I was working behind the sporting goods counter in a small store when a regular customer came in. I had sold him a 300 RUM a couple of years prior, and he said he was upgrading from a 300 Win Mag and had never fired a 300 RUM. Also, on his visits to the store he had stated he had never hunted outside Colorado. So, here he is, bragging to a couple of guys about the multitudes of deer and bunches of elk he had shot at over 1000 yards. Let's see. If he had been lucky enough for drawings, he may have been able to shoot more than 2 deer and 2 elk. During a break in his story, I asked him what kind of scope and reticle he had. Leupold 4-12, duplex. At what sight-in range? 300 yards. Where did he hold on the animals at that range? He said my gun is so flat shooting, I just aim right above the shoulder.

Hmmm. Must be some kind of super-duper ammo!

I'll add to this story. I have an aquaintance that tends to BS a little. He was bragging about a doe he shot at 750 yards. Said you couldn't even see the deer with the naked eye. He went on and on. Finally I said "How much did you have to hold over?" (Shooting a 300 WIN MAG). He says "None, I just put the crosshairs on her back and fired..."

I just laughed and walked away knowing he was as full of bull as a Christmas Turkey. He no doubt put an extra zero on his yardage.

Guys,

This thread just proves "We have to hear the story whether we love the braggers or hate'em".

I personnally love to hear their stories, And LOL wonder how on earth they expect anyone to believe'em???

However the best one I ever witnessed wasn't about firarms, so hope y'all are OK If I tell it:

Many years ago, I got in with a bunch of Alabama coon hunters. They LOVED to brag on their dogs! They would typically make a camp fire and let the dogs loose. Usually we would have some time around the fire before the dogs hit. This was their BRAGGING TIME. It had gotten so bad that they started a bet! If one was called on a brag and could not prove it, he had to pay all the others a $1 (Yes it was a long time ago). If someone called him and he could prove it all had to pay him a $1.

So...One night Larry was bragging on his dog - That he had to tape up one of the dogs nostrils to keep him from running 2 coons at the same time!? Yeah he was called on it - So since the dogs had not hit yet they all called them back to let Larry's dog try to run 2 coons alone.

When Larry' dog ran back in he still had the tape on on side of his nose!!!

While I was working on a project at a local high tech facility the locksmith at this facility told me he just killed a cow elk at 750 yards. Shocked at the claim I asked him how far did he have to hold over to make that shot, he "informed" me that he held "dead on" cuz he shoots a "7 mag" and everybody knows how flat they shoot!
That wasn't enough for me so I asked him where he hit it to kill it at that distance he "informed" me that it didn't matter where he hit it he reminded me that he already told me he was shooting a "Magnum"! ('nuff said!)

Another project and another expert: a carpenter informs me that his Marine Sniper buddy that he hunts with routinely dumps his elk at "over a thousand yards" and he has personnaly witnessed him shoot a cow dead at 1200. Not wanting to question anyones integrity but still curious I mentioned that there is a LOT of holdover involved at those distances before you even consider the wind. He tells me his buddy has overcome "all that" with his special 7 Mag reloads. He uses 120 grain hollow points that don't drop and aren't effected by wind cuz they are so fast, these bullets hit with so much power that they actually "pick the elk up a little" before dropping it to the ground. This carpenter was so convinced that he sold his dads old 30/06 and bought a new "7 Mag" and was having his friend load the secret recipe for him too!
Just one more.
A salesman that used to call on the firm I worked for claimed that he had hunted his whole life in Colorado. We talked about Deer at first and he informed me that he had the best deer rifle ever a 250/300 Savage, I agreed it is a great deer round, then he went on to inform me that it isn't any good for elk because it is so fast (3000 fps) that it zips right thru the elk without causing any damage and they live just fine after that! His dad made him stop using it on elk because it was pointless.

I have more but I think I'll save'em.

Of course there's the other side of the "holdover" claims - honesty.
Watched a friend knock down a cow elk at a lasered 690yds uphill using a 300RUM & when asked how much holdover, he replied "about an elk & a half".

