Things you've over heard

[Hino895]

I was shooting on my own bench in my yard when my new neighbor came over with his rifle.
He saw what I was shooting at the time but then proudly handed me his pride in joy.
It was a SKS with and I kid you not a scope taped to it with electrical tape.
Said it was perfect for hunting squirrels.
Another time I was at the biggest gun store in town “greentop in Richmond Virginia”
They were rationing primers so I asked what they had.
The guy behind the counter said large pistol magnum primers but you could only use them in 44 mag.
Time for me to leave.

 

[David Milisock]

Well, I have a 260, a 6.5x55, a 6.5x47 Lapua, and a 6.5 Creechmore. I much prefer my 308. The others are good cartridges, but I prefer the 308.

For a 30 cal the 308 or the 300 Savage work well in a rifle that has an 18" or 20" barrel and swings like a shotgun. What's not to like?

To me this sounds like red heads, blonds, brunettes, auburn, pink budds, brown budds, you get it.

 

[David Milisock]

Ok this is a true story from like 1979. I went into my trap shooting buddies gun shop and he waved me over and told me he wanted to dump a 16 pound lot of H4831, 1,000 pieces of LC once fired brass sized and swaged and 1,200 Hornady 165 grain FB Spire Points for next to nothing. He got the stuff from an estate sale of an old friend.

Just fill a bowl with powder and scoop a case until it's full and seat the bullet!

Believe it or not after working some loads the H4831 went to better use elsewhere but I had to try the load.

I worked up the load got to the point where I felt safe just scooping a case full and seating a bullet. It actually worked for the most part, nearly 3,000 FPS in a 24" barrel, it grouped well but holy cow near dusk the muzzle flash was enormous. A waste of powder even at $2 a pound.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

Pick a thread darn near any thread ..,.
Amazed at some of the post ...

You win the internet

 

[PhilC]

Online - "That deer was 500 yards out, so I held my .25-06 even with his back and blew his heart out."

I did exactly that on a desert muley doe in 1988 with my 7RM and 150gr BTs when hunting in the Taylor Peak region (near Allen Spring) SE of Ely NV. Sick with the flu and on my way back to camp to crawl into my sleeping bag one of my hunting buddies flagged me down. He had a buck tag and had spotted a pair of nice does. I didn't even want to get out of my truck, but, followed him to the spot. When he motioned me up and I saw the does standing on a ridgeline told him no way I could make that shot, too far. He convinced me otherwise and with no rangefinder, total swag on distance and uphill, I laid the horizontal cross hairs on her back and squeezed the trigger - she fell right where she stood. I cussed him the whole way up, he said he'd field dress, no way, I shot her, I'll dress her, but you can make the hike back to my truck and bring it up the draw in the ravine!

Bullet entered center of heart/lung zone between 2 ribs and out the back side same way cracking the two either side of exit hole. Her lungs, heart, & liver were just a jelled bloody mass - my first real experience with hyrdostatic shock. Rifle is a Savage 110, Simmons 4x32 (no s**t), load was 150gr NBTs, 60gr IMR4350 & CCI250s. Tires on my '72 F250 were 36" Super Swampers, I'm 5' 7" and with her pulled as high as we could get across the canopy I still had to hold her head up off the ground exit side is facing camera...



The next morning my hunting buddy shot a beautiful 4 x 3 Muley but I couldn't physically get out of my sleeping bag to help.

 

[YEW PLUCKER]

I heard once heard a guy behind the gun counter tell a prospective customer that you should never fill a magazine more than half the capacity or leave it loaded overnight because it would ruin the spring. I started to ask him if he jacks up his truck at night.

I ask people how long their cars or trucks have been sitting on coil springs. Have they ever worn out with the car sitting still?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I drove 5 hours to shoot a steel match.
Stayed in a hotel to shoot the following day.
The r.s.o. wouldn't let me shoot. He said my Sierra t.m.k's would blow right through the steel.
Boy, was i mad!!

Was there anybody there with any sense or were they all dumb? Nobody could tell him or they wouldnt let you shoot one and buy it if it punched a hole?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I was shooting on my own bench in my yard when my new neighbor came over with his rifle.
He saw what I was shooting at the time but then proudly handed me his pride in joy.
It was a SKS with and I kid you not a scope taped to it with electrical tape.
Said it was perfect for hunting squirrels.
Another time I was at the biggest gun store in town “greentop in Richmond Virginia”
They were rationing primers so I asked what they had.
The guy behind the counter said large pistol magnum primers but you could only use them in 44 mag.
Time for me to leave.

Tell him thats exactly what you were loading for. No need to leave

 

[hogpatrol]

Our backers are in meters (NRA silhouette), 200, 300, 385 and 500 and one at 100 meters. Group of guys are setting up with rangefinders, their own backers with targets at yardage increments, 100, 200, 300. Said they were going on a hunt and needed to know where to set the turrets. I asked one why they didn't just use the existing backers and do everything in meters. He replied, "We're machinists. We do everything in inches". I went back to my bench. A little while later, one of them came over and lamented he was having trouble figuring out the clicks on his mil-dot scope. I mentally shook my head and went back to shooting.

 

[littlebuddybr]

Was there anybody there with any sense or were they all dumb? Nobody could tell him or they wouldnt let you shoot one and buy it if it punched a hole?

