Gun shops don't have a monopoly on "Sh*t you see"....
Try working as a range officer right before hunting season opens.....
Everything from new guns with scopes on backwards to old timers with a dusty box of shells checking the old ought-6 for minute of paper plate accuracy.....
Amusing...frustrating...and down right scary...all at the same time...
I did it for three years when I first retired.....that was enough to last a lifetime.....
BIL got invited to go to a hunt camp with some old timers. Said old boy shows up with a beat to death Mark V Weatherby and a box of minimum 25 year old shells. They all take a shot or 2 when they get there just to make sure rifles are GTG except old boy. BIL asks him if he's gonna shoot and dude tells him he doesn't have too. He bought 2 boxes of the exact same ammo when he bought the gun X years ago and sighted it in then.
Maybe his mark V is like my Dad's Winchester 88. It was made in 59, he bought it new a year or so later. Borrowed a scope from my uncle for a couple of years, then bought a Leupold 3X9, and had it bore sighted.
He also bought a buncha Federal, and when he checked it at the range it was dead on 1 1/2 inches high, just what he wanted. About 40 years later he ran out of the Federal ammo he had, so I provided him with reloads.
When we checked they were about 1/2 inch to the left of what he had been using, so he told me to leave the scope alone, and I did. Been a year or so since I shot that gun but it was still right on the money for well over 50 years now..
Still the guys a idiot for not checking, we did that 88 before every hunt.
