Whats the best lie you had a gun seller tell you

[fluffy]

I had a cabelas employee tell me I couldnt get real blackpowder anymore,and the stuff they had in stock was way better anyway.I asked him if he had ever heard of "track of the wolf",the muzzleloader place,which happened to be a few miles down the road,and how long had he worked at cabelas?He had never heard of them,and surprise,hadnt worked there for long.

 

[Two Cold Soakers]

PRE-1964

model70alaskan.338withlymanringsandleopouldscope

 

[NinjaFeint]

"It's 10% over cost", referring to the blazer 9mm he was selling at 15.99. Funny, 5 miles away the exact same box is $9.49.

 

[Hatterasguy]

When I was looking for my Sig I walked into a local gunstore that has a so so reputation. I asked the guy if they had any Sig556 rifles. He is like those are illegal in CT, can't get them. I drove up the street to a good gun store and bought a Sig "SCM" 10 minutes later. Technicaly he was right, but its the same freaken gun come on. He knew what I was talking about.

I really should bring it into his store to show him.

 

[earlthegoat2]

It's 10% over cost", referring to the blazer 9mm he was selling at 15.99. Funny, 5 miles away the exact same box is $9.49.

Might have been 10% over HIS cost. Not Wal-Marts.

 

[SeekHer]

Two Cold Soakers -- PRE-1964
model70alaskan.338withlymanringsandleopouldscope
Model 70 Alaskan .338 with Lyman rings and Leopould scope

What the Hell is wrong with that other then your space bar and spelling?

There's one in the gun case but with a Lyman Alaskan 2.5x scope and Lyman bases and rings instead of the Leupold -- bought brand new in 1960 or 61...

fluffy -- I had a Cabela's employee tell me I couldn't get real blackpowder anymore,and the stuff they had in stock was way better anyway. I asked him if he had ever heard of "track of the wolf",the muzzleloader place,which happened to be a few miles down the road,and how long had he worked at Cabela's? He had never heard of them,and surprise,hadn't worked there for long.

Well, he could have been referring to Pyrodex powder now couldn't he if they were sold out of Goex and/or Swiss etc. brands of BP...In actual fact, he's right as the BP made today is not the same as the BP made in 1950 or 1920 or 1895 or 1868...

Unless you're a muzzleloader, you'd not know of Track of the Wolf in Elk River, MN...Driving past it you still wouldn't know what they sold inside...What does "How long he worked at Cabela's (in Rogers, MN)" got to do with anything...

Maybe his forte wasn't BP but could be a top IPSU or IDPA or SASS/CAS champion...My local Cabela's hired one of the 2010 Winter Olympic Biathlon competitors to work in the store selling snowshoes, winter clothing and helping in the gun dept--doesn't know a lot about hunting but sure knows how to teach you to shoot better and has really got her rimfire info down pat...

 

[NinjaFeint]

When I was looking for my Sig I walked into a local gunstore that has a so so reputation. I asked the guy if they had any Sig556 rifles. He is like those are illegal in CT, can't get them. I drove up the street to a good gun store and bought a Sig "SCM" 10 minutes later. Technicaly he was right, but its the same freaken gun come on. He knew what I was talking about.

I really should bring it into his store to show him.

Which store in CT said it was illegal?

 

[NinjaFeint]

Might have been 10% over HIS cost. Not Wal-Marts.

Both stores were local. The store where it was 15.99 is actually a pretty large store. The store where it was 9.49 is about the size of my living room. Thanks for assuming I don't understand Wal-Marts are cheaper due to their incredible purchasing power.



Oh and the small store where I bought it for 9.49 is not part of a "buying pool". The other store is known for it's "creative" mark ups.

 

[Boberama]

A guy who worked in a gun store ( now closed ) told me that the AK-74 fired a larger caliber bullet than the AK-47, hence the designation -74.
He got into this argument with me after I told him that the CZ-858 on the rack was mislabeled as an AK-47.
AK's are illegal in Canada besides, so if he thought he had one he was conciously breaking the law.

 

[Sapper771]

I have heard a lot of spills from some gun store guys. "we have the lowest prices in town!". Then when you bring up Wal-mart's ammo prices and how they are half the price, they get quiet and say that they cant compete with wal-mart.

Probably the best one I have heard recently was a gun store owner trying to sell a kimber to another guy. The guy was really showing an interest in the Kimber, then the gun store owner said "yeah, its got a Glock trigger in it, and even Glock springs". What made it worse was the guy acted like he beleived him when he said "WOW!". I dont know what happened after that because I left.
This was the same gun store owner that could not sell me USED glock parts til he called glock and got a NEW price sheet on all the USED parts........When I asked him about the prices that were on the parts, he just said "Thats the old price".

 

[bomb dropper]

I was out of town one weekend when my wife and I drove by a gun store, so we decided to stop in and look around.

I'm usually a pretty good guy and love to talk but the kid (yes kid 17-18) was setting behind the counter squeaking at me. I was polite and tried carrying on a conversation but all he wanted to tell me after he found out I was a Marine was how is brothers army issue M16 was the greatest thing ever I told him yea there pretty cool but he insisted that the "army issue" was better built.

Anyways the kid was getting on my nerves I asked him if they did Glock Mil/Leo pricing he said they could beat anyones price I told him store A had g19s for $425 he said that it was false advertising Glock wont let stores sell them for less then $499

 

[ThePunisher'sArmory]

"Man this thing is sweet, it even comes with a "snipertrigger.""