On this same website: "Painting a gun makes it shoot better"

At least, that's the title of the post, but the writer didn't mean that, but the title by itself sounds pretty stupid.

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Originally posted by Red C.:
On this same website: "Painting a gun makes it shoot better"

At least, that's the title of the post, but the writer didn't mean that, but the title by itself sounds pretty stupid.

Yes....I read that too.....and it's clear it was all "tongue in cheek"....the guy does it fairly often.

He seems to like to take literary license with a bit of humor.....nothing wrong with that.....we can all use a good laugh now and again.

We had a poster like that years ago.....Digital Dan.....great humor in his posts. IMO it's a gift.....

I have also heard the saying

"it zips through them so fast they don't even know the have been shot"

I heard one about a guy selling a rifle on GB referring to bidders as "Penny Lurkers".

Apparently that is reserved for people who bid $.01 opening bid on those auctions with no reserve.

The stupidist thing is the seller is calling the buyer, who followed the GB rules a fraud after the seller backed out of the sale!!!!!!!!

Absolutely Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard about a guy who found humor and enjoyment in the misfortunate circumstances of others. I mean really, a guy like that is overdue for his turn to understand the old stupid saying of my karma ran over my dogma today, or something like that.

KB

I used to be part owner of a gun shop in a far west Texas city! There are several large army bases near there so many of our customers were soldiers. There was one GI from West Virginia mining country, and he only had to open his mouth and you knew he was probably 20 yrs old before he wore shoes! The first time he came into the shop he made the comment that his grand mother had a recipe to turn rattlesnake rattles into gold! I think he really believed she did, just ignorant. So now you understand where this guy is coming from.

The deer season rolled around and this guy and another GI came into the shop. The other guy wanted to buy a rifle to hunt deer on the military reservation. He told the clerk he was thinking about a rifle chambered for 308. The Ignoramus stopped him and told him that the 308 was no good for the open mountains of MacGregor range, and what he needed was a “WEATHERLEY” “369” magnum, because it would shoot absolutely flat for a half mile, then start to rise!



I’ve read all the posts in this thread and some of the things are funny as heck. However some of the things that people wrote about being untrue were in fact simply something they themselves did not understand.

Like one example being Hot Core’s #2 HeeHawing 400 Nitro Express about the checkering, and the chequering! What Hot Core didn’t understand was that Mark (400 Nitro Express) was not saying one was better than the other, but that if you are RESTOREING a vintage English double rifle or shotgun, you don’t put American checkering on it. Both types of checkering are good, but the American checkering doesn’t belong on an English collector item being restored. The English type doesn’t belong on an American classic rifle or shotgun. To a collector the checkering Mark was objecting to will destroy the collector value from “pristine” to “poorly re-finished”, a matter of several thousand dollars in collector value. SO everything that may seem to be BS is not always Brown and wet!

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I used to be part owner of a gun shop in a far west Texas city!

MAC, what gun shop were you part owner of? I live in El Paso and I might have bought stuff from you.

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I used to be part owner of a gun shop in a far west Texas city!

MAC, what gun shop were you part owner of? I live in El Paso and I might have bought stuff from you.

It was the OLD Barney's guns with the origenal owner next to Smitty's BBQ on Airport road. I took my pay in guns, gun smithing, and loading supplies.

I lived in El Paso from 1950 to 1982,when I transfered to D/FW and I still have a son and four grand kids in El Paso, My youngest sister owns four Subway stores there , and she has kids and grand kids there as well. I lived all ove El Paso for years, the last place I lived was in Pebble Hills, and worked for American Airlines there, and retired with them at D/FW in 1996. I really miss hunting in the desert, and in New Mexico.

How's hunting around the old sand box? Is the desert sands range still around or gone?

