Things that make ya go...huh?

Ok - firearms related...
There was this guy that wanted to look at a semi auto.
The salesman locked the slide back and handed it to him.
The guy stuck his finger in and pushed the magazine follower down while he hit the slide release.

That was a good 11/12 years ago & I bet everyone in the store at the time still gets a chuckle out of it. :D
 
I was in Wally world once to pick up some .22 LR so I could check out a NAA mini revolver a friend had let me borrow. The "highly skilled and knowlegable" slaes associate comes over and asks if he can help me. I told him I wanted CCI Mini-Mags. He picks up a box of .22 Mag. and says "Is that all for today?". I had to let him know that a .22 Mag was not the same as a .22 LR that had "Mag" in the product name, and that if he didn't know what he was dealing with then maybe working the firearms/ammo counter probably wasn't the best thing.

Another friend who shoots pistols had borrowed my Super Redhawk one time. A few weeks later I asked how he liked the "Hand Cannon". "Man," he said, "that thing kicked so hard my wrist ahd elbow hurt after only a couple cylinders." We talked about it for a bit and I told him that I usually just let the gun rise up from the recoil and then let it settle back down on target. He looked at me with a sheepish grin and said "Oh yeah, you don't need to hold it tight enough to let the slide cycle..."
 
being the resident gun nut, everyone in my department comes to me when they have gun questions, if I dont know much about it, I will spend my next watch researching it through any means I deem necessary. one day a coworker was talking to another guy that I had just helped with information on a new lever action to buy.

coworker#1 yeah I'm going to some pawnshops after work to see if I can get a pre-70s winchester 94.

coworker#2 you dont know anything guns aside from how to pull the trigger and load, how did you decide which one to get?

co worker#1 oh I asked Tahunua001 about it and he hooked me up with a bunch of price ranges and pros and cons and even offered links to good sites.

co worker#2 that sounds cool, hey Tahunua001! I need some advice on a new home defense gun.

Tahunua001 sure buddy, are you looking for a rifle or a handgun?
coworker#2 crossbow

tahunua001 blank stares and walks off

the next morning coworker#2 checks his email only to find tahunua001 has filled his inbox with crossbow reviews, model information, price ranges and tactical use tutorials.

he never asked tahunua001 a stupid question like that ever again.
 
WAlked into a LGS the other day, and asked for a box of 30-06 cartridges.

The fellow handed me a box of 20, price nearly 40 bucks.

I said to the fellow, "Shucks, I used to buy these for less than 10 dollars a box".

To which he replied, "Yeah, my grand-daddy used to do that too".
 
This is one of the things that make me go "huh?"

I'll admit I am a gun nut, I like guns, I like shopping for them, reading about them, talking about them, I have fun shooting mine, and yes they have a HD role. The whole thing about self-defense and situational awareness and all that - there are some people who are really really into it, I mean to the nth degree of complexity, and honestly I am only passingly familiar with it.

But there are these guys who are basically a walking arsenal of stuff, y'know they have the aircraft aluminum kubotan/tactical self defense pen, and the self defense tactical flashlight with crenellated strike bezel and all that, and they carry a baton, and pepper spray, and a knife, and a backup knife, and a firearm and a bug. But when I talk about maybe wearing body armor in the winter months they say that's black helicopter thinking.

Huh?
 
A good friend told me about his brother-in-law and the squirrel trap....

Mom and Dad are elderly, and having a problem with squirrels raiding their birdfeeders. SO, good son gets a live trap, and disposes of a squirrel or two by carefully shooting them in the trap (after moving trap to safe place for that).

Next week, BIL is there, and is complaining to good son about how his Makarov keeps jamming. There is also another squirrel to be dealt with. They take the trap down by the pond, and before good son can deal with it, BIL pulls out Mak, and blazes away to slide lock. Squirrel is freaked, but unharmed. Unfortunately, not so the trap, which now sports several bulletholes.

BIL turns to good son, shows him Mak with slide locked back and says, "See, it jams!"
:eek:
Good son distpatches squirrel, and explains to BIL that the slide locking back like that is "Mr Mak's way of saying he wants to be fed!". Then offers to take trap to a downtown corner so BIL can do a drive by on it......
 
I was at a Christmas party last weekend where a bunch of us were talking about guns, shooting and other interesting stuff. The topic turned to battle rifles. I do have a British Enfield .303 that I like, but most of what I know about battle rifles I learned on the interwebz. I was interested in learning from guys with some experience. After a few minutes of AR/M16, M1A/M14, AK variants, big verses fast and such, someone brought up the Barrett 50. At this point there were a couple of conversations going and I heard one guy say to another that if a .50 round just passed by closely it would "tear you up." :eek: I always thought this idea was urban legend invented by forum funny guys. This guy was completely serious, and as my head snapped around 180 degrees like owl looking for prey, the guy he was talking to nodded his head knowingly!:eek: I had to go talk with the women to keep from asking questions about the physics involved...:confused:
 
K_mac, . . . you been scammed, my friend.

