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

Those must be some pretty tough deer you have in NC.

Not really tough, they are just dressed for the occasion.

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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.

I'm surprised I don't know him. When I was kid, I used to hunt with a group of rednecks who sighted in their hunting rifles by throwing an aluminum can down on the ground about 10 yds away and shooting at it. Come to think of it, I'm probably lucky I survived those trips. I was the one though that always seem to make those "lucky shots."
 
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Some classics that never get fucking old...


“A shotgun is the best home defense weapon because you can’t miss.”

“A shotgun is the best home defense weapon because they’ll run away when they hear it get racked.”

“A pistol with a [manual] safety shouldn’t be used for home defense because if you’re sleeping and someone breaks in, you’ll be too sleepy to remember to take the safety off.”

“I don’t keep my suppressor on my nightstand AR because if I shoot an intruder, I don’t want them to take my suppressor.”

“I have an AR as my nightstand/home defense weapon.”
 
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The most stupid thing????

“We don’t want your guns”.

And just about everything these politicians say..

Agreed.

Feinstein and Beto both slipped and let everyone know the strategy. Fortunately, Beto reminded everyone recently because most have forgotten the AWB time and the “If I had 51 votes...” comment by Diane.
 
“If you’re going to have the barrel threaded you might as well just buy a new rifle.”
 
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Hold on now! That's not necessarily a stupid comment but could always be used a convenient, but feeble, excuse to buy a new rifle:)
Hahaha true. Maybe I missed that part. I was standing there and all of a sudden that gem flowed through my ear holes.
 
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This one is one of those “You’re not gonna believe this shit” stories.

It’s the summer of 1993 & we’re on the 400 ranges aboard Camp Pendleton. A Marine was blazing away w/ his SAW & “Sgt. Simpson” is telling him “Get up! Move!” This guy doesn’t move fast enough & Sgt. Simpson reaches down to pick up this hot ass SAW by the barrel & burned the fuck out of this hands! The “sizzle” could be heard clearly. Sgt. Simpson screamed loud as fuck.
Being not one of the sharpest squad leaders in our platoon, Sgt. Simpson reaches down again (almost in slow motion it seemed) & grabbed that same hot ass barrel w/ his other hand! Yes, the same sizzle could be heard again & he screamed like a mo’fo again.

While we’re debriefing, he was getting his hands bandaged up by the corpsman & our platoon sergeant was busting his balls pretty good. “Sgt. Simpson” never heard the end of that shit. Good times.
 
Then there's this



"... these never got adopted in any great number."

Any. Great. Number.
 
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Fat white dude on a plane:
“When I was in the army and stationed in Alaska, I used to go to the armory and check out the big 50cal sniper rifle and take it out hunting with me.”

Same fat white dude ten minutes later (but felt like an eternity):

“You know how delta force selects people? They follow you for two weeks and if your life is interesting enough, they’ll take you. I apparently wasn’t interesting enough.”

::camera pans over to me, an angry-looking beared dude that you usually mistake for being ME despite being a white dude while also always being randomly selected by TSA, dressed like a normal person and didn’t say shit about being prior service or a contractor, let alone anything other than hello and a nod, sitting silently replying with one word while asking the flight attendant for 6 whiskey bottles::
 
Fat white dude on a plane:
“When I was in the army and stationed in Alaska, I used to go to the armory and check out the big 50cal sniper rifle and take it out hunting with me.”

Same fat white dude ten minutes later (but felt like an eternity):

“You know how delta force selects people? They follow you for two weeks and if your life is interesting enough, they’ll take you. I apparently wasn’t interesting enough.”

::camera pans over to me, an angry-looking beared dude that you usually mistake for being ME despite being a white dude while also always being randomly selected by TSA, dressed like a normal person and didn’t say shit about being prior service or a contractor, let alone anything other than hello and a nod, sitting silently replying with one word while asking the flight attendant for 6 whiskey bottles::

Yeah the M82 (or similar) is my first choice of weapon to hump around hunting! Should have asked him if he was a MIL or MOA guy... he sounds IPHY to me though.
 
Yeah the M82 (or similar) is my first choice of weapon to hump around hunting! Should have asked him if he was a MIL or MOA guy... he sounds IPHY to me though.

Hahahaha! Right?
The last thing I wanted to do was further engage with him or start grilling him on a SASR and why that is a stupid thing to lie about.
 
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Oh I don’t blame you one bit there. Couldn’t fall asleep fast enough in your situation, hehe.

