Stuff overheard at the range or local gun shop

[svivian]

With the left become more radical, I am starting to size up some of the visitors at my local. At what point do we as a community run off the antifa-John Brown gun club types?

lets keep this thread open.

If you feel that compelled about the topic, try starting another thread

 

[Dave Thomas]

I wonder why someone with the username "General RE LEE" would specifically hate John Brown and want to deny certain people their constitutional rights...

Weirdly enough I've heard this said about the 6.5 Creedmoor 2-3 times in the past couple months while at a gun counter.

I've heard the same thing about the creedmoor at a gun store. A couple of customers were telling the clerk how it's no good for hunting. I just kept my mouth shut and went about my business not wanting any part of that conversation.

 

[EastHumboldt]

Yes please don’t get this thread closed…. It’s all I have….

 

[fwafwow]

Went to a 100 yard range for the first time in a while. Guy next to me pulls out some big braked magnum and a lead sled. "Shoots 1/4" at 500"

Then my hat just about got blown off every time he shot. Super annoying.

What?

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

What?

 

[casey36]

I worked part time in a gun shop right after I got off active duty. We had people come in the night before deer season ,they would buy a gun, scope ammo , and ask me to bore sight it. That would be close enough for anything under 400 yards. Hate to say it, but I heard that more than once. Had a younger guy come in once for ammo. I asked him what he needed and he said. 7mm. I ask him which 7mm. He got jacked and said to get someone over to help him that knew something about guns. I said I could name about 10 different 7mm cartridges off the top of my head and we carried about 6 or seven of them. He said "f you" im not buying from liars and dumba##/$! and he stormed out. Hope he had the day he deserved at another shop!

 

[casey36]

I may or may not have cracked a shot off at something out the passenger window, from the drivers seat with my AR...with no ear pro. Although, I dont know how much difference it would have truly made if I was wearing it.

I know of a fellow Game Warden who took a call for an injured deer along I-80 in our home county. He found the deer along the roadway and it was struggling to get up. It was absolutely pouring down rain so he didn't want to get out of the truck. Put on his emergency lights, hit the button for the passenger window, and touched off a round to put the deer down, from the driver's seat. Our duty weapon at that time was a 4" Smith 686 .357 magnum with 145gr. Silvertips. The blast and shock wave scrambled him so badly he could barely get off the road. He couldn't hear anything, couldn't focus, and was not feeling well when a state trooper stopped to see what was going on. Needless to say, there were memos a flying from the Regional Office!

 

[Sinistram]

I worked part time in a gun shop right after I got off active duty. We had people come in the night before deer season ,they would buy a gun, scope ammo , and ask me to bore sight it. That would be close enough for anything under 400 yards. Hate to say it, but I heard that more than once.

This is along the same lines as the public range comment I made earlier. I choose to bury my head in the sand when thinking about sharing the woods with these people. The only positive about it is they're usually terrible shots anyway, so hopefully no deer pay the price.

 

[Chris in TN]

I know of a fellow Game Warden who took a call for an injured deer along I-80 in our home county. He found the deer along the roadway and it was struggling to get up. It was absolutely pouring down rain so he didn't want to get out of the truck. Put on his emergency lights, hit the button for the passenger window, and touched off a round to put the deer down, from the driver's seat. Our duty weapon at that time was a 4" Smith 686 .357 magnum with 145gr. Silvertips. The blast and shock wave scrambled him so badly he could barely get off the road. He couldn't hear anything, couldn't focus, and was not feeling well when a state trooper stopped to see what was going on. Needless to say, there were memos a flying from the Regional Office!

I was hunting out of the right-hand seat of a 2-person box blind, maybe 3.5x7'x6', and saw a deer out the left-hand side window. I shot it.....with the muzzle inside the blind.

25" .280ai. It was loud. Really loud. Do not recommend. I am genuinely surprised I didn't have immediate lasting damage. It was like my entire head was inside a giant muzzle break.

 

[TNKnoxville]

Was shooting at the range last weekend. One guy to my left was going elk hunting in CO in a week. Gun was shooting a couple of inches high and left. They didn't know how to lower the zero stop. They kept saying the turret won't go any lower. Neither of them knew anything about the Leopold VX 6 scope he just put on the gun. I tried to help but they said its good to go, I hunted with gun before (not with this scope) and it shot great!!!!!!!

The guy on the other side of me couldn't get his gun on paper at 50 yards and said its good to go, for what I'm not sure!!!!!! Had a nice Vortex scope...lol.

Another younger guy came up and asked me what I was shooting. It was my 50 cal black powder gun. The guy had no idea what that was. Was surprised at the noise and smoke. He said he only shoots an AR.

 

[wind gypsy]

Last night when at a bench near a 300 Wby shooter trying to help another magnum shooter get sighted in.

"You dont want to give up the hair (hold off hair) inside 500 yards". "See how this one has a belt, thats what gives it the better ballistics".

Proceeded to chase bullets all around the paper and sprayed all over the place.

 

[Miflatlander91]

At the local range yesterday 2 guys were “checking zero” on their hunting rifles I asked what they were shooting one was a 300 win and the other a 28 Nosler. They proceeded to tell of how where they hunt a 500-700 yard shot isn’t uncommon…. I then watched both struggle to hit an 8” plate at 300. Then one guy says to the other yeah I think we’re good to 600 it’s not like we’re shooting 1000 yards


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[intunegp]

A good family friend of mine bought a brand new Remington 700 CDL in 7mm mag a several years back, it was right around the time Facebook boomers were being inundated with the too-good-to-miss deals of Wish.com.

He promptly ordered a "Zeiss" 4-16 from Wish and when I broke the news to him that it was counterfeit he was adamant that maybe it wasn't, maybe it was overstock or a discontinued model, maybe it was made in the same factory, maybe the quality was just as good...even when I showed him the logo was not correct and Zeiss had a memo out about counterfeit scopes he would not back down because to his eye, the glass looked great. I think he paid $40-$50 for what would have been a $1000 scope from Zeiss, I want to say it was a Conquest copy.

This whole new rig was inspired by his career tool and die maker brother-in-law who had recently purchased a fancy FFP Vortex, drilled and tapped his receiver for oversize mounting screws, added dowels to the receiver and rail for location and alignment, bedded the rail to the receiver, then surface ground a custom lap to lap his rings for the new scope. I believe they ran the new CDL through the same setup protocols only to mount a $50 knock-off Zeiss on it.

As far as I know that Wish.com Zeiss is still on that rifle to this day. Not sure if he's killed anything or even attempted to but I wonder about it sometimes.

 

[RockAndSage]

Man, some of these are just glorious in their absurdity...