Has your gun ever been ridiculed? let's hear it

[ThatGuyHank]

Yeah, my gp100 gets some flak about not being as "nice as a smith"

Then my Garand of course get's alot of comments from the Call of Duty gun expert crowd, about how it only has 8 shots compared to their much more superior AR-15s and AK-47s which hold 30 rounds of highly potent ammunition. I just smile, check my hearing protection and let her rip tends to shut them up.

 

[bubbaturbo]

You're still mad after more than a year? Wow.

 

[Black Butte]

This is so unfair. I would never say anything bad about a Hi Point just because they sucked.

 

[FLCowboy49]

Since the thread is re-opened, my Hi-point 9mm carbine gets quite a bit of negative attention..despite it being more than reliable...
another is my M&P15-22, because it's "only a .22"

 

[Lo8080]

I'm sure there are a lot of people that have cringed when I told them I have a

Taurus 45 semi auto, and that they wouldn't trust a Brazilian made gun. But

guess what? I've owned it for 11 years and shot probably 2000-3000 rounds

through it and still feeds and shoots like a champ.

 

[jackpinesavages]

Yup, My Glocks, S&W 3rd gen. 10mm, Dan Wesson .44. Some idiots seem to think their opinions NEED to be heard about everything; too big, too plastic, the grips are too big, no parts available, bad caliber choice, outdated, blah blahblah....

 

[loonze444]

20 gauge excell single shot-served well for 30 years and still worked like a champ when I sold it-caught flack from everyone who ever hunted with me. Granted- it was ugly as sin and kicked harder than any 20 gauge has a right to,but it always worked when you pulled the trigger.

 

[mgmorden]

More than once when I've taken my Pietta Remington 1858 clone to the range to shoot I've heard a few guys snickering and making "Wyatt Earp" references. Mostly from the mall ninja looking types.

Never had anything else picked on.

 

[Texas Gun Person]

I mentioned that I owned a Ruger SR9 a few weeks ago. The response I got was something like "Ruger only makes piece of **** guns. I'll never be buying one of those."

Coming from a guy who would willingly confess he owns a Jennings .22.


You don't want Rugers? Just more for me then.

 

[HOWARD J]

Many years ago I was shooting a Browning nickel plated P-35 (High Power)
9MM.
Most of the fellas at the range had 45 ACP 1911's
They asked me what that peashooter was---pretty gun with a tiny bullet.
" who would shoot a gun with such a louzzy bullet"

Well times change --don't they

 

[rondog]

I very rarely ever shoot around anyone but my grandson, so can't say as I've ever been ridiculed about a gun. But when I bought my HiPoint .40 carbine I took it to a local indoor range to try it out. It was brand-new, still in the box, and I'd stopped and bought a couple boxes of ammo on the way.

The rather "butch" range officer was trying to be polite, but I could tell she really wanted to laugh in my face because I had a new HiPoint. She hung out behind me while I was setting up, because she "had heard about those guns and wanted to see how it did", but she had a smirk on her face like she was waiting for the comedy show to begin. Guess she figured this was her big chance to see a HiPoint explode in some fools face.

After I put the first box of ammo into this target, her smirk was gone and she found something else to go do and left me alone. Right out of the box, I didn't even have to fiddle with the sights, but I did put a tiny piece of masking tape on the front blade so I could see it better against the black target.

 

[GMcBoozer]

Right around when I got my Ruger P95, my buddy got a Glock 22. Needless to say he is one of those Glock and Bushmaster fanboys. Everything that isn't from one of those brands is junk in his eyes. He says I bought a "junk" pistol in a "junk" caliber.

 

[Ignition Override]

Unless in light-hearted jest, only the small-minded who are unsure of their own choices have actual criticism for strangers or friends. Some gun buddies are also just interested in milsurp rifles or low-cost Makarov and Tokarev handguns.

My "guru" is a marksman who set a couple of records with the AR (he won lots of Garands as prizes), and never told me why he sold his Russian SKS, but he is too mature to make fun of other peoples' choices, including my old Ruger Minis.

What is so difficult about staying totally detached from what you own, and what you do?

 

[Autolycus]

I shoot Glock. I have a friend who loves 1911s give me crap about it. But otherwise nobody really seems to care.

 

[Lucas_Y]

I've caught flak for my RIA 1911s (no 1911 that cheap can actually function!). I've heard how junky WASRs are. Nobody in their right mind would be seen carrying a brace of "sixguns". Running a dueling tree against various "high capacity" guns quelled that discussion. I've also heard it about various Kel-Tecs over the years. Hasn't deterred me any.

They've mostly all functioned as they should, except for one of the RIAs, and a few minutes with a diamond file fixed that right up.

I've given light hearted jabs to friends about their glocks, but they all know that I love them too.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

I'm still astonished when adults make negative comments about the choices other people make in cars, guns, etc.
There's a guy at my range who has tons of money and buys guns and ammo by the carload. He's friendly and we get along, but when I mentioned the Taurus revolver I had just bought, he went on and on about how supposedly crummy they are. I'm thinking "hey, dude, I don't have the kind of dough you have."
Oh, and there was the time I got gas and had an annual inspection on my car, an entry-level BMW. After the work was done, and I picked it up, the mechanic said, "my friend in the shop told me he doesn't like your car. He doesn't like German cars." I was so surprised that I just looked at the guy... I wasn't expecting to hear something so juvenile from mechanics that were right around my age at the time (early 30s). It felt like Third Grade at the cafeteria and a kid would say something like, "my friend here doesn't like your lunchbox"
C'mon... the old expression still holds true, "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."

