Don't be that guy!!!-Lessons learned from Big-Bore Revolvers

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Barry the Bear

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Some of us here on the revolver sub forum like shooting rounds that give you quite a bark, (for this thread we will focus on a hotly loaded .357 magnum through the .500 linebaugh and Magnum cartridges) but we have worked our way up and made ourselves proficient in shooting their use .

Today I went to the range with my brother(an RN), We usually rent a private bay however today we decided not to spend the extra dough. A kid (for all intents and purposes I can not call someone who did this a man) brought his significant other to the range and rented a .475 Linebaugh built on a ruger frame to shoot. We saw him rent it and I qoute "Honey this isnt going to kick much right?" " No it wont, remember when we shot that 1911 in .45 acp? That kicked harder than this". I didnt think anything of it figuring he was going to shoot and not her. After everyones' target is up, we see him hand the gun to the girl, she loads 3 rounds but only shot one,as she shot the gun one handed with a locked elbow and the muzzle rose back and hit her in the head narrowly missing the front sight which would have probably killed her if it lodged in her brain.

The guy steps back and runs out of the range, My brother ran to the girl and helped her to a chair and we called ems and as far as we know she is alright just has a mild concussion, we didnt see or hear from that guy again.



Now I know some women can handle the bigger stuff, however the fact remains that in general most women and quite a few men cant and wont handle these rounds due to their harder kicking nature. Now I have and love using big bore revolvers however I have not nor ever will I let someone use them who isnt accustomed to the recoil.The guy that basically let this poor girl get hurt is not the first idiot to do this, theres tons of videos on youtube with the title wife shoots .44 mag and fails! What an A-hole! :cuss


Although this should be standard knowledge, people are still ignoring a major rule of life " A mans got to know his limitations."
As my dad used to say " Common sense aint common"
 
Man, I hate hearing those stories. Bad for all of us and really turns off a new shooter.

IIRC there was a child killed by a blow to the head from a .454 Casull a few years back.

There is nothing manly about abusing a novice shooter with a big bore gun. Wrong on so many levels. Same also applies to giving a novice a magnum rifle or hard hitting shotgun. Get your jollies elsewhere besides the range abusing people like that.
 
That was pretty dumb on his part. I take it you weren't close enough to say something before she fired? I have run into similar situations a few times and I will make a good effort to politely insert myself into the conversation.

Where did this guy run off to anyway? I can't imagine someone running off like that, but then I don't find myself doing stupid things often.

EDIT: Ohen, I would also compare it to putting a new driver behind the wheel of a Formula One car. It just plain won't end well.
 
you tube is full of videos made by immature jerks who get off by letting girls get punished when shooting too much gun with too little instruction.
 
wow. the guy ran off? what a cowardly, low-life thing to do.

i have little respect for people that find humor in unsuspecting new shooters firing guns with large amounts of recoil.
 
Come on now, listen, I'm a hot dude in my 20s and I like to wear flat-brimmed ball caps and Oaklies (inside) with my Tap-Out T-shirt and can of Monster in my hand. I let my babe shoot my .500 S&W scandium frame mountain gun with 500 grain maximum handloads.

Sure she blacked out for a few hours from the hammer spur embeding into her forehead, but I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm even cooler now from this experience.

Excuse me while I go take a shower to wash off all the testosterone my body had been excreting all day.
 
Every time I've ever gone to an indoor range I had to give up all kinds of info. Shouldn't be hard to ID the jerk.
 
I'd like to see some evidence of this incident. Otherwise, although I'm advanced in years/culture, I can't imagine very many girls stupid enough to take on ANY pistol until her SO shows her how harmless it is by at least shooting it once for her.
 
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That's a shame to hear.

Side question though, is that range around Houston by chance? I'm pretty comfortable with the .44 magnum/.45 Colt Ruger level and would like to try a .475 but I've never seen one for rent anywhere.
 
Doug, I would more catalog this as misplaced trust. If she let the weasel talk her into it again, then maybe stupid comes into play.
 
You guys make me feel bad for punishing my buddy with 3 inch magnum slugs in my Mossberg. But he is a pretty experienced shooter, it is just plain mean spirited to do that too a beginner. I would love to know what range rents a .475 Linebough, let alone has that ammo.
 
Barrry,

I'd have told the guy and gal, before they shot it, to let me fire a round.

Then when they saw me laying on the ground they would have realized the errors of their ways and gone home while praising me for my bravely, if not brains.

Yes I'm a real one for sacrifice.

But really, I would have told them that gun will kick like the worst mule you could step behind. And I would have looked at them real serious to show them I meant it.

See once my wife watched me shoot my Mossberg 500 18nch bbl riot gun with 3 inch magnum buckshot. After seeing me fling back every time I fired it she said she would have nothing to do with that gun.

And that is why the long gun we keep around is a M1 Carbine! She can handle that easily.

Deaf
 
It's an act of scum sucking gutter trash to do that to a new shooter, especially one of smaller stature. It may not legally be assault and battery but the intent is the same.

The reverse is enjoyable to watch. My ex was 5'3", 53kg. She would wander up to guys shooting heavy magnums and ask if she could have a try. She would then drill the center out of their target. Some ladies learn how to get drinks with a smile. My ex learned how to get ammo. She did end up on the Prime Minister's security detail, so she was out on the end of the bell curve.
 
This reminds me of the last time my fiancé and I went up to her grandparents cabin. We were all up there shooting and having a good time, her uncle and his two sons showed up. He pulled out a .500 S&W, a few of us shot it, (biggest handgun I have ever shot, and it was pretty damn cool with the muzzle flash at dusk) anyways, his oldest son, I think he was 9 or 10 at the time set up some targets, I thought he was going to shoot his .22... I was so nervous when he grabbed that .500. The kid took out 2 clay pigeons at 20 yards out of the 3 shots he took.
 
I call B.S. on this one... If its true well that guy is a terrible boyfriend/friend to the girl. But he just ran out... and drove off. Did the young girl (presumably young) drive her self, did she have a car there? If this isn't 100 percent true, having fake stories adding to the real ones do not help anything.
 
I find fault with the person behind the counter that rented this firearm to a novice shooter.

That range needs to train their staff a little better with regards to instructions on rental guns.
 
Wait, he ran out and left his GF abandoning her? What a peice of excrement.

There was a woman who was killed by a .500 S&W at a range but i think she actually shot herself through the head, something about double fire due to heavy recoil. She is the only know human killed by a .500 S&W
 
I hear and see stories about these kinds of "incidences" periodically. I have to wonder... would I do something to stop it if I saw it? Standing rule on the club range I'm a member of is "anyone can call a cease fire at any time if they see something wrong or dangerous." Wouldn't putting a gun like that in someone's hand who obviously has no idea what s/he is getting into warrant both wrong AND dangerous. I'm not calling out the OP... I can just hope if I ever saw something like that I'd say something.
 
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