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Both true in Cali, where MB is filmed.
heh sorry like the 5th one to correct.
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Bad / worst firearms advice?
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Both true in Cali, where MB is filmed.
heh sorry like the 5th one to correct.
earthworm
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"Wimmin can't handle a _____ ."
"A .22 is all you need:no recoil & the bullet has enough energy to enter but not exit so it just bounces around inside creating damage."
"You don't need to learn how to shoot:just the sight of yer gun/sound of a warning shot will scare the bad guys off."
& my all-time fav: no matter what you pack/buy/shoot everybody has an Uncle Charlie who was a Marine sniper who had the same thing & (a) couldn't hit a barn wall inside the barn & it jammed all the time or (b) could hit hummingbirds on the wing at 50 yards with it.
"A .22 is all you need:no recoil & the bullet has enough energy to enter but not exit so it just bounces around inside creating damage."
"You don't need to learn how to shoot:just the sight of yer gun/sound of a warning shot will scare the bad guys off."
& my all-time fav: no matter what you pack/buy/shoot everybody has an Uncle Charlie who was a Marine sniper who had the same thing & (a) couldn't hit a barn wall inside the barn & it jammed all the time or (b) could hit hummingbirds on the wing at 50 yards with it.
TimboKhan
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The worst advice I ever saw on here was some guy that said that the .30-06 was barely sufficient for elk because they were so tough. It's been quite a while ago that this happened, but he made them sound like mountain-rhino's or something. Also, some guy said that putting WD-40 on your guns would eat away the metal due to it being kerosene. If you look at the WD-40 website, it is pretty easy to find that it is not made of kerosene. Also, WD-40 won't eat away metal.
Those two pieces of wisdom have stuck with me for a long, long time.
Those two pieces of wisdom have stuck with me for a long, long time.
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Wow that's bad advice.
plexreticle
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I've found with the same training women almost always out shoot the guys.
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"Smith & Wesson Mod.29's are famously fragile guns, always have been"
Excuse when a shooter at my local club blew his mod.29 to pieces with badly reloaded ammo...amazingly neither he or anyone else was injured.
Excuse when a shooter at my local club blew his mod.29 to pieces with badly reloaded ammo...amazingly neither he or anyone else was injured.
Some of the worst advice I read just the other day. Guy buys a 1911. Tells guy at store he's not comfortable carrying cocked and locked (you know, how 1911's were designed to be carried, but I digress...) and the guy who sold him the 1911 tells him to put one in the pipe, then lower trigger, and carry one one in the pipe with hammer down. He informed this new 1911 owner that's how most people did it who didn't want to carry a 1911 cocked and locked. 
Linda
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Worst advice:
When men think a .38 snubbie is the perfect gun for their wife/girlfriend!:banghead:
God forbid a woman would have to deal with moving parts!
When men think a .38 snubbie is the perfect gun for their wife/girlfriend!:banghead:
God forbid a woman would have to deal with moving parts!
learn2shoot
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A few from various sources:
- Wal Mart - 38 S&W is the same as .38 Special
-Wal Mart - Handguns are not legal to be sold in Maryland (I stepped in to correct)
- Dicks - Maryland state law requires me to take down your address and phone number before selling you ammunition (no it was Dick's policy)
- ATF Agent - I am the only one in this room professional enough...
From my father-in-law:
- Police response time around here is pretty good
- All guns should be stored at the range
- Wal Mart - 38 S&W is the same as .38 Special
-Wal Mart - Handguns are not legal to be sold in Maryland (I stepped in to correct)
- Dicks - Maryland state law requires me to take down your address and phone number before selling you ammunition (no it was Dick's policy)
- ATF Agent - I am the only one in this room professional enough...
From my father-in-law:
- Police response time around here is pretty good
- All guns should be stored at the range
Sav .250
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No need to look, I already checked the chamber.
That being said, it makes you wonder how an empty gun can go off.
That being said, it makes you wonder how an empty gun can go off.
DirksterG30
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Some 30-rd mags won't seat in my Rock River AR with the bolt closed unless I download them to 29 or 28.
