Things you've over heard

[Wolfdog91]

I'll tell you I've heard some class A+ fudd lore and miss info when it come to firearms but just now was a doozy. Was just browsing the pawn shop after buying some .22hornet ( can I just say I HATE buying ammo $42 for a box of 50 ! But I need a base line for testing and they where the only ones who had any ) . Hear the older fella behind the counter go
"You know I'm thinking about buying a 6.5 creedmore"
Other guy behind the counter goes
" For hunting ?"
Older fella replays with a yes to the other guy says
" No get a .308 , 6.5 creed is a crap caliber, see it shoots so fast it just punch right though them, and barely leaves a blood trail , .308 is slower and does more damage. Noticed how no one is buying 6.5's ? It's because too many people where trying to make it into a deer gun and it just kept punching clean though "
The older fella proceeds to just become enthralled in all this while I'm just here staring at the scope cap display trying to keep my mouth shut . Like I'm far from and expert , especially compared to alot of y'all but ....yeah even my basic understanding of terminal ballistics had me wanting to but in and ask if eveyone has been shooting friggen FMJ's ! I mean he was saying they just pin holed through bone or deflected ! WTH ?

Went and walked out before the classic tales about how the 6.5 creed was made for competition bench rest shooters or how the 6.5x55 is so much better came up . I don't even own a 6.5creed but sweet Lord some of the stuff I hear makes it seem like this thing just defines the laws of ballistics,physics and terminal ballistics all at the same time

Anyhow anyone else got some good fudd lore and the like they've over heard lol ?

 

[tthomp302]

I was doing some load development at a local range while another gentleman was beside me doing some of the same. He comes over to ask me how much powder I'm using in my 30 nosler, and I tell him I'm running 81 grains of n570 with a 245 grain berger. He proceeded to grab a cartridge (which is a pretty full load) He goes on to say, I need to stuff about 4 more grains in there. He was shooting 300 prc and he told me he takes a ball powder (I forget what kind but he said its military pulldown he bought in bulk) and stuffs the case to the neck and compresses it with the bullet. He said there's no need to measure weight with ball powder because it will never blow up a case. I looked at his primers and cases and there was severe flattening/cratering as well as massive deep ejector marks. I told him of the signs and he said "pressure is your friend, you can really hotrod anything if you're not worried about something like pressure". Needless to say, it was just a wacky experience.

 

[SSL]

Yep...

Gun shop owner to customer - "Nope. They don't make ammo for that .244 Remington anymore. I can let you have $50 trade on this here 6mm Remington though."

In coffee shop after Illinois first handgun deer season - "Yep, that old .357 jest plain cut that deer in half..."

Online - "That deer was 500 yards out, so I held my .25-06 even with his back and blew his heart out."

At range - "I just can't seem to hit a paper target but I never miss a deer."

And the list goes on...

 

[KMart]

me wanting to but in and ask if eveyone has been shooting friggen FMJ's ! I mean he was saying they just pin holed through bone or deflected ! WTH ?

It would be really interesting to know how many "hunters" go out every year and shoot an animal with FMJ ammo. I think it would shock all of us.

 

[brokeasajoke]

It would be really interesting to know how many "hunters" go out every year and shoot an animal with FMJ ammo. I think it would shock all of us.

I honestly had a guy I work with get me to pick him some Tula 7.62x54r fmj ammo to hunt with. He is a older guy but not that his age has anything to do with it. Some people are set in their ways.

 

[Adam in WI]

That 220 round nose will just push through that brush...

 

[divingin]

Anyhow anyone else got some good fudd lore and the like they've over heard lol ?

I've got so many of these...

(Guy talking to a shooter with a bolt rifle a couple stations down from me) "What caliber is that rifle?"
"308."
"Oh, 308. That's good to like 500,000 yards."
"ummm, well..."
"Oh, but you have a short barrel so it won't go through a house."


(Guy on the pistol line, apparently helping his friend who was a first-time shooter):
Yelling, as the guy is shooting "Don't look at the target! Don't look at the target! The gun is your eye!"


Kid who was shooting his friends 9 carbine at 15yds, with about a 2 foot group centered 3/4 of the way down the paper:
"Your gun shoots a little low."
Gun owner: "Yeah, that's because I have 600 meter sights on it..."

 

[OMW57]

I had a safety guy at work tell me he shot a 50 cal in the army & that the bullets started to rise after 100 yards! we argued for two days about that one!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

One guy said i dont need a creedmore because all my shots are inside 800-900yds. Another guy says “they a long range gun?” First guy says psssh, way long range.

 

[Prose]

Saw a guy on the shooting line push his glasses up using the front sight of his pistol (Close your eyes and push up your glasses with your two hands shaped like a pistol...)

