WHERE DO PEOPLE GET THIS STUFF?

[Dogshirt]

It was pretty nice out today, so I took my Mossberg MVP to the range to try some new Long Range loads I had done up to try and find the one that would give me the tightest group. I was the only one there for about half an hour and was having fun being by myself. After a bit another guy shows up to shoot which is okay, it is a club range and I don't expect to have it all to myself all the time. So, when he got ready to put up his target I went down range to get a better look at the groups I had been getting so far. For what I was doing, my "target" is a 4x6 sheet of cardboard with just a series of Xs, just something to center the crosshairs on. I had shot 3 groups of 5 and had a couple loads that showed real promise, with 5 o6 others to go. This guy comes over, looks at my target and says "You're not hitting the Xs." "No I said, I'm just shooting for groups right now, to see which load the rifle likes." "But you're not hitting the Xs, how can you have a group if you don' hit the X?" So I tried to explain that when I found the load that gave me the tightest group possible, that I would adjust the scope for the new load. "But how do you know which group is the tightest if you're not hitting the Xs?" At this point I took down my target and told him to have a nice day. Hopefully tomorrow will dawn sunny and idiot free.

[Patocazador]

Instead of leaving, just ignore the guy. His ignorance has nothing to do with your shooting.

"Hopefully tomorrow will dawn sunny and idiot free."

Fat chance of that happening.

[pilgrim]

 at that point I would have been tempted to get out the Magic Marker and make an  X on his nose and then ask if he wanted to see me hit the X

[hotfxr]

Dogshirt, I live in California. That kind of encounter happens almost daily.     Please just tell me it can't get any worse.

[William]

at that point I would have been tempted to get out the Magic Marker and make an  X on his nose and then ask if he wanted to see me hit the X

[beowulf]

really hope this guy was on the lower side of 25 !  at least then he`d have the excuse of having never been taught how to sight in a gun ! ...maybe 

[Hanshi]

Ignorance can be corrected; but stupid is there for life.

[old salt]

Remember you can not fix stupid, not even with duck tape. 

[Dogshirt]

Remember you can not fix stupid, not even with duck tape. 

True, but if they let us shoot them we could eradicate it.

[flintboomer]

You cxould have put an X through the middle of one of the groups and then asked him if it helped.

[Blackfeet]

You cxould have put an X through the middle of one of the groups and then asked him if it helped.

That actually might have gotten the point across.