Gun Shop Goobers 2--More Adventures In Retail Gun Shops

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What do I do for a living? Well, didn't you guess? I am actually the head of the CIA. :D I do my precision shooting from a special rifle loaded with special wildcat oads mounted on killer satellites (no, not the Georgia Satellites, and not whatever garage punk band might be calling themselves the Killer Satellites since BarfBag and the Anecephelacs didn't sound cool enough). I secretly control the currency. When I want to buy a new firearm, I fluctuate the market (no sound-pun intended) so the prices drop and then I buy. As head of the CIA, I don't draw a large salary, so I have to take my perks in other ways. If I told youall of them, I'd have to have you all held incommunicado in a military brig where you will be forced to watch re-runs of Hart To Hart, Knight Rider, and Falcon's Crest and fed a steady diet of Swanson's Hungry Man Chili Mac meals. And the toilet paper will be torn sheets of cardboard. Do not trifle with me, mortals. For, yea, though I walk through the corridors of the shadows of politicians, I shall fear no beaureucrat, for I am the keeper of game where I am pulling their strings. You laugh now, but don't laugh too hard, lest you find yourself riding in the backseat of my Black Helicopter. You'll know it's mine because it has fuzzy dice hanging on the rear view mirror and little dice knobs on the controls and a little red devil decal on the back. And also a "My Child Is An Honor Student At An Undisclosed Location" bumper sticker, too. Fear me, o mortals, for my footsteps are as bones clacking in the night and the rustle of my black uniform as the whisper of a raven's wing.
 
8.) THE MAN FROM B.U.N.C.O.----This is the gun shop employee who just lives for the people who come in asking for a "first gun." This is the guy who sells a $1,000 .45 1911 or a S&W M629 .44mag w/ 4" barrel to a 100 pound woman who plays violin for the symphony, sets the table with two forks and two spoons (if you don't know, don't ask, go out to eat at a place that has linen napkins folded into roses inside the wine glasses and watch everyone else), and drives a Jag when she came in asking for a small handgun for self-defense but nothing that kicks too hard because she's never fired a gun before. And he hands her over to one of the Tactical Timmys or Adam 12 Years Old for "training". This is the guy who sells a .300 Winchester Magnum to the guy who's looking for his first rifle to plink at tin cans with. This is the guy who buys battle packs of 7.62x39mm ammo out of Shotgun News for $99 per thousand rounds, breaks them up, and sells ziplok baggies of 20 rounds for $8.99 each. This is the guy who buys slightly used guns that still have original boxes at gun shows and sells them as new. Yep, we all know who is clown is. He sells .30'06 rifles to guys looking for a home defense firearm. He also does "gunsmithing". See all the little springs on the floor?

9.) ONE FLOP COP----This guy actually is a cop. How he got to be one is anyone's guess. This is the guy who's in the shop in non-CCW states that sees you buying a little NAA mini-revolver or a little Kel-Tec and says, "I better not ever catch you carrying that thing! I'll be keeping an eye on you" This is the guy who sees you buying an AR and says "You need proper training to use that! Don't let me catch you shooting that thing out in the woods!" This is the guy who sees you buying Gold Dot ammo and says, "Better not shoot an intruder with those; we cops use Hydra-Shok and only those can be defended in court!" This is the guy who offers to "teach" proper firearms handling to women new to shooting over dinner and drinks. This is the guy who, at one time, accidently shot himself in the fourth point of contact while holstering his off-duty piece. This is the guy who goes out to the range and tries to bully his way into running the range and tries evicting everyone who doesn't think he's a god. This is the guy who refers to everyone at the range as "numbn*ts", or dumba**" or other such terms of endearment. Everyone who hits their targets is "showing off and being an a**", but when he misses, it's the stupid gun and everyone distracting him. This is the guy that makes people root for the Hell's Angels they hope he stops one day and tries kicking around.
10.) PRECISION INC.-----This is the guy who shows up to the range with a tricked out bolt gun with bipod, sandbag, range finder, binos, a tackle box full of gear, and tons of other gear. He does a full cleaning between each shot. It takes him 20 minutes to make one shot. He aims, releases, looks through range finder, looks through binos, picks up rifle and aims, stops, picks up range finder. Then unloads rifle and starts fiddling around with it. No matter what rifle you have, it's an "innaccurate hunk o' crap" according to this guy. All "serious shooters" have to have a tackle box, a wheeled cart, a spotting scope, a range finder, binos (three different sizes) a crisply ironed shooting jacket with organizational patches all over it, sandbags, tripods, bipods, monopods, quadrapods, octapods, peapods, a wooden cleaning equipment case, complete tool kit on rollaway, cooler loaded with turkey breast, brie cheese, and organic alfalfa sprouts with dijon mustard on sprouted wheat bread sandwiches, organic carrot wedges, and Perrier, a $150 dollar safari hat, $400 shooting glasses, $500 hearing protection, and an Avalanche to haul all this crap around in. Sometimes this guy is sponsored by different companies that tailor-make this guy's plunder and then he says, "See you should have this. See how accurate_________is?" Yeah, it'd be accurate for me too if it was tailor-made for me. :rolleyes:
 
SG, you should put these all in one thread and then have a "gun guy anonymous" where people admit to which ones they are like. Most of us aren't quite to the extremes that are seen here, but we all lean one way or another. I will admit to being part Gear Guy and part Precision, Inc. In something of a defense, I worked part time for a precision rifle store, so if I didn't have a tricked out bolt gun, then people would wonder...

