Things you've over heard

[ebb]

D Coots. I liked Bill, I liked stopping at his place on the way home from work and did not want to run off one of his customers. I tried to get him to rein in this idiot but he would not. Bill had a Mauser that had the barrel replaced with one chambered on 06 that had the Mauser steps and looked for all the world like a stock Mauser. He had 100 rounds of LC brass that he used with just this rifle and a mild load and cast bullets. He said he had almost 75 reloads on that brass. He said if one got a split neck he would cut a small notch to remove the split and eventually it would grow back to a full neck as the cases were trimmed.

 

[Jeff Porter]

Over heard at a bar in Montello Wisconsin about 25 years ago. Guy named Pauly, chatting up a honey at the bar while my buddy and I played a game of pool nearby. Pauly starts going on about how he has a new .270 improved magnum that will shoot a 150gr bullet over 4000 feet per second and he hits point of aim out to 900 yards. A true laser beam. Flattest shooting rifle in the world. The honey was duly impressed as Pauly droned on about the deer he had taken in ridiculous situations.... I leaned over and whispered in Pauly's ear... If you buy my buddy and I a beer, I wont tell the lady you are full of crap.... We drank free the rest of the night and Pauly left with the honey.

 

[OMW57]

Gun shops: Beauty shops.. No difference in the amount of plain non sense spoken..

"I got a buddy of mine that shoots off a bench and he hand loads." "Do you know that he weighs each load of powder down to the grain?"

only 1 grain? WOW!

 

[OMW57]

I worked in a larger gun shop for quite a few years.

I had a guy come in and asked me what I knew about powder. And I responded “quite a bit, what can I help you with”

He apparently took this as a challenge.

So he told me he currently has powders 142, 145 and 147. He wants a recommendation on 143 and 144.

I had no clue.

Being a person myself who is always willing to learn something new, I looked at him and said, “you’ll have to explain to me the numbers you listed”

He laughed and rudely said he needed someone else. I knew more than the other guys who worked there so I just asked him again.

So after a few insults from him, he very smugly pulls out a picture of a burn rate chart.

Points to the number that’s next to the powder he is referring to i believe 144 is R26 or something now.

So I told him those numbers are simply a reference number and they change when new powders are introduced, you need to go by the actual powder name.

He laughed and called me an idiot. He bought some powder from another sales guy and left. Never saw him again. Hopefully he still has both eyes.

can't fix stupid

 

[divingin]

Walked into the LGS one Friday afternoon. Only the owner and a customer were in there.

I walked back and found what I needed to buy and landed at the counter.

Evidently, the customer and the owner were haggling over the trade in value of the customer's rifle, for some time it seems.

The owner asked me, out of the blue, what is this rifle worth? I replied, "The $500 rifle or the $800 scope attached to it?"

Owner told me to leave. Customer was grinning from ear to ear.

A local smith was at a shop (during the Covid thing, so pretty recent) when an older woman came in to sell her late husband's revolver. Counter guy said the it wasn't worth much: holster wear, couple of dings, aftermarket grips; best he could do was $100. She happened to look over at Bill, who shook his head; woman decided not to take the shop up on the deal. Bill stopped her in the parking lot, and struck a deal for a 4" 70's era Python for $500, as she just wanted it gone.

[Now that I think about that, I need to ask him what he'd sell it for.]

 

[1K6BRA]

A friend of mine owned a gun store back in the early and mid-part of the 1990s. If I remember the story correctly, he had some hillbilly come in from our neck of the Pennsyltucky woods a day or two before our opening day of deer season with some type of a crude rifle with no markings as to what cartridge it was chambered for. The guy told my friend just gave me a box of ought-6 shells. I’ll take them out and try them and see if they work. Needless to say he would not sell him any kind of ammunition. I have often wondered what happened with that guy.

 

[SecondsCount]

Overheard at the gunshop counter-

"Do you guys carry replacement sights for Hi Point pistols?"

No, we do not.

