Things you've over heard

[ebb]

Not a 99 savage, a bolt action just like the one he was showing the customer. The 20 something kid with the really hot girlfriend/wife.

 

[AccelR8]

All the "We had the M16 in 'Nam, it was a piece of junk made by Matel. Plastic and pot metal." And "They handed me an M16, I handed it right back and told 'em gimme my M14 back."

But probably the best one, which I heard several times over about a 5 or 6 year period, was about this guy "around here"...some times it's an uncles' friend or cousins neighbor (or some other loose connection) and this guy is a Viet Nam veteran and each year he gets his deer not by arrow or gun. He drops down on 'em from a tree and breaks their necks/cuts their throat/strangles them. Sometimes the story involves trouble at the check station because there's no sign of a wound.

 

[ebb]

I was sitting in a LGS that I liked the older guy that owned a lot he was a really good guy. A customer walked in and I guess Bill the LGS owner had ordered a gun but the customer had the right to look it over and decide "no" if he didn't like it. So he is playing with this gun and I am talking to Bill and he points the gun right at me and I give Bill the evil eye and Bill just shrugs his shoulders. So a minute or 2 latter he sweeps me and back and forth about 5 or 6times. I ask him to please not point the firearm at me anymore. he points it the other way and Bill and I resume our conversation and he does it again only this time he almost looks like he is doing on purpose. So I look at Bill again and he shrugs his shoulders again . After another minute or two of him raising the gun time and again pointing at me I get alittle put out and tell the customer if he points ther gun ay me one more time I am going to shove it up his ass. He after a minut hands it to Bill and walks out of the store. I think Bill is going to ask me to never come back, so i tell him I am sorry I talked that way to his customer. Bill says "I think it was high time someone talked to him like that."

 

[sandwarrior]

Anytime you hear some jackass say, "That's obsolete!", about any cartridge that hasn't come along in the last thirty years. So, LGS's stop carrying ammo for it.

 

[loinhunter]

Back when you’d check in your deer at a station in WV (I miss those days), I had just finished checking my deer in when a fellow drops the tailgate on his truck to reveal a rather large doe . Even at a distance , you could see it was badly gut shot. Closer examination showed two other nasty wounds one in the neck , one in the spine area. “ I was sound shootin’ , and just kept pouring bullets through that bush.” I suppose those bullets were tumbling pretty bad. Given the propensity for the local folks at that time to not wear orange ,I just shut my mouth , and was glad they were nowhere near our property.

 

[Thud]

To hear the best stories is to sit behind a table at a gunshow.
I have heard so many of them it boogles the mind that there are so many either stupid or really dangerous people out there.
And the biggest problem that they reproduce.

 

[Wolfdog91]

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.....wait I though all the marine corps sniper in name where Winche.......

 

[Wolfdog91]

To hear the best stories is to sit behind a table at a gunshow.
I have heard so many of them it boogles the mind that there are so many either stupid or really dangerous people out there.
And the biggest problem that they reproduce.

Remember one of my first gunshows. Wanted to buy a mosin really bad. I'm a tinkerer and this was right on the tail end of when modding mosins was all the rage soni wanted one to put a cool ATI stock on and scope it ( o to be dumb kid again ) Well here I am ,18 ( I'm a small guy and was clean shaved due to the military so look more like 15) looking around and spotted a decent looking mosin. The older guy behind the table saw me looking at it and asked what I was looking for. Said old milsurps and was kinda interested in that one. He chuckled and asked if I knew what it was. Said yeah that I was a mosin nagant. He said yeah pretty good and said he'd sell it to me for a steal ! $600. I laughed thinking he was joking but look at him and he was looking at me like a shark, full on car salesmen mode, so I said mabye, asked if I could look over and he said sure. So I popped the bolt out was looking at the bore ,turned the light on my phone on was looking for arsenal marks and was telling him everything I thought. Pitting , chips in the stock , the crummy crown , the dinged up sights , surface rust, the reciver type ect. Old guy starts looking a little shocked. And I put i back together and asked him why he was trying to jip me on a run of the mill mosin with a ate up sewer barrel. At this point he's looking like I him bad the nads with a pair of vice grips and he just spat out
" I...I'm not use to having black kids know so much about guns"
Now I have a pretty blue collar and racist sense of humor and normally would have laughed my butt off over that( not the first time its happened to me )but this guy bent me the wrong way so I just sat the gun down told him to have a nice day and went and picked up a bubbed mosin a few tables down for $200

 

[Wolfdog91]

Back when you’d check in your deer at a station in WV (I miss those days), I had just finished checking my deer in when a fellow drops the tailgate on his truck to reveal a rather large doe . Even at a distance , you could see it was badly gut shot. Closer examination showed two other nasty wounds one in the neck , one in the spine area. “ I was sound shootin’ , and just kept pouring bullets through that bush.” I suppose those bullets were tumbling pretty bad. Given the propensity for the local folks at that time to not wear orange ,I just shut my mouth , and was glad they were nowhere near our property.

And here I was hoping sound shooting was just a joke !

 

[DShortt]

And here I was hoping sound shooting was just a joke !

It's no joke at all. When I was young I went deer hunting on public land on opening morning of rifle season once. The only way to understand what ensued would be to experience it but I'd never recommend it. I never have nor will I ever do that again.

