Things you've over heard

[Richard Jones]

When I started reloading, '74?, the word was that bullets used in handloading would ruin a barrel......as if they were somehow different.

 

[KMart]

But when the flag drops and the bullets fly, the contractors don't deploy. Then what?

You cook for yourself...MRE's

 

[Larryh128]

Clicked on a youtube video about ?? I can't remember and some DA that looked like Grizzly Adams (not that its a bad thing )stating that he had worked on guns for 50 years and he always tells people to push those rings in the slots to the rear of the slot. 50 years and he hadn't learned anything about Physics. Never seen a scope yet that wanted to migrate to the back of a cross slot. Recoil goes back, scope goes forward. Pretty simple shit. Needless to say that was the only statement I listened to.

 

[DiffEQ]

That a faster twist barrel will make the bullet rise faster when it leaves the barrel and hence requiring a lower sight setting to avoid shooting high.

That too fast of a spin we cause a bullet to curve, like a curve ball.

 

[AccelR8]

Don’t know what you mean by that.

It's just that the VN vets are given a special kind of respect and admiration, and rightly so, but sometimes it goes a little too far and gets into the realm of tall tales and legends that stretch credibility. And posers...

 

[dgeesaman]

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.

Sounds like the Tiger King idiots

 

[Eagle Six]

It's just that the VN vets are given a special kind of respect and admiration,

Yep, that respect sure was special as I witnessed in LAX in 1967!

 

[AccelR8]

Yep, that respect sure was special as I witnessed in LAX in 1967!

Hopefully it's different now.

edit to add: I was 11 years old in 1967 but even then I knew the disrespect was wrong, very wrong. At 11 years of age I didn't understand very much, but that much I did.

 

[Eagle Six]

Hopefully it's different now.

It is different now, after 9-1-1 it became fashionable to be patriot and along with that it's become fashionable for 'Thank You for Your Service'. It's not that I am unappreciative and not that I don't say it to others, but their are many Vietnam Vets who still carry a sour taste for how they were treated when returning from their tour.

 

[Retired shooter]

Retired friend of mine is always building something in his shop or tinkering with some piece of reloading kit. He sms me one night to play along and he starts talking on a chat group about a tool he made that he uses to tune his loads on his primer, he says it works sort of like a barrel tuner but on your brass/primer. You seat your primers after you weight sorted them and then with this tool you can almost "screw" your seated primer in or out to "tune" your load. I actually had people ask me about this tool in the coming weeks

How many orders did he get for that tool.

 

[JSH]

@JSH,
As the original poster to the prairie dog thread you referred to, I will be blunt and to the point. I never asked, nor insinuated that I was asking for specific tracts of ground, but rather general information. For instance western Wyoming is a good place to start looking, as opposed to Rancher Bob at 1234 Sunny lane Gillette, Wyoming.
I hope I cleared this up for you.

Lloyd

This was in NO WAY directed at you sir!
I never mentioned the thread here or anywhere else as far as that goes.
I mentioned to the fellow I wrote about that made the comment about prairie dogs coming up soon, shooting early and late in the year. I made mention of several locals asking ME about MY
maps and wanting to borrow them.

You ASS-U-ME (assumed) my reference was to you.
Your post may be the most recent, but far from the only one of its kind here.
If I offended you, sorry.

Jeff

 

[DShortt]

I find it so absurd that we've got a discussion about Vietnam Vets and hurt feelings in the same thread.

I worked with a bunch of Vietnam Vets early on. What they would tell you to do with your hurt feelings would get me banned from the forum if I were to mimic such a discussion so I won't. Frankly I think they had it right. Looking around I can't see anything beneficial to this kinder, gentler crap. Now people jump straight up and start screaming like little girls if they don't like something they hear.

Unbelievable.

 

[Eagle Six]

I find it so absurd that we've got a discussion about Vietnam Vets and hurt feelings in the same thread.

I worked with a bunch of Vietnam Vets early on. What they would tell you to do with your hurt feelings would get me banned from the forum if I were to mimic such a discussion so I won't. Frankly I think they had it right. Looking around I can't see anything beneficial to this kinder, gentler crap. Now people jump straight up and start screaming like little girls if they don't like something they hear.

Unbelievable.