 

[Ranger30-06]

There's a guy at my range that is there almost every Sunday who literally is hated by everyone that's there. Here is his typical range schedule:

1. Pull up and start unpacking all of the guns. All twenty some of them.
2. Go over to the range master and quite loudly start talking about "the new toy" this week and how much it cost him.
3. Go down to "his" 3 benches at the 50 yard range and light off 10 or 15 (legal limit here is 15) rounds as fast as he can pull the trigger.
4. While waiting for the next cease fire he gets right up behind all the other shooters, asks them what type of gun they have while they are shooting and openly criticizes them while they are still shooting!
5. Heads down to check out his target, which is peppered with maybe 6 or 7 hits, which he then tells us would be fine if he was in a war because you only need one hit from his gun to "put the guy down." Now not to get personal here, but the guy is very, very well on the "hefty" side of the fitness spectrum, and he was shooting a PS90 (5.7x28mm) during this particular time where I was the unlucky one to be criticized for having an "outdated" '03 that I was testing a new scope on.
6. Go back and repeat. :banghead:

I had another guy call my Saiga .308 a "spray from the hip" gun that couldn't hit a thing. I just chuckled as I put two magazines into a 3" square at 100 yards while his 4 digit AR jammed after every shot. He got pretty upset when I told him 3 .308 hits in a 3 MOA group beats a jamming .223.


Moral of the story(s)? Don't ever make fun of a guy with a cheap gun, because he can probably afford more ammo to practice than you.

 

[Plastikosmd]

I must be at the wrong ranges or maybe the right ones. Maybe they are just not complaining to my face. It never occurred to me to make fun of someones guns. I guess if a friend showed up with something pink, maybe? Tho I probably would have assumed he was sighting it in for his wife/ gf or it was some sort of ' support breast cancer' gun

 

[PowerG]

I bought a 7mm-08 and one of my occasional hunting partners at the time (who considers the .300 Win. Mag marginal for whitetails, largely because he can't shoot worth a flip) said "Be careful, you might put somebody's eye out with that thing."

 

[hardluk1]

Caught cr*p from s&w guys over my DW revolvers years ago, till they shot them.
Caught it from other CC guys over a carry'n a taurus 85 and then pf-9.
And last caughting it from other AR guys over buy'n S&W M&P15 - it most be junk.
Got ta admit it is my only S&W.
Gun snobs s*ck

 

[mgregg85]

Got into a nice debate with Caleb from gun nuts media. He posted about the Kriss pistol and I said that I'd much rather take a PLR-16 being that it is about the same size but fires a much more powerful round and is about 1/3rd the price. He quickly trashed kel-tec, saying that they have no quality control. I brought up the fact that KRISS has been having some QC issues of their own, not to mention design flaws. He didn't like that...

 

[outdoorsman1]

My "Fun" gun which has it's purpose and has given me no problems, but yet gets bashed in person and online is of course.... My Taurus Judge (6.5" barrel), Most in person go the "stuipd gun for self defense" route, until I tell them that I do not use it for self defense, that I carry my full size XD 40 (.40 Cal.) or my Sub Compact Glock 27 (.40 Cal.) for self defense... That usually shuts them up..

Outdoorsman1

 

[Zach S]

A lot of folks have given me grief about mt $800 AMT Hardballer. I cant figure it out, they think its a nice, custom built, .22lr 1911, until they hear its an AMT...

Yeah, it was a piece of crap, but it was also my first pistol. Used as a parts gun for a while (needed the grip bushings for something, the sear pin, hammer pin, etc).

A few years ago I decided to rebuild it into a dedicated .22lr. All I had at the time was the frame, trigger, and mag release. So I went to the 'smith, got some take-off parts, ordered new parts for what he didnt have in the parts bin, and left it with him to rebuild the frame.

Before I dropped the frame off, I was looking for a conversion kit, and all of them were backordered. I went from wanting to buy [this kit] to wanting the first one I found, a fixed sight Ceiner. Which, oddly enough, was in stock when he called to tell me my frame was finished.

It shot high when I first got it, so I had to file the rear sight down. Buy the time it was shooting POA the notch was only about .050" deep.

Different lot of ammo, and POI was high again. So I dropped it off at the 'smith again for a hidden BoMar, and he had a used rear sight. I picked it up before he had a chance to shoot it, and it shot a little high with the bottom sight bottomed out... So I dropped it off again with a Novak blank front sight (.295" tall) that I shaped to my preference.

So I have a good bit of money invested in my polished turd. But I still own the pistol I learned to shoot with, and my little girl will learn with it too. I never go to the range without it, and I'm not stingy, so a lot of other folks, both children and adults, have enjoyed it as well.

I paid $200 for it ten years ago, and spent $600 having it completely rebuilt. So, I have a custom built 1911 that I only have $800 in... Not too bad in IMO.


(note: this pic was taken before the new front sight was installed)

 

[Redneck with a 40]

My Mini-14 gets flack all the time because its not an AR. My Mini shoot's 1.5" groups with my handloads, at 100 yards and is reliable as a rock. They can keep their AR's.

By the way, soldier's in Iraq were required to clean their AR's three times a day, whether or not they fired them.

 

[Ignition Override]

Redneck with a 40:

A (coworker) veteran of Desert Storm with Special Forces told me that "Our guns jammed, so we picked up AKs".
Maybe that is connected to why the regular units were required to clean so often?

That coworker is based up in Detroit, and local coworkers who are his friends can provide me his phone number if any of his claims are in doubt.