Eleanor416Rigby
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First of all, I'm sure that not everybody that works at Academy, or any other sporting goods chain is as incompetent and unscrupulous as this post reports at least one is.
A guy next to me in the ammunition shelves is looking for "buckshot for home defense". There was plenty of buck shot on the shelves. The hack in the academy uniform tried to talk the guy into 7 and a half shot because "it sprays out, so even if you don't aim well, you'll at least get a pellet or two in him, and that stuff is a pain to pick out". (He literally said "that stuff is a pain to pick out" in a home defense scenario.)
Apparently, this guy thinks that home defense means to cause the intruder a mild annoyance at some later time when he has to ask his mom where the tweezers are. Nevermind that at indoor home-defense type distances, the pattern will be very tight even from a short unchoked barrel.
I'm pretty sure that a shot to the chest with 7 and a half shot at most indoor home-defense type distances and without thick clothing will ruin the home invadcers plans, but that's not what the hack said.
Then the hack in the uniform goes into overpenetration, which I thought was going to be a valid point, but again he goes off track talking about the dangers this poses to the walls. (The walls?? What about people you don't intend to shoot??)
The customer begins to sway, states that he owns the house and he's not worried about the walls in a home invasion scenario, and mentions going for #4 shot. The hack in the uniform then goes on to say "Well, with #4 shot you're getting pretty close to double aught buck, so..." At this point, I said "No it isn't", but they did not acknowledge me.
This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of questionable and even objectively wrong advice and information I've heard from hacks in the uniform at sporting goods stores.
A guy next to me in the ammunition shelves is looking for "buckshot for home defense". There was plenty of buck shot on the shelves. The hack in the academy uniform tried to talk the guy into 7 and a half shot because "it sprays out, so even if you don't aim well, you'll at least get a pellet or two in him, and that stuff is a pain to pick out". (He literally said "that stuff is a pain to pick out" in a home defense scenario.)
Apparently, this guy thinks that home defense means to cause the intruder a mild annoyance at some later time when he has to ask his mom where the tweezers are. Nevermind that at indoor home-defense type distances, the pattern will be very tight even from a short unchoked barrel.
I'm pretty sure that a shot to the chest with 7 and a half shot at most indoor home-defense type distances and without thick clothing will ruin the home invadcers plans, but that's not what the hack said.
Then the hack in the uniform goes into overpenetration, which I thought was going to be a valid point, but again he goes off track talking about the dangers this poses to the walls. (The walls?? What about people you don't intend to shoot??)
The customer begins to sway, states that he owns the house and he's not worried about the walls in a home invasion scenario, and mentions going for #4 shot. The hack in the uniform then goes on to say "Well, with #4 shot you're getting pretty close to double aught buck, so..." At this point, I said "No it isn't", but they did not acknowledge me.
This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of questionable and even objectively wrong advice and information I've heard from hacks in the uniform at sporting goods stores.