Well, it's not the stupidest thing i've ever heard, as much as it was the stupidest thing i've ever seen, or maybe heard too.
A guy I used to know purchased a run of the mill savage 110 300 win mag combo gun some years back. I ran into him a year or so later, at a buddies house one evening after deer hunting. I asked him how that 300 mag was shooting. His reply, without missing a beat, was "That 7MM Mag is shooting great. I asked him what he did with the 300. He said he never had a 300. I said "Dude the rifle you showed me last year was a 300 mag."
So we bickered a bit about it. He decided to prove me wrong, and went out to his car and brought the rifle in, with his 7mm mag ammo.
Sure enough, rifle was a 300 win mag. And assclown had been inadvertantly fireforming 7MM rem mag brass all deer season with it. I never spoke with him again, and haven't seen him since.
Evidently 7mm rem mag will fire through a 300 win mag in a pinch.
And that is the dumbest thing i've ever encountered in the gun world.
Mike73

WOW...That’s hilarious that dude should change hobby before he gets hurt....

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Originally posted by Mike73:
Well, it's not the stupidest thing i've ever heard, as much as it was the stupidest thing i've ever seen, or maybe heard too.
A guy I used to know purchased a run of the mill savage 110 300 win mag combo gun some years back. I ran into him a year or so later, at a buddies house one evening after deer hunting. I asked him how that 300 mag was shooting. His reply, without missing a beat, was "That 7MM Mag is shooting great. I asked him what he did with the 300. He said he never had a 300. I said "Dude the rifle you showed me last year was a 300 mag."
So we bickered a bit about it. He decided to prove me wrong, and went out to his car and brought the rifle in, with his 7mm mag ammo.
Sure enough, rifle was a 300 win mag. And assclown had been inadvertantly fireforming 7MM rem mag brass all deer season with it. I never spoke with him again, and haven't seen him since.
Evidently 7mm rem mag will fire through a 300 win mag in a pinch.
And that is the dumbest thing i've ever encountered in the gun world.
Mike73

Ohh, that's too funny! You may just win the whole kittin'kaboodle with that one!

They say reloading is inherently dangerous, but I've always thought remaining stupid is the greatest hazard!

friar

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
a gouger mountain commando, selling a naughty black rifle, told the would be mall ninja "look, man, i have to tell you this - stage whisper- NEVER use 223 remington in this rifle .. that's the civilian stuff and won't stop "the BAD GUY" nearly as well a the real deal military 5.56MM Naayh Toe"

no, really, he said 5.56MM was a MUCH better stopper than .223 rem

I had a guy on a TRUCK forum trying to tell me that shooting Military 5.56 ammo in my 223
(Rem700 Bolt rifle) was "dangerous, because the Military ammo was loaded to much higher pressure!" and that it would "blow up my Civilian rifle"



I'm thinking that it might have been the same guy...

But as for hitting things at impossible distances?

I once connected with a Jackrabbit with a 22LR
at a lasered 260yards... in a 30mph crosswind...of course that sounds like complete bullshit,... until I tell you the rest of the story... it took me 40rounds and what finally got him was not one artistically aimed shot with skilled wind doping... Nope, nothing of the kind... but six or seven shots (all that was in the magazine at the time) fired as fast as I could pull the trigger and to my suprise (not to mention the great suprise of the jackrabbit involved) one of those bullets hit him in the head... game over.

The only reason I kept trying was that there was a $20 bet involved that I couldn't hit him
with a my 10-22 (which was kept onhand for snakes and close range cottontails)
within 50 rounds... I won with ten rounds to spare, but it took me damned near an hour....

AD

"if you like your present plan, you can keep it."

I was on the range one day and a couple of young guys set up on a bench one over from me. I didn't pay much attention to them at first but after they got set up, I noticed they had a 3 in 1 oil can sitting on the bench. They didn't have any cleaning patches or cleaning rods with them that I could see. I watched them load the rifle (7 Mag) and then one of them squirted oil down the barrel and the other one shot it. I casually got up and walked to the other end of the range and watched as they shot a couple more rounds following the same procedure. When they laid the rifle down, I walked over and asked about the oil and they said it made the bullet go faster. While they took a break, I packed up and left.

I hunted moose one season with a guy that also had a 223 for roe deer. He told me that the 223 was so fast that that even if the bullet missed the deer slightly the bullet would rip flesh with it as it passed by. He didnt answer when I asked how he got it sighted in on paper. He could also tell that if a bullet is fired into polishing twist (I dont know its name in english, its the white polishing stuff made of lots of cottonthreads), the bullet will tangle itself so badly into it that it stops almost immediately.

