"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Seen hitting the next lane's target thing a few times. Usually by rifle 'shooters'. Most notably, lane next us at an indoor range unpacks an AR with a huge scope, sets their target at 3(!) Yards, and proceeds to make a shotgun gun pattern on our target at 7 yards. They did apologize - 'Just getting it zeroed in'... my thoughts - how many clicks to adjust POI four feet left? 😜
Last edited by Half Moon; 03-17-2024 at 09:58 AM.
no one sees what's written on the spine of his own autobiography.
I saw a video of my then-wife-to-be braining a feral hog, with her S&W Model 66. While it was shot over bait, and was more like pest eradication than hunting, that was some shootin’! Flash-boom-flop-legs-trembling-in-the-air. While her shot-to-shot recovery could be faster, she does not really need much advice, on the matter of shooting revolvers.
Retar’d LE. Kinesthetic dufus.
Don’t tread on volcanos!
At gunshops not the range, so not sure it counts for this thread.
Have had several experts tell me you can't shoot 44 specials in 44 mag.
IME those experts don't know who Elmer Keith is, nor anything factual about development of the cartridge ether.
Had a guy try to sell me a 22 mag revolver as you could shoot 22 LR in it (without problems).
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
About ten years ago I was a regular at local USPSA matches. One match I'll never forget, I was squaded up with a group that included a father and high school age daughter team. On the first stage after running three or four shooters its daughters turn. At the beep she drops prone and shoots the COF from that position clean and a couple seconds faster than everyone else. No one else had shot that particular stage without moving between two positions. She excelled on every stage after that. Father was a good shot, daughter was a very,very good shot.
By the end of the match I don't think I was the only one who was temped to ask HER for tips on how to improve my shooting.
Never saw father/daughter again.
Don’t just sit there – do something short sighted and stupid!
This reminded me of what I saw at my VA CHP class back in January. During the classroom portion the instructor was asking about everyone’s experience level and asked us to grade ourselves on our experience/proficiency level from 1-10. There was a young guy probably in his early/mid twenties who brought an expensive 1911 (can’t remember exactly what make) who said he was probably an 8 and was pretty confident. Having seen some good shooters, I gave myself a 6, knowing that it had been 10yrs since I’d taken a class or done anything close to real training.
When it came time for the live fire, we lined up at 3 yards and were told to lock the slides back and show clear before being given the course of fire. The 1911 guy proceeded to wrestle with his pistol, attempting to use the safety to lock open the slide while pointing it at his own stomach…The instructor almost shit himself and yelled STOP at the top of his lungs. I stepped back and second guessed my decision to leave the IFAK in my car… When I wasn’t shooting I watched everyone else shoot from well behind the line for the rest of the class.
At a CHL test, three old folks brought a 1903 ish Colt 380 to share. They proceeded to load the rounds backwards in the mag. Also saw one shooter put his close range rounds into the next target to his. Last, in the Oregon NRA handgun class I took for my permit there, it was in an indoor range. The instructor gave us Gen 2 SW semis for the class and test. One guy shot down the wires for the target pulleys. He said the barrel must have been curved, so the round went up in a curved trajectory to do that.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age