THE WORST PRODUCT EVER MADE (Bob Allen Shoe Top Muzzle Rest)

VSO Gun Channel via Full30.com ^ | 4/8/2018 | Wombat

[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.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

This is a real product from a real company. Bob Allen apparently makes bags, pouches etc. for the sporting clays community. The amazing thing is, there are actual (favorable!) reviews of this and similar competing products on Amazon!

I've never been a sporting clays shooter. Can someone please tell me if "shoe top muzzle rests" are a thing amongst trap shooters? (And if so, how many feet does the average trap shooter have?)

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Link to video: https://www.full30.com/video/006a8e42568f4507008bb426245c839c

[21twelve]

It is very common for the clay shooting crowd - more so at the trap range. The first time I saw it it didn’t sit well with me. The one thing though that one gets used to is that most of them (us) have break-open, over-under shotguns. So there is no way they can fire. I know that if I am shooting rifles or handguns I am very aware of where my muzzle is, and where others are as well.

At the clays, I’m only paying attention to the guys with semi-autos or pumps..

[Rurudyne]

“Announcing Bob Allen Prosthetic Toes! Craftsmanship to meet all your sporting needs.”

[yarddog]

I used to be a skeet instructor at Southern Miss.

One of my students who was the state champion told me way back in 1989 that these were quite common. I could not believe it but it must have been true.

[COBOL2Java]

I hear Bob's got himself a celebrity spokesman

[Reno89519]

Must have been an affirmative action hire that came up with the idea. Affirmative action in this case, hiring someone that has never touched a gun or been around them.

[JoeProBono]

[dfwgator]

Or...

[nevadapatriot]

I used one for years, from Barretta not Allen. Little risk, for O/U shotguns only. RSO’s would kick you off the field if you used it with an auto-loader. Kinda hard on the shoes and foot though. Switched over to leather pad with magnet, much better all around

[Joe 6-pack]

One of my aunts served as a nurse in the Navy during WWII. After the war she took a job as a nurse in the hospital in my hometown. She met her future husband/my future uncle in the late 40s after he shot himself in the foot in a hunting accident.

Perhaps this product could be remarketed as, "the matchmaker."

[Rurudyne]

Yes, it could be worse.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

The idea still makes me a bit squeamish.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Managed to shoot 84 straight without one. Retired now, tinnitus.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe it’s extra-thick leather.

[TonyM]

“I hear Bob’s got himself a celebrity spokesman”

He obviously has no understanding of gun safety. Looks like the prop guy fail to inform him that putting your finger on the trigger while pointing gun in one direction and looking in another direction is a big no no.

[TonyM]

Imagine, if that M-16 had just gone off there would never have been any global warming.

[SamAdams76]

Okay, I wanna correct you, alright. The full name of this product, as it appears in stores all over the county, is Bob Allen Shoe-Top Safety Muzzle Rest. This is a totally safe product. I mean, nothing ever goes wrong.. little girls buy 'em, you know, they play games, they go skeet shooting, nobody gets hurt. Here, let me show you how this works with this piece of wood simulated to look like a shotgun.

[hal ogen]

algore displaying his lunacy in Viet Nam.

[JimSp]

The guys in the video pretty much discredited themselves. Acting like ignorant idiots and spreading misinformation, for what? Clicks?