Dumb Advice

[Rocketgeezer]

I remember this "advice" from school too, and aggressive resistance is never really covered as an option at all, except for hitting and biting. (Which would just make me angrier if I was the attacker) With advice like this its no wonder that the people who abide by it are constantly scared, geez.

Cleaning a gun with urine in the absence of solvent was some of the stranger suggestions I have heard. Dont know if its legit or not.

Its legit alright, but it was a very long time ago, the soldiers in WW1 cleaned there rifles with urine, when the normal supplys were not available, at least this is what I have read online, and knowing with what some of those poor SOBs had to deal with I can believe it, but I'm no way going to pee down my rifle barrel to ck it out.........but I do use a boatload of WD-40

 

[Rocketgeezer]

Completely and totally off topic, but I couldn't help but be reminded of some other 'dumb advice' from school. Who remembers duck and cover? Yeah, right. Like a school desk is gonna save me from a nuclear blast.
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Okay. Back to topic.

Of course all us old farts remember "duck and cover" then later on I thought what was that supposed to do when your school building is incinerated in 2 seconds???

 

[Cumberland]

Its legit alright, but it was a very long time ago, the soldiers in WW1 cleaned there rifles with urine, when the normal supplys were not available, at least this is what I have read online, and knowing with what some of those poor SOBs had to deal with I can believe it, but I'm no way going to pee down my rifle barrel to ck it out.........but I do use a boatload of WD-40

The ammonia in urine neutralizes the salts in corrosive primed ammo. So they'd take a whizz down the barrel. . Or so I've heard.

 

[telpinaro]

Of course all us old farts remember "duck and cover" then later on I thought what was that supposed to do when your school building is incinerated in 2 seconds???

A favorite story of mine (can't verify if it's true or not, but it's fun) is that Russians made fun of us for that one... Their drill was in the case of a nuclear attack, cover yourself in a sheet and crawl slowly to the nearest cemetery. Slowly, so as not to incite panic.

 

[r1derbike]

The ammonia in urine neutralizes the salts in corrosive primed ammo. So they'd take a whizz down the barrel. . Or so I've heard.

Ah so! That's where the phrase, "piss on it" came from!

[Sorry for the OT comment, couldn't help it]

Another duck-'n'-cover student. In the early 60s, we had to endure sonic booms from aircraft nearly every day that shook the windows in our elementary school. I lived in Arkansas. This crap shouldn't have been happening in rural Arkansas!

Now, in semi-metro (is half a million people semi-metro?) Arkansas, I've learned of some nearby nuclear missile silos...you just can't get away from danger!:blink:

Also live less than 2 miles from a gigantic, above ground, and underground, hardened data collection/government/business server. We call it "Area 71". Three guesses, and the first two don't count, who operates it and who its biggest customer is?

 

[mappow]

Yeah, that was a great one along with fire off both barrels on the porch. Ya have to love Uncle Joe.

Crazy, inept uncle Joe. Doesn't every family have one?

 

[r1derbike]

Crazy, inept uncle Joe. Doesn't every family have one?

And I almost had a second level with balconies finished on my home. Drats, batman! Foiled again!

 

[Deanimator]

When I got my Ohio CHL my mother in Apartheid Chicago told me not to carry.

I asked her whether she was planning to move here to be my personal human shield.

That was her last piece of gun related "advice".

 

[wolf_fire]

Completely and totally off topic, but I couldn't help but be reminded of some other 'dumb advice' from school. Who remembers duck and cover? Yeah, right. Like a school desk is gonna save me from a nuclear blast.
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Okay. Back to topic.

Cower under your desk for a nuke drill was if you were on the fringes of a blast, being under a desk could protect you from radioactive ash. If you happen to be at ground zero, you won't remember anything anyway.

 

[tjdavis1111]

If you shoot someone outside your house, drag them inside so that it looks like self defense.

 

[Rhino]

Cower under your desk for a nuke drill was if you were on the fringes of a blast, being under a desk could protect you from radioactive ash. If you happen to be at ground zero, you won't remember anything anyway.

Being under a desk wouldn't really have protected you from radioactive ash. The danger ash played (and dust) was the spread of alpha and beta radiation, and that danger was most prevalent when breathing the particles in, not from them falling on you. Most short term alpha and beta radiation is mitigated by only a layer or two of clothing. Plus the ash/dust falling would normally occur well after the blast, and they were telling us to duck and cover as protection from the blast itself. Besides, any blast that took the roof of my school off wouldn't leave my desk as my sole means of protection against falling ash anyway. So again, the idea that my desk would protect me from a nuclear attack was ludicrous.

 

[wolf_fire]

Being under a desk wouldn't really have protected you from radioactive ash. The danger ash played (and dust) was the spread of alpha and beta radiation, and that danger was most prevalent when breathing the particles in, not from them falling on you. Most short term alpha and beta radiation is mitigated by only a layer or two of clothing. Plus the ash/dust falling would normally occur well after the blast, and they were telling us to duck and cover as protection from the blast itself. Besides, any blast that took the roof of my school off wouldn't leave my desk as my sole means of protection against falling ash anyway. So again, the idea that my desk would protect me from a nuclear attack was ludicrous.

I gave the reasoning that was given at the time, not that it was good.

I was hoping the "ground zero" part of my comment would have made you laugh.

 

[Rhino]

I gave the reasoning that was given at the time, not that it was good.

I was hoping the "ground zero" part of my comment would have made you laugh.

End of a very long day and I'm still recovering from a broken back, which was hurting. Sorry.
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And I think somebody gave one of my dogs chili while I was out ! JEEZ LOUISE DOG!!!! Go get an enema or something!

 

[MDT]

I was advised that a .357 snubbie was the only firearm I'd ever need. Just point and shoot. No need to worry my little head with moving parts. Oh, then that person told my I could just throw it in my purse to carry it. <slapping face with palm>

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[telpinaro]

I was advised that a .357 snubbie was the only firearm I'd ever need. Just point and shoot. No need to worry my little head with moving parts. Oh, then that person told my I could just throw it in my purse to carry it. <slapping face with palm>

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Funny... already had one of those, so everyone insisted I needed a Glock 19 or 26.

 

[Rhino]

Funny... already had one of those...

The snubbie or the purse? :sarcastic:
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It's pretty bad how so many guys in gun shops can be so condescending and dismissive to women.

 

[whodat2710]

The snubbie or the purse? :sarcastic:
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It's pretty bad how so many guys in gun shops can be so condescending and dismissive to women.

And my 16 year old daughter can outshoot half of them...

 

[Rhino]

I know quite a few women who could.

 

[wolf_fire]

Funny... already had one of those, so everyone insisted I needed a Glock 19 or 26.

But doesn't everyone NEED a Glock?????

 

[dfitch1211]

Saw something on a facebook gun group the other day I hadn't seen in a while.
The guy was looking for a shotgun because you don't have to aim..

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