Trends You Simply Can't Stand...Feel Free To Vent Here

[fatcat3]

Videos that apologies for pointing the gun at "you". Really? Is anyone fearful that the gun will fire, the bullet with travel though the "magic of tv" pop out of the screen and hit them in the chest?

Legos for adults. Quit hanging crap all over your gun! On the other hand, whatever lifts your skirt.

S&W using the same names over and over again. This is a bodyguard

NOT this

Does not one person at S&W have an imagination?

 

[MelvinWalker]

My second biggest complaint is when people use y'all. Y’all isn’t a word. Stop it.

* This thread was meant to be somewhat whimsical. Don’t take it seriously.

Actually, "Y'all" is almost a taught word in Texas...Much like "y'uns" was a taught word in my 40 years in Tennessee, (short and bastardized word made from "You ones").

I had an acquaintance from East Tennessee that talked so slow, everybody hung on his every word...We had a phrase for him which said, he was as "country as cornbread"...No kidding, he took a trip to Wyoming once and some girls in the US Park there thought he was from Australia...That's how foreign he sounded to them.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Since I have recently taken up bullet casting again after a multi-decade hiatus I've run into two.

1. "Casted" as in "I casted 1,000 wadcutters". That's not even a word. The past tense of "cast" is "cast".

2. "Smelted" as in "I smelted 300 pounds of scrap into ingots." Smelting is the process of removing a metal from the ore that was mined. I guess it sounds cooler than "processing".

I don't say anything. I just cringe.

"Casted", no...Obvious wrong tense..."Smelted"? I can live with that, but then my dad had a coin and precious metal shop when I was growing up.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Videos that apologies for pointing the gun at "you". Really? Is anyone fearful that the gun will fire, the bullet with travel though the "magic of tv" pop out of the screen and hit them in the chest?

Legos for adults. Quit hanging crap all over your gun! On the other hand, whatever lifts your skirt.

S&W using the same names over and over again. This is a bodyguard
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Does not one person at S&W have an imagination?

Truth....Look at "M&P"... I guess it worked so well with K frames, that it still works with striker fired pistols and AR variants.

 

[DixieRanger]

The list goes on and on and and on. We are fortunate to have a venue to let it all out. One on this forum are those use it to display their shooters with EDC lleather holsters with absolutely no sign of wear. Kinda 'show and tell But that's ok...like purty pictures.

 

[Fiddler1537]

"Tactical" 9mm rifles. Never thought much about them until I went to the range today and the guy in the next bay down pulled a black rifle out of his car. I'm thinking "Wait - they don't allow rifle ammo on the pistol ranges." Then he pulls out a bag full of skinny magazines, and I see - oh - 9mm sticks - ok. Turns out he had a binary trigger, too, and proceeded to do mag dumps with ten pulls. Almost full auto. Pretty much broke my concentration - I started missing the plates from flinch every time he set off a pow-pow-pow-pow-pow string.

An AR in 9mm makes for a much cheaper day of shooting. I hear you about the binary trigger though.

 

[Arkfarmer]

would be a “one-stroke.”

I am not into pink and light blue revolvers, pistols, rifles, etc. I feel any projectile firing mechanism shouldn’t be the color of toys. Folks might not take them seriously and IMHO they are dirt-ugly.

Hey Feller, I would humbley ask you to make exception for the pink rifles... I'm the old man. Cattleman/ farmer, 3 sons, 2 daughters, 18 grandkids about 3/4 girls, 4 great (so far) 3 girls and 1boy and I have regularly bought PINK 22 single shot rifles to go with their PINK camouflage hunting clothes for deer season so they can learn to hunt with their Dad's, Moms, or me beginning around age 5, they receive their safety training here on the farm and usually hunt here also. I'm proud of the fact that all my "girls" can shoot as well or better than my "boys", IMHO pink is okay in some cases...... John

 

[djohns6]

My second biggest complaint is when people use y'all. Y’all isn’t a word. Stop it.

* This thread was meant to be somewhat whimsical. Don’t take it seriously.

Man , I use " ya'll " all the time and I ain't gonna stop . It's a commonly used contraction just like He's and We'll , and They're.

 

[roundels]

Hollywood is a special kind of stupid when it comes to firearms. We've all heard the standard complaints, but here's a gripe you don't hear too often: the term "shell casings" as in "We found shell casings at the crime scene." I don't know what they call such things in the big cities, but out here in the world we call them spent brass.

 

[rockquarry]

Man , I use " ya'll " all the time and I ain't gonna stop . It's a commonly used contraction just like He's and We'll , and They're.

In Texas, "ya'll" is a word.