 

[sandwarrior]

Remember one of my first gunshows. Wanted to buy a mosin really bad. I'm a tinkerer and this was right on the tail end of when modding mosins was all the rage soni wanted one to put a cool ATI stock on and scope it ( o to be dumb kid again ) Well here I am ,18 ( I'm a small guy and was clean shaved due to the military so look more like 15) looking around and spotted a decent looking mosin. The older guy behind the table saw me looking at it and asked what I was looking for. Said old milsurps and was kinda interested in that one. He chuckled and asked if I knew what it was. Said yeah that I was a mosin nagant. He said yeah pretty good and said he'd sell it to me for a steal ! $600. I laughed thinking he was joking but look at him and he was looking at me like a shark, full on car salesmen mode, so I said mabye, asked if I could look over and he said sure. So I popped the bolt out was looking at the bore ,turned the light on my phone on was looking for arsenal marks and was telling him everything I thought. Pitting , chips in the stock , the crummy crown , the dinged up sights , surface rust, the reciver type ect. Old guy starts looking a little shocked. And I put i back together and asked him why he was trying to jip me on a run of the mill mosin with a ate up sewer barrel. At this point he's looking like I him bad the nads with a pair of vice grips and he just spat out
" I...I'm not use to having black kids know so much about guns"
Now I have a pretty blue collar and racist sense of humor and normally would have laughed my butt off over that( not the first time its happened to me )but this guy bent me the wrong way so I just sat the gun down told him to have a nice day and went and picked up a bubbed mosin a few tables down for $200

I thought I overpaid for a Tula at $150 in 2014

 

[D Coots]

I was sitting in a LGS that I liked the older guy that owned a lot he was a really good guy. A customer walked in and I guess Bill the LGS owner had ordered a gun but the customer had the right to look it over and decide "no" if he didn't like it. So he is playing with this gun and I am talking to Bill and he points the gun right at me and I give Bill the evil eye and Bill just shrugs his shoulders. So a minute or 2 latter he sweeps me and back and forth about 5 or 6times. I ask him to please not point the firearm at me anymore. he points it the other way and Bill and I resume our conversation and he does it again only this time he almost looks like he is doing on purpose. So I look at Bill again and he shrugs his shoulders again . After another minute or two of him raising the gun time and again pointing at me I get alittle put out and tell the customer if he points ther gun ay me one more time I am going to shove it up his ass. He after a minut hands it to Bill and walks out of the store. I think Bill is going to ask me to never come back, so i tell him I am sorry I talked that way to his customer. Bill says "I think it was high time someone talked to him like that."

Polite you are. I believe he would have been OTFF............

On the friggin floor.

Later
Dave

 

[D Coots]

And here I was hoping sound shooting was just a joke !

Like my friend shooting squirrel nests long ago....

 

[DumpHollow]

Reading this thread makes my head hurt. At 75, I could spend days relating sad personal experiences. I spent 36 months in the PA Gunsmith School and decided that I didn't have the demeanor to stand across the counter from the pedestrian trade, opting to follow another career path and keep gunsmithing at the hobby level.
Stupid People shouldn't breed but they can buy guns. DARWIN rules.

 

[itchyTF]

I was sitting in a LGS that I liked the older guy that owned a lot he was a really good guy. A customer walked in and I guess Bill the LGS owner had ordered a gun but the customer had the right to look it over and decide "no" if he didn't like it. So he is playing with this gun and I am talking to Bill and he points the gun right at me and I give Bill the evil eye and Bill just shrugs his shoulders. So a minute or 2 latter he sweeps me and back and forth about 5 or 6times. I ask him to please not point the firearm at me anymore. he points it the other way and Bill and I resume our conversation and he does it again only this time he almost looks like he is doing on purpose. So I look at Bill again and he shrugs his shoulders again . After another minute or two of him raising the gun time and again pointing at me I get alittle put out and tell the customer if he points ther gun ay me one more time I am going to shove it up his ass. He after a minut hands it to Bill and walks out of the store. I think Bill is going to ask me to never come back, so i tell him I am sorry I talked that way to his customer. Bill says "I think it was high time someone talked to him like that."

I’m surprised Bill didn’t say anything.

 

[acloco]

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.

 

[Old Navy]

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.

All the "We had the M16 in 'Nam, it was a piece of junk made by Matel. Plastic and pot metal." And "They handed me an M16, I handed it right back and told 'em gimme my M14 back."

But probably the best one, which I heard several times over about a 5 or 6 year period, was about this guy "around here"...some times it's an uncles' friend or cousins neighbor (or some other loose connection) and this guy is a Viet Nam veteran and each year he gets his deer not by arrow or gun. He drops down on 'em from a tree and breaks their necks/cuts their throat/strangles them. Sometimes the story involves trouble at the check station because there's no sign of a wound.

I actually had one of my Millwright lay on top of a 6' culvert where the deer were migrating onto our plant site with a lasso made of yellow rope. He dropped the lope around the neck of mere 120 lb. or so doe Muley. That little dear drug him right off that culver and about 30 yards before he let go. He was bruised from top to bottom. The worst part was he weighed in around 190 and a half dozen co- workers watched the ass woopen.

 

[DumpHollow]

I actually had one of my Millwright lay on top of a 6' culvert where the deer were migrating onto our plant site with a lasso made of yellow rope. He dropped the lope around the neck of mere 120 lb. or so doe Muley. That little dear drug him right off that culver and about 30 yards before he let go. He was bruised from top to bottom. The worst part was he weighed in around 190 and a half dozen co- workers watched the ass woopen.

YUP! DARWIN at work. Ya' gotta love 'em.

 

[KMart]

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."

As time goes by and the more RVN "vets" I meet, I must have been the only one there that wasn't a sniper.

 

[NorCalMikie]

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.