Most embarassing firearm purchase, experience, etc.

I've got a few...


-Buying a Saiga .410. Cool gun, but absolutely worthless fo ANYTHING

-I was loading some AK mags with 7.62x39 (duh) in low light the first day I bought my AK, and I guess my buddy had thrown a .223 round in the box. I couldn't figure out why a round wouldn't fire, so I kept cycling the bolt and "click". After about 5 times, it went boom, and I spent the next 30 minutes prying it out with a screwdriver.


This one isn't my bad...

I went into a local pawn shop a few weeks ago, just to see if they had anything interesting. Two moronic bumpkins walk in with a crappy old off-brand pump 12-GA, the couple was obvious strung out on something, or just that dumb. They gave the gun to the clerk to see what they'd get for it. Anyways, I'm looking across the counter at the rifle selection while the guy behind the counter cycles the action as they all do and I catch a flash of red in my peripherals. I look over, and I see a live round being fed into the chamber, but could barely believe my eyes. The clerk had the gun aimed at a 45-degree angle just up over us, with his finger on the trigger. It felt like slow-motion, but I grabbed the barrel and forced it up towards the ceiling and starting screaming "don't pull the trigger!" They all looked at me funny when I said that, and then I said there was a round in the chamber and they all rolled their eyes. Sure enough, he cycled the action and a #4 12-GA shell popped out onto the ground. Their responose? "Whoa, good thing he didn't pull the trigger. (then laughs)" I looked right at the 3 of them (clerk included) and told them they were ignorant f-ing morons and we could've been killed, and stormed out. Haven't been back since.

Ok but this one really stings.

Just turned 21 and I buy a box of bullets for my S&W 67,
Latter I had to go back to that gun shop and have the owner explain to me that a S&W 38 and a S&W 38 special are not the same and that was why my new box of bullets wouldn't fit into the gun.

He had a good laugh at my expense but did give me the correct box of rounds in 38 special for the cost of the 38 S&W.

I own a pheonix .22

I was out shooting with a friend of mine. One of the drills we do is to load up each others magazines with a combination of live and dummy rounds. Well, during this transition, he hands me a magazine for my G20 (10mm) and right before I put it in and try to fire away, I see that the bullets in the magazine looked much fatter than they usually do, and then feel my eyes go like this as I realize that the magazine was full of .45 ACP instead. I turn around and look at him and explain what he had just done, and being a new shooter, he gives me a sorta matter of fact look not really realizing what had just happened. Apparently, something got lost in translation in the range since neither of us can hear with the headphones, and when I handed him some .45 ACP to load up the magazine that was behind him while putting down an empty from my G20, he thought I meant load the G20 mag with .45 ACP, when I assumed he'd know better and instead load one of the empty .45 ACP magazines that he had just put down.

I tried to pull the rounds out of that magazine but couldn't even get one to budge, and was starting to worry that the magazine was shot, when he asked to take a look at it. So I handed it back to him and he somehow got them out as easily as he put them in, and I just stood and watched in disbelief as he managed to pull out 15 rounds of .45 ACP out of that G20 mag. Apparently he saw the 15 round marker on it and wasn't going to let anything stop him from getting 15 rounds in there

After that I loaded up the mag a few times and it still functioned flawlessly, and to this day I can't tell which one of the magazines has been...defiled by .45 ACP.




I had other moment, with that same piece coincidentally enough, but this time the stupidity had nothing to do with me or anyone I was with. I was at Dick's Sporting Goods with my dad, who was scoping out some ammo prices, when he asks me if I have enough 10mm. I laugh a little bit and tell him that there's no way that they would stock any of that here. He agrees, but insists that it never hurts to ask, and gets the attention of the guy behind the counter, and the conversation went as follows:

"Excuse me sir, do you have any 10mm?"

::employee dons an expression of complete confusion:: "Yeah, we have tons of 9mm over there..."

"Yeah, I see that, but I was looking for 10mm."

::the confusion grows:: "..10...millimeter? (long pause) Is...that even a real cartridge?"


