AR noob funny - my own

[powdahound76]

So, in between playing cards at work, some stuff was ordered and put together and I have a new AR......
Took some time deciding and collecting all the parts I wanted. Plus used good stuff so needed to spread the cost a little so it didnt dent my ammo budget.....

Had it together and shot about 300 rds through it in the past few weeks. Then the LAW folder arrived and installed it on Tuesday evening.

Took AR to range yesterday to check it all out and get my brother fired up about getting one himself.

Wouldnt go boom. Went through things, even pulled the BCG and made sure I has assembled it correctly after cleaning in last week.

Come to find out I was pussy footing when racking the charging handle and not letting it drop. So bolt wouldn't go fully into battery and no boom. Took me a good 7-10 minutes to figure this out......??

Then we got going. My brother loved it and we are making a list of parts for his build today while eating bacon and eggs!

 

[308Gunner]

I would not have told that?

 

[Doc68]

Do you also have your wife carry your balls in her purse also......

 

[Spblademaker]

Playing cards. ??

 

[Erno86]

After you do a press check...you'll have to drive that charging handle forward.

 

[hughmac4]

 

[Maggot]

Good story. I have those moments as well.

 

[powdahound76]

Naw. Gently cupped...... and still attached to me! ?

Just having a good time laughing at myself.
Of all the screw-ups I see happen related to firearms, I will take this and the teasing about it any day. No injuries and nothing damaged.

 

[hughmac4]

Good story. I have those moments as well.

Right? Buncha new shooters watching me, all on the firing line, I loaded the pistol, racked a round, and squeezed the trigger. Safety on.

 

[Crang]

Time to get a Garand and see what happens to your thumb. Sure done that one...

 

[powdahound76]

Playing cards. ??

Thanks for laughing.
I was prepping slides in PP for a lecture I have next week. This is slide #1 and my notes before the slide appears says “Now we will review rules number 1, 2, and 3”.

Must follow own rules..... ??

 

[Spblademaker]

Yeah. Wife’s been using that “playing cards” comment every chance she gets.

 

[Maggot]

Time to get a Garand and see what happens to your thumb. Sure done that one...

M1Thumb is no fun.

For those whove never had the joy:

 

[cornhusker86]

M1Thumb is no fun.

For those whove never had the joy:

Now that's taking one for the team!

 

[flyer]

You could use this for your final slide:

 

[DrainTheSwamp]

That’s not as bad as forgetting to put the spring and buffer back in. Went to charge and buried the bcg in the tube, took a little bit to get the bcg slid back forward to split the receivers.

Red Forman should have stuck his boot in my ass

 

[Barneybdb]

Much easier to break your thumb with an Owen, only did it once...

 

[Maggot]

Much easier to break your thumb with an Owen, only did it once...

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That thing is so ugly I had to look it up, interesting history:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ns/owen-smg/&usg=AOvVaw2r089KjWPTR8fJua_f65Kj

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[Blue Sky Country]

That thing is so ugly I had to look it up, interesting history:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwixg62Lw_HhAhUsiOAKHZMyDLoQFjALegQIAhAB&url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/submachine-guns/owen-smg/&usg=AOvVaw2r089KjWPTR8fJua_f65Kj

Ugly, but in a SHTF situation, guns of that type can easily be manufactured via hardware store parts. It looks very similar to the PA Luty SMG and the various home built SMG's that were used in the Chechnya / Dagestan conflicts. These things are very effective game changers when guns are needed immediately.

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

Ugly, but in a SHTF situation, guns of that type can easily be manufactured via hardware store parts. It looks very similar to the PA Luty SMG and the various home built SMG's that were used in the Chechnya / Dagestan conflicts. These things are very effective game changers when guns are needed immediately.

I wonder how many guns you could build using hardware store parts given a "waiting period" of say . . . three days?

 

[Thumper580]

Whenever I go to the range I must have an invisible sign I can't see taped to my back. It must encourage all NOOB AR dudes to come over and share all their gun knowledge/wisdom with me... It almost never fails...

 

[powdahound76]

I shoot at least once a week at my range. I see a lot of funny stuff and hear a lot more.
The never ending caliber debate and then the guy (always a guy) cant hit crap at 3-5 yds. Let alone run a slow paced drill (spinning to present targets with 2 second shot windows) and hit center mass every shot.

Especially out of some of the shop/range staff......... ? One guy was walking around one day with his full size (I think CZ) 9mm, 6” blade belt knife, and a tomahawk in what looked like I carried a hammer in while doing some framing work. Just a steel loop on some leather.

