Gun Owner pet peeves

[30mag]

#5: Hunters going into town with visible deer
Answer: Going into town with a 12-point rack on your car is a matter of pride. As far as going into a town with blood/guts on you, sometimes its unavoidable and sometimes guys are just on their way home and wanted to stop at the gas station for coffee; unless its excessive learn to deal with it. Lastly people brag about deer, they brag about trucks, they brag about big-screen TV's and are so entitled to; I suggest you learn to deal with people and realize unless they are talking about blood rituals or something its perfectly within their right to be happy for an achievement.

Disagree.
Don't mind if the deer is strapped to the hood when you drive through town, but you don't have to make a trip to Wal-Mart to get groceries right after you've cleaned a deer. And if you're stopping in a gas station to grab a donut, a little blood is acceptable, however, no one wants to sit in a cafe eating breakfast and have a booth full of dirty hunters reeking of deer blood in the next booth over.
It reflects poorly on the rest of us, and it's part of the reason I don't wear camo in public.

 

[bearmgc]

30mag, I agree to a point. Many hunting sites are miles and miles from home. After spending all day in 20 degree weather, maybe rain, maybe sleet, many hunters work the outer edge of hypothermia. Hot food and warm fluids in a cafe help. I have always carried an extra pair of pants, boots and jacket, to put on, when I finish cleaning my deer. I also wash up with wet wipes and mint rubbing alcohol, because that smell will stay in a truck for months. Some guys just have bad personal hygiene, prolly all year long. I wouldn't want to eat their deer meat either.

 

[30mag]

And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

 

[PX15]

wishin:

Over 6 decades too late for that for me....



I'm guessing this photo was taken around 1944-45... I was born in '42, and guess I was just getting ready to repel those pesky Jap's or Krauts in case they tried to conquer S. Georgia...

Jesse

P.S. No criticism please on terminology regarding the AXIS forces, I thought "sneaky-jap" or "dirty kraut" was one word until I got to college... I know general wisdom is that the Japanese or German's are our best buddies now, but don't you tell that to some old WW2 vet... Do that in some old warrior in a V.A. hospital and you'll be leaving singing soprano..

 

[Arkansas Paul]

When someone thinks that their pet cartridge is the only one suited for hunting a particular animal and to think that someone would actually use something different is just plain stupid. There's nothing wrong with pet cartridges. I have one. I think the .280 Rem is about as perfect as they come for the majority of North American big game. I also realize that many do not share my opinion. There's nothing wrong with that. I am aware that there are many calibers just as good.

 

[AZ_Rebel]

Guys who write "Guess what followed me home?" and go on to tell about a new acquisition - more of these juveniles!
And... how about the P---- Whipped dweebs who are so afraid of their wives or girlfriends that they allow them to dictate what they buy, own or carry?
But probably (NOT prolly) the most irritating on THR (IMNSHO) are the "discussions" started on some volatile subject only to find out the OP is 16 years old and still breast feeding.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Mechanics that don't know the difference between a "motor" and an "engine"...oh..wait...sorry,wrong forum.

 

[Magic_Man]

People who worry about what I'm doing instead of worrying about themselves.

 

[nitetrane98]

1. People who attempt to drain every last ounce of fun out of shooting. Especially someone elses shooting. Generally boils down to a contest of who can be the most anal retentive regarding safety.

2. The concept of treating every firearm as if it is loaded. Sure I get it, but why not a comma and then "until it is proven to be not loaded". Would you put a cleaning rod in a loaded gun? How about looking down the bore, loading a gun, putting a SS gun in the dishwasher, dry firing at the TV. Can't do any of that with a loaded gun and that's how you're supposed to treat all guns.

3. The guy who walks in front of another guy sighting down a gun at the gunshop and then freaks out and goes for his CCW, wants the guy thrown out and then starts a thread on stupid people at gun shops.

 

[mcdonl]

Calling XYZ guns ugly... Who cares what they look like?

People that call magazines clips.

People that list the box and lock it came with as "extras" when selling used guns.

People who think they can ask more for a used gun then the local big box stores sells them new for.

 

[mcdonl]

People so cheap they put Mosin Nagants and Hi Points on layaway.

