Ol ' Red, that signature quote of yours is some funny stuff!!!
The dumbest thing you have ever heard
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FrogFire7
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Worked at a LGS for several years on weekends. Heard A LOT. None in particular come to mind though...
Was talking with an older cousin at a family reunion recently. Not really "dumb" thing, just uninformed (and opinionated, my information wouldn't have changed his mind). He was saying that his .284 Winchester with lighter (factory ammo) hunting bullets shot so flat he could hold on deer at 700 yards and hit them.
I just said "yeah, they're pretty fast!"
Was talking with an older cousin at a family reunion recently. Not really "dumb" thing, just uninformed (and opinionated, my information wouldn't have changed his mind). He was saying that his .284 Winchester with lighter (factory ammo) hunting bullets shot so flat he could hold on deer at 700 yards and hit them.
I just said "yeah, they're pretty fast!"
DakotaFire101
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There's a fella at work that probably tips the scale around 400 lbs and 5'9" every year around deer season when he sees me getting dressed and leaving work to go bow hunting, he tells me the story of how he bought a bow and a treestand at a local pawn shop, went and hung the stand 50 ft up (always calls me a wuss for only using 15ft ladder stands) and on his first sit of his entire hunting career merely hours after purchasing his first hunting gear, he shot a monster whitetail that scored in the 300 inch range. I keep telling him he needs to bring the rack in and I'll score it for him since that would most likely be a south dakota state record and potentially a world record, to which he usually tells me some variation of how the rack was lost in either a bad divorce or a storage unit dispute. The story changes every year. Says that's the one and only time he's ever deer hunted.
Ckgworks
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Said by me..... "I can do it way cheaper myself. "
ADKHTR
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Many years ago on a remote tent hunt… after dinner I had a fellow ask me if I thought because the clocks were changing tomorrow…and there would be an hour less of daylight if that would finally bring the bucks into rut….… and you couldn't convince this guy that he was wrong… that mite have been one of the longest and most awkward trips of my life, just me and some dude mad at me because I tried my best to gently explain to him that wasn't exactly how things worked 
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A local in town is a 7 STW purist, "because no other gun has as much rise with the bullet"
It's nothing to do with sight-in distance, his bullets rise. To the occasion?
Talking about DST, I've heard of one character that claims " that extra hour of sunlight burns up my tomatoes every year"
It's nothing to do with sight-in distance, his bullets rise. To the occasion?
Talking about DST, I've heard of one character that claims " that extra hour of sunlight burns up my tomatoes every year"
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22250imp
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The dumbest thing I've ever heard??? Every time Biden opens his mouth!!Over the years I have always heard the crazy gun counter, range and even work stories people have told, so let's do a 2023 version.
Mine to myself just a few days ago, this is going to be a fun project
Me too!
I had a custom 1244 mud boat built by Ricky Aucoin and had Copperhead build me a 12hp with custom everything for running shallow.
Well, I decided to sell it after a few very dry seasons here and then after hunting ducks in Kansas, Texas just didn't have my attention. When I put it up for sale I told everyone before they came to look at it exactly how fast it was and how it liked to sidetrack because of the extremely flat bottom. One guy comes out and meets at the lake, first words out of his mouth were "It don't look that fast!" I took him out of the ramp area to head north to the river channel. I was pretty easy on him until we hit the channel, then the hammer fell. Something about running 29 and bumping 30 in a river channel filled with dead trees and long shallow mud flats got his heart to palpitating and he was white knuckling the gunnels. I had to go a good ways up the river to find a hole big enough and deep enough to spin the boat around. He asked me in the most sincere voice if I would take it a bit slower on the way back out. I tried to hold a steady 25, but dodging willow branches and deadfall I wasn't to sure.
We got back to the ramp and he promptly told that he didn't give a **** if he ever saw that boat again.
CaneBrake
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Once
I once spent 30 minutes during a ballistics class I had to teach, explaining to a guy that if fired completely horizontal with all external factors taken out, like gyroscopic forces, drag, boundary layers, etc, that all rounds will hit the ground at the same time. No matter the caliber. I broke it down Barney style but he just couldn't open his mind to the idea. I've found that when you ask someone what makes one caliber shoot flatter than another they usually can't scientifically explain it. They just say one is faster. Physics is lost on most people.
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Small Lady
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A customer at a gun store. "Women shouldn't be allowed to own guns, they are too bitchy ".
Customer in a Canadian tire store once asked me "Do they sell tires here"?
While I was wheeling a patient down the hospital hallway on a bed, explaining that I was going to take her down in the elevator to the OR, she says to me "Dear instead of the elevator you really should use the stairs, it will keep you fit so you can grow old like me". My reply was "I don't use the stairs when taking down patients in a bed".
She didn't miss a beat saying "Dear you take the stairs, and I'll wait right here for you".
At a restaurant with friends, and one of them orders a Corona. Guy at the next table says loudly "WHY WOULD YOU ORDER A CORONA AND MAKE YOURSELF SICK WITH A DEADLY VIRUS". I have never before heard an entire restaurant full of people burst out laughing simultaneously, until that day.
Customer in a Canadian tire store once asked me "Do they sell tires here"?
While I was wheeling a patient down the hospital hallway on a bed, explaining that I was going to take her down in the elevator to the OR, she says to me "Dear instead of the elevator you really should use the stairs, it will keep you fit so you can grow old like me". My reply was "I don't use the stairs when taking down patients in a bed".
She didn't miss a beat saying "Dear you take the stairs, and I'll wait right here for you".
At a restaurant with friends, and one of them orders a Corona. Guy at the next table says loudly "WHY WOULD YOU ORDER A CORONA AND MAKE YOURSELF SICK WITH A DEADLY VIRUS". I have never before heard an entire restaurant full of people burst out laughing simultaneously, until that day.
comfisherman
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My favorite stupid isn't current, but thread drift...
About the time the terminal ascent was released by kimber, I was waiting behind a fellow doing a background check on one in 280. He was telling anyone who would listen how he was buying it to save weight on a brooks range hunt (5 mile hike required to be away from the road). Fair play, I've made some light rifles for friends who are really in to that area. But this ol boy was probably mid to upper 400s and 5 foot 8, in the ratchet strap for a belt category. Usually when one has the physic of a blueberry, rifle weight is less critical.
He was proud of the 2 pound weight savings over his previous rifle.... never mind he could have shaved that off doing a few laps around the store and saved 2k.
About the time the terminal ascent was released by kimber, I was waiting behind a fellow doing a background check on one in 280. He was telling anyone who would listen how he was buying it to save weight on a brooks range hunt (5 mile hike required to be away from the road). Fair play, I've made some light rifles for friends who are really in to that area. But this ol boy was probably mid to upper 400s and 5 foot 8, in the ratchet strap for a belt category. Usually when one has the physic of a blueberry, rifle weight is less critical.
He was proud of the 2 pound weight savings over his previous rifle.... never mind he could have shaved that off doing a few laps around the store and saved 2k.
59FLH
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Getting a phone call on a land line and being asked "Where are you?"
My girlfriend called me on my cell a couple of days ago and I told her never to call me here and she said what?
I told her I always wanted to do that lol.
I told her I always wanted to do that lol.
