Run-In with "Captain Hunting Rifle."

cybershooters said:
This is a good point. I see this sort of thing happening all the time here. It also happens a lot in the US with people buying things like the S&W .500 Magnum for plinking. If you've got the money and you know what you're doing, fair enough, but most of them don't seem to know what they're doing. It's a bit like the .44 Magnum rush back when Dirty Harry was popular, and people were buying .44s and firing 6 shots through them and then selling them.
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Getting a Savage .22WMR, not sure on scope yet. Wanted a black Synthetic stock (no warping issues in the future), but no one makes one leftie, oh well, no big loss. Yea, the opposite basically of how most twenty year olds start. ;) Honestly, I would have likely gone that rute as well had I not gotten good advice from you guys. :)



Dam College cancelled my firearms/hunter safety again for the second time! No problem, I signed up elsewhere. The hell, I booked this weekend off, know the book stupidly well already, and no way in hell am I letting this opportunity pass up. :D
 
In all fairness, I've had a few run-ins with "Captain AR" too, you know ? The guy that sets up on the table directly to your left even though you purposedly set yourself up on the last at the far end of the range so yu can quietly plink away with a .22 from the bench. Said "Captain AR" proceeds to give you one brass shower after another (even though you did notify him a number of times to watch it) until you get sick of it and go home ...
 
Or even better, the captain AR's who think they know EVERYTHING about thier firearms, but are really just some punk kid with ##### envy, who knows crap all about guns.

It's funny to watch captain AR and captain hunter interact. The bull####-o-meter bounces of the stops for a while.
 
RobSmith said:
In all fairness, I've had a few run-ins with "Captain AR" too, you know ? The guy that sets up on the table directly to your left even though you purposedly set yourself up on the last at the far end of the range so yu can quietly plink away with a .22 from the bench. Said "Captain AR" proceeds to give you one brass shower after another (even though you did notify him a number of times to watch it) until you get sick of it and go home ...
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I've been on both sides of that shooting bench. Range 3 at Sharon faces north, and only the far right gets any sun until mid afternoon. I tend to shoot early morning. More often than not, I get to the range to find even earlier risers have taken all the benches on the right. When I was shooting the AR, all I could do is place a .50 cal ammo can in the likely path and hope for the best.
 
Koldt and others,

I would like to think that things are changing with regard to other categories of shooters. Myself for example, I get #### on alot as I usually only shoot .22LR. "Get a real rifle" is a common line, mostly from older folks.
Guess what? I support every gun owner in Canada. I dont care if you shoot a pellet gun or a .50 BMG MG. If someone wants to take your guns, I say #### them. If they get yours, then mine is just down the line. If I could, I would own a mg, probably more than one. I cant. So I do what I can to help you fellas fight to keep yours. One step at a time, I will fight my way back to owning what I want, when I want, how I want.
This is probably why CSSA gets alot of my money. I want to have a mg on every level of my home, a rifle in every room and a handgun on every belt in my home by the time I am 50. I am 24 now.

That is probably why I think the way I do, being 24. I will change the attitudes of people one person at a time. Next time you see a shotgunner dissing black guns, etc, ask they if they care to see what that 24000 shotty does at 10 yards to a face. Not a hell of a lot different than a .223 or a x51.
 
100% with ya. Actually, I have my fair share of guns - hunting, varmint/BR, black, shotties, milsurp, various hand guns. They're all good :D

until:
"ask they if they care to see what that 24000 shotty does at 10 yards to a face."

I think that's kinda THIER point. This is exactly the wrong thing to say. That frame of reference is totally foreign to them, and reinforces thier perception that black guns are 'killin' guns,' with no useful purpose.
 
Yeah, mall ninjas' with more money than brains,running out to by the kewlest black gun de jour are irritating at the range. However I had run in's with Joe hunter every time and I do mean every time I brought my L1A1 to the range. Starting with the day I bought one back in the day when you had to bring your resticted firearm to the Police station,one cop calls another one and the two of them tag team me with the "what would you need with one of these things for" schpiel:mad:
At the range the rifle was always a hit with somebody and always a miss with others, everything from stink eye to " you guys are the reason we have gun control" well I loooose it!
Thing is I am Joe hunter, Joe black gun and Joe battle rifle.
 
hmmmm.

being a hunter and i black gun shooter and a pistol shooter,hmmmm lets save time i am someone that will shoot anything i can, i plan on diggin into capt hunter a bit this year, the old guys fliped when i was shooting my m-305 cause my friend next to me was fillin stripper clips and slamin them in as soon as i was empty. And along came capt'n hunter (and retired grumpy cop)himself straight from the parking lot as fast as he could to tell me that 20 round mags are illegal. And before i could answer he turned to berate the range officer about the guy using a 20 round mag. Both i and the range officer told him that the mag was a five rounder and that if he looked around he would see the full and empty strippers on my shooting bench. this quickly shut him up. now this year i think i will take my ar and get one of those 37mm m-203's and really get him going this year. which should be fun, cause almost all the other hunter/shooter are fin with black guns and the like
 
