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Here's another one. I had been talking on the phone a good bit with a fellow gardener, garden book author, and seedsman. I considered him a friend, though we had never met in person. One interest we shared was guns and self defense. He was very proud of his edc, a Smith snubby .38 which he had converted to DA only by having the hammer bobbed. I'm a big fan of the fullest versatily in my edc to hunt and be a general woods gun and plinker, and have no use at all for DA only. We discussed our differing opinions cheerfully and in 9 part harmony, as gun people often do.What's your funniest gun-related experience?
Here's mine. I was about 35 at the time. A phone call at about 2am. I'd been asleep. I reach for the phone, answer, and a male voice starts telling me that he knows where I live, knows I live alone, says he's looking at my house right now, and describes the house. Then he said he was going to come after me and started describing what he was going to do to me.
At that point I broke into uncontrollable and loud laughter. When I was able to contain myself enough to respond, I said "I've got two big dogs and I shoot .44 magnums for fun." Whereupon I rolled over and went back to sleep. No further phone calls from that guy, ever.
Then this friend was traveling somewhere going right by Corvallis, so we arranged for him to stop by so we could meet in person. When he knocked and I let him in, however, he immediately started undoing his belt! Disconcerting!!! However, he was just taking off his gun belt. He unloaded his edc revolver and proudly handed it to me for my inspection. Whew! For a minute there I'd thought it was some other kind of gun he wanted to show me!