No words

 

[Mark W]

I heard once heard a guy behind the gun counter tell a prospective customer that you should never fill a magazine more than half the capacity or leave it loaded overnight because it would ruin the spring. I started to ask him if he jacks up his truck at night.

 

[Adam in WI]

Saw a guy on the shooting line push his glasses up using the front sight of his pistol (Close your eyes and imagine this using your two hands shaped like a pistol...)

No words

Reminds me of a guy in our high school trap league. He shot a side by side, and had to show everyone how he could close it one handed. Usually resulted in being snapped shut, pointed at the ground, with his right hand on the pistol grip.

 

[SSL]

Reminds me of a guy in our high school trap league. He shot a side by side, and had to show everyone how he could close it one handed. Usually resulted in being snapped shut, pointed at the ground, with his right hand on the pistol grip.

Yeah...does wonders for lock-up fit too.

 

[littlebuddybr]

I'll tell you I've heard some class A+ fudd lore and miss info when it come to firearms but just now was a doozy. Was just browsing the pawn shop after buying some .22hornet ( can I just say I HATE buying ammo $42 for a box of 50 ! But I need a base line for testing and they where the only ones who had any ) . Hear the older fella behind the counter go
"You know I'm thinking about buying a 6.5 creedmore"
Other guy behind the counter goes
" For hunting ?"
Older fella replays with a yes to the other guy says
" No get a .308 , 6.5 creed is a crap caliber, see it shoots so fast it just punch right though them, and barely leaves a blood trail , .308 is slower and does more damage. Noticed how no one is buying 6.5's ? It's because too many people where trying to make it into a deer gun and it just kept punching clean though "
The older fella proceeds to just become enthralled in all this while I'm just here staring at the scope cap display trying to keep my mouth shut . Like I'm far from and expert , especially compared to alot of y'all but ....yeah even my basic understanding of terminal ballistics had me wanting to but in and ask if eveyone has been shooting friggen FMJ's ! I mean he was saying they just pin holed through bone or deflected ! WTH ?

Went and walked out before the classic tales about how the 6.5 creed was made for competition bench rest shooters or how the 6.5x55 is so much better came up . I don't even own a 6.5creed but sweet Lord some of the stuff I hear makes it seem like this thing just defines the laws of ballistics,physics and terminal ballistics all at the same time

Anyhow anyone else got some good fudd lore and the like they've over heard lol ?

I heard a guy say that exact same thing about the 6.5 creedmoor a few weeks ago at a gun show.

 

[DShortt]

This sort of thing is why I buy as much as I can online, avoid gun stores like a new plague and despise public ranges.

Comments like these cause my left eye to start twitching and my arm get the almost uncontrollable urge to slap the *poop* out of someone.

 

[SSL]

Local chain store that also carries firearms got shipped an over-abundance of .300 Blackouts. I was getting quite a laugh out the raptures the clerk was going into about how much better the Blackout was compared to the 6.5 Creed, .223 Remingtons or even .243s on the shelf. No idea what people plan on using it on since Illinois is a shotgun, handgun and muzzle-loader state (and just added straight-walled cartridges within a certain category). Again, that stupid "tactical" mystique for all the urban and armchair Rambos out there.

 

[Conaso]

The RSO called a cease-fire prior to calling the firing line "cold' to check targets, then yelled several times at a guy to clear his AR15, lock the bolt back, and step behind the 'safe line.' The shooter responded, "my rifle doesn't do that." With the RSO's permission I walked over and showed the shooter how to drop the magazine, clear, and lock the bolt back. Yep, a live round was chambered.

I had another guy on the line could not hit the 100-yard target, in its entirety, with his bolt action rifle. He asked for help, so I walked over and cleared the weapon. I'm no expert but I gave it a cursory inspection. Soon, I asked him who mounted the scope and he responded, "I did." I asked if he used a torque wrench, and he responded, "I did." Hmmm, I was able to rotate and slide the scope back and forth, it was not even hand-tightened.

 

[joshb]

Walked into a gun store and asked if they had any 5 round magazines for an M1A.
The idiot behind the counter says “They don’t make 5 round mags for an M1A.”
I went home and ordered one on line.

 

[markT]

Gun shops: Beauty shops.. No difference in the amount of plain non sense spoken..

"I got a buddy of mine that shoots off a bench and he hand loads." "Do you know that he weighs each load of powder down to the grain?"

 

[jmm03]

"I don't know whats wrong with this damn gun" he says , beating the bolt open with a 2 x 4. Primer flat as a pancake and a healthy ejector mark to boot, "think you might have a pressure problem there chief???" "hell no, I've been shooting this same load for years..." some people are just lucky I guess.