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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: FISHUNTER] #3892843 12/28/12 08:46 PM
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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: TxHunter87] #3892846 12/28/12 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted By: TxHunter87
"you should always wear a shirt while hunting"


rofl
Was that a "coming out of the closet" moment?

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: BuckRage] #3895393 12/29/12 06:34 PM
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You shouldn't head shot does


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I'd ask him if he's pregnant. He missed a s__tload of periods.

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You should head shoot does.

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: FISHUNTER] #3895426 12/29/12 06:47 PM
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.223 isn't a good round for anything.

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: TxHunter87] #3896339 12/30/12 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted By: TxHunter87
"you should always wear a shirt while hunting"



...if that gun goes off your "life partner" on the left is a gonner.

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: kmon11] #3896398 12/30/12 01:50 AM
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I have thought a lot about why gun-store idiots are so dumb. I don't think they are dumb.

I am a military armorer, been reading the gun mags since I was 5, and no one person can know everything.

Cabelas in Maine used to piss me off something fierce.

They had a newer (probably 1990's) English bolt rifle in 375. It was a nice gun, but it had about 4 things I didn't like about it. No drop magazine, safety was not M70 style or tang, and it had Talley mounts on it, instead of some thing classy and fitting it's $20,000 price tag. The Talley's weren't so horrible, bu they didn't fit the color scheme of the bluing and case hardening on the action. So they looked like aftermarket non fitting wrong color parts.

I was joking with another rifle nut about the gun and we were making fun of it. One of the Cabelas gun room staff was pissed that we couldn't see the beauty in it, and the guy was pissed. Told us we didn't know anything.

At the end of the day a guy can't know everything. There are too many different firearms, and I;ll be the first to admit I don't know much about pistols or shotguns.



Originally Posted By: kmon1
Originally Posted By: janie
We were at a local sporting goods store last weekend, and a gentleman walked up to the gun counter, and said he was looking for a .22 rifle that fired .22 S, L and LR

Guy behind the gun counter said "there is no such thing"

Shook my head and walked off.



Heard a similar request not long ago with almost the same response. After the guy walked off. I caught up with him and showed him a Remington 552 Speedmaster on the used gun rack. He left with it happy. Simply amazing the lack of knowledge some of the people behind the counters these days.

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: Roo Basher] #3896477 12/30/12 02:10 AM
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Back to that post again, it's a Sunday and I am cooking family lunch.

The biggest problem with them, is they get asked questions daily about firearms that are severely technical. Instead of losing face they guess, and if they don't know they lie about it.

I don't knock them for not knowing everything that is impossible, I knock them because they rarely have enough knowledge to answer correctly when it really matters.

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Some of the dumbest things I have seen them do are argue with customers over a customer's wanting of a certain caliber.

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Especially when the rifle is sitting on the shelf, ready to sell and they talk the customer out of that caliber.

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: BuckRage] #3897691 12/30/12 03:53 PM
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I would recommend this post as a starting place. Question about idiotic internet advice and before page one is full the subject has jumped to advice given in retail stores.

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it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: FISHUNTER] #3897713 12/30/12 04:01 PM
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"Shoot him as a cull"

Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: AmoCuernos] #3897947 12/30/12 05:33 PM
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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: cameron00] #3898092 12/30/12 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted By: cameron00
"Rattlesnakes don't rattle anymore because they're scared of hogs."


This was the biggest bs of the year.


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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: Texsun] #3898815 12/30/12 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted By: Texsun
Originally Posted By: cameron00
"Rattlesnakes don't rattle anymore because they're scared of hogs."


This was the biggest bs of the year.


The guys at work were spreading this around and some were dumb enough to buy it. Haha! Knuckle heads.


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A few years ago, the "lease boss" told us not to pee in the field because deer would avoid that area for over 5 years afterward. He was a really likeable, educated, successful guy, just a little misinformed on deer hunting.

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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: bruton1] #3900168 12/31/12 03:43 AM
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Worst one ever!!!!!!!! After my first buck kill, my uncle told me I had to wipe the musk glands dry with my bare hands, rub that on my clothes, and then I could be in "their hunting club"!

I think I hold the trophy for most gullable! Even though I was only 9 yrs old


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forums= not allways good advice


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Re: Idiotic Advice [Re: TxHunter87] #3907771 01/02/13 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted By: TxHunter87
"you should always wear a shirt while hunting"



LOL! That's pretty much the mental picture I have of all the "I never miss/I never lose one" internet Annie Oalkeys and Fred Bears.


Originally Posted by Russ79
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.


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Originally Posted By: My stand is pink camo
Worst one ever!!!!!!!! After my first buck kill, my uncle told me I had to wipe the musk glands dry with my bare hands, rub that on my clothes, and then I could be in "their hunting club"!

I think I hold the trophy for most gullable! Even though I was only 9 yrs old


I once ate a couple of raw goose hearts to become a member of a "hunting club." That was well over 20 years ago and I'm still hunting regularly with those yahoos. For me, a couple of goose hearts has paid off with lifelong hunting buddies.

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Haha Misfire! We will do some crazy stuff won't ?!?! It's all in good fun and sure has resulted in long and wonderful friendships


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This is not related to guns but fishing. I once had a guy try to tell me that the reason trout jump in a lake was to release their eggs since there was no running water to help push them out. I nearly died right there and then from laughing. Obviously the guy didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

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I was once told that water moccasins can't bite underwater. eeks333

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Had a guy try and tell me one time that once you have your scope zeroed in, it doesn't matter what angle you cant it at, even if you lay it on its side, and shoot, you will always be dead on.

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