Dumbest thing you heard/saw in a Gun Store or at the range.

[TheBigBulgarian]

I am going to the local range and I am behind This big red "hicked out" pick up truck. Nothing wrong with being a hick people call me that cuz of the music I listen to. but any ways.
The driver doesn't know where he is going so he is moving very slow. so he goes into the range parking lot. I park get my guns out of the trunk and the dude in the truck is still sitting in it, but I see his face and his bubba camo hat.
I go sign in for a lane and am just waiting. well bubba walks in not only acamo hat but a camo coat on too. (my gun range also has a gun store and also the guys are very friendly so they answer any question).
Bubba goes to the counter and says: " I have a question about my Sig's Laser Sight"
So they ask if he has it. He pulls it out of his coat pocket, he didn't have a holster in there either.
Well he has this odd looking laser attached to it with a long wire hanging from it.
The RO asks to see the gun right away to make sure it is not loaded.
And asks where did you get the laser from?
Bubba pauses for a second he is thinking:
!I took it off of a plastic BB gun!
At his point I had to hold i in and just smile the other way. I don't know how the RO held it in but.
He told him there is no way that it would work and that he should never do this again or try to shoot the gun with this laser on it because it is not designed for a firearm and it might fly off due to the recoil.
Bubba took his gun back and walked out without saying anything.
The RO's didn't say anything to each other but they did look at each other.
I was glad bubba didn't say he wanted to shoot cuz I would have requested a lane far way from him hell put me in a different bay.
the range has 3 bays.

 

[Manedwolf]

That's called "darwin in action". He'd learn when it snapped off and whacked him in the forehead.

And generally, when I walk into a gun store with a gun, I have the mag gone and the slide locked back, just to make the owner relax a bit more.

 

[Sheldon J]

lets see...

There was the .32 with the split barrel, a total of 18 rounds were stuck there, owner had tried to take a screw driver to it and pound out the stuck bullets, every New Year they went out side and fired a cyl full. Now how many years did they do this

Next there was the shot gun barrel burst, guy was out hunting and the rabbit went into a hole, insert gun pull trigger.

Next is the split riffle barrel, guy decided to make his own hollow points, cut, drill, shoot, squirt, shoot again.

or how about the revolver cyl, that was blown up, guy loads own, uses hand style lee loader with scoop, theory is one scoop good, two scoops better, three scoops best. :banghead:

Is that enough?

 

[Tory]

Ballistic Barbie

Stupidest thing I can recall seeing in a gun store happened with a yuppie couple shopping for a handgun. Owner shows them various makes and models which either caught their eye or which appeared to fit whatever criteria they had. Not being that close and not really listening, I don't know if they had a collective clue, or if the owner was attempting to assist their actually getting one.

The owner has turned to get something behind him. Barbie, giving the acquisition of firearms the full degree of serious attention her little mind can devote to this matter, picks the pistol up, puts it to Ken's head and, with the vapid no-wrinkles pageant smile her ilk learns, pulls the trigger.

I only hope she doesn't breed.................

 

[albanian]

There is no way I pick the dumbest so I will just relate the latest. I went to a gunshow to sell or trade my Bulgarian Makarov. I showed it to a dealer that asked to see it while I was looking over some of his S&W used revolvers. He actually had a few nice older S&Ws but the prices were NUTS. He is the kind of guy that wants $800 for a run of the mill K-38. I love K-38s but $800 is way too much for the one he had. $300-400 would be a fair price so he is at least double. Anyway, he looks at my Mak and proceeds to tell me all about it. He tells me that it was a military issue because ONLY military handguns have the laynard loop on the grip frame. I normally let stupid comments go by but I told him that ALL Maks have the same laynard loop and it just as easliy could be a police issue as a military issue. Somehow that escapes him and he balthers on. He does say that he would give me $200 in trade which is more than I was asking but his prices on the S&Ws were well over $200 what I would normally pay so I couldn't do any deals with him.

 

[oh blanky]

A guy in a gun shop told me he just bought a title 2 full auto MP5 for $1200 (2005) and there was a new law that said you could only have 1000 rounds of ammo in your posession.

 

[choochboost]

Without a doubt, the dumbest thing I have ever heard/seen in a gun store was the clerk behind the counter. I don't know where they get these guys.

