Barbershop talk

[Bill2k1]

I go to a true barbershop, not a salon or whatever the masses my age go to. This place has 4 seats and is first come. Now my barber knows of my gun love, we have talked about it in the past. Also talk about the packers and why the bucks suck.

Today I sit down and we start talking about the lack of ice and we get onto guns. For the first time in my life I have had the 1911 vs glock talk face to face He has to be a .45 1911 guy and he knows I am a glocker. We ended up talking about coyote hunting and I got some good good tips. It was cool to finally talk guns with someone in my daily life. No one I usually run into talks guns.

I just had to share my good event of the day

 

[palerider1]

i love to go to the gunshop and talk guns. all the guys come down there to tell lies and swear. lol

 

[pax]

I talk guns at the beauty salon with the girl who does my hair.

Then again, she babysat my kids for years, starting out as a mother's helper when she was only 11, so she's kind of used to my odd little ways by now.

I love country life.

pax

 

[sm]

Not sure how I got roped into this...
I accompany a young lady student I had at the time to her hair appointment. Lady doing her hair was undoing her ponytail and remarks " this is an odd "band", as she holding a yellow pipe cleaner.
Student explains we were out shooting and her rubber band dealies broke and <points at me> and I had used a yellow pipe cleaner to keep ponytail in place.

Got kinda quiet, I did not know this beautician, so while student gets hair washed I get to explain how pipe cleaners are great for cleaning gas ports on Rem 1100s and other gas shotguns.

Student gets her split ends "unsplit" and highlighted and we all three discuss guns, cleaning, the beautician wants to come out and shoot, ...I mention other uses in cleaning guns with pipe cleaners...

My old barber retired then passed on. He did not reload 2 gauges of shotgun shells, so I waltz in with shotgun shells reloaded for a haircut. Oh, and since he could sharpen anything...leave scissors, shears...

I mean he was a great barber, old time atmosphere and all - he had magazines of all sorts of hunting, fishing and shooting...we talked of all this...funny though, men and women coming in with hunting knives to be sharpened and get a boys haircut, Moms coming in with sons to get scissors sharpened...and remembering haircuts ...

One day someone went out their car as we had talked of reloading shotshells...and I showed them how to use a new MEC single stage reloader they bought. I mean get a haircut, shoes shined, stuff sharpened and Reloading lessons for shotshells. Helluva deal.
Entertained kids kinda bored with waiting that day too...

 

[thereisnospoon]

Barber Shop talk

My current barber has an NRA sticker in the window and a S&W in his front pocket! He's a real old fashioned guy...

 

[RCL]

Couple of years ago I decided to try out a three chair barbershop my brother told me about (in a small city close to my usual gun shop). I walked in and first thing I saw was deer antlers hanging on the wall. I knew I had found a new barber then, especially when we mostly talked bow and gun hunting (and a little golf),

 

[Mizzle187]

The last time I was in my barber shop(which I enjoy because there are a bunch of old Gun Test Magazines!woohoo-screw the porn!) another customer(nice dressed buisness man) asked me what I was thinking about getting and I told him I hade several pistols on order but Im looking at getting a AR-15. Come to find out this guy has a FFL! He sells personal and backup weapons to the area cops as well as personal friends not to the public at all. So we talked a few minutes about AR's and how tactical the weapons he sells to cops become! I was suprised!

 

[TarpleyG]

I accompany a young lady student

Steve, you know how many of your stories start off like this???

Greg

 

[jtward01]

Hey, my barber captured a bank robber.

True story. This guy, about 25, robs a savings & loan. Just as he runs out the door, gun in hand, a detective is cruising by in an unmarked car. The Bad Guy (BG) jumps into his car and takes off, followed by the detective. BG cuts into the parking lot of the shopping center where my barber has his shop. BG bails out of the car - leaving gun and money in car - and starts to run across parking lot. Detective hops out of his car and gives chase. Detective slips on oil in parking lot and falls on his face. Barber, who is standing outside of shop taking a smoke break, sees BG running toward him and sees detective fall. As BG runs right past him the barber steps out and tackles the guy, taking him to the ground. Detective, who has regained his feet, arrives and tackles barber and BG. Detective sorts them out and arrests BG.

