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    Guy shooting his friends colt python. A beautiful gun, even has the original box.

    Anyways, guy loads it, amd flicks his wrist to close the cylinder.

    Took all the restraint i could muster not to just take the gun away from him
     

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    Guy shooting his friends colt python. A beautiful gun, even has the original box.

    Anyways, guy loads it, amd flicks his wrist to close the cylinder.

    Took all the restraint i could muster not to just take the gun away from him
    Watches too many movies.
     

    V-Tach

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    Guy shooting his friends colt python. A beautiful gun, even has the original box.

    Anyways, guy loads it, amd flicks his wrist to close the cylinder.

    Took all the restraint i could muster not to just take the gun away from him

    AAARRRGGG...that aggrevates me........some try to do it on revolvers we are showing them.....I try to be nice...but damn....
     

    PinnedandRecessed

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    AAARRRGGG...that aggrevates me........some try to do it on revolvers we are showing them.....I try to be nice...but damn....

    5 years ago my brother-in-law spun the cylinder and flicked his wrist on my S&W 500. I told him to put it down immediately after which he received a solid smack on the back of his head for good measure. He has yet to be allowed to shoot it.
     
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    Texasgordo

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    Yesterday at the range I saw a idiot load up and try to shoot .40 in a 45acp. Every time I would fire the cases would split and the pistol wouldn't cycle. After a few rounds I asked a buddy what is wrong with my ammo. He told me it was a oversized chamber which made me to check the ammo. That's when I realized that I was loading 40 into my 45acp 1911.


    My 2 boxes of ammo had .45 AUTO on the label but I had put 40 in the boxes. It was so long ago that I didn't remember.



    It was a little embarrassing but nothing was hurt. I still had a good time at the range.

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    Yesterday at the range I saw a idiot load up and try to shoot .40 in a 45acp. Every time I would fire the cases would split and the pistol wouldn't cycle. After a few rounds I asked a buddy what is wrong with my ammo. He told me it was a oversized chamber which made me to check the ammo. That's when I realized that I was loading 40 into my 45acp 1911.


    My 2 boxes of ammo had .45 AUTO on the label but I had put 40 in the boxes. It was so long ago that I didn't remember.



    It was a little embarrassing but nothing was hurt. I still had a good time at the range.

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    So is that Mr. Idiot, or just Idiot?
     

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    That's when I realized that I was loading 40 into my 45acp 1911.

    Didn't the sound give it away? When I accidentally fired a few .380s from my 9mm Sub2000, it went BANG BANG BANG plop WTF? BANG BANG plop plop something ain't right here... *

    *over-dramatized for clarity. In reality, with the muzzle brake and heavier bolt I installed, it sounds no different than a 10/22. More of a zing than a BANG.
     

    baboon

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    I'll be real honest with y'all that public ranges scare me. One look around at the bullet holes in places there never should be is what made me join a club. Now I'm not saying their aren't people at the club who do plenty of stupid things, there are just less of them. An annual membership fee is a big deterrent to the I just bought my first gun & I'm watch a video on my phone to learn how to load it!
     

    easy rider

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    I'll be real honest with y'all that public ranges scare me. One look around at the bullet holes in places there never should be is what made me join a club. Now I'm not saying their aren't people at the club who do plenty of stupid things, there are just less of them. An annual membership fee is a big deterrent to the I just bought my first gun & I'm watch a video on my phone to learn how to load it!
    I have to agree, much less idiocracy since I moved from Odessa Outdoors (public) to Midland Shooter's Association (members and guests of members).
     

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    Didn't the sound give it away? When I accidentally fired a few .380s from my 9mm Sub2000, it went BANG BANG BANG plop WTF? BANG BANG plop plop something ain't right here... *

    *over-dramatized for clarity. In reality, with the muzzle brake and heavier bolt I installed, it sounds no different than a 10/22. More of a zing than a BANG.
    Yeah it sounds like a mouse fart and I could see the bullet barely clear the barrel. Plus it wouldn't cycle the slide.