A 2000 pound round from a 16 inch gun off the USS New Jersey, . . . if it only passes by you closely, . . . ya might get some wind, . . . but that is all.

Rounds that miss, . . . don't hurt, . . . don't kill, . . . don't maim, . . . they just miss.

The same goes for a .50 whether it's a S&W, . . . a Barrett, . . . or a Ma Deuce, . . . like swinging a baseball bat, . . . you miss and that's it, . . . nothing happens.

Those two dudes got you, . . . and just for discuussion sake, . . . the Barret is not an MBR, . . . it's a sniper rifle.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
Dwight I understand that being "torn up" by a near miss is nonsense.:D The guy that said it seemed to believe it though. If it was a ruse to see if they could get a reaction, it was executed to perfection. In any case, it did make me go, HUH.:)

I should have said military rifles rather than battle rifles. Like I said, an expert I ain't.;)
 
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Stopped in a local gun shop and was shooting the bull with the guy at the counter and started telling me about a setting up a rifle for customer. Anyway, he mounts the scope and bore sights it and a bit later the gun owner comes in to pick up his rifle. The counter guy hands it over and the gun owner is instantly upset at the way the scope is mounted and wants to know why the scope is mounted wrong. After a few questions, it turns out that the gun owner wanted the cross hairs to line up like an "x" and kept repeating his mantra that "X marks the spot."

The counter guy asked him a few times if he was sure he wanted that way and the guy was adamant that "x" marks the spot. So he loosened the rings, rotated the scope, tightened it back down and handed it back to him without another word.
 
I really hoped you didn't swallow that whole thing.

I'd also hope they were just funnin' with you, . . . because there are a lot of people out there who believe some really stupid things about guns, bullets, and what they can and/or cannot do.

But a miss cannot hurt, . . . :eek:, . . . unless of course it's a Miss, she's cranky, ugly, and got a .45, . . . now THAT miss can hurt you.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
But of course it's gospel that a hit by an AR-15 anywhere, even on the pinky, will cause the bones in your arm and shoulder, heck maybe even your chest, to shake so much they'll all break, and your arm (at least one of 'em) will fall off right in front of you. Very likely you'll suffer three or four broken ribs, and in all probability those ribs will puncture your lungs and you'll bleed out in a matter of seconds.

I know all this 'cause I heard it first hand from a Viet vet who saw it himself in Dak To in 1967. Gospel truth.
 
At this point there were a couple of conversations going and I heard one guy say to another that if a .50 round just passed by closely it would "tear you up."
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I've been told this, too. Exact words. I just nodded my head as well. That's the same thing I do when someone tells me a 45 will send you flying backwards if you're hit. I've found that anything other than a head nod will simply send a whole lot more BS your way.
 
The one that always comes to mind is standing in line at a gun store listening to the clerk selling the guy in line in front of me some ammo for his semi-auto AK variant. He was telling the guy how steel cased ammo would be bad for his AK. I imagine that there are millions of AKs that have never had anything BUT steel cased ammo put through them.
But why inna heck do they need the serial numbers?,,,
To ensure they send the correct magazines?
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Could be. Sometimes manufactures make significant changes to a particular model without changing the model designation. When that happens, they may have to determine what parts will fit via the serial number range. The one example that springs to mind is the Mini-14. If you try to buy parts for it you'll eventually run into a situation where you'll have to specify if your gun is a pre 181 series or a post 181 series.
 
Bought a Marlin 60 at my local Dick's the other day. The two dimwits behind the counter could not get the slide release to free the bolt without several minutes or without pointing the muzzle at a customer. When I mentioned that, I was assured that it was ok because "I'm sure the rifle is unloaded." Yeah. So was everybody else who ever negligently discharged a firearm and injured or killed someone. After this, they made a point of loudly discussing with one another how long they'd each been NRA members, making sure that I would then understand how much more gun safety knowledge they had than I.

Then they made me sign a carbon copy form wherein I acknowledged that I received a trigger lock with the firearm. The form also featured a list of "Safe Gun Handling Practices". The second item on the list was "Always handle a firearm as if it is loaded, even when you are 'positive' that it is not." (emphasis as quoted from the form) Hmmm.

The "trigger lock" provided was a cheapo cable slide lock (not a trigger lock) with about a 7-inch cable. How exactly am I supposed to use a cable lock with a Marlin 60?
 
I left it go, as it wasn't "Educate the imbeciles" day.
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Yeah. Happened to me when I went into a Cabela's and asked for a box of Federal EFMJ's. Was solemly told by the gun counter clerk that FMJ ammo didn't expand, and what I really needed were some hollow-points. :rolleyes:
 
Can't pass up the opportunity to say that the M14 was a battle rifle but the M16 is an assault rifle.

Still not sure of the difference.
 
"Can't pass up the opportunity to say that the M14 was a battle rifle but the M16 is an assault rifle."

Explanation I've always seen, and have used, is that the battle rifle fires a full-power cartridge like the .30-06 or .308, while the assault rifle fires an intermediate power cartridge like the .223 or 7.62x39.
 
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