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Originally posted by sammyh312:
My favorite was from the deranged, whacked-out crackhead that shot at me one night from twenty yards with a snub .38. Bullet hit a garage wall a foot over my head, and he later told the judge, "your honor, i wasnt shootn' to kill Sgt. Harris, i was in vietnam, if id wanted to hit him i woulda."

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Originally posted by atomiclab:
the stupidest thing i ever hear..........constantly hear........

"the .223 is so deadly/destructive because the bullets tumble in the air/ OR tumble on impact"

people that say that clearly don't understand bullistics and terminal bullistics.

kills me everytiime I hear it!

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Originally posted by the_captain:
I used to work at a gun shop in town and we had another older guy behind the counter there as well. Well-meaning but uninformed. He owned a laser bore sighter and offered to help customers get their rifles bore sighted all the time because "if you use the laser to sight it in it will be right on target all the way to 1000 yards". Evidently this was true for all rifle/caliber setups too, because I heard it every day.

The guy wouldn't listen when I explained that he was wrong so I always tried to pull the customers away and tell them the truth... It's too bad that people new to the sport are fed such purely wrong information by the people they are buying the gun from and depending on for advice.

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Originally posted by sammyh312:
My favorite was from the deranged, whacked-out crackhead that shot at me one night from twenty yards with a snub .38. Bullet hit a garage wall a foot over my head, and he later told the judge, "your honor, i wasnt shootn' to kill Sgt. Harris, i was in vietnam, if id wanted to hit him i woulda."

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Originally posted by Fat_Albert:
on a topic here on the AR forum a person asked for loads for a "6mm" and 10 people posted data. When I jumped them for puting out data when they were not even sure what the cartridge he was talking about was I was told by a moderator that "every one here knew that he was talking about a 6mm Remington"

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Originally posted by jstevens:
Many years ago, I ran a gun store in Mo. and purchased a lot of Winchester stuff from Grafs in Mexico who were Win. distributors. Right before the deer season I was over there picking up some stuff and Tom (Bob Grafs son in law) was sighting in a few rifles for customers. I know it's stupid, but it wasn't uncommmon for either of us to sight in 30-40 rifles a year. We sat down at the bench, I was about ready to squeeze off a .270 when an old man carrying a Marlin 336 walked into my field of view about 25 yards in front of my target. Fortunately the rifle was a new Winchester that had about an eight pound trigger pull, so I was able to hold off. When I raised my head, the old man opened fire on my target from about 25 yards offhand, firing as fast as he could lever the .30-30 rounds into the rifle. By the time we got there he was looking at the target which had about 5 holes in it scattered over about 14 in. at 25 yards. He just looked at us and said 'any one of those would have killed a deer' and walked off ready to hunt I guess. We almost died laughing, hopefully we wouldn't be hunting next to him on opening day. Maybe not the stupidist thing I've ever heard, but he was plenty stupid.

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I used to work at a gun shop in town and we had another older guy behind the counter there as well. Well-meaning but uninformed.

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Originally posted by tiggertate:

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Originally posted by jstevens:
Many years ago, I ran a gun store in Mo. and purchased a lot of Winchester stuff from Grafs in Mexico who were Win. distributors. Right before the deer season I was over there picking up some stuff and Tom (Bob Grafs son in law) was sighting in a few rifles for customers. I know it's stupid, but it wasn't uncommmon for either of us to sight in 30-40 rifles a year. We sat down at the bench, I was about ready to squeeze off a .270 when an old man carrying a Marlin 336 walked into my field of view about 25 yards in front of my target. Fortunately the rifle was a new Winchester that had about an eight pound trigger pull, so I was able to hold off. When I raised my head, the old man opened fire on my target from about 25 yards offhand, firing as fast as he could lever the .30-30 rounds into the rifle. By the time we got there he was looking at the target which had about 5 holes in it scattered over about 14 in. at 25 yards. He just looked at us and said 'any one of those would have killed a deer' and walked off ready to hunt I guess. We almost died laughing, hopefully we wouldn't be hunting next to him on opening day. Maybe not the stupidist thing I've ever heard, but he was plenty stupid.

Been many decades since there were public ranges in Mexico but my friends describe one they went to that had shooting "lanes" marked with lime. The range was live at all times and you could walk down to change targets anytime you wanted; just don't step outside your lane!

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Friar, my man, the dumbest thing I have ever heard is that you did not believe your friend..

Come to Idaho and shoot rockchucks in the snake rifle canyon..In certain locations it will lift a 22 or 6 mm bullet as much as a foot and a half at 100 yards in those thermals or updrafts, even on what appears to be a fairly calm day....

It is a common practice here to take a unknowing friend to these canyons and watch him go crazy trying to figure out how come he keeps shooting high on easy shots..It is intertaining.

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What's the STUPIDIST thing you've ever heard?