    To tell you the truth it didn't click right away until Moonpie told me that the chamber was oversized. Only then did my brain start functioning and I checked my rounds.

    That was the first time I had done something like that but it's my fault anyway. I loaded up my guns and ammo in a hurry Saturday morning.

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    benenglish

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    I'll be real honest with y'all that public ranges scare me. One look around at the bullet holes in places there never should be is what made me join a club.
    Speaking of bullets striking where they shouldn't -

    An indoor commercial range near me used to allow instructors to give private lessons on the premises. (Heck, if you wanted to pay for it, you could rent a whole range and do any sort of instruction you wanted but their rates for whole-range rental were so high I don't know anyone who actually did that.) They no longer do so.

    I remember many years ago asking the manager on duty to join me at the window where you could observe one of the ranges. I asked about the pair in the far left lane. He explained that the man was an instructor and was with a student. I asked him to stand by and watch a minute.

    This "instructor" then proceeded to demonstrate his superior skills by doing mag dumps at a B27 no more than 5 yards away. Said mag dumps were accompanied by lots of very loud commentary along the lines of "That would have hit a kidney and he'd be down for the count!" every time he managed to miss center mass. At least every third shot of his fast mag dumps could be seen sparking off the left wall, meaning he was missing center mass by at least three feet even though the target was only 10-15 feet away from him.

    It even dawned on the student that this guy was dangerous. She backed away from him with a truly scared look on her face.

    The manager thanked me for bringing him over and said something about not allowing that guy to instruct on that range anymore. Shortly thereafter, their policy changed and they only allowed instructors to use the range if the courses were done in conjunction with the range. You could no longer just show up with a student and give a private lesson. (Yes, there are obvious problems enforcing that but at least they tried to discourage every yahoo who wanted to hang out a shingle as an instructor.)
     

    baboon

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    Speaking of bullets striking where they shouldn't -

    An indoor commercial range near me used to allow instructors to give private lessons on the premises. (Heck, if you wanted to pay for it, you could rent a whole range and do any sort of instruction you wanted but their rates for whole-range rental were so high I don't know anyone who actually did that.) They no longer do so.

    I remember many years ago asking the manager on duty to join me at the window where you could observe one of the ranges. I asked about the pair in the far left lane. He explained that the man was an instructor and was with a student. I asked him to stand by and watch a minute.

    This "instructor" then proceeded to demonstrate his superior skills by doing mag dumps at a B27 no more than 5 yards away. Said mag dumps were accompanied by lots of very loud commentary along the lines of "That would have hit a kidney and he'd be down for the count!" every time he managed to miss center mass. At least every third shot of his fast mag dumps could be seen sparking off the left wall, meaning he was missing center mass by at least three feet even though the target was only 10-15 feet away from him.

    It even dawned on the student that this guy was dangerous. She backed away from him with a truly scared look on her face.

    The manager thanked me for bringing him over and said something about not allowing that guy to instruct on that range anymore. Shortly thereafter, their policy changed and they only allowed instructors to use the range if the courses were done in conjunction with the range. You could no longer just show up with a student and give a private lesson. (Yes, there are obvious problems enforcing that but at least they tried to discourage every yahoo who wanted to hang out a shingle as an instructor.)

    Years ago I worked with a young guy who was going to school to be a cop. He didn't seem to be an idiot until we went shooting one day. This was back when I first encountered the Egyptian surplus 9mm. That day at the range was the first time we ever shot together. He had his & his fathers 9 mm pistol. I guess the dirt cheap ammo warranted that in his mind. He tried the two gun mag dump & was surprised by just how little he hit the target.
     
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    Moonpie

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    Gunz are icky.
    Reminds me of one of the most retarded things I've seen a so called instructor do.
    This guy was an active duty city policeman.
    Sitting in a classroom this guy was demonstrating a tactical pump shotgun to the newbies.
    He was up at the front blowing and going about how "effective the shotgun was without firing it."
    Racking said shotgun and then pointing it at students faces. "Scary isn't it? Scares the bad guy right off!"
    The shotgun WAS empty.
    He had left the action open while doing this but still WTFOVER?!?!?!
     
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