Two ZzzQuil, four whiskeys, and some Hans Zimmer helped knock me right out. ...but the damage to my brain cells from hearing him is permanent.
 
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Not sure if this has been mentioned in the past 20 pages but.....

Any and every letter the Veterans Benefits Administration has ever sent me regarding a claim or appeal.
 
Oh a tough one. Lets see there’s:
1: more than two genders
2: a man can become a woman and vice a versa
3: nra members are terrorists
4: islam is a “religion” of peace.
5: hell yes we are going to take your AR-15
Theres my top 5 stupidest things that have been told to me, directly or not.
 
::camera pans over to me, an angry-looking beared dude that you usually mistake for being ME despite being a white dude while also always being randomly selected by TSA, dressed like a normal person and didn’t say shit about being prior service or a contractor, let alone anything other than hello and a nod, sitting silently replying with one word while asking the flight attendant for 6 whiskey bottles::

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This one is one of those “You’re not gonna believe this shit” stories.

It’s the summer of 1993 & we’re on the 400 ranges aboard Camp Pendleton. A Marine was blazing away w/ his SAW & “Sgt. Simpson” is telling him “Get up! Move!” This guy doesn’t move fast enough & Sgt. Simpson reaches down to pick up this hot ass SAW by the barrel & burned the fuck out of this hands! The “sizzle” could be heard clearly. Sgt. Simpson screamed loud as fuck.
Being not one of the sharpest squad leaders in our platoon, Sgt. Simpson reaches down again (almost in slow motion it seemed) & grabbed that same hot ass barrel w/ his other hand! Yes, the same sizzle could be heard again & he screamed like a mo’fo again.

While we’re debriefing, he was getting his hands bandaged up by the corpsman & our platoon sergeant was busting his balls pretty good. “Sgt. Simpson” never heard the end of that shit. Good times.

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& Sgt. Simpson reaches down to pick up this hot ass SAW by the barrel & burned the fuck out of this hands! The “sizzle” could be heard clearly. Sgt. Simpson screamed loud as fuck.

Being not one of the sharpest squad leaders in our platoon, Sgt. Simpson reaches down again (almost in slow motion it seemed) & grabbed that same hot ass barrel w/ his other hand! Yes, the same sizzle could be heard again & he screamed like a mo’fo again.
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A man was dropped off at a hospital emergency room by an ambulance with both ears badly swollen, blistered, and covered in pus-filled dressings. After a couple of minutes of waiting, the ER doctor walks over, takes one glance at the man's condition, and asks, "So... What brings you here today?" "Well", the man begins. "I was ironing some shirts when the phone rang, the hot iron still in my hands and I accidentally answered the iron." "I see", the doctor replies. "But what happened to your other ear?" "Oh", the man continued. "I was in tremendous pain, and had to call the ambulance..."
 
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Thin line between fun and horse play on a range these days.

Lots of things us old guys did and went through in times past will now get you tossed if the wrong pissy type sees it and cries a little tiny pissy tear.

Be careful out there of those folks.


...Like AR/AK wrist braces... I heard these things will turn a Fudd into a full blown SJW when they see it. Fuck that shit. With "friends" like that... Nah, nevermind, the shooting community does not need friends like that...
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Thin line between fun and horse play on a range these days.

Got to admit though, some occasional screwing around with random shotgun asshattery is not only entertaining, but educational to a degree. Cut shells, dimes, wax slugs, flechettes ?
 
"You're a crazy motherfucker. You're in the fucking Air Force and in this foxhole?"
 
1. owner of a private range, where they train police marksmen, said: 'there is no such thing as spin drift'
2. when I first got started in benchrest shooting, my mentor told me that a headwind will make the poi 'higher', and a tailwind will make
poi lower. physics was not a strongpoint.
 
Was at the range minding my own business, the guy a few benches down walks over;

Him: "Trying to find a 200 yd zero. Clicked up 24 clicks from the 100 yd zero, can't see the bullet holes"

Me: "Shoot your 100 yd zero at 200 then dial the turret to the center of that group. Shoot again at 200 to verify".

Him: "How the hell will that work? The bullets will go completely under the target!"

He was shooting a .17 Fireball at a piece of typing paper, NF MOA scope. Finally did get him squared away but it was like herding cats.
 
Came across a fella at the range yesterday and we were talking 6.5CM. I mentioned FGMM with the Berger Hybrid bullet, He said " Those are no good. See? The tip is open. Not stable." Hard to not tell him to shut the fuck up. I just said " Walt know a lot about bullets. I think they'll shoot just fine"
 
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