Love Your Neighbor?

[preacherJohn]

I had a thought this morning that I would imagine all of us do which happens to me from time to time. Occasionally friends and sometimes relatives drop by, and when we engage in talking about firearms, we end up in the backyard shooting a few rounds. Almost everyone carries their own gun, but seldom, if at all carry ammo to shoot besides the SD loads that are in their mags. Of course they all know I have plenty since I reload. So, with that said, here's what I thought about. I have plenty of bullets laying around that I was not very impressed with, or actually shot horrible in my weapons. I'm thinking about loading up some that just might shoot inside of an 18" circle @ 10yds to give away to these spongers who never bring their own ammo to the backyard match. Of course they would be indistinguishable to the loads I might use that will group within an inch. Have anyone of you tried this before for a good laugh, or do you think this might be too deceptive? I really don't want to hurt anyone's feelings with my "snicker" behind my hand if not just a very loud bellow of HA,HA,HA..

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Beggars can't be choosers.

 

[Stew0576]

I love it, I'm finding myself more and more in the same situation, think i will steal your idea

 

[Doublehelix]

Love it!!! Happens to me all the time as well.

 

[milemaker13]

+1 that's funny. Let them in on it after a few rounds if you want to... Lol.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

I train retrievers with a group of guys several time a week. We use a lot of 12 gauge poppers, just a loud bang with no shot, load them myself with bird seed for filler.
I had a great idea based on "Cremora Bombs" black powder and coffee creamer makes a big fire ball. Thought it would be pretty funny when instead of a bang they got burst of fire.
Did not work as planned. Not enough weight in cremora to create any pressure so it just ignited and burned in the barrel.
Cooked on cremora is hard to remove.

 

[Dudedog]

I trust my reloads, but I will only go as far as letting close friends shoot my reloads in my guns.
I would be more tempted to say oopsss don't have any handy you can use but I can show you how to load some up real quick.
(you should try to show them how to reload anyway)
I can't think of any pistol loads I have loaded that where so bad I would be talking about an 18" circle at 10 yards.
If you want to let them shoot your reloads I wouldn't give them ones with poor accuracy even though it might be funny.
Pride in craftsmanship, give them what you are using that shoots well .and beat them fair and square.
Then when they have really good groups you can smile and say nice ammo right?

 

[preacherJohn]

Dudedog, you ain't any fun, LOL. That's what we do here in KY.

I was only exaggerating on the 18" circle just to make a point of how bad the ammo might shoot.

Instead of "nice ammo, right," I might say something like, "I'll pray your groups get better."

Did you see the part where I said my reloads that I shoot would be within an inch?? Now that's nice ammo.

 

[mdi]

A squib load might teach your friends, those who "forgot" to bring ammo, to use their own ammo...

 

[Dudedog]

"I'll pray your groups get better."

tsk tsk tsk

Did you see the part where I said my reloads that I shoot would be within an inch?? Now that's nice ammo.

Saw that, that's why I said give them the good stuff to show how sweet you reloads shoot!

 

[Stew0576]

I haven't let anyone use reloads at this time but they shoot up my factory ammo at a unhealthy rate, told one guy he had to bring 22 ammo, he brought 100 and shot 300 hmmmmmmm

 

[SamT1]

We used to load some black powder 12 gauge shells to shoot at the trap range. They are pretty fun and smell delicious, but cleaning guns that intensive got pretty old.

You can make some trick shells using fast burning powder a small wad and some grain sorghum. They might cycle an auto like a benelli or Berreta even. Some guys I know used to use them to shoot rats and birds in their barn. The pattern dies fast so it wouldn’t bust a clay pigeon at any distance. You may pass them for light trap loads.

 

[Danoobie]

Beggars can't be choosers.

This. If they were more concerned about accuracy, IMO, they would bring their own loads, and stop putting the load on YOU.

 

[Demi-human]

When I take my dad out I always make sure to load his magazines with the Elk inspired thirty aught six cartridges from town. They are stout. While I shoot my varmint weight reloads that have an impressive fireball. He always remarks how I can handle so many more rounds out of Grandpa's rifle than he. Someday I'll tell him...

 

[someguy2800]

I used to load shotgun shells on my dads press in school and would play all shorts of pranks on the moochers who wanted to shoot my ammo. I would load up 6 buckshot pellets so they couldn't hit a clay unless extremely lucky (and you couldn't tell the difference from a trap load). Or I would load shells with no powder. The primer is enough to make a pop gun sound and throw the wad and shot about 15 feet. Lucky I never had a squib with that. My favorite was to fill one up with half shot and half glitter. Have to make it heavy enough that they can't tell when they take it out of the box.

