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May 30, 2013, 10:59 AM | #126 | |
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Goofy Things Said At Gun Shops
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"I carry a Springfield TRP Operator, with a 400 Corbon conversion barrel. It can kill a grizzly with a miss of less than a foot. It's an obscure round. You've probably never heard of it. I discovered it at a gun show in a town nobody knows about. I have the original run of rounds, and the prototype barrel. I'll tell you more about it, after I quote some of Kalashnikov's poetry." |
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This is is the hardest I've laughed in I don't know how long. I almost want to start hanging out at LGS's more often.
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May 30, 2013, 05:10 PM | #130 |
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Zincwarrior,
Your wifes encounter is an example of why I want a Desert Eagle one day. I don't really care for them. It's a hunting pistol and I don't hunt. I get annoyed by those who buy them as props for their tacticool testosterone fantasys. However, if I have money to blow, I'm getting one in .50 AE and then I'm gonna have the most disgustingly girly Disney Princess style pimp job done on it. Then I'm gonna go haunt public ranges and set myself up beside the biggest, baddest wannabe I can find. It should provide some awesome amusment possibiltys.
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May 30, 2013, 09:57 PM | #131 |
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May 31, 2013, 06:33 PM | #133 |
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Went in a LGS, asked the young man(new owner) if he had any single action 45's or 357s. He gave me one of the weirdest looks I've received since I retired from the world of corrections. His face started to turn red as he spoke "I wish all you old guys would quit coming in here asking me if I have any single actions. All yer going to do with it if I did have one to sell you is go to the river, walk around drinking beer, hualering Yeah Hah while you do yer fast draw and shoot dead trees. You need to stop pretending yer Matt Dillion and accept the fact that the Kimber 45's are the most accurate 45's ever made. You need a reality check and to accept reality". I turned around and walked out.
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May 31, 2013, 06:36 PM | #134 |
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May 31, 2013, 07:07 PM | #135 | |
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I heard an ol guy in a gun shop holler across the shop at someone looking at a "last ditch" Arisaka one time. He was cautioning him not to dry fire it because the "springs" in "those old army guns" are so strong they can crack the bolt if dry fired and or damage the receiver.
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"It's OK--it's not loaded."
Heard twice today. Both times untrue.
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People who practice good firearm safety should assume EVERY gun is loaded, so they're going to clear it, hand it to me, and then they know I'll clear it like it was loaded. Telling me it isn't loaded is pointless; I'm going to treat it like it was loaded anyway.
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June 1, 2013, 03:36 AM | #140 |
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Plenty of folks have been killed/injured by an "unloaded" firearm.
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Probably the biggest goofy thing I have heard is how Indiana's Lifetime License to Carry a Handgun is "expiring this year"- rumors that have floated around local gun boards for YEARS. It always starts with "This guy at my LGS said..." or "My LEO friend said..."
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June 1, 2013, 06:26 AM | #142 |
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heard a few things. Heard an owner tell a couple guys that they cant shoot hollow points out of a high point because it will blow up. I have been told that the bullet weight is the powder volume (I would love to see someone try to cram 230g of powder into a 45acp case) and the ever popular myth that women should have a 38spl revolver because semi autos are too complicated (my wife's favorite gun was a P226 9mm)
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So after a while I was thinking about it and how incorrect it was. Then I was thinking I probably went into dozens of places and asked for "shells" and probably used the term in dozens of conversations. |
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June 1, 2013, 08:30 AM | #144 |
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I heard a gun store owner telling a store full of customers, "the gubberment is gonna outlaw the AR's get me while ya can. I have X left, first come first serve". The even more insane part is to see the first time gun owner pay the exorbitant prices for his new Del-Ton AR, say: "they will have to pry it from my hands". Honestly the guy looked like the math teached from "Saved by the Bell". He just Rambo'd up. Moments later he was asking one of my buddies where to get some clips and boolits for it, but wanted the good stuff not the regular... He said"he didn't care what he had to spend".....
Well duh.... You spent over $2k on a Del-Ton and $750 for 420 round can of green tip XM855 (or as he said armor piercing rounds), and were willing to pay $50-75 a "clip". I had compassion and thought that some of these guys didn't deserve the prices they paid, but not many...lol. This happened all over America, but until you actually lay eyes on it, that's when you truly think you might pee your pants...
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The firearms industry has made a buttload of that cliche in the past few years. Can't say I blame 'em. *gigglesnort*
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If you really want to get technical a "bullet" is only the projectile. The whole assembly is a cartridge, round, or ammo. Ike |
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June 1, 2013, 07:24 PM | #147 |
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Good lord... I have a ton, let me see if I can remember a few:
1. " anytime a person asks me about a good IWB holster, I know right then that they have never worn a IWB holster". 2. "Those electronic earmuffs right there wont let in any noise higher than 86db, they cancel everything above 86." Customer: "what about this here that says 27db noise reduction" Clerk: "dont worry about that, its cancels everything above 86" 3. "bullets come down twice as fast as they go up.. thats why shooting in the air is so dangerous" 4. "its nearly impossible for a magazine to cause a feeding problem"
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I didn't even get that far. Laying next to the gun was a magazine, crammed full of .45 bullets. Not cartridges, mind you. Bullets. I explained as politely as possible what the "problem" was, and he called me an elitist jerk. You just can't win some times.
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I think we may have a winner...
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Wow!!! Ike |
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