Video Ay, ay, ay... People are STUPID (with guns).

Forrest Gump would be getting tired of saying his line in this thread.

Stupid is.......

But hey, they say you can't fix stupid, but there is a cure.
 
Curmudgeon said:
Not because they're tough, but because they're retarded.
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Not sure I would agree. Crazy, yes. Retarded, no.

Col. David Hackworth said Russian [Soviet] soldiers were among the toughest, determined badasses he ever encountered. I presumed he was referring to the Russian SOF. The equivalent of our SOCOM.

Col. Hackworth was himself a badass. He founded Tiger Force in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. I believe he is or at least was the most decorated soldier in US history. Not a West Point golden boy. He started as a grunt. He lied about his age and joined the marines at age 14 in 1945. Then he joined the Army. His life story is extraordinary.
 
We have a "regular" on public day, he is about 60. Nice guy, usually brings his wife and granddaughters, who are in their tweens. The girls will take turns shooting during the 20min "hot" intervals while the others sit at the pavilion doing homework. He came alone today but with his usual varied array of pistols in a velvet-lined padded hard case. He made the carry case out of some kind of power tool box and it is plenty big enough to hold 6 pistols. So maybe a half-dozen guns, 2 mags each if semi. I witnessed 9, 40, 10, 357, 45LC and 22 today.

We don't usually pay a lot of attention to him except to shoot the shit when the range is cold. Today I noticed him having failures to eject with a Walther full-size in .40. Curious if it was his reloads, I went over to take a look. (He routinely recovers his brass, particularly the 10mm.)

There were a couple ejected cases on the table. They were similar to the pic which shows a 9 bulged to .45 but not quite as bad. I looked at the headstamp and said "This is 9mm LUGER. Aren't you shooting 40?" He didn't believe it until he looked at the case himself. I'm pretty sure he had 9s loaded into the .40 mag. 🤔

I'm not implying he deserves to be in thread because he doesn't. I just wanted to bring up a malfunction that happened today.

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Bobster said:
We have a "regular" on public day, he is about 60. Nice guy, usually brings his wife and granddaughters, who are in their tweens. The girls will take turns shooting during the 20min "hot" intervals while the others sit at the pavilion doing homework. He came alone today but with his usual varied array of pistols in a velvet-lined padded hard case. He made the carry case out of some kind of power tool box and it is plenty big enough to hold 6 pistols. So maybe a half-dozen guns, 2 mags each if semi. I witnessed 9, 40, 10, 357, 45LC and 22 today.

We don't usually pay a lot of attention to him except to shoot the shit when the range is cold. Today I noticed him having failures to eject with a Walther full-size in .40. Curious if it was his reloads, I went over to take a look. (He routinely recovers his brass, particularly the 10mm.)

There were a couple ejected cases on the table. They were similar to the pic which shows a 9 bulged to .45 but not quite as bad. I looked at the headstamp and said "This is 9mm LUGER. Aren't you shooting 40?" He didn't believe it until he looked at the case himself. I'm pretty sure he had 9s loaded into the .40 mag. 🤔

I'm not implying he deserves to be in thread because he doesn't. I just wanted to bring up a malfunction that happened today.

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I will admit to doing that once (a long time ago), when I brought my G19 and G23 to the range on the same day. Same size pistol. Same size mags. I loaded the G23 with a mag of 9mm ammo. First shot didn't sound right. Didn't feel right. Didn't eject right (at all). And didn't impact the target right. I stopped. Unloaded. Inspected the case that came out. Bulged! I immediately figured out what I did.

But all of the Four Rules were observed. So, no harm, no foul. Just embarrassment.
 
I have done that but with 10mm ammo in a .45 Glock by grabbing the wrong magazine. Again, same size gun, same size magazine. Made a weird pop sound. Yep, been there done that.
 

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