....and for the next 15 minutes I watched my dad try to talk this bonehead into believing that yes, there does indeed exist a 10mm autoloading pistol cartridge. It was like watching a 1st grader talk another into the existence of santa or the tooth fairy. Needless to say, I couldn't help laughing to myself when I wasn't completely disgusted with the level of knowledge of the people hired to sell guns and ammo to others, some of whom having even less knowledge than them. Talk about the blind leading the blind...

I once bought an old Rem.5mm.Mag.

Oh wow, where to begin....

Dropped the slide of my XD.45 on my thumb while at the range once. OUCH.
When first handed a locked back Glock (first experience with any handgun) I kinda just looked at it, dumbfounded by how to release the slide and handed it back looking like a complete moron.
First firearm purchase of my own I made about 50 trips to and from Cabela's (about 35 minutes from my house) because I kept not having the right paperwork to complete the sale form.
Shot an AR all day and then immediately afterward switched to a shortbarreled 870 with a tube full of 00 Magnum.
Raccoon eyed first time shooting a 7mm.

At least nothing DANGEROUS, per se...

I was picking up a SAW-10/22 conversion, that was described as rugged, accurate, cost the guy $900 to build, from my ffl. My Dealer knew I traded a nice 1911 for this, and we both looked at each other when I opened the bubble wrap The first thing I did was pull the plastic front sight off, trying to get the last piece of tape off, and it just went south from there. That was embarassing!! My Dealer said "Well...... I bet your Boy will like it" He felt so bad for me, he didn't charge me a transfer fee.

In my first and only combat handgun class I pinched myself in the slide badly enough that I bled all over the gun.

Instructor said he had done the same thing in a class once and bled so badly that his instructor slipped and fell in it. I'm not sure I believe him, but it was nice of him to try to allay my embarrassment.

buying from a online suplier, not being told or shown that tax is added on later and not shown on the web site, then not reciving the correct amount of ammo i had ordered.

paid total of $260 for 1K rounds and only recived 860rounds.

will never order from surplusammo.com again.

buying a Rossi M461 .357mag snubbie, put 2 158grain .357's through it and 200rnds of .38 special before the firing pin broke. it WAS my main carry gun.

Researching after the purchase... the bane of my existence. That's how I recently acquired a low serial number 1903.

Speaking of which, anyone want to buy a low serial 1903? PM me.

I currently own a case of remington 20 gauge shot shells, and have never owned a 20 gauge in my life. Guess I should have looked a little closer before I walked out of the store with it.

we went to the range when was 10, my dad (pete) and my uncle (sam) to teach me how to shoot a pump shotgun (i dont remember what it was). so we shoot a couple time and it jams.. the three of us huddle over it and my father starts to unscrew the magazine cap under the barrel, in front of the forend. Sam says "Pete be careful, theres a spring in there" now im 10 and really curious, so of course my face is right in the middle of everything checking it all out. "Pete be careful, theres a spring in there" he says again as my dad unscrews the cap, and all of a sudden... WOW the spring hit me right in the face and i had these grease/oil marks ALL over my face. Since then i have given much respect to firearms..

ps google carlino colorado, my grandfather was the al capone of southern colorado the second and third listed tell a little story

Galyans (sp) sporting goods was closing by me. I saw a pretty good deal on shot shells. $5.00 per CASE. No joke a CASE for $5.00. I had not fired a shot gun in years so I thought I would buy a case and get back into it. (no idea what a fair price for shotgun shells was) About a week later I saw that the same loads were selling for $4.50 per BOX. I could have had a pallet of shells that would have lasted a life time for $500 bucks.

Yup it's official..........I'm an idiot

Put a new grip on my Dan Wesson Model 15-2, and didn't know if the screw is too long, you can make the gun have the hairiest of hair triggers. When I cocked it to shoot, the muzzle was angled up and it went off instantly, and blew a hole in the roof of the range. I was mortified, but didn't feel all that bad, as one of the owners did the same thing a week before. I paid my "stupidity fee", and ground the screw down, and went back to shooting.

oh god, watched idly by as my friend emptied the bb's out of his shell and fired, we thot it was kinda cool for some dumb reason, only we did not know that the plug did not make it outta the barrel. next shot we left bb's in, BOOM went the end of the barrel and bent and split open it was left, twas a sad day

While in high school, I Had to make a trip to the emergency room to get stitches in my forehead. I took my .270 out to make sure the scope was still sighted in correctly. I laid it on my arm across the bed of the truck and shot at the target. I think it was a combination of not gripping the forearm of the gun and having my eye to close to the scope, but it popped back and the scope made a nice half moon split in my forehead. It was hard to hide that wound for a while, and I still have a small scar to show for my troubles and that was almost twenty years ago.

wbrown:
That just happened to a middle-aged friend when we were down in Hernando. He has been around guns a long time but he only had a little bleeding. Might have been his Dragunov or a guy's .308.

