Whats the best lie you had a gun seller tell you

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Was looking at some .45's from the Philippines and was informed the were made on CNC machinery left over from WW2. CNC machinery, WW2, something seemed wrong with the time line there.
 
jcwit -- Was looking at some .45's from the Philippines and was informed the were made on CNC machinery left over from WW2. CNC machinery, WW2, something seemed wrong with the time line there.
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Well, actually, they are partially correct NC machines really are pre WW2 vintage...full CNC didn't happens until the 1960s--think punch cards--since they didn't have computers small enough to attach until later.

CNC Concepts:
http://www.cncci.com/resources/articles/what is cnc.htm
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control
 
not to me, but the guy next to me buying Blazer Al .45 for his 1911.

"1911's are REAL finicky. They don't like to feed sometimes, you might better stick with the brass cased ammunition. We have some for $x.xx more over here."

I think my eyes hit the back of my skull they rolled so hard.
 
There are some good ones above but this one rates pretty well.

The guy that tried to talk me into coming back to his shop and buy the rifle that had the real special rifling. You know the stuff that is cut both right and left hand. Or he could just do the sale there and then and freight it to me.
 
"I'm busy now, come back later when I'm not busy" - while there are four people at the counter, all playing poker with a pile of money a foot high in the middle of the counter.

Oh, by the way, one of the guys gambling was a local cop in full uniform. This was in a store that was open during business hours with a glass front and anyone walking by could easily see what was going down.

I thought gambling is illegal!
 
Dealer at a gun show to me to me who's trying to sell a very good condition M28 Mosin:
I'll give you $75 for it. I've bought 4 just like it already today.

Same dealer to my friend who went there later in the day and was looking at a Ishevsk 91/30:
These are collectors items. I haven't seen one for years, but I''ll let you have this one for only $200
 
Just for grins, I brought in an older stainless Ruger Mini 14 GB to one of the local pawn shops to see what kind of trading I could do with it. The side of the receiver is marked "RESTRICTED LAW ENFORCEMENT/GOV'T USE ONLY". Once the guy behind the counter saw that, he freaked out and accused me of owning a fully automatic firearm illegally. He wasn't going to give it back to me until he "called the local authorities to sort it out".

Before things got ugly, the manager came up chuckling and explained the whole AWB thing to him, and apologized to me. At that point I grabbed the Mini back out of his hand, and told the manager to stick that guy on the jewelry counter permanently before he makes an ass out of himself again.
 
I got told the other day that a Remington 870 was a better shotgun than the Mossberg because no matter how many rounds the Rem can hold, whether a tactical model or a pure hunting model, 8 shot or 5, the barrels were all interchangeable because the barrel bands were in the exact same place on all the Remington models. No matter how long the magazine tube was.
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All 870s hold 4 rounds in the magazine, its a matter if they come with an extension installed. The barrels are all interchangable.
 
ShroomFish said:
"Take out the gas tube, turn in around, and it will fire full auto" [...] To make it worst it was an M1 Carbine, not an M2, an M1.....
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Ya know, I looked for that fabled "gas tube" on my M1 Carbine, and I had a heck of a time finding it...guess mine was left out at the factory. ;) Crazier yet, it still somehow manages to work...but semi only [...if only I could find a gas tube that fits...]. :D
 
best lie

At a Pine Bluff Arkansas gun show"This guys uncle brought it back from Germany at the end of the war" It was an Iver Johnson 22 made 50 miles up the road in Jacksonville AR in the 80's.
 
I recently went to my favorite lgs and tried to do a little trading. I have purchased MANY firearms from them over the years. This time I wanted to see about how much they would give me on a Ruger .44 mag carbine that I have. He told me that he would give me two hundred for it. I declined, but I was back in there this week and saw a carbine exactly like mine on sale used for $769. I have decided not to do much business there from now on if I can avoid it. I don't like being taken advantage of.
 
"Ruger GP100s are getting hard to find, but I have this nice SW 686 for a little more..."

Rural king down the road had 2 GP100s. Same with the other shop across town.
 
I had a lady at a local gun shop tell me that I needed to buy a springfield xdm because it was the most accurate pistol in history.
I ask her what made it so accurate
She replied " Its got a MATCH grade barrel, its made for shooting matches."
 
This still makes me mad when I think about it from time to time... I was at Hyatt's in Charlotte NC with a buddy (I never go there on my own accord, I think they're criminals). For those of you who aren't familiar, they claim to be the largest independently owned gun store in America, so you would think they would have a fair amount of buying power and decent prices. Wrong...

My friend was finishing up the paperwork on an LCP and while the salesman and I were waiting I noticed a box of 9mm Winchester white on the shelf priced at $23.99 or somewhere in that range.

Me: "Is that 50 or 100 rounds?"
Salesman: "50"
Me: "Wow, Wal-mart has the 100 round box priced cheaper than that!"
Salesman: "Actually, we have better ammo prices than Wal-mart."
Me: "Apparently not!"

I don't know if he was just an idiot or a crook.
Not only was that a HUGE ripoff, he called ME a liar in the process of HIS lie! Needless to say I have not been back since
 
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Yeah Hyatt's is a racket. I typically patronize Eagle Guns in Concord for most of my firearms purchases, BPS for random & sale items/accessories (though most comes from Midway/Brownell's/other online retailers these days), and Little Hardware for handloading supplies (except for bullets/brass which is mostly MidwayUSA). If you haven't been there already, Eagle is definitely worth the drive, honest folks, fair prices, good selection (and will order anything you want, that they can get their hands on, if they don't have it in stock)...what's not to like?

*Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with any of the above, and get nothing out of the recommendation (save for the good feeling I get from honest folks getting money that dishonest people might otherwise receive).

:)
 
Heard a gun section employee of a sporting goods store a few days ago tell a customer that they didnt want to buy hollow points for SD, as the air gets in the cavity and slows the bullets down and makes it unstable, on top of the cavity getting clogged with any type of clothing someone may be wearing rendering the bullet useless. While there may be some truth to the clothing clogging bit, that was pretty hard to hear from the employee trying to make a sale.
 
air gets in the cavity and slows the bullets down and makes it unstable
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Uh-huh, and a boat-tail design isn't as fast because the gunpowder doesn't have as much flat area to push against...right? ...and steel jacketed bullets strip the rifling out of the bore (that's why AKs aren't accurate don'tcha know) too. :rolleyes:

There's plenty more like those...but it's late and I just can't think of 'em ATM...

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I just walked in the gunstore and the employee told me I can't buy a firearm, because every immigrant must wait 5 years. :rolleyes: That "5 years" are 90 days.

I went back to that store few months later, then their other employee said If I want to buy a 20" AR-15, I must wait 1 year. (So I just Googled a gun-store, ordered online an AR and they shipped it to me like 2 hours later.) :rolleyes:
 
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