The same people think they are experts on what's going on in the world. It's impossible too explain to these people. I had a guy 10 benches to my right hang targets in front of me so he wouldn't have to walk so far to get to 200 yards. I shot at his target since I thought no-one was using it. He jumped on me and said he was working up loads. He was shooting about 5" groups at 100 and hung targets at 200. Had another guy tell me his 6PPC was a .220 Russian since that was the head stamp. I couldn't convince him it was a 6PPC (it's stamped on the barrel). Our world is filled with idiots.
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DShortt
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I just avoid idiots once I've identified them. Was at the range this weekend and 2 teen boys showed up almost simultaneously. I started taping targets to backers, the two boys couldn't complete a sentence without dropping an F-bomb at least twice. Literally doing everything wrong concerning handling the pistol. I got outta there ASAP, went over a big hill and sat until they left.
Public ranges.
Edit to add - the boy's mother was with them and she was the absolute worst offender. When she turned the pistol around and looked down the barrel I was getting in my truck to leave.
Public ranges.
Edit to add - the boy's mother was with them and she was the absolute worst offender. When she turned the pistol around and looked down the barrel I was getting in my truck to leave.
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rwj
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Unfortunately, I’ve had similar experiences at private clubs… stupid is everywhere!I just avoid idiots once I've identified them. Was at the range this weekend and 2 teen boys showed up almost simultaneously. I started taping targets to backers, the two boys couldn't complete a sentence without dropping an F-bomb at least twice. Literally doing everything wrong concerning handling the pistol. I got outta there ASAP, went over a big hill and sat until they left.
Public ranges.
rwj
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Do we get credit for trying?
I was at the Osceola Forest Range the other day shoot my .22lr Tikka T1X. 5 shot groups at 50 100 and 200 yards. A young man in his 20's comes up and takes the position next to me. He had a RPR in .308. We struck up a conversation and he was on the cocky side. I asked if he would like to go cold so he could go down range and set his targets, he replied yes. We went cold and down range we went. I asked him if he like to shoot some clay birds on the berm at 215 yards, he replied sure like he was going to show me how it's done. Mind you I'm shooting my .22lr. We get to the 100 yard target and my 5 shot groups you could cover with a quarter easily. At 200 they may have been as much as 2.5" for the biggest. On the way back we stop at my 50 yard IBS 50 yard target and I have 5 5shot groups in a row for a lower 240 score.
So we get back and go hot, I decided to sit at the spectator bench and watch him shoot. Maybe things weren't working out for him that day or maybe that was the best he could do. I asked him if everything was all right? I also said if it is would he like to try those clay birds on the berm. His reply was ( I just want to shoot a good group at 100 yards first). That never happened. He probably had at least 50 rounds down range by the time I left and he was still working on that 100 yard group. However he did say to me, I didn't think .22's shot that good.
So we get back and go hot, I decided to sit at the spectator bench and watch him shoot. Maybe things weren't working out for him that day or maybe that was the best he could do. I asked him if everything was all right? I also said if it is would he like to try those clay birds on the berm. His reply was ( I just want to shoot a good group at 100 yards first). That never happened. He probably had at least 50 rounds down range by the time I left and he was still working on that 100 yard group. However he did say to me, I didn't think .22's shot that good.
46and2
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DShortt
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OMG. This is me to a 'T'.
When we were first married we lived in the south end of an older town named Lake Worth in one of 4 units on one lot. If we hadn't moved to a very (at the time) rural 1 1/4 acre lot i would have been in jail. I have never been around so many jerks in my life. I bought and installed clothes line poles and every time my wife or I got to use them we had to take down the neighbors clothes.
Retired shooter
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Did she use your dipstick.?Just what every man dreams of, a gal with a bigazz.................
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Here's my helper today changing my oil....
jlshaw
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At Cabela's several years ago (haven't been there in at least 5 years now, maybe more and I plan to never go there again). So, this day I have my eye on a Sako varmint rifle but can't examine it because if you've ever been there, all new rifles are behind the counter, and you have to take a number to access an associate so he can give you the rifle to examine. What a pain in the ass. But I'm a lot younger and more tolerate on nonsense.
Anyway, my number is finally called.So I ask to see the rifle in question. It's really nice but horribly expensive but I'm still interested so I ask him, "What the twist?" His answer, "No twists - the price is the price shown on the tag."
I handed the rifle back to him and went to their restaurant and ate a Buffalo burger which wasn't bad.
Some years ago I saw a .300 Wby mag for sale at a LGS. With ammo. 19 rounds left in the box.
Yes.
Met a few Vietnam vets over the years.
Never met a single one that said he was a cook.
Even those ‘hydraulic eggs’ had a cook splashing them on the grill.
The food was awful but those cooks did their best with what they had.
Whatever happened to all of them? Guess they all became snipers!
Don’t know what you mean by that.
I only did KP duty once in basic and that only for about 2 hours. The chief cook (Spc6 I think) had me pilling potatoes, I think in 2 hours I got about 10 pilled!! I never met a cook I didn't like. I don't live to eat but eating in up there in my top 10. Even cold chow was better than C-Rats (they weren't really C-Rats, just what we called them). And, during my short service time have had some great meals delivered to the field.
Kind of the same with truck drivers, you have to pry a little to get some of them to admit they drove a truck. I blessed those drivers, which was a whole lot better than walking (except when they were being shot at!!). Regardless of their MOS, they all have a part in supporting infantry, and I appreciate their contribution.
Dusty Stevens
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One of my good friends was a cook in the marines. Hes very proud of being a cook and took a lot of pride in doing the best he could.
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