The cool part about all this is that the BG and the detective were both in their 20s. My barber was 72 at the time he tackled the guy!

 

[1911Tuner]

Barber-y Pirates

Probably been more gun trades made in barber shops than at gun shows.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Last spring I went to my barber shop and there was a Dodge pickup out front with a benchrest mounted in the bed. Inside was John, a friend of mine whose one and only hobby is shooting, benchrest and varmint. He was telling me about his new exclusive property where there tons of prairie dogs, with shots out to 1300 yards.

John had just qualified for the 1000 yard club.

 

[sm]

Steve, you know how many of your stories start off like this???

Yes.

I chose to assist ladies back when. Many were victims of some sort or another, Domestic Violence, so forth and so on. I started out with a few ladies recommended to me by ladies I knew. Understand some of these ladies were not real happy with the male species...

Word of mouth from ladies to ladies that I am "okay, not going to do anything unsafe, be respectful" and all the qualities they felt comfortable with. I also got into assiting more elderly folks , and folks with physical limitations.
Always had time for kids...and their dogs...

Truth is - I have rec'd more than I have shared from these folks. I mean that. Sounds dumb, corny, old fashioned - I don't care.

Besides it beats - " I hung out with bunch of beer gutted smelly guys..." as a starting line don't it?

Barber shop jokes and talk...hey guys let me educate you. In a Beauty shop- women Reveal everything in detail and if ever there is a contest on whom tells the dirtiest jokes between men or women - I am betting on the women.

Another thing [ okay so I have been to more than one SALON with a lady student...I have a reason!] This women bit about "I'm not hungry"...

Aha! I know why. These Salons have venison chili, homemade brownies and all sorts of great food! No telling what all is in the break room, homemade stuff ...yummy! Lady takes a deer, hubby gets to have it mounted,bragging rights when the guys come over and see it over the mantle... and she makes venison and takes to Work at the SALON.

Now do you guys understand why women take so long at the Salon? Not only are they talking about men, telling dirty jokes and such...they have a 4 course meal.

Heck yeah I have pigged out at the ladies Salon...and I later had to decline "I'm not hungry". I think they liked me...I even got to take the trash out. *grin*

No wonder women say men are stupid!

My former barber had a gumball machine, coke machine and a Tom's Vending machine with stale vending food.

Like I said - men can learn from women...

 

[cbsbyte]

Good for you at least your barber likes to discuss topics about guns. Mine is very anti-gun.

 

[lucky_fool]

You guys make me want to stop shaving my head so I can go to a barber again

 

[Otherguy Overby]

My favorite barbershop is in small town Minnesota. It's in a late 1800s bank building. Can you say small, including the old vault? Anyway, he's also an FFL. I've never had a haircut there but have bought several guns.

Minnesota locals can email me for contact info. Great guy!

 

[RonC]

What's a barber shop?

I do remember my time at a barber shop as a teenager. We talked about women, never about guns.

Ron

 

[Standing Wolf]

The "music" at my barber shop is loud and atrocious. If the woman who cuts my hair weren't fast and good, I wouldn't even consider going to such a place.

 

[Warren]

How ironic, at the gunstore I go to all we talk about is hair.

 

[Hardtarget]

Where I get my hair cut is FAR from a regular barber shop, but...Debbie and Debbie both have carry permits. They don't go shoot near enough.
Mark.

 

[Mizzle187]

The "music" at my barber shop is loud and atrocious. If the woman who cuts my hair weren't fast and good, I wouldn't even consider going to such a place.

Fast and good? And where exactly is this barber shop?

 

[Bob F.]

Ron C. :Welcome! Nice 'do'. More pictures!!!! MORE PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Walter]

"You sure you know how to skin grizz pilgrim?"

"Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"

Two of my all-time favorite movies.

Walter

 

[RonC]

Ron C. :Welcome! Nice 'do'. More pictures!!!! MORE PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

Well, if you insist.
heh, heh

 

[Taurus 66]

Good for you at least your barber likes to discuss topics about guns. Mine is very anti-gun.

If I were you I'd change barbers.

 

[Justin]

Warren, that was frelling hilarious.

I'll admit to being vain enough that I go to a stylist. But she usually regales me with a story or two about going bird hunting, and I'll let her know how the bullseye stuff is coming along.