Posted on 04/08/2018 12:50:07 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF
Hands Down the Dumbest Product we have ever seen. The Allen Company Shoe-top Barrel rest breaks 3/4 of the firearm safety rules. 1.) Treat Every gun as though its loaded 3.) Do not let your muzzle cover anything you do not wish to destroy 4.) Know your target; its foreground and its background.
This product is an abomination, we are going to test to see how it does.
What can you say
So you regard treat every gun as though its loaded, not letting your muzzle cover anything you do not want to destroy and target awareness as disinformation spread by ignorant idiots?
I remember hillbilly kids in school who were excused because they shot themselves in the foot with a .22. Probably doing just this and hit the trigger.
The facial twitches Ratboy did when shown that image were worth the price of admission...
Nah, I am hardcore about gun safety. These guys made fools out of themselves though.
LOL. I remember reading a book, WAR IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR by LOVE years ago in which a Marine was given three purple hearts because of something similar to this.
A Jap sniper took a shot at him, so he was determined to get the sniper.
He slipped around, crouched over, unaware he was now right under the sniper who pointed his rifle straight down. As he stood up, he hit the muzzle of the rifle, which the Jap fired right beside his ear, hit him in the toe, as he fell back he shot up killing the sniper who fell out of the tree and landed helmet first in the Marine’s stomach. The marine grabbed a helmet, not his own, laying on the ground which had a big bullet hole in it.
So he was given a Purple Heart for each injury, a injured ear, a bruised stomach, a head injury because of the helmet with a hole in it.
Then he was arrested for “shooting himself in the foot to avoid combat.”
I'm one of those and have seen them in use. The authors of the video are misrepresenting the product considering they are using rifles and not shotguns at the appropriate ranges........
No mag indicates to me the soldier also cleared the barrel!
I think he used it as a bong.
This article is idiotic. You shoot a break open shotgun and rest the barrel on it. It is visibly unloaded and broken open and of course perfectly safe. It’s as safe as looking down the barrel to run a cleaning rod down it. Yes trap shooters use them all the time, people shooting autoloaders or pumps don’t use them for the obvious reason.
I even googled it. I have never heard of an injury from one, and you can’t find one with google. It is a real product and at a big shoot, there are probably 300 in use. Nobody has ever been hurt that I know of, and Google can’t find it either.
Just to throw out a statistic, there are 80 trapshooters that have shot over half a million targets EACH in competition (not counting practice) I think it goes back something around 120 years the total number of fatalities is .....none.
Wow!
No, thank you. I use both feet.
The M16 rifle can still fire a round from the chamber with the magazine removed.
if you think this may be a bad product, remember Jarts?
Maybe a great way to off your kids.
That's the funniest thing I've read in weeks - thank you!
"Oh, the humanity!" (or 'humidity,' in the case of global warming ;^)...
Not unusual to see these in use by trap and skeet shooters, but only with break open shotguns. Not so common in sporting clays, where the shooter usually places their gun in a rack or on a cart while waiting their turn to shoot.
Never heard of an incident involving one of these.
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