What is the worst gun related advice you have ever gotten?

"Don't worry its not loaded"

as the guy swept the muzzle of my rifle across my chest.

"Don't worry it will only fire if you pull the trigger."

This is the same rifle I had a ND with when I accidentally dropped the hammer on a round in the chamber. Thankfully I live in a very rural area.
 
"Don't worry its not loaded" as the guy swept the muzzle of my rifle across my chest.
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Some days, I wonder if those will be the last words I hear in this life.

Today's chestnut: "Get 'em before they're banned!" That's so 2008...
 
Today's chestnut: "Get 'em before they're banned!" That's so 2008...
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And the sequel: "buy all the ammo before it is gone and banned too!!! Don't you know there is a shortage on?" That is so 2007-2010.
 
Don't wear hearing protection while at the range so it won't startle you in a SD scenario


Skywag - he meant hygroscopic. I wasn't going to correct him till I saw your post.
 
I was at the gun store yesturday waiting in line while over hearing a gun salesman tell a women that she had to keep her portion of the purchase permit on her at all times untill she got her CPL which she said she applied for. In reality you only have to keep the purchase permit for 30 days even if you do not have a CPL

I had some tools in a bucket working on my car in the rain. When I was finished I was to tired to put them all away so I dumped the water out the bucket and dowsed them with WD-40. Not a single tool was rusty a week later when I finally got around to putting them away. I have done this twice so far with the same results.
 
"When they hear you pump that shotgun they'll run." Found out first hand that isn't true.

Also, the greater majority of "advice" and "tactical opinions" expressed in the Tactics and Training forum. (Yes, I know I post there. I'm not an expert, I'm a jerk with a good BS filter.)
 
1) It's not loaded
2) Spending more on any gun than a Glock is a waste of $'s
3) Sorry, I'll watch him better (after being swept THE FIRST TIME by one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies who was letting his 10 year old kid shoot his full auto, sheriff's MP 5 at the Scottsdale gun club) Yep, there was a second time
 
Flopsweat

#40

Just a couple of weeks ago a new guy at the range was telling me not to clean a new gun until after the first 500 rounds - that it breaks in faster this way.
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Why not?

He said this while firing lapping rounds through his "new" gun.
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45colt SA?

I know little about sending lapping rounds in a dirty (non cleaned) gun barrel I assume. I read about this before, just enough to get hurt.

But I think it's to set up the gun barrel for shooting lead. Lapping involves shooting bullets with mild abrasive's in stages, I guess.

That's all I can remember. Kind of like lapping valves in a four stoke engine.

TBS, I'd clean the gun at least the first time before putting 500 down the barrel. Not sure about lapping.
 
"Close your eyes before pulling the trigger so that you won't be blinded by the flash", told to me by a retired LEO at the range.
 
At close range the column of birdshot won't have had time to expand so it's going to tear through the bad guy just like a slug anyway...
 
It was an accident, Tom! Tom! Hang on buddy.
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When that happens, and I need mouth-to-mouth, please don't let it be anyone in this thread ;)

"The .45 ACP has such tremendous recoil, you have to aim almost at the floor to compensate and hit your target."
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The first time I shot a Government Model, I was in my early teens. The old curmudgeon who handed it to me opined that "the recoil will take a man's arm off." Three magazines later, my arm was still intact. Further dismemberment testing was not possible because he insisted on taking the gun back, as the skinny little teenager was shooting it far better than he had.
 
Skywag,
No need to be rude. Please excuse the typos.
The FAA will fine and/or terminate any airline mechanic just for having a can of WD40 on his bench.
You go ahead and spray your guns with the stuff, please. Then let them sit for about 6-8 months and get back to me.
WD40 absorbs moisture just like brake fluid. After time it will not absorb any more but will still draw it. That is why in the long term it will cause rust unless reapplied. I'm not the chemist you must be but I'm pretty sure of this as I have seen it with my own eyes. It takes time and is much worse in an uncontrolled environment.
I've been a mechanic for over 30 years, I do have a clue. Of course you can believe whatever you want.
 
I don't have your experience as a mechanic, but I'm having a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that a product marketed and sold for over 50 years as a water displacer (which is what the "WD" in "WD-40" stands for) would actually be hygroscopic and absorb water.

According to the MSDS sheet, the only non-gaseous/non-inert ingredients in WD-40 are mineral spirits and mineral oil.
 
I'm no chemist. I have used it on metal parts and later found them rusted. I do believe my buddy who works maintence at DFW Airport who swears that it is not allowed by the FAA. I still use it as a short term lubricant/penetrating oil. But I won't use it on my guns!
Shoot, for all I know it could be that it just dries up and allows rust. I was informed that it was hygroscopic but that could be in error, I didn't read the MSDS.
All I truly know is that I won't use it for long term protection of metal, especially my guns.
 
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