Another "Silly Things You Hear In Gunshops" Thread

5whiskey said:
corny and boot, but they were really cool shirts
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It's a lot less boot if you know it's boot ;). Most boots have no idea how boot they're being until after they've been in for a while. Oh, and tell your son I said, "Semper".

After a while, your son will probably get tired of stuff like that and avoid wearing Marine Corps or military stuff most of the time. When I worked at an LGS, our Surefire rep got me a Surefire hat with an EGA on the back. For a while I wore it every day at work, but then I realized it was getting me into way too many annoying conversations about the military that I had no interest it. The worst was the Saturday crowd; we got a lot more spillover of casual shooters from the range. So I stopped wearing the hat on Saturdays specifically so I could avoid those conversations.
 
I was at my LGS one day and these two kids (maybe 2 years younger than me) came in and the first thing they picked up was an M&P 22 AR. The very first thing they said "This is just like the one in Call of Duty! Where's The Full-Auto switch? I wonder where we could get a grenade launcher for it...". I smiled and continued browsing a crate of Mosins.

Another time I went to another one that is (biased I guess) against anything that doesn't have glass on it and is bench rested. Anyway, I asked him if they had any Stripper Clips for a Mosin-Nagant and he says "Why you want a Mosin-Nuget? Get something you can hit with." Needless to say I only bought some ammo that day.
 
The stuff I'm reading that people do/say is both humorous and positively terrifying at the same time. I've not been around the crowd long enough to have as many "stories" as some folks here (no offense) but one that I heard (though it's not at a store but still humorous) at a local range was a guy claiming his Saiganov was exactly the same and just as accurate as an SVD.
 
I was at our local gun range a few months back. A guy about my age and myself were the only two there. I went just to look for brass as I shoot in my yard almost everyday. Anyway I watched him shoot a pistol about 20 yards away and it looked like he shot his groupings with a sawed off shotgun. lol Anyway he said "Yea, this pistol dont shoot good up close but at 200 and 300 yards I can shoot a inch and a half group". hahaha Yea sure you can. He packed up and went to the 200 yard range. hehehe I should have went just to laugh but my corcern was looking for brass. I could care less with people and their stories. Quit talking and show me !!!!
 
And after I left there was a lady who bought a handgun, went through the waiting period (she didn't have a CPL), and then committed suicide with it in the parking lot right after she picked up the gun. Most of the range/LGSs around here have had at least one suicide, and some have had several.
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A lot of the ranges in our area started going to the buddy system, but it still happens. The last one I heard of was a guy who signed up for a gun safety course, and did it as soon as they advanced to the "practical" part of the class as classes didn't require the buddy system.
 
A lot of ranges around the country have had suicide issues, so many ranges have enacted the following policy: In order to rent guns at the range you either need to bring your own gun (you don't have to shoot it, you just have to show them you have one), or bring a buddy with you.

The rationale is this: If someone already owns a gun then they don't need to go to a range and rent one in order to kill themselves. And most people aren't going to bring a buddy to the range in order to commit suicide. So the policy tries to prevent people from coming in, renting a gun, and committing suicide with it, and it works pretty well.

It's not a fool-proof policy, as Jim Dandy pointed out. (I remember that incident, I know someone who works at that range: The customer signed up weeks in advance for a class, went though all the preliminary classroom time, and when they got the the range he shot himself. It was even in front of kids. Pretty messed up.) But it's a pretty good policy. The LGS/range I worked at had several suicides on the range over the years, but after they enacted that policy the suicides stopped.
 
This thread is too good to stop. Here is mine. An experienced shooter/employee at a major gun and sporting goods retailer was being pestered by a gun store groupie when the conversation leaned towards scope leveling. The employee looked him right in the eye and said that if his scope was canted to the side, the bullet would drop at an angle. I was browsing while my wife had been clothes shopping so I saw what the groupie had been putting this guy through. It was a justified prank answer. No harm done.
 
A gunsmith in Austin, Texas, 60+ years gone, was madly in love with his "Improved" '06. It was so flat-shooting that he held on a deer's back at 600 yards and hit it in the heart. I didn't comment. :)

I'd shot a Garand several hundred round's worth before I was drafted in November of 1953. In Basic Training with the Garand, the sergeant-instructor explained that the chamber pressure was 50,000 pounds. That meant 25,000 pounds of force on the bullet and 25,000 pounds of force to make the bolt work. I was wise enough to keep my lip zippered. :D
 
Worked for several years part time in a gun store after I retired as a LEO. An elderly lady came in one day wanting some bullets for her "gun". She pulled it out of her pocket and showed it to me and I commented it was a .32 S&W. I went to the shelf and got a box and told her the price. She looked shocked and said she only needed enough to load the gun. I went in the back and found a partial box and gave her 5.

I need a clip for my .25.
What kind is it.
It's a .25.
No, I mean what brand.
It's a .25(blank look).

Customer was repeatedly locking the slide on a Colt 1911 then dropping it from slide lock. I asked him to please stop doing it. His response was that it didn't hurt anything since no internal parts were touching when he did it.??????????????

