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Who the hell takes their their rifle to a gun shop to have a scope mounted?
Did you have them sight it in, too? fwiw, i've seen a lot of folks that would have been way better off to pay someone to mount their scope instead of doing a ham handed job of it their selves. i see a lot of used scopes with scratches and grooves from poor installation and scopes that get damaged internally from overtightening and crooked rings, etc. someone else sight in ? (as opposed to bore sighting) no way. i can't see someone else sighting a scope for me
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Who the hell takes their their rifle to a gun shop to have a scope mounted?
Did you have them sight it in, too? fwiw, i've seen a lot of folks that would have been way better off to pay someone to mount their scope instead of doing a ham handed job of it their selves. i see a lot of used scopes with scratches and grooves from poor installation and scopes that get damaged internally from overtightening and crooked rings, etc. someone else sight in ? (as opposed to bore sighting) no way. i can't see someone else sighting a scope for me All the above is why I mount mine myself. I'll do a much better job than Junior behind the counter with no training. For me it's just part of owning a gun,but you are correct that Junior will do better than some nitwits. As to the topic,I would have simply told the guy that it was my gun and I would appreciate it if he would leave it alone if I didn't want him handling it. Usually I'm even nicer than that.I would get close enough to make sure the guy didn't drop it and strike up a conversation while politely pointing out that it was my gun. I don't usually hurl insults from across the room.
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Just go start fondling the guy's wife without asking first....  Fat dude in his 50's, no thanks, his Wife aint likely to be worth handling.
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I have become less than understanding of such stupid/boorish behavior and would not have been as kind in response as you were.
He may have fully understood why it is improper to pick up any gun lying there when I finished.
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He was wrong, but I'd have taken a more direct approach informing him so. Something along the lines of "get your fat mitts off my rifle."
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you turn on the light, leave your bolt open, go down range to check or change your targets, turn around to come back, and some yoyo is fiddling with your rifle...
That would make me homicidal. Dave I'm getting pissed just thinking about it. The guy would be missing four valve stem cores before I left the range.
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I'm getting pissed just thinking about it.
The guy would be missing four valve stem cores before I left the range. Another person who keeps a valve stem remover in their vehicle for just such occasions!
It's about like this:
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At the range, NO one touches any firearm when the flag is down, the RO watches, as do other shooters.
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I would have said "Hey dickhead, that's my rifle and I'd thank you to keep your cotton pickin' dick tongs off of it." He should get the message.
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NO!!!!
In fact, I would not pick up or touch anything that belonged to another without first asking!!
Perhaps, we can all get back to being gentlemen and observing good manners and recognizing proper ownership that comes with rights and respect.
Starting with civilized freedom of speech!!
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Just go start fondling the guy's wife without asking first.... Fat dude in his 50's, no thanks, his Wife aint likely to be worth handling. That depends entirely on the size of his checkbook............
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The couple of gunstores that I frequent have inventory laying on the counters so that customers can play with them. There is no asking to pick them up--that is what they are out there for in the first place.
That is what the guy assumed was going on.
You could have simply informed him directly that it was your gun and you didn't want him touching it.
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I always ask, laying out or not.
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Touching other peoples vehicles, especially with mischief in mind is equally as bad as touching thier firearms. I wouldn't do either. I say what is on my mind to people's faces, no need to sneak around looking for their ride.
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I was getting a scope mounted at my local gun shop tonight.
I was in a crappy mood. It has been a bad day.
My rifle was sitting on the glass counter resting in it's open gun case along with a scope and some mounting hardware.
The tech who was servicing the gun was rummaging for some parts behind the counter and I was standing a few feet away looking at stuff for sale.
A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle. A valuable rifle to me (maybe not to some of the deep pockets guys here) and he starts fiddling with the bolt and trigger.
I could not contain myself.
I said in a voice loud enough for the whole store to hear, "You're pretty nosey."
He asked, "Are you selling that?"
"No!"
"Well then are you buying it?"
I said (again in a loud voice), "You really ARE nosey aren't you?"
He schlepped away muttering something like 'this IS a gun shop - you know'.
I said nothing more but I thought, a gun shop is not the same as gun show. He may have thought it was the gun store's rifle that was for sale. Even in our LGS you ask to pick up any firearm, regardless if it is sitting in the rack or just the counter. Till you own it you don't touch w/o permission. That guy got off lucky IMHO, was that my rifle he would heard about it, and I'm one of those polite Canadians everyone hears about.
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I would say that on average, I can't go a single month without confrontation.
Dave How about a married month?
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A fat 50ish looking guy picks up my rifle......
What does his weight and age have to do with the fact he touched your property?
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I wouldn't do that to someone but it doesn't surprise me someone did that. I wouldn't have taken a rifle to a gun counter to mount a scope and I wouldn't have left it unattended if I was worried someone might handle it.
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I would not, you do not feel up another mans wife or walk into his house like you own it either.
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