"Possibily" Stupid Fireams Quotes ?

[19-3Ben]

I did not hear it directly, but I remember someone posting this quote one of the previous times we had a thread like this.
The poster had heard a guy at a gun shop tried to argue that for cheap target shooting with a .44spl, you could just tape two .22lr rounds together and since .22 + .22 is .44, it would work.

 

[GEM]

" I shot a 45 in the service - darn near tore my arm off"

Heard this twice. Funny - still have my arm after shooting 120 WWB 230 gr. in a match.

 

[Ranger Roberts]

Buddy in the 75th was told a .50BMG passing close your your head would suck out your brains because of the vacuum left in it's wake, and he repeated it as fact. I had to correct him and tell him not to believe everything he heard.

I was in the 75th and I have actually heard someone say that!!!

I've told the story here before so I won't repeat the whole thing. One time at Cabelas a young guy (early 20's) told me that a .380 was useless and wouldn't even penetrate a leather jacket.

 

[LT.Diver]

"You should't carry a .22 for self defense, there's no stopping power".
Hmm..let's see. I killed a large male coyote about sixty yards out with one shot from my model 18. Also, instantly finished off a road-hit deer with one round from the same gun. So a .22 will instantly kill a 120 pound deer and a large, aggressive coyote, but there's no way it will stop a human?

 

[FROGO207]

Shooting buddy handing me a rifle to put in the back of the Jeep after some range time. "It's empty I already checked it." As I dropped the full MAG and ejected one from the chamber.:banghead: I checked everything again after that just in case.

 

[stonecutter2]

"The 223 round was designed to tumble, causing catastrophic wounding."

 

[Gun Master]

Talking With Wives About Guns

Wife responding to husband : "Sometimes, I think your fooling around with guns, makes you a little bit crazy. There is 'no way' that a 12 is bigger and more powerful than a 22" !

 

[sherman123]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."-Isoroku Yamamoto
also
"This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future"-Adolf Hitler
Both quotes false and false quotes hurt our credibility.

 

[barnbwt]

"It's empty I already checked it."

I think this one has the win. "Don't worry the mag's out" is probably gunning for #1, though

"I think this might be a stupid idea" -Isoroku Yamamoto

TCB

 

[pendennis]

I attended a City of Louisville Board of Aldermen meeting in late 1968. The Louisville Police Department made a proposal to replace the existing .38 Special revolvers (Colt, S&W), and mix of S&W N frames (.45 Colt, .44 Special), with the Model 19 S&W, using a 158gr JHP load. They justified their proposal with the usual "better stopping power", etc.

An Alderman from the east end piped up: "We can't go arming the police with a revolver which will shoot straight through a person, and kill someone two blocks away!"

 

[Starter52]

I picked up a Bersa .380 and had the "big box store" clerk ask me if I needed a bore snake. I said no, I have cleaning rods.

He informed me "You can't clean that gun from the muzzle, it will ruin the accuracy."

I let it pass, but really, what a dumbazz.

 

[Lost Sheep]

I did not hear it directly, but I remember someone posting this quote one of the previous times we had a thread like this.
The poster had heard a guy at a gun shop tried to argue that for cheap target shooting with a .44spl, you could just tape two .22lr rounds together and since .22 + .22 is .44, it would work.

Are you supposed to tape them together side-by-side or front-to-back?

Lost Sheep

 

[Lost Sheep]

Buddy in the 75th was told a .50BMG passing close your your head would suck out your brains because of the vacuum left in it's wake, and he repeated it as fact. I had to correct him and tell him not to believe everything he heard.

Obviously, the person who said that stood next to the path of a .50 BMG at some time in the past.

Lost Sheep

 

[KarenTOC]

the main character "flipped the safety off his chrome Glock revolver." Wowsers!

Was the source English? I heard or read somewhere that "revolver" is (or was) the generic term for "handgun" in England.

I once saw an old Sherlock Holmes episode where Watson was obviously holding a semiautomatic pistol and Sherlock said something like: Good, you have your revolver. Sherlock knows everything, so I assume.....

 

[jeffmack]

I don't remember if it were an English writer or not. I suppose that is possible. Still lots of mess ups, though.

 

[Old Dog]

As much as I have enjoyed Clint Eastwood's movies over the years, and relished the "Dirty Harry" flicks ...
"... being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off ..."
... well, again, sometimes the famous movie quotes just create some problematic misperceptions among those that know no better ...

 

[25cschaefer]

"The 308 is like a 300winmag only in a short action, thats why the Army issues them to their 'light infiltrator snipers' for super long range kill shots." This was said at a gun counter by the salesman to a guy trying to buy his first elk rifle, he was worried about the 30-06's knockdown power at 600+yds. I had to search frantically for the ducktape.

 

[RustyShackelford]

"Tampering with crime scene evidence."......

A few years ago, I read a forum post where a intrepid member offered that any armed citizens or crime victims should not reload or recharge their firearm after a lethal force event because it could be considered "tampering with evidence".
This advice & the "unload your gun & put it down" could get you killed or at least shot in real world events.

Doing security work I've seen street people scamper up & snatch items off the ground, , I've seen "witnesses" lie or change their stories multiple times at crime scenes(most of which were drunk or intoxicated).

 

[CWL]

When Mossgberg came out with 835 and Federal came out with 3.5" ammo for it that was actually true fact.

One guy at Shotgun World suggested that Mossberg was better than Remington because they made more shotguns in certain year. That is like saying Walmart shoes are better than Ferragamo shoes because many more are sold.

I don't think he was that deep into firearms. It wasn't about shells, quality, reliability, accuracy or any bit of fact we might use to compare firearms. His argument was that tube-to-tube, Mossberg was simply "more powerful"!

 

[Gun Master]

.22 x 2 = .44

Are you supposed to tape them together side-by-side or front-to-back?

Lost Sheep

As far as putting two .22's together to make a .44, since all the components are soft metal (i.e., brass, lead, etc.), if you have been standing next to the .50 BMG when it was discharged, it would seem possible to pound them together with a hammer, in the general shape of a .44 (please do not try this experiment at home, since it might be dangerous to your health).

 

[rs7]

A little off topic, but when your looking up the barrel of a .44 magnum, are you really going to get into a ballistics discussion? No, you're not. What's the guy going to say?
"I'm sorry, the .44 magnum is not the most powerful handgun in the world and it won't blow my head clean off". Good luck with that.

 

[Sol]

Many of the customers I hear at the gunshops are "SEALS", "snipers" and "special operators", so I don't hear any sort of lies or tall tales or anything....

 

[Sunray]

"I heard..." When applied to nearly everything on the Internet and other places.
"The United States has never lost a war" Attributed to G.S. Patton.
"There is no firearm registration in the U.S." All those ATF forms do just that.

 

[Bobson]

I guess it's unavoidable, but this is among the most ironic threads I've seen in recent months.

 

[astra600]

Ooooh. I love operators. "I bring my F/A to this gunsmith because he doesn't ask for my ATF paperwork to fix my rifle. I dropped it on a mission in Russia down an industrial chimney I was climbing in." He was about as big around as an industrial chimney.