Mythbusters on a smaller scale!
How many widespread myths about firearms have you tried and proved were bogus?:surrender:
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Mythbusters on a smaller scale!
How many widespread myths about firearms have you tried and proved were bogus?:surrender:
I can't say that many have occurred to me on my own. Now how can we test the ultimate zombie apocalypse cartridge?
ive thoght of many to
That I can put 5 rounds into a 5" plate at 100 yards standing, unsupported.Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
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The one where I can fire a hundred or so rounds out of a pistol with a capacity up to 15 rounds without reloading, or that I can fire semi-auto bursts from a bolt-action rifle...hooray for Hollywood!....:gun_bandana:
How many?....What are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by rickyt
Few I heard that kinda grate me are just quotes:
...22 lr will kill anything on the on the planet....While it my be true, highly unlikely.
...It's all about shot placement....That maybe true as well, but only off a bench rest.
...Sight picture....Yeah right, again off a bench maybe, running animal different story.....You need to use the "Force", Luke.
..FMJ bullets pref thru, giving you double the blood trail....This has to be the dumbest statement I ever heard.....If your shot was true, and using the proper "tool" for the job, correct caliber, your game should be "Dead right there".(DRT)
.....and of course....The Judge .45/.410, best all around do every thing fire arm....Just doesn't do anything well.
OK done now.
Semi autos are more dependable than revovlers:confused:
Mosin Nagents are the supreme survival SHTF rifle!
That I can afford any weapon I want. Yep, that's a long shot - come on Powerball!!!
WHAT?, What?....that's not true?.......Can't be.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
You buy a Mosin Nagant, for $49 bucks (yeah right, not since 1973)....whine about the bore being dark, how long it is, learn cool stuff like "slugging the bore", which doesn't really matter as you can't do much about it anyway)....trigger sucks, safety (what safety?) sucks, wood sucks, how long it is, hard to mount a scope on it with out a lot of gyrations, how long it is,....
Soooo spend a bunch a money on cutting it down, new trigger group or mod, bolt is made to work with heavy mittens, work it like you are mad at it, cause after a few rounds the cheapo steel cases start sticking, and you really are mad at it, bend or mod the bolt, learn to not pinch you hand while cleaning all the cosmoline (never get it all out) taking it apart and maybe getting it back togeather.....Whew!
Now you have a $500 buck Mosin Nagant that still looks like it was hacked out of a railroad rail with an ax, smoothed on a rock, wood from grampa Ivan's wood pile.......shoots the same way as the $49 buck version (yeah I know, everybody except me bought one for "case price, when they were 12 years old).....and is a Bic 30-06......(shoots about the same)
You catch the "bug", end up with 13 of them, complete with all the pouches, bayonets, oil bottles, screw drivers, wrenchs, slings....have to buy a another gun safe ...cheapo, as no one would bother stealing one...leave it out in the open for theives, and after they open it , just move on....Nothing valuable here.
Now on the other hand...shooting 1963 surplus ammo in the M38 carbine (short, or your cut down Bubba rifle), a dusk......Fire and Smoke, and Recoil (Oh yeah, It Kicks...It's a real rifle)......Bhohahaha....Priceless....Everyone should have a dozen or so.
I have very definite opinions on the MN, as most here know.
1. You never put more into the mods than the rifle cost.
2. You should limit ownership to roughly the same number of them that you have trucks for them to live in.
3. You never name a MN rifle and if you do it should not be Ivan, Boris or Natasha.
All of which reminds me of that other great survival gun myth, promoted mostly by urban dwellers that never shoot actual critters, "The .22 is the best all around survival gun."
How about that potato on the end of the muzzle of your .22 thing? Anybody tried that one?
Nope, ,,,,did try the baby bottle nipple with a X cut into it...results were...ah, so, so.Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
How about the water bottle 'patch catcher"?
Works on two conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter63
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It does not require a 2 liter either, a 20 oz. will do.
Doesn't require the patch catcher adapter either!
Not that I would know or have tried it or anything....that would be illegal and I have great respect for the letter and intent of the law.
Which brings up a point for Ken to research; Does the possession of a soda bottle in the kitchen, a pack of steel wool in the shop and a roll of duct tape in the toolbox constitute the ownership of a silencer?
What?...... cleaning patches are illegal?
OK here one.....Grampa's brought home (fill in the blank) from WW (fill in the blank), taken off a dead (file in the blank) officer can hit a running deer at 1/2 a mile....It's magic.
Hammers work better for tacks.....bullets seem to make holes in stuff.
TV shooters (swamp people) seem to be right handed and left handed all at the same time.......
