Quote Originally Posted by Floradawg View Post
You ought to try talking with gun guys online. They are the worst. They love to rip newbies a new one for not knowing as much as they know, for being...well, newbies. I've also seen this in a shooting range I used to use. The guy in charge that day which I already knew, was full of himself. He thought he was the MAN. This young guy wanted to rent a Glock and shoot it with his girlfriend. The guy in charge asked him all sorts of stuff about which "model" of gun he wanted. He was purposely embarrassing this guy in front of his girlfriend. No I was not mistaking his intent. It was very obvious. Okay so all you gun guys, I am one of you and may be opening a can of worms here. I'm not trying to. Just telling what I have seen. It happens in lots of different forums, not just guns. I've witnessed a smidgen of it here. Not nearly as much as some other forums. For the most part you all are some of the nicest ones I've interacted with. Okay I'm bracing for a potential barrage.
I'm another gun guy. And despite having been a shooter since I was 4 years old, now approaching 66YO, though I wish I could deny what you say, I can't, because you're right, there are folks like that. Heck, I'm no expert. I was, for a few years, an expert photographer. Then digital photography came along and changed everything. Now I'm no longer an expert. I was an expert SATCOM operator/maintainer for the USAF for most of a dozen years, too. That's all changed, as well. And I had a long dry spell in there with guns, since all my long guns got stolen when I got shipped to Germany in the early 90's. Had two kids there, and another one shortly after returning to the States, and SWMBO disallowed guns as a hobby for the longest time. Something about feeding, housing, and clothing kids. So I'm not an expert on them anymore, either. I'm working on becoming an expert machinist. I figure it will take me about another, oh, 20 or 30 years. If I have them. I'm an owner of several metalworking and machining groups on Groups.io, most were formerly on Yahoo groups. I'm still learning, and will be at least until they nail the box shut on me. It is my personal belief that all the experts aren't as expert as they may think they are. What I did when I was learning to be an expert is try to help people who were not experts in what we were doing to become so, and to learn as much from them as I could, since their experiences were going to be different from mine. So I was pretty sure I could learn from them, too. Old military maxim is "If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid." There is a reason for that.