I heard a good one today...

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

My understanding is that the brain could be literally be washed out of the head with a garden hose. It is very soft and not very durable to tears.

 

[beeenbag]

Jeff56

Yes I do know who you are talking about. Sorry about your loss that was a shocked to everyone. My son is resting not far from her, just right over the bank.

 

[cj7ox]

My favorite was a kid I met in a bar about 10 years ago. The kid looked to be about 20 y/o, and asked if I was military. I told him I was in the Army, and was an Armor Officer (all true). He then exclaimed how the M1 tank was the worst vehicle to be in during combat. I asked him to expand on that, and he went on to explain how he was a Navy SEAL Sniper, and that he was trained how to destroy a tank with a single shot from his sniper rifle. LOL

Why is it that there are always at least two twenty-somethings in every bar that are Army-Special-Forces-Ranger-SEAL-Force-Recon-Uber-Commandos?

 

[whetrock]

I was talking with a pawn broker today about Marlin 336's and he proceeded to tell me the Marlin 336W is Walmart's special model and went on and on about how it's a piece of junk and how the W stands for Walmart. By the way I own a 336W that has been one heck of a gun and killed several deer not to mention I purchased it new at Gander Mountain I could be wrong but I believe the W stands for walnut.

 

[gaweidert]

& or so years ago i was in a local shop looking over a really nice H%R Garand. It was very late production and a mixmaster but a thing of beauty. I did buy it. Another guy in the store asked if he could see it so I gave it to him. He looked it over and pronounced that it was used at West Point. There is nothing on the rifle that indicates this but he was certain it was.

After he left the owner says, "You don't believe that do you?". I said no. Still have it and it is one great rifle. Everyone should own a Garand. Makes the AR fell a bit wimpy in comparison.

 

[NMBrian]

While fondling a new Gen 4 glock at the LGS, a customer came over and informed me that I didnt want to buy that thing because "the plastic on glocks will get worn out and crack after about 2000 rounds"...........

Some folks just dont trust polymer. /shrug

 

[Geckgo]

I wonder what someone would say if I said the same thing about the metal frame on a 1911

 

[KodiakBeer]

The trick is to shoot from the base of the skull right into the brain stem. It kills you instantly because there is no bone to protect the brain there and the brain stem controls all your vital functions

That hole is filled by a vertebrae, so there is indeed bone there.

 

[Jasper1573]

Yep, met one of these " gun shop commandos" yesterday in Birmingham, AL. He was dressed in a blue jump suit, was about 50 years old, with a neatly tied 18 inch pony tail running down his back. I was simply looking at some shooting glasses when he walked up and started yacking about his rifle and all its accessories. Next thing you know he was pulling his Model 700 Rem .308 out of the bag and showing me all of his toys. Fortunately the bolt was removed and there was a safety lock run through the chamber. The store associate across the way looked on with disdain as the commando went through his diatribe explaining all his stuff to me. I was polite and listened for several minutes, then my wife walked up and rescued me from this very one-sided conversation.

 

[NoirFan]

Wow I can't add much to the gun shop stories here. I guess I haven't been shooting long enough to build up an impressive inventory of BS stories. The only one I can remember is at a range in Lafayette, IN, where most outside ammo was banned and you had to buy the AMERICAN brand ammo in the display case if you wanted to shoot. I was new to shooting and didn't know how terrible that ammo was, so I asked the owner if something was wrong with it when my shots were keyholing, spitting, and flying all over the place.

He looked at my NIB S&W Model 19 and said, "We don't sell faulty ammo. It's because your revolver is too old and it's not rated for modern ammo. The barrel is shot out so you should probably retire it and buy a new one from us." Thank god for THR and S&W forum.

 

[JohnKSa]

...AMERICAN brand ammo...

Not to be confused with American Eagle. Yes, it was really, REALLY bad ammunition.

 

[Erik M]

had a guy tell me that he left the first 2 chambers of his revolver empty, that way he could draw down on a burglar and pull the trigger twice to let him know that he meant business. I told him that was possibly the craziest thing I had ever heard inside of a gun store.

 

[1911Tuner]

I'm convinced that you meet some of the most interesting people in gun stores and ERs on the weekends.

The tales I could tell from both.

One that I hear from time to time is the German MG42 firing so fast that there are X number of bullets in the barrel at the same time. I've heard everything from three to seven...and one guy even insisted that they were stacked base to nose with barely a gap between. You can be met with outright hostility by explaining how that would be impossible both physically and mechanically...but there it is.

 

[cj7ox]

I'm convinced that you meet some of the most interesting people in gun stores and ERs on the weekends.

The tales I could tell from both.

