claim to believe in principle sacrifice every last vestige of it on an alter of obedience to the state.

I'll fight for my gun rights but I cooperate with the law they say...

A machismo of obedience and cooperation.:rolleyes: Cooperation is what got this country into the mess it's in right now.
 
I just love the skills posessed by everyone on the Internet.

There's no shortage of people who:

can hit a flea in the left eye at 600 yards...

have never, ever, under any circumstance, made an error...

can do your job better than you (even though they have no formal training/education/experiance)...

know more about the Glock pistol than Gaston Glock (who invented the Glock, even though some of the self-professed experts don't know that)

know more about the 1911 than JMB...

own nothing but "jewels" for firearms and everyone else has "junk"...

 
I personally love how every time some miscreant gets arrested with a gun, the cries go up to arm ourselves and fight the imminent attacks of the jackbooted hordes (who are generally home eating dinner and watching football at the time)

WildlaughinAlaska
 
By far my favorites are the ones who go on about the "combat reliability" of their chosen pieces. This form of pissing match usually involves AK/AR fans or cruchentickers versus old slabsiders. The amusing part to me is that most of the "debaters" don't shoot near enough rounds to get a true MRBF count. Even among those who do, what is the difference in odds between a 1 in 6000 failure ratio and a 1 in 20,000 when the average gunfight lasts about three to six rounds?

A pistol or a rifle known to you to be well functioning, clean and of quality manufacture will, in all likelihood, burn through all of the ammo you happening to be carrying at any one time if the balloon goes up.
 
How can you leave out:

1. 9mm v. .45;

2. Iwannacoolgunvirus posts;

3. "I don't need to train, I'm plenty good enough" posts;

4. Gun Shoppe Commando posts;

5. And, of course, the Bears, more b.s. is written about bears and other imaginary creatures every month than could be contained in a dozen gun rags.
 
I missed a few of these in thier original form but just the brief descriptions gave me a good chuckle.
 
My favorites are the "it's time to feed the hogs!!:fire: " or "it's time to dig up your guns, not bury them :cuss: " posts. As if the people making those statements are going to put their money where their mouth is.

Yeah yeah, I know the posts are probably made in the heat of the moment or as a figure of speech, but if I know the origins of those statements, don't you think others might as well?

Chris
 
The "Mall Ninja" and ".454 Casull Glock" threads on GlockTalk.com should be in some kind of virtual shrine. :D

In general, I like how so many people can shoot smaller groups at 100 yards than my buddy who shot (and won) untold bullseye pistol matches ever did at 50. Wow, my friend must have really screwed up practicing for years on end and then buying that custom Bullseye Longslide gun made by Jim Clark Sr., when he could have grouped better at double the distance with a Ruger P90 and a year of goofing around shooting tin cans out behind the trailer park... :rolleyes:
 
The most macho posturing I see, seems to come from the NRA haters. Many don't do a damn thing themselves, but seem compelled to attack the NRA everytime it's mentioned.
 
I find it amusing that folks who never shot anybody can recommend their pet JHP loads to noobs.

Like "I get good results with XXXXX"
 
To those with internet longevity and endurance ... I'll just say .....

''GunKid'' ..... and CAR 15, .22 conversion unit ..... and a can!! Include too maybe, stealth by night and ''foraging'' :D


I think several will be with me here!:p
 
This thread got me nostalgic and I had to search out the old Mall Ninja GlockTalk thread to read again. I forgot all about the special martial arts training where they throw in the free Ninja boots that let you walk up walls. That really is a classic :D
 
Gunkid.

Good grief, I had forgotten about him. I have vague recollections of him talking about using a wheelbarrow as a bug out vehicle, a thread about living in his RV parked on your suburban street, and so on.

What a tool.

Chris
 
Shoot!!! I've never been over to Glocktalk. I thought the Mall Ninja was our own. Now I'm intrigued.....I probably won't be back for a week till I track this down.:D
 
Gunkid/hardin.....I'll never forget the "assault wheelbarrow":rolleyes:

Lasty I saw him at FNhighpower proclaiming the superiority of the Star BM with 65gr bullets casted from melt down matchbox cars doing 1800fps with no recoil and fast follow ups.
I'm sold.:scrutiny:
 
I like the guys that are security guards and how many BG that they arrest, and how many that they chase away when they pull their gun:what:
 
Hardin/Gunkid

Yook, I remember him, too. From TFL days, there was a good one about how shot placement doesn't matter, or something like that. Don't know the assault wheelbarrow one.

Anyone know how many sites he's been kicked off of? Also, what's he calling himself now?

ANM
 
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