About a week ago went to a familiar edge of a steep riverbank with an acquaintance and his 15-year old son. Really nice people.
They had never shot anything except a .22 (the Dad only bbs or Airsoft).
We went from the .22 to the the Mini 14, then 30, SKS and onto the Mosin Boomstick. The son actually enjoyed the ancient .22 Savage as much as or more than any of them (the lighter weight/no recoil and small bead sight which does not shoot high?).

Well, not wanting to pollute the river with a large Tropicana jug blasted into three pieces, I decided to climb down the 18-20 foot riverbank to get it, after Glen said that his son could collect the debris.
Guess what?
Those old exposed white tree roots are not always green and strong.

Instead of choosing to slide down on my butt, leaned back for the descent, trusting the 2-inch-thick root. It snapped and I fell butt/back-first about 8 feet vertical with a half-roll near the bottom, but the curving slope and dirt prevented any injury, except to my pride/dignity. Climbing up was much easier and I could only make fun of myself. Luckily we had finished shooting.
Glad that the Lord helped keep this 53 yr.-old Dummkopf gesund and safe. Never mess with heights. Part of a serious back/neck injury might be with you until you meet those twenty five virgins...

I bought a bryco .380 from a friend who needed the cash. Knowingly yes.
The embarrassing part was the fact that I crap talked it all the way to the range, and 2000 rounds and a few years later, I still shoot it when I want to blow off steam by rapid firing everything but the target.

I went to a gun store to buy a shotgun and I told the salesman I was ready to buy so then the salesman asked for my drivers license but I forgot to bring my drivers license to the store.

first time I fired a handgun (my new Makarov) I got my weak hand thumb with the slide. Oh well, I thought, lesson learned (wouldn't it be nice if I'd tried to find someone to actually teach me to shoot?)

I took someone visiting from Hawaii to shoot a few months later...and he got his thumb sliced open by the slide. I feel bad on that because I should have known enough to check his grip.

I also shot the striker and recoil spring across the room after removing the barrel on my brand new Beretta Neos. Luckily they were easy to find.

got one to tell on my dad....it was muzzleloading season and i am the designated gun cleaner, shooter, and maintenince man. But i dont ususally clean his guns unless he asks me too. one night a few years ago before a hunt that next day we were getting things organized for the hunt. HE MEANT to tell me to unload and clean his gun the night before, and proceded to fire a primer through the barrel to burn the extra oil out. after deciding not to fire the primer it in the house because of the smell and the smoke it would make, he stuck it out the door of the back yard.....BOOOOOOOM......just with i could have been a fly on the wall to watch that one.

I've got a couple...

I've had the slide issue before... Didn't know how to close it or if I should so I handed it back. The guy must have known because he closed the slide and handed it back to me...

When I bought my first new bolt action the bolt was a little sticky. I'm so used to them being easy I thought it was some kinda fancy lawyer thing and had to ask the guy how to open the bolt...

When I bought my first rifle at a gun show I felt like such a criminal. There's no paperwork or forms needed with long guns in PA as long as you're not a dealer. Still I couldn't shake the "criminal" feeling when I handed the guy money and he handed me a gun... Didn't even give him my name...

I walked into the gun store yesterday to purchase another 25 mag for the 10/22 and walked out with a Mosin-Nagant

jkittle99 said:

I WAS however smart enough to keep the gun pointing in a safe direction

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Years ago I was at a range and a guy had a jam he was trying to clear with the gun pointed down the firing line... AND he was banging it on the bench.... LOTS of PO'd people that day... Fortunately nothing happened...