One that I hear from time to time is the German MG42 firing so fast that there are X number of bullets in the barrel at the same time. I've heard everything from three to seven...and one guy even insisted that they were stacked base to nose with barely a gap between. You can be met with outright hostility by explaining how that would be impossible both physically and mechanically...but there it is.

ROFLMAO! Where do people come up with this stuff?

 

[WaltonS]

The one about the .22 bouncing around your insides makes me laugh every time. It's actually fun to explain to people that, while it can be deadly, the bullet is not going to turn your ribcage into a pinball machine.

Used to hear this one CONSTANTLY working -- again -- at Walmart. I would always ask... "You mean those soft lead bullets that I can dig into with my thumbnail won't deform when they hit bone?"

 

[CZguy]

Used to hear this one CONSTANTLY working -- again -- at Walmart. I would always ask... "You mean those soft lead bullets that I can dig into with my thumbnail won't deform when they hit bone?"

Never let physics get in the way of a good story.

 

[Hocka Louis]

Yep, met one of these " gun shop commandos" yesterday in Birmingham, AL. He was dressed in a blue jump suit, was about 50 years old, with a neatly tied 18 inch pony tail running down his back. I was simply looking at some shooting glasses when he walked up and started yacking about his rifle and all its accessories. Next thing you know he was pulling his Model 700 Rem .308 out of the bag and showing me all of his toys. Fortunately the bolt was removed and there was a safety lock run through the chamber. The store associate across the way looked on with disdain as the commando went through his diatribe explaining all his stuff to me. I was polite and listened for several minutes, then my wife walked up and rescued me from this very one-sided conversation.

LOL I think it was Officer Elvis!

1911 Tuner -- I know they are fast but I'd never heard a single variation of that story. That is hysterical and if I EVER hear someone say anything like those I am gonna snot onto my shirt from spontaneously bursting into laughter, I swear, and I'll have to run away with tears falling, unable to explain. OMG. I'm still wiping my eyes now.

 

[CAR-AR]

I was at the LGS yesterday to get my 10/22 worked on. There was a guy in front of me asking about Glock mags. He was was insisting on buying a Glock mag for his gun. While the shop owner was looking up prices for mags when I really looked at the guy. The customer was wearing a back pack. I'm not sure I have ever seen someone wear a back pack into a gun shop but he had one. I looked outside but there wasn't a car there and combined with a scruffy look I took him for a homeless guy. I guess he just wanted to get out of the afternoon heat. After getting a price for a mag he said he could get a better back in Mass and out the door he went.

 

[RevDerb]

Yeah I don't know what I was thinking by starting this thread. I guess I should have known that you can't mention ANY caliber as being inferior to another here without somebody finding some set of variables to try an prove you wrong even though by changing the variables it is no longer the same debate.

Instead of it being a 22 mag vs 38 special in same platform conversation we have reached all the way out to comparing 22 mag rifles to lwc target loads in a snub.

People just look to impress others by stating the obvious because they don't really impress themselves.

This has been a very entertaining thread, Some of the posters can't help themselves. Please don't regret starting it.

 

[finnfan]

Not at a gun store, but at the range today, I had a guy tell me Finn Mosin m39's are worth $125-$150 tops and I was crazy asking $300 for mine. (what I paid for it) Then he said something about them being worth about the same as a Russian m38 because they are "only one different". What a dope!

 

[1911Tuner]

Hocka...You can't make this stuff up.

There was this one guy...after explaining the physics side of it who was still insistent and resistant...I asked him how it was possible...with a bullet being driven foward under full pressure...to open the breech to load another round without blowing it up...he looked me in the eye with a straight face and said:

"German engineering."

Then he stalked out of the place in a huff. He was muttering something, but I couldn't make out what it was for the laughin'.

 

[centurion94]

First post, couldn't pass this one up

"The 1911 round was so fast, you could target shoot with it because the bullet was out of the gun ahead of the recoil!" Y'mean different from other guns?

(Source, unfortunately, Dad.)

 

[fallout mike]

I was walking by the gun counter at academy a couple days ago and I heard a customer asking for a recommendation on a gun to shoot a 150# hog that has been tearing his property up. I stopped walking so I could hear what this sales guy would say bc I have dealt with him before and knew him to not be very knowledgeable. He tells the customer he needs at least a 300 mag. Maybe, just maybe, a 30-06 would get the job done. The customer asks, what about a .270?. Sales guy says, absolutely not, the .270 would not even penetrate it.

 

[TCU]

Why is it that there are always at least two twenty-somethings in every bar that are Army-Special-Forces-Ranger-SEAL-Force-Recon-Uber-Commandos?

Ya it seems that every civilian i know that has a friend or another family member in the military is all special forces

 

[Rshooter]

One time a gunshop owner asked me what I did in the Corps. I told him radios and he burst out laughing. He said I was the first person from the Corps who was not a sniper.