I asked for Gold Dots once and the clerk, looking puzzled, asks me if that was a scope. Then just last week a customer was telling a clerk how he was concerned about his Glock because when he forcefully inserted the mag, the slide slammed closed. The clerk confirmed the customers fears and said the pistol needed to be sent back to Glock. There's plenty more stories, those are just the recent ones that come to mind.

 

[zeke2138]

I saw a guy who had loaded his shotshells with a slug and buckshot at the same time. The first round blew the barrel apart. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.

 

[Warren]

Once in my local shop some idiot, after taking a rifle down from thesecond story of a two-story rack and giving it a look-see put it back but in such a way that the rifle slid out of the rack and fell to the floor making a hideous racket.

Man, was I embarrased. Luckily it was an M-N so no harm done.

 

[Smith357]

A friend of mine was at the gun shop with an indoor range, he asked to see a Thompson rental gun on the wall. The guy behind the counter checked the gun and handed it over, then my friend shouldered the rifle and aimed up at the wall and pulled the trigger, the gun want bang and put a nice hole in the range safety sign.

 

[Andras]

I'm at an indoor range. The guy next to me asked if I could look at his pistol and see why the slide won't close.

He had put the cartridges in the magazine reversed! They were base-forward, bullet to the rear.

 

[wrench]

Just last weekend, waiting my turn at the gun counter, guy asks to see a keltec p3at. Looks at it, likes it, asks the clerk how it breaks down. Clerk replies, "oh, they don't come apart, it's a cheap gun, when it gets dirty you just throw it away"

 

[Hollowdweller]

My favorite was this guy and the shop owner were talking about crime.

The guy was going on about how criminals needed to be punished to the maximum extent of the law, and how we should kill all the lawyers and liberals and going on about the ACLU and all these technicalities people get off on and then conversation drifted on and the guy went on about how this lawyer got him completely off from a DUI conviction and how great it was

 

[kentucky_smith]

Looking for ammo at a gunstore I usually don't like. They've got the ammo behind the counter on the floor. I spy some 7.5x55 Swiss for my K31. I ask to see it and it's really old Norma. $33! for 20.

Guy makes smart aleck comment about those cheap guns you can't get ammo for. I say reloading is definitely an option for this one. He asks me where would you get 7.5mm bullets? I tell him I use .308s.

Should have seen the look on his face, he then goes on to lecture me that that's creating way too much pressure and I'm going to blow myself up.
I'm not going back there.

#2. Go into another gunstore and see strange rifle that I'm not familiar with. Labeled Russian but for cartridge 7.35 JAP. Tagged $75, I offer $50 and take it home. It's a Carcano, with a Finland SA label.

Stupidity can be used in your favor.

 

[HonorsDaddy]

Kentucky_smith..

For those of us who do not understand, how good a deal was that Carcano exactly and why does the label matter?

 

[Zen21Tao]

Stupidest customer at a gunstore:
When a friend and I were at a gunstore a guy walked in and was interested in the militarty arms on the back wall that had orange/red tips (Air Soft). He asked to see one (and MP5) and held in for a couple minutes then gave it back to the clerk. He honestly thought it was a real gun and didn't know how to check the action of he would have noticed it wasn't real. The real gut buster was him talking about he used one just like it while he was a sniper in the Army.

Not necessaily stupid but a moment when a gunstore clerk ignorance worked in my favor:
I was in a gunstore where I saw a DA/SA Sig P239 .40 S&W with a barcode on the slide for $500. The clerk said that all Sigs come from the factory now with barcodes and that I should just rub the barcode off. If I recall correctly he said that he gave this same advice to someone else that he sold a barcoded Sig to. My friend, which is very knowledgble about guns, convinced me that I should buy the gun. Once the sale was done my friend told the clerk that the barcode means the gun was a homeland security gun and since the government only bought DAO this gun (being a DA/SA) must have came from the testing and evaluation program and was very rare.

 

[White Horseradish]

I was walking through a gun show and overheard a guy showing a Mosin to his friend "Hey, these are good because you can easily convert them to .303 British"

Errr... What?

 

[JShirley]

They're both .311. He probably got confused while repeating what he'd heard- it's the other way around, of course.

John

 

[kentucky_smith]

re: the Carcano


They had no clue what it was, it's in great shape, all complete, no import marks and knocked out a need to get on my all WWII battle rifle collection list.