The Gear Guy part of me, well, there's no defending that one... :D

Oh yeah, my Benelli and one of my Mossies have ghost rings... :D
 
I saw this precision inc. type.
He and his wife had an AR-10(t)
they'd spend the better part of a day firing a box of FGM .308, cleaning, firing a box, cleaning. Mind you firing 20 rounds would take the whole shooting period.
They weren't breaking it in either. Just benchresting the ole AR-10.

atek3

PS they must have been loaded, FGM is expensive :)
 
Speaking of which, has anyone seen my cooler loaded with turkey breast, brie cheese, and organic alfalfa sprouts with dijon mustard on sprouted wheat bread sandwiches, organic carrot wedges, and Perrier laying around?

atek3
 
What about those guys who butt in to your conversations at the gun shop and proceed to brag about their 400 yd head shots on ground squirrels with a stone stock Mini 14. They can do it all day long you know. :scrutiny: Another favorite is the gun show dealer telling the recent widow that her dead husbands Winchester 1873 .22 rimfire is only worth $150.:fire: But he is willing to take it off her hands.:barf:
 
Big coffee urn. Lots of chain-smoking... "Hi. I'm _______ and I'm an unwanted gun adviceaholic. It started easy enough. Just a simple telling a guy buying an AK that it was an inaccurate sheet metal commie hunk of crap. Then the next thing, I had twenty pounds of optics on the front of my AR-15. I was having to go out on my lunch breaks to go to the gun shop and tell guys buying Ruger M77s that they were buying a total POS. I started getting the shakes when I'd think of all the guys buying Saigas wen I wasn't there to tell them what a hunk of crap they were. Yeah, yeah, you think it's easy? I started experimenting in wildcat cartridges. Who knew? Yeah, you been there, too? I was telling guys shooting .308 what a pile of excrement that round is. I was actually telling non-gun owners what to buy if they ever wanted to buy a gun. Then one day, I looked in the mirror, and I had so much black nylon crap hanging off me, I looked like one of those freaks in some bondage movie. I took the nightlight out of the bathroom just so I could use my Surefire when making a midnight potty call. I even attached a Crimson Trace lasergrip to my John Thomas for practice. It was too hard to attach a red dot. The Tac Star light cord pulled out hair. It hurt. But I tried it."


Yep.....some folks need help...
 
Great post, Galahad, VERY funny!

However, you forgot...

MILE SHOT MILT -- Loves to regale everyone with his hunting prowess. Every head of game he's ever taken has been a clean kill, through the heart shot. But they've all been at 1,000+ yards, in the middle of an F5 twister, at night.


MOTOR MOUTH MURRAY -- Thinks he's the owner's or counterman's best friend. He'd never consider buying anything, because he doesn't really shoot, hunt, or fish. He just loves to talk. He'll corner the workers and talk about anything. Non stop. If the counterman has to go to the back, no problem, he latches on to a customer and continues his story. The stories never go anywhere, they just ramble. At the end of the day he has to be forcibly ejected.
 
Mik, LOL, I've met the Motor Mouth. This one told me that the .30 Carbine was HANDS DOWN the best combat round every developed. Far superior to that POS .223, and even better than that worthless commie POS the 7.62x39mm. And you can handload the .30 Carbine to give better performance for self-defense and der hunting than a .357 Magnum. Bet ya didn't know that. Wow...I was so impressed, I thought, gee, I could have just bought a .30 carbine and not bothered with that POS AK or that POS .308 or that POS .357 revolver. Who knew? Yea, I bet I could put a V8 engine in a AMC Pacer, but at the end of the day, the question remains: WHY!!??? Guy also tried to tell me that a 9mm bullet wouldn't stop a jackrabbit much less a human being. And that the only reason the Schmeisser blew so many people away was because they were so skinny and starved, the 9mm bullet hit their vitals easier because their vitals were so close together at that point. Bet ya didn't know that, did ya? And also, the Walther PPK is a chunk o' bleep because it's actually made out of melted down Stukas. Hmmmm....well, that would mean it at least killed some people at one point in its past life, right?
:rolleyes:
 
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