ID_shooting
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OR, Why can stuff like this happen to me 
OR, Fence sitter converted by a crazy stroke of good luck
I was in the local gun shop yesterday morning picking up and mounting a new set of rings and bases on my Super 14 44 mag barrel for my T/C when this plain looking suburbanite yuppy come walking in with a cosmoline soaked box.
Because I was behind the counter and the two counter guys were busy with other customers he came up to me. I wiped off my hands and asked him how his morning was going. He replied with a "Good, just enjoying the cool morning air."
He went on to say that he had been out garage saling and bought what he thought was an air rifle but turned out to be a real gun and he was currious about what it was. He said he did not really know anything about guns but had always thought of buying one.
Well, I told him to open the box and lets have a look see. He opens this box and there sits a NEW in the cosmoline, un fired, with all the accesories, Norinco 84s .223
He sees the look on my face and asks whats wrong, I tell him that he has a highly sought after, rather expensive, pre-ban, hated by DI-FI, battle rifle.
He steps back for a moment while I get the blue book out and show him the page that says he has a > $1000.00 rifle sitting there. I was floored, I asked him what he paid for it thinking like maybe $500.00 at the lowest, considering it was a garage sale.
Are you ready for this, you have to be sitting down, or at least swollow your coffee before continuing, OK you have been warned.
SEVEN DOLLARS! YUP, that is correct, you are not seeing things $7.00 smackers, between 6 and 8, that is it, seven whole clams. He even showed me the reciept.
After I pick my self up off the floor and the other two guys come over to see what the comotion is about, I shake his hand and told him if doesn't buy a lottery ticket today he is nuts.
We sat there and talked guns and AKs for a while, We show him all the basics, give him a safety talk, and he buys a few boxes of 223 and leaves.
Chances are we will be talking about this for a while at the shop, man, some people have all the good mojo.
Edited to fix the mumbers
OR, Fence sitter converted by a crazy stroke of good luck
I was in the local gun shop yesterday morning picking up and mounting a new set of rings and bases on my Super 14 44 mag barrel for my T/C when this plain looking suburbanite yuppy come walking in with a cosmoline soaked box.
Because I was behind the counter and the two counter guys were busy with other customers he came up to me. I wiped off my hands and asked him how his morning was going. He replied with a "Good, just enjoying the cool morning air."
He went on to say that he had been out garage saling and bought what he thought was an air rifle but turned out to be a real gun and he was currious about what it was. He said he did not really know anything about guns but had always thought of buying one.
Well, I told him to open the box and lets have a look see. He opens this box and there sits a NEW in the cosmoline, un fired, with all the accesories, Norinco 84s .223
He sees the look on my face and asks whats wrong, I tell him that he has a highly sought after, rather expensive, pre-ban, hated by DI-FI, battle rifle.
He steps back for a moment while I get the blue book out and show him the page that says he has a > $1000.00 rifle sitting there. I was floored, I asked him what he paid for it thinking like maybe $500.00 at the lowest, considering it was a garage sale.
Are you ready for this, you have to be sitting down, or at least swollow your coffee before continuing, OK you have been warned.
SEVEN DOLLARS! YUP, that is correct, you are not seeing things $7.00 smackers, between 6 and 8, that is it, seven whole clams. He even showed me the reciept.
After I pick my self up off the floor and the other two guys come over to see what the comotion is about, I shake his hand and told him if doesn't buy a lottery ticket today he is nuts.
We sat there and talked guns and AKs for a while, We show him all the basics, give him a safety talk, and he buys a few boxes of 223 and leaves.
Chances are we will be talking about this for a while at the shop, man, some people have all the good mojo.
Edited to fix the mumbers
