How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Rant**

[RoosterShooter]

Yesterday, on the way back from a gun show, I decided to stop by a relatives house for some shooting. In a short while we had gathered together a few family and friends for a good afternoon of hanging out and shooting.

About 2 hours into the shoot a 'friend of a friend', who showed up on our buddy's coat tails, started asking questions that he already knew the answers to. Some total off the wall BS like, "Do you load your bullets to max charge and how far do you seat the bullets?" After a few weird looks the guy keeps spilling his knowledge on firearms as if anyone gives two shits.

After an hour of listening to his jabber I said to the dude, "Dude, go kick rocks in the driveway, 'cause we're here to have fun. Not get a history lesson on loadin' for and shootin' a freakin' AR!" After that he shut up and had fun. I wasn't trying to be a dick. I just wanted him to shut up and have fun so that he wouldn't run off the guys who were trying to just have fun and were too kind to say anything to him.

How many of you know a guy like this, and how do you handle them?

 

[Yeticowboy]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Rant**

Just start shooting and then you won't be able to hear him.

 

[spamassassian]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Rant**

Good for you for saying something to him. In a situation like that, I can go either way, but usually I just find somewhere to stand/be so that the jerk can't talk to me. Then I bitch about him/her later... You got it fixed straight up!

 

[InsidetheStorm]

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[okrebel92]

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Well played sir.

 

[Veer_G]

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The assembled testosterone obviously short-dicked this guy. Sometimes, you just have to do what you did. I'd be careful as hell, though, with tag-alongs and firearms. Public ranges are bad enough, but bad group dynamics in a private setting with an odd man out can be disastrous.

 

[RoosterShooter]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Rant**

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Veer_G</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The assembled testosterone obviously short-dicked this guy. Sometimes, you just have to do what you did. I'd be careful as hell, though, with tag-alongs and firearms. Public ranges are bad enough, but bad group dynamics in a private setting with an odd man out can be disastrous. </div></div>

Well, normally I wouldn't have said anything, but it was obvious, by some of the looks the guy was getting, that several of the guys and gals were getting pretty fed up with him. In a strange crowd I wouldn't have said anything, but in the company I was in, I felt pretty comfortable in taking charge of the situation.

The guy that brought him called me this morning to let me know that the 'buddy' he brought wouldn't be back around, and that it was probably for the best. From what my buddy tells me this guy is a 'hang around' that gets into this type of trouble all of the time. I kind of felt sorry for the guy after he told me this, because he obviously is a little short in the social graces area.

I told my buddy that he could bring him back to the next get-together, but to let the guy know all of our qualifications, and that we didn't need to be schooled.

 

[eclipse57]

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Was his name Chris? If it was, not only does he know everything, he invented every modern firearm (even the ones made before he was born). He even taught the likes of Nosler, Hornady, Dupont and everybody else what they know about reloading and ballistics.

You might say I know somebody just like this!

 

[cavscout1983]

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Did he ask you excitedly if you were keeping your brass every time you shot?

 

[RoosterShooter]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CS1983</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Did he ask you excitedly if you were keeping your brass every time you shot? </div></div>

He did ask what we were doing with all of the brass, and everyone told him that it was mine.

After all, I single handedly funded the entire shoot with my gun show haul.

 

[Maser]

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I actually love those types of people to accompany me. It gives entertainment between magazine reloads. I guess I'm just the type that couldn't care less as long as everyone is shooting and having fun.

 

[RoosterShooter]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I actually love those types of people to accompany me. It gives entertainment between magazine reloads. I guess I'm just the type that couldn't care less as long as everyone is shooting and having fun. </div></div>

That was the problem. Everyone wasn't having fun with him around. You could tell that a couple of the guys were about fed up with this antics.

 

[Veer_G]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RoosterShooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I actually love those types of people to accompany me. It gives entertainment between magazine reloads. I guess I'm just the type that couldn't care less as long as everyone is shooting and having fun. </div></div>

That was the problem. Everyone wasn't having fun with him around. You could tell that a couple of the guys were about fed up with this antics. </div></div>

There's just no accounting for taste, is there?

 

[Maser]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RoosterShooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I actually love those types of people to accompany me. It gives entertainment between magazine reloads. I guess I'm just the type that couldn't care less as long as everyone is shooting and having fun. </div></div>

That was the problem. Everyone wasn't having fun with him around. You could tell that a couple of the guys were about fed up with this antics. </div></div>

He must have been extreme then to the point where it was actually annoying. My shooting entourage and I have only banned 1 person from shooting with us and not for his annoyance, but rather because he almost shot my foot with a 5.56mm rifle. But yeah, I hear ya if everyone stops having fun because of him, then something needed to be said.

 

[redirt78]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
My shooting entourage and I have only banned 1 person from shooting because he almost shot my foot with a 5.56mm rifle. </div></div>

Damn Maser, he would get voted into a lot of clubs for shooting you in the foot

no offense hahaha I kid I kid

Negligent discharges are never cool.

 

[CE1371]

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Had a "friend of a friend" tag along to shoot some grouse. The idiot saw his prize and tracked it with his shotgun from one side of the group to the other, flagging us all. Ended up firing right above my head. He doesn't come out anymore whether he wants to or not.

 

[bassani]

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I shoot alone......yaaaaah
with nobody else
You know when i shoot alone...
I prefer to be by myself

keeps me from getting accidentally hurt by ijuts

 

[Veer_G]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He must have been extreme then to the point where it was actually annoying. <span style="font-weight: bold">My shooting entourage</span> and I have only banned 1 person from shooting with us and not for his annoyance, but rather because he almost shot my foot with a 5.56mm rifle. But yeah, I hear ya if everyone stops having fun because of him, then something needed to be said. </div></div>

Maser has a posse?

 

[THE MGD]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Ra

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maelek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I shoot alone......yaaaaah
with nobody else
You know when i shoot alone...
I prefer to be by myself
</div></div>

+1
If im not teaching someone, im alone.
only my father has the privliage of shooting / spotting with me

 

[SeanRT]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Ra

As a younger man, I would normally have told this douche to, "Shut the F**k up!" and would have kicked him off of my land immediately if he didn't stop talking.

However, I have mellowed a bit.

Now, I don't say anything. Idiots like this only need to keep talking in order to show how stupid they really are. There's nothing quite so annoying/foolish as a man who has to self-validate.

 

[desertrat1979]

Re: How Many Of You Know This 'Type' of Guy? **Ra

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: redirt78</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
My shooting entourage and I have only banned 1 person from shooting because he almost shot my foot with a 5.56mm rifle. </div></div>

Damn Maser, he would get voted into a lot of clubs for shooting you in the foot

no offense hahaha I kid I kid

Negligent discharges are never cool.</div></div>

Who said it was negligent? Maybe he was a lousy shot.

I just let em talk on and do my own thing. Not gonna get involved, let them think they're a gun-genius. I had one say my handloads arent loaded right "by the smell of the burnt powder". I responded with "seems to work fine for me".