these 2 guys at work.
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Glockamolie
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I'm as much (or more) in the hot rod culture as I am in the gun culture. There are the "6-second LeMans" goobers everywhere, too. I just have to bite my tongue and depart the area when I hear such things that are so far from the truth that we could never get back to reality within the amount of time I can stand to spend with an imbecile. 
Really funny BS stories and responses! You 'spose these folks are writing for TV shows now? I like the one about 12 gauge being so much superior to the 11 gauge !
But I think El Tejon drove the tack:
(Is "jagdork" a hunting dork? An "assault/attack" dork?)
Admit it: in our own way, we are exhibiting a little braggadocio in that we are giggling over their ignorance. I shan't relate to you some of the things I pretended to know when I was young and foolish --as opposed to the present, when I am old and foolish.
But seriously, why not just say, "Hey, you like to shoot? Why don't we get together next Saturday and hit the range?"
But I think El Tejon drove the tack:
(Is "jagdork" a hunting dork? An "assault/attack" dork?)
Admit it: in our own way, we are exhibiting a little braggadocio in that we are giggling over their ignorance. I shan't relate to you some of the things I pretended to know when I was young and foolish --as opposed to the present, when I am old and foolish.
But seriously, why not just say, "Hey, you like to shoot? Why don't we get together next Saturday and hit the range?"
counterman6
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I'm with Glockamolie,
I work in the auto parts industry and we all have our "whack jobs" building a "sick Honda with 400 hp and 350 ft lbs of torque!" I also have to hear about the deer hunters who took a charging bull moose at 300 yards using Grandpa's old Savage 99, blah, blah, blah, on and on.
It's fun when you ask, "So what do you think about the current house and senate majority predicament?"
They usually just throw out some insults toward Hillary Klinton and leave it at that. Sadly, most of them say they don't vote because it's just not worth it. I mean, gun owners! So sad...
I work in the auto parts industry and we all have our "whack jobs" building a "sick Honda with 400 hp and 350 ft lbs of torque!" I also have to hear about the deer hunters who took a charging bull moose at 300 yards using Grandpa's old Savage 99, blah, blah, blah, on and on.
It's fun when you ask, "So what do you think about the current house and senate majority predicament?"
They usually just throw out some insults toward Hillary Klinton and leave it at that. Sadly, most of them say they don't vote because it's just not worth it. I mean, gun owners! So sad...
Axman
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I just love the one-uppers! I usally laugh at them and shake my head.
I recall once when I raced my 73 Cuda back in the early 80's. I was in the pits tuning on my built 440 when a guy happened to come by and struck up a conversation.
"Wow, nice ride. I used to have a 69 Charger with a 450 Hemi and the 400 TH transmission!"
I won't even mention the gun related comments. Ron White is right, you just can't fix stupid.
I recall once when I raced my 73 Cuda back in the early 80's. I was in the pits tuning on my built 440 when a guy happened to come by and struck up a conversation.
"Wow, nice ride. I used to have a 69 Charger with a 450 Hemi and the 400 TH transmission!"
I won't even mention the gun related comments. Ron White is right, you just can't fix stupid.
eng23ine
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Thats nothing...I've been shooting with 35mm most of my life.
The new 'desert eagle' kodak really packs a punch!
loki.fish
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Probably not as good as some of the others. But here's the only one I can remember.
When I was a Freshman in high school (95/96) one of my buddies was telling me how his dad had just gotten a new .50 cal Israeli pistol. At the time, I knew nothing about guns except they go bang and a piece of lead comes out very very quickly, but I did understand .50 cal was big and I was amazed there was a .50 cal pistol, so I, of course, take the bait. He goes on a bit more and the only thing I can remember is him saying that it can "stop a tank". Fast Forward to 2002 when I step into the world of firearms. I find this amazing Israeli .50 cal pistol, it ends up being a Desert Eagle, but alas I'm disappointed as it obviously won't stop a tank. Man, the things you believe when you don't know any better.