"Okay, do you know where I can get some? I cerakoted the slide and baked it in the oven. When it came out, the sights were all melted"

 

[Ajohnse]

I shot at a local range a lot in Denver, Co. Anyway I was asked to help sight in customer rifles for deer season. Being a bench rest shooter I used my front rest and rear bags to sight the rifles in. I actually had a guy tell me to sight in his rifle off hand because he wouldn't be shooting off a bench in the field. true story!

 

[Bottom Fodder]

All the big HUNTER/KILLERS.
Always reminds me of the old cowboy that lived next door when I was a kid.
Always talked about rabbit hunting. Told about chasing/running and feeling them to see if they were fat enough before he killed them.

My uncle told me that same story 60 years ago

 

[Downhill]

I was in line to renew my hunting license here in central Texas. When asked about how many Mourning Dove the guy in front of me shot the previous year, this idiot declared " Had to be at least 2,500 or so." Doing some quick math in my head I told him" Given the length of Dove Season, adding daily bag limits, you have just admitted to taking nearly twice that was allowed by law. My county will charge about $200 per bird over the limit, just saying." I thought this idiot was going to faint as his face turned pale. "Might want to rethink that answer, Buddy."

 

[DShortt]

I was in line to renew my hunting license here in central Texas. When asked about how many Mourning Dove the guy in front of me shot the previous year, this idiot declared " Had to be at least 2,500 or so." Doing some quick math in my head I told him" Given the length of Dove Season, adding daily bag limits, you have just admitted to taking nearly twice that was allowed by law. My county will charge about $200 per bird over the limit, just saying." I thought this idiot was going to faint as his face turned pale. "Might want to rethink that answer, Buddy."

Never developed a taste for them and apart from pests I won't shoot anything I won't eat.

 

[Downhill]

Never developed a taste for them and apart from pests I won't shoot anything I won't eat.

Always called them "Sky Rats". A buddy cooked some, dove breast wrapped in bacon with shrimp and a jalapeno slice in the middle. Ate the bacon, shrimp and jalapeno then gave the dove to my blue heeler ( she absolutely loves dove breast.)

 

[snert]

I was 14. I was shooting my very first handloads for my new 700 Varmint Special 222. Next to me was a guy shooting a lever gun. Because I was new to handloading, I was interested in cartridges. We struck up a brief conversation. He told me he handloaded too. He said his gun was a Zipper. He said he made his own cases. (I didn't know anything about wildcatting so I was impressed.) Until he handed me several empties to look at. Every one looked like a Weatherby neck...radiused. With special splits all the way around the radius of the shoulder...longitudinal...toward the neck, which looking back now were miraculously unscathed. I could see daylight through the splits. When I asked, he said they were part of the making of the case and when he resized them they went away.

His groups at 50 yards were covering a paper the size of my Farah Fawcett poster. (Admit it, you had one)

I picked up my target, including a group of five that looked like two (still have that wallet group) and I left before that old boy lost fingers and eyeballs.

I will never forget his confident explanation and the feeling of being a kid who was unsure, but kinda thought "I m in the presence of a certified nutcase".

 

[D Coots]

Farah Fawcett poster.....still have one....

 

[1K6BRA]

I know it’s off the thread topic, but oh HECK YEAH!!! Still have three or four of them tucked away.Probably collectors items now, my kids will probably just throw them away when cleaning out my stuff someday.

 

[D Coots]

I know it’s off the thread topic, but oh HECK YEAH!!! Still have three or four of them tucked away.Probably collectors items now, my kids will probably just throw them away when cleaning out my stuff someday.View attachment 1411882

Beautiful without fake boobs and lips....

 

[gdbleb]

Beautiful without fake boobs and lips....

Yup. And don't forget the fake butts that remind me of the 5 mph car bumpers from the 70's. What's with those?

 

[D Coots]

Just what every man dreams of, a gal with a bigazz.................


Here's my helper today changing my oil....

 

[Rick300]

I know it’s off the thread topic, but oh HECK YEAH!!! Still have three or four of them tucked away.Probably collectors items now, my kids will probably just throw them away when cleaning out my stuff someday.View attachment 1411882

I used to have that very poster hanging in my locker at work back in the eighties. Bee-u-tee-full!

 

[rjtfroggy]

I've heard so much BS in my 71 years, I no longer pay attention.