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I believe I've told the story here of the old black man (and I mean old! Had white hair) that came in asking for a box of .32's for his revolver. When he was asked if he needed .32 longs or shorts he replied, "jez gives me da long ones, I jez snips dem off til they fits!"

Tom,

One I really liked happened with Dave. A young guy came stomping into the gun section, one hand clenched in a fist. He saw Dave behind the counter and held out the fist, then opened it to reveal an expanded bullet. "Your recommended this POS Nosler Partition to me for elk!"

Dave looked at the bullet and said, "Yeah, I did. One-eighty .30's if I recall correctly."

The young guy almost shouted, "I shot a bull and it went 20 yards before falling over! And the damn bullet didn't even exit!" He lifted his palm under Dave's nose, apparently to prove his point.

Dave looked at the bullet very carefully, then said matter-of-factly, "Looks like perfect performance to me."

Whereupon the young guy went stomping out again, mumbling something else about never coming back in the store ever again. Dave looked at me, smiled and shrugged.

Not at the gun store, but at a bbq a cousin-in-law who was in the marines for a short time informed me that if a 50bmg round got even within a couple feet of your head, it would blow your head clean off.

How about wanting two scopes on their rifle? One for close shots and one for long range! Yup!

This really isnt anything odd...and is fairly common.

At least there was the opportunity to experience how you could (very roughly) estimate the range and direction from which the shots were coming, from the “thump” which comes after the “crack”.

We would not only work the frames up and down for the deliberate and rapid serials, and mark and patch, but also hold targets on sticks for snap and movers. The movers were the worst: holding up a plywood fig. 11 nailed to a length of 2”x1”, shuffling in a conga line along the trench, and showered with splinters and the odd nail whenever someone hit the target in the midline. Still, everyone had to take a turn.

Not at the gun store, but at a bbq a cousin-in-law who was in the marines for a short time informed me that if a 50bmg round got even within a couple feet of your head, it would blow your head clean off.

Anybody who has ever worked in a gun shop knows you see/hear some wild sh*t on a regular basis. In my 22+ years I've seen some doozies. Yesterday a black fellow came in and asked for a box of ".41 bullets". ".41 Magnum?" I asked, to which he replied "Yeah." I handed him a box of 210 gr Gold Dots and sent him on his way. He came back today and said "Them bullets was too big." "What kind of gun is it?" I asked, thinking there was a remote chance he had a .41 Colt of some sort. He said "It looks like one of them cowboy guns." So I'm thinking, "Yeah, it must be an old SAA." "Bring it in so I can see what you have because if it's a .41 Long Colt, ammo is about $75 a box." He reluctantly went out to his car and came back a minute later with a 6 1/2" barreled Ruger Blackhawk that was clearly stamped .41 Magnum, but with, get this, a 9mm cylinder in it. I said, "You do realize this is a 9mm cylinder in a .41 frame don't you?" He looked at me cockeyed and said "Ok, give me a box of 9s." Trying to make him understand the situation was like trying to explain advanced calculus to me. I'm quite sure the gun was as hot as a firecracker and when he was distracted I jotted the serial number down and later gave it to a cop buddy to check out, along with his tag number. I figured somewhere out there, there is a .357/9mm convertible Blackhawk with a .41 cylinder in it...

When I worked part time in a gun shop while going to school
we kept a started pistol by the phone. When a call game in asking a really stupid gun question the person taking the call then pickup the starter pistol and fire it into the phone. The shot would be a cue for another employee to grab the phone....Asking "What did you ask him"...he shot himself. As always they believed the employee did shoot himself and hung up.

The most common question was " Where do you put the gas in a Rem model 1100 since they read the gun was gas operated!

Doc

A young lady dropped by my shop and asked if I could fix her handgun.

She had been shooting one day and forgot it inside her open truck bed....for about 3 weeks

I looked it over and told her she had been rewarded a $400 lesson in responsibility

I offered her $50 for it but sent her on her way..

I didn't know they made a 9mm revolver.

I didn't know they made a 9mm revolver.

Dadgumit Bark, I don't wanna pick on ya, but in the tread with this title??
TFF.

That firearm has a beautiful patina, how much you want for her?