Yep hurt feelings and disrespect are different. I wasn't in country 8 hours and was in a physical confrontation
that lead to one guy bleeding (a lot). And, that wasn't about anything related to the war or my uniform. It just makes the point of how stupid the guys with the orange robs and shaved heads that were getting into my face didn't realize I was a combat infantrymen who yesterday was in that combat zone and wasn't yet acclimated to civilian life and needed his space. Apparently they failed to realize I didn't give shit about their feelings and whatever it was they were shouting and chanting about.

I apologize for continuingly going off topic, and I pledge to better behave myself!

 

[M-61]

It's just that the VN vets are given a special kind of respect and admiration, and rightly so, but sometimes it goes a little too far and gets into the realm of tall tales and legends that stretch credibility. And posers...

Ok I think I see what you might be saying. Maybe you’re talking about phonies like the current senator from Connecticut Richard Blumenthal who said is was there and then when checked he never was anywhere near Vietnam. ( didn’t stop him from getting re-elected) Or the now dead actor Brian Dennehy who claimed he did FIVE tours! ( he did none) He did have a well scripted apology.
Or maybe you’re talking about plain old bullshit artists. But then you incorporate “goes a little too far”. Special kind of respect also rings a bell .
No one gave a fuck about a Vietnam veteran until 1991.
Actually I’ll do the smart thing now, stop my response. It’s not good for me for more reasons than I wish on anyone.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Yep, that respect sure was special as I witnessed in LAX in 1967!

Yall shoulda stuffed all those dirty hippies in the closest trash can head first

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Clicked on a youtube video about ?? I can't remember and some DA that looked like Grizzly Adams (not that its a bad thing )stating that he had worked on guns for 50 years and he always tells people to push those rings in the slots to the rear of the slot. 50 years and he hadn't learned anything about Physics. Never seen a scope yet that wanted to migrate to the back of a cross slot. Recoil goes back, scope goes forward. Pretty simple shit. Needless to say that was the only statement I listened to.

He wasn’t thinking to hard on that one, was he.

 

[M-61]

Yep, that respect sure was special as I witnessed in LAX in 1967!

You know it. It was special also in 1968 as I got off the plane in San Francisco too. I can clearly see the face to this day of some asshole throwing an orange that hit the man in front of me in the back of his head. Every now and then I think of his face and maybe we’ll catch up with each other. The screaming and livid hatred. Stuff sort of sticks with you.

 

[AccelR8]

Ok I think I see what you might be saying. Maybe you’re talking about phonies like the current senator from Connecticut Richard Blumenthal who said is was there and then when checked he never was anywhere near Vietnam. ( didn’t stop him from getting re-elected) Or the now dead actor Brian Dennehy who claimed he did FIVE tours! ( he did none) He did have a well scripted apology.
Or maybe you’re talking about plain old bullshit artists. But then you incorporate “goes a little too far”. Special kind of respect also rings a bell .
No one gave a fuck about a Vietnam veteran until 1991.
Actually I’ll do the smart thing now, stop my response. It’s not good for me for more reasons than I wish on anyone.

Yeah I'll stop too. I'm not coming across as I intend. I may be digging a hole I don't intend to dig!

 

[M-61]

I was a combat infantrymen who yesterday was in that combat zone

Yes. That’s one of the problems never discussed.
What do you think happens to a human being when they get transported almost magically from a punji stake ridden shithole and within 24 hours they are walking on a sidewalk in San Francisco? Do you really think some good things will come of this?
Couple that with the jerk throwing the orange and screaming at you.

 

[JSH]

Yep hurt feelings and disrespect are different. I wasn't in country 8 hours and was in a physical confrontation
that lead to one guy bleeding (a lot). And, that wasn't about anything related to the war or my uniform. It just makes the point of how stupid the guys with the orange robs and shaved heads that were getting into my face didn't realize I was a combat infantrymen who yesterday was in that combat zone and wasn't yet acclimated to civilian life and needed his space. Apparently they failed to realize I didn't give shit about their feelings and whatever it was they were shouting and chanting about.

I apologize for continuingly going off topic, and I pledge to better behave myself!

Yet I find it interesting all that you have mentioned I have heard in gunshop sessions.
No apology needed, no offense taken here;-).