Did some informal trap shooting with a mechanical slinger with some neighbors yesterday. One of them claimed that his O/U shotgun was appraised at the local Cabela's at $25k!!!! I called BS right from the start, why would he take it shooting?
I don't know O/U shotties, he claims it is a Beretta ACS-II (or ACS-2) Gold Series, one of only 20 imported to the U.S. and that his is the 21st imported but no one knows about it because his is not "registered" because it was given to him by an Italian friend while he was on a hunting trip here in the U.S. He also claimed that his father competed in trap in the 1984 Olympic games, this Beretta shotgun he brought did have the Olympic rings symbol. I didn't see any of the fancy engraving that you normally see on $5000 shotguns and he kept it in a Perazzi shotgun case, not a Beretta case. This guy is just BSing about it being worth $25k, right?
This guy also said that he has to shoot highly-specialized 12 gauge shells with graphite shot in them so as to protect the blueing inside (hahaha) the barrel. He was using some kind of Fiocchi ammo that he said came from the U.S. military, case was marked U.S. Small Arms and no Fiocchi on the outside, only on the 25 round boxes inside.
He loved shooting my Saiga 12 gauge and AK's but kept asking me why I hadn't made them full-auto because "it is so easy to do so", I replied that I would like to keep my butt a virgin and didn't want 10 years in Federal Prison. He said that in Montana (where he is from) you can do whatever you want and no one cares if you make a full-auto. Ah huh.
I hate people like this.
I don't know O/U shotties, he claims it is a Beretta ACS-II (or ACS-2) Gold Series, one of only 20 imported to the U.S. and that his is the 21st imported but no one knows about it because his is not "registered" because it was given to him by an Italian friend while he was on a hunting trip here in the U.S. He also claimed that his father competed in trap in the 1984 Olympic games, this Beretta shotgun he brought did have the Olympic rings symbol. I didn't see any of the fancy engraving that you normally see on $5000 shotguns and he kept it in a Perazzi shotgun case, not a Beretta case. This guy is just BSing about it being worth $25k, right?
This guy also said that he has to shoot highly-specialized 12 gauge shells with graphite shot in them so as to protect the blueing inside (hahaha) the barrel. He was using some kind of Fiocchi ammo that he said came from the U.S. military, case was marked U.S. Small Arms and no Fiocchi on the outside, only on the 25 round boxes inside.
He loved shooting my Saiga 12 gauge and AK's but kept asking me why I hadn't made them full-auto because "it is so easy to do so", I replied that I would like to keep my butt a virgin and didn't want 10 years in Federal Prison. He said that in Montana (where he is from) you can do whatever you want and no one cares if you make a full-auto. Ah huh.
I hate people like this.