I have never tried to prove or disprove any myths or legends, but I am constantly amazed at how many "tack drivers" live on the internet.
I drive tacks!Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
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Shooting frozen chickens out of cannons can be dangerous in an urban environment!
Myth, it is safe to shoot 5.56 Nato ammo with a .223:scared:
Myth, .270's are much better than a 30/06:smartass:
Myth: It is wise to break in the barrel of a new gun cleaning after every shot for the first 20 rounds, then every 15 rounds thereafter:smartass:
.22 barrels should be cleaned after shooting every time:smartass:
A dirty bore in "tighter" there fore more accurate........??????
Well WT, you got two out of four!
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That was 5, not 4. Just sayin'. :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
In your humble opinion:smartass:Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
Here one I have seen.....
Friday night before deer season.......Guy goes to Walmart, buys a rifle with scope already mounted, and a box of shells......
"I ready to go hunting in the morning"
O dark thirty show up guy whines about getting up early, wants a full breakfast cooked for him, doesn't have the proper clothes, so you lend him some.......Get out to the woods ...late....and have to load up his gun.
Put him on a stand, that you found....and in about 30 minutes, kills the biggest deer of the group with one shot...then hollers and yells for help as he has no idea what to do.
So you help him out, and spend most of opening morning doing the work, cleaning the deer, dragging it out....guy has a bad back....
After you take him to register it...he starts in with the "I don't know what the big deal is on all the prep, scouting, sighting in, getting up early, and such........Nothing to it, ....See ya, gotta date"
Anyone been there?
Doesn't work for most everone else, but worked for him........Once.
Kind of reminds me of Orville, my brother in law. When I was about 14, Orville bought himself a very expensive 30/06 with a high end scope. For the next 10 years or so, he went hunting diligently. Out of those 10 years, he told Dad and I that he never even seen a deer. So it was obvious to us that he didn't know where to go, how to scout out deer, and basically how to hunt in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter63
Now Orville was a great guy, and we liked him a lot, but his hunting skills just sucked. And before deer season, that was all he talked about, so we knew he wanted a deer badly. I think to him, it was some sort of right to passage or something.
So flash forward a few more years and Orvill was getting older, around 50 years old and still no deer! It was deer season in Oklahome, and I had scouted out a spot where an 8 point buck was leaving scrapes and coming through every morning. His rack was a true 8 point, but was kind of narrow and not quite mounting quality, at least for me.
So that was when a brainstorm hit me. I decided to shoot that buck, gut him, and around 3:00 am in the morning, I would take that deer and hang it up in Orvilles back yard on the clothes line post, and that is what i did. luckily it was cold enough that the deer kept well until the next morning hung up behind our house in an old shed.
Well it wasn't 6 hours until dad got the call, and Orville was boasting about his 8 point. Dad didn't know what I had done, so he was pretty proud of old Orville, and course Orville wanted dad to come help him quarter it out. When Dad finally told me, I had to tell him what i had done. Dad started laughing and couldn't stop, and everytime Orville would tell us the story about bagging that deer, Dad and I would almost throw up trying not to laugh.
Of course Orville had the head and the tail end mounted and would tell everybody the story about how he shot that deer when they went to his house. That stupid deer made Orvilles life complete, and finalized his passage to manhood.
To the day he died, he never knew where that deer came from! True story!
LOL, the things we do sometimes.......Great story.
OK, how about stacks of dimes instead of buck shot?.......reference Young Guns when Billy was in shackles got loose and shot the guard.
Myth, feeding dogs gun powder turns them into a snarling man eating Cujo like demon dog. Looks to me like it would simply kill them them but what do I know:confused:
Careful......That's what they fed "B", when she was a little girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
Daz right!Quote:
Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit
Don't need no CCW...all I gotta do is sneeze at you, and bang, man down.:whistling:
Hummm might get rid of worms.....just don't smoke around the piles of.....ah, ah, sign?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
Flash news report: Nessie gets close to camp fire and then shoots across camp ground like a bottle rocket, her dog was close behind:scared:Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter63
Myth: Shooting rock salt from a 12 gauge at watermelon thieves has a range simular to buckshot!
Myth #213: Barry Obama is an avid skeet shooter. :laugh:
Myth #214: Per Biden a shotgun is really all anybody ever needs!
My favorite: A rolled up news paper is more effective than a .25 acp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
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True.........won't say how I know.....but the jeans threads stick out of the shallow holes....Don't try a bath to soak it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
I knew an old guy that ground up soy beans and used it instead of buck shot. He said the soy beans would begin to swell once they started soaking up body fluids. I also know a couple of guys, teen agers at the time, that can attest to the truth of his statement and their celebration at his death.