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Originally posted by Ed Scarboro:
I walked over and asked about the oil and they said it made the bullet go faster.

It doesn't?

900 SS, that guy sounds like one of Weatherby's old ad writers. It's that thar kenetic energy don'tchaknow.

The stupidest thing I have ever heard and I've heard it many times: " This compass has to be off" I know thats not north"

Well, this post won't win any prizes, but it is absolutely true. I was hunting in Namibia in 09, and the PH's all recommended using what they called Africa safe carry. That is, one loads a round in the chamber and then closes the bolt while holding the trigger, thereby not cocking the firing pin assembly. Now understand that these men are professionals, who use firearms almost daily.

I explained that the firing pin would then be resting on the primer because there was nothing in the mechanism to restrain it from doing so. They were absolutely not convinced. So I brought my rife (a M70), and a spent case, and a small piece of black plastic tape, which I placed on the head of the empty cartridge. I then loaded the case in the chamber and placed it in "Africa safe carry" mode. When I removed the case, the tape displayed a very distinct indent from the firing pin. The senior Ph, and owner of the company, acknowleged his error. He was a well educated man with a scientific bent. The two junior PH's refused to accept what they ahd just seen.

I doubt that any of them had ever carefully disassembled a bolt and examined it to understand its workings.

Sorry for the long and boring post, but this is an example of how ignorance can lead to dangerous practices, and how difficult it is to separate an ignoramus from his comfortably long-held beliefs. (Ignoranus: An ignorant person who is also an asshole.)

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I explained that the firing pin would then be resting on the primer because there was nothing in the mechanism to restrain it from doing so. They were absolutely not convinced. So I brought my rife (a M70), and a spent case, and a small piece of black plastic tape, which I placed on the head of the empty cartridge. I then loaded the case in the chamber and placed it in "Africa safe carry" mode. When I removed the case, the tape displayed a very distinct indent from the firing pin. The senior Ph, and owner of the company, acknowleged his error. He was a well educated man with a scientific bent. The two junior PH's refused to accept what they ahd just seen.

Not only in Africa. Years ago in West Texas I helped a service company take guest deer hunting. Of course west Texas it was Jeep hunting. They had the shooters carry their rifles in the jeep that way. I tried to get them to change. They told me I was wrong. So I took my rifle set it that way on the sand bags and the hit the rear of the firing pin with a chunk of wood. There were about 10 open mouths. Next morning the rounds was not in the chamber.

How does one hit the rear of the firing pin with a chunk of wood??? What sort of rifle are you talking about??
I agree that it does not appear to be the safest way to carry a rifle but I'm trying to visualize how one would do what you discribed.

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How does one hit the rear of the firing pin with a chunk of wood??? What sort of rifle are you talking about??

Mine happen to be a Mauser. Look at the back of many bolt action rifles and you will see the end of the firing pin(cocking piece) whatever you want to call it protruding from the shroud. Even more so if it hasn't fired and the pin is resting against the live primer. Doesn't take much of a hit to make it fire.

This happens to be an FN which leaves a lot exposed.



Even a commercial MKX type shroud will leave enough exposed to all you to hit the cocking piece.

This is a 3 position



Check a M700 I don't have one handy but I bet unfired the cocking piece is exposed.

We have got to pass this bill so we can see what is in it! Nancy Pelosi

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
How does one hit the rear of the firing pin with a chunk of wood??? What sort of rifle are you talking about??
I agree that it does not appear to be the safest way to carry a rifle but I'm trying to visualize how one would do what you discribed.

George Hoffman(An American who worked in Africa as a PH- RIP) had his guide's rifle fire in this manner on his first trip to Africa. I believe his guide bumped the cocking piece against the body of the truck as they were exiting.

The cocking piece/firing pin does not need to be struck to cause a rifle to fire when the pin is de-cocked and resting on the primer. The inertia, and resulting jolt, from being dropped on the butt is enough to cause the rifle to fire.

That a .270 was not an elk caliber......


