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

[Oldsalt66]

The trend towards "tacticool" language such as "I'm 'rocking' a (insert brand here) pistol in a (insert brand here) holster on a (insert brand here) gunbelt."

That's followed fairly closely by "driving the gun".

The use of those terms should be restricted only to professional tactical operators who are professionally operating tactically.

 

[LVSteve]

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.

When I first took my now wife to the range, one of the guys in the next lane was looking a little askance at me when the second gun I had my wife shoot was a 38oz Star Model B Super. I just grinned. It seems that the concept of having new shooters use big heavy guns in 9mm that recoil very little is totally lost on many men.

 

[eku82]

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.

I'm not as amused with it. I hate the use of the word "y'all". I don't care where you are from or who you are, it's my opinion that it's use is lazy and uneducated.

My second gripe is those that are chasing what I call "trigger nirvana", where no pistol that they pick up has the perfect trigger, ever.

Third (and I'll stop), are those that as soon as they get a new gun, they start changing things and adding "bling" to them to the point where the gun no longer functions. Then they ask why their gun doesn't work. Simply put, people that think that they are smarter than the engineers that designed them.

 

[Dave Haynes]

My first wife was from Texas as were both her sisters, mother and father. Never heard a Ya'll from any of them. Raced at Bonneville for 10 years. Had several friends that would come up every year from San Antonio, fast, smart guys. Never ever heard a Ya'll from any of them. I'd hear people "Ya'lling" and wonder where they picked up that bad habit...

 

[Rustyt1953]

I'm not as amused with it. I hate the use of the word "y'all". I don't care where you are from or who you are, it's my opinion that it's use is lazy and uneducated.

I have two degrees, a high IQ and a large vocabulary. Around these parts "y'all" is required vernacular.

 

[eku82]

I have two degrees, a high IQ and a large vocabulary. Around these parts "y'all" is required vernacular.

Maybe so, but they asked for opinions. And that is mine.

 

[barbarosa guns]

It doesn't seem as bad now as it was in the past but one issue that bothers me are hunter wannabe's always in search of the newest latest belted magnum round, for North American game. The fad was even popular with South Texas deer hunters for taking their Collie sized game. I'm not the dead eye we are expected to believe Oswald was but at 71 I am still waiting for my first opportunity to chase a wounded animal while the most potent chambering I've ever used was out of the box 180gr .30-06 at ranges as lengthy as 700 yards on Antelope. Do these folks just have too much money or enjoy turning their shoulders black and blue? Maybe I'm dense, wouldn't surprise me, but I never have gotten the concept.

 

[rockquarry]

Maybe so, but they asked for opinions. And that is mine.

Ya'll try to get along....

 

[Dave Haynes]

How about " Ya'll asked for opinions......." that'll work..

On Magnum rifles: I recall in the early 70s when the 7mm Mag came out. One of the guys had a nice 180lb 3 point Mulie down and the whole front shoulder and quarter was just blown to bits, wrecked, ruined. I had a similar 3 point down shot through the neck at 50 yds. He was poleaxed, legs tangled up never knew what hit him. a nice .270 hole on one side and a teacup sized one out the other side. We actually ate our deer. That guy didn't care that his deer was grenaded and half thrown away. I had a friend who went to Canada in the 50s and shot everything, moose, bear, elk, all the big game with a .257 Roberts. Many hunters are just about the kill, don't eat the meat but love horns.

 

[glenwolde]

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

..and most mistakenly believe it is plural. It is not. "Y'all" is singular. You know a Texan when you hear "All y'all"

 

[MelvinWalker]

Maybe so, but they asked for opinions. And that is mine.

It's just you aren't from Texas or you would use it too...I just got back from Clearwater BTW..Picked up some guns I won at auction.

 

[djohns6]

..and most mistakenly believe it is plural. It is not. "Y'all" is singular. You know a Texan when you hear "All y'all"

Ya'll is all inclusive . It doesn't matter how many people are in the room . Ya'll and All Ya'll are interchangeable as well . AND , it has nothing to do with Texas . We use it as well .

 

[rockquarry]

..and most mistakenly believe it is plural. It is not. "Y'all" is singular. You know a Texan when you hear "All y'all"

"All y'all" is not very common but is heard occasionally. "Y'all" is plural. "Y'all" is not used when referring to one person. "You" will suffice in that case. We Texans have been to school, too. You're apparently not from Texas.

 

[glenwolde]

"All y'all" is not very common but is heard occasionally. "Y'all" is plural. "Y'all" is not used when referring to one person. "You" will suffice in that case. We Texans have been to school, too. You're apparently not from Texas.

Lived here most my life and hear All y'all all the time and hear y'all used to address a single person. Go figure. Anyway it's slang so there really are no definitive rules.

 

[Greyman50]

Being from Va I started working in the mid West in late 70’s installing and servicing certain machine tools. Language in Michigan is very different. Kind of funny when I asked a guy what he just said. Almost the same around Peoria but made many friends and we all got along. They all loved the CNC machines.

 

[rockquarry]

Lived here most my life and hear All y'all all the time and hear y'all used to address a single person. Go figure. Anyway it's slang so there really are no definitive rules.

You make a good point - no definitive rules.

 

[Harkrader]

Slapping so many doo dads on carry pistols they're no longer easy to conceal.

Ya mean like THIS one?


Of course I have a loyal gun bearer. No pic because, unfortunately, she's busy chasing a squirrel.

 

[Terry G]

I've lost all faith that adding an optic to a handgun is necessary at all. I added a Holosun green dot sight to my S&W Equalizer, and I've never been able to improve my shooting accuracy with it since. If anything, the optical sight has made me worse! It amplifies my "coffee jitters" and the way the dot will dance around all over the target. And I don't have to have any jitters.

The best improvement I made was to get an additional slide/barrel assembly and install a set of Hi-Viz Light Tunnel tritium sights. They amplify daylight and glow in the dark, so the sights are "lit up" in nearly any shooting situation.

Maybe it's me. I can't see the advantage of an optic on a carry gun. I got this Sig P320 w/optic as a gift (Wife, she does this at Christmas too) and just can't get fast enough at 15 and 25 yards as I can with iron sights. My Nephew, a LEO, swears his shooting has improved by 30% with an optic. Too old maybe?

 

[kmyers]

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.

What I got a laugh out of from a number of years back was some celebrity using Twitter(X, whatever) posted a message of have a fine weekend ya'll and she was accused of cultural appropriation of African American Vernacular. Ya'll in other spellings but with the same pronunciation and meaning has been in use in English speaking countries for a thousand years or so.

 

[rockquarry]

Maybe it's me. I can't see the advantage of an optic on a carry gun. I got this Sig P320 w/optic as a gift (Wife, she does this at Christmas too) and just can't get fast enough at 15 and 25 yards as I can with iron sights. My Nephew, a LEO, swears his shooting has improved by 30% with an optic. Too old maybe?

Hard to call it a handgun when it has optical sights on it; optics ruins the looks and clean lines of a handgun and makes it cumbersome. Younger shooters probably prefer optics because such gadgetry is comparatively new and popular. A young shooter with decent eyes and adequate practice can shoot quite well with iron sights, probably at least well as using optics.