Excuses for poor shooting -- best and WORST you've heard?
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"I'm used to scopes", or "It's really windy". Dunno what you mean by best and worst, but those were my favorites, when those would ask to use my SKS.
Standing Wolf
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'Twas my !@#$%^&! wrist for several years; now it's my !@#$%^&! elbow, as well as the !@#$%^&! specks floating in my vision. I can't still blame triggers or sights.
mustanger98
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How about, for somebody doing lousy with a scoped rifle, "I'm used to sights".
scout26
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At a CMP class my buddy was having a really bad day at the 100m range. Just shooting really poor on his "Brand New" first M1 Garand, most shots not even on the paper. Having a hard time zeroing, etc. The CMP instructor came over looked at his target and asked "What are you doing ??"
"I'm trying to draw them into bayonet range."
"I'm trying to draw them into bayonet range."
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Nathan Williams
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This gun dont shot worth 
. The words of a friend before he handed me his 10/22. He emptied a 10 round mag at 5 soda cans missing every single one. I fired 5 shots hit them all, and for some reason he was done shooting for the day .
. The words of a friend before he handed me his 10/22. He emptied a 10 round mag at 5 soda cans missing every single one. I fired 5 shots hit them all, and for some reason he was done shooting for the day .Pilgrim
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"My socks are too tight."
mustanger98
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I've actually seen that one happen.
But what I meant is that so many scope-addicted shooters can't shoot with irons or make a big deal of the erroneous assumption that irons aren't good bast 50yds or so. But then, somebody used to shooting with sights and don't get along with scopes... Just that it's a direct opposite to what's usually thought of in the scope vs. irons debate.
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pax can laugh at shotgunners ...
Skeet shooters often have "standard reasons". Like first squad shooting into the morning sun, last squad of the day shooting into evening sun, not used to shooting at night in a shoot off, and the mosquitos biting.
pax, imagine Southern Gentlemen me, riding in the bed of a moving pickup truck , shooting stationary and moving targets, and I miss the first bird on a pair (doubles on station 4)
"Darn thing was flying too slow". folks bought it
Kids :
"My gun does not like the green shells, it likes the blue ones".
"I have to pee really bad"
"Steve is into the cookies again and I can't concentrate with him doing that"
"I hic...hic...hicupped" young man has a serious case of them too
Moms:
"Now I have to pee really bad."
" I wore my new tennis shoes to shoot in"
" I wore my worn out tennis shoes to shoot in"
"Steve ,you every tried shooting in a new bra design?"
" If Steve would let me have MY 28 ga back I could hit these low 5's"
" I just remembered what I forgot to get at the store"
" I was not trying to hit the clay, I was trying to get close close enough to make it rise . Didn't you see it "bump up" a bit?"
" I just got a invite to my 20 year HS class reunion, has it been "that long"?"
"Oh help us all, Steve is up to something, the kids are snickering over near the trap house".
"I did not know a Moon Pie would fly from a trap machine. You mean I was supposed to shoot a Banana Moon Pie?"
I am not bad - just consistent.
Steve
Skeet shooters often have "standard reasons". Like first squad shooting into the morning sun, last squad of the day shooting into evening sun, not used to shooting at night in a shoot off, and the mosquitos biting.
pax, imagine Southern Gentlemen me, riding in the bed of a moving pickup truck , shooting stationary and moving targets, and I miss the first bird on a pair (doubles on station 4)
"Darn thing was flying too slow".
folks bought itKids :
"My gun does not like the green shells, it likes the blue ones".
"I have to pee really bad"
"Steve is into the cookies again and I can't concentrate with him doing that"
"I hic...hic...hicupped" young man has a serious case of them too
Moms:
"Now I have to pee really bad."
" I wore my new tennis shoes to shoot in"
" I wore my worn out tennis shoes to shoot in"
"Steve ,you every tried shooting in a new bra design?"
" If Steve would let me have MY 28 ga back I could hit these low 5's"
" I just remembered what I forgot to get at the store"
" I was not trying to hit the clay, I was trying to get close close enough to make it rise . Didn't you see it "bump up" a bit?"
" I just got a invite to my 20 year HS class reunion, has it been "that long"?"
"Oh help us all, Steve is up to something, the kids are snickering over near the trap house".
"I did not know a Moon Pie would fly from a trap machine. You mean I was supposed to shoot a Banana Moon Pie?"
I am not bad - just consistent.
Steve
scott5
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Good excusese
Hello all,
Mine are: I don't practice enough. I don't get out enough. I guess I need to practice better trigger control. I forgot that this gun doesn't like this load.
Well I do use those becuase I mostly shoot alone.
Hello all,
Mine are: I don't practice enough. I don't get out enough. I guess I need to practice better trigger control. I forgot that this gun doesn't like this load.
Well I do use those becuase I mostly shoot alone.
Lupinus
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Im having a bad hair day
I actually had the sights way off issue, loose rear in my Garand during my first match Didn't figure it out until the next range trip with it.
Some I've heard:
"the target it too far away" (usually the guys who think irons are only good for 25 yards)
or
"Well if that was a bad guy he'd be dead" when they have a silhouette they have poured hundreds of rounds at that still looks like it was hit by a shotgun.
Didn't figure it out until the next range trip with it.Some I've heard:
"the target it too far away" (usually the guys who think irons are only good for 25 yards)
or
"Well if that was a bad guy he'd be dead" when they have a silhouette they have poured hundreds of rounds at that still looks like it was hit by a shotgun.
