Paying it forward.

[Druid54636]

I went the range today to shoot steel at 200 with my new B14r. It was cold and clear with little wind. I was enjoying the afternoon. A couple of fellas showed up and got their gear set up and asked me if they could go down range to put up paper and I said of course. I took the opportunity to grab my headgear from the truck. When I got back to the line these two were fussing with a magazine from what looked like a little Savage. I shot about twenty more rounds, just clicking the far off steel from my tripod. The guys were still fiddling with that damn magazine.
I walked over and introduced myself, I’m a board member at this club, and asked if I could give them a hand. They informed me that they were here to sight in this new 223 but were having trouble loading the magazine. I then asked them why were they trying to put 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges in it. Apparently that’s what the clerk at store sold them because they were out of 223.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I asked if they would be willing to let me help them and they agreed. I walked up to my truck and grabbed a full ar mag (because all trucks should have a loaded ar mag in them) and spent the next forty five minutes teaching these gentlemen a bit about rifles and how to get one sighted in properly. They shot about 20 and I told them to take the last 9 with them in case the couldn’t find any to buy. I wouldn’t take money or the six fives they offered.

I just told them to pay it forward.

 

[Near miss]

I went the range today to shoot steel at 200 with my new B14r. It was cold and clear with little wind. I was enjoying the afternoon. A couple of fellas showed up and got their gear set up and asked me if they could go down range to put up paper and I said of course. I took the opportunity to grab my headgear from the truck. When I got back to the line these two were fussing with a magazine from what looked like a little Savage. I shot about twenty more rounds, just clicking the far off steel from my tripod. The guys were still fiddling with that damn magazine.
I walked over and introduced myself, I’m a board member at this club, and asked if I could give them a hand. They informed me that they were here to sight in this new 223 but were having trouble loading the magazine. I then asked them why were they trying to put 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges in it. Apparently that’s what the clerk at store sold them because they were out of 223.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I asked if they would be willing to let me help them and they agreed. I walked up to my truck and grabbed a full ar mag (because all trucks should have a loaded ar mag in them) and spent the next forty five minutes teaching these gentlemen a bit about rifles and how to get one sighted in properly. They shot about 20 and I told them to take the last 9 with them in case the couldn’t find any to buy. I wouldn’t take money or the six fives they offered.

I just told them to pay it forward.

You gave them magful of 223? Sounds like you lost a fortune. You are a good man!

I too always keep all mags loaded, there might not always be time for loading one.

The shop clerk has a special place in hell, selling them that CM instead of proper ammunition

 

[308pirate]

It's ironic that in this day and age, when information is more plentiful and easily available than at any point in the past, the number of dumb and/or ignorant people is higher than ever.

New car buyer: I want to buy a diesel car but not all gas stations sell diesel. How far can it go on one tank?

Salesman: Nah, just put gasoline in it if you're running low. It'll be alright..………….

New car buyer: Golly gee thanks!

 

[Near miss]

It's ironic that in this day and age, when information is more plentiful and easily available than at any point in the past, the number of dumb and/or ignorant people is higher than ever.

New car buyer: I want to buy a diesel car but not all gas stations sell diesel. How far can it go on one tank?

Salesman: Nah, just put gasoline in it if you're running low. It'll be alright..………….

New car buyer: Golly gee thanks!

Well, you should be able to trust people.

The problem is that you need some kind of baseline knowledge about the matter to determine whether someone might be lying to you.

When you listen to someone who should know better, you usually trust them. Simple human communications.

I usually play skeptic, but I cannot be always alert.

Example.
The cashier tells me my items were $166.60.
As I did not count them in my head as I was putting them into my cart, I have to take that info at face value. Only when I have the receipt can I check it, and even then only some people would remember what all those items were to the decimal marked for.

So in order for society to work as it now does, you have to believe others at some level.

Trust is built into us.

 

[308pirate]

Well, you should be able to trust people.

The problem is that you need some kind of baseline knowledge about the matter to determine whether someone might be lying to you.

When you listen to someone who should know better, you usually trust them. Simple human communications.

I usually play skeptic, but I cannot be always alert.

Example.
The cashier tells me my items were $166.60.
As I did not count them in my head as I was putting them into my cart, I have to take that info at face value. Only when I have the receipt can I check it, and even then only some people would remember what all those items were to the decimal marked for.

So in order for society to work as it now does, you have to believe others at some level.

Trust is built into us.

It's simple. A person who enters an activity without even the most basic baseline knowledge, when that knowledge is almost free for the taking, is a complete idiot.

I'm far from an expert at everything, but I am well versed enough in almost all that I do to be able to at least discern when someone is telling me something that is flat out wrong.

That blind trust without knowledge is how old people get fucked out of their life savings. "But he seemed like such a nice, clean cut young man...…."