Seals, Delta, and MARSOC had hundreds of members because I've met at least that many.

This was my father's pistol. He took it off a dead Nazi officer. As many times as I heard that story I know why Germany lost the war. No officers!
 
You guys go to way better gun stores than I do! The best I get are from the employees:

Obama's gonna take your guns away....Are you the moron that got him elected?...we're all gonna lose our healthcare.

They'll come to your house to check your shotgun....n haul you away if more than 2 shells fit in the mag tube....(me) even my self defense shotgun? (Employee) yep.

My favorite:
(E) those red dots are inaccurate.
(M) Really?
(E) Yea, cause there is no rear sight to line the dot up with. Best you can do is make sure it is centered in the tube.
(M) Huh. I got on that seems just fine.
(E) you must be real lucky. Better to get a scope cause the dot is always centered in the tube.
 
Seals, Delta, and MARSOC had hundreds of members because I've met at least that many.
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No wonder our federal taxes are so high - there's more of them than regular line grunts.


Obama's gonna take your guns away
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Obama and Co. did TRY *really hard* to pass a gun ban in Jan '13 - it went nowhere fast of course - but the failure sure wasn't for lack of trying on their part - it was filed in the US Senate as a bill. A ban is a pre-emptive taking away from the unborn and minors - who, I might add, cannot even vote *against* this pre-emptive stripping of a fundamental right by these politicians (of what happens to be *the* most effective self-defense tools - so-called "assault weapons").
 
Despite being dressed by my girlfriend, a nearly hippy length hair cut, sock less loafers, button down dress shirts, and bow ties I still get pegged for being military whenever I go into a gun shop.

I get annoyed when I'm informed about how bad the M-4A1 sucks, how bad the Beretta sucks, or why we should be using the M-14/M-1/M-1903A2/ 1873 Pattern Musket.

Further more, I don't care what your cousin's brother's sister's boyfriend used in Delta Team Six Recon, I want to look at that damn Model 19 because that's what Bill Jordan used.
 
Yeah suppressors are ok to buy in some states but silencers are totally illegal..... Yup if it brings the db's down too much then it's illegal.

I was too stunned to say anything in response. Walked out immediately
 
Some pretty good ones here. I don't spend much time out front, I get paid to work on guns, not sell them, so I don't get to hear a lot of what's posted.
But, I still get some good ones. When you're handed the phone, and the first thing said is: "can you put a gun together even if you didn't take it apart?", you're about to get a gun in a bag. Or, they bring it in and tell you it worked fine, and they cleaned it, and now it doesn't work. Did you take it apart? No, I just cleaned best I could. Well, this spot right here used to have "xxxx" mounted in it, which is now missing. This part will not come out by itself. Are sure somebody didn't take it apart? OK, I took it apart. Well, go back to where you took it apart, and if you can find the part, I won't have to order a replacement. Often, the gun has been taken apart and put back together wrong, or has been forced apart. I recently had an 1897 Winchester takedown come in for cleaning and cowboy action work, the owner had just purchased it from a friend. It wouldn't break down. Turned out, somebody had stripped the interrupted threads on the magazine tube, and simply epoxied it in place. Or, "it's been a great gun for the last 20 yrs, but then it turned into a pos." Duck gun, been used as a boat paddle an unknown number of times in the last two decades. Oh, hasn't been cleaned once the entire time. Open it up, the inside has to be scraped first so it can be cleaned. Got a pile of dirt roughly 2" tall maybe 3" in diameter. Remington 1100. No wonder it doesn't work.
Of course, the occasional request to make something full auto. Got a guy last week followed me out the door, I was going out back to test fire a gun, he wants to discreetly ask me if I can build him a suppressor. I explain yes, I can, and yes, they are legal (we are an /07 Sot).
It never ends, but at least it's entertaining.
 
I got a phone call at the shop from a customer asking about rifle scopes.

HIM: What does it mean if a rifle scope is a 4x-32?

ME: That means it's a four power scope with a 32 mm front lens.

HIM: What does 4 power mean?

ME: That means if your target is 100 yards away, it appears to be only 25 yards away.

HIM: Does the bullet still have to go the whole 100 yards?

Long pause.

ME: Yes, sir, the bullet still has to go the entire 100 yards. The scope merely makes the target look like it's only 25 yards away. It does not have the ability to warp the space-time continuum.

How I managed to hang up without laughing out loud, I'll never know.
 
I was safely and carefully handling one of the new Ruger LCP's with bigger sights and shorter trigger a while back. I wanted to compare it to my original LCP. This was in a small private gun store.

I asked the guy (part owner?) if I could dry fire it once to see how the trigger feels. He said "Nooooooooo no no, people will be running for the hills if you do that." I handed it back to him and said thanks. There was only one other guy in the store.

I dry fired one a while latter at sportsman warehouse with a bunch of people around... I didn't like it. I like my original one better. But the bigger sights on the new one are nice.
:)
 
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