Another gunsmith horror story...

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Went into my local gunshop today, and was talking to the gunsmith. He showed me a rather thoroughly destroyed S&W Model 25, and told me the story behind it. Seems that a customer bought this gun from them a month or two back (darn - he saw it before I even knew they had it!). He brought it back to them yesterday morning, with the cylinder split in two, the top strap bulged, etc. He wanted them to send it back to S&W for "warranty repair or replacement"!!!

The gunsmith inspected the gun, and informed the customer that he'd obviously used a very hot-loaded round, far in excess of pressure specs. The customer hotly denied this, insisting he'd only used factory ammunition. The gunsmith asked him "What factory ammunition?" The customer then told him that the store he went to was out of .45 Colt, but had sold him a box of .44 Magnum, and he'd wrapped the shells in duct tape so that they'd fit the Model 25's cylinder!!!

:cuss: :banghead: :fire:

I won't repeat the gunsmith's actual language about this customer... use your imagination! :D
 
Sometimes I can't help but laugh at other people's stupidity.
The guy is lucky he (and everybody else at the range) didn't get hurt.
 
This forum needs a "Shaking head in wonderment" icon.


If you could bottle that kind of stupidity, it'd be a toxic waste.
 
Yumpin' Yehosephat!

That's nothing short of a crime.

It never ceases to amaze me that there are some people existing on this planet that natural selection has not deleted by having them, say, walk in front of a train.

I suppose it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, but it cannot be denied that some of those kinds are nothing more than a waste of good oxygen.

Ill wishes are also directed at the thoroughly unscrupulous bozo that sold that thickwit mag ammo so he could make a sale. Destroying the guy's gun ensures that he will not be a repeat customer.



:rolleyes: :uhoh: :fire:
 
We have come so far, as to stop the process of natural selection. Now we keep the idiots alive, instead of letting them "off" themselves.

This guy was just lucky.:banghead: :fire:
 
Another gunsmith horror story.

Well I guess he didn't make it into this years Darwin Awards.

I wish him better luck next year!

(Tounge firmlly in cheek)
 
I'd be happy to buy it as a wall-hanger for $50. Since it's destroyed, no paperwork is necessary, right?
 
A friend of mine was telling me about a customer who loaded 7mm weatherby magnum into a rifle chambered for 7mm remington and went to go sight it in

Luckily the bottom rifle's reciever blew out instead upward into the shooters face.

Needless to say they forever banned that person from the range.
 
Ah! Proof positive that morons are alive and well. Let us hope this individual does not reproduce and more importantly he does not shoot on my range!:D
 
You know, what amazes me is how stupid-proof folks like this are. They somehow manage to survive unscathed experiences that would kill a normal human deader'n a hammer. :scrutiny:
 
It never ceases to amaze me that there are some people existing on this planet that natural selection has not deleted by having them, say, walk in front of a train.
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Some of these people drive behind me, on my bumper, during my commute. I hope they pray a lot, because divine intervention is the only thing that will stop them before they run over me.

Would that folks like these only removed THEMSELVES from the gene pool. I'm afraid they'll take me with them.
 
Sadly...
I have noted a few uninformed counter persons trying to foist wrong "but close enough" ammunition off on customers.

Usually customer knows better.

But if two idjets team up.....kaboom.

Taping a round to make it fit a larger chamber goes back more than a century.

In some cases, Darwin works all too slowly.

Sam
 
As someone here said, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. Some just make it revolve a little more slowly than others. Kinda reminds me of my childhood, shooting pellet rifles with a friend. A seal on the pneumatic pump rifle leaked, letting air through the muzzle and not holding a charge. With a pellet in the chamber he pumped the pistol to determine that the gun indeed leaked air through the muzzle. but he held it to his ear as he did so. Sure enough, the gun built enough back pressure with the chambered pellet to hold the seal until the pellet gave way. A nice shot to the temple followed with a superficial but impressive looking head wound furrow about an inch or two long right in front of the ear. Much head wound blood, etc. He went on to be a real gun safety fanatic, thank god. And boy I gotta tell you that thing really hurt. My parents understood it to be that I had fallen on a sharp rock. I told them later about blowing up the canoe on the lake that summer, but couldn't face my dad over a stupid stunt like that, having been severely taught how to comport oneself with guns. "Kids..." Sorrry dad, hope wherever you are you're not reading this or at least getting a good chuckle from it.

Ross
 
I just read an old Skeeter Skelton quote:

Its my new tag line after reading this thread.
 
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