What's the oddest thing you've heard someone say in regards to firearms, ammunition, etc.?

[Golfanaticshooter]

It is a lot of recoil, but it's a LOT of ship.

The waves you see in the water aren't generated by recoil, they're displaced water from the muzzle blast.

According to experts, the ship moves sideways less than a millimeter under recoil.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.php
Think about it, if the ship actually recoiled 20 feet it'd cripple or kill just about everyone aboard when they got slammed into the fast moving steel bulkheads.

They may be right, but look at the bow wake. That ship is moving to the port. I've never been on one, but I would bet the laws of physics apply at sea as well.

 

[Swampman]

They may be right, but look at the bow wake. That ship is moving to the port. I've never been on one, but I would bet the laws of physics apply at sea as well.

Did you read the article in NAVWEPS?

 

[Golfanaticshooter]

Yes, and I understand the effects of the muzzle blast. I'll keep it short so as not to divert the thread. Each projectile leaves the muzzle with approx 262 million pounds of energy, a full broadside is about 2.4 billion FPE. Converting that to recoil energy gives us approx 7 million FPE per gun, 63 million FPE for a full. The ships standard load is 47,825 tons, 107,128,000 pounds. A lot. Imagine shooting 9 rifles, each of which had recoil energy equal to 6.5% of your body weight with 6 of them above your center of gravity. (For me, that would be a 7.5 lb rifle firing 7mm-08, I weigh 230 lbs.) It would be hard not to move. Impossible, in fact. In addition, I think a lot of us have moved boats, some pretty heavy, with relative ease that we could never move "on ice." Now I am not making a literal comparison of man and ship, but the principles are the same. Energy happens. Big things included.

 

[Dewey 68]

Was at the range today and heard some funny things from a couple of lanes over and had to look up this thread and post.

There was an "experienced" shooter showing a first time shooter the basics of shooting. He was loudly explaining all kinds of things to the new shooter. I could hear him clearly with my electronic muffs on my head, but turned off. He said a couple of things that had me laughing inside. I had finished with my first target and we were both throwing targets away when he said to the new shooter "Look at the size of the holes that 45 is putting in that target!" I was shooting 357 Sig, the same size holes as the 9mm they were shooting. The new shooter must have purchased some ammo for the trip, and wasn't going to shoot it all and was telling the other guy he could have it. "Naw, I don't want to take that home. If I shot someone with that it would go through the guy and into my neighbors house! I've got Hydra Shoks at home. They have a little bit of water in them to help them expand."

Good on the guy for taking someone new to the range though.

 

[Outlaw75]

Customer:
"Who's Dan Wesson"?

He's the guy who invented that gun oil!!!!