Gunsnobs

 

[DC300a]

No Particular Order:

- The attitude that I get from a lot of people who work in gun shops. Just because you sell them does not mean you know how to use them. I am not impressed by your snobbery.

- People who think that all people who work for .gov are dumb, under-trained, incompetents that are out to get the general populace. Yes, there a few bad ones, and the good ones hate them as much as you do. But if we are using that model.... all gun owners are either half-drunk rednecks or sideways shooting thugs that at some point will smuggle guns into Mexico. Since we are using a few bad examples to lump everyone into a basket.....

- Anything in a "versus" thread.

- Range Nazis

 

[Hold My Own]

When people call Desert Eagles "Deagles." Magazines "clips" and rounds "bullets." :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

 

[jbkebert]

And... how about the P---- Whipped dweebs who are so afraid of their wives or girlfriends that they allow them to dictate what they buy, own or carry?

You must not be married huh.

People who start SHTF/Zombie threads. I am 32 years old and still don't know what a zombie is.

 

[wishin]

PX15, good picture. I'm waiting for someone to criticize you for pointing the gun in the wrong direction, not your political correctness!

 

[AZ_Rebel]

Quote:
And... how about the P---- Whipped dweebs who are so afraid of their wives or girlfriends that they allow them to dictate what they buy, own or carry?


You must not be married huh.

Yep - sure am 40+ Years! I just don't accept the notion that wives dictate how you live your life - and viceversa.

 

[thorazine]

1. People who attempt to drain every last ounce of fun out of shooting. Especially someone elses shooting. Generally boils down to a contest of who can be the most anal retentive regarding safety.

Nothing wrong with being anal retentive about safety.

 

[Internet Protocol Freely]

off the top of my head the only thing that bugs me is the magazines and clips thing. Usually when I correct someone they get defensive and say something like "SAME DIFFERENCE". Then I usually say something like "Would you call a motorcycle a car?" and then they act like im stupid.

 

[Pappy109]

Well the best laugh I got today was the "booger hook on the bang switch". I am pretty sure that "Clip thing stared in Hollywood with the Ceramic Invisible Glock Model 8.....LOL.

I do have a personal story. I was buying a weed eater in Wal-Mart and pushed my shirt back to get to my billfold in the check out line. The lady behind me commented. " That thing could get somebody killed" I turn to her and said " I sure as hell hope so that's what is for"..

 

[Internet Protocol Freely]

I do have a personal story. I was buying a weed eater in Wal-Mart and pushed my shirt back to get to my billfold in the check out line. The lady behind me commented. " That thing could get somebody killed" I turn to her and said " I sure as hell hope so that's what is for"..

dontcha hate that holier than thou crap?

 

[jnyork]

Nothing wrong with being anal retentive about safety.

Only way to be.

 

[Shadow Man]

Interesting posts. Personally, I don't really see the purpose of the thread; I thought it was generally understood that different things pushed different people's buttons. According to this thread, about 90% of the threads and posts here on THR shouldn't exist...and maybe they shouldn't, but who am I to judge. If this is a way to blow off some steam, I generally find that attempting to get the tightest group possible from a weapon, inventing "what if" scenarios to better train myself and testing the effectiveness of various rounds against common materials helps me immensly. Then there is my cure-all: see if I can shave any time off field stripping and reassembling my 1911. However, YMMV.

 

[chriske]

Infantile language like "booger hook" or "bang switch"

 

[FarmGirl]

I'm right there with the original poster on #4, actually. When I was but a wee girl we had a horse shot for being "mistaken" for a deer. Not real sure how that happened since he was sixteen hands of black muscle, but there ya go.

Other than that, my biggest personal pet peeve is when someone handles my gun and tells me it's the wrong gun for me/I should get a trigger job/I should really reconsider the whole steel gun thing because it's too heavy.

 

[jcwit]

off the top of my head the only thing that bugs me is the magazines and clips thing. Usually when I correct someone they get defensive and say something like "SAME DIFFERENCE". Then I usually say something like "Would you call a motorcycle a car?" and then they act like im stupid.

Well being as there is a huge group of folks who use the terms "clip" and "magazine" interchangeably, and an almost nonexistant group who use the terms "motorcycle" and "car" interchangeably, I'll let you answer as to why they look at you that way.

Non of us use the correct terms and proper english all the time, but usually we all know what each other are talking about.