Silly things you've heard at gun shops

stringnut said:
Guy insisting that cast bullets are “boolits”. Jacketed bullets are “bullets” according to him I was ignorant for not knowing this. I then asked what you called a swaged bullet as it is neither boolit , or bullet, by his definition. He really got going then much to the amusement of the spectators.
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According to these guys full metal jacket bullets are "boolits". It could be that everything is a boolit in their neck of the woods.

 
LiveLife said:
You always need to burnish pistol barrels by shooting several hundred rounds of jacketed bullets (
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Well Badger said their BPCR barrels would benefit from some jacketed before cleaning to shoot cast. Mine came second hand so I didn’t.

My Uncle joined the Army to get off the farm between the Wars.
Certain for the rest of a long life that his Springfield rifle was a .30-30.

A sheriff in the store said a Magnum was no good for duty or defense “The bullet doesn’t stay in him long enough to hurt him.”

There was a board moderator and long in the business who maintained that the 7.7mm Arisaka was designed to have .30-06 cartridges forcibly crammed into the chamber.
 
Jim Watson said:
There was a board moderator and long in the business who maintained that the 7.7mm Arisaka was designed to have .30-06 cartridges forcibly crammed into the chamber.
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Along those lines I’d heard someone say the N. Vietnamese were smart because they could use our ammo in their rifles, but we couldn’t use theirs in ours.
 
Yes and the Reds could shoot our 81mm shells in their 82mm mortars too.

I have read that the British shot Italian 9mm captured in North Africa in STENs. That would really work, at least.

Soldier of Fortune magazine reported Soviet grenades with zero fuzes for use in booby traps and to discourage pilferage by anti-communists.
 
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wayneinFL said:
According to these guys full metal jacket bullets are "boolits". It could be that everything is a boolit in their neck of the woods.

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Am I missing something? He shot the burglar in the back while the burglar was fleeing. If that happened today that kid would be in jail
 
A number of years ago I was passing a Dick's between work meetings (before they went woke) and stopped in to see if they had 9mm Gold Dot Short Barrel ammo. The kid behind the counter had never heard of it and called an older employee over. He told the kid that what I wanted was .380 ammo. I told him that Speer made 9mm ammo for shorter barrels and it was 9mm, not .380. He shook his head as if there was something wrong with me, told the kid to give me .380 ammo and walked away. I obviously left without buying anything.
 
TomJ said:
He told the kid that what I wanted was .380 ammo. I told him that Speer made 9mm ammo for shorter barrels and it was 9mm, not .380. He shook his head as if there was something wrong with me, told the kid to give me .380 ammo and walked away. I obviously left without buying anything.
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To be fair, .380 ammunition is in fact known as 9mm short.
 
Jim Watson said:
There was a board moderator and long in the business who maintained that the 7.7mm Arisaka was designed to have .30-06 cartridges forcibly crammed into the chamber.
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Hey! That could be one of my uncles! They did that exact same thing to an Arisaka my father brought back from WWII.
 
Outlaw75 said:
Nothing that has been more egregiously false than some of the "conventional wisdom" and "expert opinion" I've heard on internet gun forums.
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Well, I have to retract this statement. I was over at Sportsman's Warehouse this morning and heard the tattooed beard guy working the counter tell someone; "Now this is a Gen 3 and this is a Gen 5, they're basically the same gun. The only real difference is the finger grooves and how you field strip them!"

I don't think I've run into that on any internet gun form, yet.
 
Night Rider said:
Am I missing something? He shot the burglar in the back while the burglar was fleeing. If that happened today that kid would be in jail
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Yeah, I saw that. Shot him in the leg through a laundry hamper full of loot.

The kid was eleven. How much time would he have gotten?

There are plenty of lessons to be learned from that. But one of them is don't burglarize a home with a kid with a gun, because they're not known for wisdom and judgment.
 
"Winchester Silvertip handgun ammo starts expanding as soon as it leaves the barrel."

My brother heard this in person and repeated it to me so not 1st hand. Guy walks into a Gunshop and asks if they have any 357 Sig ammo. The guy behind the counter asks, " how much do you want?" The guy pulls out a Glock 13 round magazine and a 10-round mag from his pocket, lays them on the counter and says, "I'll take 23 rounds".

Was looking at the Walmart gun counter a few days after Christmas 2007. Someone calls, I can only hear one end of the conversation, but apparently, they got a new 7mm-08 rifle for Christmas and were looking for ammo. I heard the guy behind the counter answer, "No, all we have is 2007 ammo, we will get a shipment of 2008 ammo in next week."
 
I heard a guy giving detailed instructions on the old redneck poacher trick of an Easton 2315 down a 410barrel…
And a guy trying to say that cfe blk was black powder…
And that you could shoot 380 in a 9mm just fine… and I won’t relate the whole tale of the time the “square box that says three zero dash zero six and use shelf holder hashtag one…(it got worse)” had the wrong price….
 
Night Rider said:
Am I missing something? He shot the burglar in the back while the burglar was fleeing. If that happened today that kid would be in jail
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In the video, this kid said that he shot the burglar in the leg, not the back. He also said something about having shot through the hamper of stolen items the guy was carrying so the burglar may have been facing the kid. And, after claiming that he was going to kill the kid, I believe it was a good shooting.
 
About one year ago I asked the owner of a gun shop in the DFW metro area, whom I know pretty well, how much he pays his employees. He told me that he pays them $8.50/h.
Silly is not a gun store exclusive. The silliest thing on gun forums that I read is that some people expect highly motivated and knowledgeable gun shop clerks at that pay level :).
 
I have to say the best I have heard in person would be:
"Shooting someone with .38 spl is useless. My buddy got shot with one and didn't even need to go to the hospital." -customer
"1911's are pretty uncommon." - from behind the counter
"Police carry 9mm because they are a branch of the military." -customer
"You want the most expensive defensive round they have." -customer giving bad advice to another customer in the ammo isle
 
Guy says he wants pump shotgun to rack and scare away bad guys. He also wants some blanks in case the racking isn't scary enough. Clerk says you need some rubber 00 then to scare them.

Some minor mislabeling - says a SW 632 is a 22 LR (its a 327 mag) because there is a 63-2 which is a 22 LR. Gets all huffy when I say, take it out and look at it. Old clerk comes and tells him to shut up.

Human version of the Goodyear blimp tells a guy looking at a 642: If you can't git it done if 5, you ain't doing your job. - Now, there is the great 5 is enough debate but the statement as proposed is stupid.
 
Cabelas had some second hand guns badly mislabeled.
I don’t remember what they called that topbreak but it wasn’t “.32 Double Action, 3rd Model.”
Unfortunately the Sig Sport was marked wrong and priced higher than list.
 
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