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A few more...
"it's ok to carry your duty pistol with the safety off."
"lasersights are worthless" Really,
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"you don't need to carry speedloaders or spare mags"
"use a lot of CLP/gun oil" No, you should not use a lot.
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"it's ok to carry your duty pistol with the safety off."
"lasersights are worthless" Really,
."you don't need to carry speedloaders or spare mags"
"use a lot of CLP/gun oil" No, you should not use a lot.
Rusty
In the beginning of my shooting career, I saw a used Colt King Cobra in a gunstore, and fell in love immediately. However, since I knew very little about revolvers, I asked an instructor in my club, what he thought about the KC. "Not worth buying, it's inaccurate and breaks down easily. Buy a new Ruger GP100 instead." (They just happened to sell Rugers back then.) Well, I did buy the KC. After that, I've found it to be built like a tank, extremely accurate, and its retail value has more than doubled. If I ever have to start to sell my guns, the KC will be the last one to go.
Nothing against Rugers, though!
Nothing against Rugers, though!
rcmodel
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Change that to "an Airlite Ti .357 Mag Snubby is the perfect gun for my wife / girlfriend."
Or any new handgunner for that matter!
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Tom Fury
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"Ain't no good if there ain't a "4" in front of it..."
Ya'll can decide if that was good or bad advice...
(Heard in Sevierville Tenn. gunshop).
Cheers, TF
Ya'll can decide if that was good or bad advice...
(Heard in Sevierville Tenn. gunshop).
Cheers, TF
mindwip
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I heard this from an NRA instructor
He was called to help a 90 year old woman learn how to shoot, as there were a lot of break ins around her house, she called asking if someone could help.
The 90 year old had all ready bought her gun, the gun the gun store told her would solve all her problems, shes 90 in a wheel chair and has very weak hands and brittle bones, not in the best health.
And what was she told to get..... a 12 gauge pump action shotgun she could not even put in a round let alone move the action.
The instructor took the gun back to the shop and said how could you? they said not there problem, so he buys it from her and with the same money she gets a nice light weight revolver, and lessons to shoot it, ready to "smoke" any bad guys coming into her place.
He was called to help a 90 year old woman learn how to shoot, as there were a lot of break ins around her house, she called asking if someone could help.
The 90 year old had all ready bought her gun, the gun the gun store told her would solve all her problems, shes 90 in a wheel chair and has very weak hands and brittle bones, not in the best health.
And what was she told to get..... a 12 gauge pump action shotgun
she could not even put in a round let alone move the action.The instructor took the gun back to the shop and said how could you? they said not there problem, so he buys it from her and with the same money she gets a nice light weight revolver, and lessons to shoot it, ready to "smoke" any bad guys coming into her place.
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In the middle 70's Uncle Sam sent me on a vacation to Alaska. During indoctrination we were told that if we were going to spend any time fish and camping and stuff, you should have a large bore handgun. And 357 mag didn't count. That left 41 and 44 mag and hot loaded 45 colt. I never saw any one with a 45 ACP unless it was all they had.
I was quite happy with my Blackhawk 41 mag. To each their own.
RustyShackelford
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Mindwhip's 12ga shotgun for protection post...
In my area, a major US city, I heard of a gun shop that did the same thing to an older woman who had no firearms training that needed to protect herself. Some D-bag sales clerk sold her a .12ga pump shotgun.
What a-holes!
In my area, a major US city, I heard of a gun shop that did the same thing to an older woman who had no firearms training that needed to protect herself. Some D-bag sales clerk sold her a .12ga pump shotgun.
What a-holes!
fletcher
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Overheard at the gun store when someone was handling the then new XD45:
"It holds a lot, but if you need more than 10 rounds of .45, you've got bigger problems"
But I guess the nearby 9mm guns that hold 16 or 17 are just fine
"It holds a lot, but if you need more than 10 rounds of .45, you've got bigger problems"
But I guess the nearby 9mm guns that hold 16 or 17 are just fine
Tribal
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Well, probably, at least. I'd think that you need more than that you'd do better to have good running shoes and yourself squared away on the religion front. Most of us aren't going to get into running gun battles with the terrorists who have taken over the local mall or radio station.
