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What's the most stupid thing you've been told?

I was told by my supervisor that the m240b shot the same caliber as an AK 47....

A 50 bmg doesn’t even need to hit you to kill you. (Hear that ALOT)

9mm won’t go through a thick winter jacket. You need a 40 S&W.
 
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At a Sportsman’s I watched a young couple talking to one of the employees about getting a handgun for her to learn to shoot and carry concealed.

The employee quickly pointed out that they would need to look at the revolvers because semi auto handguns aren’t reliable enough for self defense.
 
Hi,

Well I will depart this thread and let it get back to its' roots...which clearly it now has done via post #792.

Sincerely,
Theis

Edited to Add:
@Spblademaker Why do you bring up such sore subject??? You do know that jackass called the HOA on me for having too many lathes in garage. Talking about it violated the advanced technology clause of the HOA. Then acted like it wasn't him that did it at the next Christmas party.

Wouldn't having a "Smart Home" also violate the technology clause?

Then again, I suppose technology is in the brain of the beholder...

See what I did there? :)
 
a reloading buddy of mine was serious about this...I told him I wish I could find hollow points in the 750 gr for my fiddy, he said "you have a nice lathe, chuck it and drill it out..." ya, da, I'm gonna chuck a live round, with 13k lbs muzzle energy and start drilling on it....stfu
 
a reloading buddy of mine was serious about this...I told him I wish I could find hollow points in the 750 gr for my fiddy, he said "you have a nice lathe, chuck it and drill it out..." ya, da, I'm gonna chuck a live round, with 13k lbs muzzle energy and start drilling on it....stfu
Not that I think it is a good idea to modify bullets but couldn't you just ya know... do it on the bullet before you load it in the case.
 
Hi,

LOL, hopefully he was meaning titanium flash tips on the monolithics...

Sincerely,
Theis
Wasn't sure what he was talking about. Tried to use my Google-fu to find something about it before posting here.

I asked him if he meant lathe turned copper like the Warner tools or other bullets in copper based alloys. He said those are only used for hunting.

He also mentioned people coat their bullets in tungsten. He was saying that titanium bullets and tungsten coated bullets were harder Rockwell and reduced barrel life. Some people getting only 800 rounds out of a barrel. That I could find. Tungsten disulfide. WS2. I had never heard of it before. Cousin of moly coating with fewer downsides from what I found in my searching. Supposedly HBN is better.
 
Know a guy that isn't a shooter but a lifetime hunter. Always talks about how if he can hit a pie plate at 100 yards he is good to go deer hunting. Drives me insane.

The only thing worse than that is they guy who can’t hit the pie plate/sheet of paper and five minutes later goes on about how they hit golf balls at 800yds or goes up to another shooter and starts giving advice.
 
The only thing worse than that is they guy who can’t hit the pie plate/sheet of paper and five minutes later goes on about how they hit golf balls at 800yds or goes up to another shooter and starts giving advice.

He missed it one time at the range and asked if I could lower his trigger weight so he wouldn't pull his shots...
 
The only thing worse than that is they guy who can’t hit the pie plate/sheet of paper and five minutes later goes on about how they hit golf balls at 800yds or goes up to another shooter and starts giving advice.

If you don't already have them, get some electronic ear protection and head out to a 100 yard public range. You will hear some interesting stuff. I have the memory of a gold fish so I end up forgetting most odd things I hear. I do remember two kids arguing weather or not my 24" Rem 700 in an XLR Evo chassis was a rifle or a pistol, the youngest thought because it had a pistol grip that it was a pistol. But they are kids so I wouldn't call them stupid, it's was just funny to hear them bitching at eachother.

People seem to think you can't hear them because you have ear muffs on. Plus, people usually don't have electronic ear pro they are talking loudly at each other so it makes it pretty easy to hear conversations from half the range.

I usually mind my own business unless I am approached. Sometimes I will spot for people next to me if it seems like they are having trouble with a hunting scope and can't see their impacts, I will just measure with my reticle and let them know how off they are.

I have had people come up to me saying something like "my buddy has a rifle like that, he can get dime sized groups all day long with it". My 10 round groups are around .75 MOA +- .2 MOA, so not "dime sized" but I just shake it off.
 