 

[HankB]

#1. I was working as range officer when some gentlemen of the Asian persuasion with army experience (so they said, although they didn't specify WHICH army!) came in with a very expensive, high-grade Olympic-style .22 rifle wearing a very large 'scope. Unhappy that their groups at 50 yards didn't coincide with the crosshairs, they proceeded to wedge the barrel against the legs of the shooting bench as they tried to bend it to make it shoot right..

#2. Range officer again. Guy and his teenage son come in with a lever action 30/30 they'd just put a 'scope on. Scope was mounted WAY too far back. I went up to the guy and opined that the 'scope was really far back, and if he fired it that way he'd get hit in the forehead.

"DID I ASK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION???" was his very loud response.

I allowed as no, he hadn't, but . . . he cut me off and told me in no uncertain terms to mind my own business, and proceeded to tell his grinning son that I was a know-nothing busybody and worse. Kid really seemed to enjoy watching Dad put me down.

Line goes "hot" and with the first shot, you guessed it, deep cut over guy's eyebrow. Blood on face, shirt, gun, shooting bench. Kid is frantic, old man soon has blood-soaked handkerchief over wound. When things calm down, the guy looks at me and says "I suppose you're going to say 'I told you so' " . . . My reply was "No, you said it for me."

Then I did something I probably wouldn't do today - I turned to the kid and said "Let this be a lesson - your old man has a big mouth but he's not too smart. Remember this - and if you ever need advice on something important, talk to your mother instead of him."

 

[Zero_DgZ]

Once had a counter jockey argue with me for a while over Glocks. Specifically, he seemed adamant that they all had plastic slides. I couldn't convey to him that most of a Glock is steel just like any other gun and it's just the grip and frame that's plastic. To be fair, this was at the airsoft shop.

The line that got me was after I told him that I know somebody who owns two (it would have been better if I could tell him that I owned one, but I'm still working on that one) and damned if those things weren't made out of metal.

His reply?

"I don't know what kind of Glocks those were, then, because I know what I'm talking about."

Alright buddy. Whatever you say.

Hank: I sort of made that mistake when I was a kid. Spring air rifle, scope rings wouldn't stay put. After a handful of shots my POI kept going up, up, and up for some reason and I finally figured out when with a mighty "ping!" the rear scope ring let go off the end of the rail and the scope bopped me in the eye.

 

[billcavazos]

dumbest thing

Gosh, I have heard lots. The one that comes to mind is the guy next to me at the rifle range. I was sighting in with some new heavier bullet ammo. Noticed my shots were printing on the target one inch higher and was expecting them to be lower because of the heavier slower bullet. The guy on the range said they are printing higher because of the harder recoil which was bucking the rifle up and causing the impact to be higher.

 

[Nashmack]

I was at Pete's gun and tackle in Hudson NH two weeks ago, younger gentleman walked in and asked the clerk if he had any .30-06s in stock, as he needed one for duck hunting

 

[HankB]

The guy on the range said they are printing higher because of the harder recoil which was bucking the rifle up and causing the impact to be higher.

He may very well have been right - heavier bullets generally go slower than lighter bullets, leading to more "dwell time" in the barrel. The firearm starts moving as soon as the bullet does, so with the longer dwell time during which the barrel moves more it's very common for heavier bullets to print higher on a target, at least when ranges are short to medium. (This is most apparent with handguns.)

Of course, the trajectory will be different, but here we're just talking about point of impact at a particular range.

 

[Lupinus]

I was at Pete's gun and tackle in Hudson NH two weeks ago, younger gentleman walked in and asked the clerk if he had any .30-06s in stock, as he needed one for duck hunting

....what kind of ducks yall have up there that could feed alota people on thanksgivin

Dumbest thing was at an indoor range. Father was there with his son (kid was maybe 12) and firing a Beretta 92, dad is just loading a mag and letting her rip and his groups look like shotgun blasts, now I'm not great either but mine don't look like a shotgun. Anyway great for teaching the kid how to shoot eh?

So he lets his son up pops in a full mag and with no instruction or anything hands over the gun....kid then proceeds to turn his head to the side squint his eyes shut and grit his teeth like be is preparing for the worst and lets her rip "Way to go son you got one on the paper!"