Then even with stuff like this, I feel dang near genius...... ?

 

[ForgeValley]

Since we are discussing firearms faux paux (that's french for fuck ups), 6.5 Creedmoor doesn't chamber correctly in a usgi M1A.

Just sayin'.

 

[Spblademaker]

Yeah, but it’s pretty close. Which is all that matters, right?

 

[ForgeValley]

Close enough for guvmint work.

 

[demolitionman]

Don't worry, I won't tell you how I, yesterday, proceeded to impact 300, 400, 500, then 600 steel targets and noticed the reticle tilted and my eye relief was fucked in my scope . Thought something broke inside it. Lift my head up to assess the situation and the rings weren't tight and the scope moved all the way forward in the mounts. duh duh duh duhmass!

But on the good side, the scope seemed to hold groups well enough loose in the mounts to make hits on 1 mil by 1 mil sized plates.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Been handling Garands since ITR in 1966, and finally had my own since around the early 90's. Garand Thumb is an occupational hazard; you handle them enough, and it's inevitable that it'll happen from time to time.

I even managed it with my left thumb once.

These days I manage/maintain eight of them (blank firing converted) for the local VFW. Just finished the prep for Memorial Day, yesterday. Each year they get two more coats of Linseed oil, one before, one after Memorial Day. The metal gets soaked in Hoppe's #9, then oiled with Hoppe's, and very lightly greased according to spec with Lubriplate. It's a true labor of love.

No 'thumb' yet with any of them. I think that proper lube makes them easier to handle without getting the 'Thumb'.

Carry on...

Greg

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Whenever I go to the range I must have an invisible sign I can't see taped to my back. It must encourage all NOOB AR dudes to come over and share all their gun knowledge/wisdom with me... It almost never fails...

Perhaps you need to start wearing buckskins and fringed leather, or SASS/NCOWS Old West duds the next time you go, complete with a levergun or muzzleloading rifle, doesn't matter if you are shooting it or not.

 

[Unknown]

OK, I'll admit to a story that many of you will get a laugh out of.

I used to have a Ruger 10-22 with a cheap scope a friend gave me that I could not get to shoot well. So I put on a new barrel...new stock....sent off the trigger to get a trigger job...glass bedded it..... One day I was at the range with a precision rifle that I had just mounted a new scope onto, and was trying some new ammo in the 10-22... It still wouldn't shoot.

As I had just torqued the scope mount screws on the precision rifle, I thought I would check out the 10-22.. The scope was loose in the rings, the rings were loose on the base, and the base was loose on the rifle. I felt like a complete idiot for never having checked anything so very basic much sooner. I could have saved lots of money, time and work, but NOOOOO...

I tightened up all the screws and the rifle shot great. But by that time the rifle was a reminder of my stupidity, and I really hated that rifle by then, so I sold it...but I always remembered the lesson.

 

[Crang]

Since we are discussing firearms faux paux (that's french for fuck ups), 6.5 Creedmoor doesn't chamber correctly in a usgi M1A.

Just sayin'.

Yes but a .40S&W round will chamber and fire in a polymer framed 1911 and then crack the frame

 

[QuickNDirty]

Yes but a .40S&W round will chamber and fire in a polymer framed 1911 and then crack the frame

Damn. Tula stuck a 40sw in a box of 45acp and my friend didn't notice. Didn't cycle the action and was markedly quieter than it should have been. No frame damage though. Seemed more like a squib.

 

[Crang]

Damn. Tula stuck a 40sw in a box of 45acp and my friend didn't notice. Didn't cycle the action and was markedly quieter than it should have been. No frame damage though. Seemed more like a squib.

I thought it was a squib at first too. The brass swelled to 45 size. I actually keep it on my reloading bench as a reminder to pay freaking attention to what I am doing., It was Kimbers old double stack polymer framed 1911. Pistol functioned fine the rest of the range trip- maybe 2 more mags then broke. Always assumed it was the 40 round but who knows.

 

[hlee]

I don’t have any firearm damage stories, but do have a “duh” story. My son and I went to a local 22 match a few months ago and I went over to check zero. “WTF, It’s not even on the paper?” A few more shoots to try to find the poi and nothing. The match director comes over and is like “let me see if I can figure it out.” He takes 1 shot and says “your a full rev high.” Sure enough, dial down 1 rev and hammer the center out of the bulls eye. Then shot high score for the match. Went home and changed the scope for one with a zero stop...