What are some ridiculous shooting myths/tales you've heard?

[sandgroperbill]

OB, good film. Helps explain that ammo shortage a while back.

Must...avoid...making...222...vs...223...comment...here...

By the way, which is better? .308 or 7.62x51?

[Gwion]

Nice.... Hahaha

[<<Genesis93>>]

OB, good film. Helps explain that ammo shortage a while back.

Must...avoid...making...222...vs...223...comment...here...

By the way, which is better? .308 or 7.62x51?

Thats easy - everyone know the 7.62x51 is betterer. Its used by the army people.

[<<Genesis93>>]

Unless mention in the previous pages (did I already mention?) I reckon the soft drink bottle over the muzzle of a 22rimfire turning it into a long range sniper weapon rifle, a steady platform (shootable of a bucking row boat, the gyroscopic stabilising nature of the PET material does it) AND of course removing all sound... I saw a bloke do it once... so I guess it's NOT a myth.
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[Pythonkeeper]

Unless mention in the previous pages (did I already mention?) I reckon the soft drink bottle over the muzzle of a 22rimfire turning it into a long range sniper weapon rifle, a steady platform (shootable of a bucking row boat, the gyroscopic stabilising nature of the PET material does it) AND of course removing all sound... I saw a bloke do it once... so I guess it's NOT a myth.
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Yep 100% true......I seent a man do it once too.....

[happyhunter]

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[<<Genesis93>>]

Unless mention in the previous pages (did I already mention?) I reckon the soft drink bottle over the muzzle of a 22rimfire turning it into a long range sniper weapon rifle, a steady platform (shootable of a bucking row boat, the gyroscopic stabilising nature of the PET material does it) AND of course removing all sound... I saw a bloke do it once... so I guess it's NOT a myth.
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So you haven't heard of George Hayduke?

Not until I gogled his name.... tell me 'he' invented the soda-bottle sniper silencer??

[happyhunter]

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[<<Genesis93>>]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hayduke_%28author%29

I highly recommend people DO NOT download some of his books as some of the content is not legal in Australia.

Unfortunately, the 2yr metadata / continuous surveillance / flagged words (bomb making etc) means that nothing is innocent in the eyes of big bro now...

and, iirc in NSW 'blueprints' being anything with dimensions are 'outlawed' now... 3D printing and all....

[Title_II]

9mm is .45 set to stun. And real men don't stun.

Wait, I think I already said that

[happyhunter]

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[<<Genesis93>>]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hayduke_%28author%29

I highly recommend people DO NOT download some of his books as some of the content is not legal in Australia.

Unfortunately, the 2yr metadata / continuous surveillance / flagged words (bomb making etc) means that nothing is innocent in the eyes of big bro now...

and, iirc in NSW 'blueprints' being anything with dimensions are 'outlawed' now... 3D printing and all....

yep, it's all very un-democratic. Our society has become the very thing that our grand parents fought a war against.

.... and lost.

[Gamerancher]

You'll only need a 3 gun safe!!

[Wylie27]

We have pro firearms politicians

[Blackened]

223 is better than .222 because heavy pills blah blah blah.....

Must...avoid...making...222...vs...223...comment...here...

I think I see a little red light beginning to flash...

[Walt68]

worked at a base where all the trees had been cleared for a distance of 970 metres from the guardhouse, had a clown that claimed he was ex German Army, said he could get a headshot with a 9mm handgun at the treeline.

[<<Genesis93>>]

worked at a base where all the trees had been cleared for a distance of 970 metres from the guardhouse, had a clown that claimed he was ex German Army, said he could get a headshot with a 9mm handgun at the treeline.

His surname wouldn't happen to be Miculek??

[Title_II]

He would have done it

[happyhunter]

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[Gamerancher]

Pay that one!!!!

[superdave]

from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.

[happyhunter]

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[BRNO_Bigot]

from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.

Not forgetting the shoulder is a mass of bone, muscle, nerves, veins and arteries. He's all right in the next scene or chapter. Very little OT, unless, of course it's to introduce the therapist as his squeeze.

[Gwion]

Come on guys.... It's only a 'flesh wound', remember!

[RoginaJack]

This goes back many years to when the Armed services adopted the then new 5.56mm to replace the 7.62 NATO round.

A reporter in a leading Sydney newspaper wrote up the new round as "high powered", "devastating wounds due to the high velocity" and could "blow of a mans arm with one shot"...etc.

He claimed that this was possible due to the fact that "the bullet tumbled in flight thus causing etc....

Think about that and what has changed with reporters writing on this subject - SFA

Cheers

I had the newspaper clipping but can't find it. Must be filed in a safe place...

[Title_II]

This goes back many years to when the Armed services adopted the then new 5.56mm to replace the 7.62 NATO round.

A reporter in a leading Sydney newspaper wrote up the new round as "high powered", "devastating wounds due to the high velocity" and could "blow of a mans arm with one shot"...etc.

He claimed that this was possible due to the fact that "the bullet tumbled in flight thus causing etc....

Think about that and what has changed with reporters writing on this subject - SFA

Cheers

I had the newspaper clipping but can't find it. Must be filed in a safe place...

And they were right

Although the tumbling was not entirely accurate.

If I had to be shot, I'd choose 7.62 over 5.56 any day of the week. Provided we are talking military ball ammo. If we are talking soft points or BTHP, heck no!

[<<Genesis93>>]

eye fink the 'tumbling' is supposed to be post-impact

[happyhunter]

eye fink the 'tumbling' is supposed to be post-impact

3) The 173 grain M118 round jacketing was found to explode on impact. All fragments of the exploding rounds followed an erratic path in both height and width. Each of the main cores began to tumble about two feet from initial impact.

Lucky I'm a skinny bugger.

[RoginaJack]

I don't recall the mention of "post impact" in the article....

The 5.56 was just starting to be tested by us dosy diggers and was very hush hush at the time. The section consisting of 9 men carried 4 different weapons - Rifle group - 7.62 SLR's, M.G. proup - 7.62 M60 belt fed machine gun, Scouts AR15 5.56 & SLR and section leader a trusty 9mm Owen gun, and none were interchangeable. I find it all quiet amusing now.

Actually, I'd prefer not to be shot with any of them.