 

[Maverick223]

Man this thing is sweet, it even comes with a "snipertrigger."

Wow, a real sniper trigger...you should have bought that, it could have been York's, Hathcock's, Zeitsev's, or Thorvald's, maybe even Murphy's own trigger...wow.

 

[Mike91A]

Gun dealers woppers.

Dealer says to gunshow attendee- Gungrips don't fit peoples hands these days cuase peoples fingers are too fat. People are lasy and don't work enough to keep the weight off.

 

[Game_On]

Not so much a lie as a "... The hell is wrong with you?"

Went to my usual gun store one day and got to chatting, mentioned that I was thinking about picking up a 1911, and the guy at the counter said "Oh, we've got a bunch of those!" and I perked up immediately, not having seen any, and told him to point them out.

So he points right in front of me and says "This cabinet, down on the bottom shelf, a bunch of 1911 style pistols there."

So I look down.

Three Beretta 92s, an EAA Witness, and some other random DA/SA pistols.

I kind of rolled my eyes at him and told him they're not quite what I was looking for.

I ended up going back for that Witness though. Got them down under $300 OTD, barely used. Great little pistol but it's no 1911

 

[Maj.Striker]

Not so much from a gundealer, just an arrogant in law member who thinks they know everything about guns.

Him: "Dump that sissy 9mm and get a real gun like a .40S&W or a .45ACP. 9MM is just going to annoy someone."
Me: "Ok, you go stand over there and let me shoot you with my 9mm, if you're still standing and you still think its a sissy gun I'll go buy something else."

 

[19-3Ben]

"The .22lr is a great self defense round. When you shoot somebody with it, it runs around in their body tearing stuff up as it goes."

When my dad was new to guns, he got that one as well. They told him that the .22lr has enough energy to penetrate into the body, but not enough to punch all the way out the other side. So it'll go into the body and then bounce around off the bones and act like a blender.

Oh yeah, they also sold him a USED beretta 92f for $550 and told him it's the perfect CCW gun.

 

[Bhamrichard]

Him: "Dump that sissy 9mm and get a real gun like a .40S&W or a .45ACP. 9MM is just going to annoy someone."
Me: "Ok, you go stand over there and let me shoot you with my 9mm, if you're still standing and you still think its a sissy gun I'll go buy something else."

I don't imagine you got taken up on that offer

 

[RugerBob]

Best lie I have ever been told and the most-----'you won't get it no cheaper'

 

[MikePGS]

This isn't a lie necessarily, but rather something curious that happened to me today. I called Gander Mountain up to see if they A) Had any CZ-75B Single-Actions or B) Could order one, and how much it would cost me. After being transferred to the firearms department, transferred back to the operator after the people in firearms didn't pick the phone up, and then transferred back to firearms, I asked the guy on the other end of the line if they carried them. He asked me if it was a rifle or a shotgun. After explaining what it was he said that he would check on it and put me on hold for another minute or so. He came back and said they didn't have any. I asked if they could order them and he said he wasn't sure. Then an awkward pause followed where I realized that he had no interest in my business so I said thank you and hung up. I understand people not knowing every single model of gun, but not even having an interest in making a sale from someone who works in retail is a bit disheartening. I'm the first one to stick up for GM when people bash them (they've always been nothing but courteous to me in person and I've seen them do things such as simply replace a gun that was messed up without the whole send it back to the manufacturer song and dance that impressed me) but it just goes to show you that any place of business can have employees who just don't really give a rip.

 

[Boberama]

When my dad was new to guns, he got that one as well. They told him that the .22lr has enough energy to penetrate into the body, but not enough to punch all the way out the other side. So it'll go into the body and then bounce around off the bones and act like a blender.

I read that in Massad Ayoob's book In The Gravest Extreme. He said the .22 LR has surprising lethality and can ricochet inside the body, even penetrating some vests that would stop a .45. He said the outside lubricated bullet brings dirt into the body, causing infection.

He also said it has no stopping power and that it causes no smashing impact or numbing effect. He said people who have been shot with it describe a stabbing pain.

Now if you read the first part of that and never read the second, if you weren't familiar with guns you'd think a .22 is quite a powerful round.

Maybe that's where these people got that from.

 

[Shadow Man]

He said the .22 LR has surprising lethality and can ricochet inside the body, even penetrating some vests that would stop a .45.

I can personally attest to that. I had an old Kevlar vest that a couple of us, for S&G, put up at 21 yards and shot with a .22LR 1911 conversion kit, and then a 1911 in .45. The .22LR's punched through both sides of the vest, whereas the .45 was stopped cold by the front layers of Kevlar.

 

[Maverick223]

I can personally attest to that. I had an old Kevlar vest that a couple of us, for S&G, put up at 21 yards and shot with a .22LR 1911 conversion kit, and then a 1911 in .45. The .22LR's punched through both sides of the vest, whereas the .45 was stopped cold by the front layers of Kevlar.

That is surprising, I never would have guessed...still think I will stick to good 'ole 5.56 for the unlikely need to make holes in armor (soft or hard).

 

[Webbj0219]

Ok so a .22 LR will punch through body armor but not out the other side of human tissue? At least it went through both layers of body armor and didnt bounce around inside.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

don't let the politicians hear about that, .22lr will be a cop killer round then.