Did you ever go to the range....?

[rwsmith]

That's cool Daddy.....

Eto Nam nichedo, tovarishch! It is nothing, comrade!

I've learned a few words because I listen to a lot of Russian folk music, but I'd like to know more.

The practical side says conversational French or Spanish but I LIKE Russian.

 

[Dave_n]

Always fun when I bring either a Webley MK VI or a Mauser C96 to the range. Then proceed to put the bullets in the target (using a 6" bull at 30 feet). Usually what are they? Then I idly point out the Webley is marked 1916 and the C96 dates from 1902. Their "combat tupperware" usually fails to put all rounds on the same target!! Dave_n

 

[vytoland]

I think what I think and let others do the same.....if others dont like what I think. tough gasingas.....

 

[Filo McShoe]

One of the only real advantages to living out in the sticks is I can shoot in my backyard so it's pretty rare for me to go to a public range.
1st some of those people scare me with their gun handling.
2nd some of them seem to think everyone on the firing line will benefit from their input.
3rd I'm not big into show and tell or sharing guns or ammo with people I don't know. I turned my back once and a yahoo picked up one of my pistols to look at it and closed the cylinder with the movie style wrist snap move. I let him know I was not happy about that really not happy at all.
Last I don't like to wait 20 minutes on a cold line while people go up study their target finally take it down go to put up a new one and find out their stapler is empty.

 

[Cardboard_killer]

I have to say, I try not to strike up conversations at the range. I'm there to shoot, and enjoy myself, not socialize.

I am, however, very forgiving about people blaming their equipment. I try not to do it myself, but I understand the urge, and if someone wants to use an excuse to save face, me keeping my mouth shut about reality will allow them to go about the rest of the day not feeling too embarrassed about his/her shooting skills.

 

[Watchdog]

There was another thread similar in content to this a while back (I don't feel like searching for it). Last year sometime, I think. Maybe even before.

My comment here will be similar to the one I made in that other thread.

Unless you're friends with the guy, you don't make fun of or badmouth someone else's gun...handgun, rifle, shotgun...out in public...especially at a range, and especially with a bunch of other fellas around. Period.

Especially down here in the South. As my dad would say, "You're cruisin' for a bruisin'."

 

[DeathGrip]

There was another thread similar in content to this a while back (I don't feel like searching for it). Last year sometime, I think. Maybe even before.

My comment here will be similar to the one I made in that other thread.

Unless you're friends with the guy, you don't make fun of or badmouth someone else's gun...handgun, rifle, shotgun...out in public...especially at a range, and especially with a bunch of other fellas around. Period.

Especially down here in the South. As my dad would say, "You're cruisin' for a bruisin'."

and don't you dare say anything about his dog!

 

[e3mrk]

I usually get compliments on My Mosin because it is a Hex Receiver and it seems not too many people have seen one.

 

[CCantu357]

I once received overheard some comments about my shooting a .357 Magnum in an indoor range. Granted, the .357 is a little louder than .38 Special or 9mm, but I consider a 4" .357 to be a pretty standard handgun. If one is sensitive to noise, perhaps a firing place is not a place to be!

 

[Wise_A]

One of my favorite guns is my old pre-numbers Target Masterpiece. Mechanically perfect, finish-challenged, which makes it an amazing sleeper piece for showing off. Helps that the gun is about twice my age.

Went to a range shindig once, just to be sociable, with a bunch of old farts and their spray-and-pray plastic bottom feeders. Nothin' against plastic bottom feeders, mind you, I own a couple. Plates are decent-sized, maybe six or seven inches, distance is a bit over 10 yards. So really, bigger than the whole target is in Bullseye.

Stepped up to the line in front of six pieces of falling steel, and unholstered my sleeper .38.

First old fart pipes up: "Does that thing even shoot?" So I take my time leisurely loading up six 148-grain full wadcutters, adopt a two-handed Isosceles stance, and take six single-action shots.

*ding*-*ding*-ding*-*ding*-*ding*-*ding*

Second time up, same stupid old fart: "I bet he can't do that double-action!" Six more 148s.

*ding*-*ding*-ding*-*ding*-*ding*-*ding*...and I rather smugly dumped my empties into my pocket and reholstered.

Third time, I thought I'd get some peace and quiet, but noap. Stupid Old Fart was up in the next bay, in front of his plates, trying to jam a mag into his plastic gat.

