What is your favorite idiotic story from the OLD board?

[Mike Haas]

Well there were a few guys who if asked how to button a shirt they could write 40 paragraphs. Yep they were good at ripping people apart all the while making sure most didn't read it thru as you would be yawning at how they made themselves look so great and others look like useless turds.

There were the few on the carbine board who would come in and tell you about there Granddads carbine he carried and it would be a Plainfield from the 70's. Boy would they get made and tell everyone they didn't know a thing about Carbines after that.


I also got a kick out of those who were beat in a argument and had to bring up spelling as a last resort to win hahahahahah. Rick B

Here we go! A touch of the "good Ole Days" - I'm otta here!

[Devil Dog]

Here's one that came up more than once:
The guy is complaining that his M1 will pass the tilt test with trigger group out but will not pass when the trigger group is attached.

[FFAM1]

I dunno if this was idiotic but it was still entertaining. The fake or real cartouche wars got pretty interesting

[JimL]

Testing ammo for corrosiveness by cutting the head off the case and discharging the primer into soft ferrous metal using a hammer and a punch. Yes the powder and bullet removed first.

This was of course was suggested to be almost as dangerous as rolling a live 500 lb. bomb down a hilly road.(during a snowstorm) Loss of sight, fingers, hands,arms, and possibly a leg was predicted.

Right...

Also I thought the discussions on what an "Original" Garand is and what one isn't were fun.

jiml

[Chief]

Let's not forget to mention the "headspace wars", park color or perhaps the favorite "BLO vs Tung oil vs everything else
regards,
Chief

[Rick B]

I just remembered a good one.. The enbloc that went ping and the enemy ran up to shoot the guys.


Nothing like 7mm, 8MM and 3006 blowing your ears out and you hear the ping let alone the charging when there are others near you at just about all times. I tell this to vets and they laugh saying they could load that rifle so fast it wasn't funny. Rick B

[1-12 INF (M)]

That idiotic 'clip ping off a rock to fool the enemy' yarn came up again recently on one of the shooting shows on Wednesday nights - American Rifleman, or Shooting Gallery or Shooting USA... I can't keep them straight.

They had a feature on the M1 - went to Perry and showed R Lee Ermey (The Gunny from the movie Full Metal Jacket) and others, and did a pretty good job describing the match. Then they went to a segment with guys doing WWII reenactments (It seems to me that WWII GIs weren't quite so overweight) and, sure enough, an interviewed re-enactor trotted out that dopey story. These things give life to myths - "It must be true, I saw it on TV."

You know, those shooting shows are pretty bad, overall. The editing often makes no sense, the narration is repetitive and very amateurish, and there's lots of airtime with very, very little content - and sometimes the content is nonsense, like this example. One of them had two guys in lab coats trying to damage guns in various ways to 'see what would happen'. Uh, yeah.

[Critch]

I remember getting flamed because I said that I didn't particlulary like 03 Springfields,,,just ain't my cup of tea,,,one guy just went ballistic on me on every post for awhile...he needed to lay off the coffee.

[milsurpman]

My favorite post from the old board was when our moderator Gloria went trolling with a pederson device at a gunshow and posted about how people reacted.

[joem]

I went trolling at a gun show with a pristine M1941 Johnson. I had to add a little bit to the story of my uncle (A Marine in the south pacific) using one like it. He had left my this here "Old Army Gun" and I didn't know much about it. It was a fun time.