Dumbest things you've heard at the gun store

[Flopsweat]

... I'm just ranting a bit, it wasn't that bad. I guess walking around with a mullet makes people assume that I'm an inbred imbecile.

No, no, not everyone with a mullet is an imbecile.

 

[sobo]

I guess walking around with a mullet makes people assume that I'm an inbred imbecile.

No, no, not everyone with a mullet is an imbecile.

Says the old d00d who sports a mullet...

 

[TTSX]

So I have a new LGS experience.

Sportsmans warehouse has a sale on Norinco SKS's for $399 so I decided to get one just for fun.

The guy at the counter first told me they only had one in stock, then came back out with another one later for me to compare and said he dug really hard and found that one. Immediately after, a coworker came up and saw the closed box and asked "is that an sks? Man we have a literal pile of those in back" to which my clerk answered "haha yeah, I know right?"

I was inspecting the bore of the two rifles and he kept pushing for me to buy the one that had a nicer stock on it. It wasn't original or numbers matching like the one I was leaning towards.

He looked very obviously angered that I didn't choose the one he wanted me to get. Then he began to tell me that they have a lot of kick and I really need to watch out when shooting them.

I'm just ranting a bit, it wasn't that bad. I guess walking around with a mullet makes people assume that I'm an inbred imbecile.

At that point, I think it would have been reasonable to ask to see every last one of the "pile" so you can have your pick, or walk. And make sure management knows why. I don't like knowing I'm getting bubblegumed

 

[Flopsweat]

Says the old d00d who sports a mullet...

Not anymore... Since a couple of months ago.

 

[Oregunian43]

I asked the guy at my local shop if they had any match grade 556 rounds and he said try these… gave me a zip lock bag of 25 reloaded 556 round fmj's and said " these will go through 4" of solid steel at 800 yds." Needless to say I haven't asked him for help anymore

 

[TTSX]

I asked the guy at my local shop if they had any match grade 556 rounds and he said try these… gave me a zip lock bag of 25 reloaded 556 round fmj's and said " these will go through 4" of solid steel at 800 yds." Needless to say I haven't asked him for help anymore

Not even my .50 bmg API rounds will do that. No way a 5.56 traveling at anything less than 6k ft/sec has a chance

 

[Oregunian43]

Not even my .50 bmg API rounds will do that. No way a 5.56 traveling at anything less than 6k ft/sec has a chance

These where my thoughts exactly

 

[Member 18201]

Dumbest things that I have heard were from my days working in Auto Parts.

Way before the innerwebs, so bubblegummed up thinking moved a little slower.......but it still showed up !

 

[Deavis]

Anything ever uttered in The Gun Room.

 

[Capn Jack]

What were you doing with a fish.

 

[Jay Walk]

"Plinking Ammo"

 

[Andy54Hawken]

"Plinking Ammo"

Bulk pack non-match .22LR , could be "Plinking Ammo"...at least when it was available and inexpensive...

"End Cap" , target grade shotgun ammo could be "Plinking Ammo"...

FMJ "service grade" rifle and pistol ammo...As in commercial ammo , made to military specs could be "Plinking Ammo"...
( again when it was available and inexpensive )

At one time surplus WWII and "Cold War" era military ammo was inexpensive and available....
So that could be "Plinking Ammo".

Plinking , general means , informal target shooting at things like cans , clay birds / and their left over bits , spent shell casings , steel targets , etc....
This type of shooting has been around for decades if not longer....and admittedly can mean different things to different people....
I don't think as the term "Plinking Ammo" is all that dumb....could be expensive nowadays , but not dumb...
Andy

 

[oremike]

I think plinking ammo is named for the sound it make when shooting tin cans. At gun shows I say my ammo is target/plinking ammo. Once in a while someone will say they don't want target ammo because they aren't that good of a shot. My reply is "don't you want to hit what you shoot at"?

 

[RVTECH]

I think plinking ammo is named for the sound it make when shooting tin cans.

This is true and attributed to the nickname Elizabeth Toepperwein was given, 'Plinkey' after the sound of her shooting cans.

For those who may not know Elizabeth Toepperwein was the wife of Adolph Toepperwein of the famous husband & wife exhibition shooters.

 

[DunRanull]

Before you buy your wife a semi-auto, see if she can pull the slide back.

Yep, my Old Woman has that problem. Definitely prefers .38 revolvers...

 

[DunRanull]

Interesting thread, since none of all that conflaberation applies over here in UK. You have to know exactly what you want BEFORE you walk into the gun store. Reason is that the calibre of the gun you want is right there on your Firearms Certificate - that calibre and no other. The choice of arm that shoots it IS up to you, of course, but it helps if you have a very good idea of what you want and the budget to get it. The store clerk is only there to pass on what you want to you, via his gun register and cash-point. Kinda takes all the fun out it, don't it?

Example - you've likely set your mind on a nice new .308Win SAKO hunting rifle from reading the reviews, but when you actually pick it up, you are less than happy how it feels. You try the TIKKA version, and like it even less. Then a Remington, and a Savage, and then settle on a nice second-hand Blaser instead. There is no pressure to buy anything at all - not in any of the four gunstores that I frequent. Nobody can tell YOU how a gun feels to you, except you. It is not unknown to spend an entire DAY in a shotgun specialists, getting the feel of any number of guns before you settle on the one you want.

And as for advising another person - never going to happen - unless, of course, you offer to pay for it.

For those of us over here, you really do live in a different world.

"For those of us over here, you really do live in a different world" Indeed, and thank the Almighty for that fact every day!.

 

[bcp]

.222 is what the .223 was developed from, so it can be used as a light load.

7mm Mauser can be used as a light load in 7mm magnum rifles to reduce recoil.

I use FMJ bullets for hunting. Soft point bullets mushroom when fired and don't have the range.

Bruce

 

[hazencroftmatt]

I asked the guy at my local shop if they had any match grade 556 rounds and he said try these… gave me a zip lock bag of 25 reloaded 556 round fmj's and said " these will go through 4" of solid steel at 800 yds." Needless to say I haven't asked him for help anymore

Pick them up. Those are anti tank match grade reloads.

 

[Capn Jack]

To me, "Plinking ammo" is ammo you have a lot of and is comfortable to shoot. I even call the 325Gr. hand loads for my .458S plinking ammo, because they're cheap to shot and easy on my body.

 

[dmack]

Sportsman's in Bend...."Savage rifles are throw away guns."