Quick Shot Challenge: What’s the dumbest shooting myth you’ve heard?

[alexj-12]

The next Quick Shot Challenge is here!

For this challenge all you need to do is tell us the dumbest shooting myth you've ever heard.

Drop it in the replies below and we’ll pick a winner!

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Good luck everyone!

 

[mi650]

Just gotta file down the firing pin on an AR-15 to make it full auto.

 

[jrassy]

You will shoot your eye out!

 

[BigDaddy0381]

a bullet will rise when it leaves the barrel.

 

[lonegunman762x51]

By whipping the gun quickly left to right you can curve the flight path of the bullet. It apparently works right to left as well for a bank shot the other way.

 

[matthias]

You will save money reloading!

 

[EddieNFL]

Glock 45 GAP drops less than six inches out to 300 yards.

 

[HPIguy]

Sleepy bullets, or bullet going to sleep BS.

 

[JoshuaPaul]

MIL is better than MOA

 

[tsavo303]

.22 rimfire I’d the deadliest round!
.50 bmg will kill with a near miss

 

[diggler1833]

"knockdown powah" of a .45 ACP.

 

[Snuby642]

Frank's beard being used to read the wind.

 

[roostercogburn98]

It’s unloaded, I swear

 

[stemikel]

A 9 mm will blow your lung out

 

[Expert684]

Guns kill people!

 

[LeftyJason]

"If you somehow manage to chamber a 5.56 nato in a 223 rem gun, when you shoot it you will blow up the gun."

Speaker (employee at a Cabelas) wasn't old. Maybe 30 at most.

 

[DemonicLemming]

A scandium J-frame shooting 357+P bear loads is the perfect thing for a 21-year old female first-time shooter.

 

[Maser]

An AR is better than an AK.

 

[Holliday]

Lowering your magnification makes you shoot better (with modern high end scopes)…..

 

[ZCOklahoma]

Anything said from behind a big box store gun counter or from someone who had an uncle who……..

 

[Iodajoey]

Supposedly, the 22 lr can be shot straight into the air, come back down and kill someone.??? While some 22 lr cartriges can scoot right along, shooting one straight up limits it return to earth speed to >200 fps - <300 fps. If people truly looked into terminal velocity, mass density, and diameter, they would understand just how difficult that would be.

 

[patscrazy]

Don’t point your guns up to the sky, cause an accidental discharge could hit a plane

 

[NoDopes]

308 is better than 6.5CM

 

[Bullfrog08]

"It'll shoot quarter MOA all day long, if I do my part!"

 

[hlee]

Bullets get more accurate at longer range because they go to sleep. Drop mic. End thread.

 

[John Glidewell]

Look at how the ammo stacks to the left and right in the mag. That's why you are left and right of center with your groups.

 

[Im2bent]

Sigs go off by themselves

 

[KML7201]

You can’t miss with a shotgun.

 

[Docsherm]

MIL-SPEC is the top tier 1 rating for parts

 

[Wild dog]

Silencers make guns silent.

 

[ubet]

1911s are unreliable

 

[ss go devil]

Boat tail bullets don't stabilize until 300 yards or more from a rifle

 

[powerspc]

You can tell if a gun is loaded by how heavy it feels.

 

[AldoMang]

As a child I heard many uneducated kids claim that you could convert a semi-automatic 22 rifle to full auto by "filing the firing pin". Luckily, nobody under my roof fell for such hogwash and no rifles were disabled.

 

[AldoMang]

A supersonic bullet goes through "a" transonic zone during its flight. In fact, a supersonic bullet goes through two transonic zones during its trajectory. The first zone is located just in from of the muzzle where the supersonic bore gases actually blow around/past the projectile, eventually allowing the bullet to enter still air with a brief zone (Transonic Zone 1) in which bore gas velocity is equal to the bullet's velocity. Following this phenomenon, the bullet enters still air a few feet from the muzzle, travels faster than sound for hundreds/thousands of yards and then eventually slows to the point (Transonic Zone 2) of the speed of sound downrange.

 

[ironpony52]

Never point a gun at ...........OOPs.

 

[ironpony52]

I never pulled the trigger

S. Baldwin

 

[ironpony52]

SIG P 320.......OOPs.

 

[ironpony52]

SIG P320.....Not Again

S. Baldwin

 

[SilentStalkr]

The more guns you have, the more your wife will love you!

 

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

Annealing makes you shoot better groups.

 

[hlee]

The more guns you have, the more your wife will love you!

No, this one is true. Trust me.

 

[hlee]

Annealing makes you shoot better groups.

The inverse corollary is also a good one. “Just pick a charge weight b/c working up a load is wasted effort. Any load will shoot great…”

 

[Short-bus]

50bmg near miss will rip off whatever body part is closest to it.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

"My rifle shoots as flat as a laser, out to 550 yards....."

 

[DemonicLemming]

Another one...

One suppressor will be plenty, I can just swap it around between rifles!

 

[akmike47]

Anything Theis posted

“Give me the money, and I’ll deal with the manufacturers” -also probably Theis

 

[waveslayer]

Bullets stabilize after 100 yards, so groups at 300 will be tighter than 100

 

[db2000]

DNT is just as good as alpha glass.

 

[ZCOklahoma]

I’m only buying one gun this year