Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Over used shooting cliche's

This is my rifle....this is my gun.....this one's for shooting....this one's for fun.

Calling your hunting rifle a "weapon" is just as bad.

And calling your action a "sucks"..kinda sucks too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

�Shoots like a house afire.� Huh?

"I shot my rifle," as opposed to "I fired my rifle."

"Shooting" all my rifles would get expensive. I suppose a guy would have to club the last one to death <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />.

Ken, I like the 'candle snuffer/match lighter' idea. How long before they become cliches? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> How about "Shoots tighter than the backside of a match holder when I'm testing a new load for my match lighter?" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Not long if they "catch on" and get used too much � IOW, as too-frequent substitutes for independent word-smithing.

I've seen a couple of posts by people or a person that has used the word "bonked" to infer killing an animal. For some reason this just bothered me, sounding kind of disrespectful and demeaning.

"...and don't look back."

I think it means, "The advantages of my choice are obvious to the veriest clod, and therefore I need not explain my reasoning. All right-thinking people will move this direction immediately." Maybe it's wrong to saddle gunwriters with this one, but WTH, we're on a roll.

Jaywalker

"This rifle/pistol will shoot better than I able."

Well, exactly how does one know that?

For Ken Howell

I think someone some start a thread for the most original cliche-

TIC

Royce

Slightly off topic, but I hate it when "This gun wasn't really meant for long range shots" so the gunwriter "shoots it off his hind legs like a man as fast as he can pull the trigger and all of them grouped into a pieplate at 15 yards and that's good enough for me". That really tells me a lot about the gun's accuracy.

When the gunwriter hates "magnums", you know: too much weight, recoil, powder, & muzzle blast. So he uses proceeds to use a "non-magnum" with his "special loads" that equals the magnum's velocity, but burns less powder, has less muzzle blast, in a gun that weighs less than the dreaded magnum all while providing less recoil. I guess Newton's law has been repealed!

'The recoil from this rifle is more like a slow push'- Really! Wish Newton was still around to try and explain this one.

'This gun shoots flat out to (xxx) yards'- great for hunting in anti-gravity forests.

'The .(270, 30-06) is an adequate caliber for (pick an animal)'

"I've got this new range finding scope" "I can shoot up to 600 yards"

"Harvested" makes me want to climb up the nearest water tower with a "tactical" rifle that's "accurate right out of the box" . jorge

Besides "a real tackdriver right out of the box" I can't stand reading that such and such caliber is a "proven manstopper". That's mostly the pistol press, but man you read it a lot...

Some of mine have already been mentioned. To the list I would add the use of the word "pill" when referring to a bullet. Geez, I hate that one!



Use of the "pre" qualifiers such as "pre-64 model 70", "pre-garcia sako" or "tang-safety ruger" are irritating. I'm waiting for someone to write, "My pre-2004 A-Bolt with the tang safety...." or "pre-accutrigger model 110". Perhaps a more universal description could be, "pre-POS model [number here].



Seen more in bowhunting is "whacked". Not cool. "I sent my [arrow/bullet] downrange...."

Yeah, "Pill" and "No Brainer" are mind numbingly stupid...

Is there any room in there for a "gnat castrater"?

This topic got me thinking about how often I see these same cliches online, including here and on other forums. I did a quick search on these forums for the last 6 months and of all the cliches that were listed here, the king (in terms of # search results returned, not counting mentions in this thread) is "if you do your part". Funny thing is, I feel like I've heard it more than once or twice at the range too, and at gun shops, shows... they say language is like a virus, maybe this particular line is much more "catching" than the others;-)