Also, I have killed 28 now it's(30) 360" class bull elk in 33 years. Some of you know this killer AKA..Rich..the..ISS

Not shooting but easily the funniest stupid thing I personally wittnessed.
About 35 years ago I kid who had just graducated from engineering school(electrical I think) came to my place to buy 10 doses of dog distemper vaccine. Vaccine is sold a a liqui and a powder in different vials. It requires mixing. He held them inhis hand and looked puzzled. 'Do you add the powder to the liquid or the liquid to the powder?"
I said "You can do either one but it's easier to add the liquid to the powder".
"That was stupid wasn''t it?"
"Uninformed at least".
He was a decent kid and survived his "hippie leathersmith' days to become a productive citizen.

I just read 900 SS s post about the 223.
I had an AD early one morning sitting on my bed. The world turned into confetti and drifting detritus. On examination the Malaysian fmj had hit the spine of a Lyman reloading manual and a terry robe. The jacket was wrapped in the terry robe and no other trace of the bullet was ever found.
I post it for WIW.

"That there truck of mine is paid for."

"I won this here buckle in the rodeo."

"Honest! I was just helping that sheep get over the fence!"

I meet a guy while muzzle loader elk hunting one day. We stopped to talk and I noticed that he was very carefully and stiffly holding his rifle so the muzzle was always pointing straight up. After a while I asked him why he was holding his rifle like that.

He told me that he had to otherwise the bullet and the powder would fall out. He told me that with these new Sabots that the bullet fits really loose and that's why they go so fast. He thought those "little red plastic things" the sabot bullets come with were for packaging and safely shipping the bullets!! He also claimed that he was having "some" issues with accuracy with these new fangled sabots!!!


The second best one was last year. I am looking at a really neat older .375H&h built on a commercial Mauser when a guy walks up and tells me that he shot "one o them big ole .375's once" and the "kick" knocked him around in a complete circle it was so hard.

The bullet was going so fast it just zipped right on through.

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Originally posted by Dr. Duc:
Not shooting but easily the funniest stupid thing I personally wittnessed.
About 35 years ago I kid who had just graducated from engineering school(electrical I think) came to my place to buy 10 doses of dog distemper vaccine. Vaccine is sold a a liqui and a powder in different vials. It requires mixing. He held them inhis hand and looked puzzled. 'Do you add the powder to the liquid or the liquid to the powder?"
I said "You can do either one but it's easier to add the liquid to the powder".
"That was stupid wasn''t it?"
"Uninformed at least".
He was a decent kid and survived his "hippie leathersmith' days to become a productive citizen.

Had an electrician ask me why I was hanging sheetrock brown side and white side out. I said "so both sides of the wall would be fire rated" Electrician thought that was pretty slick.

Since it was to be double layered I just hung the first layer how ever it came off the stack, of course the second layer was all white for taping.

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Originally posted by surestrike:
I meet a guy while muzzle loader elk hunting one day.... He thought those "little red plastic things" the sabot bullets come with were for packaging and safely shipping the bullets!! He also claimed that he was having "some" issues with accuracy with these new fangled sabots!!!

Did you tell him what the sabots were for? What did he say if you did?

Wow!

friar

I was working in a gun shop helping a customer find a new deer rifle when a know nothing came up to the conter and loudly said "get a 7 M M they shoot so fast, I handload mine at 4000 fps with 160 grn". I look at this guy and said what powder and charge do you use to get them going so fast and he said "I use pistol powder because it burns faster and fill it all the way up to the top and crush the bullet in thier". WOW I worked in a gun shop for 14 years and can tell you a lot of stupid things I have heard their, to many to list.

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Originally posted by Pygmy:
A poster on another forum contendsthat, within a given chambering, heavier bullets are always less accurate than lighter bullets.. In other words, in a 30-06, a 150 grain bullet will always be more accurate than a 180 grain bullet..

I expect this gentleman had good reason to believe this. If he had a fast twist barrel he would have believed 180 gr bullets were more accurate than 150s.

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Originally posted by 460 wby shooter:
WOW I worked in a gun shop for 14 years and can tell you a lot of stupid things I have heard their, to many to list.

Your first one was pretty good. Feel free to share some more.