"Well, no big deal using two hands and taking your time!" *sigh* Okay, double-action, one-handed it is.

*ding*-*ding*-ding*-*ding*-*ding*-*ding*--and I reholstered while he was reloading, trying to clear those last two pesky plates.

Range officer yells, "Now shut the **** up before he starts using his toes!"

 

[AzShooter]

Mosin's seem to last forever. At one time I had 10 of them, competing with a friend to see how stupid both of us were for trying to dominate our collection with them.

Spray it with a good cleaner and the spring will probably start working the way it should. It's one of the best rifles made.

 

[Donn]

You run into the same bull excrement with car & truck people. It's tough, but you've got to let it go. Old saying, "Never argue with an idiot in public. People passing by won't know which one of you is the idiot."

 

[zeke]

Once had several people move discreetly away from me when shooting a Rem M81. They expressed their concern about shooting an antique, after watching the barrel recoil with a loud kerchunk. They weren't obnoxious about it, just didn't know how the rifle operated.

Occasionally receive comments about noise of short rifles am using, but advise them to use hearing protection.

 

[woodsltc]

A later unsolicited comment was that the Mosin wasn't a Russian rifle, it was a communist rifle. This was delivered with an extra dose of acid.

If I had been able to think fast enough .... I would have looked him in the eye and responded that this rifle had been "liberated" from communist oppression and should be now be honored for exercising it's newly won freedom.

Don

 

[Golddollar]

If I had been able to think fast enough .... I would have looked him in the eye and responded that this rifle had been "liberated" from communist oppression and should be now be honored for exercising it's newly won freedom.

Don

Because of my admiration for the Finnish people in standing up to the Soviets I made sure I got a marked capture piece.

 

[rwsmith]

Frank Hamer liked them.....

Once had several people move discreetly away from me when shooting a Rem M81. They expressed their concern about shooting an antique, after watching the barrel recoil with a loud kerchunk. They weren't obnoxious about it, just didn't know how the rifle operated.

Occasionally receive comments about noise of short rifles am using, but advise them to use hearing protection.

And his and at least one other helped fill Bonnie and Clyde's car full of holes. It was well thought of enough to be used as a special rifle in a LOT of roles, even though it didn't have a military contract and not very many were made. That is one INTERESTING mechanism. Ka-chunk away.

I could have a non-shooting Garand just to sit there and work the action, just to watch it operate.

 

[Dave from Pa]

In all my years as a competitive shooter, I never met a Marine who did not know what 6 o'clock hold meant.

 

[Abbynormal]

Unfortunately Mosins are more reliable than some of our Associates

Except for that one! LOL!

Think this through, a nation based on a bad theory, run by a dictator, without funds or resources, kept afloat only by Allied foreign aid. A despot who thinks nothing of the deaths of millions of his countrymen to effect ONLY his staying in power.

The Russian theory was to make the least weapon that would work that could and did blow up and kill/maim the user, but who cares, he has millions more peasants to push into the front lines. If one dies, the following millions of Russians would pick up the rifle and continue forward!

Stalin's priority was to build enough Russian armor to kill the Nazi Panzers, thus the good steel went to armor, not to build a safe, reliable battle rifle.

I've never shot a Nagant and never will. In my mind it is border line safe.

 

[rwsmith]

Mosin Nagents are strong as hell.....

Watch the video where the guys overload the rounds on purpose. They have to fill the case with pistol powder to actually damage it and it just bent the metal around the chamber. It's rugged and works like nobody's business

Last night I took a pair of needle nose pliers and gave the magazine spring a few small bends to put some strength back into it, loaded it to cycle the shells through and it worked just fine. Maybe I'll post a vid of firing 5 rounds through it in rapid succession and getting good hits on silhouette target at 100 yards with the V-notch sight. A spring goes weak after 70 years and people say the guns no good. I do question their judgment. There's nothing unsafe about a Mosin any more than a German Mauser is unsafe. It's smooth, reliable and very rugged.

Take something like a good old American Krag rifle. Now THAT is unsafe.

 

[500SNW]

Rather than making me mad, I often feel sorry for people like that. As a revolver guy, I'm quite used to taking a bashing from the high capacity polymer crowd. Again, I feel sorry for anyone so closed minded as them. They'll never see the beauty in anything other than what is programmed into them by consumerism, fads, trends etc. etc..