This wasn't Funny for me...How can anyone find Humor in this when someone could get killed...This is why I always see who's around me at the Range...You NEVER know when someone that has NO business at all handling Firearms is around you at Any Range Indoor or Outdoors.
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They are funny because no one does get killed. It does give people a way to see what not to do. Two of the instances weren't necessarily people being stupid, the firearms failed. What I don't find funny is experienced guys giving these things to their women and letting them hurt themselves. I hope their women left them after that crap.
What I don't find funny is experienced guys giving these things to their women and letting them hurt themselves.
I see that and it boils my blood. Guys deliberately handing something harsh to someone unknowing, I've seen it done and always stopped it when I was on hand.
They are funny because no one does get killed. It does give people a way to see what not to do. Two of the instances weren't necessarily people being stupid, the firearms failed. What I don't find funny is experienced guys giving these things to their women and letting them hurt themselves. I hope their women left them after that crap.
I see that and it boils my blood. Guys deliberately handing something harsh to someone unknowing, I've seen it done and always stopped it when I was on hand.
Exactly. My personal favourite is making the individual who tried to unleash whatever it was on the unknowing do it themselves. For example I saw someone try to give a new shooter a 3" 12 gauge slug for their first shot. They were saying how it would be fine and next to no recoil because they just demonstrated with a round of birdshot that there was no kick. I stepped in and told them to shoot it if there was no kick. The results were pretty funny to say the least, hopefully that taught that individual not to do that again.
Some of the instances in there were firearms failure, others were inexperience, and some were simply the rifle was way to big to effectively shoot. There will always be idiots, and at this point in my life I simply don't bother with them. I leave if I feel they are incompetent, no point in putting my life on the line.
I always try to warn people what's going to happen but the warnings don't always set in.
My youngest daughter was 16 when her grandfather gave her "her" rifle. He had given each of his two other grandkids a rifle when they turned 12, never could figure out and I didn't ask why he waited so long with this one, I just got her a Rossi 243 to hunt with. Anyway, 16 comes along and he brings her a Winchester 94 XTR in 356. He said it was the only appropriate rifle he had left which value/condition wise it was the equivalent of what he had given the others but recoil, WOW. I have one myself and while recoil never bothers me much, I don't like shooting more than 3 or 4 rounds at a time with it. He told her if she didn't like it she could sell it and get something else. Range day comes along and I sight it in, my future son in law was along and I ask him if he wants to shoot it. Warned him, he never shot a gun until he met my oldest daughter. Boom, scope comes back an wacks him on the eyebrow. He hands it back and says never again. He's a fairly big guy, bigger than me. My youngest watching all this is next and I ask her if she really wants to do it. This kid had an 8 inch group at 50 yards with the Rossi so I wasn't expecting a whole lot. She shoots, no reaction, 1/4 inch off the bullseye. Ask her how she feels, I get the normal "I'M FINE DAD" that teens like to use as a response. Shoots another, 1/4 inch off the bull so not a fluke. She shot three more before deciding it was enough and has carried that rifle and loved it ever since. It's 7 years later and I'm just now getting my son-in-law to consider shooting a high power again. He has limited himself to 5.56 for the most part.
I will probably get flack for this, but i find the videos of guys proclaiming how tough they are then having an AD hilarous. Aka the idiot with the bandana and the ak.
Admittedly i have never shared a range with that kind of moron, nearly all of my shooting being done with family and friends.
That being said firearm ownership is seen as a privilege not a right here so most people seem to be fairly sensable.
Having had the crap kicked out of me by various caliber guns the biggest had a 108 ft lbs of free recoil (460 Weatherby Mag) when I have noticed this scene unfolding I have sideled over and listened to the tough guy expound to the neophyte it does not kick.
To this statement I add yep that gun is a piece of cake no recoil whatsoever infact this bloke who is going to get you to shoot it is going to place the butt across the bridge of his nose just to show you how little recoil it has when you fire it, go ahead.........!
Has got me some dirty looks and a few arguments but why ruin a new shooter and prospective member because a knuckle dragger wishes to look a hero, this type does not last more than 1 shoot in our club thanx but no thanx.
Sorry for the typo's guys my comps down and I am using a tablet will be quiet as our data from the hotspot gets chomped up also the NBN has fritzed our router great days care of our Govt !
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