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

[rich56]

The bullet accelerates after it leaves the barrel

 

[Taylorbok]

"My rifle groups better at 300 than it does at 100"

 

[Doc68]

Cleaning a gun while loaded is safe......

Doc

 

[lb6r]

You don’t even have to hit anyone withe the Ma Duece. The velocity from a .50 will take someone’s head off!

 

[lash]

It’s illegal to hunt large game with a .22lr

This one is actually true in a number of states. Example Michigan:

 

[hlee]

This one is actually true in a number of states. Example Michigan:

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Texas as well. You can shoot a deer with a 40gr, 22 caliber bullet, but it must be fired from a centerfire cartridge.

 

[LeftyJason]

This one is actually true in a number of states. Example Michigan:

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Utah as well

Looking this up though, AI/ searches are dumb. This below only applies to muzzleloaders.

 

[Jeffm1911]

That 308 win is a better cartridge past 1000 than a 6.5 Creedmoor.

 

[Baron23]

Utah as well
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Looking this up though, AI/ searches are dumb. This below only applies to muzzleloaders.
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Ah wait...how is .308 "at least .40 caliber" WTF?

 

[hlee]

Ah wait...how is .308 "at least .40 caliber" WTF?

AI can’t count fingers or calibers…

 

[LeftyJason]

Ah wait...how is .308 "at least .40 caliber" WTF?

Hence why it's dumb. It knows enough that guns are sized in caliber so it searched caliber which is only listed under muzzleloaders.
For rifle it lists centerfire with expanding bullets. That isn't a caliber.

 

[Im2bent]

Texas as well. You can shoot a deer with a 40gr, 22 caliber bullet, but it must be fired from a centerfire cartridge.
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That's a pretty specific list. So you guys have elk?

 

[hlee]

That's a pretty specific list. So you guys have elk?

There are free range elk in parts of far west Texas, but they are treated as non-game (exotic) species.

 

[Vivacious Stallion]

"You need to plan on upping your dope because the rains gonna push the bullet down". Overheard during a light drizzle at a match last month.

 

[Jim 1146]

The clerk in a gun store explained to a new shooter that he should grease the bore of his rifle after cleaning it so the bullet will slip through easier. This is not a joke, I was standing near enough to overhear it.

 

[Rbeskosty]

You don’t need to practice, you’re a natural

 

[LeftyJason]

Some of the dumbest shooting myths I have heard.

@Lowlight likes Harris bipods.

Army Jerry never said “Buy more ammo”.

Theis is a Ukrainian arms dealer.

6.5 Credmoor is not gay.

This one is true because I heard him say it. FoulMike - “I’ll shoot a hole through him he couldn’t plug with a door knob”.

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