 

[Tabby Lynn]

There are actually so many that it would take all day to list them, so I will only go with a few for now. In case you haven't figured it out, I am female, other things you should probably know is that I spent 30 years in the Army, 25 of those as a firearms instructor (rifle and pistol) either as an assigned duty or extra duty, and have been a NRA Certified rifle and pistol instructor since 1974. My reasons for telling you this will become clear as you read through my comments. NOTE: All these comments come from those of the male persuasion.
1. "There is nothing that any woman can teach me about shooting."
2. "Can you clear this firing point so a man can show you how this is done."
3. Comment from the testosterone gallery as my girlfriends and I are shooting high power rifles on the local range.
" That's no gun for a woman to be shooting." (348 Win Mag)
" Why don't you shoot a woman's gun." my comment, "All guns are women's guns."
" Why are you shooting a .22 on the 200 yard range, don't you know that .22s can only shoot 50 yards."
4. People who have no idea what they are doing turning gunpowder into noise. Especially those shooting AR-15 type firearms and can't keep their hits on a full size silhouette target at 50 yards.
5. People coming to the range after you have been there shooting 50 feet or 25 yards on the pistol range then proceed to 7 or 10 yards to shoot.
6. When shooting my Gold Cup and having someone coming up to me and say, "That is way too big a handgun for someone your size, or even worse, to big for a woman.

I could go on and on, but I think that you may have gotten the gist of things by now.

 

[Dhawk46]

Simple is best. A 5 or 6 shot revolver, or a single stack semi auto pistol that you can shoot well, and conceal well, is what is required for successful CCW.

DVC

 

[Dave Haynes]

I was raised around depression survivors, most from Virginia (Tazewell), W.Virginia (Guthrie) and Ark. (Hackett,). I was taught to be polite, call all women "Mam" and men "Sir". I could have been set afire and neither Grandfather would have got up to put it out. I never heard a "Ya'll" out of any of them. It became fashionable to others much later. A lot of "Lord have mercy" but no ya'lls.

Major complaint: How did S&W go from this to that? Firearms made to last centuries to plastic and sheet metal junk?

 

[Tabby Lynn]

In Texas, "ya'll" is a word.

Nothing identifies ya'll as a yankee by not understanding the term.

 

[djohns6]

There are actually so many that it would take all day to list them, so I will only go with a few for now. In case you haven't figured it out, I am female, other things you should probably know is that I spent 30 years in the Army, 25 of those as a firearms instructor (rifle and pistol) either as an assigned duty or extra duty, and have been a NRA Certified rifle and pistol instructor since 1974. My reasons for telling you this will become clear as you read through my comments. NOTE: All these comments come from those of the male persuasion.
1. "There is nothing that any woman can teach me about shooting."
2. "Can you clear this firing point so a man can show you how this is done."
3. Comment from the testosterone gallery as my girlfriends and I are shooting high power rifles on the local range.
" That's no gun for a woman to be shooting." (348 Win Mag)
" Why don't you shoot a woman's gun." my comment, "All guns are women's guns."
" Why are you shooting a .22 on the 200 yard range, don't you know that .22s can only shoot 50 yards."
4. People who have no idea what they are doing turning gunpowder into noise. Especially those shooting AR-15 type firearms and can't keep their hits on a full size silhouette target at 50 yards.
5. People coming to the range after you have been there shooting 50 feet or 25 yards on the pistol range then proceed to 7 or 10 yards to shoot.
6. When shooting my Gold Cup and having someone coming up to me and say, "That is way too big a handgun for someone your size, or even worse, to big for a woman.

I could go on and on, but I think that you may have gotten the gist of things by now.

I don't know where you shoot but I have never heard women treated that way at a range . Around here the Deer camps are full of women hunters .

 

[Donnie805]

There’s always that person who calls a magazine a clip, however, we all recognize and know what that person means. What really bugs me is the know it all, typically rookie shooter, who has to correct that person in front of everyone saying, “that’s a magazine, not a clip”. Thanks for the lesson Sherlock!

 

[ralph7]

I despise the proliferation of the enhanced beavertails on ALL of the 1911's being produced today.
I realize that some get hammer bite, but the exaggerated wide upward flourish of this unsightly growth does nothing to enhance the looks or concealibility of a formerly good looking design.

 

[Tabby Lynn]

I don't know where you shoot but I have never heard women treated that way at a range . Around here the Deer camps are full of women hunters .

I have shot all over the country as well as a few foreign lands. I had few issues when in the Army, most soldiers respected you not getting designated a firearms instructor without knowing what you are doing. These days I live in Wisconsin and the issues seem to be consistent with non veterans that consider themselves experts.

 

[Telecaster]

Male shooters still presume to tell women what gun to choose. The magazines (words on paper, not “clips”) still occasionally do articles on guns for ladies. Like y’all can’t pick out your own equipment? You need a man to think for you?

Similar to the newer “lite rack” pistols… If it functions fine with reduced slide racking force needed, why does that make it good for the elderly and women? Why can’t we all enjoy easy slide racking?

 

[Tabby Lynn]

I have shot all over the country as well as a few foreign lands. I had few issues when in the Army, most soldiers respected the fact that you do not get designated a firearms instructor without knowing what you are doing. These days I live in Wisconsin and the issues seem to be consistent with non veterans that consider themselves experts. I hunt and have hunted with several groups of men over the years and have no issues with any of them.