Along the lines of Greg’s Dumbest things overheard at the gun shop thread …
Last night: “Shooting is a frangible skill.”
Other favorites from the past:
“You guys please stop shooting so fast. It’s distracting my students.”
“You guys are shooting so fast you’re making little red sparks on the target.” (shooting steel … we were using Lasergrips)
“I hope my double-taps weren’t distracting you.” (guy who hit his silhouette target twice out of 30 shots at 10yd)
“Hey, Lance!”
As in your rounds splatter in all directions when you dont practice?? 
Stupidest thing I’ve heard on the range:
The sound of a file being pulled out of a toolbox as two hopeless individuals tried to sight in a S&W 642. They apparently needed to file down the front sight to sight the weapon in for the owner of the revolver who was shooting 2 foot groups at 5 yards.
Shooting can be a frangible skill, but…not usually.
Bad habits are not easily broken.
LOL 
“Good enough for deer”
This was a guy who was shooting at 25 yards with a slug gun and had hit the paper plate 2 out of 5 times.
“You shouldn’t shoot those targets, it will make folk think you want to shoot people”
I was using silhouette targets that I swiped from the originator of this thread 
“Check out THIS group”
Guy had fired 10+ rounds and had finally managed to get 3 to touch.
If I only had a dollar for every time I heard that one.
Only I don’t hear that one at the range often, because the people who say it don’t go to the range much.
Went to a range a couple of years ago and my famous words that I heard,
Range is cold …BOOM !!! a round goes off as we start down range !!!
Last night: “Shooting is a frangible skill.”
Yeah well, don’t practice and see how fast skills disintegrate.
Coming from a young guy with a very attractive girl friend “this is the last time I’m going to tell you not to point that at me.”
From my brother in law after i had told him to slow down and try to hit the target during a pause (milk jug at 25 yards with my LMT).
“nah,accuracy by volume!”
He finally hit it with one of the last five rounds(of 30).
“See!thats what im talkin bout!”.
:rolleyes:
I heard they typical red flag statement “Hey watch this!” and watched (from behind a dumpster) this kid with a pre ban colt sporter take 25 rounds to hit a small bottle of tannerite that was placed inside a toaster oven that was about 25 yds away.
-DM-
Hmm, that’s what my wife says to me.
Someone isn’t buying the ammo that they’re shooting.
Accuracy by volume is pretty funny though.
“Don’t worry, it’s unloaded!”
(Guy I know was shooting his SKS, the bolt got stuck in the closed position somehow; as he says the above quote he has the butt on the ground, his boot on the bolt handle trying to force it open and the muzzle pointed more or less at his face. They finally get the bolt to open and out pops a live round)
I don’t go shooting with him anymore.
From an LEO this past weekend:
Man, I need to bring my OTHER gun next time!
referring to less than stellar shot placement on IDPA targets.
Someone isn’t buying the ammo that they’re shooting.
5.56 75gr TAP no less!:mad:
I was still function testing it at the time though.
I cant recall the last time the guy paid for anything.At least he’s consistent i suppose.
It wasnt the first time he embarrassed me at the range…but it was the last i think.
“Right hand twist barrels are for north of the equator and left hand twist south of the equator”. I actually said it and I had a couple of guys going for a bit.
I work with a couple of former Marines, that say that quite a bit.
Here’s a good one…
About a year ago, when I was going thru training for my new employer, we were shooting practice quals in the rain. At the time the qual still went out to 50 yards, where the shooting points are covered.
One of the instructors joked, " Don’t forget to aim high, to compensate for the rain". I just chuckled.
After a few more runs, and trips down range, the shooter on the point next to me, but opposite relay, asked me why he was shooting so high, " Do you think I’m compensating to much for the rain?"
After I picked myself up off the ground, and regained my composure, I asked him if he was for real? Then the backpedaling started…“Uh no, well…it makes sense though”
Keep in mind, this is from a guy who’s been quoted as saying “its not the quantity, its the amount”.
Over the years I’ve heard so many dumb things at the range and the gun shop, I can’t even begin to remember.
Bob
That sounds like me!
I had to qual and shot a 289/300 with my USP first try, and tried to qual with my 92FS that I haven’t touched since last Feb and got a 166/300:p It was quite embarrasing:o. Went back yesterday after a weekend Beretta practice session and got a 240/300 so I feel better:p (we qual with our carry gun every qtr, but only once a year with all of our other ‘authorized’ guns (off duty/back-up/dept issued/etc)).
Reminded me of another …
I was at FLETC (Cheltenham) a couple years back doing a demo for SIG. The agency that was evaluating our weapons brought the SIGs and other brands to the only available range, which happened to be the 100yd indoor.
When we walked onto the range, someone quipped about how impossible it would be to hit the (huge) Transtar targets a hundred yards down range. Ernest Langdon (then at S&W) and I just sort of shrugged and said it wouldn’t be that hard.
At which point the FLETC instructor present said, serious as could be, “The ceiling is too low, you couldn’t compensate for bullet drop at that distance.”
That’s funny. Considering that the standard pressure .45acp has an average drop of 28" at 100yrds, he’d have to be using a load at around 600fps to have trouble with an indoor ceiling.
Not all cops are idiots, but not all cops are gun savvy either. A lot of cops see a firearm as one of many tools of the job and don’t look into the finer points of its mastery. I would expect that FLETC would have a bit better caliber of instructors. I’m going up to Brunswick this summer and hopefully I won’t have to listen to such nonsense. A friend of mine just got his instructor cert and I was suprised at his lack of knowledge of the mechanics of a firearm.