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You haven't met me , yet.
His days are numbered as an authority of , inherently accurate, rimfire. And how to.
You dont know me. You have merely seen what he has parroted from others. And some of that has some small artifacts , of fact , regarding a 22lr projectile.

But I'm confident we will get to know each other and become friends. On the internet. Because thats what I live for. I'm sweet as Tennessee Whiskey.


Might as well add you to the list of parrots. Like I said. Sweet as Tennessee Whiskey.

Class will begin pretty soon. Put your hats on. And your game faces. We can talk about nodes( tee hee) and everything. I will show you why one button rifled barrel is no better than the next button rifled barrel with the same tolerance.

I am so sorry. I had to edit this because I misspelled a werd.

T.S.

T.S.
I get what you're saying, but the phrase is actually "Smooth as Tennessee whiskey, sweet as strawberry wine.
:) :) carry on
 
If you don't already have them, get some electronic ear protection and head out to a 100 yard public range. You will hear some interesting stuff. I have the memory of a gold fish so I end up forgetting most odd things I hear. I do remember two kids arguing weather or not my 24" Rem 700 in an XLR Evo chassis was a rifle or a pistol, the youngest thought because it had a pistol grip that it was a pistol. But they are kids so I wouldn't call them stupid, it's was just funny to hear them bitching at eachother.

People seem to think you can't hear them because you have ear muffs on. Plus, people usually don't have electronic ear pro they are talking loudly at each other so it makes it pretty easy to hear conversations from half the range.

I usually mind my own business unless I am approached. Sometimes I will spot for people next to me if it seems like they are having trouble with a hunting scope and can't see their impacts, I will just measure with my reticle and let them know how off they are.

I have had people come up to me saying something like "my buddy has a rifle like that, he can get dime sized groups all day long with it". My 10 round groups are around .75 MOA +- .2 MOA, so not "dime sized" but I just shake it off.

Oh the old “shoots a dime all day” ....except for today...or the past six times you’ve been at the range next to me lol.

Definitely. I run Sordins so I hear it all lol. I felt bad for a high school aged kid the other day. He was at the range and his dad was “teaching” him how to shoot. Everything he was saying and having the kid do was wrong and the kid was barely hitting the target’s paper.

I’m not one to interject myself into another’s business at the range unless it is something unsafe. As I was thinking about how bad I felt for the kid, the poor RSO stepped in to unfuck the situation before ignorance became a safety issue. ...and did so multiple times.

Not so much that the below is stupid, but rather just untrained:

::neighboring shooters running 6.5cm at 550 & 600yds at a barely 3mph FVW with light mirage on a piece of steel essentially the size of an ipsc::

“You’re never going to hit that dude, the wind is too crazy right now.”

It isn’t their fault, they just haven’t been taught. That being said, I’m not going to provide advice at a range unless someone directly asks.

#DontAskMeAboutMyRifleWhenYouShouldBeAskingForAssistance
 
Hi,

Lets see..
I started the day out testing a new firing pin spring system for a new high pressure receiver design.
View attachment 7103351

I then tested the receiver design for operations at 100k PSI (Tested to 152k psi though). Good to Go.
View attachment 7103352


I then transitioned to the International side of business and handled this email:
Dear Theis,

We have inquiry from Montenegro.
There is urgent requirement for the below perhaps you have some available stock. It can be 1980 + ammunition

SHELL 8,000.00 M456 HEAT-T 105MM SHELL 8,000.00 M393 HEP-T 105MM
Can you assist?
If interested, I will contact you directly with the client.

Regards,
Azat Akhmerov
Project Development Manager

Sincerely,
Theis

Oh, and @THEIS I want one of those receivers in an XP-100 length. Please chamber it for the 60gr 22 LR load or whatever cool shit you have laying around.
You won't need to ship it to me, I'll drive out your way and pick it up. :)
 
a reloading buddy of mine was serious about this...I told him I wish I could find hollow points in the 750 gr for my fiddy, he said "you have a nice lathe, chuck it and drill it out..." ya, da, I'm gonna chuck a live round, with 13k lbs muzzle energy and start drilling on it....stfu

Just pull the tips out with a pliers ya moron.
 
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I was once told that fn five/seven pistols were “designed to cut through body armor.” And they were, “the most dangerous handguns in the world.”

