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PieterCoetzee

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This is one of those head scratcher stories.....We had an older couple come into the shop today asking for blanks. Somehow they got it into their heads that the first round in their guns should be blanks. So they could scare the bad guy. I explained as gently as I could that using a blank was the stupidest thing Id heard in a long while. Actually I said that the gun wouldnt cycle when the blank fired and the bad guy would shoot back before they could load a live round.

Its on par with the guys that keep the chamber empty for safety, and think theyll have time to draw, cycle a round, and fire before they are shot.

If you want more, we had a guy use scented hand cream as gun lube and wonder why the gun locked up BUT at least it did smell nice.

Another guy wrapped masking tape around a 20ga shell so if would fit in a 12ga, then wondered why turned to glue and he couldnt extract the fired shell; but its OK he tried to drill out the shell and use a screwdriver to pry it out.

We had a guy shoot a 243 round in a 308 rifle by mistake. He figured there was some kind of problem when he had trouble opening the bolt and used a hammer to beat it open. When he fired the second shot and the bolt froze. He beat it a bit too hard and broke the bolt handle off the bolt. That one stumped me because I would have thought the 243 would have just "fire formed" to a 308 size case but apparently it did more

I get a kick out of the guys that buy 38 Super ammo (with a big pink label that says NOT 38 SPECIAL) then want to return it and get upset when we point to the sign that says ammunition is NOT returnable

Normal gun shop stuff is "would you order 'this' (usually a $$$$$ gun) so I can see it?" OR "would you order it and let me put it on layaway so I dont have to use a credit card because my wife will see the credit card bill". I love the guys that see a $900 gun and ask if wed take $600 cash. Then they get pissed when we tell them the retail cost is $1100 and we dont up charge for credit cards. My favorite is the guys that go to a shop that hires "dancers" and wonder why its not shooting right when the dancer mounted the red dot backwards. The same guy came back a couple weeks later with a scope mounted with one ring on the receiver and one on the handguard. He bought it from the same shop. I asked why after the first F Up and he said because she smiled at him and she had big T*Ts.....
 
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We do our 4473 and instant check on a computer. The customer does the 4473 and we type the instant check form with them answering the questions. I got to the question about are you buying the gun for someone else. I asked "Is this gun for you or the stripper next door?" When I said that the guys wife smacked him saying "It better not be for the B*TCH"

Another guy was with his girlfriend and when we were waiting for the instant check, the police showed up and asked for the customer by name. It seems the guy and his girlfriend had violent domestic a few days ago and she called the police. There was a warrant for him. As the cops were cuffing him, she said "That was then, I dont want him locked up now. We made up"
 
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Lemme be clear, most (the vast majority) are "normal"; but some of those still make me wonder. Its not uncommon for us to sell a rifle or scope the day before Deer season and have the guy tell us "it'll be fine I dont have time to zero it" OR "Didnt you just zero it when you mounted the scope".

We once had a scope come in with the crosshairs in an actual X pattern because the owner intentionally mounted it that way, "so he could see the deer better"

We also get a LOT of Amazon crap to be mounted on cheap ARs. Im guessing because it looks cool and its cheap. (It looks ghetto but maybe that the plan). I have convinced one guy to at least let me pick out quality stuff for him.

We used to sell a lot of archery stuff, and would have guys freely drop $3000 on a crossbow but the same guys would B*tch about spending $400 on a rifle/scope package. Archery people are worse than golfers
 
PieterCoetzee said:
Lemme be clear, most (the vast majority) are "normal"; but some of those still make me wonder. Its not uncommon for us to sell a rifle or scope the day before Deer season and have the guy tell us "it'll be fine I dont have time to zero it" OR "Didnt you just zero it when you mounted the scope".

We once had a scope come in with the crosshairs in an actual X pattern because the owner intentionally mounted it that way, "so he could see the deer better"

We also get a LOT of Amazon crap to be mounted on cheap ARs. Im guessing because it looks cool and its cheap. (It looks ghetto but maybe that the plan). I have convinced one guy to at least let me pick out quality stuff for him.

We used to sell a lot of archery stuff, and would have guys freely drop $3000 on a crossbow but the same guys would B*tch about spending $400 on a rifle/scope package. Archery people are worse than golfers
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Bought a hammer shroud for a Colt Detective Special and went to Turners, in Cali, to have it mounted. Tame GI smith mounted it backwards. He DID remount it correctly and reblued the pistol, which did need it, so I am happy. The plug in the top strap is from the incorrect mount, other plugs are hidden by the grips.
 

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ECS686 said:
I heard the most cringeworthy comments and thought processes when I worked at an indoor range and gunstore.

It’s also where out of the 269 some Navy SEAL’s in Vietnam I met like 700 of them!
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yeah, that's like when i was trucking, and i'd hear constantly on the CB radio, nearly every trucker was a former ranger or seal.

i told them, i was a former brain surgeon, and did lobotomy's on former rangers and seals....

for some reason...silence on the cb radio, for miles and miles.
 
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