After purchasing my first AR my father in law sternly told me I had made a big mistake and should have gotten a 22-250 because they would be "far less expensive" to shoot.
I love my father in law but he then proceded to tell me in the same breath that .223 was no good because a slightest twig would send it flying off-corse........and that it was used as a "snipers" round.
Like I said, I love my father-in-law, but yikes.
I love my father in law but he then proceded to tell me in the same breath that .223 was no good because a slightest twig would send it flying off-corse........and that it was used as a "snipers" round.
Like I said, I love my father-in-law, but yikes.
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I don't deal with this in the stores personally, but my wife does in nearly every place we go... and I'll guess that a lot of other female shooters do as well:
"Don't you just want a 9mm 'hon? That 40/45/other caliber is big and loud and has lots of kick. Here, let me show you what you really want"
"That 12ga is a BIG gun and it will kick a LOT, let me show you this nice little 20ga, it's more your size"
Nothing pisses her off more than when some uninformed pot-bellied red neck tells her that she isn't capable of handling the gun that she has chosen, simply because she has an extra X chromosone (and I am stereotyping that person, because most of the shops with more professional employees have been easy for her to work with)!
Years ago we stopped going to a store that I had previously frequented simply because every time we were in there they refused to show her what she wanted to buy, because they felt she should have something smaller and cuter.
(my wife isn't Annie Oakley here, but she's fired everything from the .50BMG to .375 H&H Mag, to 10ga slugs in single shot shotgun... If nothing else, she sure isn't recoil sensitive).
For me, the bad advice usually falls along these lines:
"Don't buy a Glock, it is made of too much plastic. You don't really want to rely on Tuperware, do you?"
"Don't buy a 1911, they are junk guns"
"Look at this shotgun (a $4000 pretty gun), it will make you a better shooter the first time you try it"
"Here's what you need, this is what ALL of the police in the area are using these days... they'd touch nothing less" (normally it isn't, and I find this as a good time to tell them what I do for a living)
"Don't you just want a 9mm 'hon? That 40/45/other caliber is big and loud and has lots of kick. Here, let me show you what you really want"
"That 12ga is a BIG gun and it will kick a LOT, let me show you this nice little 20ga, it's more your size"
Nothing pisses her off more than when some uninformed pot-bellied red neck tells her that she isn't capable of handling the gun that she has chosen, simply because she has an extra X chromosone (and I am stereotyping that person, because most of the shops with more professional employees have been easy for her to work with)!
Years ago we stopped going to a store that I had previously frequented simply because every time we were in there they refused to show her what she wanted to buy, because they felt she should have something smaller and cuter.
(my wife isn't Annie Oakley here, but she's fired everything from the .50BMG to .375 H&H Mag, to 10ga slugs in single shot shotgun... If nothing else, she sure isn't recoil sensitive).
For me, the bad advice usually falls along these lines:
"Don't buy a Glock, it is made of too much plastic. You don't really want to rely on Tuperware, do you?"
"Don't buy a 1911, they are junk guns"
"Look at this shotgun (a $4000 pretty gun), it will make you a better shooter the first time you try it"
"Here's what you need, this is what ALL of the police in the area are using these days... they'd touch nothing less" (normally it isn't, and I find this as a good time to tell them what I do for a living)
I ain't so shore there, little lady! I believe a semi-otto is jes a little too sofisticated fer a woomin to figger out. I reckon what you need is a good snubbie with lite target lodes. If'n you think you kin handle a full-sized revolver, make shore it's a .22LR.
But stay away from them there semi-ottos! They rekwire a lot of thinkin' and mussle power, what with havin' to swop out magazines and rack slides 'n all that. Jes leave them semi-ottos to us menfoke. I cain't think of one good reason a woomin would need more than 5 or 6 rounds in the kitchin or bedroom anyway.
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