I thought I heard a .454 casual and a .500 sw mag giggling in the back of the gun shop when this was said so I might have been mistaken in what I heard.
 
Was told that you “only need to shoot paper, if you can’t hit paper you can’t hit smaller targets” in a debate about needing to shoot steel and smaller targets in training, with someone who fancies them self a great shooter.

Same guy then proceeded to whiff on every steel target, every single time, for the rest of the day
 
Know a guy that isn't a shooter but a lifetime hunter. Always talks about how if he can hit a pie plate at 100 yards he is good to go deer hunting. Drives me insane.
What is this guy shooting? If I'm taking a bush gun hunting while I push bush for my dad, I'd be happy with a pie plate at 100 if I know I'm not shooting past 20 yards offhand when I'm in the trees. If it's a scoped rifle, I understand your point
 
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The bible was written by God. It says so right in the bible so it has to be true.

When I was living in my apartment I was telling the resident manager that the dishwasher wasn't working. Said it was probably a stuck valve/solenoid or something as it was not flushing the food particles and would leave the top shelf cups and bowls covered with food grit. Informed her the dishes were coming out of the dishwash dirtier than when I put them in as I always rinse them beforehand.

Manager insisted there was nothing wrong with the dish washer. Told me the reason my dishes were dirtier after washing, was because they were too clean when I put them into the dishwasher; and that that was NORMAL! She actually thought I would believe her. *shakes head*
 
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Gotta update with new ones.

"I'm switching from MOA to mils because mils is more precise."

-Coworker attempts to correct this arrogant fuck.-

"At a 100 yards, yeah mils isn't the best, but at long range the differences add up and mils becomes more precise."

Stupidity like this, not fear of reprisals, keeps me from talking about guns and shooting at work.
 
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a reloading buddy of mine was serious about this...I told him I wish I could find hollow points in the 750 gr for my fiddy, he said "you have a nice lathe, chuck it and drill it out..." ya, da, I'm gonna chuck a live round, with 13k lbs muzzle energy and start drilling on it....stfu

Well turn on the coolant....................duh...
 
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Very true, where I grew up in Nevada, shots are more typically around 200. 400 was not ncommon.

That said, many a patient hunter out there packed a lever action 30-30 and were still successful.

im in northern nevada and a typical shot is...like you say...200yds IF your quite and patient but most are closer to 300+....im not a hunter but just about everyone i know is.
 
Well. Regarding "minute of deer = 12"@100 yards..." - reminds me of a sort of argument I had back in the '70s. Long story shortened, I was befriended by a group of hard-core hunters up on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland through one of the guys' sister and brother-in-law. In the peak of the season, a day of hunting might begin at maybe 3-4am, going out for geese or ducks. Come back in for breakfast, then out again for quail until dusk, eat dinner, then out to chase the raccoon hounds until almost midnight. Get a few hours' sleep and do it again if it wasn't Sunday and it was a holiday or vacation.

So this was before the days of screw-in chokes. Almost all of these guys shot a Remington 1100 autoloader with a 26" improved cylinder barrel and used it for everything from quail to geese. Amazingly, they had the discipline to hold fire on waterfowl until the birds were within definite kill range of the open chokes.

Since I used a Browning A5 with a 30" full-choke barrel for waterfowl, it made me crazy to watch ducks and geese fly by 35-40 yards out and they wouldn't shoot (which was good) and told me not to (argh). This happened a few times until I couldn't keep quiet anymore - I was quite a bit younger than them and I was their guest - and I said, look guys, I have a much tighter choke, magnum waterfowl loads, and I am used to shooting doves - much smaller and faster - at yardages way farther than they would even think about. So it was agreed that I could use my own judgment about shooting the next ducks that came by too far for them to take.

A few minutes later, a pair of mallards flew by "full value" left to right, about 10 yards past the float they had anchored as max-distance range for their open chokes. I fired twice and both ducks hit the water and didn't twitch.

So, I earned my stripes that day on waterfowl, and from then on I was in high demand to go to turkey shoots with the guys, where everyone wanted to use my shotgun (and the shoot managers learned to provide the shells instead of letting people use their own when they saw what reloads with an ounce and a half of #9 did out of that barrel).
 
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