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Watch out for spiders!....
I can think of a good reason for poor shooting;
While I went through US Army BRM(Basic Rifle Marksmanship) in Alabama we had to use rifle range firing postions that were crawling with huge spiders!
Many soldiers were bitten all over and it was a mess.
Why out cadre/Drill SGTs didn't clear out the spiders and bugs still ticks me off, .
I know the rangemasters and NCOs didn't care about our health/safety/welfare but really how much would it take to clear out bugs/spiders from a qualification range!
Rusty
I can think of a good reason for poor shooting;
While I went through US Army BRM(Basic Rifle Marksmanship) in Alabama we had to use rifle range firing postions that were crawling with huge spiders!
Many soldiers were bitten all over and it was a mess.
Why out cadre/Drill SGTs didn't clear out the spiders and bugs still ticks me off,
.I know the rangemasters and NCOs didn't care about our health/safety/welfare but really how much would it take to clear out bugs/spiders from a qualification range!
Rusty
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"I should've stopped after the first shot (of JD)"
Manedwolf
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I just snorted my coffee at that.
(And do you then need to shoot at an RC Cola can?)
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Harry Paget Flashman
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"Prostate's flaring up again today...kind of puts me off my game."
Tom Servo
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I had something similar once. A friend and I decided to go shooting during lunch, so I was just wearing my regular glasses. The screw holding the left lens-assembly together must have come off when I was putting on the earmuffs, and I didn't even notice. All I knew was that I was shooting like crap, and I couldn't figure out why.
It was really smoky, but after a few shots, I realized that the front sight was really blurry. "Must be all the smoke," I said. "Yeah, right," was the response. Then my friend looked at me and said, "hey, you're missing your right lens."
At least that was legit. I have bad days, but I generally don't make excuses. They just happen. If I DID, I'd make a point to have especially elaborate ones, perhaps involving government mind-control rays and space aliens
Oh boy, where to start!
Shooting in trap and skeet leagues let's you experience firsthand all the rotten excuses. With the guys I shoot skeet and sporting clays with now it's more of a game to come up with the best excuse. Here are some of the "real" ones I heard in trap:
"The shell ejecting out of your auto next to me distracted me before I shot."
"Slow pull!"
"Fast pull!"
"I'm shooting a different brand of shells."
"My shells are #8 shot, I usually shoot 7.5s that hit harder."
"I usually shoot in a t-shirt, but today I have a button up long-sleeve shirt and the thickness messed up my length of pull."
"The way my auto recoils throws me off compared to my o/u."
And on and on and on! Drives me crazy really.
Of course it really can throw you off to have a fast or slow pull, but I've heard some make that call that were really splitting hairs.
The best excuse I heard for skeet was on station 6 when right as the low house target passed halfway a huge sheet of lightning lit up the sky behind the target, obscuring it completely.
Now if one of us gets our option on station 8 we declare it a "bad pull" (we have no paid pullers at my club so it's all up to the shooters) and everybody laughs!
There are only a couple of legit excuses for misses in skeet that are real:
"I lifted my head."
"I had a dead gun."
"I was looking at my front sight."
Shooting in trap and skeet leagues let's you experience firsthand all the rotten excuses. With the guys I shoot skeet and sporting clays with now it's more of a game to come up with the best excuse. Here are some of the "real" ones I heard in trap:
"The shell ejecting out of your auto next to me distracted me before I shot."
"Slow pull!"
"Fast pull!"
"I'm shooting a different brand of shells."
"My shells are #8 shot, I usually shoot 7.5s that hit harder."
"I usually shoot in a t-shirt, but today I have a button up long-sleeve shirt and the thickness messed up my length of pull."
"The way my auto recoils throws me off compared to my o/u."
And on and on and on! Drives me crazy really.
Of course it really can throw you off to have a fast or slow pull, but I've heard some make that call that were really splitting hairs.
The best excuse I heard for skeet was on station 6 when right as the low house target passed halfway a huge sheet of lightning lit up the sky behind the target, obscuring it completely.
Now if one of us gets our option on station 8 we declare it a "bad pull" (we have no paid pullers at my club so it's all up to the shooters) and everybody laughs!
There are only a couple of legit excuses for misses in skeet that are real:
"I lifted my head."
"I had a dead gun."
"I was looking at my front sight."
TimboKhan
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my worst, yet most truthful excuse came when I was shooting clays with my buddy at an impromptu "match" in which we were the last two standing. Clay flew and I got a big ol' dose of sun in the eyes and missed. His clay flew and he hit it. He and I are the best trap shooters in my group of friends and are quite competitive with each other. If I beat him, of course, I hear nothing. If I drop a clay and lose to him, the first thing out of his mouth is "Say, the sun must have been in your eyes on that one".... The worst part is, this happened almost 10 years ago!
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After scoring 22 out of 40 on a range a fellow says,
"Bahhh!!! Volume of fire is more important than accurate fire anyway!!!"
After shooting a 0 out 40 a fellow says,
"OH!!! You said lane 8? I thought you said nine?"
The guy in lane 9 after shooting 40 out of 40 says,
"I'll be damned if I didn't fire a single round."
"Bahhh!!! Volume of fire is more important than accurate fire anyway!!!"
After shooting a 0 out 40 a fellow says,
"OH!!! You said lane 8? I thought you said nine?"
The guy in lane 9 after shooting 40 out of 40 says,
"I'll be damned if I didn't fire a single round."
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