When I was a Freshman in high school (95/96) one of my buddies was telling me how his dad had just gotten a new .50 cal Israeli pistol. At the time, I knew nothing about guns except they go bang and a piece of lead comes out very very quickly, but I did understand .50 cal was big and I was amazed there was a .50 cal pistol, so I, of course, take the bait. He goes on a bit more and the only thing I can remember is him saying that it can "stop a tank". Fast Forward to 2002 when I step into the world of firearms. I find this amazing Israeli .50 cal pistol, it ends up being a Desert Eagle, but alas I'm disappointed as it obviously won't stop a tank. Man, the things you believe when you don't know any better.
possum
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oh well....well....well that hip fired tow launcher i have is more accurate!
robert garner
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not to go of tangentially
but perhaps this is the same breed as all the "snipers" that apparently the army/marines have no use for at this time, runnin' about?
Hey its a laugh, have a nice day!
robert
but perhaps this is the same breed as all the "snipers" that apparently the army/marines have no use for at this time, runnin' about?
Hey its a laugh, have a nice day!
robert
One of my kid's assignments in college was to read the autobiography of Malcome X. In it he discusses handguns and in one instance states, and I paraphrase, "The 9mm pistol is awesome. Once we shot a rabbit from our car and when we went over to find him, found he had been completely vaporized." I believe he was serious.
History Prof
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A few weeks ago, I was lecturing on Bleeding Kansas and mentioned Beecher's Bibles. A student in the front row smiled really big and chimed in about how if you got shot in the shoulder with a Sharps rifle it would shatter your entire arm from the shoulder to the fingertips.
High Planes Drifter
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The guy with the revolver, I may have had enough patience to correct. I used to own a Taurus Tracker Titanium in .45LC, it was a snubbie. Maybe the guy just got manufacturers confused.? The 11 mm dude, well, there's not much I would be able to do with that one but stand in awe of the bull$h!t flying out of his mouth.
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with that would constantly brag about this old raged-out 'Stang he had. This thing had 4 different color quarter panels, the headliner was hanging down so low he could have gotten a ticket for obstrution of driver view, 4 different size tires(all bald), and it knocked when first started. One day when he was filling us in on the awsomeness of this hooptie, he said , and I quote - " I paid a mechanic to have dual distributors put in. There's a distributor on each end of the motor. The motor now creates enough electricity to light up a football stadium".
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with that would constantly brag about this old raged-out 'Stang he had. This thing had 4 different color quarter panels, the headliner was hanging down so low he could have gotten a ticket for obstrution of driver view, 4 different size tires(all bald), and it knocked when first started. One day when he was filling us in on the awsomeness of this hooptie, he said , and I quote - " I paid a mechanic to have dual distributors put in. There's a distributor on each end of the motor. The motor now creates enough electricity to light up a football stadium".
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I lost out on a great hunting area and cabin because I showed my Neice's husband that a 454 Casull will not spin anybody around if they get hit in the hand. He still believes it will, even after shooting my 45 Colt and looking at the Physics.
rero360
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I got a couple, the first two are from two individuals in my unit that attended the SARMAC school, (small arms maintence something something or other) anyways one said that the reason that the bullet from the M16 hits lower at three hundred meters than at a hundred is becuase the barrel is curved.
the other was giving a PMI class on the M240B, and proclaimed that the machine gun fires the same round as the Ak-47, I corrected him and got yelled at for snipering him.
the third was my team leader asking me if I had any extra rounds for my AT4, for those that arn't familure with it, the AT4 is an anti tank rocket, like the LAW, fire and forget type weapon.
also took me a month to get it through my squad leaders head that the SAW fires from an open bolt, would constantly tell me to chamber a round, I just laughed at him.
the other was giving a PMI class on the M240B, and proclaimed that the machine gun fires the same round as the Ak-47, I corrected him and got yelled at for snipering him.
the third was my team leader asking me if I had any extra rounds for my AT4, for those that arn't familure with it, the AT4 is an anti tank rocket, like the LAW, fire and forget type weapon.
also took me a month to get it through my squad leaders head that the SAW fires from an open bolt, would constantly tell me to chamber a round, I just laughed at him.
Deanimator
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I'll never forget the simpering jackass in usenet who claimed something to the effect of having his "greatgrandfather's 8ga. semi-auto that he used in WWI".
