cohunt
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ever heard of an AR-1010?
What is the dumbest thing?
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bdlesh
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Back leg at 6 yards? Seems he has greater problems than "get its energy"......
southern fried
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Had a guy hunting with us in south Mississippi where we used hounds, get so excited that he forgot to load his rifle and had to watch a really nice buck trot away
southern fried
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Where was he aiming?
Southern fried, the thread you have opened was closed december 2019. You may not get responses back.
southern fried
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lol I don't know how I got to this one
ntsqd
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Seems like a good thread to me, run with it!
Gun shop opened in town some while back. Catered to the AK, two cases of ammo and three cases of beer for the weekend "deer hunting" crowd. One of 'our' regulars was over there seeing what they had. Owner of that shop told a customer that the case that he was buying was corrosive ammo. Once he opened the spam can he had to shoot it all or it would corrode away. And the customer that he told that to bought it.
I've never figured out if the shop owner was manipulating that customer, or if he really thought that true. I'd interacted with him a couple of times and I can say that he wasn't the sharpest screw-driver in the chisel drawer.
Gun shop opened in town some while back. Catered to the AK, two cases of ammo and three cases of beer for the weekend "deer hunting" crowd. One of 'our' regulars was over there seeing what they had. Owner of that shop told a customer that the case that he was buying was corrosive ammo. Once he opened the spam can he had to shoot it all or it would corrode away. And the customer that he told that to bought it.
I've never figured out if the shop owner was manipulating that customer, or if he really thought that true. I'd interacted with him a couple of times and I can say that he wasn't the sharpest screw-driver in the chisel drawer.
Back in the 70's when I first started shooting, sighting in rifles. Tapping the top or side of a scope was common practice. Those old Weavers and Redfield didn't always cooperate. I have some older that takes a shot or two sometimes to get crosshairs where they need to be. I may tap a scope with brass out of habit and not even realize I do it. So if you see me doing it at the range you can laugh, won't bother me at all.
blksno
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A dozen or so years ago...a Fudd was trying to tell me that a Suppressor was Legal and a Silencer was ILLEGAL.
I'm still fighting off that one. Almost gave me vocal herpes.
I'm in the same camp of not paying attention to what everything I hear at gun stores and ranges . My sixth grade teacher Mr Lynch back in Ada, Oklahoma many years ago told me something that stuck with me. He said Bill, don't believe anything ya hear and only half of what you see. I let the gun store, gun range talk go in one ear and out the other.
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A friend complaining that the reason h couldn't hit a 4foot square target at 500 yards was because he couldn't dial enough clicks.
You see, I had told him his 7 mag would drop 32" at 500 yards.
He shot 3 times, completely missing each time.
Said he tried to dial 128 clicks, but the scope bottomed out at 120.
When I tried to explain the math, he told me that distance didn't matter, 32 inches was 32 inches, and he needed to dial 128" for 32 inches.
He was extremely confused when I took his rifle, reset to 0, dialed 6.5 minute gave it to him, and he hit within 1 1/2 of the cross center. He said there had to be something wrong with the scope.
We all met 2 weeks later to shoot at 700 yards.
My friend showed up with a brand new 4.5-14 VXIII, with the Boone and Crocket Retical, on his rifle. Then he got irritated that there was no 700 yard line on his retical.
When I told him he coul just dial it, he said he didn't want to ruin his new scope.
And he packed us his rifle and went home.
Well, we all went hunting……and he was the only one to get an elk that trip!!
Go figure.
You see, I had told him his 7 mag would drop 32" at 500 yards.
He shot 3 times, completely missing each time.
Said he tried to dial 128 clicks, but the scope bottomed out at 120.
When I tried to explain the math, he told me that distance didn't matter, 32 inches was 32 inches, and he needed to dial 128" for 32 inches.
He was extremely confused when I took his rifle, reset to 0, dialed 6.5 minute gave it to him, and he hit within 1 1/2 of the cross center. He said there had to be something wrong with the scope.
We all met 2 weeks later to shoot at 700 yards.
My friend showed up with a brand new 4.5-14 VXIII, with the Boone and Crocket Retical, on his rifle. Then he got irritated that there was no 700 yard line on his retical.
When I told him he coul just dial it, he said he didn't want to ruin his new scope.
And he packed us his rifle and went home.
Well, we all went hunting……and he was the only one to get an elk that trip!!
Go figure.
Hard H2O
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I realize this is an old post.
We have locks on all of our bows so they can not be drawn.
We had a terrible incident in the firearms department a few years ago. All of our firearms are tethered down with trigger locks. We have Lucite rods. When a rifle is sold or removed for some reason a rod is placed in the open space. All handguns are in locked cages. Before being handed to a customer they are cleared and a chamber indicator that goes the full length of the bore is put in place.
