Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire local gunshop experience today

anyways
I got a entry level job back in mid april working 21 days on and 21 days off making a little over 70k a year for basically 6 months of work

me and the wife are doing fine between her job, my new job and my military retirement pay we are getting bills paid off and have a good size checking account with extra disposable income
I just got her a decked out 2013 dodge dart
so of course im gonna get some firearms
I got a new old stock 45 cal cva Kodiak pro mag fro0m 3rd generation shooters supply per advice from omega 45 awhile back
thanks for the link back man!!!!!!
decked it out with a sightron scope and got geared up for 45 cal
shoots accurate
hard hitting with 100 grains of blackhorn and barnes 195gr mz expander rounds
the cci 209m primers are loose and I was getting a very slight gas blowback like a wisp of smoke after the shot
the black horn web site showed pics of what to look for in primer condition
so basically I need a snugger primer
so im up to fort Campbell buying smokes for work cause I leave on wensday
and decide to stop in at a gunshop outside of gate 6
called gun and knife country
(should be called assclown gunshop expert tackleberry wannabe country looking back at what transpired)

im in their browsing around
I notice all the employees are packing
which aint nothing uncommon
just that their mannersims and demeanor are like look at me im packing cant ya see my pistol oh wait you cant let me angle towardsyou with my hand on my upper hip so you can
they are walking around like peacocks/tackleberrys
you can tell someones demeanor when they are displaying
for some is it just part of what they are wearing and natrual for these clowns it is a showoff status thing it seems like

any ways
I see some fed209a primers for like 6 bucks a box
im like cool im just gonna browse around and see what they got for long arm selection then pick some up

they got a real good inventory
nothing im real interested in
then I see a Winchester model 69a in 22lr
for 199.00
im like fugg
I had for years when I was growing up and sold it like a fool
it was a 1 inch rifle at 50 yards all day long

hmmmmmmmm
worth checking out and maybe buying it right now

I ask the owner to look at it
he hands it too me
dosent clear the bolt and chamber
I open the bolt and check the chamber
he looks at me like I insulted him
(im looking at him with the thought in my mind you are douche bag for handing me a weapon and not clearing it )

anyways the gun is in decent shape bout 75 % blueing( which I could redo anyways) and the stock I can refinish of course and have a decent .22 to shoot got to be at least 50 yrs old then stopped making them in the early 60,s and started making them in the late 30,s

so I ask the owner/ tackelberry(cause I already had this in my mind about him) if I can dry fire it 2-3 times to check it and see if the sear and trigger spring are staying constant
and if the safety will reset
(basically what anyone would do to make sure the gun at least works)
he starts in with a lecture about breaking rimfire firing bars and this that and the other like I don't know a darn thing about this gun or any other gun ever made

I say sir I owned 1 as a teenager growing up in maine and used to dry fire mine 100,s of times with no ill affect

he is like well I wont take that chance
im like do you have any spent .22 hulls to take up this "stress" in the firing pin bar so I can dry fire it to see if it works

he is like no
if you want to buy the gun
then buy it and find out if it works then
if it don't bring it back but we have a 10 dollar restock fee
by this time im ready to walk when he said that

but im like
ok what if I buy a box of .22 from ya
and then go out to my truck and pull a round out of the 2-3 cases and dump the powder in them all and then you can step outside and let me test fire the gun with just the primer charge and see if the rifle functions as it ought too and I will let you hold onto my dl as proof of good intent

he says no I wont do that


I had enough by then

I said to him
you know what
im real tired of gunshop commandos like you
thinking you know it all
and the customer is always in the wrong and don't know squat

I wouldnt buy a box of 4th of july snap pops from a bunch of look at me im packing tackleberrys like you all in this shop
congrats buddy you just lost a customer
and geuss what
im telling everyone I know what idiots you are in this place
and believe me I know a lot of people in this town and a lot of people actually ask about guns and where to buy and geuss
what you are on the assclown of gunshops list in Clarksville tn

he then says that's slander
and you are banned from my gunshop

I just start laughing

im like
what are you gonna do
sue me for slander for saying you are bunch of assclowns and I wouldn't recommend your place too anyone
he is real mad by then
im heading out the door laughing
people in the shop heard the entire conversation from start to finish concerning the gun
as im in my truck getting ready to leave
3 people come out right after me
2 soldiers in uniform and 1 other guy

they are laughing their ass off

they walk over by me and 1 says hey man I cant believe what went on in their and you wasn't doing any thing wrong other than wanting to make sure that gun you was looking would actually work
so I light a ciggette
talking to these guys

im like ya the guy is an assclown for sure
they laugh at that

then the owner comes out tells us all to leave
the soldiers are like are you for fugging real?/
he says leave all of you
one of the soldiers says to him
hey that guy in the ford ranger knows a lot of people I bet just like he said
and geuss what I know a lot of people on post also

you just [bleep] yourself big time with word of mouth advertising again
the owner says slander this slander that again to all 4 of us

im laughing my ass off by then getting ready to leave
I ask the owner
hey man I hope you know my name for this big slander suit of yours
laughing at him as I drive away















what a fugging joke it was

Rough day, I guess?

So you didn't get the gun you wanted? Maybe you can go back when he's off-duty and buy it from one of the clerks anyway.

rough day

heck no

hahahahahaa!!!!!


im sure gunbroker or gunamerica has em

I just was impulse thinking of maybe buying it then and their

he lost the sale

and got someone who knows a lot of people (me)to remember to tell every person he is around hunting deer or turkey to tell this experience too




dude was a dumb ass
for sure

darn the little border crossers feet creep the heck outta me

was that trayvon,s cousin????

So, you're a writer by trade?

not at all

aint a fan of English Nazis
espically 22 yr old 2lt,s in the infantry with English degrees


hahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

No. That was Zero's son.

LOL and some people wonder why these shops go out of business. $60 a K for primers no wonder he has a good and growing stock.

I always thought the newly assigned 2LT's with chemistry degrees were the toughest to deal with until they got settled in and fully understood the statistics we were dealing with.

you lost me at "decked out 2013 dodge dart"

Quite a day!!

Wow, this one was like a joke where you kept waiting for the punch-line but it never showed up.

He is like then I was like cept this IPad corrects so it really isn't like what he was like...

you guys are harsh

I've actually heard about a gunshop in Clarksville that has a bad rep.

I wonder why there is no shortage of dickhead gunshop owners?

Most around here are like that. I buy all of my guns at Whitetail Outfitters which is nothing like the typical gun shop but they don't really have a gunsmith. So I let them deal with the Tackleberry's if something needs fixed or changed.

There's no shortage of stupidity in gunshops...on either side of the display cabinets.