It was like when Molaram falls into the river with the crocodiles in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". The only thing left was some blood and a few scraps of tattered cloth...
Then there was the "father's rights" nutcase in FidoNet who ranted about how people shouldn't be allowed to have "five hundred round magazines" for the AK47, and how he was in "Air Force Special Forces in Vietnam when all of the Special Forces were together..." I might have at some point volunteered that he might instead have been a member of Kurt Vonnegut's "Parachute Ski-Marines". It was pretty much like "The Ghost and the Darkness" and he was lion food, rather than a lion....
It was like when Molaram falls into the river with the crocodiles in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". The only thing left was some blood and a few scraps of tattered cloth...
Then there was the "father's rights" nutcase in FidoNet who ranted about how people shouldn't be allowed to have "five hundred round magazines" for the AK47, and how he was in "Air Force Special Forces in Vietnam when all of the Special Forces were together..." I might have at some point volunteered that he might instead have been a member of Kurt Vonnegut's "Parachute Ski-Marines". It was pretty much like "The Ghost and the Darkness" and he was lion food, rather than a lion....
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One of my favorites in these situations is to calmly raise my left hand without saying anything. When somebody asks what I am doing I explain that it too late for the boots, I'm trying to save my watch.
possum
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yeah i hear that alot to but i really don't hold that over anyones head to much, because 7.62 i all they know, they don't know enough to understand the x39's, and x51 and x54 etc. i do explain this to them, a i am sure it is pretty daunting for someone that isn't big in the gun know.
no reloadable. one shot
well assuming that your squad leader is an e-6, or atleast an e-5 depending on your unit. either way he should be "tactically and technically profecient" ask him if he knows were that line comes from. i bet he dosen't know also ask him as an nco what is his watch word. again he will probally look at you like you have a growing from your forhead.
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I think that probably happens to alot of us at some time,at work I've had some off the wall comments about firearms.I guess it depends on your mood and whether you like the guy if you want to engage deeper in the conversation.
There was one guy at work who expressed interest in shooting,he wasn't well schooled in firearm knowledge and when I first took him and his girlfriend out he tried shooting "gangsta" style lol!....but now he is a bonified "gun nut",last time I talked to him he sounded like he had gained useful knowledge and had aquired "aquisition fever" for firearms lol!.
Hey possum,my dad was stationed at Ft Riley for a while back in the 50's,he shot pistol competition there,still got his patches,photos and trophies.I need to get a scanner to get those photos to my pc.
cheers.
There was one guy at work who expressed interest in shooting,he wasn't well schooled in firearm knowledge and when I first took him and his girlfriend out he tried shooting "gangsta" style lol!....but now he is a bonified "gun nut",last time I talked to him he sounded like he had gained useful knowledge and had aquired "aquisition fever" for firearms lol!.
Hey possum,my dad was stationed at Ft Riley for a while back in the 50's,he shot pistol competition there,still got his patches,photos and trophies.I need to get a scanner to get those photos to my pc.
cheers.
El Tejon
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Since you guys asked:
jagdorks: a corruption of the term j**koff, one ignorant of the topic being discussed, one who makes things up to make themselves seem important. It is a term I have found used primarily in the Midwest, Chicago area.
They are potential allies. Do not belittle them and turn them against us. Invite them shooting!
jagdorks: a corruption of the term j**koff, one ignorant of the topic being discussed, one who makes things up to make themselves seem important. It is a term I have found used primarily in the Midwest, Chicago area.
They are potential allies. Do not belittle them and turn them against us. Invite them shooting!
I watched a National Geographic special about hippos the other day. Males wiggle their tails and defecate at the same time to spread feces everywhere. It marks their territory. These guys remind me of that. Marking their territory with BS. Some of them I'll invite to go shooting. Most I would be afraid for my life, and would not be able to stand being around them any more than I have to.
One upsmenship is very bad character trait. Besides being insultingly arogant, they rarely admit any wrong doing or mistakes. I wouldn't invite them to anything social, much less shooting time.
If someone makes a mistake or "mispeaks" when he talks about a Glock revolver and admits to it then no harm, no foul.
If someone makes a mistake or "mispeaks" when he talks about a Glock revolver and admits to it then no harm, no foul.
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