Nope. It was a pile of bone heads!!
Wouldn't listen to anything I was saying or other shooter's were saying.

 

[Eric Leonard]

Local chain store that also carries firearms got shipped an over-abundance of .300 Blackouts. I was getting quite a laugh out the raptures the clerk was going into about how much better the Blackout was compared to the 6.5 Creed, .223 Remingtons or even .243s on the shelf. No idea what people plan on using it on since Illinois is a shotgun, handgun and muzzle-loader state (and just added straight-walled cartridges within a certain category). Again, that stupid "tactical" mystique for all the urban and armchair Rambos out there.

I think the 300 Bo and the 350 legend are legal deer calibers in Illinois now also

 

[JSH]

I worked in retail a bit, don’t miss it a bit. John Q Public can be quite entertaining as well as frustrating as all get out.

Just last week local shop. Fellow had bought a 338 Lapua rifle, zero cartridges, brass, dies etc. He and his friend had been all over looking for ammo. They could not understand why some was $2-3 each and others were $6 and up. Fair bit of price difference in 338 WM and 338 Lapua. He explained to me he tried them both and they both “fit”.

Sorry to be cold or harsh, but at that point I was done. Maybe it will clean up a gene pool and raise the IQ in the community.

 

[xswanted]

I've wrote about this instance before on this site but its still funny.......


Working in the same large sporting goods store as I posted earlier a guy came in and asked me "which powder will make my 270 bullet fly the farthest?"

I was sort of confused but figured he meant "fastest" so I asked and he replied "No. Farthest."

SO.....I said....."well, all of the powders listed in the manual will make the bullet fly fairly far. How far do you need it to go"

Customer says "400 yards".

I asked "Your current load doesn't go 400 yards?"

He said "not sure, I can't seem to hit anyting"

So, we talked for awhile about this problem and he wouldn't listen to anything I had to say about bullet drop, scopes or anything of the likes.

He told me he currently loads his own ammo and that was the reason for asking for a new powder.

When I asked what he used and how much he loaded he gave me a puzzled look and said "no idea, it's blue"

I assumed he meant the label was blue.

When I pressed him about the load he told me "I've never used a manual, I just dump the powder in, scrape it off the top and seat the bullet"

I refused to sell him powder unless he bought a manual.

Not sure if he has his eyes or fingers these days either.

 

[SSL]

I think the 300 Bo and the 350 legend are legal deer calibers in Illinois now also

Yep...NOW! Only as of 2023 and then only in either single-shot firearms, no magazine or those that have been altered to only hold one shot at a time.

 

[Dkk37058]

Had a fellow who decided he wanted to start shooting F class with myself and my friends.
He put together a rifle Defiance Action Kriger stainless barrel and then proceeded to tell us how to properly break in a barrel.
Now understand he’s a expert and knows what he’s talking about .
He tells us first thing you have to do is shoot 10 rounds in the ground as fast as you can then scrub the shit out of the barrel with a Stainless steel brush run a dry patch down the bore then it’s ready but you can only shoot the bullet you break the barrel in with because no other bullet will shoot accurately.
I tried to be diplomatic and set him straight but don’t know if it worked. He only shot a few matches and hasn’t came back

 

[ebb]

Heard at the gun counter of Gander Mountain in Lake Park Florida. "I was a sniper in Vietnam, and I was issued and carried a savage the whole time I was there and I highly recommend them, they won't let you down. I own my life to a savage."

 

[Eagle Six]

Heard at the gun counter of Gander Mountain in Lake Park Florida. "I was a sniper in Vietnam, and I was issued and carried a savage the whole time I was there and I highly recommend them, they won't let you down. I own my life to a savage."

This gets me more than anything else, wannabe snipers. Any wannabe is disgusting, and when they claim to have been a sniper I go out of my way to expose them.

 

[762willdo]

Heard at the gun counter of Gander Mountain in Lake Park Florida. "I was a sniper in Vietnam, and I was issued and carried a savage the whole time I was there and I highly recommend them, they won't let you down. I own my life to a savage."

Oh, the highly sought after and coveted model 99 savage in 300 savage, army sniper rifle. I’ve only heard about them and never seen one.

 

[Bojo]

Plenty of gun stories here.
So I’ll just switch to cars.
In my 46 years I have learned that nearly every single small block Chevy in any vehicle is a 4 bolt main corvette 350, and any LS platform some form of special 6.0L.

 

[AccelR8]

Heard at the gun counter of Gander Mountain in Lake Park Florida. "I was a sniper in Vietnam, and I was issued and carried a savage the whole time I was there and I highly recommend them, they won't let you down. I own my life to a savage."

I've met many, many snipers from Viet Nam over the last, oh I don't know, 10 or 15 years. Prior to that it seemed like I met a lot of Navy SEALS from Viet Nam.

One friend of mine was kind of helping this old guy who was really messed up. Alcohol for sure, probably drugs, poor health, chain smoking. Broke, hungry, living in shelters. My friend told me this guy was a Navy SEAL in Viet Nam and was messed up because he was ordered to kill women and children and if he didn't, his superiors would have killed him.

I simply said, well in my experience most special forces guys turn out to be rather successful in life after the military and don't let wartime experiences define them.

My buddy got really mad at me over that.