 

[FROGO207]

So one day a couple friends and I were out duck hunting. No action and we were bored sitting in the skiff. Had my double 12 and a big box of ammo with me. Someone throws a bottle with the cap on it overboard and it floats away. After it gets some distance away they try to shoot it and miss many times. So I offer up my double that they know has always been accurate on previous hunts. I hand a couple shells to the friend that is an obnoxious know it all and he shoots them. He complains that the shotty kicks like a mule. I load myself up a couple and miss the bottle on purpose. Other friend tries and misses on purpose as well with a wink to me. Back to the know it all and he shoots two more rounds I handed to him and complains about the shotty kicking badly again. The bottle is now basically out of range so the other guy and I each shoot one more pair and miss yet again. Back to the know it all, he shoots again and he complains yet again that it kicks so hard. A couple more rounds of this and we call it a day and go back to shore. On the way home the know it all wonders out loud from the back seat how we manage to shoot that thing without complaining. We just told him he had to toughen up his shoulder. So the two of us were shooting basically buffered trap loads in 3 inch magnum hulls and I was handing the know it all 3 inch magnum turkey reloads. Never did tell him the difference to this day. The next week he showed me his black and blue shoulder. He claims my double kicks too hard and has declined many offers to shoot it at other more recent times. Wonder why?

 

[Demi-human]

It may not be nice, but as long as it's safe, it sure is fun.

My boy also finds pleasure in plastic lizards on Grandma's yogurt in the fridge. She is "scared silly" every single time!
I think she has more fun than he does...

 

[Blkhrt13]

Leaving me in stitches this morning

 

[sparkyv]

Cooked on cremora is hard to remove.

Too funny! LOL.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I use to let my closest friends use my ammo in their pistols and it proved to be accurate in them as well. All that got me was them wanting to me load all theirs to and buying them off me. They didn't care what the laws say, and what liability they were putting on me. I wanted to teach them to load on my equipment but they weren't interested. So I quit giving them my loads.

DudeDog, Isn't it funny how as soon as they have to do some work or learn something like how to reload safely, all of a sudden they aren't interested and they tend to blame us for it when we won't sell them ammunition.

I have some good friends that don't shoot with me anymore, I often wondered if it's because I won't sell them ammo to them.
My neighbor across the street was the exception to the rule. He felt guilty about shooting my ammo because he couldn't afford to pay me for it, so he doesn't like to shoot it.
He is the type of person I want to give ammo to and not worry about it because people like him are rare.

 

[Col. Harrumph]

Well just FYI, it's OK if your pals load their own using your tools and equipment, but don't let the feds learn that YOU loaded that ammo... unless you're a licensed ammo maker. (Thank you Big Brother! )

 

[doubleh]

Except for one grandson I really don't care if you can't shoot because you didn't bring ammo. If you are old enough to have a gun you are old enough to buy ammo for it and not depend on bumming mine. The reason the grandson get a pass is he comes and does stuff for Grandpa..

 

[Archie]

I would do as you suggest, except I would 'advertise' the ammo as "just shootin' ammo, nothing special".

I've got several hundred bullets I may or may not use. Sounds like a way to use them up for a good cause.

 

[hdwhit]

preacherJohn asked
Have anyone of you tried this before for a good laugh,

Absolutely not.

Apart from the fact that to do so would not put me in the position of esteeming others better than myself (Php 2:3), what impression of my skills as a reloader would such a ruse give to the guests?

or do you think this might be too deceptive?

Unless I represented the ammunition as my typical fare, I don't think there's any deception involved.

I would (as I do with both my sons who shoot but do not reload) issue out a certain number of rounds to each guest and after those had been expended announce that I lived on a budget and that while I freely shared with them, we had expended that portion of the budget for the week/month and would have to stop.

 

[preacherJohn]

Absolutely not

Another "party pooper" ladies and gentlemen.

in the position of esteeming others better than myself (Php 2:3)

Seeing how you like the Scriptures, here's one I find more apply-able to my post: Don’t you remember the rule we had when we lived with you? “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” And now we’re getting reports that a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings are taking advantage of you. This must not be tolerated. We command them to get to work immediately—no excuses, no arguments—and earn their own keep. Friends, don’t slack off in doing your duty.
(2Thessalonians 3:10-13).