Shooting, and a Bonehead Move

[11Charlie]

YUP, count on it! @Joe13, you down?

I'm going to guess that he is. And probably two or three others as well!!

 

[jbett98]

My Nephew set down a loaded Glock .40 S&W mag on the shooting bench while I had my suppressed HK Tactical 45 mags laid out.
The Glock mag did fit and try as I might the .40 S&W mag wouldn't latch all the way flush and wouldn't strip off a round and chamber.
I fussed with it a couple of times and finally figured it out. I don't know what a .40 S&W round would do after it left the barrel and entered the 45 Osprey suppressor.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Most Excellent! I'm trying to figure out how to bring some more fun tools up, but in an uncoverd pickup bed, and no real secure means, I may have to wait till we get a place up here and do the big move!

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

i went shooting today too... off of my buddies front porch... it was raining, i wanted cover.lol. i needed to test some 9mm reloads for subsonic-ness.

theyre subsonic.

 

[Joe13]

YUP, count on it! @Joe13, you down?

Always

 

[etrain16]

I'm enjoying hearing the tales of others that have made some bonehead moves

 

[Ura-Ki]

I heard @AndyinEverson once loaded a Round ball backward, had a hell of a time shooting it!


INCOMING!






Running, ducking!

 

[etrain16]

I heard @AndyinEverson once loaded a Round ball backward, had a hell of a time shooting it!


INCOMING!






Running, ducking!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

My first visit to the 1838 Rendezvous...was after my buddy Dave told everyone he could meet there , about "How good a shot his friend Andy is".
So there I was ...at my first shoot there...
New guy , new range , lots of questions while I was loading...
As many of you know I own a muzzleloader or two....
Powder , patch , round ball...only the round ball , went down way to easy...
Turns out I loaded a .50 caliber ball in my .54 hawken...well shucks...So much for being a "expert" at muzzleoading...
The shoot was one shot with a "cold" barrel at a bear target ...range 75 yards....
I asked the range master if I could discharge my rifle and re load with a proper size ball...Yes he says...
What are you going to shoot at , he asks...
Might as well be the bear...says I...
Boom goes my rifle and I hit that bear right smack dead center in the "kill zone" of the target...
This was around 9.00 am...by dinner time...like the kids game of "telephone"...I had apparently loaded a .32 round ball in my .54 and hit a target 100 + yards away....
Man did I have a lot to live up to on that trip....
Andy

 

[Ura-Ki]

My first visit to the 1838 Rendezvous...was after my buddy Dave told everyone he could meet about "How good a shot his friend Andy is".
So there I was ...at my first shoot there...
New guy , new range , lots of questions while I was loading...
As many of you know I own a muzzleloader or two....
Powder , patch round ball...only the round ball , went down way to easy...
Turns out I loaded a .50 caliber ball in my .54 hawken...well shucks...So much for being a "expert" at muzzleoading...
The shoot was one shot with a "cold" barrel at a bear target ...range 75 yards....
I asked the range master if I could discharge my rifle and re load with a proper size ball...Yes he says...
What are you going to shoot at , he asks...
Might as well be the bear...says I...
Boom goes my rifle and I hit that bear right smack dead center in the "kill zone" of the target...
This was around 9.00 am...by dinner time...like the kids game of "telephone"...I had apparently loaded a .32 round ball in my .54 and hit a target 100 + yards away....
Man did I have a lot to live up to on that trip....
Andy

I "May" have done something like that a time or two! LOL
Worse one I did was patch and ball, No powder! the Cap didn't even move the ball, thank gawd for grub screws and a good metal ram rod! Note to self, Don't do that again! Saw a guy toss out a perfectly good "used" ball after he did the screw and rod thing, I didn't even bat an eye as I picked it up and tossed it in my pocket for later! Guy had a funny look on his face later on that evening when I pulled it out and tossed it in my melt pot! Duh, Bra, it's lead, you can re cast it! Never even crossed his mind!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Worse one I did was patch and ball, No powder!

There are two types of people in muzzleloading...those who have "dry balled"...and those who will...
Andy

 

[Ura-Ki]

Yup, and the look on someone's face when they do it is darn near priceless! I even watched some guy flinch and recoil with the musket, and it didn't even make a pop! You could have heard a fly fart in that deadly silence, He was a BIG feller!

 

[nammac]

Well, this has been an educational read for me. An opportunity to learn some lessons without having to experience them first hand...

At some point we will all experience a Geritol moment...

 

[Sstrand]

To echo sgt Shultz, "I Say Nusssing!?!?!?"

Sheldon

 

[odinp13]

Were you by chance taking lessons from these guys lately? If so, it's a education issue, not a bonehead move
Make it rain...brass on their little pointy heads
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[ZA_Survivalist]

How does that .22TCM shoot?

 

[etrain16]

How does that .22TCM shoot?

Very nicely. Smooth, low recoil, but a darn impressive fireball! And the gun sounds like something much larger.

This is pretty much what it looks like - same model of gun that's in the photo below:

 

[Pete F]

Now, for the bonehead move. I got a new Vortex scope to put on top of my .308 AR. I laser bore-sighted it at home before going out to shoot. I was coming in low and right, so I started making some adjustments, but the shots weren't moving where they should. After about 5 shots, it hit me, I had installed the scope rotated 90 degrees to the left. So my adjustments were going the wrong direction. Never done that before, but once I noticed it, I felt like a total dip Oh well, easy enough fix, but damn son, get a clue

Been there, done that. At a friends property sighting in a new scope on my model 60. Took me 50 rounds or so before he figured it out. I had to drive home to fix it. I thought that there was something wrong with the scope - Redfield TAC22. When my friend pointed t out, I was truly embarrassed and felt very stupid. I had just mounted 2 other scopes with parallax knobs - hard to screw those up.