I am running into fewer and fewer hunters who are anti Black gun anti handgun. Most have read the writing on the wall and see that we ALL are targets, and if we don't hand togeather we will hang separately. There is the occasional round brown who is willing to sell out everyone else so he can continue to hunt but I don't waste my time on lost causes. Concentrate on the swing votes, actually when you get the look offer to let them shoot the critter. Most come back smiling, another convert is always good.

Brian
 
It's true, it does go both ways. I also don't respect the mall ninjas who think that hunters are "losers" and people that shoot .22's are "pansies".

-Rohann
 
The beautiful thing about private property is that you don't have to put up with anybody's bull#### but your own. I would feel nothing but contempt for someone who would ask why I would "need a rifle, pistol, shotgun etc like that".
 
lamar said:
The beautiful thing about private property is that you don't have to put up with anybody's bulls**t but your own. I would feel nothing but contempt for someone who would ask why I would "need a rifle, pistol, shotgun etc like that".
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Yeah, I gotta get myself some of that private property you're talking about.

On a related note, just once I'd like to be around when someone brings something like that up around Stormbringer seeing as he always seems to be itching to un#### someones uninformed opinion.
 
Well... I gotta say, a run in with "Captain Hunting Rifle" has got to be better than a run in with "Captain Drunk Rifle."

So today I am in a popular Vancouver gun store and there is some guy who looks almost homeless except that he was wearing a camo hunting hat and vest. He reeked of booze and was feeling up an SKS while making *some very politically incorrect things* which I won't repeat here which I think embarassed the store owners a great deal (I heard them say to him something like "Hey, watch your mouth" because he started apologizing out loud). I mean, it might not have been so bad if the guy wasn't loaded while saying them... no tact and you couldn't help but take offense when hearing it.

I then overheard him saying something along the lines of "I'll be back with more money... my bicycles outside and I live only a few blocks from here."

<sigh>

I guess he showed some responsibility by biking there and not driving.

Unfortunately I had a noob with me who was pretty shocked and kept asking me "Is that guy allowed to have guns?" LOL.
 
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Rohann,
Everytime I've shot at N F&G, I've had no problems with Captain Hunting Rifle. Just with the range nazis who come up to me to see I have my day pass every 5-10 minutes. Must be my haircut.

That's why I shoot at PQFG.
 
nathanenge said:
Rohann,
Everytime I've shot at N F&G, I've had no problems with Captain Hunting Rifle. Just with the range nazis who come up to me to see I have my day pass every 5-10 minutes. Must be my haircut.

That's why I shoot at PQFG.
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That is probably the most irritating thing there. The guy has seen you time and time again, yet he still insists on making you stop shooting to blab at you and ask for your membership card.
Parksville-Qualicum Fish and Game? What's the range like there? I've wanted to go there a few times, but the NF&G is about 6 minutes away from our house.

-Rohann
 
Well... I gotta say, a run in with "Captain Hunting Rifle" has got to be better than a run in with "Captain Drunk Rifle."
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While I am lucky enough to not run into these types, the only situation I have ever run into was at Shooter's Choice when I was there to buy some bullets and brass. I was too far away to hear what was going on but a older hunter type came in and wanted them to take a look at his hunting rifle. He pulls back the bolt and a round comes flinging out of the breach! Is this common? I thought he would be old and experienced enough to never have ammunition in his rifle until he was ready to fire it.
 
prosper said:
Or even better, the captain AR's who think they know EVERYTHING about thier firearms, but are really just some punk kid with ##### envy, who knows crap all about guns.

It's funny to watch captain AR and captain hunter interact. The bulls**t-o-meter bounces of the stops for a while.
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There is a catch-all for these people - "people with more money than sense".

The all-time classic example I recall was a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins (whose name I should remember, I can't) who came down the range with with an Uzi pistol fitted with a laser sight. He went blabbing on about how he had had it in the locker room and was intimidating people with the laser sight (great, good to know the NFL is so keen on firearm safety).

Anyway, I watched him fire a few rounds off, and laser or no laser, it's not going to stop you from flinching and he could barely keep rounds on a silhouette target at 5 yards.

Couple of weeks later I was reading through the classified ads in the Miami Herald and I saw an Uzi pistol for sale with laser sight...

True story, I #### you not.
 
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